September 26- October 2
September 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 27, 1875 in Parry Sound Ontario. She is the daughter of Amos Carpenter and Mary Ann Cliffe, and my great grandmother Zilphie Elizabeth’s sister. Julia came to the U.S. around 1895, living in Minnesota for quite some time. Later living in South Dakota. She married William Hickok.....oh but not “Wild Bill” !!
October 1st : Warner Cornell and Josephine Derry are married in Port Huron Michigan on October 1, 1895. Warner and Josephine made Port Huron their home, where Warner was an ENT physician. Warner is my great grand uncle, brother of my great grand father Webster Cornell. Many members of the Cornell family came to Michigan from Wentworth County, Ontario.
September 26, 2010
September 19, 2010
This Week, September 19-25
And 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 great grand aunt”.
September 22, 1892: Willis Berkey is born in St. Joseph County, Indiana. Again another totally not related person in my database, however he is the husband of my great-grandmother’s sister...Nettie Alberta Carpenter. Willis and Nettie were married in Miles City, Montana in 1932 and have two know children; Donald Lee Berkey and Ruby Berkey. Nettie grew up in Parry Sound, Ontario with my great-grandmother Zilphie Elizabeth Carpenter-Wheeler. My Dad’s side.
September 23, 1853: James Allen McLean Wheeler is born in Sheffield Twp, Lennox and Addington County Ontario. His parents are John Edward Wheeler and Mary G. Berry. James married Emma G. Sommerville. Our common ancestors are Calvin Wheeler and Elizabeth Carscallen, making him my 1st cousin 3 times removed.....well at least he’s–RELATED!
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 great grand aunt”.
September 22, 1892: Willis Berkey is born in St. Joseph County, Indiana. Again another totally not related person in my database, however he is the husband of my great-grandmother’s sister...Nettie Alberta Carpenter. Willis and Nettie were married in Miles City, Montana in 1932 and have two know children; Donald Lee Berkey and Ruby Berkey. Nettie grew up in Parry Sound, Ontario with my great-grandmother Zilphie Elizabeth Carpenter-Wheeler. My Dad’s side.
September 23, 1853: James Allen McLean Wheeler is born in Sheffield Twp, Lennox and Addington County Ontario. His parents are John Edward Wheeler and Mary G. Berry. James married Emma G. Sommerville. Our common ancestors are Calvin Wheeler and Elizabeth Carscallen, making him my 1st cousin 3 times removed.....well at least he’s–RELATED!
September 12, 2010
The Case of Harry, part 2
Well 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 view
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 view
This Week...September 12-18
This 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 related to me.
September 14, 1743-49: George Gorton is born to Benjamin Gorton and Mercy Foster in West Greenwich Rhode Island. He married Lydia Aylesworth.
George and Lydia move to Henrietta, New York and are buried in the Bushman Cemetery in Henrietta. George Gorton is my 5th great grandfather.
September 17, 1847: Ann Eliza Youker is born in Potter County, Pennsylvania to Henry Youker and Priscilla Phelps. She married Laverne O. Sackett in Potter County around 1864 and they later moved to Grand Traverse County c 1866. Ann Eliza Youker is my first cousin 3 times removed and our common ancestors are Johann George Youker and Catherien Margaret Burkdorff. My dad’s line.
September 18, 1866: John Scott and Jane Raeburn are married in Nottawasaga Twp, Simcoe County Ontario. John moved the family to St. Catharines, Grantham Twp Lincoln County Ontario and is a fruit farmer in the area. He remarried after Jane died.
John is not related to me directly, Jane is my great grand aunt, our common ancestors of course, a common theme, are William and Margaret Raeburn. Paternal line.
Also this "week" in history:
Lewis and Clark Journal September 12-18, 1805
Today in History: September 13, Library of Congress Archives
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 related to me.
September 14, 1743-49: George Gorton is born to Benjamin Gorton and Mercy Foster in West Greenwich Rhode Island. He married Lydia Aylesworth.
George and Lydia move to Henrietta, New York and are buried in the Bushman Cemetery in Henrietta. George Gorton is my 5th great grandfather.
September 17, 1847: Ann Eliza Youker is born in Potter County, Pennsylvania to Henry Youker and Priscilla Phelps. She married Laverne O. Sackett in Potter County around 1864 and they later moved to Grand Traverse County c 1866. Ann Eliza Youker is my first cousin 3 times removed and our common ancestors are Johann George Youker and Catherien Margaret Burkdorff. My dad’s line.
September 18, 1866: John Scott and Jane Raeburn are married in Nottawasaga Twp, Simcoe County Ontario. John moved the family to St. Catharines, Grantham Twp Lincoln County Ontario and is a fruit farmer in the area. He remarried after Jane died.
John is not related to me directly, Jane is my great grand aunt, our common ancestors of course, a common theme, are William and Margaret Raeburn. Paternal line.
Also this "week" in history:
Lewis and Clark Journal September 12-18, 1805
Today in History: September 13, Library of Congress Archives
September 7, 2010
President William McKinley Shot!!
The Sault News-Record September 7, 1901
Sault Saint Marie, Michigan
Ida 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 William McKinley who served as the 25th President of the United States from 1897 to 1901. She was born the year of William McKinley’s presidential campaign and election. Her father James was a strong supporter of William McKinley...Well I guess so!
Ida’s family spent a brief residence in Alger County before moving to Sault Saint Marie Michigan circa early 1900's. I do not know much about Ida’s life. At some point she made it to Chicago along with her sisters Marjorie and Ethel.(my grandmother) Marjorie was married and lived in Chicago, Ethel came back to the Soo after a few years and married there.
Ida married William C. Panter sometime about 1925 probably in Chicago, the couple never had any children. I heard some vague story that Ida's husband had worked for Al Capone, but how would anyone ever find that out! Ida's husband William died in Chicago July 10, 1955, and Ida continued to live in Chicago. She died September 28, 1971 in Chicago and is buried in Sault Saint Marie, Michigan in the Pinegrove Cemetery with her sister Ethel Raeburn’s family.
I would love to find out more about Ida's life in Chicago.
President William McKinley was shot on September 6, 1901 and later died from the wounds inflicted by the assassin on September 14, 1901.
Newspaper source- subscription: NewspaperARCHIVE.COM
Ida's photo, family collection.
Sault Saint Marie, Michigan
Ida 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 William McKinley who served as the 25th President of the United States from 1897 to 1901. She was born the year of William McKinley’s presidential campaign and election. Her father James was a strong supporter of William McKinley...Well I guess so! Ida’s family spent a brief residence in Alger County before moving to Sault Saint Marie Michigan circa early 1900's. I do not know much about Ida’s life. At some point she made it to Chicago along with her sisters Marjorie and Ethel.(my grandmother) Marjorie was married and lived in Chicago, Ethel came back to the Soo after a few years and married there.
