I have a St. James United Church of Christ book but mine starts ca Sept. 17, 1789-August 23, 1823 and I found no Andrew/Andrea/Andreas in it. Tootsie Shoemaker T. "Joseph J. Messersmith, Jr." wrote: > I am seeking a lookup from the following church register: > > St. James United Church of Christ church register : (reformed church), > Loudoun County, Virginia, ca. Sept. 17, 1789-August 23, 1823 > > I am looking for information on the family of Samuel Andrew (Andrea or > Andreas in German). Samuel Andrew and his family resided in Loudoun County > from about 1782 until about 1795. Information on any mention of this > surname will be appreciated. > > Thanks in advance for your help. > > Jim Messersmith > Rockville, VA > > ==== VALOUDOU Mailing List ==== > Join the Rootsweb Genealogical Data Cooperative. > Rootsweb members & sponsors are who make this list possible. > http://www.rootsweb.com

Index? Aye, Bob McArtor ----- Original Message ----- From: <RockCatt@aol.com> To: <VALOUDOU-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, July 05, 2002 10:22 AM Subject: Re: [VALOUDOU-L] Lookup request - Andrew/Andrea/Andreas/Andre > Jim, > I have a book entitled, "Legends of Loudon Valley," by James Nichols in which > he talks about Major John Andre, "a British officer in disguise in the > American lines." Would you like for me to post it here? > Barb Price > > > ==== VALOUDOU Mailing List ==== > Join the Rootsweb Genealogical Data Cooperative. > Rootsweb members & sponsors are who make this list possible. > http://www.rootsweb.com > >

Jim, I have a book entitled, "Legends of Loudon Valley," by James Nichols in which he talks about Major John Andre, "a British officer in disguise in the American lines." Would you like for me to post it here? Barb Price

Hi Jim i show the following from early church records of Loudoun County Va 1745-1800 the following Samuel Andereas' son Georg, buried 11 Feb 1794, 19y 7m 3w 2d at New Jerusalem Lutheran Church Cemetery. Hope this helps. Marilyn

I am seeking a lookup from the following church register: St. James United Church of Christ church register : (reformed church), Loudoun County, Virginia, ca. Sept. 17, 1789-August 23, 1823 I am looking for information on the family of Samuel Andrew (Andrea or Andreas in German). Samuel Andrew and his family resided in Loudoun County from about 1782 until about 1795. Information on any mention of this surname will be appreciated. Thanks in advance for your help. Jim Messersmith Rockville, VA

A Thomas Hughes residing in Loudoun County VA bought Section 1 of Range 6, Twp 10, which I believe is now in Guernsey County OH (at that time the range overlapped existing Belmont and Harrison counties) on March 30, 1805 (Certificate #1266). I am looking for any information linking him to a later Thomas Hughes who fathered Joseph Hughes abt. 1839 in Guernsey Cy, whom I believe is my great grandfather. A Joseph Hughes fathered Thomas Jefferson Hughes (my grandfather) in 1866 in Madison Twp, Guernsey Cy. If there is a connection, also looking for information on VA antecedents. I am not certain that the 6-10-1 section corresponds to the later Madison Twp site. Any info on that would be appreciated as well. There also are records of a Thomas Hughs, the possible assignee of a William Fuller, paying non-resident taxes in 1801 on Virginia Military Tax District land in Ohio (which would have been further west than the land cited above), and a Thomas Hughs paying poll taxes in Loudoun County Virginia between 1782 and 1787. Hughes and Hughs spellings were interchangeable during this period of time. No idea if there is any connection between these Thomas Hugheses other than geographical coincidence and similarities in time frame. --- Robert Hughes --- rah39@earthlink.net --- EarthLink: It's your Internet.

