The LITTLE family go to America

Seneca County at sunset across Lake Cayuga

DEDICATED to the life and genealogical work of SANDRA CHATTERLEY, born Little, 1934-2015, of Utah

The LITTLE FAMILY go to AMERICA

Seneca County New York TODAY the fertile and fruitful land chosen by William Little in 1807

The Little Sketch Pedigree These notes relate to the pedigree itself which is on two penultimate pages

The Little Sisters of America The pedigree is just the bare bones of the male descent of the Little family of County Monaghan, Ireland. Their story goes back to around the year 1700. It is mainly the product of American hands, a group of 20

th century ladies of the family started gathering Little

material before 1935. The group, who we call the Little Sisters, seem to have been led by an indefatigable schoolteacher in Salt Lake City, Utah, by name Harriet Fredricksen Little 1884-1975. She was the widow of a great grandson of the William Little (junior) 1751-

1821 who arrived in New York with his family in 1807, the first of the Monaghan Littles to have settled in America we think. Harriet

Little was helped by an enthusiastic group of Little Sisters who were keen to establish their origins back to their Monaghan family homeland. Several of them visited Ireland in the process. It was only recently that we became aware of their existence when a pile of

dusty research papers they had left were discovered in Ireland at Freame Mount, the only Little family home now left in County

Monaghan, a farm acquired by Stella Littles father-in-law in 1919. Harriet published a book about her own research in 1958, but the Sisters continued working together until at least 1985, and one, Sandra Chatterley born 1934, was active until 2014 (see dedication on title page). They are no longer around to thank for the generous gift they have left us, but we hope that by publicising this sketch

pedigree, a ragged patchwork of the history of this family, readers will not only add to or correct the information here but perhaps we

will find the descendants of those who provided much of it. Portraits of both Harriet and Sandra are on the final page of these notes.

King Billy was here at Carrickfergus Castle, Belfast. The Little Shield & Crest

The Progenitor, the Little Coat of Arms and the Mormon descent The progenitor of the Little family of Monaghan was Thomas Little. He is said to have come from London, arriving at Carrickfergus

Castle, Belfast, with King Billy in 1690 (quoted by Sandra Chatterley from a 20th century Mormon Church Library source). Another Sister, Teton Hanks Jackman 1907-97 succeeded in identifying a LITTLE Coat of Arms which is illustrated above (Motto: Magnum in Parvo = much is little. Teton was a member of the Mormon Church and a direct descendant of Thomas through James Little 1790-1822, farmer and nurseryman of Seneca County, New York. It is through this James that there was a strong Mormon element

among the Sisters because in 1815 James married Susannah Young, the elder sister of Brigham Young. Brigham later became Mormon President and a strong influence on his sisters sons, in particular James Amasa Little 1822-1908 who embraced the Mormon faith whole-heartedly, plural marriage and all (he was Harriet F Littles father-in-law). A monograph on CD entitled The Life of James Amasa Little is in the Mormon Church History Library written by Sandra Chatterley whose husband used to work for Brigham Young University in Utah, the Mormon home State. The Church was originally founded in Seneca County, at Fayette in 1830.

18th

Century Irish Farmers The Little family of Monaghan were farmers from earliest times. In the 18

th century they had leased farms around the Monaghan Town

area. Three Little farms were all about 4 miles from the town in different Parishes. In the second half of the century a fourth farm was

added further south when William juniors family leased the Cornawall farm. Roughly who was farming where and when is shown below - see detail in the pedigree:-

Tedavnet Parish to the north of Monaghan Town (John Little, died 1731, then to wife, and then to their

son William senior 1726-1804, who moved to Tehallan Parish).

Tehallan Parish to the north-east (Robert Wilson, husband of Catherine Little, sister of John above; then

to William senior from above to this farm in Knockboy Townland then moved to Ematris Parish below in 1752).

Kilmore Parish to the south (William junior 1751-1821 in Tirardan Townland; Moved to New York

1807). It is from this William junior that the initial American branch of the Little family

descends.

Ematris Parish even further south, near Rockcorry (William senior moved here to Cornawall Townland in

1752 from Tehallan Parish, then to son Moses 1756-1824). It is from this Moses Littles son, Moses junior, that the family descent in Ireland continues.