Ida married William C. Panter sometime about 1925 probably in Chicago, the couple never had any children. I heard some vague story that Ida's husband had worked for Al Capone, but how would anyone ever find that out! Ida's husband William died in Chicago July 10, 1955, and Ida continued to live in Chicago. She died September 28, 1971 in Chicago and is buried in Sault Saint Marie, Michigan in the Pinegrove Cemetery with her sister Ethel Raeburn’s family.
I would love to find out more about Ida's life in Chicago.
President William McKinley was shot on September 6, 1901 and later died from the wounds inflicted by the assassin on September 14, 1901.
Newspaper source- subscription: NewspaperARCHIVE.COM
Ida's photo, family collection.
September 6, 2010
This 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 5-11
September 6, 1806- Reuben Neely is born in Bath, Lennox and Addington County Ontario, his parents are John Neely and Elizabeth Carscallen. Reuben is my 2nd great grand uncle, and our common ancestor is his mother Elizabeth, my 3rd great grandmother.
September 7, 1832- James Creighton is born in Coburg Ontario to John Creighton and mother with an unknown name for now. James is married Eliza Raeburn, my great grand aunt. Common ancestors are William Raeburn and Margaret McCormick, my 2nd great grand parents.
September 11, 1901- Norman McDonald Stewart is born to parents William Henry Stewart and Janet McDonald in Badjeros, Osprey Twp, Grey County Ontario. Norman is my second cousin, once removed. Our common ancestors again are William and Margaret McCormick Raeburn.
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Last week was better, but I didn't get it on in a timely manner, here it is anyway!
August 29th to September 4th:
August 29, 1829- Gorham H. Gorton is born in Henrietta, Monroe County NY to parents William H. Gorton and Electa Hitchcock. He is my 2nd great grand uncle, mom’s side.
August 30, 1865- George Morgan Sackett was born in Pennsylvania to Laverne O. Sackett and Ann Eliza Youker. Tragically George died two years after he was born. George would be my 2nd cousin twice removed. Our common ancestors are Johann George Youker and Catherien Margaret Burkdorff, my 3rd great grandparents.
August 30, 1801 Orpha W.B. Carpenter is born in Keene, Cheshire, New Hampshire. Her parents are Stephen Carpenter and Zilpha Wilbur. Orpha married Hershey Estus, they later move to East Troy Wisconsin. She is my 3rd great grand aunt!
September 2, 1921- George Patterson and Ellen Grace Sinclair are married in Louth Township, Lincoln County, Ontario. Ellen Grace Sinclair is my 1st cousin twice removed..Grandpa Raeburn’s first cousin. Our common ancestors are William Raeburn and Margaret McCormick.
September 3, 1829- Emily H. Ketchum is born in New York to parents Ebenezer Ketchum and Maria Thompson. She married John S. Gorton. Emily is my second great-grandmother.
September 5-11
September 6, 1806- Reuben Neely is born in Bath, Lennox and Addington County Ontario, his parents are John Neely and Elizabeth Carscallen. Reuben is my 2nd great grand uncle, and our common ancestor is his mother Elizabeth, my 3rd great grandmother.
September 7, 1832- James Creighton is born in Coburg Ontario to John Creighton and mother with an unknown name for now. James is married Eliza Raeburn, my great grand aunt. Common ancestors are William Raeburn and Margaret McCormick, my 2nd great grand parents.
September 11, 1901- Norman McDonald Stewart is born to parents William Henry Stewart and Janet McDonald in Badjeros, Osprey Twp, Grey County Ontario. Norman is my second cousin, once removed. Our common ancestors again are William and Margaret McCormick Raeburn.
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Last week was better, but I didn't get it on in a timely manner, here it is anyway!
August 29th to September 4th:
August 29, 1829- Gorham H. Gorton is born in Henrietta, Monroe County NY to parents William H. Gorton and Electa Hitchcock. He is my 2nd great grand uncle, mom’s side.
August 30, 1865- George Morgan Sackett was born in Pennsylvania to Laverne O. Sackett and Ann Eliza Youker. Tragically George died two years after he was born. George would be my 2nd cousin twice removed. Our common ancestors are Johann George Youker and Catherien Margaret Burkdorff, my 3rd great grandparents.
August 30, 1801 Orpha W.B. Carpenter is born in Keene, Cheshire, New Hampshire. Her parents are Stephen Carpenter and Zilpha Wilbur. Orpha married Hershey Estus, they later move to East Troy Wisconsin. She is my 3rd great grand aunt!
September 2, 1921- George Patterson and Ellen Grace Sinclair are married in Louth Township, Lincoln County, Ontario. Ellen Grace Sinclair is my 1st cousin twice removed..Grandpa Raeburn’s first cousin. Our common ancestors are William Raeburn and Margaret McCormick.
September 3, 1829- Emily H. Ketchum is born in New York to parents Ebenezer Ketchum and Maria Thompson. She married John S. Gorton. Emily is my second great-grandmother.
September 5, 2010
The Case of Harry
The 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 side. My husband’s family is rich in history both oral and photos, and even some furniture. I have been lucky enough to become friends with a neighbor who is a Spencer. Through the years she has shared the family information and photos to copy that she has...which is an entire bedroom dedicated to family history! Two chest of drawers filled with old family photos and info. She even has a piece of furniture Paul’s great-grandfather made. Wow, I feel like a kid in toyland when I go to her house!
We talked about Harry, the brother she knew a little bit about, but he was hiding out there and waiting for someone to find him. She knew he married and had a daughter who was exposed to a disease and died young. She had some photos of Harry and his daughter. I picked up where she left off and I went investigating. Some information I found with old fashion leg work, but not everything, his elusive family was still missing. Never give up...a few years ago we were looking for a needle in a haystack. Today more internet information, and waaa laaa, There you are Harry-your marriage and your family!
The sons of John and Lucinda Spencer.
John and Lucinda Spencer lived in Brownville, Jefferson County New York in the early 1800's surrounded by a large family. The had five sons, their first child John died in infancy. One year later in 1836 Medad was born, he is Paul’s 2nd great-grandfather. Then Nelson in 1839, then I suspect John L Spencer was born to them in 1841 (more on that later). Last child born was Harry P. Spencer in 1842.
John the father died in 1844 and is buried in Sherwins Bay Cemetery in Pillar Point NY. I suspect Lucinda had a rough go of it with raising the boys. Much of the Spencer family was in the area and the older boys stayed with family members. When they were barely old enough they went sailing, it is said Nelson first sailed to foreign ports before sailing the Great Lakes. I suspect sailing was encouraged by their aunts husband, Captain George W. Brown, a captain who sailed the Great Lakes. Harry stayed with his mother Lucinda and at some point he too went sailing.