Thanks Cathy it does help. Marilyn

Hello everyone I am looking for information on James W. Tribby b. 10 Jan 1880 in Loudoun County Va. His parents were Jesse Tribby and Jane Tribby. I found a death record for a James W. Tribby died Jan 30, 1880 in Loudoun Co. Va. I was wondering if the two were the same person. Any help on James W. Tribby would be greatly appreciated. Marilyn

Thank you so much for the form of eulogy for Asa Moore Janney, a true gentleman and historian. I will never forget my two contacts with him and how he made the local history come alive for a Northern Yankee. He spoke of my husband's anc. as if they were just "around the corner" and kindly showed me where they lived in the mid and late 1700's. The Meads went to Virginia in the 1730's and were fellow Bucks Co., residents. May the Lord embrace him in the afterlife for the wonderful man he was. Mena Mead -----Original Message----- From: p.duncan [mailto:p.duncan@worldnet.att.net] Sent: Monday, June 24, 2002 5:12 PM To: VALOUDOU-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [VALOUDOU-L] Death of Asa Moore Janney >From the 19 Jun, 2002 Loudoun Times-Mirror: A giant passes: Asa Moore Janney dies at 94 Asa Moore Janney Jr. was fond of performing Hamlet's description of his father at memorials at the Goose Creek Friends Meeting in Lincoln. Saturday afternoon, hundreds of his friends and family packed the small meeting house to say goodby to Asa Moore, a fixture in the community for nearly a century. They harked to the same words: "He was a man, take him for all in all, I shall not look upon his like again." Janney, 94, died June 11 at the Heritage Hall Nursing Center in Leesburg. His health had declined since a stroke earlier this year, but his mind remained as sharp - and playful - as ever, said his wife Arlene. He amused himself and his therapists at Heritage Hall by answering questions in rhyme. And, of course, he recited "Casey at the Bat." Janney's daughter Rachel recalled a visit to the nursing home. Three nurses had helped her father from his bed to a chair. Was he tired from that workout, they wanted to know. "Heck, I'm 94. I was tired before I started," replied Janney. Friends and family shared memories at the memorial, before his ashes were put to rest - in a pine box, at his request - in the Friends Cemetery behind the old stone meeting house. A few in the meeting house wiped tears away, only to burst out in laughter as friends and family shared memories. Not all Quaker memorials are quite so boisterous, said Arlene later. But it was full of joy, and all the storytelling would have suited Asa Moore just fine. Son Asa Moore III told of the "stinky" chemistry set experiments that cleared the house for hours. The crowds that would gather when his father led impromptu Civil War battlefield tours. The annual Fourth of July firecracker that grew to the size of a loaf of bread. "Pop, I think, we've graduated from a firecracker to a bomb," said the young Asa Moore. Many still recall his ads for goods in the store. "Shirts half off, pants down," one read. Another friend remembered studying religion at a Quaker college. His instructor marveled at his lack of basic knowledge. Well, he countered, his Sunday school teacher at home in Lincoln had been Asa Moore Janney. "I know a lot about the Civil War." Rachel pointed out the two physical attributes she inherited: her height, and her flat feet. "But my real gift," she said, "was growing up in a loving family, in a community that cares for family." the first Janney, Thomas, came to Pennsylvania with William Penn to found the Quaker colony there. Janneys settled in Bucks County, and moved to Loudoun and to Maryland, where some still live near Sandy Spring. Hannah and Jacob Janney brought their family to Loudoun. Rachel is a third cousin once removed from Allison Janney of "The West Wing." Maybe the show can cast her someday as "the evil twin," she joked. Janney was born April 19, 1908 in Purcellville. His brother Werner was born four years later and went on to a long and distinguished career with the National Geographic Society. The brothers collaborated on a series of books about the Janneys in Loudoun, and the Goose Creek Friends. "The brothers worked so well together," said Arlene. "The earlier books were done a great deal by correspondence. Asa Moore would write, and send the manuscript to Werner. Werner's expertise made it sound like Asa Moore was talking." Their collaborations included "The Composition Book," "Ye Meetg Hous Smal" and "A Medieval Virginia Town, 1914-1919." They also edited and published "The Ledgers of Israel Janney" and "John Jay Janney's Virginia." By the time Janney left for a chemistry degree at Washington and Lee - one of his colleagues on the track team was future Supreme Court Justice Lewis Powell - the family had moved to Telegraph Springs Farm and opened the Janney's Store in the old Lyceum Hall in Lincoln. Janney pursued a graduate degree and worked for DuPont in Wilmington, Del., for a few years, but heeded an inner voice and came home to devote himself to family, store, farm and community. He had a habit, during his years as Postmaster, of adding personal notes to envelopes addressed to Lincoln Post Office box holders. Don't you regret not seeing more of the county, the world, a friend asked him a year or two ago. "I haven't seen all of Lincoln yet," he replied. "Pop had at least two other distinguishing characteristics," wrote his children after his death. "He liked inventing and tinkering." They credit him with a device to coat cattle feed with molasses and an efficient hay-bale conveyor for the barn. And telling stories, teaching his family the history of their family and their place. Teaching anyone who took the time to pull up a chair. And reciting Casey at the Bat." Janney spent most of every day, until his stroke, working on his research and writing letters in the Lincoln store, now owned by John Rubyalid, who operates a law practice there. "It was a rare privilege to be 10 feet from this man for the last year," said Rubyalid. He'd lived a long life, he had no bitterness. He enjoyed every day and made others enjoy it too." Son Asa Moore recounted that the family played a game with their father - one of them would recite a line of poetry, and "Pop" would recite as much of the entire poem as he could remember. It was frequently the entire poem. One of his favorites, said Asa Moore Saturday, was Tennyson's "Crossing the Bar." Crossing the bar to eternity, wrote Tennyson, "Twilight and evening bell/and after that the dark./I hope to see my Pilot face to face/When I have passed the bar." Smaller obituary: Asa Moore Janney Asa Moore Janney Jr., 94, died in Leesburg June 11. A memorial service was held Saturday at the Goose Creek Friends Meeting in Lincoln, and his ashes were buried immediately afterward in the Friends Cemetery. He is survived by his wife of 53 years, Arlene G. Janney of Lincoln; two sons, Asa Moore Janney III of Oakton and John F. Janney of Purcellville; two daughters, Rachael E. Janney of Blacksburg and Hannah L. Janney of Lincoln; and eight granddaughters - Hannah Janney, Myrna Janney, Eliza Janney, Molly Janney, Katie deButts, Rose deButts, Rebeka deButts and Ruth deButts. The family suggested contributions to Loudoun Hospice or the Scholarship Fund, Goose Creek Friends Meeting House, P. O. Box 105, Lincoln, VA 20160. ==== VALOUDOU Mailing List ==== Join the Rootsweb Genealogical Data Cooperative. Rootsweb members & sponsors are who make this list possible. http://www.rootsweb.com

