Linda;
Thanks for the information. I WILL put that the Peter connection is
speculation as I do not have proof of it myself.
Hopefully I will get more records added in the next few days showing
the proof I have of my relatives. It's been a few years since I
researched this line and recently reconnected with a cousin so I
decided to upload my information to help us re-check our information.
Lon
On Aug 18, 2007, at 9:24 PM, Linda Cassidy Lewis wrote:
Lon,
You're site looks very nice, and thanks for the link to the CCFA
site. I'll check back to see what all you're uploading. Maybe I can
fill-in some blanks in the CCFA database. For now, I have a
question and a comment.
1. If you are going to show our ancestor "Old" Peter as being
descended from the Cassidys in the Clogher Register, will you be
showing proof of that? That ancestral link is questioned by quite a
few of us, including the official genealogist for the Cassidy Clan
of County Fermanagh, Ireland. I know that link is shown in the LDS
files and was submitted by William Allen. By the time I became
aware of it, William had passed on, but his son searched through
his father's records for me and could not find any documentation
for it. He came to the conclusion that it was speculation on his
father's part. So if your ancestry beyond Old Peter is just
speculation, please, please, please prominently indicate that on
your site, so others will not copy it as fact.
2. I also corresponded with Ida Cronkite and she told me the
family tale about Jonathan Cassity and Mary Armstrong's marriage,
and also the tale of my ggreat-grandfather's head injury at the
hand of his brother. I don't know if the second tale is true,
however, the first tale cannot be true as told. Mary Armstrong's
parents were not both deceased when she married Jonathan Cassity.
Her mother had died, possibly at Mary's birth, and her father had
remarried. (Another tale tells that Mary did not get along with her
step-mother and set out to find a husband, but I don't know if
that's true either.) In any case, Mary was not an orphan when she
married.
As for Jonathan's parents' death leaving him to care for two
younger sisters, that's one that could be true, but we have not
been able to identify his parents, so it can't be proved. Anyway, I
just thought I'd give you some input.
Linda
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