William junior and his family sail to New York in 1807 The Little Sisters give no indication as to why William junior should have decided to leave his farm in County Monaghan for a new life

in America in 1807. There is also conflicting evidence as to the number of children William junior and his wife Letitia Smith had, and

who they actually took with them. Of the four children shown on the pedigree, the eldest, Moses, aged 30, who was still in the British

Army, then based at Fort George in Scotland, was therefore probably absent. So it is fairly clear that Malcolm, aged 19, James, aged 17,

and Nancy 12, landed with their parents in New York on 19th May 1807 after a voyage of just over five weeks (Ref: Sandra Chatterley).

Seneca County NY, its river and its two glacial finger lakes, each some The Seneca River 35 miles long and 600 feet deep in places - once Iroquois Indian country!

Frontier Territory William was faced with the problem of where to settle. Much of the coastal area of New York, Connecticut and surrounding states had

then already been taken and was under cultivation and development. However, land was available at low prices on the remote western

frontier of New York and he decided to take his family to the newly-created County of Seneca. It seems to have had a good press.

Perhaps William read what Father Raffeix, a Jesuit priest, wrote about it more than a century before: The fairest country I have seen in America; a tract between two lakes, four leagues in width, consisting of almost uninterrupted plains bordered by beautiful woods;

around the area more than a thousand deer are killed each year, with fish plentiful salmon and eels too. I saw ten fine salt springs beside the river Seneca.

Then a traveller in 1791 wrote, The map of the world does not exhibit two lakes equal in magnitude to the Seneca and Cayuga which are so happily situated. The country between them rises gradually in symmetry towards the centre, producing a pleasing effect. When it

reaches a state of cultivation it will become the Paradise of America. [These are two deep inland lakes each over 35 miles long, formed by the action of ice similar to a Norwegian fiord. They are now known locally as finger-lakes]

But in 1807 this was still frontier territory and the route to Seneca was covered by a dense, luxuriant forest, part of the land having

belonged to the Cayuga Indians. The Indians had been dispossessed as a punishment for siding with the British during the American War

of Independence 1775-83. The Littles journey there took about five weeks of poling, rowing, floating and arduous walking along the Susquehanna and Tioga Rivers to Newtown (now called Elmira) and then by portage to Seneca County. There William eventually settled

on land in Junius Township, located beside the Seneca river just by the northern ends of the two glacial finger-lakes - Lake Seneca on the

west side and Lake Cayuga on the east with some 13 miles between them.

Seneca today and Mistpouffers One only has to see modern articles and illustrations about the flat open well-drained fertile and fruitful land that Seneca is today to

appreciate how fortunate William was in his choice for the Littles first American home. Now, discovered by world tourism and remote no longer, Seneca still retains some mysteries from when this beautiful place was formed by rock and ice. Have you heard of Seneca Guns? The term is just a name, not an explanation. It does not tell us anything about what causes these noises and shakings. The name originated in a short story The Lake Gun by James Fennimore Cooper who wrote Last of the Mohicans. The name refers to booms that have been heard on the shores of Lake Seneca and Lake Cayuga in New York State. These phenomena have also occurred in three

widely separated places around the world. Thats about all we know about the Seneca guns.... See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mistpouffers

James, Malcolm and Nancy Little William juniors son, James, was 17 when he landed at New York. The young man soon found his feet, helping his father establish their farm, growing corn, oats or wheat. James is described as a short well-knit man with great powers of endurance. At Junius they had a neighbour living just across the Seneca River, John Young, who had a large family. In 1815 James married Johns eldest daughter, Susannah Young, and the following year bought 50 acres at Aurelius Township by Cayuga Lake. There they primarily grew vegetables

and garden produce which developed into a highly successful business. James as nurseryman was innovative and is credited with being

the first to sell seeds in packets. He was also the first to sell tomatoes for the table; they were known then as love apples and grown only for decoration as they were thought to be poisonous. For this James had to obtain a permit from Governor Clinton! Meanwhile

James elder brother, Malcolm was also farming nearby and records show that he acquired large plots of land both in 1816 (164 acres) and 1827 (155 acres), remaining in Seneca throughout his married life. All we are told is that he married twice and had seven children,

and that his sister Nancy married William McMillan in New York, had eight children, then moved to Ohio where she had three more.

