| The attached reports are Pennsylvania family tree branches. My ancestors include the surnames: WALT, SCOUT, RYAN, MC DONOUGH, DEVEREAUX, DOYLE, GALLAGHER, KENNEDY, POTTER, BAER/BAIR, SHAFFER, KEISER, WHISLER(WHISTLER), FIES, ZERBE, WHITCOMB, and ZIMMERMAN. Dr. A.A.(Anthony Alfred, Sr.) McDonough and Mary Brady McDonough are my paternal Great-great-great-grandparents. John Ryan and Hanna Doyle Ryan are my Great-great grandparents. The predeceasor generations are important, but unknown links in my family genealogy. My Irish ancestors were not among the immigrant wave of 19th Century potato famine refugees, who struggled to make their way among urban populations as unskilled, uneducated, and impoverished laborers. My people were immigrants of the much earlier 1800’s, who were educated, middle-class professionals with families they educated well, and, though not “wealthy”, they made the record of history by the “common man’s” heroic contributions and leadership to their churches, neighborhoods and communities. It would seem they should be less lost as the “needle in the haystack”. I only need to locate a few reliable vital statistic details about these people to trace the family branch, one generation older, and pick up their trail back to Ireland. But these four people are elusive until they arrived in Berks County c. 1840, so the trail must still be there, hidden among the microfilm and micro fiche. I am also looking for other elusive ancestors to Peter Edwin WALT 1855-1950 b. Liverpool, Perry Co., PA, a PA Canal Boatman (Great grandfather) and parents of Charles Waite SCOUT 1840-1908 d. Harrisburg, Dauphin County, PA, a Civil War Veteran - Union (Great grandfather). |
Walt, Scout, Ryan, and McDonough Families of PA from 1799
Updated November 7, 2006 |
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Virginia Jones 703 Giddings Ave., Ste U-4 Annapolis, MD 21401 A-United States vkjones703@msn.com |
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