Wednesday, November 30, 2016

Frasers of Fife: Generation Three | Alexander Fraser and Ann Young

1880 John Fraser Family Tree

23. Alexander Fraser (Alexander - 5, Duncan -1) born April 20th - year not recorded - engineer


married 1840


Ann Young birth not recorded


children born to this union:


      i. Jeanie Fraser b. October 31st 1841 d. July 15th 1849

61. ii. Janet Fraser b. February 27th 1844 married A. Short

62. iii. Ann Fraser b. November 29th 1848 married Mr. Carnegie

      iv. Margaret Fraser b. March 8th 1851 d. October 22nd 1861

      v. Elizabeth Fraser b. February 1st 1853 d. February 3rd 1855



Alexander was killed in 1855
Ann died in 1854



Editors note: I was struck by the fact that the mother, Ann, died in 1854, the father, Alexander, was killed in 1855. The youngest daughter died in 1855 as well. My question is who raised the remaining children? Even though these are just names on paper now, they were once living people, seems quite the tragedy struck this young family.


~ all information provided here has been taken directly from the John Fraser family tree compiled in 1880 and as such is the only source for these writings - the objective being to record his work for further study and documentation ~ 


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Tuesday, November 29, 2016

Finding Faulkner: The Progeny | Joseph Faulkner M.D. {Gen 2}

It started, as good quests always do, with a family tale.


Joseph Faulkner (James, William) was born to James Faulkner and Catherine Bull Faulkner in 1770/80 in New Windsor, then Ulster Co, New York. The information comes from the Bull Book and is not definite on the date.

Joseph married Priscilla Faulkner (William, William) his first cousin most likely in New York.

To this union ten (maybe) children were born:


  • William Faulkner b. 1810 d. November 5th 1876 - never married
  • Cassandra Faulkner b. 1812 d. Somerset PA
  • Clarissa Faulkner b. 1812 d. 1903
  • Thomas Faulkner b. 1809 m. Susan Van Vorhees 1828 - Colonel Civil War
  • Mary A. Faulkner b. November 5th 1811 m. Hiram Walsh d. July 29th 1891 Illinois

The next five children are also attributed to this union, but the birth dates given in the Bull Book seem unlikely to be the same mother. More research is needed.

  • James Bull Faulkner b. 28 June 1824 m. Susan Murdock
  • Catherine Faulkner b. 1826 m. J. Wells
  • Martha Faulkner b. 1827 m. Franklyn Coleman d. March 3rd 1859
  • Phinney Faulkner b. 1829 d. April 18th 1857 in Tennessee of Yellow Fever - Reverend - never married
  • John Faulkner b. 1835 - never married

Joseph Faulkner died before 1850 in Dundaff, Pennsylvania
Priscilla Faulkner Faulkner died September 10th 1868 in Dundaff, Pennsylvania


note: this is recorded as written in the Bull/Wells Genealogy Book. This branch of the Faulkner line has not been researched or verified by me. I include it merely to document all descendants. 


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Monday, November 28, 2016

Notes From My Grandmother | Potwin Lineage and Genealogy, Beulah's Letters


Somehow, much of my grandmother's hand written and (badly) typed notes and research wound up in my possession. Traveling from Chicago to Los Angeles and back to Chicago again. It sat, in the dark of my mother's closet, until my dad passed and my mom decided to begin her great purge. Knowing I had picked up the torch, the next generation to pursue the Greatest Hobby on Earth, the papers came to live with me. Unsure for many years on just what to do with them, I have decided to bring them out and share them with you - transcribed, of course - no one can read my grandmother's handwriting! But in her own words; mistakes, rambling sentences, and all. I think she will be pleased her work and her writing are once again out in the light.



Yakima Aug 31 - '67

Dear Friend, 

So pleased to hear from you - will answer promptly - 

You spoke of moving but didn't say if you were going to Calif or staying in Chicago a while -

I was interested in the Oak Park pamphlet and puzzled too - I was in Chicago a great deal at my aunt's <around 1900 to 1907> she lived in Austin - the Loop (we called it the Elevated) in 1900 - ended at Austin - we knew there was an Oak Park but I never was there.

So they called Austin a frustrated entity - not so - Austin too had lovely wide streets - tree lined 3 story homes - setting back from the street. In 1900 the "L" ended at Austin so can Oak Park claim it as one of their lifelines?

