Quaker connections

I was getting ready to tell a buddy how to look at his Quaker connections on Ancestry today and thought that I should just make a blog post for EVERYONE!  The most important thing on Ancestry for me are their Quaker records!  They are amazing!  After signing in to Ancestry, go to search  and choose card catalog from the drop down menu,  Put Quaker into the search box for keyword.  Scroll down to the record collection that has more than 6 million records in it and choose it.  It is fully searchable and takes you to the actual, real, in their own handwriting records of the Quakers in the US.  It is an amazing collection!  

If you have any ancestor who may have passed through the Philly area, you want to take a quick look to see if there is any record in any of the monthly meetings along the way to where you are finding them at this point in your research.  The Quakers always took a letter with them to say that they were in good standing in their monthly meeting in which they were now a part....which means that you will find where they were coming from and where they were going.  And often names of children and spouses and marriages and even more fun:  wrong doings!

Children of John Hawkins and his wife, Elizabeth (Butler?)

I have had on my mind a lot lately that my magic segment on Chromosome #13 may or may not have come down from the John Hawkins who died in the epidemic c.1715 in Richmond County, Virginia.  The one fact that I know is that a great many of my matches in this spot on chromosome #13 seem to connect to participants whose tree includes one of the children of Benjamin and Sarah Willis Hawkins.  I am not clear at this time if I have matches who believe that they descend from a different orphan of John and Elizabeth (Butler?) Hawkins.  And it is that puzzle that I am working on this week.  What would be really exciting is if it is not a Hawkins segment at all.....but is from Elizabeth and then we would have proof that Elizabeth's maiden name was indeed Butler.  But this would have to be proved by finding a person who is a match to one of Elizabeth's siblings....but has no Hawkins connection.  It may be too far back in the tree to ever happen.   However, I find it very interesting that this segment on Chromosome #13 has stayed so strong for as many generations as it has in my own line.

But as part of this puzzle solving process, I am looking at the children of John and Elizabeth.  There are six orphans who are clearly named in the will of John Hawkins.  The four boys are Benjamin, William, James and John.  This is not a correct birth order.  William may have been the oldest.  It is possible that William was not Elizabeth's son.  That he was the son of a first wife to John.  Others tell me that he was born in 1698 while the other five were born in the 1700s....just a bit later ....like 1706 to 1715.

http://marshamoses.blogspot.com/2012/11/will-of-john-hawkins-of-richmond-county.html

In John's will he asks the Butler men to take five of the children.  He asks Henry Wood to take William and teach him the trade of plaster.  It is possible that this is just because William is older than the others, but it is also possible that William was not a Butler.  Perhaps John's first wife had been related to either Henry Wood or his wife at that time:  the much married Sarah.  Craig Kilby believed that Sarah had been Sarah Rosser.  I don't know if there is proof of this.  Her four husbands were:
1. William Willis
2. Henry Wood
3. Rush Hudson
4. Edward Turberville

I took the following from a Brockman book that I read via Family search:

.... He was the son of William and Sarah Willis of Richmond and King George Co. VA.  His mother as the young widow of William Willis married a 2nd time to Henry Wood by whom she had one son, Henry Wood.  As her third husband Rush Hudson, she had other children named in her will.  This Sarah maiden name unknown married a fourth time, as his 2nd wife, Mr. Edward Truberville.  Edward Turberville had one daughter by his first wife, who married Walter Shropshire of King George Co., VA, the widow Mrs. Sarah Turberville, received one third of his estate and Walter Shropshhire received the other two thirds in right of his wife.  The will of Sarah Turberville is recorded in Book 2, page 210, Orange Co. VA dated June 18, 1760 and probated may 28, 1761.  She names her children as follows:  My son John Willis 1 shilling, my son William Willis, 10 shillings, my son, Henry Wood 1 shilling, my son David Hudson, 1 shilling, my son Joshua Hudson, 1 shilling.  To my daughter, Sarah Hawkins, all my wearing clothes.  To Rich Hudson’s daughter, Sarah 1 sheet, to Rush Hudson’s daughter, 1 trunk.  My son Rush Hudson to be Executor of my estate.  Wit Benj Hawkins, Moses Harwood, Kezia Rosser.

There is no doubt in my mind that Sarah Willis who married the orphan Benjamin Hawkins must have been the same Sarah Willis Hawkins who was named in Sarah Turberville's will.  And also I feel sure that this same Sarah Willis was living in the home of Henry Wood when the orphans were being raised.  Henry likely married the oft married Sarah after John Hawkins' will was written.

So, the two Sarah's were not in the household at the time of the death of John and Elizabeth Hawkins....but very soon after.  But these dates would suggest that William's mother (which might have been Elizabeth as was the mother of the other five) might have been related to Henry Wood.... 

