In a message dated 7/16/00 4:31:56 PM Eastern Daylight Time, MSmith2313@aol.com writes: > The Somerville of Wirt and surrounding counties are of Irish extraction, > though it is known that people of that name were natives, not only of > Ireland, but of England and Scotland, long before the Irish Sommervilles > migrated to America. In Ireland and England at an early date they were of > the title class. The progenitor of the family in this county, and the first > > of whom we have any direct knowledge was one Solomon Somerville, who lived > in > the county Donegal, Ireland. The date of his birth and information relative > > to his family are lacking, except for his children who came to America. I sure wish I could connect these folks to my Thomas 1750, I hope you guys are on the somerville list <A HREF="http://www.rootsweb.com/~maillist">User Mailing Lists Hosted by RootsWeb</A> Sandy in Florida [Sandra Sommerville Wells Griffith]