And in 1903 Austin was a well established suburb where Oak Park Ave was still a long empty street - From 1900 to 1906 or 7 the year I was married, I spent in Austin that winter - and my uncle was sputtering about their townsmen calling it Cicero - but it happened.

As a girl - going into Chicago by train - often - we knew we were not allowed to get on a "service car" (street car) - one time I did as I had to take it to reach a friends home - took me on the South side of Chicago (the negro belt for sure), but haven't I heard they are infiltrating on the West side?

My relatives moved to Evanston later and are all gone now - a cousin moved to settle in Maquoketa Ia.

My son Don and I spent a week in Victoria B.C. - a lovely city - on Vancouver Island - had to take a ferry up thro the San Juans - groups of islands - large ones.

Victoria is not only Canadian but Socialistic too - in Canada - no freeways - no hurried crowds. Was really restful after the hullaballoo (?) in America - they string clotheslines in the air - front yards are beautifully landscaped - lots of flowers, but nothing in any back-yard. I looked as we drove about - It was all the same - not a thing in any backyard except a back fence and not much yard.

We've had a long hot summer - unusual - 98 all this week. Ordinarily, we get one hot week in July but not this year - all August was hot to 102 - 

I  have been plagued with some arthritis this past few months in my right ankle - I keep on exercising about the yard and it seems to help.

I expect my son and daughter from Seattle to be here for Labor Day weekend - otherwise like Thoreau (that old tramp) - I enjoy "companionable company in solitude"

I have a daughter living in Belmont Calif now and if I get that far next winter - we might get to meet - here's hoping - 

Keep well - 

Best wishes

Beulah E Potwin

113 N 27th Ave
Yakima Wn
98901



to be continued .........





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Sunday, November 27, 2016

Mayflower Month! My Connection to Stephen Hopkins


Stephen Hopkins was from Hampshire, England. He married his first wife, Mary, and resided in the parish of Hursley, Hampshire.  They had their children Elizabeth, Constance, and Giles, all baptized there. It has long been claimed that the Hopkins family was from Wortley, Gloucester, but this was disproven in 1998 with the discovery of his true origins in Hursley. 

Stephen Hopkins went with the ship Sea Venture on a voyage to Jamestown, Virginia in 1609 as a minister's clerk, but the ship wrecked in the "Isle of Devils" (Bermuda). Stranded on an island for ten months, the passengers and crew survived on turtles, birds, and wild pigs. Six months into the castaway, Stephen Hopkins and several others organized a mutiny against the current governor. The mutiny was discovered and Stephen was sentenced to death. However, he pleaded with sorrow and tears. "So penitent he was, and made so much moan, alleging the ruin of his wife and children in this his trespass, as it wrought in the hearts of all the better sorts of the company". He managed to get his sentence commuted.

Eventually the castaways built a small ship and sailed themselves to Jamestown. How long Stephen remained in Jamestown is not known. However, while he was gone, his wife Mary died. She was buried in Hursley on 9 May 1613, and left behind a probate estate which mentions her children Elizabeth, Constance and Giles.

Stephen was back in England by 1617, when he married Elizabeth Fisher, but apparently had every intention of bringing his family back to Virginia. Their first child, Damaris, was born about 1618. In 1620, Stephen Hopkins brought his wife, and children Constance, Giles, and Damaris on the Mayflower (child Elizabeth apparently had died). Stephen was a fairly active member of the Pilgrim group shortly after arrival, perhaps a result of his being one of the few individuals who had been to Virginia previously. He was a part of all the early exploring missions, and was used as an "expert" on Native Americans for the first few contacts. While out exploring, Stephen recognized and identified an Indian deer trap. And when Samoset walked into Plymouth and welcomed the English, he was housed in Stephen Hopkins' house for the night. Stephen was also sent on several of the ambassadorial missions to meet with the various Indian groups in the region.

