tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82417761279055083912024-03-13T07:34:45.421-04:00Raeburn Family OdysseyConnecting the Dots of the Raeburn families and related surnames from Ireland to North America.Hollyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16389718449956273241noreply@blogger.comBlogger69125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8241776127905508391.post-79141384694963937312024-02-17T15:11:00.007-05:002024-02-17T15:36:43.025-05:00Simeon D Lillie, brother to my Great-grandmother, Melissa Jane Lillie Raeburn. Simeon D Lillie was born in Lyndon Township, Washtenaw County in 1859 shortly
after his parents Thomas and Anna Lillie settled there from Potter County,
Pennsylvania. While growing up the family moved to Springport, Jackson county
then on to Grand Traverse County.
Simeon continued to live in Grand Traverse County as an adult and farmed on 40
acres of land in section 8 of Blair Township, Hollyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16389718449956273241noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8241776127905508391.post-45094053049440244682014-01-11T11:42:00.001-05:002014-01-11T11:42:31.447-05:00Blogiversary 2014.Well now this is downright embarrassing. Hmmmm....excuses? Hmmm....Life, work....distractions and walking down a different creative path. I have been writing still. My heart still longs to spend some time within my research, but with work and otherwise time consuming ventures, I have been neglectful of genealogy.
For my many genealogy friends that might happen to stumble upon my note here...Hollyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16389718449956273241noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8241776127905508391.post-9470424949239184132013-01-11T23:11:00.001-05:002013-01-11T23:13:59.143-05:00Blogiversary 2013Gosh, it has been four years. Life has taken me a bit away from it all. working full time. I think I said the same thing last year.
I enjoy genealogy, I just need to have more time to be able to do it all. My main goal in the blog in the beginning was trying to connect to any Raeburns out there in the genealogy world. If I got lucky I would catch up with the Ireland Raeburn cousins. So far...Hollyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16389718449956273241noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8241776127905508391.post-15246995464754710132012-08-26T13:49:00.002-04:002012-08-26T13:49:44.029-04:00Saturday Night Genealogy Fun - Ancestor Name Roulette; Playing Games1) What year was one of your great-grandfathers born? Divide this number by 50 and round the number off to a whole number. This is your "roulette number."
2) Use your pedigree charts or your family tree genealogy software program to find the person with that number in your ancestral name list (some people call it an "ahnentafel"). Who is that person, and what are his/her vital information?
3) Hollyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16389718449956273241noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8241776127905508391.post-18672764335683519382012-06-17T11:16:00.000-04:002012-07-04T16:58:50.893-04:00Williams first farm?Williams first farm? C 1851
The agricultural census for Hamilton Twp, Northumberland Co Ontario lists William on page 135 #20.
He is listed next to land holder [Robert] R Weir who has 40 acres on con 2 lot 8. It appears as though the census taker was confused and started to list Wm as holder of the 40 acres....Could R. Weir have sold a small piece of his land to Wm to farm?
Wm Rayborn consHollyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16389718449956273241noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8241776127905508391.post-40541977440153716012012-06-11T17:00:00.000-04:002012-06-10T17:23:37.500-04:00Quebec the first stopWhere in Quebec did the Raeburn's first go? William & Margaret Raeburn's daughter Mary was born in the "Montreal area" c 1844.
Their daughter Margaret Ann was baptised in Chatham, Argenteuil Co Quebec in 1846.
Then there is Margaret Raeburn Livingston b c1786 Ireland.
