Moses Notes from APPENDIX. James Moses writes: "My father and grandfather were farmers in County Tyrone, North of Ireland. I left home when quite a boy, and before I took much interest in family history, but I understood that my grandfather came from Lanark, above Glasgow, in Scotland.
Our family is the only one of the name I ever heard of in Ireland. William Moses of Louisville, Ky. (a son of my father's eldest brother), I think knows more of our family history than I do." William Moses writes under date of February 24, 1890: "The writer, William Moses, born in Ulster County, State of New York, was the son of Robert Moses, who was born at Six Mile Cross, County Tyrone, Ireland, who was the son of John Moses, who had an older brother, Robert, who held or inherited some property or titles, which at his death would have come to my grandfather, as his brother left no heirs. There was considerable correspondence about it at the time, as my father was the oldest son of the junior brothers. It seems, or was my understanding at the time, that my father, not being a subject of Great Britain, forfeited his title by descent. This correspondence took place between 1825 and 1830. Historical sketches of John Moses, of Plymouth, a settler of ... by Moses, Zebina, 1838-1918 https://hdl.handle.net/2027/hvd.hx52gx _______________________________________________ CoTyroneList mailing list [email protected] http://lists.cotyroneireland.com/mailman/listinfo/cotyronelist
