List of Surnames & Locations

Daddy’s Side

QUILLIN: Virginia (Goochland, Rappahannock, DeKalb, Scott); Maryland (Somerset); Delaware (Kent); North Carolina (Forsyth, Surry); Kentucky (Letcher); Texas (Fannin, Haskell, Baylor)

NATION – New Jersey (Monmouth); North Carolina (Randolph, Surry); Virginia (Frederick); Tennessee (Maury)

LAWSON – Scotland, Virginia (Montgomery, Russell, Scott)

VINEYARD – Germany, Virginian (Rockbridge, Scott)

EWING – Ireland, Virginia (Frederick, Greenbrier), Pennsylvania (Chester), Tennessee (Smith), Arkansas (Clark)

DILLARD – Virginia, North Carolina (Chatham), Tennessee (Smith, Hardeman), Arkansas, (Clark)

Mother’s Side

JONES – Georgia (Elbert), Alabama (Shelby), Texas (Fannin, Collin, Grayson, Foard)

BUTLER – Virginia (Hanover), Georgia (Elbert), Arkansas (Shelby)

BUSBY – North Carolina (Johnston), Tennessee (Giles), South Carolina (Orangeburg), Alabama (Chilton), Arkansas (Giles, Shelby)

SEALE – England, Virginia (Essex, Prince William, Stafford), North Carolina (Cumberland), Georgia (Wilkes, Hancock), South Carolina (Craven, Fairfield), Alabama (Shelby), Texas (Grayson, Foard)

BRISTOW – England, Virginia (Middlesex)

MUSE – England, Virginia (Rappahannock, Prince William became Westmorland), North Carolina (Cumberland, Moore)

POPE – England, Virginia (Westmorland)

BRIDGES – South Carolina, Georgia (Murry, Whitfield), Texas (Collin, Jones)

SPRINGFIELD – South Carolina (Greenville, Laurens), North Carolina (Granville), Georgia (Jackson, Murry), Tennessee (Monroe)

LANGSTON – Virginia (Nansemond), North Carolina (Edgecombe, Granville), South Carolina (Greenville, Laurens)

MCNAIR – Ireland, Virginia (Staunton, Augusta), Tennessee (Sullivan, Knox, Bradley), Arkansas (Searcy), Texas (McLennan, Jones, Taylor, Callahan, Wilbarger)

SHERERTZ – Prussia Germany, Pennsylvania (York), Tennessee (Sullivan, Knox)

PRICE – North Carolina (Mecklenburg)

HENDERSON – Virginia (Hanover), North Carolina (Granville), Tennessee (Warren), Arkansas (Searcy)

SEWELL – North Carolina (Moore), Arkansas (Searcy)

KING – Virginia, Georgia (Cherokee, Habersham, Whitfield, Gordon), Texas (Erath, McLennan, Taylor)

HOOD – South Carolina (Pendleton, Pickens), Virginia (Wise), South Carolina (Greenville, Georgia (Whitfield)

HULSEY – Virginia (New Kent, Goochland), South Carolina (Greenville), Georgia (Lumpkin, Dawson, Murray, Taylor) HANEY/HAYNIE? – Virginia (Northumberland), Georgia (Jackson, Lumpkin) HUMPHRIES – Georgia (Franklin, Jackson, Lumpkin)

SURNAME LIST (other names involved and to whom I believe we are related)

	Daddy’s father’s line	Daddy’s mother’s line	Mother’s father’s line	Mother’s mother’s line
GP	Quillin	Ewing	Jones	McNair
1st  GP	Sprowls	Woodall	Bridges	King
2nd GGP	Vineyard	Dillard	Seales	Henderson
	Wright	Adams	Springfield	Hulsey
3rd GGP	Lawson	Pentenny	Busby	Sherertz
	Hart	Ewing**	-        -	Sewell
	-        - -	Elliot	-        -	Hood
	-         -	Jones?	Rollins	Haney
4th GGP	Nation	-  -  -  -  -	Butler	Price
	Baker	Dillard **	Brooks	Devault
	Campbell	Brownlow?	Harrison	Robards
	-  -  -	Dillard**	-  -  -  -  -	Lancaster
	-  -  -	- - - - - - -	-  -  -  -  -	Moore?
	-  -   -  -		Springfield**	-  -  -  -  -
	-   -    -   -		Arnold	Byrd
	-   -   -   -			Pritchett
	Vineyard/Campbell Vineyard/Evick Campbell/Osman Campbell/McClure McClure/Trimble?	Ewing/Edwards? Ewing/McElvaney Dillard/Petty?	Seale/Muse Seale/Bristow Bristow/Nicholls Muse/Pope Springfield/Langston Springfield/Potts? Springfield/Bennett	Callaway ?

 

Breaking Ground

As a child, we have an instant connection with our immediate family. It is there that our roots are established, and it is there that we build our foundation. I was fortunate to live near most of my extended family. I knew my aunts and uncles well, and my cousins were my first playmates. Another bonus was that I knew three of my great-grandparents personally. As I grew up, I always felt those close family ties, and I was always curious about the others that came before them.

After I got married, my husband and I became world travelers. I had already begun documenting the basic roots of my family with the help of a few family historians that I knew personally. As we planned our trip to Ireland for the summer of 1990, I was inspired by my grandmother's maiden name, McNair. My thought was that with the "Mc" in this name, that surely, I had Irish roots. I got the bright idea to make a few trips to the Texas State Archives to see if I could quickly establish a connection with family in Ireland. Yeah, right?

All I found on these trips to the archives was frustration. In fact, I could not find any of my closest McNair relatives; therefore, the search was a dead end. The problem was that I was a fledgling genealogist and I had this "hurry up" factor involved. (*Note: shortly after my trip to Ireland, I found a wealth of information about my McNair roots.) I gave up the ghost and folded up all my research papers to wait for my husband, who by the way, found a few gems about his family on these visits to the archives. During my wait, I decided to check out my maiden name, Quillin.

Quillin, hum...? It is a unique name, different than most last names. Voilà! I hit the jackpot! Right off the bat in the card catalogue, I learned that there was a MacQuillin book listed in the Library of Congress. I went to the stacks and there it was: The Quillin (MacQuillin) Family; The MacQuillins in Ireland by Claude MacQuillin. Better still was the fact that my ancient ancestors had a glorious castle in Northern Ireland, now in ruins. And I WAS GOING TO IRELAND in a few short months. 

My excitement sent me through the roof, and needless to say, our trip to Ireland took on a whole new look. This book connected me all the way down to my daddy, with my brother listed as a child. This was beyond my wildest dreams, and I look forward to sharing more about my daddy, my Quillin roots, and my trip to Ireland in following blog posts.