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From: Bill Walls <>
Subject: Walls in Delaware
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1998 20:56:33 -0500


wrote:
>
> This is fantastic news for me. I'd traced my ancestry back to Thomas Walls,
> but had never been able to find anything about his parents. Thank you for the
> information!!
>
> In a message dated 98-09-26 17:22:14 EDT, writes:
>
> << Cousins,
>
> Good news, I hope.
>
> I have found a disposition of an Elizabeth Cooper, 1759 in Sussex County,
> Delaware. She says that she is the daughter of John Crew and that she had
> married, on the same day as John Crew married his second wife Annabelle,
> widow of Richard Harvey, a William Walls. John Walls, was named a grandson
> of John Crew in his 1712 will. Eliizabeth (Crew Walls) Cooper gives her
> age as "65 or thereabouts."
>
> This seems to me to make it very likely that John Walls, Thomas Walls, and
> William Walls, all next generation in Sussex County, were sons of this
> William Walls and Elizabeth Crew. I'm sure that more pieces of this puzzle
> will come our way. [I have been looking for Elizabeth's husband for about
> ten years]. I now need to recheck the William Walls that were known to be
> nearby in Maryland. I'll post anything more that I find.
>
> Happy hunting.
>
> Brian Walls
> Columbia, Maryland >>
>
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Names are all similar to my line in Kentucky in late 1800's. Do you
know of any possible connections?

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