Jill, I am not sure if you have my line on Cousins Site. Here it is: My gggrandfather was Thomas O'Neill b. 1813 Kings County (Offaly Co.), Ireland. d. 1886 in Toronto, Canada. He married Jane Ash in 1832 on the Isle of Wight. Jane was b. 1810-1816on the Isle of St. Kitts, West Indies. Their children were: Andrew b. 1833; Thomas b. 1836; Mary Ann b. 9/12/1840 (My ggrandmother); Margaret b. 1843 and became a nun at Sisters of Loretto in Toronto, Can. She became Sister Agatha; Theresa b. 1846; Agnes b. 1849; Jane b. 1852 and Clara Louise b. 9/30/1855. Mary Ann O'Neill m. John Daniel Dunn 1869. This line followed down to William John Dunn, b. 1862, my grandfather. After being thrown in prison for sooting the lock off the potato warehouse,during the famine, to let the people eat, Thomas escaped to Lancashire, England, and joined the English Army. He was shipped to Canada in 1837 as a Loyalist to the Crown to help put down the Rebellion called "The Family Compact". Bill O'Neill Mitchell in San Diego -----Original Message----- From: Jill C. <[email protected]> To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Date: Saturday, October 17, 1998 12:40 PM Subject: Re: [ONEALL-L] Roll call >Hi Betty, >Do I have your line for my database and cousins sites?? >Jill > >---------- >: From: Betty Allison <[email protected]> >: To: [email protected] >: Subject: Re: [ONEALL-L] Roll call >: Date: Wednesday, August 26, 1998 2:04 PM >: >: Very well said Carl. I, too, go back to Hugh and Annie Cox. My >: ggg?grandmother >: was Ruth O'Neal, who married Benjamin Rowe and they raised 10 children, >: moving to Lincoln Co. Tn. in about 1820. I have their Bible records but >: that is all of the info. that I have. I'm very grateful for that! If >you >: have any info on this family, I'd like to hear from you. >: Thanks, Betty Allison >: >: ---------- >: > From: Carl English Porter <[email protected]> >: > To: [email protected] >: > Subject: [ONEALL-L] Roll call >: > Date: Wednesday, August 26, 1998 2:18 PM >: > >: > Hello Everybody! >: > >: > I guess I'd better respond to the roll call. I'm here, I'm a >descendant >: > of Hugh & Annie (Cox) O'Neall of Delaware. I have my O'Nealls pretty >: > well sorted out, but am very interested in embellishing the records, >and >: > where possible, in fleshing out the bare bones. I guess you could say >I >: > think the O'Nealls are a special bunch, having been very prominent >: > through many generations. My great grandfather's mother was an O'Neal >: > before marriage. She died a young woman, yet had a profound influence >: > on her offspring. Jill wrote up a nice sketch on her father, who as an >: > Indiana State Legislator helped to change the map of the state. He, >: > with others, got the northern boundary moved ten miles north, to >: > accommodate a harbor on Lake Michigan. Every tine I see that scoop >: > representing the Lake Michigan shore, or the jog represented by the >: > difference between Ohio's and Indiana's northern boundaries, I am >: > reminded that it was not the product of drunken surveyors, but a >: > concerted effort of my great, great, great, grandfather, and others, to >: > make life a little better, and a little easier for his contemporaries >: > and posterity! I remember how they fled from the abomination of >: > slavery, to the lands north of the Ohio River, how they stood for fair >: > treatment for the Native Americans, and other minorities. As Quakers, >: > they did much to advance the role of women in society. Indeed, at >least >: > some of their prominence in the new world, may well be due to the >better >: > parenting of emancipated mothers. I am reminded of the long, though >: > futile, struggle to avert a war over the slavery issue. Yes, I am >proud >: > of my family, and the role they played in the making of our great >: > nation. They had their foibles, but they had good heads on their >: > shoulders, and they made a difference! One does not choose his >: > relatives, but there is One who does. Explore His handiwork. >: > Carl >: > >: > >