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Information on this family can also be found on page 127 of the book "Johnson County, Kentucky: A History of the County, and Genealogy of Its People Up to the Year 1927" by Mitchell Hall. In that book it says that David Conley, 4th son of Captain Henry Conley and Ann MacGregors "(also called Langley)," married "Polly House (Howes), and that their children were Henry Conley and Elizabeth Conley (married Rhoades Meade). And "David Conley was the father of Henry Conley who married in to the Davis family."
Notes: Information on this family can be found on page 517 of "The Conley Clan of Eastern Kentucky," published and sold by The Magoffin County Historical Society. In that book it says "The following pages contains information on Conley families not presently identified as to relationship to Capt. Henry Conley." It also says that David Conley was born in 1807 in Wilkes County, North Carolina, and died after 1880 in Morgan County, Kentucky. He married Polly Howes, daughter of Elexious Howes and Sarah Hudson, in 1827 in Floyd County, Kentucky. She was born in 1813 in Floyd County, and died after 1880 in Morgan County.
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EDMOND CONLEY, son of HENRY CONNELLY and ANN MACGREGOR,
born: 2 June 1775 in Guilford, Guilford County, North Carolina.
died: after 1865 in Magoffin County, Kentucky, age 89
buried: in “Edmund Field” has become known as Abel Caudill Cemetery, Falcon, Magoffin County, Kentucky, USA, Grave Memorial# 116814899.
1st marriage: (he 19, she 16), about 1795 in North Carolina.
LYDIA JOYNES, daughter of William THOMAS JOYNES (1750-1835) and MARY "SARAH" CAUDILL, in North Carolina.
born: in 1779 in Wilkes County, North Carolina.
Death: 16 April 1835 Road Fork, Magoffin, Kentucky, age: 58
2nd marriage: 16 April 1835 in Floyd County, Kentucky
Nancy Ann (Tackett) Williams
born: about 1795 in Tennessee.
Died: 1880
Archibald MacGregor (1720-1858) & Edith Effie MacAlpine (1725-1755); Jame Mohr MacGregor (1695-1745) & Annabel McNiccol (1695-1752) and Marie-Charlotte (1713-); *Robert Roy MacGregor (1671-1734) & Mary Helen MacGregor (McGregor) (1671-1745); Donald Glas Stewart MacGregor (1630-1686) & Margaret Campbell (1637-1691); Malcolm Og Callum MacGregor (1580-) & Unknown McDonell / McDonald (ca. 1557 and 1617-); Gregor Dubh MacGregor (1550-) & Janet Buchanan (ca. 1527 and 1577-); Malcolm MacCulchere MacGregor (1505-) & Findlay Glas McEantyre (MacIntire) (1522-); Gregor MacCulghere MacGregor (1470-1527); Dougal Culcuere McGregor (MacGregor), of Corriearklet in Glenarklet (1440-); Dougal Ciar "The Dusky" McGregor (MacGregor), last of Glenorchy (1416-); Gregor Aluin "The Handsome" McGregor, of Glenorchy (1355-1415) & Iris MacAlpin (1370-); Ian (John) Cam "One Eyed" McGregor, of Glenorchy, 2nd Chief of Clan Gregor (1335-1390); Gregor Laird Glenorchy MacGregor, of Golden Bridles, 1st Chief of Clan Gregor (1305-1375); Malcolm "Lame Laird" Laird Glenorchy MacGregor, of Glenorchy (1275-1374) & Mary MacAlpin (1283-); Gregor MacGregor (1250-1285); Gregor Laird Glenorchy MacGregor of Glenorchy (1220-1285) & Marian Countess Lennox de Arrochar (1230-); Donnchad MacEion Mor mac Gregor (1190-1229); Eoin Laird Glenorchy mac Gregor (1160-1229);
Note:
Daughter of Archibald MacGregor, a member of the Clan MacGregor, one of the oldest and most historic, as well as most persecuted, of the Scottish Clans. This Clan claims descent from Gregor, third son of King Alpin, who ruled Scotland AD 787. The round motto of the Clan is "Srioghail mo dheam" (Royal is my race). Archibald MacGregor was severely wounded at the battle of Culloden, but lived and escaped to North Carolina; He married 1) Edith MacAlpine daughter of ---MacAlpine who also escaped from the field of Culloden to America. The MacAlpine's are descended from a Clan which for twenty-five generations were Kings of Scotland. The war-cry of the Clan is "Cuimhnich bas Ailpein" (Remember the death of Alpin) alluding to the murder of King Alin by Brudus after the Pict's defeated the Scots near Dundee in 838.