Harry sailed the Great Lakes for many years. His relatives, aunts and uncles and
cousins, not to mention his brothers had migrated to the Saint Clair area of Michigan, some moved on to Nunica, Michigan. When he wasn’t sailing Harry made Nunica his home, where his brothers were.
He met and married Jane Mills from Chicago Illinois. They were married in Benton Harbor in Berrien County, Michigan on Lake Michigan-just about 60 miles north of Chicago in 1876. He later settled down in Chicago with Jane and young William Mills, perhaps Jane’s son from a previous marriage.
Jane and Harry’s daughter Lucinda was born on January 20, 1881 in Chicago, Illinois.
She had become exposed to Diphtheria and was sick for a month before passing away on January 5, 1888, just weeks before her 7th birthday. Harry’s wife Jane died on January 31st in 1898 also in Chicago, of chronic Bronchitis with a contributing illness of Nephritis. Both Lucinda and Jane are buried in Oakwood Cemetery in Chicago.
Harry left Chicago. He sailed again stopping to stay in St. Clair at his cousin Althea Brown Stone’s home, sometimes he was living in Nunica. In his later years he came back to the Coopersville/Nunica area. He died on June 4th, 1921 in the Ottawa County Infirmary at age 79. He left us yet another mystery to solve as he was buried next to his brother John, in the Coopersville Polkton Township Cemetery. This is a story that has recently come to light as John’s descendants wrote a tribute to him in the paper, mentioning Harry and their story of being orphaned. John was whisked away as a young child by his fathers brother, not knowing his own older brothers, only Harry the youngest. Medad and Nelson didn’t know him, why?...John was never mentioned in their memorials. One mystery solved, and now one to investigate.
Photos courtesy of Marilyn Spencer Empie. Click on photos for larger view.
Above photos are of Harry and Lucinda, his daughter. Check out the 'unknown' old dude to the left...Marilyn believes this is Harry...I am not sure, the forehead seems different, what do you think?
Harry's marriage record and Jane and Lucinda's death records were found on:
FamilySearchRecordSearch I first found Lucinda and Jane's death record information on:IllinoisStateArchives
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 side. My husband’s family is rich in history both oral and photos, and even some furniture. I have been lucky enough to become friends with a neighbor who is a Spencer. Through the years she has shared the family information and photos to copy that she has...which is an entire bedroom dedicated to family history! Two chest of drawers filled with old family photos and info. She even has a piece of furniture Paul’s great-grandfather made. Wow, I feel like a kid in toyland when I go to her house!
We talked about Harry, the brother she knew a little bit about, but he was hiding out there and waiting for someone to find him. She knew he married and had a daughter who was exposed to a disease and died young. She had some photos of Harry and his daughter. I picked up where she left off and I went investigating. Some information I found with old fashion leg work, but not everything, his elusive family was still missing. Never give up...a few years ago we were looking for a needle in a haystack. Today more internet information, and waaa laaa, There you are Harry-your marriage and your family!
The sons of John and Lucinda Spencer.
John and Lucinda Spencer lived in Brownville, Jefferson County New York in the early 1800's surrounded by a large family. The had five sons, their first child John died in infancy. One year later in 1836 Medad was born, he is Paul’s 2nd great-grandfather. Then Nelson in 1839, then I suspect John L Spencer was born to them in 1841 (more on that later). Last child born was Harry P. Spencer in 1842.
John the father died in 1844 and is buried in Sherwins Bay Cemetery in Pillar Point NY. I suspect Lucinda had a rough go of it with raising the boys. Much of the Spencer family was in the area and the older boys stayed with family members. When they were barely old enough they went sailing, it is said Nelson first sailed to foreign ports before sailing the Great Lakes. I suspect sailing was encouraged by their aunts husband, Captain George W. Brown, a captain who sailed the Great Lakes. Harry stayed with his mother Lucinda and at some point he too went sailing.
Harry sailed the Great Lakes for many years. His relatives, aunts and uncles and
cousins, not to mention his brothers had migrated to the Saint Clair area of Michigan, some moved on to Nunica, Michigan. When he wasn’t sailing Harry made Nunica his home, where his brothers were.He met and married Jane Mills from Chicago Illinois. They were married in Benton Harbor in Berrien County, Michigan on Lake Michigan-just about 60 miles north of Chicago in 1876. He later settled down in Chicago with Jane and young William Mills, perhaps Jane’s son from a previous marriage.
Jane and Harry’s daughter Lucinda was born on January 20, 1881 in Chicago, Illinois.
She had become exposed to Diphtheria and was sick for a month before passing away on January 5, 1888, just weeks before her 7th birthday. Harry’s wife Jane died on January 31st in 1898 also in Chicago, of chronic Bronchitis with a contributing illness of Nephritis. Both Lucinda and Jane are buried in Oakwood Cemetery in Chicago. Harry left Chicago. He sailed again stopping to stay in St. Clair at his cousin Althea Brown Stone’s home, sometimes he was living in Nunica. In his later years he came back to the Coopersville/Nunica area. He died on June 4th, 1921 in the Ottawa County Infirmary at age 79. He left us yet another mystery to solve as he was buried next to his brother John, in the Coopersville Polkton Township Cemetery. This is a story that has recently come to light as John’s descendants wrote a tribute to him in the paper, mentioning Harry and their story of being orphaned. John was whisked away as a young child by his fathers brother, not knowing his own older brothers, only Harry the youngest. Medad and Nelson didn’t know him, why?...John was never mentioned in their memorials. One mystery solved, and now one to investigate.
Photos courtesy of Marilyn Spencer Empie. Click on photos for larger view. Above photos are of Harry and Lucinda, his daughter. Check out the 'unknown' old dude to the left...Marilyn believes this is Harry...I am not sure, the forehead seems different, what do you think?
Harry's marriage record and Jane and Lucinda's death records were found on:
FamilySearchRecordSearch I first found Lucinda and Jane's death record information on:IllinoisStateArchives
August 18, 2010
August 14, 2010
Surname Saturday- LILLIE
Surname Saturday today is about my 3rd great-grandparents, my father’s father’s mother’s line. Had to do that. Not much is know about this family, they have managed to remain a little bit of a mystery to me. I do have some information on the families descending from them, today I am really focusing on Joseph and Esther.
Ernest F. Raeburn (1883-1965)
Ethel A. Wheeler (1889-1979)
William Raeburn (1853-1935)
Melissa Jane Lillie (1855-1927)
Thomas D. Lillie (1826- ? )
Anna Youker (1824-1899)
LILLIE: Origin-German
JOSEPH LILLIE b abt 1774 New York
wife: ESTHER b abt 1785 Pennsylvania
Children of Joseph and Esther:
1) Leonard LILLIE b c1792 NY d bet 1860-1875 possibly Steuben NY
wife- Polly Warner. There is no concrete document confirming this relationship, so at this time it is pending, they are very ‘entertwined’.