Unfortunately James success story ended in 1822 with his death in an accident on his way back from the market at Auburn, four miles away. His father, William, had died the year before, but help was at hand from brother Malcolm, farming nearby, and from the Young

family among whom was Susannahs brother Brigham Young 1801-77 (portrait below). Brigham, like an Old Testament prophet, led the famous Mormon settlement of the Western States of America in which many members of the Little family took part. The story of this

extraordinary act of colonisation for religious purposes is given in outline below or see Mormons go West . James left three sons all

under the age of five when he died. Their mother moved away and remarried, and the boys (listed below) were eventually all boarded out. However they all came together again with their mother at Nauvoo in Illinois from where the great trek west started in Feb 1846.

Edwin Sobieski Little 1816-46 accompanied Brigham Young on the Mormon trek westward. However he died of pneumonia during

that long and arduous journey leaving a wife, Harriet, and young son George.

Feramorz Little 1820-87 (portrait below) was a hard working and able business man who initiated many successful projects in Utah. He

visited Europe, the Holy Land and Egypt in 1872-73 and was three times Mayor of Salt Lake City. In 1875 he and his brother James

returned from Utah to Seneca County where they were born. There they saw Uncle Malcolm, in his dotage, who briefed them about their family roots.

James Amasa Little 1822-1908 (portrait below) was a veteran of the Mexican-American War 1846-47 (stationed at Fort Jessup,

Louisiana), and a committed Mormon as were his two brothers.

On the death in 1852 of James Amasas mother, Susannah, who had had six surviving children, she had accumulated 82 grandchildren - clearly the effect of the Mormon belief in plural marriage. Her sons Feramorz and James each had three wives, and James is recorded as having 22 children. The subsequent generations of this Little line is a challenge to genealogy which we are not taking up.

Feramorz Little 1820-87 Brigham Young 1801-77 James Amasa Little 1822-1908

and his two Little nephews

Brigham Young was an uncle to some of the children of the Little family of Seneca. His sister had married James Little 1790-1822

whose children and grandchildren became devotees of the faith. Brigham proved to be a strong charismatic leader. After taking the

Mormon movement, of which he was the second President, off to Salt Lake Valley then part of Mexico, he was effectively the coloniser

and founder of Salt Lake City and much of the Great Basin. He was appointed the first Governor of that territory and superintendent of American Indian affairs in the region by President Fillmore. During his time as Governor, Brigham directed the establishment of

settlements throughout present-day Utah, Idaho, Arizona, Nevada, and parts of southern Colorado and northern Mexico. Under his

direction, the Mormons built roads and bridges, forts, irrigation projects; established public welfare; organized a militia; and pacified the

Native Americans. He also organised the first legislature and established Fillmore as the territory's first capital. One wonders how he had time to achieve all this and start the Mormon Tabernacle Choir in 1847. By 1900 the Mormon colonials had established 500

settlements in Utah and neighbouring States.

Brigham was perhaps the most notable polygamist among the early Mormons. There is a record of him marrying 55 wives: he had 57 children by 16 of them. See Brigham's wives . Polygamy/Plural Marriage, which had been instituted as a means of rapidly increasing the

numbers of adherents to Mormonism when it was fighting for its survival, was not banned by USA statute until 1890: the last known

second wife did not die until 1954.

The Saints go marching in! Mormon Tabernacle Choir: https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=r8tJthtX2G0

The Mormon Church, the largest part of the Latter-day Saints Movement (LDS) with its strong emphasis on family reunion in the after-life, was founded in 1830 at Fayette near the Little familys homes in Seneca County. Based on the visions of Joseph Smith, its first President and Prophet, the Church grew rapidly, but its very success and some of its controversial tenets attracted opposition wherever they tried to settle. This culminated in the murder of both Smith and his brother by an angry mob in Illinois in 1844.

