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From: "Charles A. Wyly" <>
Subject: Re: [Scotch-Irish] Snoddy/Snoddie/Snod
Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2003 20:32:15 -0600


Malinda- I am sending you a famil Tree outline from Wilbur Mitchell ,
from Ireland to Virginia , 1740 down to my Wyly grandchildren. I sat the
message to go to yopu off the Scotch- irish List. Remember, this info
starts with him as Generation 1 and each number by the name indicates the
generation from Wilbur in ireland to us. Martha Catherine Mitchell ,
third wife of O.C. Wyly and his first wife Lucy Eddins were related.

Am I even close? Oner of these Mitchells recently donated a large
collection of spurs and cowboy hardware to a museum in Gatesville, Texas,
near North Fort Hood. Several are buried in Ireland Cemetery, Hamilton
County, Texas .

Happy hunting,
Charles A. Wyly

On Wed, 8 Jan 2003 02:03:42 -0600 "malinda" <> writes:
> How about Mitchells that arrived in VA in the 1600s ?? My Mitchells
> were in
> Surry/Brunswick Co VA and then removed to Giles Co TN in 1808 (to
> what
> became
> Pulaski)
>
> ~malinda
>
>
>
> Hi Carol, Please check our website:
> http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~merle.
> It contains lots of info on
> how to do these searches. Other than that, you absolutely must learn
> a lot about the family and the locale to make progress. There's
> a lot of records in IReland but there are not all Ireland indexes.
> So you will have to learn about Larne and Larne's relationship
> to Scotland. Key will be the occupation of your people as well as,
> if they were tenents, their landlord.
>
> How do you find this info? The answer is Irish genealogy books tell
> you how. Read a couple. www.genuki.org.uk is the hub of British
> and Irish genealogy. It lists the main books. For Americans,
> Radford and Betit's book (in paperback and in large bookstores like
> Borders, for sell on line too) is very good. It was written for
> those
> not living in London -- so it won't tell you to go to Dublin to get
> records that could be sitting in the local LDS family history
> center.
>
> But when you get back into the 1700's have you heard that it is
> impossible to trace 'average' people? That's what the textbooks
> will
> tell you. That's because they focus on the majority of Irish people
> who
> are Catholic tenant farmers. That is not so for the minority.
> Records
> do exist that contain Protestants. However you will have to learn
> to
> use them effectively.
>
> Town histories that name every small merchant in the town sometimes
> lump the Irish together saying "This street
> was inhabited by poor Irish". However your ancestors will be named
> in that book. I am thinking of the History of Magherafelt -- which
> is printed in 2 point type and is not indexed. So you read it from
> the first page to the last. Many histories of towns are like this.
> Same goes for church histories! They contain a lot of the names of
> early members, but you will only find out which churches had
> Snoddys by reading church histories.
>
> Unfortunately the associated surnames are very common both in
> Ulster and in Scotland. I can tell you that the Larne area has a
> relationship to Stirling. Several landowners from Stirling obtained
> estates in south eastern Antrim and brought over tenants. But
> with your surnames this isn't much of a tip <grin>! There are so
> many Mitchells in Stirling alone, some tenants, some gentry -- all
> with the same first names. Arrrg....Just hearing "Mitchell" puts me
> in a bad mood. My own personal Smith <grin>. I did find proof of
> the relationship (so I suppose I could write a paper), but for a
> long time I 'knew' this only because I researched in Stirling,
> reading
> all the parish records from the early 1700's on, so they are etched
> in my brain. You seriously got to get deeply into the locales you
> research in to make progress in the early 1700's.
>
> How do you start? Check all the sources listed in Ryan "IRish
> Records"
> for Antrim. That'll hit the easy to get ones. Then you assess what
> to do next -- hopefully you've found some townland names or
> determined
> they were merchants, etc. Merchants are grand: they left paper
> trails.
>
> Yeh, it's hard, but we're Scotch-Irish so we're up to it! It's not
> a lot compared with populating a continent or shoveling the
> driveway!
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Linda Merle
>
> ---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
> From: "Carol Byler" <>
> Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2003 08:37:25 -0600
>
> >I'm new to this list and need your assistance, please.
> >
> >Looking for any information on the Snoddy family that left Scotland
> for
> Ireland in the late 1600's-early 1700's. The family names carried
> down have
> been: Samuel, William, John, and Adam. Grasping at straws that
> someone can
> help me. Any contacts would be greatly appreciated. Phone book
> names,
> email addresses, etc.....
> >
> >The connected family names are: McNeely, Purviance, Orr, Phillips,
> Mitchell.
> >
> >HELP!!!!!
> >
> >My line from Ireland descends as follows:
> >
> >1 Samuel Snoddy, Sr. b: April 23, 1727 in Larne, Co Antrim, NI d:
> August
> 1806 in Iredell Co, NC
> >. +Elizabeth Sloan b: September 1725 in NI m: Abt. 1748 in Co
> Antrim,
> Ireland d: 1815 in Iredell Co, NC
> >...... 2 William Snoddy, Sr. b: April 20, 1749 in ? Rowan Co, NC d:
> April
> 1812 in Sumner Co, TN
> >.......... +Margrite/Margaret McNeely b: in Unknown m: September
> 26, 1782
> in Rowan Co, NC d: 1800 in NC
> >.............. 3 William Snoddy, Jr. b: Abt. 1785 in Sumner Co, TN
> d: Bef.
> April 10, 1825 in Kelso, Lincoln Co, TN
> >.................. +Elizabeth Mumford Fuqua b: December 02, 1805 in
> Prince
> Edward Co, VA m: July 27, 1820 in Lauderdale Co, AL d: December 18,
> 1854 in
> Rogersville, Lauderdale Co, AL
> >...................... 4 Thomas A. Snoddy b: Mar17, 1823 in
> Lauderdale Co,
> AL d: Dec 18, 1878 in Lauderdale Co, AL
> >.......................... +Sarah Josephine "Puss" Haraway b:
> October 27,
> 1833 in Lauderdale Co, AL m: December 20, 1849 in Lauderdale Co, AL
> d:
> October 05, 1901 in Lauderdale Co, AL
> >.............................. 5 Thomas David Snoddy b: January 05,
> 1864 in
> Lauderdale Co, AL d: September 03, 1942 in Lauderdale Co, AL
> >.................................. +Etta Eliza White b: November
> 08, 1870
> in Lauderdale Co, AL m: October 06, 1887 in Lauderdale Co, AL d:
> June 23,
> 1945 in Lauderdale Co, AL
> >...................................... 6 Archie Benton Snoddy b:
> July 07,
> 1888 in Lauderdale Co, AL d: March 04, 1967 in Center Star,
> Lauderdale Co,
> AL
> >.......................................... +Mavis Benton Phillips
> b: June
> 23, 1891 in Lauderdale Co, AL m: November 29, 1907 in Pulaski, Giles
> Co, TN
> d: December 24, 1984 in Florence, Lauderdale Co, AL
> >............................................... 7 Henry Maples
> Snoddy
> >................................................... +Martha Ray
> Hurn
> >....................................................... 8 Elizabeth
> Carol
> Snoddy
> >
> >Thank you!
> >
> >Carol Snoddy Byler
> >Huntsville, AL
> >
> >
> >
>
>

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