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Just thought I would throw out another couple of names from my line. My William Sinkey married Hannah Ricket(ts) whose grandfather came from Rockbridge, VA. Other Rickets came from Anne Arundel County, VA. Several ended up with the rest of the crew in Iowa. I do not know about the Wilcox except to say that she was Hannah’s mother. This bunch was with my Sinkey/Potter, etc. bunch in Huntington at the time of the Revolution. A couple are listed at http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/pa/bedford/military/militia-1.txt where my William is listed as a Ranger.
Cindy
Rickets? Interesting. When I was a kid with only one shell for my brother’s 12-guage shotgun, I shot 3 of their ducks with the same shot. Man ! What a shot, but THAT was an unaccepted apology !
They were next door neighbors of mine, and McCartneys, in the middle of no-where S.E. Indiana. They were from Ky and earlier Va, too. Go figure.
Bill
So you were that kid I heard about?! Ha! Ha!
Am I surprised? Nope. You already know that the second William Sinkey was married to a McCartney. So his mom was a Rickets and he married a McCartney. Know anything about these families, Bill?
Cindy
PS: Funny, when I first came onto this forum, I had few to no names in common with others. Slowly there are more and more.
I’ll see what I can do with the info. My gut reaction is that your McCartneys are the guys from Pa. that Michael McCartney (on line at genforum.com) has accumulated a huge database on. Lots of them moved to Ohio before scattering to the west. We’ll see.
Know what you mean about related surnames – now, several here are obviously related. Just have to run the lines back far enough.
Bill
Cindy,
Thought I had the connects but can’t find them in the inch or so info on your lines 🙂
Could you tell me again, which William Sinkey (and when) these two connect to yours?
Bill
Hi, Bill:
I was down your way the last two days. Bought a ’69 Volkswagen near Cincinnati, my mid-life crisis.
Since I posted this, I am not entirely sure myself which William Sinkey. Mine fought in the 8th PA Rangers, but I looked at the PA posting of Rev War soldiers. There are several. Just yesterday, a cousin posted that his father was Richard and mother is Brighird (?) or Bridgette. I also just checked another cousin’s listing and it says the same parents. I may have been chasing the wrong William, because I think I was looking at one whose father was also William. According to these two cousins who do not know one another, the father of mine was Richard. Apparently, this Richard also fought in the Rev. and was the son of William Richard, from Ireland. I think that these William Sinkeys are related somehow; the one is related to Rickets and there are lots of Rickets in the cemetery with my William, but I think I was chasing the wrong William Sinkey on someone else’s genealogy on http://www.familysearch.org.
Cindy
Depends on the cousins’ documentation but you know that.
I’m still taking a shot at these Rickets and Wilcoxs from my “incomplete” file but nothing yet.
Starting to find that they were all related anyway. Deb has more complete records and set me straight on a few of all the William Sinkeys. I found these names on familysearch but Rickets is an old name in Hickory Grove cemetery, so I assume relationship. They follow the emigration route of the Sinkeys too. I find Cheyney (another name who marries with the Rickets) Rickets in the same place in Ohio and saw that he is some kind of relation.
Cindy
There was a Cheyney/Chaney McCartney in early (1790? – 1810?) Southeastern Indiana before it was Indiana. I always assumed he was a son of Andrew McCartney from Ky but don’t know that for a fact. That you have a McCartney and a Cheyney Rickets and there was a Cheyney McCartney in the area makes me wonder.
Somewhere I read of the story of Cheneys not wanting a daughter to marry a Ricketts. Here is a genealogy that includes this http://thor.genserv.net/sub/philb/fam_59.htm#8 . As I recall, a Rickets (Edward) wanted to marry a Chaney daughter from Maryland. Dad did not want it, but it was done anyway. They had a son called Chaney Rickets. I think the father is found on the AM Rev. roster at http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/pa/bedford/military/militia-1.txt They had a child called Chaney Rickets, sometimes called Chain Rickets. Just a line I followed on the net after stumbling across the marriage of a Hannah Rickets to a William Sinkey.
Cindy
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