Eventually, into the breach stepped Brigham Young, uncle of the late James Littles three sons. Brigham became the Saints second President and, convinced that the Mormons would never find peace in the USA, he decided that the Church needed to move to the still-

wild territories of the Mexican-controlled South-West. He began to prepare his people for a mass exodus. They were then concentrated at

Nauvoo in west Illinois where they continued to be under attack by local people. This was an extraordinarily brave decision when one

considers that the distance they would have to travel to an area on the other side of the Rocky Mountains was well over a thousand miles.

The Saints Escape from Persecution 1846-69

Brigham Young led the Mormons first trek of some 1300 miles from Nauvoo in Illinois to Salt Lake Valley in 1846-47. Their trail ran through Iowa Nebraska the Rockies in Wyoming to the Great Basin which became Utah & Nevada.

In February 1846, Brigham left Nauvoo leading some 1600 Mormons on the first stage of their escape. With him went his own large

family including his nephew Edwin Sobieski Little and his family. They crossed the frozen Mississippi in subzero temperatures to reach

a temporary refuge 265 miles away on the east bank of the Missouri River opposite Council Bluffs. The way had been prepared before

by reconnaissance teams planning the route across Iowa, digging wells at camping spots, and in some cases, planting corn to provide

food for the hungry emigrants. The mass of Mormons that had assembled at Nauvoo followed Brigham and by the autumn of 1846, the

banks of the Missouri River became the winter quarters for 12,000 of them. However the Saints losses due to the difficulties of the route, the harsh weather of that winter, accident and disease had been very high - nearly 400 had died. They included Edwin Little who

died of pneumonia at Richardsons Point only 55 miles from Nauvoo after his wagon broke through river ice and he was thrown into the water. His wife and young son George Little continued to follow the trail.

There then followed an even longer journey in the spring, over the western landscape, nearly a thousand miles across Nebraska and

through the Rockies in Wyoming to the valley of the Great Salt Lake. Many, particularly those starting late and caught in deep snow and

biting winds in the mountains, died along the way. That year, 1847, some 1,600 Mormons arrived to begin building a new civilization in the valley. But their Promised Land turned out to be an inhospitable, bleak, cold, treeless desert where they firstly had to irrigate the land to grow food. Nevertheless the Mormons, mostly farmers and tradesmen, set to, not only to build their city and the roads,

bridges and defences it needed, but they also established 500 Mormon settlements which became towns throughout Utah and

neighbouring States. The next year, 2,500 more Mormons made the journey, some of them from Europe.

The late Edwins younger brothers Feramorz Little and James Amasa Little (with their mother Susannah) travelled later, arriving about 1849. The brothers made important contributions during the early development of their city. With some difficulty Feramorz in the

1850s established the vital postal service to Laramie in Wyoming which met the monthly mail from the east. The problem was that the

mountainous route they had to take with its winter hardships and hazards, also lay through grizzly bear country; he and his team were

fortunate to survive. In 1854-55 Feramorz contracted to build the Utah penitentiary, following which he spent 1856 on an emergency call

to help companies of the Saints in dire distress on the plains. In 1865 he and Uncle Brigham bought the Salt Lake House Hotel in the City which Feramorz managed for seven years. Then in 1868-70 he helped construct the first railroad through Utah; it connected to the

Union Pacific. In the 1870s, after returning from a Mormon sponsored tour through Europe, Palestine and Egypt, he was elected Mayor

of Salt Lake City, serving three terms 1876-82. In his tenure the Salt Lake and Jordan canal was constructed and major improvements

made to their all-important water facilities.

Mormon wagon train in Echo Canyon on route to Salt Lake City (1866). Today the Church has 15 million members worldwide: LDS Church today

Moses Little 1777-1848, soldier of the 33rd

(Duke of Wellingtons) Regiment in India Moses was the eldest of William Little juniors sons by eleven years. He enlisted in the British Army in 1794 aged 17, joining the 33rd Regiment of Foot then in Ireland. Arthur Wellesley (later the Duke of Wellington) had joined the regiment as a Major the year before.

