Debra, I have 2 Shannon lines. One from Thomas and Eigness/Agnes Shannon and the other from William and Mary O. Shannon. My Shannon information is located online at http://www2.1starnet.com/cgenzel/shannon.htm Let me know if you find a connection and I will be happy to share what I have with you. Carolyn Shannon Genzel http://www2.1starnet.com/cgenzel ----- Original Message ----- From: <Pdd101940@aol.com> To: <SHANNON-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, March 02, 2002 9:34 PM Subject: Re: [SHANNON-L] Mary Shannon > Hi Debra, > In order to help you on this, all of us Shannons would have to have > Mary's parents names at the least. The more information you can give us the > quicker we can piun it down. In ca 1570 John Shannon was born in Scotland. In > ca 1600 he had a son, John jr. Sometime prior to 1630, they moved to N. > Ireland. In that year Robert, son of John Jr. was born. Robt. had four sons > in N. Ireland who migrated to New England. Mine was in Sadebury Township on a > sheriff's census there in 1725. He had a son, Samuel who married Jean Reid. > In ca 1784, they moved into East Tnn., to Davidson Co., from there their > children later move into Logan and Warren Co. in Ky. At a later time one of > Samuel's sons, Joseph moved with his children into Washington Co.Ark. > Joseph's son Granville settled at Canehill and Evansville in that area. > From the little information you gave, it seems you do fit into our > family, so here is some "cousins" you can contact that should be able to > help. > Jerry Pricher jpricher@worldnet.att.net > Tommie Taylor tommie-t@worldnet.att.net > Joyce Shannon Bridges JSBRIDG@aol.com > Sheila Shannon Lawson sheila_shannon@hotmail.com > Rita Zieber pookie50@hotmail.com > Widget gswbs@vt.edu > Good Luck! > Mike Shannon > > My line; John>John Jr>Robt>Thomas>Samuel>Joseph>Granville>Alexander May>James> > James Jr>Mike. > > Ps All our familiy uses the same names and they marry cousins, so the only > way to nail a particular person or family down, is through their vital > statistics. > >