Surname List

AldenBaileyBarry
Bentz
Bolen
Coolbaugh
Cornell
Grantier
Hammond
King
Luce
Robinson
Rowan
Terry
Warner
Benjamin

Benham
Browning
Edwards
Hien
Howell
Hughes
Jacobs
Johnson
Lupton
McKenna
Meenan
Mullins
Overton
Petty
Reeve
Ross
Tuthill
Wells
Wilcox
                     ...................and growing.

10 comments:

  1. Hi, Debby. I looked through my ancestry charts (which I haven't touched for way too many years!) and found some distant connections to a few of the names listed above:Robinson (1800's), Terry (1600 and 1700's), King (1600's) and Bailey (1600 and 1700's). I have quite a bit about a lot of the old families of Long Island and Mass. and back to England. All of my work is done on paper since I was getting most of it from my Aunt Lois DeWall back in the '80s (she used to volunteer at the Suffolk Co. Historical Society). Maybe you will inspire me to start transcribing into some kind of database. If you are interested in the little I have or just in corresponding, my e-mail is mellenartist@yahoo.com or I am on facebook. We are already fb friends :) Best wishes, Mary Ellen Davidson

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    1. Thanks Mary Ellen! Hope I did inspire you to at least make digital copies of what you have. I like using Legacy Family Tree for my digital tree. They have a free version you can get started with to see if you like it. My King's (Konig) were originally from Germany so not sure they tie in to the Long Island families.

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  2. I'm the descendant of a William Warner, Ipswich, MA, early 1600s. I've often wondered if the eastern Long Island Warners are of the same family. Very possibly, right?

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    1. At one time we thought we were descended from William but it turns out we are descended from Andrew Warner. Maybe they were brothers or cousins? I haven't worked on that angle. It would be fun to see.

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    2. Debby, my name is Kathy Thomson, Edna and James Hammond are my great grandparents

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  3. As always, you are an inspiration to me and in the past few months I have been working on not only my own genealogy but that of my children's paternal lines, which of course includes your cousin Mike Ryan! Since he knew next to nothing, I have found a lot of info just using on-line sources. I was wondering if you have more than I have found on the King line. So far I have Lillian Charlotte King (1900 - 1936), dau. of George Washington King (1878 - 1959) and Sarah Agnes Rowan (1878 or 79 - 1957); he was son of Lewis (Louis) King (abt. 1842 - abt. 1890) and Sarah Maria Barry (abt. 1852 - 1926). Lewis was son of Theodore King who may have been from Germany and his wife Mary who may have been from Germany or Pennsylvania. That's all I can go back on that line. My thought is that the name "King" may be the Americanization of "Koenig" ? Also that if Germans were frowned upon at certain times in history, they many have said they were from some place like Pennsylvania to explain any accent? I also have Sarah Maria Barry's parents, Ebenezer Barry (1821 - 1901) immigrating from Sweden in 1835, and his wife, Catherine Bolen (1831 - 1891) born in Gibraltar, Spain to John or James and Ann...but is there also a Swedish connection there because I found Jon and Anna (Brita) Bolin and their child Anders Jonssen Bolin in Swedish baptismal records. They are listed on other family trees posted on ancestry but I have not found sources cited that give this information. More question marks! Got answers? (I have more definitive dates on most things but trying to keep this a bit shorter :) Best, Mary Ellen

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    1. Interesting about Ebenezer's parents. I have been working with a Swedish genealogy expert and we haven't found anything there yet. That would make since if Catherine's family was Swedish also. I will try that angle as well and let you know.

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  4. Debby,

    My name is Kathryn Terrezza, John Rowan and Sarah Agnes Hughes are my 4x great-grandparents. I have been reading just about every Rowan blog you have written and it is extremely interesting to read about how the family lived and the different connections, like that mystery with Ann Meenan when she traveled to Philly from Ireland.

    My sister and I recently got my mom an ancestry.com subscription and we have been trying to identify many unnamed family members in our photo album. Is there an email or some way I can send you scanned in copies of our unnamed members and try to make connections?

    Please let me know,

    Kathryn Terrezza

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    1. Thank-you so much Kathryn! So glad to have found someone from your line, since I have been looking for descendants of John and Sarah's other children-Mamie (Mary), Joseph and William. Not sure if I can help with the photos but will try. I am so glad that you found my blog posts interesting and that they inspired you to contact me. This is the best part about blogging. Don't forget to let me know questions you may have and I'll see what I can find out. Now remember to write names to go with the photos you take...for future generations to know the names. Can't wait to see your mother's DNA results.

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