Paddy and others, I could swear that I once collected a record of a Ruth Nevil and some other Neville being orphans and adopted by someone. I'll check my stack of less organized records and see what I can find. As for the 1790 Census, there is no record of a Mary Burns or a Mathew Burns in Maryland. There is a Mathew Barnes in Charles Co (3 white males 16+, 1 white male under 16, 5 white females and 2 slaves). I don't know how good a candidate he would be. There are three records for Mary Burns in Pennsylvania: Northampton County (the current Northampton Co is on the Eastern border of the State and dead center North-South-wise -- I don't know what the 1790 bounderies were) Lower Saucon Township Mary Burns and 2 other free persons Northampton County (not returned by township) Mary Burns and 2 other free persons (my note: looks kinda like a double count to me) Philadelphia, Northern District between Vine and Race Streets and from Delaware River to the Schuylkill River Mary Burns, 1 white male 16+, 1 white female Hope this helps. Peter ============================================================ >X-Message: #3 <Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1999 19:36:27 -0500 (EST) From: [email protected] >To: [email protected] >Message-Id: <[email protected]> Subject: >[NEVILLE-L] John NEVILL of Harford & Mrs. Burns > >In a recent posting to the list I mentioned discovering for the first >time that a Mrs. Burns is mentioned on a page in the trip diary of >Thomas WELSH dated 1793 when he and the families of Moses NEVILL and >John NEVILL left Harford Co., MD for Canada. The name was included >on an itemized list of goods weighed for transport (I believe to >cross Lake Ontario from Oshwego N.Y. to Kingston, ON). I don't know >how I missed it in the past but can only think it was because of >where it was in the diary and my aversion to all things mathematical. > Anyway, the name is clearly Mrs. Burns and it was written by Thomas >WELSH, a well educated intelligent man and the brother-in-law of both >John and >Moses NEVILL, all 3 men being married to Mitchell sisters. So >presumably Welsh knew who the lady in question was and how to spell >her name so I >am satisfied that the name is Burns. > >I began searching my files and found the following which Shirley >Wilcox had kindly given me: > >Brumbaugh, Gais Marcus. Maryland Recores. Lancaster Pa. Lancaster >Press, Inc. Vol. 2. 1828. indexed >p. 171 1776 Harford Lower Hundred, Harford Co. >Burns, Mathew (tax), 60 >Mary, 41 >NEVEL, Ruth, 10 >NEVEL, John, 7 > >I think it very likely that the John NEVIL and Mary BURNS mentioned >above are the same two people who accompanied Thomas WELSH to Canada >in 1793. >I still do not know the relationship between John NEVILL and Moses >NEVILL. > >I have already run this past Shirley Wilcox and Jan Faulkner and for >their thoughts and wonder if anyone else on the list can connect to >John NEVILL and Mrs. Burns? This is the best lead I have had in a >long time and proof that you should periodically go over your files. > >John and Ruth could be orphaned children of a relative of Mrs. Burns, >her own illegit. children if she was born a NEVILL, or she could be >their mother in a second marriage. > >Peter Neville has kindly sent me the Nevilles in MD on the 1790 >census and none match John who should have had a wife, a daughter and >1 male under 16 who would have been his wife's son Ephriam Cole >MITCHELL. Now I am thinking that perhaps he was still living in the >household of Mrs. Burns in 1790 and will ask Peter if he could check >this out for me. > >If anyone can shed any light on who Mary BURNS might be it would be >very helpful. Thank you. > >Paddy >in Ontario, Canada > >______________________________