Further Interest...from my Mother...

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As your mother probably knows well, if you want certainty there is no substitute for the painstaking work of tracing the paper trail back generation by generation. Otherwise, it sometimes happens that people pick out a clan with a sept of a simlar name and a groovy tartan, spend hundreds and thousands on kilts, accessories, a few tattoes, clan crests, maybe a visit to the clan lands, only to find out some years later that it was all a mistake, and a waste of time and money.

Part of the problem is that the 'trail' goes cold very quickly. The first born of this line in the USA was a William 'Menear' born in Ohio in 1800. The only connection that is certain is that William's father (name unknown) came to Ohio from the Isle of Man. What also does not help is the birth date of William's father is unknown and the best my mother has been able to determine is that he was born somewhere between 1760-1775.