I would really like to figure out the John Cissell's of St. Mary's
County, Maryland.� Using Donnelly, Jourdan and Lampkin we have 3
different versions of many lines.� For instance, the parents of John
married to Susannah Thompson� who died cir 1835 Nelson Co., Ky is given
as John and Henrietta by Lampkin.� Jourdan does not specify which John
and Susannah just that they have a daughter named Mary and she is the
Susannah in Richard Thompson's will-parents are listed as Arthur and
Mary.� So we have the same Susannah Thompson (which one?) wife of John
Cissell as the d-in-law of John and Henrietta and of Arthur.� Knowing
the John Cissell who died cir. 1785 in St. Mary Co. died before Richard
Thompson limits the field a bit as he could not have administered on the
estate of Richard Thompson.� We really seem to have a problem in these
records.� Looking at much of the work which has been done one thing has
not been done.� Very little has been done to trace the lines back to St.
Mary's County.� Much of the work has been in the opposite direction.� I
really don't want to get anyone angry or upset but we could all work
together on tracing many of these unknown lines back to Maryland-I will
be posting stuff from time to time and if you know I am way off
base-please post the correction and help out.� We did this with
Elizabeth dau. of Phillip or John and really made some progress.�
Someday I would like to know the parentage of our John Baptist Sissel
probably born Maryland. Getting these unknown or incorrectly placed John
Cecil/Cissell/Sissel's straightened out seems like the only� way.� When
you trace going backward often you can pick up the female siblings which
might help us straighten out these lines in Maryland. Again, please
don't get "mad"-get- "even"�� and post the correct info. with
sources.
Any feedback on this?� Donna
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