Sorry folks, I thought I was helping someone looking for the Walmsleys in Cecil Co. Typed it on the wrong reply. Cathy ----- Original Message ----- From: Cathy Berger <o2bab@bedford.net> To: <PAMONTGO-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, April 24, 2000 12:54 PM Subject: Re: [PAMONTGO-L] Surname: REES Given Name: Elizabeth > Thomas Wamsley/Walmsley will 15 Apr 1733 names my ancestor as an heir. He > was Edward Johnson. Cecil co Wills and CCo Admins Bonds, p 412. Also names > was John Kankey and Peter Pecoe. CC > > Deeds 1:3, 1674 wife Martha. Thomas is a shoemaker. > > CC Deeds 2:307, 1714 wife Katherine, sister to Robt Money, Her share of > Larrramore's Neck. Admins bond p. 472, 298. > > Welcome Passengers according to Tepper NEW WORLD IMMIGRANTS were THOMAS > WALMSLYWITH WIFE ELIZABETH AND 6 CHILDREN of whom Thomas, Henry, dau.... > > Good Luck, Cathy. If you find my Edward Johnson as a relative please let me > know. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Roland Morris <rmorris58@hotmail.com> > To: <PAMONTGO-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Monday, April 24, 2000 11:57 AM > Subject: Re: [PAMONTGO-L] Surname: REES Given Name: Elizabeth > > > > The post on Genforum is correct. Montgomery County was formed from > > Philadelphia County in 1784 and Delaware County was formed from Chester > > County in 1789. Legal documents would more than likely exist in > Philadelphia > > and West Chester. > > > > If they were Qaukers you can find excellent records for them at the > > Friends Historical Library at Swarthmore College. Rees was a common Welsh > > name which I frequently encounter in the Radnor Monthly Meeting records at > > Swarthmore while researching my own family. Many of these Welsh Tract > > settlers came from an area near Lake Bala in Merioneth, in northern Wales. > > (Present day Gwynedd, Wales). Rees is a common name among them. > > > > Give me the names and dates and I'll do a quick search for them the > > next time I'm at Swarthmore. > > > > Roland Morris > > > > ================ > > > > Here is an extract of a post to GENFORUM considering the surname REES. > > > > Montgomery Co PA as that is where I live. Athough this county was not > > formed until later as you state, Lower Merion and Upper Merion (maybe > > others) Townships were formed in the 1600s. There was a significant > > migration of Welsh into this area---some were Quakers and some were not. > > A significant number of these were named Rees. > > > > Mention is then made of a later move to Delaware County. > > > > I seek Elizabeth REES who married George Killinger/Kellenger Fitzgerald > > and who had been born in the late-middle 1700's. I haven't a clue > > concerning her parents. She is buried at Laurel Hill Cemetery. I do > > not have my dates with me, but it was somewhere around 1768-88. I > > tend toward the latter, from memory. > > > > Can you help? > > > > Thanks, > > Vince Summers > > (great-great-great grandson) > > > > > > ==== PAMONTGO Mailing List ==== > > List owner ndwilson@swbell.net > > > > ============================== > > Free Web space. ANY amount. ANY subject. > > RootsWeb's Freepages put you in touch with millions. > > http://cgi.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/acctform.cgi > > > > > > ________________________________________________________________________ > > Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com > > > > > > ==== PAMONTGO Mailing List ==== > > To unsubscribe first check and see if you are getting list or digest mode > then e-mail PAMONTGO-L-request@rootsweb.com or > PAMONTGO-D-request@rootsweb.com with unsubscribe in message. > > > > ============================== > > The RootsWeb WorldConnect Project: > > Tens of millions of individuals... and counting. > > http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/ > > > > > > > ==== PAMONTGO Mailing List ==== > To unsubscribe first check and see if you are getting list or digest mode then e-mail PAMONTGO-L-request@rootsweb.com or PAMONTGO-D-request@rootsweb.com with unsubscribe in message. > > ============================== > Join the RootsWeb WorldConnect Project: > Linking the world, one GEDCOM at a time. > http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/ > >