She married John Livingston in Carrickmacross, Magheross Parish, Monaghan in 1818, close to the proposed townlands of Ireland Hollyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16389718449956273241noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8241776127905508391.post-8407939064936036572012-05-04T22:53:00.000-04:002012-08-18T10:02:43.381-04:00Reflections of the Captain
Friday sadly was my daughter in law’s father’s funeral. She and her family lost their rock, a much loved and cherished man. Ray was a resident of our small community all of his life, and was well known all around by all. He was a good man, and raised a family of five with his wife JoAnn of forty years. I watched Ray’s grandson, Torin [also my grandson of course] on Friday while they paid their Hollyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16389718449956273241noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8241776127905508391.post-79719802055925188572012-04-14T00:48:00.008-04:002012-04-14T11:27:55.333-04:00Ethel, Ernie & the TitanicEthel and Ernie were just a few months away from getting married. The anticipation and excitement was in the air, the dress, the church, the dream of a life beginning. This was certainly a consuming vision in any bride’s dreams. Ernie would have to take time away from his job for the wedding, as he worked a bit far from their soon to be home in the Soo. They were to be married in St. Luke’s Hollyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16389718449956273241noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8241776127905508391.post-8764997745624188102011-10-22T12:42:00.002-04:002012-05-15T23:05:48.095-04:00Time Machine Poetry! (oh yea-I write poetry)
I want to see what you see…
My magic carpet goes back in time
As the future will be told
Our history books in libraries abound
The prime destinations to behold
Now if I was driving, I’d take the back roads
to all of the places that little is known
Maybe I’ll stick close to residence-
No wish to be stuck
In some- medieval dominance
But the roaring twenties,
Ultimately destination one
My Hollyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16389718449956273241noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8241776127905508391.post-54500676459947704612011-07-24T10:07:00.008-04:002011-07-24T20:14:44.778-04:00SNGF- Write a Poem on "Where I'm From"After a rather long leave of absence Randy @ genea-musings has prompted me to try writing a poem on 'where I come from' from a specific format, well here's a shot at it....Where I'm FromI am from a small town lifeFrom dolls to outdoors gamesWith Prang, Bazooka and Dairy QueenAmong some other names.I lived within the sand from the bayClimbed maples everydayThe smell of the lilacs along the Hollyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16389718449956273241noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8241776127905508391.post-58966115982292601462011-02-18T16:44:00.000-05:002011-02-18T16:45:14.360-05:0052 Weeks of Personal Genealogy & History: Weeks 7, 6, 5 and 4Week #4 – Home Week 4: The house I grew up in…..gave me many happy memories. It seems as though everyone was all together, even when we weren’t. My dad built the house on 17th Street on the base of the hill, with a friend just before I was born. It first had gray wood siding then later it was yellow. It will always be the home in my heart. It was I suppose a typical ranch house, with three Hollyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16389718449956273241noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8241776127905508391.post-59185939414360927212011-01-30T10:19:00.001-05:002011-02-18T16:45:14.366-05:00SNGF-Early Sunday Morning....I receive Randy's emails in the Morning and well....I was out last night so-
GOOD MORNING ALL!
Saturday Night Genealogy Fun - The Date You Were Born-*Randy says-
It's Saturday Night - time for more Genealogy Fun!
Youir mission, should you decide to accept it, is to:
1) What day of the week were you born? Tell us how you found out.
2) What has happened in recorded history on your birth date (Hollyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16389718449956273241noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8241776127905508391.post-31547868533786866952011-01-23T20:10:00.003-05:002011-01-23T21:12:21.598-05:0052 WEEKS OF PERSONAL GENEALOGY AND HISTORYI just spotted this exercise from Amy Coffin of the We Tree blog, I am three weeks behind so I have some catching up to do, lets see if I can keep up-WEEK #1 NEW YEARS TRADITIONS: As a child the memories start with bringing in the new year. Not a lot of fanfare. We would watch the ball drop with Dick Clark for as long as I can remember…I don’t know who would have MC’d it before him….because Hollyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16389718449956273241noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8241776127905508391.post-8339466594887737852011-01-23T12:03:00.003-05:002011-01-23T12:05:19.295-05:00ON BLOGGINGMy hat’s off to those who can keep up with all of the blogging. It is time consuming…and even when a joy, still a lot of work. I dropped off a couple of months ago, wondering why I didn’t get response, comments etc. It is hard to want to keep up if nobody is reading. The thing is, I just don’t have the time to devote as much as I would like. Then other new ventures have come into play…poetryHollyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16389718449956273241noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8241776127905508391.post-39245648158761921592010-10-17T11:02:00.003-04:002010-10-17T11:16:07.333-04:00Saturday Night Genealogy Fun...Who's to Blame?Good MORNING Sunday-From Randy At Genea-Musings:Hey geneaphiles - it's Saturday Night, time for more Genealogy Fun for all Genea-Musing readers.Your mission, should you decide to accept it (and we need more of you to do this, otherwise it may end...), is to:1) Read Brenda Joyce Jerome's post Who or What Do You Blame? on the Western Kentucky Genealogy blog. She asks these questions:* Can you Hollyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16389718449956273241noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8241776127905508391.post-25265348200604434852010-10-17T06:00:00.000-04:002010-10-17T06:00:03.610-04:00This Week in Family