[email protected] wrote: > > Subject: > > STRONG-D Digest Volume 99 : Issue 1 > > Today's Topics: > #1 Re: strongs ["DBS &/or MD" <[email protected]>] > #2 STRONG, POPE, MANESS, CURTIS [[email protected]] > #3 JULIA ANN STRONG [[email protected]] > > Administrivia: > To unsubscribe from STRONG-D, send a message to > > [email protected] > > that contains in the body of the message the command > > unsubscribe > > and no other text. No subject line is necessary, but if your software > requires one, just use unsubscribe in the subject, too. > > ______________________________ > > --------------------------------------------------------------- > > Subject: Re: strongs > Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1999 08:22:07 -0500 > From: "DBS &/or MD" <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > > Hi, Tom Strong of Brisbane, Australia! > > I am delighted to hear from you! I do indeed remember our previous > correspondance with your father, Earl Strong of Toronto... the > correspondance revealed a fine mind and a good grasp of historical detail. > I just regret that our contact came with him so late in his life that he was > unable to help us more actively, as I am sure he had some past contact with > details that would have helped us today. I also note your reference to the > Herron connections.... I am descended from Mary Haron (also spelled Herron) > who married my 2 x great grandfather, George Strong, in Drumhome Parish, > Church of Ireland, County Donegal, in 1820; so we probably have another > connection as well! > > You would be most welcome to join the Rootsweb Strong-List, and the Strong > Genealogy Network. Please take a look at the following URL: > http://www.nhb.com/dbstrong/sgnhome.htm > > There you will find a brief discussion of the SGN and The Strong-List, > together with a link to instructions as to how to subscribe. There are no > fees and participation is totally voluntary. You used my Geocities email > address to contact me, so I know you have seen my website, and the Lineages > Directory, which already includes your "Drimhory Strongs". I will update > the entry to include you as a researcher and point of contact. We will look > forward to your participation and assistance! > > I am also copying this response to the Strong-List and a group of other > researchers also interested in the roots of our Irish Strongs.... including > Dale Strong and William L. "Bill" Strong who also corresponded with your > father, Earl Strong. They will, I am sure, be glad to welcome you to the > list as well. Unfortunately, we cannot offer easy answers, but we are all > looking for the clues that will link us as cousins! > > Regards, > David B. "Dave" Strong > Email: [email protected] > Website, "Researching Strong(e)s and Strang(e)s in Britain & Ireland" > http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Prairie/7530 > > ================================================= > To subscribe to the Strong Mail List in Mail Mode, > send a message to the following address: > [email protected] > and put > > subscribe > > in the body of the message, beginning Line 1, Column 1. > DO NOT WRITE ANYTHING ELSE IN THE BODY OF THE > MESSAGE. BE SURE YOUR MESSAGE EDITOR IS NOT SET > TO ADD YOUR SIGNATURE AUTOMATICALLY. > > ==================================================== > > ********************************* > > -----Original Message----- > From: Strong Tom <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] <[email protected]> > Date: Saturday, January 02, 1999 5:50 AM > Subject: strongs > > >Dear David, > > In the past you corresponded with my father Earl Strong in > Toronto > >as did Dale Strong. With the recent death of my mother material came into > my > >hands about family history and genealogy. > > I am curious as to whether any of it has been updated. It refered to a > Hugh > >Alexander Strong 21/3/1830 of Drimhory with two cousins who migrated to > Canada > >in the early 1850's. I am aware that oral family history can be distorted > but > >my father always told me that it was Hugh plus a brother plus a cousin who > left > >Ireland. Theire was also a sister who married someone called Herron and > >migrated with him to Boston. I am sure that this was not wildly distorted > as > >my uncle Frank was in contact with a Boston dentist who was a descendant of > >this union. I believe that this was sometime in the late 1920's. > > In addition there was a reference to a theory that the Strongs of Donegal > >were the descendants of Scots fleeing a Scottish famine in the 1690's. Is > there > >any mor evidence on this. > > Is there a mailing list that I could be put on to receive further > research. > >Ican send you a credit card number or arrange for an oversea's cheque to > cover > >costs. I am not sure I could contribute to any historical research as I > seem > >to have inherited my mother's math-science brain rather than my father's > >history type. > > > > Yours sincerly, > > Tom Strong > >PS. I live about as far from Toronto as possible. The GOld Coast just > south of > >Brisbane in Queensland Australia > > > > > > > > ______________________________ > > --------------------------------------------------------------- > > Subject: STRONG, POPE, MANESS, CURTIS > Date: Sat, 02 Jan 1999 22:44:33 -0600 > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > > I'm searching for the wife of John Strong, b 1801 in KY or TN. He > married her abt 1820 and Julia Ann b 7/11/1818, Anis, b abt 1819 & > Marinda, b 1/23/1820 were 3 of their children. There were several other > children, but i have no birth dates to determine if she were there > mother or not. They are William, Scott, Henderson, Anderson, Arrena, > Samuel, Emily & James F. > This mother evidently died young, for John Strong remarried Jane Pope > about 1832. Some of these children are probably hers. > Marinda Strong married a Maness 1st, then John Louis (Jack) Parrish. > Scott married a Catherine ?, Julia Ann married William Meredith Pope in > Crab Orchard, Lincoln Co., KY, Anis married ? Curtis and had a son, > Monroe Curtis. > Does anyone have any information on this line? > Joanne Scobee Morgan > > ______________________________ > > --------------------------------------------------------------- > > Subject: JULIA ANN STRONG > Date: Sun, 03 Jan 1999 16:24:12 -0600 > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > > I'm confused and hope someone on this list is also searching for the > same line as I am. > My mother-in-law passed away shortly before Thanksgiving, leaving all > her genealogy books to me. I haven't BEGUN to sift through them all, but > note that several times she gives the parents of Julia Ann Strong > different names! > JULIA ANN STRONG b July 11, 1818 married WILLIAM MEREDITH POPE on June > 1, 1850 in Crab Orchard, Lincoln Co., KY. They had 4 children, of which, > 2 sons grew into adulthood. Julia died Dec. 19, 1876. > Who were her parents? Sometimes my mil says they were Samuel and Jane > Strong, who had immigrated to MO in thye 1840's from Monroe Co., KY., > and sometimes she says her father was John Strong, son of Samuel and > Jane. > Does anyone REALLY know? > Anxious to hear. > Joanne Scobee Morgan UNSUBSCRIBE