Ormsby, Dillon & many other families

The following information on the Delone family is provided by 
Helen Ormsby.

"The DELONE family is among the oldest and most interesting 
in the Conewago Valley. Once numerous, there are few if any bearing 
this name who still survive. However, as a result of the generosity
of the late Charles J. DELONE, Esq. , and his wife, the name is
fittingly memorialized in the DELONE Catholic High School in 
McSherrystown which is the regional Catholic secondary school
for children residing within a radius of about ten miles of this
excellent educational facility."

The names of Dellow and Dillow in Adams County altered through 
the years. In the eastern part of Adams County, the name became
Delone and Dellone; it can still be found in that area. In the
western part of the county, in Franklin and Menallen Townships,
it was altered to Dillon.

(Research):Dellone, Delone, Dillon, Dulon, Delon, Delan, Deloh, 
Dillo, Dilloe, Dellow, Ditto, Diity or just about any other
phonetic combination of letters are found in researching three
families that are seemingly connected by nation al origin, 
religion, family nams and proximity. At Conewag o Chapel, 
Hanover and the area served by Immaculate Heart o f Mary Church
of Paradise Township, York County, they come down to us as 
Dellone and Delone. In the Buchanan Valley as Dillon and in the
early history of the Catholic Church in Ohio as Ditto. Putting 
various provable facts, such a s church and land records, together
with the Dellone family traditions relayed in the writings of 
John T. Reily, who was raised for a time in the home of Frederick
Dellone, grandson of Nicholas Dellone, lead researchers at 
the John Timon Reilly Historical Society to believe the three 
families are some how related, although at this time they have 
not made the connections.


"That Harent [an early priest in the Pigeon Hill area], upon arrival
in Baltimore, went almost immediately to Berwick Township, in what
was then York County, Pennsylvania, is affirmed by all historians
and is substantiated by the records of the Land Office of that state.
There is also little doubt that he was directed to that location by
the Sulpicans who must have known that in that vicinity resided a 
goodly number of Catholic immigrants of French extraction whose family
names were such as Mareschal (now Marshall), Felty, LeFevre, NOEL,
Bievenauer and DEL'AU (now DELONE).

"Although the name DELONE is practically extinct in the counties 
of south-central Pennsylvania, the family is perpetuated in 
literally hundreds of those residing there or who claim the Conewago 
Valley as their birthplace. Among them are Smiths, Kuhns, Bievenauers,
Poists, Klunks, NOELS, Keffers and the descendants of other families
whose names are rarely found today, such as the Marshalls, Feltys,
Hilts, Fleshmans, Dillers and Obolds." [p. 154]

John T. Reily was actually raised by a third-generation member of
the clan, Frederick DELLONE (sic), who was married to Mary KUHN,
a sister of Reily's maternal grandfather, John B. Kuhn. Reily checked
his information with the noted "Miss Kitty" Marshall, herself a 
third-generation descendant who, at the age of 84, was still active
physically and mentally in 1894. [pp. 154-155]

"According to the Pennsylvania Archives, Series 2 , Vol. XVII, 
Pg. 129, one Peter DELO (sic) arrived in Phila delphia on the 
Ship Princess Augusta, from Rotterdam, on September 16, 1736. 
It is of interest that a Diederich MARSHALL arrived on the same
ship. We seem to lose tract of Peter DELO at this point but the
possibility that he may have been related to Nicholas DELLONE,
the pioneer of the large Conewago family of that name, is enhanced
by the fact that the latter had a grandson named Peter and a 
Nicholas DELO, possibly a son of Peter DELO, resided in Lancaster.
This Nicholas DELO and his wife Catharine had three children, born
in 1773, 1774 and 1776, all baptized at Father: Michel DELON 
b: Sep 1726 in Saulxures, Bas-Rhin, France Marriage 1 Margaret
Maria STRAUSBAUGH b: Abt 1771 in Menallen Township, York, 
Pennsylvania Married: Abt 1794 in York County, Pennsylvania 
  
Note:  Examination of the map of Pigeon Hills settlers and 
comparison with the Strasbach family history discloses considerable 
intermarriage among these settlers. Among Nicolas Strasbach's 
great-grandchildren: Nicolas>Nicolas>Peter>Margaret Maria Strasbach 
m. Charles Delon/Dillon. CHAN3 May 2001

Children
   John DILLON b: 22 Jan 1795 in York County, Pennsylvania
   Peter DILLON b: Cir 1796 in York County, Pennsylvania
   Samuel DILLON b: 19 Apr 1802 in Adams County, Pennsylvania
   Charles DILLON b: 6 Jul 1804 in South Mountain, Menallen 
   Township, Adams, Pennsylvania

Sources:
  Title: "Return of Menallen Township for the County of York--Year
  s 1799 to 1842" Page: 1799 
  
  Title: 1800 Federal Census, Menallen Township, Adams County,
  Pennsylvania. 
  
  Title: Baptism Records, 1790 - 1890, The Basilica of the Sacred 
  Heart of Jesus, "Conewago Chapel", Edge Grove, Adams County ,
  Pennsylvania, Translated by Msgr. Thomas J. McGough, Published by
  John Timon Reily Historical Society, McSherrystown , Pennsylvania.
  Page: p. 225 
  Author: Edmund Adams and Barbara Brady O'Keefe
  
  Title: Catholic Trails West, The Founding Catholic Families of
  Pennsylvania, Volume 2. Standard Book Number 87-83153. Library
  of Congres Catalog Card Number 0-8063-1212-2. Publication: 
  Baltimore: Gateway Press, Inc., 1989. Page: p. 357 
  
  Title: Baptism Records, 1790 - 1890, The Basilica of the Sacred 
  Heart of Jesus, "Conewago Chapel", Edge Grove, Adams County, 
  Pennsylvania, Translated by Msgr. Thomas J. McGough, Published 
  by John Timon Reily Historical Society, McSherrystown, Pennsylvania.
  Page: p. 214