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From: "Joseph C. Dorsey" <jcd622@hal-pc.org>
Subject: Re: [TXREFUGI] Refugio Surnames
Date: Fri, 17 May 2002 21:00:39 -0500
References: <MABBJIOGBBOMMOEELJKPIECMCJAA.renamc@bcni.net>

Feel free to copy the card or letter, whatever it may be. Just be sure and give
Maxine a nickel for using her
xerox machine. :>)
Leonard Raif and I have the same great grandfather on my mother's side, August John
Raif. My grandmother Mary Helen Raif Kmiec was a sister of Leonard's grandfather,
Felix Morrey Raif. How are you related to Leonard, through his mother? This is
REALLY getting to be even a smaller world.






Rena McWilliams wrote:

> Thanks so much for the kind words and thanks so much for saving a part of
> Refugio history by getting the high bid on the post card. How thoughtful of
> you!! I went back and looked several times. It might be an envelope
> instead of a postcard. It would be fun to know who the New York professor
> was. I am sure Maxine will be excited. She does such a wonderful job at
> the museum.
>
> If you don't mind, I think I will copy the scanned image and put it up as a
> new museum acquisition after you have donated it. Let me know when, if that
> is OK with you.
>
> Leonard Raif?? Part of your family?? He is a Doughty descendant.
>
> Have a good day!
>
> Rena
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joseph C. Dorsey [mailto:jcd622@hal-pc.org]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2002 11:20 PM
> To: TXREFUGI-L@rootsweb.com
> Subject: [TXREFUGI] Refugio Surnames
>
> Hi Rena:
>
> I love this site, you have really worked very hard. I really enjoy it.
> I won the bid on the post card on Ebay that was mailed from Refugio in
> the 1800's. I am going to give it to the museum. I will let Maxine
> Reilly decide what to do with it. I just thought that it needed to be
> in Refugio.
>
> I am researching Dorsey (Darcy), Dugas, Linney, Murphy, Toups, Kmiec,
> Raif and several other names. My father's mother, Amanda Eugenia Toups
> married George Edward Dorsey, son of John Dorsey and Mary Moran. John
> and Mary owned the Mission Hotel where HEB is now located on Alamo St.,
> a ranch out towards Beeville, and he was also a teamster, wagoneer,
> farmer and rancher. He and his son Robert Patrick brought the first
> nuns by wagon to Refugio from Indianola just before it was destroyed
> by the hurricane.
>
> Amanda Toups Dorsey's mother was Martha Ann Linney who married Joseph
> Whitney Toups, son of
> Cylidouine Ambroise Toups and Marie Euphemia Dugas. Martha Ann's
> parents were Michael Linney and Elizabeth Weeks.
>
> At one time George Edward and Amanda Dorsey owned the block on Alamo
> where Zorsky Lumber company stands. Zorsky built a house for them.
>
> Two of grandfather George Edward's siblings married into the West
> family, two married a Murphy, one each into the Fox, Malloy and St. John
> families. Some of their children married into those families as well
> as the McGuill and Lambert families.
>
> The Toups clan married into the Scott, Murphey, and Dougherty families.
>
> The marriages among the families in Refugio remind me of the same thing
> in Port Royale, Canada, where the Toups and Dugas ancestors once lived.
> "Everyone is kin to one another" an uncle used to say. I am beginning
> to believe it.
>
> Keep up the good work on this web site.
>
> Joseph in Houston
>
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• [TXREFUGI] Refugio Surnames by "Joseph C. Dorsey" <jcd622@hal-pc.org>
  • RE: [TXREFUGI] Refugio Surnames by "Rena McWilliams" <renamc@bcni.net>

    • Re: [TXREFUGI] Refugio Surnames by "Joseph C. Dorsey" <jcd622@hal-pc.org>

      • RE: [TXREFUGI] Refugio Surnames by "Rena McWilliams" <renamc@bcni.net>