----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Boyd" <mikejboyd@bigpond.com> To: <nir-down@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, June 18, 2011 1:54 PM Subject: Fw: [BOYD] Walker and Ann (BOYD) Herriott > Members of the County Down list may be interested in this McConnell family > how moved from Down to South Fayette Township in Fayette Co in SW PA. > > Mike Boyd > Brisbane, Aust. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Mindy Householder" <minzgen@gmail.com> > To: "Boyd List" <BOYD-L@rootsweb.com>; "Dean Road" > <deanroadeditor@gmail.com> > Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2011 12:12 AM > Subject: [BOYD] Walker and Ann (BOYD) Herriott > > >> HISTORY OF ALLEGHENY COUNTY >> >> Including >> >> It's early settlement and progress to the present time; a descriptin of >> its >> historic and interesting localities; its cities, towns and villages; >> religious, educational, social and military history; mining, >> manufacturing >> and commercial interests; improements, resources, statistics, etc. >> >> also >> >> Portriats of some of its prominent men, and biographies of many of its >> representative citizens. >> >> In Two Parts >> >> Chicago, Ill: >> >> A. Warner & Co., Publishers >> >> 1889 >> >> Page: 485 >> * >> >> JOSEPH McCONNELL, *farmer and coal dealer, postoffice Walker's Mills, was >> born in South Fayette township, in 1826, son of William and Agnes (Reed) >> McConnell, of Lancaster county. William came from County Down, Ireland, >> in >> 1807, to Lancaster county. He worked at his trade (blacksmith) for three >> yars. He and his wife rode across the mountains on horses. IN 1810 he >> purchased a farm in South Fayette township, where he died. He was athe >> father of nine children, of whom Joseph is the seventh. He was educated >> at >> the public schoos, and in 1864 purchased the property where he now >> resides. >> He married, in 1857, Mary Ann Gladden, of Allegheny county, and by her he >> had four children: Nannie J., William G., Mary Belle and Mary Ann. By his >> second wife, Mary Jane, daughter of Walker and Ann (Boyd) Herriott, he >> has >> six children: Maggie E., Nellie Irene, Joseph R., Nettie A., Bessie Boyd >> and >> Forbes Holton. Mr. McConnell carries on his connection with farming the >> coal >> business, which he has successfully conducted for nine years. He finds a >> market for his productions at Cleveland, Ohio, and Pittsburgh, Pa. He is >> a >> member of the U. P. Church, and is a republican. >> >> ______________________________________ >> House of Boyd Society's (HBS) Annual General Meeting (AGM) & Gathering of >> the Clan 2012 will be held in Woodland,CA, USA in conjunction with the >> Sacramento Caledonian Club's 136th annual Sacramento Valley Scottish >> Games & Festival in April 2012 (unofficial date April 28th and 29th -- to >> be confirmed by the venue). Write AGM@clanboyd.org if you would be >> interested in helping to plan it. >> ____________________________________________________ >> House of Boyd Society's (HBS) Annual General Meeting (AGM) & Gathering of >> the Clan 2011 was a great success in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA in >> conjunction with The Highland Games and Celtic Gathering April 16-17, >> 2011. >> _______________________________________ >> Support the Fellowship Activities of the Clan. Join the House of Boyd >> Society! >> http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/BOYD/2008-06/1212428046 >> ______________________________________ >> House of Boyd Society sends HUGE thank you to all of our volunteers. The >> Society would not be what it is without you! >> ______________________________________ >> >> Want to contribute an article or query to the Dean Road? Contact Kevin >> McLachlan, Editor at Editor@clanboyd.org >> >> ==================== >> Visit the House of Boyd Society Website http://www.clanboyd.org >> ==================== >> For Officers and other Contacts, see >> http://www.clanboyd.org/officers.shtml >> ==================== >> Most replies should go to the list, not just the author of the post. >> Make sure to include the list address Boyd@rootsweb.com >> ==================== >> Need to contact the Admin? Write me off list at Boyd-admin@rootsweb.com >> ==================== >> Can't recall what the beginning of a thread was? Subscribe >> mid-discussion? Visit the PUBLICLY VIEWABLE archives: >> http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index?list=boyd >> ==================== >> Got an issue that is beyond the purview of this list? Write the Help >> Desk for assistance http://helpdesk.rootsweb.com/ >> Honor your fellow subscribers -- follow the Golden Rule! >> **************************** >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> BOYD-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes >> in the subject and the body of the message >