Two years later they found themselves together on their way to India via South Africa. Moses served with the regiment in India for

several years during which they took part in many arduous operations. In South India in 1798-99 the regiment played a key role in the

successful conclusion of the Mysore Wars which ended in the famous Siege of Seringapatam which lasted a month. After this

successful battle Wellesley was promoted and made Governor of Mysore.

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rd of Foot (Duke of Wellingtons) Regiment in the final phase of the Siege of Seringapatam, Mysore, South India 1799, by Henry Singleton

The intensity of operations in India and marching great distances in the heat and dust, took their toll on Moses health and he was eventually sent back to Europe where he joined the 74

th Regiment in Scotland. There he was a hospital medical orderly, but his health

failed to recover and he was eventually discharged with a pension in November 1808 due to a liver complaint.

We next find Moses in Ontario, Canada, with wife Jane Wildridge and a quiver full of children who had been born in different parts of

the British Isles. It was 1822 and he arrived in Ontario through Quebec as an Army pensioner. But it seems he was receiving only 9

pence per day (1088 a year at todays value) having rashly borrowed off his pension savings. We also note that his ninth child, Clotilda, was born and baptised from a Poor Home in Londons Chelsea earlier that year. After arrival in Quebec, Moses visited his brothers James and Malcolm in Seneca County NY, just before James death. The following year he was awarded the official role of Keeper of Brocks Monument on the USA border near Niagara Falls (his brother Malcolm in Seneca was then only 100 miles away to the east). Brocks column is Canadas premier memorial. It commemorates the 1812 battle for Queenston Heights in which the Americans were finally defeated by General Brock and his men. For Canadians it is a highly significant symbol of their independence from the USA.

Brock and his ADC, who were killed in the final successful charge, are buried there. Being the Keeper was no sinecure: the original column was damaged with explosives placed by an anti-British agitator in 1740 and had to be rebuilt! In 1834, based on his service

record, Moses was given a 200 acre plot of land (forest at the time) at Erin which is 75 miles west of Toronto. There he built a home for

his family eleven children aged between 8 and 29. By 1840 he had succeeded in cultivating just 12 acres of his forest.

Major-General Isaac Brock 1769-1812 Brocks Monument at Queenston Uniforms of the Duke of Wellingtons The hero of Queenston Heights. Canada 33

rd Regiment of Foot with equipment.

Great grandfather Moses Watt Little 1837-1919, Frances Hawkins Little with John Wesley and Morgan Simcocks 1844-1913 of Yark, Victoria,

farmer of Cornawall and Kilcrow, Monaghan. Muriel Frances at Santa Cruz, California, Australia. Husband of Elizabeth Little 1843-1904

circa 1908. Father: John J. Little 1873-1960. of Cornawall farm. Morgan was born in Killarney.

The Second Wave of Littles to America Several of the Littles of Monaghan, children of Moses Little junior, farming near Rockcorry, followed William junior to America in the

second half of the 19th century. The pedigree shows that some fetched up in Wisconsin, Alaska and Texas for example, and a brother and

sister found their way to Victoria in Australia (portrait of the sisters husband, Morgan Simcocks, is above right). But it was in the next generation and in the first decade of the 20

th century that a wave of Littles went to California. They were the children of Moses Watt

Little (portrait left above). All five of his sons and two of his four daughters went to America at various times in this period (they can all

be found at the top of the second page of the pedigree below).

HOTEL CALIFORNIA behind the tram The San Francisco earthquake 18

th April 1906. 3000 dead from fires and collapsed

buildings. 250,000 people left homeless.

Hotel California and the 1906 Earthquake We are unaware of what spark started this emigration, but Matthew Alexander 1880-1956 found success in San Francisco in property

and the construction business with a collaborator by the name of Young (one of our Mormon cousins by any chance?). They had

successfully built several houses in Fourth Avenue on Parnassus Heights and another at Green and Divisadero. They then won the

contract to build the new Hotel California in the city centre. Others of the family came over from Ireland, some of them to help

Matthew. They all remained in America apart from Joseph Little who was there for about three years but had returned to his farming

and other commitments at home in Rockcorry by 1907. Fortunately the family all survived the San Francisco earthquake of 1906 unhurt.

