X-Message: #1 Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2002 13:00:22 -0500 From: "Fred Hagan" <FHagan@techcomm.net> To: MD-FRED-GEN-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <001d01c284f5$3665f260$ec3f583f@fhagan> Subject: [MDFred] Migration to Frederick County Content-Type: text/plain MIME-Version: 1.0 Can someone give a brief discourse on where the general Frederick County population came from in the mid/late 1700's? I have been searching for the birth place of Francis HAGAN for 25 years and cannot find it. Francis first appears in Frederick County records in 1787 when he witnessed a marriage in the Reformed Church. He married in that church the next year and is buried in the St. Johns the Evangelist Roman Catholic Church cemetery. My research shows he did not come from Charles County, MD or St. Mary's County, MD. If not there, then where? Tks, Fred Hagan Fred, How have you eliminated "over there" as a place of birth????? Or why have you? My Patrick O'Neill was born in Ballinascreen Co Derry Ireland in 1783 and died in Frederick in 1855 and is buried in the same cemetery. How do you know he was not Irish? My Patrick belonged to a gang of fairly wealthy Irish, bought and sold land, held offices...you see their names together a lot. Do you have the tombstone info? Patrick's says where and when he was born. One of his pals, Michael Byrne, does not have place of birth but his mother's does. They are buried all right next to each other. What year did he die? He seems to have converted? 25 years is a long time....... A lot of Irish came in late 1700's, after uprising. All I know about Patrick early is that he came "sometime before the War of 1812." Can't find him on a ship. Barbara Ford Providence RI