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Thurman,
I agree and disagree with you on a couple of things. The first volume of House of Cessna was really an attempt to piece together Howard's direct family line. He used word of mouth information from his elderly uncles and various other sources and he tried to find as many land and tax and Revolutionary records as he could. Not a perfect job but he did try and for that, I am grateful. Yes, confusing at best and rather thrown together and certainly not at the standards of family recording that we see now.........but he did try and this book did give us SOMETHING to start with. Vol 2, to me, was 32 yrs later of his attempts to track down more lines to connect to his family in Bedford Co. PA. Some of the information that he has in Vol 2 on my family in Kentucky and the Mississippi Cessna's is 'questionable' but it was a starting point.
However, I am not sure why you believe that Howard purposely attempted to confuse the families. What would be his purpose? His gain? Why would an attorney spend his days and many years of research,developing this elaborare skeem to trick generations to come about their ancestry?? 2 volumes, 1903 and 1935......I would bet he probably did maybe 5, 10 yrs of research and archive digging prior to the publication in 1903........and then collected and corresponded with Cessna's for another 32 years to publish volume 2..........what's that? 40-42 yrs of research and effort........to purpetuate a hoax? Yes, in the last 70 yrs, the newer researchers have uncovered new information and dispelled some myths, one I am happy to say, being the myth that Priscilla Foulke was the Irish maiden. She was not. She was of Welsch ancestry and Quaker and young enough to remarry and have 7 more kids besides the 3 she had with John Cessna of Newbery, York Co, Pa.
That a young Quaker woman in her late teens/early 20's would marry a 75 yr old French Huguenot, have 3 kids with him, watch him die and then remarry a Quaker man her own age and have 7 more kids with him and move to a Quaker community in Guilford, Co NC is ridiculous. But, Howard didn't know all of this because he didn't have the research available to him then. He didn't dig deep enough to learn of Priscilla's remarriage or track her movements to NC.......he just listed to his aunts and uncles and other folks talk about the old stories they heard about "the Frenchman, the Battle of the Boyne, the Irish maiden". Then he found John Cessna's will of 1751, saw the name Priscilla and ASSUMED that since he douldn't link this John to his family, that this was the Frenchman and Irishmaiden.
But he was wrong. And Thurman, you are right that we must not believe all that is in these books.
You say there is no link between Thomas Sisney and Jean de Cesne or De Cessna. I say that there is no link YET FOUND between these two men. If you have research and/or information proving no link between the Sisney/Cisney families and the Cessna families, please share it. If you have a theory on the origins of the Sisney/Cisney family in the US, please let us see it so that we might draw our own conclusions.
Currently, I have taken steps to begin a serious search of Huguenot records in Ireland in hopes that Jean de Cesne remained in Ireland after the Battle of the Boyne, married his Irish maiden and had a bunch of French/Irish sons named John, Stephen, Charles, William and Thomas. Maybe we can find a marriage record, a birth/baptism records of children, land and tax records.........that will lead us to Philadelphia, Pa, 1718.......or maybe a port of entry in Delaware/Maryland, where son Thomas decided to stay and live.......maybe we'll find a record hidden in the Pennsylvania archives that shows a document listing Jean de Cesne or one of his sons are Jean de Cesny or de Cisney or any other possibility. Maybe we'll find a boat record that shows a Tomas de Sisney arriving from Rome, Italy.
But until all of the research and available documents have been reviewed, I remain firm as a Cessna researcher that the Cessna and Sisney/Cisney families were at one time, one family.
Respectfully,
Cheryl Cessna
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