[note:  I am looking at a few trees on Ancestry.  The one that is owned by wolfpackmom and labelled Journigan Family Tree shows Sarah Willis Wood Turberville to have father David Rozier (1669-1698) with wife Sarah Sherwood (1664-1698).  I took the time to look at the owners of the trees who include Sarah and Henry Wood....and I am not a DNA match to anyone who owns one of those trees]

The two daughters of John and Elizabeth Hawkins married Morton brothers.  Sarah married  John Morton.  Elizabeth married Elijah Morton. As I have written this blog post I realize that I know that son, Benjamin, married Sarah Willis.  But I know very little about William, John and James.  Janet had told me that John married Margaret Jennings, but I have no proof of this.  Craig Kilby suggested that the will of William Hawkins in Orange County in 1776 was the will of this man.  In it he names wife, Elizabeth, and sons John, William and Benjamin.  Others suggest that he had first been married to Mary Margaret Smith......perhaps from deed records he was married to Mary until about 1760.  I know absolutely nothing about James.  But if he is as unimaginative in the naming process, he is likely to have had a William, Benjamin, John and James as well......just don't know how to sort all of these men out!

Ok.  I now have a place to work on sorting out this group!  Can I do it?

Rauch family from Switzerland

I was playing around on Ancestry today.  I decided to click on a shaky leaf for ....hmmmm....not sure exactly which ancestor I clicked on .....but I found an ancestry researcher who goes by wildpat.  Wildpat lives in Zurich.  And he had an entire branch to explore.  These are ancestors who were living in Switzerland for many generations.  I don't want to loose this thought....and here is a map of where these people lived.



And here is what the branch looks like:

I heard from wildpat, and his name is actually Patrick.  He has a wonderful website at:

https://www.glarusfamilytree.com/family-research-services

Lacy family

I was looking for the blog post that I was almost certain that I had written fall 2018 when I visited Tom Lacy in his home neighborhood near Richmond.  I can't find anything in this blog site.  So I hope to remedy this situation by starting something in this spot.  It was a wonderful visit.  I will add photos and information as I have time.  But right now, I want to add information from Tom Lacy about two pieces of information that can be found on the web.  Shawna asked if the information that she was reading was correct.  And here is what Tom answered to those questions:

 I have two major research projects that have been dragging along for several years or more. 

One is the myth that Thomas Lacy II was instrumental in helping to catch Blackbeard the Pirate. Immediately upon becoming a member of the Huguenot Society I was told this story. When I was able to track Hazel down I found she was living in Richmond, VA in a retirement center near my home. Upon asking her why the story did not appear in her book as in another Lacy Genealogy she answered my question with a question. "Tom, have you checked the dates when Blackbeard was captured?" I was only able to speak to her by telephone. She explained that she was in extreme arthritic pain and not able to receive visitors. Shortly thereafter, before I could learn the true story, she passed away. 

In October 2013 I presented the true story to the Huguenot Society Annual Meeting. The primary ingredient to the story, however, is still missing. When or why did Thomas Lacy II join the British Navy. I have documentary  proof he received a reward as an AB Seaman in the amount of 5 months gratuity for the capture he was involved in. If I can fill in all the blanks I have a producer that will consider this story as a PBS Special. Thomas Lacy II assisted in capturing "the bloodiest pirate to sail in Virginia waters"..but not Blackbeard in 1718.

Second, Stephen Lacy is reported to have built the first Christian Meetinghouse in Hanover County, possibly in Virginia. Some researchers have said where they believed this 20 X 20 log meetinghouse was built, but the exact location has yet to be proven. Ancient maps show Thomas Lacy (believed to be Thomas Lacy II) lived in the present day vicinity of an existing house of worship that claims to have been connected to that first meetinghouse. But other known facts dispute their claims. 

Again, if I can tie all of this research together this too would be PBS worthy material. 

Do any of you, in your family histories, have any information regarding these to subjects? 

God bless. 

Cuzin" Tom  

I am fairly certain that Tom told me that after he joined the Huguenot society he found that the Lacy family were not really Huguenot.  I will get Tom to clarify this and finish this blog post.  

Cooley, Coley and other close families in Connecticut and my brother Greg!

I am editing this postin 2023 to show new information.

My newest puzzle and adventure started with a dna match with Mike.  Mike matched both me and Mom on Ancestry.  It is a 24cM match.  But it turned out that Mike had uploaded his results to gedmatch.  So I was able to see that his match was on Chromosome #13 in the same spot as that of Barbara Raemer's match.  And Barbara and I feel almost certain that this chromosome came down to each of us from our mutual 3-gr-grandparents, Benjamin Franklin Carey and his wife Hannah McNeely.  We had never figured out to which of the family lines this segment has connections.....Carey or McNeely.....  And almost bored (because I have already painted this segment), I wrote to Mike to see how he was connected to Ben and Hannah.  And he knew of no connection to either family.  So I looked around to see if I could find a connection to Carey or McNeely for him....without success.  So I became even more intrigued.  This segment came down to Mike from one of the ancestors of either Ben or Hannah.

That paragraph was from 2019.  Mike called me this winter and said he had found new information that he did descend from Benjamin Franklin Carey but with Ben's first wife, Maria Ketchum.  Mike descends from their daughter, Elizabeth who married Milton Hinchman.  So I will edit the following to show new information that we now know that the segment that Mike, Barbara Raemer and I all share comes down from one or the other of Benjamin Carey's parents:  Absalom Carey or Temperance Cooley.  

