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From: "Candace Roth" <>
Subject: Re: [PaOldC] RAYLE research
Date: Sun, 3 Apr 2005 15:44:31 -0400
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Eleanor:

I have these folks in my data base but cannot add further to William's
ancestry. In the MICKLE records I have, the name is spelled RAHLE but I
have also seen it RAYLE in other locations. Maybe another spelling to
check, however....Candy :)
Subject: [PaOldC] RAYLE research


> Hoping to find parents of William RAYLE, b. 1710 Philadelphia PA, d. 1754
> London Grove, Chester Co, PA. I have much on his descendants, but need
anything
> on his parentage!
>
> Some Rayle researchers believe the family was from Cornwall, England,
> possibly by way one or more generations in Virginia. Some of William's
children
> married Quakers and moved to North Carolina; others moved to western PA.
>
> William 1 married Elizabeth -- about 1735 in Chester Co. Elizabeth died in
> Adams Co, PA. I am a descendant of their son, William 2 b. 17443 or 1744,
who
> married a Quaker, Hannah Mickle (daughter of John Courtney Mickle of Co
Antrim ,
> Ireland, and Mary Jane Watson). William and Hannah are buried on their
family
> farm in Fayette Co, PA. Hannah's sister, Jane Watson Mickle, married
> William's brother, Thomas. They also moved to Fayette Co.
>
> Any assistance or direction would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Eleanor Rayl
>
>

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