This relates to a mailing dated 6/10/2008 from Audrey seeking information about the Janney and Poole families. I can trace my relationship to the Janney family in Cheshire, but I do not believe that I am a direct descendant of any of the Janneys who came to America. I have done a considerable amount of work in abstracting the early records of Friends in northern Delaware, particularly the records of Wilmington Monthly Meeting. There was a William Poole, b l728, d. 4 mo..6, 1779, son of Joseph Poole and Rebecca Janney, who brought his Friends membership certificate to Wilmington Monthly Meeting from Middletown MM (Bucks County) about 11 mo. 1st, 1753. He first married Martha Roberts at Wilmington MM on 6 mo. 27th, 1754. Following Martha's death on 2 mo. 26, 17 60, William married 2nd on 12 mo. 3, 1761 under Wilmington MM, Elizabeth Shipley Canby, daughter of William Shipley and Ann Tatnall and widow of Oliver Canby. Descendants of this William Poole were active in Wilmington Monthly Meeting affairs and in the affairs of Wilmington, Delaware for many years. However, they appear to have been city people and not inclined to wander off to the American frontier. This William Poole's father, Joseph Poole, was born in 1704 in Bromfield, Cumberland, England. He died in 1766 in Newtown, Bucks County, PA, son of William & Jeanette (Twentyman) Poole. ------ Rebecca Janney was a daughter of Abel and Elizabet Janney. Abel Janney was a son of Thomas Janney. My Poole family data seems to have been derived from _Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Colonial Pennsylvania_. There must be other Poole family genealogies. There seem to have been no members with the Janney name listed in Newark (Kennett) MM or Wilmington MM records in early northern Delaware, except for two boys, Abel and Levis Janney, probably both sons of Jacob Janney, who came up to Wilmington as apprentices in the later 1760's and early 1770-'s, returning with Friends minutes to Duck Creek Monthly Meeting, centered in Kent County, Delaware. ------- Many years ago, while I was employed in Washington, D.C., I attended a Friends Quarterly Meeting at Goose Creek Meeting near Lincoln in Loudon County, VA, the only surviving Meeting of the old Meetings in Loudoun County. I seem to recall many Janney names in the burial ground a few rods from the meetinghouse------ There is a small genealogy by Miles White, Jr, _The Quaker Janneys of Cheshire_, from which I derived much of my Janney data. ----- Herbert Standing. **************Vote for your city's best dining and nightlife. City's Best 2008. (http://citysbest.aol.com?ncid=aolacg00050000000102)