Colleen,d
I don't have any definitive answer for you but I will tell you what I know. I suspect that your Martha may have been a sister to my great grandfather, Francis Little, and my great gramdmother, Margaret Little Redman. You can find Francis and his wife Hannah in the 1851 census of Irleand. They emigrated to the United States in 1873. My grandfather, John Little was not with them and I have not been able to find out when he emigrated. He married his cousin, Nancy Redman,, and my father was one of their children. I have had my DNA done and have some close matches with descendants of Martha Little. I had the following correspondence with one of them. Hope it fits with what you know.
Dorothy Little Kelliher
dlkelliher@aol.com
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Sep 18, 2016
Hi Dorothy,
LITTLE
It looks like your grandparents (John Little and Nancy Agnes Redman) were first cousins of each other and shared Little ancestry and I wonder whether that results in any increase in our cousin closeness?
My great great grandmother was Martha Little and I would love to find out how she connects to your Littles. I do not know the names of her parents, or where and when she was born, however I can strongly presume that she was born in Northern Ireland, somewhere in Antrim.
Martha Little married Charles McCracken who died in around 1851. They had a son John McCracken who died of typhoid in the Crimean War, a son Charles McCracken who was lost at sea, and a daughter Margaret Jane McCracken. After husband Charles McCracken died about 1851, Martha Little married James David, and after he died she married James McAlister, a retired sea captain. I would love to know when she died and where she is buried, and how she connects to your Littles.
Her daughter Margaret Jane McCracken (b. 1847 N.Ireland; d. 1923 Tecumseh, Michigan) was the second wife of Hugh H HANNA (b. 1837 Belfast, N.Ireland; d. 1920 Tecumseh, Michigan).
The first wife of Hugh H Hanna (1847-1920) was Mary Mellon (m. 1857 in Ballymena, Antrim, No. Ireland) and they had four girls and one boy. Two of their daughters married Redman brothers who were the sons of Samuel Redman and Margaret Little (and thus the brothers of your grandmother Agnes Nancy Redman).
Sarah Hanna (1857-1881) married Samuel Redman (1856-1933). No children.
Mary Hanna (1860-1945) married William H. Redman (1851-1908). No children.
When Mary Mellon died in 1879 in New York, Hugh H Hanna married my gg grandmother Margaret Jane McCracken and they had four boys and one girl, including my grandfather who was also named Hugh H Hanna (b. 1884 Geneseo, Livingston, NY; d. 1960 Tecumseh, Lenawee, Michigan).
My grandfather Hugh H Hanna had two daughters whose accounts I manage on ancestrydna and 23andme:
Elisabeth Jo Hanna (my aunt)
Martha Hanna (my mother)
Please write me on my personal email at jocarlson@me.com and I'll share more.
