Sorry for the error. My eyes dropped from one line to another when I was typing the info. Samuel Neel who married Mary Cochran was NOT the son of James Neel & Rachel McClure. Clare ----- Original Message ----- From: <pmmcm@comcast.net> To: <PAALLEGH@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2011 4:44 PM Subject: Re: [ALL] Roll Call: Neel/Neal, Helbling, Knipshield, O'Brien, Brierly, Broida > Thanks for posting the Neal/Neel/Neill etc info, Clare, as I am a > descendant through James Harvey Neel and Eliz. BRIERLY; their dau Jane > NEEL (1823-1895) m. Dr. John H. O'BRIEN (1808-1887). My mother always > thought her family was so poor and came during the famines. I wish she > had been well enough to know I had learned that John O'Brien was > actually an MD trained at the University of Dublin before he immigrated > in 1831. > > I do not have any info on a Samuel Neel, who marr Mary Cochran, as son > of James Neel & Rachel McClure. Would like to correspond with you and > share info. > > My HELBLING line is from the immigrant Franz Xavier Helbling (1800-1876) > who immigrated from Endingen, Baden, Germany and marr. Mary Theresa > Knipshield (1810-1891), also b. Endingen, Germany. They lived in the > Lawrenceville area of Allegheny. > > I am also researching the BROIDA family of Joseph Broida, b. ~1830 in > Russia, marr. to ? and children included Michael, Morris, Peter, > Rachael, Kate, Jacob, John, and Ethel. Some of the children were b. > Russia/Europe before immigration to US. They did have some retail stores > in the Pittsburgh area. > > This is a great list! > > Pamela > > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > > Visit our Allegheny County, PA Website: http://www.rootsweb.com/~paallegh/ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > PAALLEGH-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >