" Please anyone with more stories send them --
Mary Ann"

I can't resist the temptation to throw in my favorite "love story"  that
involves two long trips -- one by ship and one on foot. I guess
love does conquer all.

This is a story about my husband's immigrant ancestor from the Cloyd
genealogy
published in 1912.

"WILLIAM CLOYD...a Scotchman, born 1751, landed in Philadelphia in 1774, or
'75, from Ballymony, County, Antrim, Duchy Ulster, Ireland.  It is said he
was son of James Cloyd who married a Reed....

He married Jeanette Barr, daughter of James Barr, a man of wealth whose wife
was a Caldwell.  She was a niece of Lady Jane Barr, a woman of considerable
prominence in Ireland.  She followed him to America against the wishes of
her parents, and kept him on probation for two years before she married him.
She was nine weeks on the water.  When he learned of her arrival in
Philadelphia, he walked 54 miles one day, and reached Philadelphia by 4
o'clock to be refused admission to the house of her cousin, Charles Stewart,
with whom she was living.  She met him at the gate and promised to marry him
in two years if he proved worthy and he evidently made good as they were
married at the appointed time."

The author of the Cloyd genealogy documented the source, "The above is a
copy of the record in an old Bible....This Bible is said to have been
brought from Ireland."

Phyllis Merryman Cloyd in NJ

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