2) William D LILLIE b 1808 Cortland Co NY d 1890?
Wife: Thankful Ann (nee Rice?)
3) Elizabeth H. LILLIE b 1805/1819 NY conflicting reports d 1896
husband: Rhodes Wilkinson
4) James LILLIE b 1821 NY
wife: Maria Herrick
5) Thomas Darwin LILLIE b 1826 NY~~my great great grandfather
wife: Anna Youker
6) Charles LILLIE b 1828 NY
7) Emily LILLIE b 1834 NY
I first found Joseph in Cortland County, New York via the 1810 census. He remains here for some time and is also found on the 1820 and 1830 censuses. In 1820 Leonard is also listed here and by 1830 Leonard is listed right next to Joseph. Coincidently there are other ‘Lillies’ in the County at this time, I have not researched them to great detail.
By 1840 Joseph is now in Potter County, Pennsylvania and is found on the 1840 and 1850 censuses, where I found the names of two other children, Charles and Emily, never to be ‘seen’ again. Also in Potter County via 1850 census are children Thomas and family right next door to Joseph, Elizabeth and her family, and William D. and family. James and family are in McKean County, Pennsylvania via 1850 census. Leonard was in Steuben County NY in 1850-1860.
The LILLIE family was scattered around the ‘Whites Corner’ Area of Harrison Township, Potter County and into West Union, Steuben County NY mainly. I have searched all around this area with help from local historians for various records including local cemeteries, and just haven’t found Joseph and Esther after 1850. I have followed the migration trail of their other children; Thomas, James and William to no avail. This family has been interesting to follow as the migration trail into Ohio and Michigan includes several other Potter County people most of who are somehow related to the Lillies. Still Joseph and Esther remain in hiding (as well as children Charles and Emily), probably right under my nose.
Ernest F. Raeburn (1883-1965)
Ethel A. Wheeler (1889-1979)
William Raeburn (1853-1935)
Melissa Jane Lillie (1855-1927)
Thomas D. Lillie (1826- ? )
Anna Youker (1824-1899)
LILLIE: Origin-German
JOSEPH LILLIE b abt 1774 New York
wife: ESTHER b abt 1785 Pennsylvania
Children of Joseph and Esther:
1) Leonard LILLIE b c1792 NY d bet 1860-1875 possibly Steuben NY
wife- Polly Warner. There is no concrete document confirming this relationship, so at this time it is pending, they are very ‘entertwined’.
2) William D LILLIE b 1808 Cortland Co NY d 1890?
Wife: Thankful Ann (nee Rice?)
3) Elizabeth H. LILLIE b 1805/1819 NY conflicting reports d 1896
husband: Rhodes Wilkinson
4) James LILLIE b 1821 NY
wife: Maria Herrick
5) Thomas Darwin LILLIE b 1826 NY~~my great great grandfather
wife: Anna Youker
6) Charles LILLIE b 1828 NY
7) Emily LILLIE b 1834 NY
I first found Joseph in Cortland County, New York via the 1810 census. He remains here for some time and is also found on the 1820 and 1830 censuses. In 1820 Leonard is also listed here and by 1830 Leonard is listed right next to Joseph. Coincidently there are other ‘Lillies’ in the County at this time, I have not researched them to great detail.
By 1840 Joseph is now in Potter County, Pennsylvania and is found on the 1840 and 1850 censuses, where I found the names of two other children, Charles and Emily, never to be ‘seen’ again. Also in Potter County via 1850 census are children Thomas and family right next door to Joseph, Elizabeth and her family, and William D. and family. James and family are in McKean County, Pennsylvania via 1850 census. Leonard was in Steuben County NY in 1850-1860.
The LILLIE family was scattered around the ‘Whites Corner’ Area of Harrison Township, Potter County and into West Union, Steuben County NY mainly. I have searched all around this area with help from local historians for various records including local cemeteries, and just haven’t found Joseph and Esther after 1850. I have followed the migration trail of their other children; Thomas, James and William to no avail. This family has been interesting to follow as the migration trail into Ohio and Michigan includes several other Potter County people most of who are somehow related to the Lillies. Still Joseph and Esther remain in hiding (as well as children Charles and Emily), probably right under my nose.
July 18, 2010
SNGF-sUNdAy MoRn...I Write Like...
Randy @ geneamusings said ”Hello there, genealogy fanatics ... It's Saturday Night - time for more Genealogy Fun!”
1) Find something that you have written that you are really proud of - the best of your work. Do an Edit > Copy of it.
2) Go to the website http://iwl.me/ and Paste your text into the waiting box.
3) Tell us which famous author you write like. Write it up in your own blog post, in a comment to this blog, or post it on Facebook. Insert the "badge of honor" in your blog if you can.
Well....I think I write boring, analytical and sound like I blurt out stats but here goes:
Are We cousins?
This analyzer thinks I write like Stephen King! Most folks are aware of how he writes, and I will be reading his book called, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft. One comment I read states that he feels the story should not be plotted out ahead but rather start from a single catalyst and grow from there and see where the story takes you...yea I like that.
Well ok lets try another post: Veterans Days: Merchant Marine WWII, Dean E Raeburn
Now it thinks I write like: David Foster Wallace
How about 3 ...and see if I write consistent at all....
Raeburn Family- Kith and Kin an Ancestral Oddysey (something I am working on)
Now I write like- James Joyce, oh BOY a little read on James Joyce
I was hoping for a two out of three, what to make of it all !!
Ok.... so comments??!! LOL!
1) Find something that you have written that you are really proud of - the best of your work. Do an Edit > Copy of it.
2) Go to the website http://iwl.me/ and Paste your text into the waiting box.
3) Tell us which famous author you write like. Write it up in your own blog post, in a comment to this blog, or post it on Facebook. Insert the "badge of honor" in your blog if you can.
Well....I think I write boring, analytical and sound like I blurt out stats but here goes:
Are We cousins?
This analyzer thinks I write like Stephen King! Most folks are aware of how he writes, and I will be reading his book called, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft. One comment I read states that he feels the story should not be plotted out ahead but rather start from a single catalyst and grow from there and see where the story takes you...yea I like that.
Well ok lets try another post: Veterans Days: Merchant Marine WWII, Dean E Raeburn
Now it thinks I write like: David Foster Wallace
How about 3 ...and see if I write consistent at all....
Raeburn Family- Kith and Kin an Ancestral Oddysey (something I am working on)
Now I write like- James Joyce, oh BOY a little read on James Joyce
I was hoping for a two out of three, what to make of it all !!
Ok.... so comments??!! LOL!
I write like
Stephen King
Stephen King
I Write Like by Mémoires, Mac journal software. Analyze your writing!
