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From: "Violet Guy" <>
Subject: Re: [Q-R] Need some help
Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2004 00:18:43 -0400
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Kay Stager

Could your Fourney be a Forney? The name Forney has many variations.

I have a Miriam Marie Mendenhall, b. 1830 NC d/o Himelius & Priscilla
(Coffin) Mendenhall, NC>IN, md. Samuel Forney, b. 1824 in Berks Co., PA.
They had a son, Charles Fornia, b 1855. Samuel Forney died about that time
in IN.. Miriam remarried twice after that; and she was with the second group
of Mendenhalls to migrate from Miami Co., IN>Harrison County, IA ,where some
of her siblings were including my G-Grandparents, Hiram C. & Elivira
(Mendenhall) Moore. I did find Samuel & Miriam's marriage records in his
Forney Families church in PA.

http://www.mendenhall.org/mfa/tng/getperson.php?personID=I23038&tree=Mendenhall
Miriam Marie Mendenhall

There was a name change from Forney to Fornia, in Miriam (Mendenhall)
Forney/Fornia. The Forney's are in Pensylvania. While the Mendenhalls were
Quakers, the Forney's were not, but rather Meninnites of PA -- <York>
<Lancaster> <Somerset> <Berks> <Southern Forneys> . I received name change
information from Doris (Fornia) Hansen, a descendent of Miriam (Mendenhall)
Forney/Fornia.

http://home.earthlink.net/~waterworld2/davidf.html
Forney Family Genealogy
Please read as tells of Palentines in Pennsylvania and requirements to enter
the colony.
NAMES: Ferney, Ferree, Ferie, Forrey, Furney, Fahrney, Lefevre, and even in
some cases Frey.
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A sub URL;
http://www.kerchner.com/germname.htm
18th Century PA German Naming Customs

I was on the Forney Mailing-List for awhile.
http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/surname/f/forney.html

Subscribe to FORNEY-L, Subscribe to FORNEY-D (digest)
Search the FORNEY archives
Browse the FORNEY archives

I hope that this helps.

Violet Moore Guy
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02/26/2004


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Subject: [Q-R] Need some help


> Hi everyone, a new acquaintance of mine is having trouble finding anything
on her family, the name is Fourney. I think it sounds familiar, maybe
Quaker. They lived in the south, then came west to Pasadena. Any
information will be greatly appreciated. Yours in friendship,
>
> Kay Stager
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