History-October 17-23October 17 & 18 were uneventful days for my ancestors. Really? Nothing? It looks that way.October 19- 358 years ago in 1652, John Carpenter was born in Rehoboth, Massachusetts. His parents; William Carpenter from England and Priscilla Bennett. John married Rebecca Readway.He is my 7th great grandfather, on my father’s maternal side. I haven’t ventured this far back yet in getting Hollyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16389718449956273241noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8241776127905508391.post-44963279787090091842010-10-10T09:47:00.002-04:002010-10-10T10:07:13.123-04:00This Week in Family History-October 10-16October 10 there seems to be no family activity brewing-a quiet day.October 11- 113 years ago Ross Lynn Wheeler was born in Seney, Michigan to parents Ross Wheeler and Elizabeth McCarthy. Ross Lynn Wheeler is my first cousin, 2 times removed and our common ancestors are James and Matilda Wheeler on my dad’s maternal side. This family moved from Seney to Minnesota sometime after 1900Hollyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16389718449956273241noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8241776127905508391.post-45432279659166262482010-10-03T06:00:00.000-04:002010-10-03T06:00:00.178-04:00This Week in Family History-October 3-9October 3: Elizabeth Baxter, the wife of Enos Sylvester Carpenter- is born October 3, 1880. The couple was married in Parry Sound Ontario in 1896. Enos later moves to Saskatchewan and is buried there, in Prince Albert. It is not know (by me) at this time if Elizabeth is also buried there. Enos is the brother of my great grandmother [Zilphie Elizabeth].My wonderful, beautiful mother Hollyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16389718449956273241noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8241776127905508391.post-34405124196599661762010-09-26T06:00:00.001-04:002010-09-26T06:00:00.462-04:00This Week in Family History-September 26- October 2September 26 : Augusta Jane Scott was born on September 26, 1877 in Nottawasaga Twp., Simcoe County Ontario. She is the daughter of John Scott and Jane Raeburn. She lived 21 years. She is buried in Victoria Lawn Cemetery in St. Catharines, Lincoln Co. Ontario. Augusta Jane Scott is my 1st cousin twice removed.September 27 : Julia Miranda Carpenter was born on September Hollyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16389718449956273241noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8241776127905508391.post-72489612714458504992010-09-19T06:00:00.003-04:002010-09-19T06:00:01.605-04:00This Week, September 19-25And for this week in the family history-September 21, 1860: Eustalia Shier nee ??? is born. She is sooooo not related to me but is in my database as the wife of George Shier. George’s MOTHER is Mary Jane Wheeler-Shier who’s common ancestor to me is her parents; Calvin Wheeler and Elizabeth Carscallen. The family lived in Lennox and Addington County Ontario. This makes Mary Jane my “second Hollyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16389718449956273241noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8241776127905508391.post-83233881216021647112010-09-12T11:13:00.005-04:002010-09-12T12:57:56.884-04:00The Case of Harry, part 2Well in my last post about Harry Spencer I had two photos of the man. Maybe.It has been suggested by family members that the photo of the old man is Harry.Brenda suggested flipping the photo and putting them side by side. I still am not sure this is Harry.....wouldn't "Harry" the old man have the same receding hair line?What do you think? Click on image for larger viewHollyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16389718449956273241noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8241776127905508391.post-52422742955734973712010-09-12T06:00:00.002-04:002010-09-12T06:00:03.279-04:00This Week...September 12-18This week in the family history, September 12-18th:September 12, 1826: Priscilla Phelps is born to parents Basil and Phoebe Phelps in Pennsylvania. She married Henry Youker, who is my 2nd great grandmothers brother. Henry and Priscilla move their family from Potter County, Pennsylvania to Grand Traverse County, Michigan along with oodles of relatives and friends around 1866. Priscilla is not Hollyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16389718449956273241noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8241776127905508391.post-15558899953477312862010-09-07T19:39:00.007-04:002010-09-07T20:56:32.566-04:00President William McKinley Shot!!The Sault News-Record September 7, 1901Sault Saint Marie, MichiganIda McKinley Wheeler Ida McKinley Wheeler was born July 10, 1896 to parents James Byard Wheeler and Zilphie Elizabeth Carpenter Wheeler in Seney, Schoolcraft County Michigan.Ida’s unique name came from her very Republican, very politically involved father, James. He named her after First Lady Ida McKinley, the wife of President Hollyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16389718449956273241noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8241776127905508391.post-89483331656057705402010-09-06T06:00:00.000-04:002010-09-06T06:00:03.842-04:00This Week...Thanks to Linda @ Documenting the Details for coming up with a great idea to share. It is a good idea, it keeps the mind working! I see what more needs to be done, what more intrigues me....so here is my first attempt at "This Week in the Family History"September 5-11September 6, 1806- Reuben Neely is born in Bath, Lennox and Addington County Ontario, his parents are John Neely and Elizabeth Hollyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16389718449956273241noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8241776127905508391.post-15520987434667906722010-09-05T10:20:00.013-04:002010-09-05T10:54:13.423-04:00The Case of HarryThe Spencer side of life is so much more co-operative than my Raeburn’s. My husband’s ancestors are ‘on the grid’, easy to find... even when they are not. Case in point Harry Spencer, the brother of Paul’s 2nd great-grandfather.How wonderful it is to have heirlooms. I don’t see many photos, jewelry, furniture or even family information passed down in our family, neither my mother or fathers Hollyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16389718449956273241noreply@blogger.com1