May 9, 2010
SNGF- Happy Mothers Day
Saturday Night Genealogy Fun-Matrilineal line from Randy @ Genea-Musings
1) List your matrilineal line - your mother, her mother, etc. back to the first identifiable mother. Note: this line is how your mitochondrial DNA was passed to you!
2) Tell us if you have had your mitochondrial DNA tested, and if so, which Haplogroup you are in.
3) Post your responses on your own blog post, in Comments to this blog post, or in a Note or status line on Facebook.
1) Mom
2) Joyce
3) Hester
4) Emily
5) Maria
Well that is the end of the line already! Clearly some work needs to be done here.
I have not had my mitochondrial DNA tested
1) List your matrilineal line - your mother, her mother, etc. back to the first identifiable mother. Note: this line is how your mitochondrial DNA was passed to you!
2) Tell us if you have had your mitochondrial DNA tested, and if so, which Haplogroup you are in.
3) Post your responses on your own blog post, in Comments to this blog post, or in a Note or status line on Facebook.
1) Mom
2) Joyce
3) Hester
4) Emily
5) Maria
Well that is the end of the line already! Clearly some work needs to be done here.
I have not had my mitochondrial DNA tested
April 11, 2010
Ancestor Approved Award
Bad Holly, not blogging regularly...bad blogger Holly. So the Ancestor Award is keeping me “in the game”; Jennifer Trahan @ Jennifer’s Genealogy Blog sent over the award recently.
The Ancestor Approved Award asks that the recipient list ten things you have learned about any of your ancestors that has surprised, humbled, or enlightened you and pass the award along to ten other bloggers who you feel are doing their ancestors proud. Hmmm, let me put on my thinking cap, and get another cup of coffee, mandatory!
1) Calvin Wheeler b circa 1789-90 USA d 20 Mar 1866 Canada. My third great grandfather on my father’s maternal side.
Everything about him was a surprise, and I was certainly enlightened. First I found him...SURPRISE! Then I found that he was an affluent man in the town HE founded originally called Wheelers Mills, later called Tamworth, in Lennox and Addington County in Ontario. He started a sawmill, grist mill and store. He was the first postmaster, held other titles such as councilman, magistrate and militia officer with rank of colonel and was considered a U.E.L although I have yet to find conclusive records. He certainly has a continent full of descendants, and his Tamworth house stayed in the family for at least 162 years. There is so much more to find on this intriguing man. All of this was lost to our family.
3) Mahlon P. Reynolds b Feb 1832 d June 13 1920. My 2nd great grand father married Sarah Stowe, my great grandfather Wilbur was born...she later died. Mahlon remarried and became apparently estranged from his new wife Elizabeth Clawson who still called herself Elizabeth Reynolds...and a child appears on a census (NOT Wilbur!) SURPRISE! A minor issue, but there are many of those along the way, aren’t there?
5) William Raeburn b abt 1810 d 1897...it was certainly enlightening to find all the places the family lived between Ireland and Simcoe County, Ontario, and all of the children we never knew he had.
6) Anna Youker b 1824 d 1899 my second great grandmother on my fathers paternal side, is the granddaughter of a Revolutionary War patriot, Johann George Youker a.k.a. Yucker b abt 1757/59 d 1844. I submitted my line to DAR several years ago online, but received no response..so I suspect I need more documentation. Enlightened.
Well, how about 6 ? That is about it for now I think. Would my ancestors be proud?
Does anyone else think all of this is interesting...other than me? Te he....hope I didn’t bore you all.
I think this one has been all around the block so I am not sending it out. It was an interesting exercise.
March 14, 2010
Don't give up
Some time ago I had a post on the death of Emma Carpenter Walsh, my grandmother's aunt who lived a few doors down from her in a big old Victorian house in the Soo. I was rather perturbed at the fact that I didn't receive a date with the obituary:
Emma Walsh post
I was determined to find out what the death date was. Last summer I went to my local FHL in Grand Rapids and looked at microfilm of death records of Sault Saint Marie, Mi and just couldn't find her. I apparently overlooked her.
Recently I was on the site: Seeking Michigan and was actually looking for Emma's evasive sisters, trying all sorts of variations of searches as I didn't know where the sisters were. Then I finally entered "Chippewa" for county and "Carpenter" for fathers last name....how easy was that?
Amma Walsh died January 4, 1918. There you have it....Amma, not Emma.
Don't give up!! It can be something oh so simple. (I am still looking for her sisters!)
Emma Walsh post
I was determined to find out what the death date was. Last summer I went to my local FHL in Grand Rapids and looked at microfilm of death records of Sault Saint Marie, Mi and just couldn't find her. I apparently overlooked her.
Recently I was on the site: Seeking Michigan and was actually looking for Emma's evasive sisters, trying all sorts of variations of searches as I didn't know where the sisters were. Then I finally entered "Chippewa" for county and "Carpenter" for fathers last name....how easy was that?
Amma Walsh died January 4, 1918. There you have it....Amma, not Emma.
Don't give up!! It can be something oh so simple. (I am still looking for her sisters!)
February 16, 2010
Tombstone Tuesday, Richard M Wheeler
What’s wrong with this picture?
Richard Wheeler is the brother of my grandma Ethel Wheeler Raeburn, children of James B. and Elizabeth Z. Wheeler. Their first child Mae Matilda was born in Parry Sound, Ontario in 1879. They later moved to Schoolcraft County Michigan, the rest of the children as far as I know were all born in Seney, Schoolcraft Co Michigan. They haven’t been found on an 1880 U.S. or 1881 Canadian census, and of course forget 1890.
RICHARD M. WHEELER
Son of J.B. & E.Z. WHEELER
DIED Sept. 10 1888
AGED 5ys 5ms 21 days
This would put his birth date at March 20, 1883. No birth or death record found for him yet. The ‘family folklore’ is the middle name is McLean, named after his grandfather James McLean Wheeler. It has also been noted the [male] child died from choking on a peach pit- family lore again.
HOWEVER, there is a little bit of a problem for me here. We also have:
MAXWELL WHEELER BORN 1880, to James and Elizabeth. This actually is the child name given as the one that died choking. Death record from the LDS family search record search lists:
MAXWELL WHEELER died SEPTEMBER 18, 1888 in Seney, Schoolcraft Co Michigan, of intermittent fever at age 8, son of James B. & Elizabeth Z. Wheeler. This was recorded April 22, 1889.
Maxwell born 1880 died Sept 18, 1888, Richard born 1883 died September 10, 1888. Only one death record-Maxwell, one stone- Richard M.
Family Search Record Search-Maxwell Wheeler
Oh lets not forget the icing on the cake, the stone for Richard is in Chippewa County Michigan, and they hadn’t moved there at that time. Well now, one son or two? Five years old or eight? Maxwell or McLean?!
What’s wrong with this picture ?!!
January 27, 2010
January 23, 2010
Surname Saturday, LIVINGSTON
Am I crazy?