Hi everyone I am looking for information on Jacob Frye (1711-1785) father of Nicholas Fry (1746-1840). Would like to find out where Jacob and his son Nicholas are buried. Who was Jacobs wife. Nicholas was married to Margaret Ansell. Jacob moved his family to Loudoun County Va. from Frederick Md. around 1785. Any help on this family would be greatly appreciated. Thanks for the help. Marilyn

----- Original Message ----- From: "Marilyn Marlow" <marilyn_187@webtv.net> To: <VALOUDOU-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, June 24, 2002 8:56 PM Subject: [VALOUDOU-L] Jacob Frye b.1711 d.1785 > Hi everyone I am looking for information on Jacob Frye (1711-1785) > father of Nicholas Fry (1746-1840). Would like to find out where Jacob > and his son Nicholas are buried. Who was Jacobs wife. Nicholas was > married to Margaret Ansell. Jacob moved his family to Loudoun County Va. > from Frederick Md. around 1785. Any help on this family would be greatly Marilyn, I find the name spelled Freu, Frey, and Fry. Burials Recorded by Pastors New Jerusalem Lutheran Church: Jacob Freu, buried 9 October 1785, 74y-2m-4d I hope this helps, Cathy clauer@oregonvos.net

>From the 19 Jun, 2002 Loudoun Times-Mirror: A giant passes: Asa Moore Janney dies at 94 Asa Moore Janney Jr. was fond of performing Hamlet's description of his father at memorials at the Goose Creek Friends Meeting in Lincoln. Saturday afternoon, hundreds of his friends and family packed the small meeting house to say goodby to Asa Moore, a fixture in the community for nearly a century. They harked to the same words: "He was a man, take him for all in all, I shall not look upon his like again." Janney, 94, died June 11 at the Heritage Hall Nursing Center in Leesburg. His health had declined since a stroke earlier this year, but his mind remained as sharp - and playful - as ever, said his wife Arlene. He amused himself and his therapists at Heritage Hall by answering questions in rhyme. And, of course, he recited "Casey at the Bat." Janney's daughter Rachel recalled a visit to the nursing home. Three nurses had helped her father from his bed to a chair. Was he tired from that workout, they wanted to know. "Heck, I'm 94. I was tired before I started," replied Janney. Friends and family shared memories at the memorial, before his ashes were put to rest - in a pine box, at his request - in the Friends Cemetery behind the old stone meeting house. A few in the meeting house wiped tears away, only to burst out in laughter as friends and family shared memories. Not all Quaker memorials are quite so boisterous, said Arlene later. But it was full of joy, and all the storytelling would have suited Asa Moore just fine. Son Asa Moore III told of the "stinky" chemistry set experiments that cleared the house for hours. The crowds that would gather when his father led impromptu Civil War battlefield tours. The annual Fourth of July firecracker that grew to the size of a loaf of bread. "Pop, I think, we've graduated from a firecracker to a bomb," said the young Asa Moore. Many still recall his ads for goods in the store. "Shirts half off, pants down," one read. Another friend remembered studying religion at a Quaker college. His instructor marveled at his lack of basic knowledge. Well, he countered, his Sunday school teacher at home in Lincoln had been Asa Moore Janney. "I know a lot about the Civil War." Rachel pointed out the two physical attributes she inherited: her height, and her flat feet. "But my real gift," she said, "was growing up in a loving family, in a community that cares for family." the first Janney, Thomas, came to Pennsylvania with William Penn to found the Quaker colony there. Janneys settled in Bucks County, and moved to Loudoun