Note: Rob Roy
Notes for Ann MacGregor:
According to William Elsey Connelley in his book "The Founding of Harman's Station," which was written in 1910:
Note: Ann Langley MacGregor was 2 years old when her father died. Edith (MACALPINE) Hitchcock, her mother, remarried to Joseph Langley. She went by the last name Langley when growing up and it also appears in a 1830 letter from Eula Conley Moore, in the files on Henry Conley's pension. This same letter states that Henry was the s/o Thomas Connelly.
The most famous clan in Scotland was that of MacGregor. It claims descent from Gregor, third son of King Alpin, who ruled Scotland about the year 787, and the clan is spoken of in Scotland as the Clan Alpin. The motto of the clan is "Srioghail mo dhream" - "Royal is my race."
Sir Walter Scott found more in the annals of the Clan MacGregor for his famous Waverley Novels than in the lore of all the other clans of Scotland. Rob Roy was Robert Roy MacGregor, and the novel of that name is an account of the adventures of that famous Borderer. In his "Legend of Montrose" Scott finds some of his most interesting characters among the Children of the Mist, who were the MacGregors, this being one of their ancient names. In his history of the clan Scott gives much curious and interesting information about the MacGregors. He says "that they were famous for their misfortunes and the indomitable courage with which they maintained themselves as a clan. The MacGregors strove to retain their lands by the cold steel." The had extensive possessions in Argyllshire and Perthshire which they held by the sword. No other clan in Scotland ever did so much fighting for their rights or for their country.
The ancient seat of the Clan MacGregor was along both sides of the Loch Tay, and in modern times they have lived about the old Church of the Balquhidder, where Rob Roy is buried.
Next to the MacAlpine the MacGregor is the oldest of Highland clans, and these two are closely related, one being a branch of the other. The MacGregors are now scattered all over the world, and many of them have been eminent as statesmen, soldiers, scholars. They are often distinguished by a stern and haughty bearing, arising from a consciousness of having played a famous and honorable part in the wars of Scotland and the world, giving them a sense of superiority they are always ready to maintain by an appeal to arms.
Archibald MacGregor, of the Clan MacGregor, Highlands of Scotland, espoused the cause of Charles Edward, the Young Pretender, in 1745, as did his clan and his country. He was a young man of fine stature and immense physical strength. His clan was not in the battle of Culloden Moor, having been stationed at another point, so it is said in the traditions of our family, but he had been sent to the commander of the Pretender forces with dispatches, and so was on that disastrous field. There he was dreadfully wounded, being left on the gory field for dead, and his body stripped by the Royalist looters. He, however, revived and with great difficulty and much suffering reached his own country. There he was concealed until he had recovered somewhat from his wounds, when he succeeded in escaping to the colony of North Carolina, where so many of his countrymen were then living. There he married Edith MacAlpine, the daughter of a Highlander who had also been in the battle of Culloden Moor, and who had with great difficulty escaped with his family to America.
MacGregor never fully recovered from his wounds. His daughter Ann was born February 14, 1756, and some two years later he died. His widow married a Scotchman named Langley, and by him had several children. Ann MacGregor, growing up with these Langley children, was, it is said, always called Ann Langley by her friends and acquaintances. Some of these Langleys moved from North Carolina to the Big Sandy region of Kentucky at an early day, and their descendants may yet be found there. Captain Henry Connelly married Ann MacGregor. Neither the date nor the locality of this marriage is known, but it must have been early in 1774, for their first child was born in June 1775.
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