In a message dated 6/26/99 11:28:32 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: > I was always told that Evan was Welsh; Dave- I am virtually certain that Evan and Owen are Welsh names. I am also equally certain that they were originally Quakers--that is the reason they came to the Philadelphia area with the Quaker migration of the late 1600s. > > I've pretty good info on the family (except for Margaret's maiden name) from > Ohio on. The son, Franklin J., was my great-grandfather, and he's quite a > story, having divorced a wife in PA (child ?Franny? wound up with a Keihl > family), disappeared for a number of years, served in the Civil war, later > married my great-grandmother in Ohio. You will, of course, have to work your way back one generation at a time to get to the immigrant ancestor. > > As to info on Evan, Margaret and the PA-born children prior to their arrival > in Ohio, I haven't a clue at this point. I don't have anything on that either but that is where you need to start. Once you make the inevitable connection to the early Welsh line I have lots of information from that point on. > > When you've time, would you mind sharing your data on the earlier Owen > family you mentioned? We're planning a driving trip east in a bit to visit my > family-origins locales in 7 states. We'll be in Lancaster Co., probably not > much time for research on this trip (it's mainly for look-see-photo), but > any info I can have along will be handy. If you have access to the Family Tree Maker World Family Tree CD, Vol. 4--my tree is on there that includes the early Owen line--if you don't have access to that CD let me know. I am not sure whether your Owen line would have been Quaker in the 1790s or later--but I am virtually certain they were when they arrived. There are some books you might try to locate at a library near you that give some information on the early Owen--some of it is accurate and some isn't but it is a good place to start. If you can locate the book "Shull, Stockton, Burdsall, and Allied Families" by Rena Shull McCahon she has a good section on the Owen lines. You might do better at locating: "Merion in the Welsh Tract" and "The Welsh Founders of PA" I don't have the info on the authors handy right now, but one of the authors is Glenn and the other is Browning. Joan