Hi! I just joined this list and would like to post my interests. Alban HOOK, b ca 1760, married Hannah FRYER, d/o Thomas FRYER and Susanna PYLE, b 8 Oct 1769, probably ca 1790. Their children were Persifer HOOK, b ca 1796, Orpha HOOK, b 1800 and Abraham, bd unknown. There is a possibility that the Reverend Alban HOOK, a Methodist minister of some renown in DE County may also have been a child. According to the 1850 census, the Reverend would have been b ca 1791. He was married to a woman named Jane, b ca 1788, who may have been from Indiana, according to the census. Orpha HOOK had a child named Susanna Jane NEALY HOOK, b 1822 in DE County. She is the reason why I think the Reverend HOOK could have been Orpha's brother. I think maybe his wife could have been the Jane NEALY from which my 3x ggm received her name. Susanna married Richard FLEMING DAWSON. Perciver HOOK was the sponsor for my gf when he made application to become a US citizen. Richard and Susanna moved over to Chester County after their marriage in 1840 and that's where their children were born. Is anyone familiar with this set of HOOKS, or have data on the Reverend HOOK that could enlighten me as to whether he was Orpha's brother or not? The Reverend's children were: Elizabeth, b 1826, Maryann, b1827, Benjamin, b 1829 and Ann, b 1833. There could have been others born before 1826, because Rev HOOK was 35 in 1826 and Jane was 38. Thanks, Lynn Prettyman Baltimore, MD [email protected]