This book has a great deal of information re my ancestors. I’ll go into detail in future posts.
Mobility & Migration East Anglian Founders Of New England 1629-1640 May 20, 2017
Marker – Founders Bridge – Wepawaug River – Milford Connecticut May 8, 2017
This marker is for my 9th Great Grandfather. This is intriguing because I vaguely remember visiting relations named Botsford in the Boston area. I will pursue this further.
More About The Nine Generations Chart May 3, 2017
In reality my 9 Generations Chart has a few gaps in the tree, starting with Generation 7 where there are 10 ancestors missing.
Generation 7 should have 64 ancestors but there are only 54 identified
Generation 1 – Me
Generation 2 – My Parents
Generation 3 – My Grandparents 4 people
Generation 4 – My Great Grandparents 8 people
Generation 5 – My Great Great Grandparents 16 people
Generation 6 – My 3X Great Grandparents 32 people
Generation 7 – My 4X Great Grandparents 64 people
Generation 8 – My 5X Great Grandparents 128 people
Generation 9 – My 6X Great Grandparents 256 people
Ideally there should be 511 people on the tree
I searched again for the missing parents of Agnes Lee. Agnes Lee is in Generation 6. No luck in finding her missing parents in Generation 7. So that means I’m also missing her 4 grandparents and 8 great grandparents in generations 8 and 9. Things compound rapidly.
Nine Generations May 2, 2017
Family members are so impressed with my 9 generations genealogy chart – there is a clamour for more. On I go. Next thing you know the cat will want to be included also.
My Ancestor April 30, 2017
Sir Anthony Browne, 1st Viscount of Montagu, 1528-1592 my 12th Great Grandfather
Midhurst Church – the church of St Mary Magdalene and St Denys, Surrey England
Mary Elizabeth Murdock April 10, 2017
My paternal grandfather Major Charles Dana Miller – this is the man my grandmother Mary Elizabeth Murdock married in 1882. He fought in the Civil War – Mary Elizabeth Murdock was born in 1863. So the man who was to be my grandfather was a soldier fighting in the Civil War when my grandmother was born.
Mary married a man many years her senior. How did this come about? Family rumor has it that she went West in 1880 from Crown Point New York to Mt. Vernon Ohio to look after Charles’s young children after their mother died.
Mary Elizabeth Murdock, 1882 (?)
Charles was born in 1836. So he was 27 years older than Mary. He was a widower with 2 children. They married in Chicago in November 1882.
Questions – how did this sequence of events happen?
Well, Mary went West shortly after her own mother died and also her younger sister. A time of sorrow and upset. Mary had recently graduated from Albany Normal School (State Teachers College) – so she was a qualified teacher.
But my research in ancestry.com reveals that when Charles’ wife died the children were young teens, age 14 and 13, not infants needing a carer. So if she went West to be a carer she would have been more of a housekeeper than a nanny, and possibly a tutor for the children.
And furthermore, there were Murdocks who had previously migrated from Crown Point New York to Mt Vernon Ohio.
A New Angle April 5, 2017
My grandmother’s self-published book of her poems
What does my paternal grandmother’s family tree look like. My paternal grandmother, Mary Elizabeth Murdoch, was born in 1863. The Civil War was raging. She lived to experience 4 more wars in her lifetime, the Spanish American War, World Wars I and II, and the Korean War. She married a Civil War veteran and bore 5 children. She became a widow while the children were still young and at home. She was an educated woman, she loved reading. She wrote poetry. I propose to explore her life in as much as I can from the genealogical records and what few scraps I have of her personal letters and family memories.
My grandmother’s home in Newark Ohio where she raised her children
My grandmother and my father, 1943
My grandmother and me, 1948, in Raleigh North Carolina
My grandmother as a young woman
