I am familiar with your Peter Looney line because it was Peter that fought at Vause's Fort and was captured during the French and Indian wars. Peter's account of his capture and escape in a British newspaper gave us some of the details of our early Looney relations in America. If you want to know more specifics about other Looney lines, please look at the Looney Family Manuscripts by Leroy Tilton that are posted to my web page as noted in my prior communication. While I can create and transmit a GEDCOM file, I do not like to do so and I have made it a practice not to do so. When I have shared my GEDCOM in the past, my information suddenly appeared on the internet posted to someone else's web site. On top of that they apparently merged my file with their own and created some erroneous relationships that were in error. My grandchildren suddenly became my children along with other glaring errors. The problem is, when these errors are posted to the internet, they seem to gain a life of their own and it is almost impossible to correct them. Much of my database is based on the Looney family manuscripts of Leroy Tilton so most of the data is already out there for anyone that wants it. If there are other family relationships that Tilton did not uncover or document, I will share those relationships that I do have and I will do what I can to help point researchers in the right direction. We recently moved into a new home so almost all of my files are still in boxes. At some point in the near future I hope to get them all organized again and my scanner hooked up so I can share images of these files with anyone that needs them. If you have a specific family that you have questions on, please let me know and I will try to uncover my family group sheets. Right now I will need a little bit of time to do this. Larry W. Johnson Keller, Texas ----- Original Message ----- From: "THOMAS STREET" <tomstreet@prodigy.net> To: <LOONEY-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2004 12:39 AM Subject: Re: [LOONEY-L] Greetings > Larry, > > I am descended from your Robert Looney', Jr.'s brother Peter and would like to add to my database of descendants of their father Robert. I was interested in your reply to Robert Riddle's note. What was the birth date of the Fredrick B. Looney in your database? I don't have much on your line. I only have a Samuel listed as a son of your Robert Looney, Jr. and it ends there. I would appreciate more on your line including the birth dates and places for the Looney's listed in your reply below in your note. > > I have been a member of this group going all away back to the old "Looney Bin" on Prodigy. Most information is of other Looney / Luna lines, and it would make it more interesting reading all the notes if I have some idea how I am related to the others on the LIST. I am interested specially in others in Robert Jr's line. My e-mail service will allow me to receive a GEDCOM file or a Family Tree Maker files if you are willing to send me your line. > TOMSTREET@prodigy.net > > Thanks for the help. - - - Tom Street in Tacoma > > > > Larry Johnson <johnsonl@flash.net> wrote: > Robert, > > In my database I have Fredrick B. Looney, his parents, James William Looney > and Frances Smith, also our common ancestor, his grandparents Capt. John > Looney and Elizabeth Rentfro, his G-Grandparents, Robert Looney Jr. and > Margaret Rhea and then the GG-Grandparents, Robert and Elizabeth Looney of > Looney Creek VA. > > My database does not show a second wife for James William Looney, but it may > be that I have just not gotten around to entering that branch of our line > into my database. > > Being a descent of the Robert Looney Jr. line myself, I have a lot of > records on this branch in addition to a whole bunch of records on all the > other Looney family lines. To top all this off, I live in Keller, Texas > which is probably within 10 miles of where you live. > > I also have a web page on the Looney family and there you will find the > Looney family manuscripts by Leroy Tilton. Look at the part of the Robert > (2) Looney Jr. line. > Here is the address: http://home.flash.net/~johnsonl/ > > My grandparents lived in Falls County, TX (Rosebud, TX area). > > Larry W. Johnson > Keller, Texas > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Robert Riddle" > To: > Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2004 1:59 PM > Subject: [LOONEY-L] Greetings > > > Greetings Looney Researchers -- My name is Bob > Riddle. I have just joined the list so I suppose I > need to give as much of my Looney heritage as I can. > My mother's name was Hylma Y. Looney. She was the > daughter of Edward Hardin Looney, b. 7-22-1875, > Oakwood, Leon Co., TX. He was the son of James > William Looney, b. 4-22-1809, KY, and Mary Rushing, b. > Falls Co. or Robertson Co., TX. James's first wife, > Fanny Smith, b. 1-14-1811, KY, died 2-7-1864 in Cotton > Gin, Freestone Co., TX. James and Fanny had 7 > children, one of whom was Fredrick B. Looney, who > served as a doctor during the Civil War, not sure on > which side, and later when the family had moved to > Texas, he became a lawyer and owned a retail store in > Oakwood, Leon County and around 1900 was elected to > the Texas Legislature as a Representative from Leon > County, TX. After Fanny died, James married (I think) > Mary Rushing and had my grandfather, Edward H. Looney > in 1875. James would have been about 64. He died > when Ed was only 4. Ed had a little sister, Frances > Mae, who was only 2. They were sent to live with > their much older half brother, Fredrick B. Looney. > > I have no clear documentation that Ed was the son of > James William Looney and Mary Rushing. Only word of > mouth tradition and a letter that my grandfather sent > to his son, my uncle, in 1948, explaining much of the > above. I did find an entry in the 1880 US Census for > Freestone County, TX showing an "Eli" Looney, age 6 > and a "Fanny" Looney, age 4 living in the household of > their brother, F. B. Looney, age 44. It is my belief > that this "Eli" is my grandfather, Edward H. Looney. > > Is anyone in the group familiar with this family? I > believe my family stems back to Robert Looney who was > born on the Isle of Man and came to the Colonies in > the 1730's. > > I would love to make a clear connection between the > people I described in the first two paragraphs. > > Thanks for any help you can give me. > > Bob Riddle > Haltom City, TX > > > ==== LOONEY Mailing List ==== > Do the Manx LOONEY/LLEWNIEs connect to the Irish LOONEY/O'LOONEYs? > Did the name originate in County Cork in 148 AD with the marriage of > Con of a Hundred Battles (High King of Ireland in 158 AD) to the > daughter of Olollar Ollium, King of Munster? Does it have TWO origins? > > > ==== LOONEY Mailing List ==== > Do the Manx LOONEY/LLEWNIEs connect to the Irish LOONEY/O'LOONEYs? > Did the name originate in County Cork in 148 AD with the marriage of > Con of a Hundred Battles (High King of Ireland in 158 AD) to the > daughter of Olollar Ollium, King of Munster? Does it have TWO origins? > > > > ==== LOONEY Mailing List ==== > Was "John" Robert's father? or brother? Was Robert's wife Elizabeth? Was > she a Stover or Llewellen? Was John's wife also a Llewellen (did sisters > marry brothers?)? How many of Robert's siblings and neices/nephews came > to America, too? Help us solve these mysteries today on the LOONEY list. >