Dear Robert,
I'm thrilled that you got this message. I guess that makes you a very distant cousin. From James Francis Nowlan and Margaret Anne Redmon Nowlan, my link is through James Francis Nowlan Jr. and Meta Budd Grundman Nowlan. They had 6 children - Albert, Charles, Theresa, Paul, James Calvin, and Francis. My grand-father was Charles Bernard Nowlan. He married Annie Jo Butler and they had one child - my father, Fagg Bernard Nowlan. My father was born on March 14, 1923 one week after his father, Charles Bernard Nowlan, died from tuberculosis.
Since I've concentrated more on the line from James to James, Jr. to Charles - I don't know much at all about the other 8 children from James Sr. and Margaret, which would include your line from Joseph Alphonzo Nowlan. Where did that name come from?
James Jr, Meta, most of their children and my father are all buried in Greensboro, North Carolina - which is where I live. I had an older sister Margaret Ann Nowlan, who died in 2000 at the age of 53 and I have an older brother, Fagg Bernard Nowlan, Jr., born in * and then there's me, Richard Scott Nowlan, born in *. I have two daughters and one grandson.
The bit of history I have before James and Margaret came to Virginia supports your earlier post. So Thomas Nowlan and Sarah Gilbert are James' parents and I have a record that Margaret Redmon's mother was Mary Cullen (b 1817) and that her grandfather was Patrick Cullen, (b 1794). Why I have that but not her father's name I do not know.
Look forward to learning more!
Scott Nowlan
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