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Thanks for the message. I am also a descendant of William COLCLOUGH and Mary ROGERS of Stafford Co., VA. I descend from their son John Ashby COLCLOUGH and his wife Lucy GRIGSBY. Their children went on into Georgia and then into Alabama, where my parents are from. I grew up in Texas. So we are probably cousins. Very happy to meet you.
The researchers on this family go back many decades, but there has never been a good book published on this family in America. One text was created by George Dewey COLCLOUGH entitled, THE COLCLOUGH FAMILY, which I have seen and many researchers use as a guide. It is a spiral-bound xeroxed book and is primarily a compilation of correspondence between the author and various family members. From what I could tell, there was no attempt to make it a conventional family history. Some brief histories of individuals exist, but mostly in general terms. It gave the notes researchers used, but no complete descendant list or detailed narrative account. If all goes well, I plan to get the ball rolling and have my COLCLOUGH information on a web site by the end of February. Maybe others will add to it as time goes by.
Because web research on this family is very young, I would suggest that you look in on some of the already interesting sites online. Here are a few sites to get you started:
For our Irish origins:
http://www.tourismresources.ie/colclough
This is a terrific narrative account with a timeline and genealogy following.
For the family in North Carolina:
http://www.lofthouse.com/warren/wwwboard/index.html
This is the message board for Warren Co., NC GenWeb site. Scroll down midway and then again closer to the end, and you will find several dozen COLCLOUGH queries, which give some background.
For the SHEARIN descendants:
http://www.parsonstech.com/genealogy/trees/gshearin/SHEARIN.htm
Gail Shearin has provided an exhaustive list for the COLCLOUGH/SHEARIN descendants.
As I stated, because the history of the family is currently being written, it is not possible for me to forward any narrative history of the American branches at this time. I am not aware that one exists. Much can be gleaned though, from the notes on land grants and probate records when they are combined with the local history of an area and other known families who were close to the COLCLOUGHs, like the SHEARINS, BELLS, DURHAMS and BOWLINGS. But we are currently just trying to piece together the family tree. I have come across some news articles on the COLCLOUGHs in early 19th-century South Carolina that are fun. This was during my research in New York libraries. But such local history needs the family genealogy frame to hang on. I now have enough information though, to return to the library and maybe get more background on the family members other than just their vital statistics, which believe me, are hard won. I also hope to get a unified effort together soon. Up until recently, we have all pretty much researched independently.
Let me know what you have and maybe I can supplement it with my information. Good to hear from you.
Best regards, Brian in Brooklyn
BriDConley@aol.com
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