Thanks for your reply. Do you have any idea how it was that Walter Maxwell was named Walter? That's a family name in my line. Josette At 08:23 PM 9/2/02 -0400, you wrote: >Jossette > >Thanks to Hurricane Hugo I can not give you much detail and will try to >reconstruct what I can, but some thirty years ago a second cousin, Walter >Maxwell who lived in Charlotte, NC at the time said that his father told him >that my great grand father came here from Ireland. > >He was not a great wealth of specific documentable information. My >grandfather was one of about 10 brothers and sisters whom Walter seemed to >beleive, based apparently upon what his father had told him, grew up in the >area around Athens Ga. > >My father was born in Athens Ga. and I am in the process of going there and >doing some snooping with in the next couple of months. I have already >contacted the Athens Chamber of Commerce and have the addresses and phone >numbers of the departments to visit while I am there. > >In the mean time I intend to do the same here in Catawba County, as that is >where my grand father and father settled for a while until moving to Burke >County. I will also go to Charlotte and Morganton one day each to look >around their records. > >I do remember Walter saying that one of my grandfathers brothers moved to >Columbia, SC and one of the sisters married and moved to Charleston, SC. > >So, to answer your question my Maxwell line supposedly migrated directly >from Ireland, I just can not connect many of the dots, But I will keep you >in mind as I am looking. > >Ralph Maxwell >"Just down the road a piece" >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Josette L. Maxwell" <maxwelljl@earthlink.net> >To: <MAXWELL-L@rootsweb.com> >Sent: Monday, January 01, 1996 1:11 AM >Subject: [MAXWELL-L] North Carolina > > > > Has anyone done any work on the origin of the Maxwells > > in North Carolina in terms of being immigrants as opposed > > to migrating from the north? > > > > Josette Maxwell > > Boone NC > > > >

Josette, No I do not. I can not find Walter in Charlotte any longer but I think he may be in Salisbury or Matthews. I am going to try there to locate him. I can tell you that Walter's father was the only red head Maxwell I have ever seen. As a young child, about 6 or 7 they visited us once in Hickory and we visited once in Charlotte. Walter had four brothers and a sister as I remember but all were out of Charlotte by the 1970's except for Walter. I will keep you p;osted Ralph Maxwell ----- Original Message ----- From: "Josette L. Maxwell" <maxwelljl@earthlink.net> To: <MAXWELL-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, January 01, 1996 1:11 AM Subject: Re: [MAXWELL-L] North Carolina > Thanks for your reply. Do you have any idea how it was > that Walter Maxwell was named Walter? That's a family > name in my line. > > Josette > > > At 08:23 PM 9/2/02 -0400, you wrote: > >Jossette > > > >Thanks to Hurricane Hugo I can not give you much detail and will try to > >reconstruct what I can, but some thirty years ago a second cousin, Walter > >Maxwell who lived in Charlotte, NC at the time said that his father told him > >that my great grand father came here from Ireland. > > > >He was not a great wealth of specific documentable information. My > >grandfather was one of about 10 brothers and sisters whom Walter seemed to > >beleive, based apparently upon what his father had told him, grew up in the > >area around Athens Ga. > > > >My father was born in Athens Ga. and I am in the process of going there and > >doing some snooping with in the next couple of months. I have already > >contacted the Athens Chamber of Commerce and have the addresses and phone > >numbers of the departments to visit while I am there. > > > >In the mean time I intend to do the same here in Catawba County, as that is > >where my grand father and father settled for a while until moving to Burke > >County. I will also go to Charlotte and Morganton one day each to look > >around their records. > > > >I do remember Walter saying that one of my grandfathers brothers moved to > >Columbia, SC and one of the sisters married and moved to Charleston, SC. > > > >So, to answer your question my Maxwell line supposedly migrated directly > >from Ireland, I just can not connect many of the dots, But I will keep you > >in mind as I am looking. > > > >Ralph Maxwell > >"Just down the road a piece" > >----- Original Message ----- > >From: "Josette L. Maxwell" <maxwelljl@earthlink.net> > >To: <MAXWELL-L@rootsweb.com> > >Sent: Monday, January 01, 1996 1:11 AM > >Subject: [MAXWELL-L] North Carolina > > > > > > > Has anyone done any work on the origin of the Maxwells > > > in North Carolina in terms of being immigrants as opposed > > > to migrating from the north? > > > > > > Josette Maxwell > > > Boone NC > > > > > > > >