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Cheryl Lyttle-Connell and Ken Lake, if your are still reading these messages, see my recent message above on the origin of the Wisconsin, N. Ill, S. Canadian Connells. I have a faded but readable copy of the 1942 Walter James Connell genealogy. Those stories in it about the origin of the Connell name are bad guesses. We have had much confusion in the various descendents of those Connells because some of them can not read or don't understand the veriest rudiments of Irish history. One local historical society in Wisconsin posted a genealogy that incorrectly shows that the first known Connell was Irish, when Walter J. Connell clearly states that he was English. The Connell, Salter, Cole, McFarlane, Kingston, Aldrich, and other English and Scottish families that came here together were Protestants, not Irish Catholics. I am trying to straighten out all the nonsense that this misinterpretation of ethnic origin and ignorance of religion has caused. We even had one misguided person put out a Salter genealogy with a green cover with a shamrock on it, implying the Salters, an obvious English name, were Irish.
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