User talk:Kat Prawl

permission [12 January 2009]

Kat Prawl is a family history researcher who has made extensive studies of some of the Wigton Walker lineages, particularly in the Carolinas and Southwest Virginia. She has consented to having some of her observations stored on WeRelate pages as part of an effort to capture information on a complex network of family relationships. Q 07:47, 12 January 2009 (EST)

Kat

I'd like to place portions of the content of your email into my Hugh Linn Notebook on WeRelate. I'm collecting information there and in related articles, to help with disentangling some of these relationships. I don't at the moment know how the John McClung information fits into the overall story, but by placing it here there's a chance that eventually something will fit in with it, helping to unlock one puzzle or another.

The page for the notebook is at

http://www.werelate.org/wiki/Notebook:Hugh_Linn_%281%29

There are links there to the building articles on Hugh Linn of Coldwater Creek, and Hugh Linn of Brandywine Creek. Part of the focus is on determining if they are the same person as the Hugh Linn who married Christopher Huston's daughter Margaret.

Bill

Hi Bill,

Please feel free to take anything you can derive from my emails about John McClung. It's largely because of discussions in the WW list that Juduth McClung and I made contact and came to whatever (inconclusive) conclusions we've reached. I'm sure there are more mysteries to be untangled regarding these families, but I find it very intriguing that some of my mother's ancestors may have been connected to my father's extended family without anyone knowing about it till now, in spite of generations of genealogical research on both sides.

By the way, one of the complications about my mother's southern ancestors is that many of them were Loyalists. In particular, the York family from Georgia, and the McClungs, except for John, whom family tradition paints as an all around rebellious young man whp ran away to join the colonial army agsinst his family's wishes. Judith says they called him "Sassy Jack", and that he was an orphan when he was apprenticed to Hugh Linn, presumably to learn a trade. Speculation is that he was related to the Georgia/SC McClungs, whose connection to the Greenbriar McClungs I don't quite understand, if there is one. However, John is supposed to have been born in Pennsylvania. Hope these additional details help.

Cheers, Kat