I have a Calhoun ancestor that was captured in Scotland about 1650 in a war
with England, taken back to England and sold as an indentured servant to
some brick company in Mass. Anyone explored this possibility. That could
cause confusion about English or Scotch.
Jane
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From: "Patrick Cooley" <dvrsyfyd7_at_yahoo.com>
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Sent: Sunday, October 02, 2011 3:33 PM
Subject: Re: Another "English descent" reference
> Something close to this has to fit. My grandfather was insistent that his
> father
> Daniel Boon Cooley (great grandson to Edward out of Stokes county) had
> passed
> down to him that our immigrant ancestors to this country were Scots-Irish
> and
> that one of them was a "hunchback" whatever that might mean.
>
>
> There is a mountain range in Ireland known as the Cooley mountains.
>
> Patrick
>
>
>
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> From: Michael Cooley <michael_at_newsummer.com>
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> Sent: Sun, October 2, 2011 3:33:30 PM
> Subject: Re: Another "English descent" reference
>
> BTW, brothers Thomas and Edward (Edward, John) went to Appanoose county IA
> by c1850, where Millard was born. Their nephew, David--from whom I
> descend, showed up there also, moving across the border to Putnam co MO.
>
> These Cooleys are well-documented in census records, etc. Millard's death
> certificate is a mess--and it says that his father was born in England,
> decidedly not true. But the strong tradition of English descent down the
> various lines is very telling and can't be ignored.
>
> A story passed down through a brother of Aaron's (James Armstrong Cooley)
> that the Cooleys were Jacobites, fighting for Bonny Prince Charlie,
> perhaps at Culloden Moor. The older Cooley brothers were sent to London
> and hanged and the younger ones transported to America. Apparently,
> Chuck's relatives in MO regularly went to kirkings. A piece of tartan
> passed down through the family and was buried with his father. I've
> studied Culloden Moor but could find no Cooleys. However, our DNA reveals
> a relationship to the Scottish Chieftain Somerled. His descendants, the
> McDonalds, were definitely there. The son of one of the McDonald
> transportees, John McDonald, served with Richard Goode and John Cooley in
> the Virginia Regiment, 1755.
>
> Very interesting story but I can't make it fit!
>
> -Michael
>
>> Was his father A.W. or S.E.?
>>
>> On 10/1/2011 9:35 PM, Michael Cooley wrote:
>>> Regarding Millard F Cooley (Aaron, Edward, Edward, John)
>>>
>>> History of Fremont and Mills County, Iowa
>>> Chicago: Lewis Pub. Co., 1901.
>>>
>>> I've copied it here:
>>>
>>>http://ancestraldata.com/Notes/index.cgi?1171050809+/ahnentafel/256/lineages/johncooley-desc.html
>>>l
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