>Date: Sat, 1 Jun 2002 20:58:54 -0600 >X-From_: [email protected] Sat Jun 1 20:58:54 2002 > >Jane - Sometime ago -about two years ago -I changed servers. My former >email server was pacbell.net. As I am almost excusively researching my >Mother's side, Fenn, I unsubscribed to the McCann M. L. and others in Ireland. >I did not think to inform any of them. The Rootsweb archives have my >current email address. I see now how Mailing List managers could not know >that. I do answer email queries if I know the answer or can be of help. > >That yours is still generating interest is great. Thankyou for taking this >on for so long. What a service! >My best to you! Joan > >-- >Ann, > >In the spring of 2000, I drove through Clonfeacle Parish, Tyrone and >stopped at Eglish, seeing an old Cath. Church and, across the street, a >postoffice named "McCanns". The church was that of St. Patrick, built in 1834. >Terry McCann, the Postman told us that he descended from Peter McCann c. >1880 of Eglish. Now Eglish is listed in BOTH Clonfeacle Parish and Armagh >Parish. Certainly it is very close to Moy where the Blackwater Bridge >connects Tyrone and Armagh. The River may have divided Eglish, as well. We >detoured a small bit and went right back to the road to Grange. Terry led >us next door where his mother and other family were. She was Mary McKenna >McCann of Eglish and looked 80ish. She was most gracious. Terry's two >sisters were there. In the graveyard of the Church we found one stone >Gregory McCann. It was made of limestone, as well, so that's all that >could be deciphered. Whether he was Peter's ancestor or not, we do not know. > >So MAYBE your ancestor Peter is related to these, Ann. > new email address: [email protected] old email address: [email protected]