Livingston [e]: Origin- Ireland
How does it fit into my surname of Raeburn? Well this is what I intend to find out.
Searching the lateral lines, it’ll either be the deciding factor in my insanity or my ‘oh happy day’ when it connects.
A little background refreshing; my Raeburn line is elusive and goes back to Ireland and disappears there. No known records so far in Ireland. However...the only way I have found anything resembling a relative or location is by researching the lateral lines. Case in point- finding Edward Weir next door in Ontario, turns out he is the brother in law of John Reburn of Aghnamullen Parish Monaghan Ireland. [Many other neighbor/relatives along the way]
I will bypass a lot here.....
A little more background-
Margaret Raeburn b abt 1786 marries John Livingston b abt 1789, in 1818 Carrickmacross Monaghan Ireland. 1851-They live in Quebec next door to Patrick Hamill of Ireland who marries their daughter (a winter spring marriage indeed).
Patrick Hamill was a co-tenant with a William Reaburn in Aughnamullen Parish Monaghan c 1820-30.
Livingston's also leasing land c 1820-30 here.
MY RAEBURNS were in this area of QUEBEC SAME TIME. This Margaret is 24 yrs older than my William, an aunt?
Ok- follow me with this one-
1860's +: Nottawasaga twp, Simcoe co Ontario, MY William Raeburn family is neighbor to James Livingston b abt 1801-11 Ireland. James is buried Singhampton Union Cemetery, Nottawasaga Simcoe County.
This, in and of itself may not necessarily peak my curiosity, however James Livingston[e]’s son George is buried in Plot 42, next to my William Raeburn Plot 43 in Batteau Hill Cemetery, Nottawasaga. Coincidence? Perhaps. Or IS IT?
Questions:
1. Where exactly did James Livingston[e] come from in Ireland?
2. What is the surname of his wife Jane?
3. What does the death certificate say?
4. Is there an obit?
5. Oh come on.....are they related????!!!
Livingston [e]: Origin- Ireland
How does it fit into my surname of Raeburn? Well this is what I intend to find out.
Searching the lateral lines, it’ll either be the deciding factor in my insanity or my ‘oh happy day’ when it connects.
A little background refreshing; my Raeburn line is elusive and goes back to Ireland and disappears there. No known records so far in Ireland. However...the only way I have found anything resembling a relative or location is by researching the lateral lines. Case in point- finding Edward Weir next door in Ontario, turns out he is the brother in law of John Reburn of Aghnamullen Parish Monaghan Ireland. [Many other neighbor/relatives along the way]
I will bypass a lot here.....
A little more background-
Margaret Raeburn b abt 1786 marries John Livingston b abt 1789, in 1818 Carrickmacross Monaghan Ireland. 1851-They live in Quebec next door to Patrick Hamill of Ireland who marries their daughter (a winter spring marriage indeed).
Patrick Hamill was a co-tenant with a William Reaburn in Aughnamullen Parish Monaghan c 1820-30.
Livingston's also leasing land c 1820-30 here.
MY RAEBURNS were in this area of QUEBEC SAME TIME. This Margaret is 24 yrs older than my William, an aunt?
Ok- follow me with this one-
1860's +: Nottawasaga twp, Simcoe co Ontario, MY William Raeburn family is neighbor to James Livingston b abt 1801-11 Ireland. James is buried Singhampton Union Cemetery, Nottawasaga Simcoe County.
This, in and of itself may not necessarily peak my curiosity, however James Livingston[e]’s son George is buried in Plot 42, next to my William Raeburn Plot 43 in Batteau Hill Cemetery, Nottawasaga. Coincidence? Perhaps. Or IS IT?
Questions:
1. Where exactly did James Livingston[e] come from in Ireland?
2. What is the surname of his wife Jane?
3. What does the death certificate say?
4. Is there an obit?
5. Oh come on.....are they related????!!!
January 11, 2010
BLOGOVERSARY #1
Blogoversary January 11, 2010
“You Say Its Your” ... Blogoversary....Happy ... Blogoversary To You ...
One Year into the blog. I started out like gangbusters and then the blog trickled to a near stop. Why? Well I will review-
1. Initial intention of the blog; was the hope of connecting to someone within the family line, in hopes of unlocking mysteries that have me at a halt.
Has this happened yet? Well no, but I have connected with one person earlier in the year that is a descendant of a lateral line. He was looking for maps to Derrygooney townland in Monaghan Ireland and found it in one of my posts, and he discovered our lines were connected. He [Steve] traveled to Ireland shortly after on business, visited the area and took photos which he graciously shared with me. We didn’t discover any thing ‘new’ about our lines....but it was nice to correspond with him.
2. Pitfalls; Well...sometimes I have creative BLOCK! I wonder if posts are being read, if they are of interest. So then I tend to slow way down.
I have one pet peeve, I have shared a lot of my own research with a few, only to find it was re-posted by a couple of folks on the internet as their own work. I had a long conversation with another researcher once, and we had both agreed..that’s just wrong. Give credit to the ones who did the work, if you know, at least a brief acknowledgment. Two reasons- credit for work...but also, if you are taking credit for others work and someone comes along asking you questions or for more info and you HAVEN’T A CLUE AT ALL, that is of no help to others. Post the researchers name to the work, so THEY can be contacted. [I did ask that my name be connected to the work]
So with that thought.....I had slowed down on content exposure.
I guess an example of what I mean is: so someone lists in their gedcom my: great grand mother's siblings. WHAT IS THE RELATIONSHIP TO THAT OTHER PERSON? my great grand mother is married to a man WHOSE SISTER is married to someone else totally not related and THAT PERSON has a brother, who is the ancestor of the person who added my great grandmothers siblings. that is just a really huge stretch and absolutely no relation. Some one else called this "name collecting".
3. Time- Sometimes life just gets in the way...so be it.........can’t change that one!
New Goals for Blog:
1. Community and correspondence...It has been nice to read others posts, for interest of their own content and ideas. I would like comments on my blog, it helps me...so I will try to leave comments also when I read others posts. The correspondence has been nice, I like it. I left a ‘check off’ at the end of each post if one doesn’t feel like commenting. It actually is helpful, but NOT mandatory!
2. Practice- blogging helps get the creative process moving again.
3. Get over it- Some people "collect names". You know what work YOU [I] have done!
Lets see if I do better this year! Happy New Year every one!!
Photos taken by Steven Ellingson
old John Reburn homestead, Corvacken townland, Aughnamullen, Monaghan
below:Landscapes in Ireland
“You Say Its Your” ... Blogoversary....Happy ... Blogoversary To You ...
One Year into the blog. I started out like gangbusters and then the blog trickled to a near stop. Why? Well I will review-
1. Initial intention of the blog; was the hope of connecting to someone within the family line, in hopes of unlocking mysteries that have me at a halt.
