Week 42. You know what that means… Only 10 more weeks to go! We can do it!
My ancestor this past week was my great-grandfather Edward Winfield Starkey. Where did that middle name come from?
There were lots of great posts in Week 41. Be sure to check those out. For this week’s posts, leave the link(s) in the comment below.
QUINN – Darby Quinn
http://jollettetc.blogspot.com/2014/10/52-ancestors-42-darby-quinn.html
BECTON: Charles Becton
http://howdidigetherefromafricatonc.blogspot.com/2014/10/52-ancestors-in-52-weeks-week-42.html
AMY McTEAR : My birth mother believes Amy would not have allowed me to be put up for adoption …… she died before that decision was made and my life, which hadn’t started, changed.
http://branchesofmytree.weebly.com/52-week-challenge/amy-a-grandmother-who-could-have-changed-my-life
ROOP – 52 Ancestors: #42 James ROOP 1808-1890 – Found on 8 Consecutive Censuses! by Cathy Meder-Dempsey at Opening Doors in Brick Walls
http://openingdoorsinbrickwalls.wordpress.com/2014/10/20/52-ancestors-42-james-roop-1808-1890-found-on-8-consecutive-censuses/
HALLIDAY Thomas 1st of the 2nd Royal Manx Fencibles,
http://starryblackness.wordpress.com/2014/10/15/thomas-halliday-1st/
Harry Langhorne Houchins, Blind, Extraordinary Banjo Player! 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks #42
http://heart2heartstories.com/2014/10/22/harry-langhorne-houchins-blind-extraordinary-banjo-player-52-ancestors-in-52-weeks-42/
Watson Deralsy LASHBROOK
http://www.reflectionsfromthefence.blogspot.com/2014/10/sundays-stories-52-ancestor-weeks-week_19.html
The post comes with two fun newspaper advertisements from 1891.
KIMMEL — “Jacob Kimmel, the Oldest Voter in Kearney, Nebraska” on Green Family Archives
http://greenfamilyarchives.blogspot.com/2014/10/52-ancestors-41-jacob-kimmel-oldest.html
BILLINGSLEY, Thomas 1782-1850’s http://bit.ly/1shedmv
Am I barking up the wrong tree?
#35–Chester Ingersoll Richards and William Fisher Richards–Where Did You Get Those Middle Names?
http://ancestorsiwishiknew.blogspot.com/
ANZICK – Anzick (12,707-12,556), Ancient One, 52 Ancestors #42
http://dna-explained.com/2014/10/18/anzick-12707-12556-ancient-one-52-ancestors-42/
TW Blanchard had a long and distinguished service in the Civil War. Afterwards, he migrated to Boulder, Colorado to become a miner in 1880!
http://ourfamilytreetales.blogspot.com/2014/07/52-ancestors-week-28-timothy-walton.html
SCHNEIDER – #42 John Schneider
http://so-many-ancestors.blogspot.com/2014/10/52-ancestors-42-john-schneider.html
WATERMAN, Jerusha – 52 Ancestors: #42 ~ Jerusha Waterman – Daughter of a Revolutionary War Surgeon
http://janasgenealogyandfamilyhistory.blogspot.com/2014/10/52-ancestors-42-jerusha-waterman.html
Still behind but plugging along
McLEAN, Ann McLean O’Brian #40 (1830-1902) Born in Strathdearn, Inverness-shire, Scotland, Immigrated to Canada, then USA (Michigan)
Forgot to add the link above, was distracted, sorry.
Still behind but plugging along
McLEAN, Ann McLean O’Brian #40 (1830-1902) Born in Strathdearn, Inverness-shire, Scotland, Immigrated to Canada, then USA (Michigan) http://jahcmft.blogspot.com/2014/10/52-ancestors-40-ann-mclean-obrian-1830.html
Doctor or Gold Digger?
RICE, William Reid (1826-1890)
http://tangledrootsandtrees.blogspot.com/2014/10/52-ancestors-42-doctor-or-gold-digger.html
His father-in-law left one of the wildest wills I’ve ever read.
COLE – #42 Valentin Cole, Catholic convert
http://yvonnesgenealogyblog.blogspot.ca/2014/10/52-ancestors-42-valentin-cole-catholic.html
WITTMiS (WITTMÜTZ), Dorothea, all her children gone.
http://vorfahrensucher.de/dorothea-wittmuetz/
BASSETT, William
http://ancestorsinaprons.com/2014/10/william-l-bassett-william-bassett-jr/
Leading up to Thanksgiving, I am telling the stories of the descendents of my Pilgrim ancestor, the first William Bassett to arrive in North America. The family is full of Williams and this week I did #42 and #43, both William Bassetts, one with a propensity to marry MUCH younger women. (I doubled up so that Halloween week, I can tell a ghost story. Oooooo.)
