Many wonderful/helpful items have been sent in to the Association. At this point we ARE the McClung Family Association. We wish we were including those who do not have internet connection so if you have relatives who would like to know what is going on, please copy this off and mail it to them.

Queries:

We use the message board at RootsWeb McClung Surname to exchange queries. Please check that to see if you can assist people close to your lineage. McClung Board

We are still receiving updates to the Greenbrier McClungs. We receive letters from descendants almost daily and we do the best we can to assist them find their lineages. We have letters from some lines that we do not yet have posted and we hope they will keep in touch until their lines are also included on the site.

Greenbrier McClungs:

Click on the index to view them: Documents. We have one more to add with Patrick Henry's signature, that we hope will transfer. Watch for it.

Scotland:

Dr. Don Toler has found a reference to McClungs in a battle in 1544 wherein the Scots were fighting the British. Hoping he can find that again as this would be the earliest actual record we have of McClungs in Scotland. Perhaps one of you could find it as he goes into his internship next week. It was on a site where they were selling information.

Georgia Research:

Maryann has sent in the 1830 census records from Georgia which she read at Athens. Click on: Early Georgia Censuses. This is a very important work. One can see the implications for our families. Look at Josiah's family! It appears to belong to Jamima and perhaps some of Josiah's 1st marriage. Who were Hiram's children here? We anticipate your comments on these early families. We also have the 1840 census records on this for which we have not yet done an interpretation. Please check our figures on the interpretations of the others.

Here is the research list: Georgia Research. There is still work to be done.

Bill Davenport has begun the process of writing for the Georgia land lottery records from the Georgia Archives. Hopefully, we will have some information that will help in compiling these families. This record has been slightly revised: Georgia Land Records.

We are beginning the search through the county deed indexes. Will keep this one updated on negative results: Georgia Deed Indexes. We also found that the orphans from Hall county drew in the 1820 lottery for Habersham County, but they drew a blank. So they did NOT win land in Habersham. Somewhere in Hall county, there should be a record to let us know who the parents were of Hiram, Suel, Drucilla and Elizabeth. The land was probably registered in the county where it was granted - probably Jackson as that is where these people were married. The county seat for Jackson County is at Jefferson, GA. Now Jackson was cut from Franklin in 1796, so perhaps we should also check in Franklin county for the first land entries.

Notice that John was selling to a Jesse Cobb in 1801: deeds in Oglethorpe County. Elizabeth was selling to William Cobb: Jackson Co. Deeds. We have the Putnam deed books in, but the record is not indexed and will have to be read throughout. : (

Some of these have been searched and some not. We have found the indexes prepared by Jackson/Peebles to be quite inaccurate as to the pages. For most of these we are reading the whole county. Some of those shown in the index have not been located. The Haralson County families appear to be the descendants of David of SC who were earlier in Newton Co. Some remained in Newton: Haralson census and Newton census.

The Ann McClung with son, Jackson, may be from Josiah's first family. You will note in the early censuses that he had several children from his first family and we only know of the son, Charles: Harris 1860 Census

The Jonathan in 1860 Marion County appears to be the son of John/Rebecca Nix McClung. They were living with their parents in 1850 Talbot Co. Marion is just south of Talbot: Marion 1860 Census.

The 1850 census of Talbot County has a Franklin McClung born 1817 in GA with wife Susan J. b. 1820 in GA. Their children are: Martha A. b. 1843; Sarra b. 1846; John b. 1849 all in GA. Rebecca McClung is listed as age 50 and with Hiram, George, Alzada, and John. This varies so much with a record submitted years ago, that I feel I must go back over it. Perhaps this was the 1860 census for Talbot. Anyhow, this record needs to be checked before it is posted.