It is said to have destroyed 80% of the city, caused 3000 deaths and around 250,000 homeless, so the Littles had a miraculous escape

which remains unexplained. It took them many days to tell those in Ireland that they were alive. Full recovery took years but business in

the city gradually improved and with it Matthews building business benefitted hugely. He married Frankie Johnson the following year

and some of their granddaughters were among the Sisters whose work has provided much of the material here. In 1925 Matthew was still

Proprietor of Hotel California, but the 1929 Wall Street Crash did for his fortune. Cheer up, click on: Hotel California by the Eagles

Matthew Alexander Little 1880-1956, Joseph Little born 1874 farmer Joseph Germain McKeever Elizabeth Sloan McKeever 1857-1931

San Francisco building contractor and auctioneer at Rockcorry, 1839-1921, of Rathbran, Meath. of Dunleer, Louth.

and proprietor of Hotel California, married Louise McKeever 1911 Parents of Louise McKeever 1878-1960.

which the Little family helped to build.

Freame Mount, County Monaghan, Ireland Back in Ireland Joseph Little, after surviving the earthquake, started to reconfigure the familys farming properties, buying Aghadrumkeen (three miles north-west of Rockcorry) soon after his return. By 1919 he had married Louise McKeever and was farming

Freame Mount having sold both Cornawall and Aghadrumkeen. Freame Mount (picture below) is now in the hands of Josephs grandson, Brian Alexander Little and his wife Lynn Atkinson. It is the only remaining Little family homestead in County Monaghan

from where so many of the family journeyed to a new life in America.

FREAME MOUNT farmhouse in winter, the present homestead of the Little family in County Monaghan, Ireland

Addendum Finally we should record the names of the small group of Little Sisters of America who carried out the original research for this sketch pedigree. Except for the portraits of two, they are identified only by the papers they left behind at Freame Mount some thirty years ago:-

Harriet Fredricksen Little 1884-1976 of Utah. Widow of David Baldwin Little. PHOTO ON FINAL PAGE

Hannah Little Moncrieff 1883-1963 of San Francisco. Daughter of Moses Watt Little.

Teton Hanks Jackman 1907-97. Daughter of Mattis Taylor Little and Arthur Hanks, and great great granddaughter of Susannah Young

Little.

Heidi M Ritter, born 1943. Granddaughter of Moses Watt Little & daughter of Doris Elaine Little.

Sandra Little Chatterley 1934-2015 of Utah. Daughter of Knowlton & Eva Little of Kanab. PHOTO ON FINAL PAGE

Margaret J Riley

Sister Little, one of two Nuns who appeared on the steps of Freame Mount.

To help them these ladies employed a professional genealogist, Mr Leese of the Irish Research Committee. He found a Will of 1731 and

Title Deeds of 1752 which together took the history of this family in Ireland back to around 1700. Later they fell out with him claiming

that he had not visited some of the places on which he had reported!

In recent months Stella Little has had the help of Kathryn Dooley, Patricia Louise Wright, Dr Roddy Evans, and John Freesmith in

tracing the Little line through the material left us by the Sisters and through that of two closely related Irish families the McKeevers and the Rountrees who appear in this sketch pedigree (second page).

Other material referred to in the research papers.

History of Susannah Young Little by Teton Hanks Jackman, 1975, Mormon Church History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah, and currently at FamilySearch.org

Descendants of William Little (junior) and Allied Families, by Harriet F Little, BYU Press 1958; Amazon Books USA; A comprehensive (785 page) listing of Williams primarily Mormon descendants and the stories of this Irish family in America.

History of James Little 1790-1822 by Sandra Little Chatterley, (undated), Mormon Church History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah

The Life of James Amasa Little (1822-1908) - CD. Author unknown. Mormon Church History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah

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The LITTLE FAMILY of COUNTY MONAGHAN, IRELAND from circa 1700

Thomas Little is said to have come from London with William of Orange, arriving at Carrickfergus, Antrim, in 1690.

| [Source: Sandra Chatterley, quoting from The Life of James Amasa Little, LDS Church Library, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA]

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_________|_____________Source: Irish Research Committee______

| | 1725 John Little, farmer, 1690-1731 = Wife (name unknown) Catherine Little = Robert Wilson of Tehallan parish [4 miles north-east of Monaghan town].

