Found your website page,http://www.johnhoyt.com/h-linage/g156.html#I3130, and wond ered if one ofyour William Sparling's might be the same Wiliam Sparling who wasmentioned on p age 15 in the book, "Windows On The Past, North Sydney,Nova Scotia", by Elva E. Jackson. I ha ve attached an image of that bookpage for your reading. I am researching Jeremiah Desmond. He and this William Sparling,according to Jackson, wer e neighbors about the year 1838. I aminterested to find any information that may glean som e insight into thelife of Jeremiah Desmond. Cheers

Don Desmond Source: E-mail #3 From: Don Desmond To: John E. Hoyt Date: Tuesday, November 15, 2005 1:36 PM Subject: William Sparling#2 John, Thank-you for your reply. I have found more passage references to the Sparling family name in thissame book. I can tel l you that, according to the book index, an AnneSparling (pg. 13), a Henry (pgs.158, 190) , a Margaret (pg.13), a Peter(pg.13), Capt. Philip (pgs.13, 15, 42, 67,183), and your Willia m (pg.15)appear. I have attached pgs. 42, 43 that I had previously scanned. For your reference, the book was published by LANCELOT PRESS, Windsor,Nova Scotia , 1974. Th e author, Elva E. Jackson, has copyright . But Ithink that if proper credit is given to her t hat it is permissible. Areyou familiar with this book ? Mr. Carter, in you previous email, you mention that a Crawford familymarried into the Sparlin g family. I am told that Jeremiah Desmond, theneighbor to William Sparling, was a son of Thom as and Susan (neeCrawford) Desmond. Interesting... Thanks, Don Desmond Notes on Wm P.; [47] Emigrated to Camden Valley, New York 1760 aboard "Pery". Later settled in Sydney, Nova S cotia. See 'To Thier Heirs Forever' - Eula Lapp See Port Roseway Loyalists.doc . Source: E-mail #4 RESEARCH NOTES: Email from a Sparling realtion in Dublin Ireland From: Alan Sparling Sent: Tuesday, July 05, 2016 7:07 PM To: John Hoyt Subject: Re: Sparlin g - dublin Hi again John, Well I have been doing further research and came across 2 amazing things The first was a Wikipedia link below and when u read about the Palatines who ended up In Lime rick, you can see that Viscount Thomas Southwell took care of them. I see that the Sparling f rom my thread all hailed from Killeheen, just outside Rathkeale and we go Down anyhow to mee t my wifes mother in Newcastlewest in a few weeks, so I will be sure to drop by Killeheen & c astle matrix There is a reference to Thomas Southwall in the above link But the amazing thing, for me, is that when I just spoke to my wife about 'Castle Mattress ' I said that must be what is now known as 'Castle Matrix' and below link confirms same. The crazy thing is that this is where Sir Walter Raleigh stopped by and planted the 1st potat o AND back in 1999 we both looked at this Castle to see if we could use it for our Wedding

Little did we know that the Sparlings & Raleighs would have known each Other back then. ( w e choose a different hotel unfortunately) Thanks so much for inspiring me to dig a bit deeper and I will be back in due course With inf o from my family. My wife Jo-Ann is related to Sir Walter Raleigh....but I let her do that investigation

All the best Alan Sparling . Source: E-mail #5 On 5 Jul 2016, at 04:41, John Hoyt wrote: Hello Alan, Nice to meet you... Thanks for emailing me on your 'Namesake/Surname' Branch and would be willing to give more information. Sure, I'd love some more information on your Grandfather, John's lineage.. Wow, I didn't know about the Sir Walter Raleigh being a town named after him of Rathkeale, Ireland? And that your wife has her Maiden Name of being a Raleigh from the Limerick, which is near Rathkesle. Yes Petty Neat indeed. Is She Related to Sir Walter, by chance?? And, if you wish too you could add a few family photos from your 3-4 Gen. if you would like, and I'll place them in links from a thumbnail galley of sorts, into his area and down, as soon as, I get them and any records like the WWI Image Record and more, on the empty generations and dates, places etc.. Much Obliged, Alan. Kind Regards, To You & Ireland John E. Hoyt, retired A Simon Hoyt/e Branch Family Historian www.simonhoyt.com/index.html . Source: E-mail #6 -----Original Message----- From: Alan Sparling Sent: Monday, July 04, 2016 7:09 PM To: John Hoyt Subject: Sparling - dublin Dear John, How lucky and thrilled am I that I happened upon your site as I did research on my Grandfather John Sparling (ref 875) who served in WW1 and I try to update his records for Same. I notice u have John's children listed (ref 1728 -1737) but it appears that u don't have Info rmation of their lives ? I would be happy to supply as much as I can, including my own siblings. We are the children of William Sparling (ref 1728) Well done on putting such an exhaustive collation together & thrilled that I could Trace us back to the 'original' Peter Sperling from Limerick. Would u believe, I married a girl from Limerick myself and her maiden name is Raleigh, Originally from Rathkeale when Sir Walter Raleigh dropped by centuries ag o

Small world indeed Kind Regards Alan Sparling

Catherine Sparling

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