Has this happened yet? Well no, but I have connected with one person earlier in the year that is a descendant of a lateral line. He was looking for maps to Derrygooney townland in Monaghan Ireland and found it in one of my posts, and he discovered our lines were connected. He [Steve] traveled to Ireland shortly after on business, visited the area and took photos which he graciously shared with me. We didn’t discover any thing ‘new’ about our lines....but it was nice to correspond with him.
2. Pitfalls; Well...sometimes I have creative BLOCK! I wonder if posts are being read, if they are of interest. So then I tend to slow way down.
I have one pet peeve, I have shared a lot of my own research with a few, only to find it was re-posted by a couple of folks on the internet as their own work. I had a long conversation with another researcher once, and we had both agreed..that’s just wrong. Give credit to the ones who did the work, if you know, at least a brief acknowledgment. Two reasons- credit for work...but also, if you are taking credit for others work and someone comes along asking you questions or for more info and you HAVEN’T A CLUE AT ALL, that is of no help to others. Post the researchers name to the work, so THEY can be contacted. [I did ask that my name be connected to the work]
So with that thought.....I had slowed down on content exposure.
I guess an example of what I mean is: so someone lists in their gedcom my: great grand mother's siblings. WHAT IS THE RELATIONSHIP TO THAT OTHER PERSON? my great grand mother is married to a man WHOSE SISTER is married to someone else totally not related and THAT PERSON has a brother, who is the ancestor of the person who added my great grandmothers siblings. that is just a really huge stretch and absolutely no relation. Some one else called this "name collecting".
3. Time- Sometimes life just gets in the way...so be it.........can’t change that one!
New Goals for Blog:
1. Community and correspondence...It has been nice to read others posts, for interest of their own content and ideas. I would like comments on my blog, it helps me...so I will try to leave comments also when I read others posts. The correspondence has been nice, I like it. I left a ‘check off’ at the end of each post if one doesn’t feel like commenting. It actually is helpful, but NOT mandatory!
2. Practice- blogging helps get the creative process moving again.
3. Get over it- Some people "collect names". You know what work YOU [I] have done!
Lets see if I do better this year! Happy New Year every one!!
Photos taken by Steven Ellingson
old John Reburn homestead, Corvacken townland, Aughnamullen, Monaghan below:Landscapes in Ireland
November 11, 2009
Veterans Day: Merchant Marine WWII Dean E Raeburn
In Honor of Veteran's Day I would like to re-run this post, originally posted for Memorial Day-
Several years ago I tried to search information regarding the Merchant Marines, there was virtually nothing online. I have recently found a few websites devoted to the service of the Merchant Marines, and there is valuable and appreciated information on the sites, I will provide links at the end of this post. Recognition by the U.S. government to the Merchant Marines of WWII comes finally and for some to late. No Pensions or veteran benefits were ever received by the Merchant Mariners of WWII...a grave site memorial plaque was received without a U.S. flag for my dad.
My father, Dean Raeburn was a Merchant Marine during WWII, his United States Coast Guard card listing him as Fireman,Oiler, Watertender, Ordinary Seaman, his passport lists him as an oiler. He did sail the Great Lakes prior to and after WWII, I am guessing an inherited passion growing up in Sault Saint Marie the son of a Great Lakes Steamship Captain.
I have a lot to learn and research about the Merchant Marines. Some thought they saw “no action”, I heard of someone saying this to my father and his response was to the contrary. I never did hear my father talk about the war or being a Merchant Marine. Their missions over the Atlantic must have been anything but an easy task, with German U-boats after them. One of the ships Dad sailed on was the Thomas U Walter. A log shows them departing from Alexandria Egypt in September of 1943. The Gus 17 convoy list(slow convoy-Gibraltar-U.S.) shows 90 merchants and 13 escorts.
**Ninety merchant ships sailing in convoy and thirteen escorts by the U.S. Navy**
Dad sailed to many ports, Egypt, Algeria, France and England perhaps more I am unaware of. I found only three documents showing three ships through Ancestry.com. Some of his duties as an oiler in the engine crew on the merchant ships were making sure the bearing were always kept regularly oiled. Maintaining and keeping piston rods, valve stems, etc oiled and keeping seawater off. The duty list is is a long and responsible one, with the duties also of fireman watertender....
I wish to learn more and write a more fitting tribute, I will spend much more time on this. I can now write for records which I will, and I can request for ship records if I decide to do so. I wish I had more to write on right now.
I wasn’t going to even post this due to lack of info...but decided to anyway a bit late.
dad is #25 on list
Click on all photos for larger viewing
LINKS~
Song and Video by Celtae A must see!!
Duties of the engine crew
U.S.Merchant Marine
Arnold Hague Convoy Database
The Convoy System at UBoat.net
Ancestry.com Immigration & Emigration
Several years ago I tried to search information regarding the Merchant Marines, there was virtually nothing online. I have recently found a few websites devoted to the service of the Merchant Marines, and there is valuable and appreciated information on the sites, I will provide links at the end of this post. Recognition by the U.S. government to the Merchant Marines of WWII comes finally and for some to late. No Pensions or veteran benefits were ever received by the Merchant Mariners of WWII...a grave site memorial plaque was received without a U.S. flag for my dad.
My father, Dean Raeburn was a Merchant Marine during WWII, his United States Coast Guard card listing him as Fireman,Oiler, Watertender, Ordinary Seaman, his passport lists him as an oiler. He did sail the Great Lakes prior to and after WWII, I am guessing an inherited passion growing up in Sault Saint Marie the son of a Great Lakes Steamship Captain.
I have a lot to learn and research about the Merchant Marines. Some thought they saw “no action”, I heard of someone saying this to my father and his response was to the contrary. I never did hear my father talk about the war or being a Merchant Marine. Their missions over the Atlantic must have been anything but an easy task, with German U-boats after them. One of the ships Dad sailed on was the Thomas U Walter. A log shows them departing from Alexandria Egypt in September of 1943. The Gus 17 convoy list(slow convoy-Gibraltar-U.S.) shows 90 merchants and 13 escorts.
**Ninety merchant ships sailing in convoy and thirteen escorts by the U.S. Navy**
Dad sailed to many ports, Egypt, Algeria, France and England perhaps more I am unaware of. I found only three documents showing three ships through Ancestry.com. Some of his duties as an oiler in the engine crew on the merchant ships were making sure the bearing were always kept regularly oiled. Maintaining and keeping piston rods, valve stems, etc oiled and keeping seawater off. The duty list is is a long and responsible one, with the duties also of fireman watertender....
I wish to learn more and write a more fitting tribute, I will spend much more time on this. I can now write for records which I will, and I can request for ship records if I decide to do so. I wish I had more to write on right now.
I wasn’t going to even post this due to lack of info...but decided to anyway a bit late.
dad is #25 on listClick on all photos for larger viewing
LINKS~
Song and Video by Celtae A must see!!
