More Crown Cousins

The last month has been a flurry of correspondence with various newly-discovered Crown relations. It started with yet another DNA match, which appears to lead back to some living relations in Ireland!  This connection is through a sibling of our Crown immigrant to NY, Patrick Crown, who came to Brooklyn in 1870. Patrick's sister, Brigid (Bridget) Crown Travers, is the one whose descendants are suddenly popping up!

All of which has lead to more DNA comparisons! Here's what we have so far. Note that the following Crown's are thought to be siblings, children of Richard Crown and Sarah Meehan, and the DNA samples noted all show up as extremely high matches to one another:

• Patrick Crown and Ann Clancy (my branch) - 2 samples from U.S.
• Brigid Crown and Malachy [Lacky] Travers - 7 samples, 3 from Ireland, 4 from U.S.
• Richard Crown and Kate Mclaniff - one U.S. sample
• Cormac Crown and Kate Foley - no samples yet
• John Crown and Mary Rooney - no samples yet

Even though we've slowly been finding more documentation, the truth is that because of the record destruction in Ireland in 1922, it's very likely that we'll have to rely on DNA samples to supplement the documentation in order to piece together our Crown family. I would like to invite anybody who believes they are descended from any of these branches to please consider contributing to the growing pool of Crown DNA samples.

Meanwhile, the correspondents I've been meeting lately are all connected to Brigid Crown and Lacky Travers, the only line we are trying to track through a female Crown ancestor! Brigid and her husband, Malachy (anglicized to Loughlin) Travers, are thought to have had at least nine children:  three remained in Ireland (Thomas, Lacky Jr., and James), four came to America (three to St. Louis - Patrick, Mary, and Sarah, and one to San Francisco - Richard), and the fate of the remaining two children - Bridget and Ann - remains unknown. All of these recent correspondents have interesting stories and clues to add to the pot as we continue the quest to rediscover the story of the Crown family of County Leitrim (and probably Roscommon before that).