In a message dated 01/15/2000, [email protected] (Sherri Cann) wrote to [email protected]: <<my Great Grandfather was a direct descendant of Obadiah Bruen (b: 12/25/1606 in Cheshire County England, d: after 1680 in Newark) who was one of the original founders of Newark (New Ark) in 1666.......Hope I can share info with someone. Sherri Cann.>> ======================================= Hi to Sherri et al. Because we have several Bruen relatives (mostly tied to Morris Co. and Union Co., NJ), my brother recently referred me to this BRUEN website: <<http://www.rootsweb.com/~genepool/bruen.htm>. Our Bruen kin seem to be mostly descendants of David Bruen (ca. 1715-1824), born at Newark, Essex Co. Son of Joseph Bruen?, David later moved to Morris Co., and is buried at Hillside Cemetery at Madison, Morris, NJ. I've only taken a quick look at this attractive Bruen website. But I suspect it should be approached with a few grains of salt, because it starts out with usual the royal stuff that can be rather difficult to verify. The site begins by tracing Obadiah Bruen (born 1606) back through a series of begats to Charles Le Debonnaire & his ubiquitous dad Charlemagne (born 742) and ends up with Pepin The Old (born 560). Mercifully the begats between old Pepin and Adam & his consort Eve are skipped. Charlemagne & his offspring really seem to have gotten around a bit-- even in the pre-Viagra first millennium. John (in Chicago)