I am not sorry that I spent many hours thinking that Mike and I shared earlier ancestors.  It led me into doing research on my New England/Connecticut/New York ancestors that has been a lot of fun!  So I am leaving some of the below as it was before the new information.  So disregard the fact that I had decided that Mike and I share the Cooley line....now we know that it could be the Carey line or the Cooley line.  But we do know the segment definitely comes to us from Benjamin Franklin Carey and not either of his wives.

So here is the old information:
Next I took a better look at Mike's tree.  Many of his early ancestors were found in Fairfield, Connecticut in the time period that Mike and I would expect to find a connection from the size of the segment that we share.  I know that the McNeely family was mostly in Southwestern Virginia in this time period.  HOWEVER, Benjamin Franklin Carey moved from upstate NY to Southwestern Virginia just after the Revolutionary War.  It seemed likely that zeroing in on the Carey family might have the best chances of finding results.

So the surnames that I would be first looking at were Carey and Cooley (parents of Benjamin Franklin Carey are Absalom Carey and Temperance Cooley)  Information from my Carey gals buddies said that Benjamin Franklin Carey was born in Walkill, Orange County, New York in 1795.

Next I took the advice of Blaine Bettinger to work on a quick and dirty tree.  Looking on Ancestry, I found a tree that belonged to Terry Lee to try to build a "quick and dirty tree" of my own.  And Terry had the answer right there in his tree.  Daniel Cooley Sr is the man who moved his family from Fairfield CT to Goshen, Orange County, NY.




Terry's tree can be found on ancestry at this URL:

https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/tree/3932678

You can see on the map below that there is only about 20 miles between Goshen and Wallkill (scale is on bottom right hand side of map:



Mike and I have not yet figured out just which ancestor is in both his tree and mine.....the ancestor who gave each of us that segment on Chromosome #13.    So I have begun to look at the area in Connecticut.  I found the below map of the Towns and Counties.  And while I haven't yet spent the time figuring the area out, I did not want to loose the map.


I found the map below at:  https://www.chuckstraub.com/Letterboxing/ctmap.htm

 

So far this new part of my tree has been a lot of fun!  But the fascinating part is that my brother is visiting for a few days for the funeral of his high school basketball coach.  And guess what.  I had honestly forgotten a very important fact.  My brother lives right there!  Right in Westport on the map above!  I guess I will be making a train trip this fall to visit!  Golf and genealogy and visiting my brother all in the same trip!  Doesn't get better than that!

Star Spangled Banner and Beuhring

I constantly tell myself that I am going to do the research to know if my 3-gr-grandfather, FGL Beuhring was present at the battle after which the Star Spangled Banner was written.  Today's Travel Trivia suggested that Baltimore is one of the 10.  So below is a screen shot of their comment.  This is definitely on my top 10 list of places in the US that I would like to visit.  AFTER I do the research.  I think that it is possible that Melba has already done this research and that the answer is in her book.

Barnes DNA matches

Several months ago I was chatting with Jim Barnes about Hawkins and Barnes connections.  As a result I used Barnes on the FTDNA family finder site as a search term and was quite amazed when I got 62 matches.  I only get 69 matches when I use the surname Hawkins (which is my maiden name) as the search term.  So I seem to have almost as many matches who claim Barnes ancestry as I have participants who claim Hawkins ancestors.   I have thought about it off and on since Jim and I chatted.  Of, course, it is possible that this is just a coincidence that I match that many people who have connections to Barnes.  But it is also possible that there is a reason for this.

So I have been thinking about the possibilities all of this past weekend.  And how I am going to explore this idea.  Of course, I will use the chromosome browser to see where I match each of these participants and if the match between us is shared by others.

It would seem that the match might be random.  Or the match might be a match on the Hawkins side.

I do know that there are marriages between Hawkins and Barnes more than once.  To produce matches to me who carry the Barnes surname or have particular interest in the Barnes surname, it would need to be a Barnes male who married a Hawkins female.  The marriage that I can think of right off hand is at least one of Benjamin and Ann/Nancy Bourne Hawkins daughters.  Their children were marrying in Mercer County, Kentucky around the 1810 time frame.  I did a blog post about their children that I tried to identify from the will that Benjamin left.

Here is the blog post that I wrote:

http://hawkinsdna.blogspot.com/2019/03/autosomal-match-to-hawkins-family-1.html


If I think of other marriages that might have produced the same sort of match, I will add them here at a later time.

As I explore, I will up date this blog post.

In August 2019, I am adding something that I would like to look at.  I just don't have time to search this morning.  BUSY day.  This is the footnote that is found in my Hawkins/Bourne data base for John Hawkins who married Margaret Jennings.  I have a GUESS (not a fact) that this couple had son Joseph.  And my footnote is this:



Now this doesn't make sense without looking at it....but I don't want to loose this clue.