Duties of the engine crew
U.S.Merchant Marine
Arnold Hague Convoy Database
The Convoy System at UBoat.net
Ancestry.com Immigration & Emigration
September 13, 2009
September 5, 2009
What do I know about the fifth generation?
Not too long ago Randy at Genea-Musing’s had an exercise in finding out about our 2nd great-grandparents. I haven’t been too good at blogging this summer just reading and off I go.
So Today, I decided well what do I know about them? Do I have all there is to have? The answer is very simply, NO!
So this give me a direction when ADD sets in, to focus on. I will go right on down the line and see what I do know and goals to set for research....
What do I know about:
William Raeburn and wife Margaret McCormack? I know they were born in Ireland, and three of their children were born in Ireland. They are connected to County Monaghan Reburns, Reyburns, etc., but to date I have not found records in Monaghan with them recorded. I can follow them from Quebec their first known destination from Ireland, with one baptism record of a daughter in 1846. So I have one area of Quebec to search from, some possibilities of relatives in the area but nothing yet conclusive, no census for them. They arrived c1840 and left Quebec by 1848 at the latest.
William and family are found in Northumberland Co Ontario c 1848 with a baptism of another daughter. They are next door to family (Weir of Monaghan) and another Reburn temporarily lived with Weirs next door c1850. (Family folklore) Several other recorded documents put them in this area to c1863.
William and family finally arrive in Simcoe Co Ontario, were they live the rest fo their lives. Several documents to support this.
What I know about their nationality is they are Scot-Irish.
I obviously need more research done in Ireland which I have recently contracted for again(specific records). More investigating needs to be done in Quebec, but there are limited records there as well. I am not sure what records are available there, that I haven’t already searched.
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Thomas Darwin Lillie and Anna Youker both lived in New York and moved to Pennsylvania. I have census in Pennsylvania. They moved to Michigan c1860, with two census’s to support this- 1860 and 1870. Anna and the rest fo the family move to Grand Traverse County and from there many records trace their movements to their death dates.
More research on the Lillie and Youker families need to be done in New York. I have traced the Lillie’s to Cortland Co NY, need more there. The Youkers are traced by descendants to 1700's with the first emigration.
Nationality? The Youkers came from an area near Germany, this is all I know to date. The Lillies...it is only a guess. Irish? German? Likely German, but no proven.
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James McLean Wheeler and Matilda Smith both grew up in the Lennox and Addington County of Ontario. Their families are well documented here from late 1700's and early 1800's. Documentation is found until the mid 1880's when James and Matilda fall off the grid. The general location to consider at this time is the Upper Peninsula of Michigan were James signs a Naturalization paper in 1886, Marquette, Mi.
Nationality? Matilda’s family states often they are German. James? ?????, all I know is his father Calvin was a British Loyalist that left the U.S. c 1812.
[and this fact was re-written by later generations!!]
I haven’t been able to find Calvin in the U.S. yet. So far, the NY / Vermont border seems a possible location to continue searching.
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Amos Carpenter and Mary Ann Cliffe; Amos was born in Quebec c 1837, Mary Anne in Lansdowne, Leeds Co Ontario c1841. No real elbow grease has been put into this team. Mary Anne’s parents came from Ireland. Amos’s lineage has been traced by descendants back to England c1605 with William of England coming to Rehoboth, Massettchutsetts. I know where they moved on to via census’s etc, and where they ended up...as for documentation, there is more to see...
Nationality? Well the Carpenters despite family insistance believing it is French, seems English....unless traced further. At this point...Cliffe...Irish
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This is dad’s side....mom’s later.
Any suggestions? ; )
So Today, I decided well what do I know about them? Do I have all there is to have? The answer is very simply, NO!
So this give me a direction when ADD sets in, to focus on. I will go right on down the line and see what I do know and goals to set for research....
What do I know about:
William Raeburn and wife Margaret McCormack? I know they were born in Ireland, and three of their children were born in Ireland. They are connected to County Monaghan Reburns, Reyburns, etc., but to date I have not found records in Monaghan with them recorded. I can follow them from Quebec their first known destination from Ireland, with one baptism record of a daughter in 1846. So I have one area of Quebec to search from, some possibilities of relatives in the area but nothing yet conclusive, no census for them. They arrived c1840 and left Quebec by 1848 at the latest.
William and family are found in Northumberland Co Ontario c 1848 with a baptism of another daughter. They are next door to family (Weir of Monaghan) and another Reburn temporarily lived with Weirs next door c1850. (Family folklore) Several other recorded documents put them in this area to c1863.
William and family finally arrive in Simcoe Co Ontario, were they live the rest fo their lives. Several documents to support this.
What I know about their nationality is they are Scot-Irish.
I obviously need more research done in Ireland which I have recently contracted for again(specific records). More investigating needs to be done in Quebec, but there are limited records there as well. I am not sure what records are available there, that I haven’t already searched.
**********************
Thomas Darwin Lillie and Anna Youker both lived in New York and moved to Pennsylvania. I have census in Pennsylvania. They moved to Michigan c1860, with two census’s to support this- 1860 and 1870. Anna and the rest fo the family move to Grand Traverse County and from there many records trace their movements to their death dates.
More research on the Lillie and Youker families need to be done in New York. I have traced the Lillie’s to Cortland Co NY, need more there. The Youkers are traced by descendants to 1700's with the first emigration.
Nationality? The Youkers came from an area near Germany, this is all I know to date. The Lillies...it is only a guess. Irish? German? Likely German, but no proven.
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James McLean Wheeler and Matilda Smith both grew up in the Lennox and Addington County of Ontario. Their families are well documented here from late 1700's and early 1800's. Documentation is found until the mid 1880's when James and Matilda fall off the grid. The general location to consider at this time is the Upper Peninsula of Michigan were James signs a Naturalization paper in 1886, Marquette, Mi.
Nationality? Matilda’s family states often they are German. James? ?????, all I know is his father Calvin was a British Loyalist that left the U.S. c 1812.
[and this fact was re-written by later generations!!]
I haven’t been able to find Calvin in the U.S. yet. So far, the NY / Vermont border seems a possible location to continue searching.
*********************************
Amos Carpenter and Mary Ann Cliffe; Amos was born in Quebec c 1837, Mary Anne in Lansdowne, Leeds Co Ontario c1841. No real elbow grease has been put into this team. Mary Anne’s parents came from Ireland. Amos’s lineage has been traced by descendants back to England c1605 with William of England coming to Rehoboth, Massettchutsetts. I know where they moved on to via census’s etc, and where they ended up...as for documentation, there is more to see...
Nationality? Well the Carpenters despite family insistance believing it is French, seems English....unless traced further. At this point...Cliffe...Irish
*****************************
This is dad’s side....mom’s later.
Any suggestions? ; )
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