Remember the old saying " An Irishman is a Scot who learned to swim " ----- Original Message ----- From: <MndyQn@aol.com> To: <QUEEN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, September 22, 2000 7:00 AM Subject: Re: [QUEEN] Re: QUEEN-D Digest V00 #213 > 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 > > > ==== QUEEN Mailing List ==== > Visit Reiley Kidd's homepg to view Queen information > compiled and catagorized by first name: > http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Bluffs/2864/ > >