Beth Sloan wrote: > > My 3xGreatgrandparent, John Walter Sloan and his wife, Eliza Grier Sloan had > two sons leave Kittanning Pa in the 1840's to search for gold in Australia. > Their names just sit in my database with no information. Beth, I have a little on your Aussie cousins. Take a look. Descendants of Isaac Sloan 1 Isaac Sloan b: 04 April 1834 in Pine Twp, ARMSTRONG Co. PA. d: 1921 ARMSTRONG Co. PA. or maybe Australia . +Sarah Anna Lyon b: 1837 in Dublin, Ireland d: 25 July 1906 in PA. ? m: 01 December 1858 in PA. ........ 2 Isaac Grier Sloan b: 06 January 1867 in Victoria, Australia d: 10 October 1926 in Victoria, Australia ? ............ +Sarah Eggleston b: 24 June 1888 in Whoroughly? Victoria, Australia d: 13 March 1954 in Victoria, Australia ? m: 14 April 1908 in Australia ................... 3 Maud Lyon Sloan b: Abt. 1910 ................... 3 Walter William Sloan b: Abt. 1912 ................... 3 Evelyn Sarah Sloan b: Abt. 1914 ................... 3 Edna Elizabeth Sloan b: July 1917 in Bright, Victoria, Australia ....................... +Carl Burnley Newbecker b: 09 December 1915 in Victoria, Australia m: 22 December 1945 in Australia ................... 3 Ronald Grier Sloan b: Abt. 1919 ******* Source: 1. 1952 research of George B.H. Sloan, 1401 E. Virginia Avenue, Kokomo, IN. [dpob,dpom, spouse, dod,son]{Not totally sure George is source of this material, received May 98 from Charlotte Sloan/Ruth Gifford of Utah} =================================== I found quite a bit of info on the LDS website on this line. As a matter of fact, the Mateer/McTeer spouses go back to ancestors that are also the common ancestors of Margaret McTeer/William Sloan of Blount Co. Tn. Later Frank Mitchell -- Apartado 11521, Zona 6 Panama, Republic of Panama Phone day 011-507-261-9757 Email: fmitchel@panama.phoenix.net Visit "The Sloan Connection" at: http://www.panama.phoenix.net/~fmitchel/welcome.html