PLEASE RESPOND TO: pohlhaus@pressroom.com (Christopher Pohlhaus) Subj: {not a subscriber} Re: [QUEEN] Re: QUEEN-D Digest V00 #213 Date: 09/22/2000 5:40:34 AM Pacific Daylight Time From: pohlhaus@pressroom.com (Christopher Pohlhaus) Reply-to: <A HREF="mailto:pohlhaus@pressroom.com">pohlhaus@pressroom.com</A> To: QUEEN-L@rootsweb.com, jqueen@glendale.cc.ca.us (John Queen) The Queens were English Catholics who immigrated to Maryland in the 1600s to flee religious persecution. To find out more about them you can read the following books: The Queen family of colonial Maryland : the memoirs of Joseph Brooke, 1845-1930 / edited by Henry Jerningham Queen. The ancestors and descendants of Charles Jerningham Queen, Prince George's County, Maryland,and his wife, Lillian Agnes Clark, Syracuse, New York / by Mary Elizabeth Jensen and Henry Jerningham Queen. The deep roots and tangled branches of the Queen family : [a genealogy of portions of the Queen family of Southern Maryland, or The origin of Thomas W. Queen, Jr. / by Thomas W. Queen, Jr.]. My Maryland heritage; the ancestry of William Queen/by Judith Simms. Grandma's stories and anecdotes of "ye olden times." Incidents of the War of Independence, etc. By Sister Mary Xavier Queen. ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: John Queen <jqueen@glendale.cc.ca.us> Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 21:20:39 -0700 >I certainly hope the inference is not that the name Queen is somehow only >non-Catholic. The name is also an Irish one and I can personally attest to >the fact that some people named Queen are Catholic. Sometimes I get the >impression from this list that people also think the name is strictly a >Southern phenomenon. My ancestry is from Massachusetts, with links to >Canada and then unclear lines from there. > >John Queen