and to Maryland, where some still live near Sandy Spring. Hannah and Jacob Janney brought their family to Loudoun. Rachel is a third cousin once removed from Allison Janney of "The West Wing." Maybe the show can cast her someday as "the evil twin," she joked. Janney was born April 19, 1908 in Purcellville. His brother Werner was born four years later and went on to a long and distinguished career with the National Geographic Society. The brothers collaborated on a series of books about the Janneys in Loudoun, and the Goose Creek Friends. "The brothers worked so well together," said Arlene. "The earlier books were done a great deal by correspondence. Asa Moore would write, and send the manuscript to Werner. Werner's expertise made it sound like Asa Moore was talking." Their collaborations included "The Composition Book," "Ye Meetg Hous Smal" and "A Medieval Virginia Town, 1914-1919." They also edited and published "The Ledgers of Israel Janney" and "John Jay Janney's Virginia." By the time Janney left for a chemistry degree at Washington and Lee - one of his colleagues on the track team was future Supreme Court Justice Lewis Powell - the family had moved to Telegraph Springs Farm and opened the Janney's Store in the old Lyceum Hall in Lincoln. Janney pursued a graduate degree and worked for DuPont in Wilmington, Del., for a few years, but heeded an inner voice and came home to devote himself to family, store, farm and community. He had a habit, during his years as Postmaster, of adding personal notes to envelopes addressed to Lincoln Post Office box holders. Don't you regret not seeing more of the county, the world, a friend asked him a year or two ago. "I haven't seen all of Lincoln yet," he replied. "Pop had at least two other distinguishing characteristics," wrote his children after his death. "He liked inventing and tinkering." They credit him with a device to coat cattle feed with molasses and an efficient hay-bale conveyor for the barn. And telling stories, teaching his family the history of their family and their place. Teaching anyone who took the time to pull up a chair. And reciting Casey at the Bat." Janney spent most of every day, until his stroke, working on his research and writing letters in the Lincoln store, now owned by John Rubyalid, who operates a law practice there. "It was a rare privilege to be 10 feet from this man for the last year," said Rubyalid. He'd lived a long life, he had no bitterness. He enjoyed every day and made others enjoy it too." Son Asa Moore recounted that the family played a game with their father - one of them would recite a line of poetry, and "Pop" would recite as much of the entire poem as he could remember. It was frequently the entire poem. One of his favorites, said Asa Moore Saturday, was Tennyson's "Crossing the Bar." Crossing the bar to eternity, wrote Tennyson, "Twilight and evening bell/and after that the dark./I hope to see my Pilot face to face/When I have passed the bar." Smaller obituary: Asa Moore Janney Asa Moore Janney Jr., 94, died in Leesburg June 11. A memorial service was held Saturday at the Goose Creek Friends Meeting in Lincoln, and his ashes were buried immediately afterward in the Friends Cemetery. He is survived by his wife of 53 years, Arlene G. Janney of Lincoln; two sons, Asa Moore Janney III of Oakton and John F. Janney of Purcellville; two daughters, Rachael E. Janney of Blacksburg and Hannah L. Janney of Lincoln; and eight granddaughters - Hannah Janney, Myrna Janney, Eliza Janney, Molly Janney, Katie deButts, Rose deButts, Rebeka deButts and Ruth deButts. The family suggested contributions to Loudoun Hospice or the Scholarship Fund, Goose Creek Friends Meeting House, P. O. Box 105, Lincoln, VA 20160.

