Ken Snyder writes:
My great-grandfather was a Javins. I don't know his first name but one of his daughter, Clyde, (yes, daughter!) was my grandmother. He was a rag-picker in around the coal camps of McDowell County WV. That's all I know except he was supposed to have been a real character and may have been born overseas as I recollect vaguely that he spoke with an accent.
My grandmother married Bill Vannoy. I had somehow assumed Javins, like my grandfather was of Dutch ancestry. I had always heard, included in the nationality ancestry, Scotch-Irish and I'm sure my great-grandfather Javins is the origin of this ancestry.
The Vannoys were originally Vannoise (sp?), French Hugeunots who left France for the Netherlands to escape religious persecution, there to become Vannoys. I think they then went to Scotland to help William of Orange take Ireland from the Irish before coming over here.
I love genealogy as you can tell, and wanted to give you another Javins out of the woodwork.
Regards, Ken Snyder
