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From: "Stacy Smith" <>
Subject: [IADECATU] Fw: [OHMUSKIN] Katherine Hepburn Ancestry
Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2003 12:33:41 -0500


Hi All. I thought some of you might find this interesting....
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From: "Dug Kreis"
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Sent: Monday, June 30, 2003 12:40 PM
Subject: [OHMUSKIN] Katherine Hepburn Ancestry


> I am a descendant of this same family. My grandmother was a Janney, her
father was Robert Janney of Floyd County, Virginia.
> doug
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> With the passing of Legendary Film and Stage actress, Katharine Hepburn
> [1907-2003], it may be of interest to some on this list that she was a
> 9th generation descendant of Quakers, Thomas and Margery (Heath) Janney
> who emigrated from Cheshire, England to Bucks Co., PA in 1683. Thomas
> Janney was a yeoman farmer of the "Midlands" and lived near Styall,
> Wilmslow Parish, Cheshire.
>
>
>
> Thomas Janney and his first cousin, Mary Janney and her husband, John
> Bancroft, are said to have been converted to the Doctrines of the
> Society of Friends by George Fox, by his first sermon preached in
> Cheshire at the Market Cross in Stockport in 1654. Thomas was 21 years
> old. He was imprisoned for two months in 1665 for attending a Quaker
> meeting hear his home. He had goods distrained for refusing to pay
> tithes on at least nine occasions. He was a Minister of the Quaker
> faith, published religious papers and traveled extensively in England,
> Ireland, and America.
>
>
>
> Thomas Janney corresponded with William Penn. A letter from Penn to
> Thomas Janney in October 1681 [the original is at the Historical Society
> of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia] reads, in part:
>
> "Many whose eyes & minds are tow much abroad may imagin & talke, but
> thats little to me. I shall not I thinke go till next spring; but a ship
> goes soon next month: & those yt desire to have their land lye in ye
> best places & be laid out wth ye first must deal before yt ship &
> comissionrs goes, wch may be by ye 1st of next month so if any there
> away desire to have land wth me, they must write to me what & how much &
> I will have ye deeds prpared at Thomas Ruddyards whithr if they send
> their money they may have it as ye rest have."
>
>
>
> Thomas Janney's mother, Elizabeth Worthington, died in 1677, and his
> father, Thomas Janney, in 1682. Two of his wife's sisters and their
> husbands, Ann Heath and James Harrison and Jane Heath and William
> Yardley, and other relatives had already emigrated to Pennsylvania.
> Thomas initially purchased 550 acres from Penn and moved his family to
> Bucks Co. The Janneys took Passage on the ship "Endeavor" from London
> and arrived at the Delaware River 19 September 1683. Thomas Janney was
> elected to a 4-year term on the Provincial Council in 1684, and was also
> a justice of the peace for six years.
>
>
>
> He continued in America the Quaker ministry that he had begun in
> England. In 1690 he donated 72 acres of land to be used as the Quaker
> burial grounds for Falls Monthly Meeting at Fallsington, Bucks Co., the
> first MM organized in Pennsylvania. The meeting house there was built
> in 1693. Thomas continued to publish papers in the interest of Friends
> and corresponded with his sister, Martha [Janney] Burgess who remained
> in Pownall Fee, Cheshire and with other Quakers.
>
>
>
> He returned to England in 1695 as a Quaker Minister. He traveled
> England for nearly two years meeting with Friends. He became ill, and
> died at the home of his sister, Martha (Janney) Burgess, in 1697, just
> two or three months before he planned to return to Pennsylvania. He was
> buried in the old Quaker Cemetery at Mobberly in Cheshire.
>
>
>
>
>
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