We also need to work on the Carroll county censuses. We had turned in from the 1850 census a William E. McClung born 1814 in GA with wife, Mary. He named his children: Rebecca, Samuel, Betsy, Mahala and Hiram. Then there are the two men who were originally thought to be sons of Jonas but were not. William Elias b. 7 June 1824 and Samuel Meaks, a younger brother. These two moved to Birmingham Al and later to the Weldon settlement in LA with records in Claiborne Parish Court House. We will need to check to see if these men were from the early family of Josiah McClung - or just where they fit in.

All of our research needs to be integrated into the family records. Most of the family records will need to be revised. We are turning up children in the early censuses whose names we do not know. We still do not know the parentage of these early McClungs. It is apparent that the Robert in Upson is not the Robert who was the son of the Rev. War soldier, John. As you can see from the 1830 enumeration, he is not nearly old enough. This leads us to believe that he and Ransom are the son of George and Myranda Whatley McClung. George and John, the Rev. soldier could be brothers and with both of them naming sons Robert, would indicate that their father was Robert. Our early colonial work in Georgia records needs to be pursued further. It is possible that the John in the Parish records was a brother to that Robert who came from Pennsylvania. This John could possibly be the man who died in Hall county leaving the orphans. If we can't turn up any further documentation about this group, we will only have circumstantial evidence. [1/8/02 comment: Soldier John's parents died soon after coming to GA. The Robert who is in the records is probably an uncle, not his father. George may be the son of this early Robert.

The father of Hiram, Suel, Drucilla and Elizabeth purchased land before the area was Hall county. In fact, he may have died before the formation of that county in 1818. The family was probably still living on the property when they registered for the drawing in 1820. This land was probably registered in Jackson or Franklin counties. These lands were part of Cherokee lands prior to 1786 and were just north of St. Paul's parish where Robert McClung,Sr. was living in 1774-5. Colonial Georgia Records

So we still have these early McClungs: Robert and John probably born in 1740s-50. George who had land in Wilkes in 1793 and Warren in 1794: Early Georgia Taxes whose families are largely unknown. We know that the Rev. War soldier, John, was the one in the Wilkes/Warren co. tax lists from his pension papers. (See previous newsletter). It is likely that George was his brother and that they were the sons of the early Robert as they both named sons after Robert. The John from 1774 (St. Thomas) may be the one who left orphans in Jackson/Hall counties. We do not know.

We are hoping that some of the Bounty and Lottery land records will have files that will shed some light on these early families. Bill Davenport is writing for these. We hope the searches are successful.

Other lines:

Descendants from the PA and MD families have written and requested we post their families. Just need the time to do Maryland. We will need Randy's records from Fern before we can attempt the PA records or will have to start from scratch. Hopefully we will have some answers on the early Georgia families shortly so we can move on to the others and let Georgia researchers finish putting the final touches on their records.

Clans, Tartans, etc.:

We keep getting queries about the McClung's clan tartan, crest, etc. We need to address this. Tartans were a more recent thing and it appears that they were adopted by some clans and assigned to others. We do not know that people by the surname: McClung, ever were formed into a clan. Will write something to address this query.

Personal note:

Have recently received another generation back on my Porter/Howard line and put it into the LDS Ancestral File. It pulled up lineages going back to most of the early nobility/royalty of Scotland and England. This stuff goes back to ancient records. I've printed out over a 1000 pages and have only begun. It is of interest that we are descended from Robert the Bruce! - as well as the House of Douglas in Scotland. I am learning a lot about the ancient peoples of Scotland. They came from everywhere.

It is my belief that all of us in America came from all these lines. The Scots intermarried so thoroughly that Bruce was named King of the Scots (not Scotland). The lands of the clans were not just in one spot. They owned lands throughout Scotland. All the Barons were given wives from the royal lines to keep them under treaty to the English King or the Scottish rulers.

The problem with our McClung and related lines here in the US is that these families went through Ulster where fires and warfare have destroyed our connections to Scotland. All of us, however, will find that other lines go back to the early peoples who were amalgamated.

Write Me

You can e-mail me at Judith McClung if you have corrections or additions to our record.