Dia Dhaoibh a chairde!<br>(Hello Friends!)<p>I had to show off my tiny bit of "Gaeilge" ya know.<p>Anyway...<br>Uhm....I'm stuck...completely stuck.<p>I have traced my Ancestors back to one Redmond Fallon who settled in what is now Pittsylvania County, Virginia on the Sandy Creek of the Dan River back in 1740....the family stayed there untill the early 1800's the started moving through Tennessee and settled in Arkansas untill the 1940's...then to Missouri During ww2 and after...which is where I am from and now live.<p>I have tried to find out where he came from...from another county in Virginia? From across the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland?<p>He might be related to a Family from Somerset and Dorchester Counties in Maryland...but then the Family would have had to come over here from Ireland even earlier than 1740...like say...the 1680's.<p>And as you all know...research from here to Ireland in this time frame is almost impossible.<p>Even if I were to find the immigrant ancestor...even if it were Redmond Fallon...then...I would still have problems really conducting a successful search in Ireland.<p>So...I have decided...what I really need to know for now is a little more Irish History.<p>What was going on in the 1700's? or the late 1600's?<br>Why go far away on a coffin ship to just be a slave almost? There must have been something very terrible back then for someone to take such a risk???<p>or...was he/they forced to move?<p>I have also seen the same person from the same town and the same county and state in Virginia with so many spelling variations of "Fallon", different records...but the same person.<p>I have seen Redmond Fallon spelled thusly:<p>Redman Follin<br>Redmon Folling<br>Redmond Fallen<br>Redmond Fauling<br>Redmon Falling<br>Redmond Fallin<br>Redmond Fallan<br>Redmon Foulan<br>and then there is O'Fallon too<p>I have seen it in Gaeilge spelled as "Ó Fallamhain".<p>Also...was the main Fallon area in Ireland in Ballinasloe...or there-abouts?<p>Wouldn't all Fallon Families have originated from a root source?<p>Any help or answers to these questions would be greatly appreciated. Go raibh míle maith agaibh a chairde.<br> (Thank you very much, friends)<p>Slainte, cheers,<br> Lance T. Fallin<br>lfallin@cysource.com or lofallon@juno.com
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