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From: Jane McCann Walsh <>
Subject: Re: [PAFAY] McClurgs from Huron
Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2002 20:00:50 -0500
In-Reply-To: <200212040202.gB4225T27886@picea.cnr.colostate.edu>


At 07:02 PM 12/3/2002 -0700, you wrote:
> I have recently learned that my great-grandfather was born in Huron,
>German Township, Fayette County in 1818. His name was Robert Scot McClurg.
>That is about all I know about him. Can anyone suggest where I might look
>to learn more about the family?

HI, Don,
I looked around a bit but did not find any McClurgs and I don't recognize a
place named Huron
in German Twp., but that doesn't mean it didn't exist!

Did a hasty look at the 1820 census for German Twp. and did not spot a
McCLURG there.

Thanks to Lee Donnovan's great piece of work in capturing every name in the
Jordan and Hadden
three volume set of bio's for Fayette, we know that there were two McCLURGs
mentioned there.
One was a Thomas J. McClurg of Pittsburg who married Harriet HELLEN, dau.
of Benjamin HELLEN b. 1779 and
Drusilla HOOK[E]. The other McClurg was Sarah A. wife of George E.
BREADING, son of Geo. BREADING and
Mary Ann HOGG of Fayette. So, that's another HOGG-McCLURG connection.

Then realized that I have one McCLURG in my own database. This was a John
McCLURG who m. Ann EVANS,
whose father, David, had migrated to Greene Co., PA circa 1775 settling
south of Little Whitely Creek in what was
then Westmoreland County. That may have placed Ann very near German Twp.,
just across the Monongahela River.
I've not tried to track this family. (Ann EVANS' brother, George
1762-1854, married into a branch of my JONES family.)

Looking at the 1850 census, the only McClurgs in the immediate area were in
Westmoreland County; they were Joseph and Capt. Japser and there were a
couple in Allegheny. However, there were a couple McCLURs in Dunkard Twp.,
Greene County which causes me to wonder if McCLURG might have become, or
simply might have been recorded as, McCLURE in some cases.

Oh, and I note that you have the same problem I have with my surname
"McCann" doing a search on Ancestry.com. Sometimes
the name is recorded in their system as "Mc Clurg" with a space which is
important!!

Best regards,
Jane

Best regards,
Jane


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