Jill, Sorry, I thought you just wanted a line of O'Neills. Mine is supposed to be connected to Hugh and Connan O'Neill, but I have not made the connection, yet. Working on it. I don't know the Anne Cox connection. Bill Mitchell in San Diego -----Original Message----- From: Jill C. <[email protected]> To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Date: Saturday, October 17, 1998 8:59 PM Subject: Re: [ONEALL-L] Roll call >Hi Bill, I'm sorry I should of made myself more clear, for the Cousins >Project the line needs to descend from Hugh O'Neall and Anne Cox, if yours >do please tell me the connection,OK? >sorry for inconvenience, >Jill > >---------- >: From: William Mitchell <[email protected]> >: To: [email protected] >: Subject: Re: [ONEALL-L] Roll call >: Date: Saturday, October 17, 1998 12:29 PM >: >: 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 >: >: > >: >: >: > >: > >: > >