On Sun, 20 Jul 1997, CONKLIN wrote:
> I recently came across an excerpt of a letter sent from Conklin Mann
> (who wrote in The American Genealogist about the early Conklins in
> America) which may be of interest to some. The excerpt was retyped from
> the original letter, which was dated Oct 22, 1940 and was addressed to
> "Mrs. James Tomasi of Salem, NY."
>
> "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
>
>