Pat, Thanks so much. The Patrick/Ireland Kelley family isn't mine. Also I
have the 1979 History but didn't look in it. duh. Actually I've geaned all
the info from it on my lines, but if I'd opened it up I would have known!
I'll tell you a funny story abt these 2 Kelly/Kelley families if all of you
descended from Patrick promise not to hold it against me!
My Great-Grandmother was Katie Kelly, daughter of Jonathan Kelly & wife of
Frank Scoles. She told her children that her father had told them "our
Kelly's are NOT Irish!". Well I can imagine the reason she said this, her
Kelly's were most likely Scots-Irish, Protestant, & I know they had been
here in the US since at least the time of the Revolution. Jonathan Kelly
was making a distinction between his Kelly ancestors & the "newcomers" from
Ireland. I found this other Kelley family in the census & noted that they
didn't live too far away from "my" Kelly's. It was then that I
remembered
what my Grandmother had told us!
Thanks again. Oh I have other related Sipes too, seems they were popular in
Adams Co! :>)
Cindy Torres Owens
Stafford, VA
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