Yingling connections to WV England's
Looking for anyone with research or connections of the Christian Yingling descendants to James or Henry England of Central, WV. Abraham Yingling/Ingland/England ( the spellings per Abraham's Will) has a Henry & a james listed as children of Abraham by several sources but no other information. There is a Henry England that bought land in Beverly, WV in 1795 and had an attorney sell the land in 1798 & 1799. This coinsides with the death of Abraham Yingling/England in 1799. Henry re-appears in WV in 1801 for a marraige in Harrison County, WV. I am looking for information that connects Henry & his brother James England to the Yingling surname. I have researched the James England of Bedford County, PA and this is not the same James England. The James and Henry England's that I am researching were born around 1755 in PA. Thank You.
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I am desendant of Abraham's brother Johannes. Am sure that you are aware of book The Yingling Genalogy by Claude J. Rahn. He does not mention a brother Henry but does connect James born 1747 to the Abraham Yingling born 1715 and died in 1799.
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Where can I purchase this book that you speak so much of? It sounds like it has some great info in it and I would like to see about purchasing one. Thanks for the help.
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The Yingling Genealogy was a publication by Claude J. Rahn who died in 1973. I was lucky enough to obtain a copy in 1968. If you do a google search on The Yingling Genealogy you will discover many sources that will sell this book. good Luck
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Thank you so much for the advise. It sure would be nice if you were my long lost step brother, who also has the name Tom Yingling. I think we made contact on that issue one other time. I have since found out that he is in Michigan, but that is all. Thanks again.
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Finding long lost cousins is very nice. I was born and raised in new Albany, IN and now live in Jeffersonville, IN. Most of the book you seek is already posted on line at Ancestry dot come. I spent about two years plugging in all of the names into a gedcom file and posted on line at ancestry.com. I found more cousins and information this way as people discover the info on line and send me a email. Good luck in your search.
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I have some new information on the Englands of Barbour County WV (formerly Randolph Co, VA). If you read this Kirby, I have been trying to contact you as we corresponded a decade ago about the roots of this family. While the Yingling connection is intriguing, I have new info on the actual origin of the England family- and it doesn't appear to be German (and I even errantly ordered & possess the Yingling book by Claude J. Rahn mentioned in this thread). It is now my belief that Yingling is an entirely different family altogether(this obviously means that Abraham Yingling is NOT our ancestor). While browsing the Web recently, I came across a nineteenth century history of Barbour Co. WV that someone uploaded online. I tend to put much credence in this as it was submitted at that time directly from primary sources-- the family itself. Among the several families covered was a possible indirect ancestor of ours, Lucinda (England) Felton born ca. 1837. It listed her g-grandfather as James England and her grandfather as John, both having lived near Belington and being of Irish descent. This James could be the brother of Henry(both born ~Bedford Co, PA) and who were supposedly the first England ancestors in the area. There is also an England family in NC with ties to Englands in TN, KY and still other Englands in southeast OH. The NC branch apparently descend from a William & a John England who emigrated via County Donegal, Ire. to western PA ~1730, eventually travelling down through western MD & VA to NC. These Englands were supposedly Quakers from Ulster (William could possibly be the immigrant father & John, our Henry & James- brothers- or at the very least, cousins). Possibly a branch distantly related to us but it cannot be proven(there certainly were some interestingly Quaker-esque name choices for some of the early England children in this region- Dorcas, Piety/Purity etc). In any event, this would put our Englands in the wave of Scotch-Irish emigration to the British Colonies of North America in the first half of the eighteenth century. Very interesting indeed. If anyone has any further info please share as it is much appreciated. We weren't totally wrong, though. There is at least some German blood in the Englands through some of their wives- Stalnaker, Coontz, Nestor, etc. Our line in particular has some Nestor connections of which the ancestor of that lot was Jacob Nester/Nestor, a Revolutionary War veteran from Pennsylvania born ca. 1761 in Stuttgart, Wuerttemberg & died ca. 1844 in Barbour co.- buried in the Old Campbell cemetery near the village of Nestorville (this should come as no surprise since the Scotch-Irish & the Germans were the primary settlers in this region). Happy hunting in this most elusive(and at times deceptive) England line of ours.
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Furthermore, I have found reference to a significant grouping of Englands in northeastern Scotland, in particular Aberdeenshire, Nairnshire, Banffshire, Moray & Elginshire and around Dundee. As well as some in sw Scotland in Ayrshire/Galloway. This might be the origin of the Ulster branch if in fact we are descended from those that came from the north of Ireland. The name seems to have developed from a term differentiating a person a person of Anglo background from others in a particular area. Prior to Scotland the original bearer of the name obviously hailed from England; the origin of a considerable number of Lowland Scots family names. Whether or not our WV England family ties into this thread remains to be proven, as indeed if in fact they were Quakers or, more likely Presbyterian Ulstermen. I have seen some connection mentioned of this particular England family from Donegal, Ire. with certain families of Watson and Campbell of Co. Tyrone, N. Ireland; supposedly having emigrated to PA together and possibly related by marriage to one another. Happy hunting in your genealogical endeavors.
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