A Hannah Family of West Virginia by Wayne and Maureen (Dorcy) Hannah Copyright 2000. Wayne and Maureen (Dorcy) Hannah All Rights Reserved Published by the authors The authors hereby give permission to reproduce any portion of this book for noncommercial purposes, as long as complete reference to this document is given.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

COVER and FRONT MATTER (including copyright and sketch of Sorbie Tower)

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

PREFACE (with sketch of Hannay Coat of Arms)

 

CHAPTER 1: Ancient History of the Hannahs

The Earliest Hannahs

The Coat of Arms of Hannay of Sorbie

The Clan Hannay Society

Sorbie Tower

The Feud with the Murrays

A Poet

Men of the Cloth

Janet Geddes' Prayer Stool

The Ship Nancyand Captain Hannah

 

CHAPTER 2:  The People Called Scotch-Irish

 

CHAPTER 3: Robert C  Hannah Pedigree Chart

 

CHAPTER 4: First Generation - Joseph Hannah and Anna

 

CHAPTER 5:  Second Generation - David Hannah,  Sr.  and Elizabeth

Elizabeth Gibson

 

CHAPTER 6: Third Generation - David Hannah & Margaret Burnside

 

CHAPTER 7: Fourth Generation  - David Hannah and Sarah McClure

 

CHAPTER 8: Fifth Generation - Joseph R. Hannah and Nancy Jane Woolsey

 

CHAPTER 9: Sixth Generation - Robert C. Hannah and Ethel May Johnson

 

CHAPTER 10: The Burnside and Mayes Families

Burnside

Mayes

 

CHAPTER 11: The Walker Family

 

CHAPTER 12: The  McC l u r e Family

 

CHAPTER 13: The Woolsey Family

Nancy Jane Woolsey

The Woolsey Family in America

The Osborne Family

The Livingston Family

The Murder of Rebecca (Briggs) Cornell

Cornell University

 

APPENDIX

Descendancy Charts

Family Group Sheets

 

INDEX

 

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