Hello Connie:
I just reviewed your messages at the Ancestry.com message board for the
McCafferty surname. The reason for that review was that I am attempting to discover the heritage of a Jane
McCafferty who married David
Shelby on 15 Dec 1813 in
Mason County,
Kentucky. [See:
Mason County,
Kentucky, Marriage Abstract 2, 1806-1817, compiled by Groom's surnames: I.D. # 1024.] I am a family historian for my wife's lineage and her maiden surname was
Shelby.
I cannot prove that the David
Shelby who married a Jane
McCafferty is one and the same as the David
Shelby in my wife's lineage. However, there were no other David Shelbys near
Mason County,
Kentucky, at the time of this marriage between David
Shelby and Jane
McCafferty.
I was particularly interested in the connections you mentioned of this line of McCaffertys to
Fayette County,
Pennsylvania, for the David
Shelby lineage also traces to that county. David
Shelby was in
Mason County,
Kentucky, with his father, Joshua
Shelby, after the family migrated from western
Pennsylvania. Joshua paid taxes in
Mason County,
Kentucky in 1793. This family remained in the Big
Sandy Valley region and the Limestone region of
Mason County,
KY, until 1818 when Joshua
Shelby moved his family to
Union County,
Indiana.
I suspect that Jane
McCafferty may have died some short years after this marriage to David
Shelby for he remarried about 1820 to Deborah Hall/Hutchison/Hudson in
Breckinridge County,
Kentucky. I have never found another reference to David and Jane (
McCafferty)
Shelby in any of the usual resources. I also visited
Mason County,
Kentucky, to search for documentations and found none for this couple.
Do you have any information concerning the heritage, real or possible, of a Jane
McCafferty? Her surname in the marriage records has oft been spelled variously as "
McCaffery" and "McCoffery."
Thank you for considering my question.
Cordially,
Francis
Keenan, Ph.D.
Emeritus Professor
Brockport,
New York PS: Do you know a
Linden Strandberg?
