"Dear Mrs. Tomasi,
I have never been able to get further back on the Conklins than
Nottingham. The Irish claim them as an ancient Milesiatt family but the
best Irish genealogist in New York was not able to pick up a trace of
them in Ireland, although the potato famine of the 1840's brought half a
dozen Irish Conklin families to New York. There are certain Parish
records in England dealing with Churches in which Walloon families
connected with English glass making appear, but there are no copies of
these particular Parish records in America."
Unfortunately, I do not have the original or the entire letter--the
excerpt was included in a genealogy report of my gg-grandfather James
Skiff Conklin (b.1823 in Washington County, NY, d.1898, Winnebago Co.,
IL) who is descended from John Conklin of Rye, NY (c.1639-c.1698).
I have two favors to ask:
1)Any clues on the identity of Mrs. Tomasi? (my guess is that she was
the genealogist who prepared the report)
2)Does someone have the citations from the Conklin Mann article(s?) at
hand?(The in-town libraries don't have TAG and I'd like to get them by
Interlibrary Loan.)
Thank you,
Jim Conklin
conklin@ithaca.edu