Hi, As a Whalley descendant I�m glad to join the Whalley search party. I am the son of Thomas Carrick Burke, Jr and Katherine Deborah Ball (Burke, 1910-1967), who was the daughter of Bert (originally: Albert) Charles Ball and Charlotte Whalley (Ball, 1875-1955). Charlotte was one of seven children of John William Whalley (b. April 28, 1833 at Annapolis, Nova Scotia; d. Nov 10, 1900, Portland, Oregon) and Lavinia T Kimzie (b. 1842), whom he married on July 21, 1861. Five of these children survived childhood: Mary (married J Frank Watson); Susan (married James N Allison); Lavinia (married H.S. Huson); Jane (married William T Muir); and Charlotte. I can provide some further information about the descendants of these five daughters to anyone who is interested. John William Whalley was the son of Francis Whalley, an Anglican clergyman, and Mary Llewellyn Jones, whose grandfather, William Jones, came of a family which for 200 years had held a lease on �Overton Hall, of Lord Kenyon�s estate.� At the age of three, John William Whalley left Nova Scotia (where his father had held an appointment from the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Lands), for England, where his father was successively rector of Rivington Parish (Cheshire), chaplain of Lancashire Castle, and rector of other parishes in Lancashire and Westmoreland. John William was the third of four children -- three boys and one girl. (One of the brothers, Richard, was to become an Anglican clergyman.) He showed a remarkable academic bent (by the age of ten, he is said to have read much of Caesar and Ovid), but as a younger son he was required to seek gainful employment. After a brief, unhappy spell as a midshipman (1847) and a year as an accounting clerk with an uncle, Thomas Jones, in New York, he returned to England in 1848 in the expectation of receiving a position at the Bank of England. When this hope proved illusory, in February 1949 he took an apprenticeship on a ship bound for California, where he arrived in the heady days of the Gold Rush. When his efforts at mining didn�t pan out, he taught school and studied law. He was admitted to the bar in California in 1861. He moved to Grant County, Oregon in 1864 and to Portland, Oregon, in 1868. He soon became one of the most prominent attorneys in the Pacific Northwest. Though he was referred to as �Judge Whalley� and addressed as �The Honorable,� these were mere terms of respect: his only judgeship was that of a moot court he regularly held in his own house -- with the dual purpose, he said, of sharpening the wits of young lawyers and of attracting potential bridegrooms for his five daughters. He briefly served as a representative in the Oregon state Legislature and was an instructor in pleadings at the University of Oregon. At the bar he was noted for his wit, analytic and forensic brilliance and a seemingly inexhaustible store of quotations from Pope and Shakespeare. A broader public was familiar with his sporting activities, his championship of game protection and his humorous verse, which was widely printed in 19th century periodicals in the United States. In our family tradition, he is said to have served as a kind of poetic guru to the young poet(ester) Joaquin Miller. In 1889-90 he took his daughter Susan on an eighteen-month trip to Europe, in the course of which he visited Whalley relatives in England. His daughter Jane renewed these family contacts on trips to England in the 1920�s. (Do any Whalleys in England have any family reminiscences of these visits?) The ancestors of Francis Whalley are said to have been yeomen cultivating the estate of Coventree near Dent (West Riding, Yorkshire), to which they had come from Norfolk, where they had belonged to the family of Whalley the Regicide. I hope it may be possible to determine how far these family traditions are accurate. I apologize for the sheer length of this contribution, especially the part relating to John William Whalley. His memory was still very much alive when I was growing up, and, as a child and young man, I knew three of his daughters, who were prone to reminiscing. He is one of the �famous and infamous Whalleys� mentioned on the Whalley web site. I thought the details might be of interest. Tom Burke Thomas Carrick Burke (III [I no longer use the suffix]) [email protected]