My name is Darren Chess. My line of the family settled in Mercer County, PA. My branch comes through Ambrose Chess. My oldest known relative is a Samuel Chess who was born around 1801 with an origination in Ireland. He had a son, John Chess who married Elizabeth Roberts and is listed as having 4 children.
 There are also people with the name McCracken in my history and they also are common to that part of Pennsylvania.
 What I would love to know is if anyone knows anything about where Samuel Chess(1801) came from. The census claims Ireland but no Chess names are found there or England. Does anyone know its roots?