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Author: AnnRCC
Surnames: CLENEAY, CLENNY, CLENNEY, etc., SPRINGER
Classification: queries
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I'm quite sure (and still trying to prove) that I descend from your Mary Cleneay's brother, William, (son of William and Maria (SPRINGER). My William was baptized in 1719 at Holy Trinity (Old Swede's) Church, in Christina (now Newcastle) DE. I believe your Mary was born (not married) in 1726 in Newcastle, DE. I haven't noticed her marriage listed in the Old Swede's records online, so she may have married James in PA.
I live in PA, just over the state line from DE, and didn't know until I had lived here for 10 years (I'm from the midwest), that I had ancestral history in my back yard. I plan to do some serious research at Old Swede's, the DE Historical Society, Newcastle library, etc. I've been to Historic Newcastle and all the beautiful old buildings, including Old Swede's, but that was before I even knew that the Cleneays and Springers were part of my line.
I don't know if any of the Cleneays deliberately used the alternate spellings we see, but the name does lend itself to misspelling and mistranscription! I have seen it spelled CLENEAY, CLEANY, CLEANEY, CLENNY, CLENNEY, KLENNY, CLENNAY, CLENEY, CLEANEAY, CLINNY, CLEENY, CLEANAY, and even CLEMCY, CENSAY and CLENCAY (in transcriptions).
I recently discovered that Winterthur, the beautiful duPont estate and gardens that I visit regularly, was bought from the "CLENNY" family in the late 1700s or the early 1800s, and the creek that runs through it is called "Clenny's Run".
My Cleneays migrated from DE to NC, and then up in KY in the early 1800s and then to southern OH. (I believe they went to NC around the 1760s). My records show that your Mary and husband went to NC at some point, too. Where did they go from there?
I'd love to compare and share information with you.
Ann
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Author: William_Acres
Surnames: Clenny, Cleneay, Hall, Springer, Davis, Hendrickson
Classification: queries
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GerriAnn,
I am also looking for that line. James and Mary were first cousins, grandchildren of Carl Christophersson Springer and Maria Hendricksdotter of New Castle, DE. The Cleneays were French Huguenots. (I do not know where the McClenny/Clenny thing comes from, it's later I guess). Cleneay's name morphed into Clenny--his farm remained in the family until about 1811 when it was turned into part of the Winterthur property. CC Springer and Maria were both members of the Old Swedes Church and have a huge descendance. Google Christopher Springer. There was a great hoax in the 19th century by a Moses Springer inventing all sorts of connections to him. But Clenny and Hall and their descendants are real. He was the kidnapped son of Swedish court officials (true) who was indentured in Virginia while studying in London. Once free, he travelled to find the other Swedes.
I am about 10th generation from them. Hall and Clenny's family is very large--North Carolina mostly and then outward. Our family is from their daughter Deborah Hall who married Thomas Davis (family via Baltimore to NC, Orange County), and they were loyalists to the British Crown who went en masse with his uncle William Alexander Davis and their families to what became Upper Canada. Halls were English, Quakers. Lots of Quakers went to North Carolina. This is an interesting line.
Email me: bacres(a)gtn.net. I had a brief correspondence with Dr. Peter Craig of the Swedish genealogical society about this.
Bill Acres
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