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From: "Charles.Clark" <>
Subject: FORSYTH
Date: Fri, 06 May 2005 13:39:52 +1200
References: <200505051658.AA65471264@mail.fea.net>


As I start in to contemplating doing a little bit of Pennsylvania
research, this all sounds both promising and scary at the same time.
There's a lot to find, and many haystacks to hide a needle in. Or at least
that's how it feels to a beginner.
I'm looking for FORSYTH, said to have been "living on the Brandywine River
in Pennsylvania at the time of the War of Independence"
Well, perhaps I'd better start at the beginning and work back. We start
with Dame Dehra Parker (previously Chichester, nee Kerr, her daughter
married my cousin James Clark who changed his name to Chichester-Clark,
and their son Jimmy Chichester-Clark was prime minister of Northern
Ireland 1969-1971), who was a Minister at the Stormont for much of the
time between 1920 and 1960, and who between 1935 and 1956 had a lease on
Clonmore, the house at Upperlands which my grandmother and her brother
lived in from then until they died in the late 80s. She's a somewhat
mysterious figure, and seems to have covered her tracks well. But I like a
challenge....

Dehra Kerr's parents were James Kerr Fisher, said to have emigrated from
co Derry as a young man and made his pile as a financier around Chicago
and Indianapolis, and Annie FORSYTH (married ca 1881-1882), whose
grandparents "were very early settlers, living on the Brandywine River at
the time of the War of Independence." I have no more than that, in fact I
even had to educate myself on the fact that there was a battle of
Brandywine River in 1777 during said war of independence, but the phrasing
seems to suggest that these Forsyths were living there rather than
fighting.

Charlie


Linda Merle wrote:

> Hi Bill,
>
> I do genealogy professionally. That means I've had
> training in how to do research. I not only own but have read
> a number of books/articles on researching in PA. Also I've
> actually DONE the work, analyzed the results, etc. Not only
> for my family but a number of others.

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