This page contains clippings from e-mails from The Olde Forester and those communicating with him with genealogy information about his wife's and his family trees.

• Wilson-Conaway
• Spann
• Walloons - Pierrous, Pierrou Ironmasters

http://www.iwaynet.net/~lbeougher
Website by Lane Beougher
This is the most studious outline of the Conaway Lines way back through the Fairmont Genealogy and many other sources. Lane's grandmother, Jesse Conaway Wilson, gave me the link to John Spann Conaway's son as Jeremiah who married Susan Hunter. This was also stated in the Fairmont Genealogy to confirm the information which my father's cousin, Jesse Conaway Wilson, had down.

The period of 1792 to 1814 would have been the period when John Spann's and Thomas C, his brother, eleven children each as listed in the Fairmont Gen. would have been wearing out many horse shoes and wagon rims in migrating from their farms in the valley south of Bean's Cove proper, to Fairmont, WV and all the other destinations in Ohio, KY, AK and elsewhere. John Spann and Thomas later together owned about all the land where Barricksville now is. John Spann was willed one of the big tracts and Thomas the other which their father who died in 1783 at the farm in Bean's Cove had designated to them after his "loveing wife Eleriah Akers" had died. In the geneaological headquarters in Bedford they have assessment records for John Spann and probably for Thomas about their assets on their farms. Track their twenty - two children in all and you have the exodus story. I have maps and deeds for Thos and John Spann and know about where their big tracts lay "Between Evitts Mt. and the Green Ridge aka Martin's Hill. I wonder if they had all cleared out of Bean's Cove by 1814?

From:
Patti Pjerrou-Paynter
jalhay01@foxinternet.com

Hi Emmet, Love to find new Pierrou cousins.  We are related as Gabriel Pierrou was a great great great uncle of mine.  I have all the particulars of he and his wife and all of their children.  I will send you everything, if you can send me your mailing address.  Is that what you meant by snail mail?  I am not up on this internet lingo.  But guess what you have more cousins in California in Turlock and Modesto.  I met them last summer.  One is George Pierrou who is a retired teacher in Modesto.  He has cousins there too sothere are still Pierrou descendants in the Turlock/Modesto area.

In the meantime, it will take me a few days to get everything together on the genealogy.  I work full time for the Seattle Public Library.
We also have many living cousins in Sweden with whom I write on a regular basis.  I will try to give you names and addresses.

Briefly what I can remember off the top of my head without searching for all of the paperwork is this:

Johan Gabriel Pierrou of Forsbacka (B. 7/4/1840)  was married to Margareta
Johanna Backius (B.2/11/43)  of Soderala.  The children I know of for sure
are:  Johanna, Sofia, Alma Lovisa (immigrated to Turlock), Carl, Wendla, Beda
Amalia (immigrated to Turlock and married someone named Lund or
Lundgren), Hulda, Olga, Karl (I write Karl's grandaughter Agneta Pierrou now in Umea but used to be a travel agent when I first met her in Gavle.), Knut, and Gerda.They also probably had at least three more children named Harold, Marie and Bertil.

From my records, Amalia and her husband Lund or Lundgren had at least 6
children.  (Five were Teckla, Mildred, Ivor, Melvin, and Ruth.   It is
difficult to make sense of some of these records because some times people
write dates, places and names down wrong, but I think it is the same family.
I will try to find more and send it to me but do send me your address and
phone #.  Hope this finds you well.   Your new cousin Patti Pjerrou-Paynter