Re: Frank Shelly, Ft. Worth,TX
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Re: Frank Shelly, Ft. Worth,TX
10/21/00
Yes, they certainly do!I believe the family was in both Ireland and England. But I am just beginning research on several family lines .... and I have no older Shelly family left to inquire further.The last generation all died in their early 50s in the 1980s and 1990s and they had little interest in genealogy.I should have asked the generation before them (Frank Shelly's son) years ago, when he was still alive.I don't know if greatgrandfather Frank Shelly emigrated directly to Texas in the 1890s, from England or Ireland, or if his family was in the United States for many generations before that.I believe he was an only child .... and begat an only child in 1902 in Ft. Worth, Texas.He worked for the U.S. post office and married Elizabeth Daly.But the family always said the Shelly line was English and Irish.If you have any information to share, I'd be deeply grateful.