Howard and all, As to the "cf" in the Tavenner abbreviations that was given the meaning of "same as", Webster's Dictionary gives another meaning to "cf" and that is "carried forward." That makes a lot more sense. If you were looking at a table of values and one column was the same as the previous, "cf" would mean that you were carrying forward the previous value and in that context it would mean the "same as" so I guess the original meaning does hold water. Denny Shirer - drdx@neo.rr.com - North Canton, OH Shirer Family Genealogy - http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~mysong Muskingum County, OHGenWeb - http://www.rootsweb.com/~ohmuskin/ Howard Swain wrote: > Hi Denny, > > From: "Denny Shirer" <drdx@neo.rr.com> > To: <VALOUDOU-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2002 8:37 AM > Subject: [VALOUDOU-L] Re: Solving Puzzles > > > When I sent for info from the Tavenner Collection it came with a sheet explaining > > some of the common abbreviations. I didn't see all of them mentioned in this > > thread so will include what they are. > > > > Fq = Fauquier Co. > > Fx = Fairfax Co. > > Lv = Lovettsville > > Wtfd = Waterford > > cf = same as (doesn't make sense but will bow to their wisdom) > > Perhaps Tavenner was using "cf" as it is normally used in encyclopedias > to mean "compare". In encyclopedias the thing mentioned after the "cf" > is usually something similar, but not the same. > > Regards, > Howard

Hello everyone could someone please do a lookup on the 1930 Loudoun County, Virginia census for Thomas Putman and his wife Susan. Thanks for the help. Marilyn

Hello everyone i had to change my email address due to hackers. my old address was marilyn498@webtv.net my new address is marilyn_187@webtv.net have a great day. Still looking for my Peter Fry from Loudoun County. Marilyn

Hi, I have a James Spencer living next to Thomas Stone in Loudoun Co. Va. from deed book O 1784. Can anyone help me with the relationship between this Thomas Stone and James Spencer. Thank you for any help you can give me. Sondra

----- Original Message ----- From: Marilyn Marlow <marilyn498@webtv.net> To: <VALOUDOU-L-request@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2002 12:42 PM Subject: John Peter Fry > Hello everyone i am looking at the Charles Blair Tavenner Collection. > It says that my greatgrandfather Charles Luther Fry was the son of John > Peter Fry b. 1833 d. 1888, who was the son of Peter Fry b. 1801 and wife > Sarah ?, who was the son Peter Fry died in 1839 and Sarah Jacobs. Does > anyone know who this Peter Fry's parents were. I was told it was > Nicholas Frye but now am not sure . Any help with this would be greatly > appreciated. Thanks for everyones help in the past. > Marilyn > >

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Mike sent me this, and i will share it. Documents that were contributed to the Virginia USGenWeb Archives and Tombstone Transcription Register last week can be found at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/va/newdocs.htm Mike

Thank you for looking anyway. I appreciate it. Mary