Who's good at tracking obscure details?

[Jim Garrett]

I've been digging around the Edward Fitzgerald side of your question. The best I can determine is that Edward may have grown up on a family farm, Locust Grove. In that case, he may have also been related to another old Montgomery county family, the Magruders. Locust Grove has been preserved (house only) By park and planning and is adjacent to Montgomery Mall on Lakeside Terrace.

I think the Thomas Jones connection may be an embellishment.

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Correction.....Edward Fitzgerald was born on Glenmary farm near Rockville, not far from Locust Grove. Will try to pinpoint where Glenmary my have once stood.