GEORGE – #42 – Rosetta George (1871-1920) The Mother of Gems
http://frommymaterialstash.blogspot.com/2014/10/52-ancestors-42-rosetta-george-mother.html
52 Weeks, 52 Ancestors: #42
DEVINE, ROBERT Sr., my maternal 3rd great-grandfather
http://karenskin.com
FRATODDI, Giuseppe of Italy http://rootsbranchesandnuts.blogspot.com/2014/10/giuseppe-fratoddi-of-italy-52ancestors.html
WILLIAM PINKNEY TURNER: Week 42
http://jinsalacoblog.wordpress.com/2014/10/21/week-42-october-11-2014-52-ancestor-52-week-blog-william-pinkney-turner-and-laura-a-gooch/
Nachtigall – August F. http://carlsonandcarricofamilyhistory.blogspot.com/2014/10/52-ancestors-week-42-august-f-nachtigall.html?spref=fb
EVERETT, Nathaniel -Nathaniel Everett II served in North Carolina militia http://www.examiner.com/article/ancestor-42-nathaniel-everett-ii-served-north-carolina-militia
FRICKER, Theresa/Tarasy, 1760-1821, from Wurttemberg to Pennsylvania, m. John I. KUHN
http://twigsandtrees.blogspot.ca/2014/10/52-ancestors-in-52-weeks-no-42-theresa.html
BRINKER, Jacob – Post # 42 Innkeeper, Sheriff, Councilman, Colonel of Butler, PA 1796-1853
http://pastremains.blogspot.com/2014/10/52-ancestors-post-42-jacob-brinker.html
BABB, Philip – Pirate and Ghost or Upstanding Citizen? http://mymaineancestry.blogspot.com/2014/10/52-ancestors-42-butcher-pirate-and.html
MCGOWAN, James Joseph- Murder in the Family- James Joseph McGowan 1875-1940 http://bit.ly/1FNfcp9
WALTERS, Ephraim Sr. http://branchingoutfamily.wordpress.com/2014/10/22/26-ephraim-walters-sr-52-ancesters/
HARLLEE, David Stuart http://branchingoutfamily.wordpress.com/2014/10/22/25-david-stuart-harllee/
GUNTHER – 52 Ancestors: #42 Eva Meisberger Kestener Gunther (1861 – 1941) by Eileen Souza at Old Bones Genealogy
http://www.oldbonesgenealogy.com/52-ancestors-42-eva-meisberger-kestener-gunther-1861-1941/
KORNMEYER, Philipp
http://putnamsisters.wordpress.com/2014/10/23/52-ancestors-34-philipp-kornmeyer
BRAID (nee HENRY) Joanna pioneer farm woman from Manitoba, Canada. http://ssimms64.blogspot.ca/2014/10/week-42-joanna-henry-braid.html
Emaline Eliza (BROOKS) TAGUE: Struck By a Railroad Car in 1912
http://digginupgraves.wordpress.com/2014/10/26/emaline-eliza-brooks-tague-struck-by-a-railroad-car-in-1912-52-ancestors/
Hannah CARRIGAN CLARK of Adams County, Ohio – Ancestor #37
http://denisedigsroots.blogspot.com/2014/10/hannah-carrigan-clark-of-adams-county.html
CAPPER, Walter William (1772-1834) 52 Ancestors No 42
http://connectingthefamily.blogspot.com.au/2014/07/52-ancestors-42-walter-william-capper.html
I am lagging behind in my 52 Ancestors Challenge posts. Even considered quitting! But I’ve decided to keep it up since those I have been able to produce led me to good places. So I’ll begin with getting my links posted for a few more:
KUHN, Otillia “Tillie” Catherine, I Wonder What Tillie Thought About Her Right To Vote http://www.indianaties.com/2014/08/i-wonder-what-tillie-thought-about-her.html
Another 52 Ancestors post from http://www.indianaties.com:
NIEHAUS, Gerald John: An Alien Enemy?
http://www.indianaties.com/2014/09/gerald-john-niehaus-alien-enemy-52.html
Rufus Holton Darling (1816-1857)
From Rome, Oneida County, New York.
Moved to Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo County, Michigan in 1840.
Married Elizabeth Jane Swayze Wiseman in 1846.
Died Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo County, Michigan 1857.
http://dtaylorgenealogy.blogspot.com/2014/10/rufus-holton-darling-1816-1857.html
HERRELL, HARRELL, HARROLD, HERROLD – Margaret Herrell (c1810-1892), Twice Widowed Church Founder, 52 Ancestors #43
http://dna-explained.com/2014/10/26/margaret-herrell-c1810-1892-twice-widowed-church-founder-52-ancestors-43/
George Washington White
http://findingyourpast.blogspot.com/2014/10/52-ancestors-in-52-weeks-week-2-george.html
#41 Henry Ross (1838 – 1890) : This week I am looking at where the name ‘Ross’ originated in my tree and considering why it has been used as a middle name right up to the current generation.
http://branchesofmytree.weebly.com/52-week-challenge/w41-which-ross-was-my-dad-named-after
WASHBURN – #42, John Washburn, Plymouth Colonist
http://pinetreesandpedigrees.blogspot.com/2014/10/52-ancestors-42-john-washburn-plymouth.html
Hmm, looks like I forgot to post a link for #41 last week! Better late than never…
WOODWARD – #41, Nathaniel Woodward Sr. and Jr., Father and Son Carpenters
http://pinetreesandpedigrees.blogspot.com/2014/10/52-ancestors-41-nathaniel-woodward-sr.html
DEGRANDIS, GIACOMO
Venetian, Austrian, Italian?
http://11illehc.wordpress.com/2014/10/28/52-ancestors-in-52-weeks-week-15-giacomo-degrandis/
Neuhütl, George E. – Mysterious Grandpa #41
http://kessgen.wordpress.com/2014/10/29/52-ancestors-41-george-e-neuhutl-mysterious-grandpa/
SMITH, ELECTRA BURNETTE – #5
http://denise-livinginthepast.blogspot.com/2014/10/52-ancestors-5-electra-burnette-smith.html