of Tedavnet Parish, Co. Monaghan | Sister of John Little. Robert was executor of his brother-in-law Johns Will of 1731. Johns son, [4 miles north-north-west of Monaghan town]. | William Little (below) was also living in Tehallan parish before he leased his

WILL dated 30 March 1731 and proved | farm at Cornawall in Ematris parish, near Rockcorry in 1752 at the age of 26. at Clogher 26 April 1731 | The younger son, John Little (below), moved away to Queens County (Laois) |

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__ Source: Irish Research Committee_____|______________________________________________________________________________________________

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Katherine = William Little 1726-1804, farmer of Knockboy townland (34 Acres), Tehallan parish, Co. Monaghan. Sarah = Malcolm McCollom Margaret = Pollock John

Fitzpatrick| 1752: Purchased lease, renewal for ever, of farm and lands of Cornawall, Dartree Barony, of 143 Acres b. 1727 1720-1806 c.1729 of 1737-97 | from Charles Coote of Bellamont Forest, Cootehill, 20 Oct 1752. Aged 5 when his father died. Portarlington, Co. Laois. | (not named in fathers Will) |

_|_________Sources: The Little Sisters of America & Irish Research Committee____________

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Moses Little 1756-1824 = Mary Watt John Elinor = William (Junior) = Letitia Smith Margaret

Farmer of Cornawall, | Keis. 1751-1821 | 1754-c.1817

Rockcorry, | of Kilmore Parish, Monaghan | Parents: Neal Smith; Agnie McGill

Co. Monaghan | 1807 Seneca Co, New York |

| |_Sources: Sandra Little Chatterley, Geni pedigree (USA) & Wellington County Museum____ | 1st 1804 | 2nd 1842 | | 1815 |

Moses Little (Junior), = Elizabeth Jane Wildridge = Moses Little 1777-1848, Born Ematris. = Elizabeth Malcolm James = Susannah Nancy =

Farmer of Cornawall. | Tranor, c.1787-1841 | 33rd

Regt (Wellingtons) 1795-1806 India Parker 1788- 1855 1790-1822 | Young William McMillan. Born 1806 | born c.1813 b.Cootehill, | 74

th Regt (Highland LI) 1806-1808 Scotland. of Erin, Seneca Co, b. Kilmore | 1795-1852 She 1795-1873

| Cavan |1823 Keeper of Brocks Monument, Queenston, Canada. NY 1807 1807 N Y| (Sister of NY & Ohio

| |1831 At Nelson. 1834 At Erin (200 acres), Ontario. 2 sons __________| Brigham_1801-77) 10 children

| | Edwin Feramorz James Amasa

| _________________|______Source: Moses Little pedigree on Geni(USA)_& Ancestry._1816-46____1820-87_____ 1822-1908 | | | | | | | | | | | | 1849

| William John Wildridge = Elizabeth Fanny Letitia Ann Rachel Esther Sarah Clotilda Emily Robert = Ann E

| bap. 1805 1807-92 | Dickey Ann 1811-86 b.1814 1816-85 1818-85 Jane b.1822 b.1824 Dee | McCutcheon

| Liverpool bap Liverpool | 1809-71 m. James m. John 1820-86 bap Chelsea 1826-70 | 1827-83

| dsp 1809 Martha b.1837 Liverpool Gibson F. Almas. m. Justen Poor Home. d. Ontario_|_b.Quebec____

| d.Ontario & Bussy m. Garlin | | | | | | |

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TWO OF THE MANY LITTLE SISTERS OF AMERICA WHO HAVE HELPED US

Harriet Fredricksen, born Little 1884-1976. Sandra Chatterley, born Little, 1934-2015. She came to the USA in 1807. Widow of David Baldwin She is the last of the Little Sisters, the daughter Little. School teacher in Utah. Author of a comprehensive of Knowlton & Eva Little of Kanab, and wife of a

785 page listing (up to 1958) of primarily Mormon descendants professor at Brigham University, Utah. Author of

of the Irish Little family of County Monaghan. a short biography of James Little (1790-1822),

who married into the Mormon family of Young

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