Stephen was an assistant to the governor through 1636, and volunteered for the Pequot War of 1637 but was never called to serve. By the late 1630s, however, Stephen began to occasionally run afoul of the Plymouth authorities, as he apparently opened up a shop and served alcohol. In 1636 he got into a fight with John Tisdale and seriously wounded him. In 1637, he was fined for allowing drinking and shuffleboard playing on Sunday. Early the next year he was fined for allowing people to drink excessively in his house: guest William Reynolds was fined, but the others were acquitted. In 1638 he was twice fined for selling beer at twice the actual value, and in 1639 he was fined for selling a looking glass for twice what it would cost if bought in the Bay Colony. Also in 1638, Stephen Hopkins' maidservant got pregnant from Arthur Peach, who was subsequently executed for murdering an Indian. The Plymouth Court ruled he was financially responsible for her and her child for the next two years (the amount remaining on her term of service). Stephen, in contempt of court, threw Dorothy out of his household and refused to provide for her, so the court committed him to custody. John Holmes stepped in and purchased Dorothy's remaining two years of service from him: agreeing to support her and child.

Stephen died in 1644, and made out a will, asking to be buried near his wife, and naming his surviving children. ~from MayflowerHistory.com

My Lineage:

  • Stephen Hopkins and Mary
  • Constance Hopkins (1606/1677) married Nicholas Snow (1599/1676)
  • Ruth Snow (1644/1715/16) married John Cole (1644/1725)
  • Ruth Cole (1667/1728) married William Twining Jr (1654/1734)
  • William Twining III (1704/1769) married Apphia Lewis (1704/1793)
  • Elijah Twining (1741/1802) married Lois Rogers (1744/1815)
  • Lewis Twining Sr (1777/1821) married Jennett/Janet Smith (1780/1827)
  • Edward Wolcott Twining (1814/1897) married Priscilla B Ashby (1817/1911)
  • Jesse Louis Twining (1850/1933) married Flora Dell Rowley (1857/1932)
  • Carrie Elizabeth Twining (1881/1969) married Irving Augustus Potwin (1878/1938)
  • Elizabeth Twining Potwin (1904/1985) married Robert W Thomas (1904/1955) 
  • Elizabeth A Thomas (1936 - ) married Robert L Faulkner (1934 - )
  • ME


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Saturday, November 26, 2016

Book Of The Week: Pilgrim Alden



Pilgrim Alden: the story of the life of the first John Alden in America with the interwoven story of the life and doings of the Pilgrim colony and some account of later Aldens

Augustus Ephraim Alden
Earle, 1902 - Pilgrim fathers - 232 pages




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Friday, November 25, 2016

Photo Friday :: Thanksgiving Night 1897


This series was birthed from the large old photo album I rediscovered in the back of my closet. Many of the photos are from my grandmother's side of the family. There are also unknown photos that came with the album. Story goes my dad, an avid garage saler, picked up a celluloid covered Victorian era photo album on one of his scavenges. It already contained photos of an (as yet) unidentified family. My parents put our own vintage family photos in the album alongside the mystery family's.  As children we marveled at the old fashioned clothing and settings, often wondering who these people were and what their lives were like. Of course, we thought that ALL the people in the photos were our relations! It wasn't until my mom passed the album on to me after my dad died that I learned of the mystery family residing alongside our own!

I plan to share these photos over time, sometimes they will be my family, and identifiable, others will be of the mystery family. Thanks to the world wide web, they may find their way home yet!

Enjoy!




labeled: "Taken Thanksgiven Night 1897"

At first I thought this was a random mystery photo, but upon closer inspection I do believe it is part of the Irons clan of Chicago. The woman on the right looks like Agnes Irons from other photos I have. I've seen the girls in other Irons family photos, too. As for the young men? Can't say for sure. Take a look here and see if you don't agree that this might be an Irons family photo.

At any rate, looks like a good time was had by all!



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Thursday, November 24, 2016

Video Of The Week: How to Apply to Lineage Societies: Tips from NEHGS


We watch a lot of videos in the Cave. Webinars, instructional videos, continuing education videos,

you name it! If it helps with our genealogical pursuit we are all over it!

Each week we thought we'd share one we've enjoyed.

Hope you enjoy it too!







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Wednesday, November 23, 2016

Frasers of Fife: Generation Three | Agnes Fraser and David Sheilds

1880 John Fraser Family Tree

22. Agnes Fraser (Alexander -5, Duncan -1) born September 6th 1812


married


David Sheilds born 1812


children of this union:


       i.  Robert Sheilds b. 1832 d. 1850

       ii. Elizabeth Sheilds b. 1835 died in infancy

59. iii. Janet Sheilds b. 1837 married Alexander Mitchell

60. iv. Agnes Sheilds b. 1841 married George Dewar



 Agnes died 1852
David died in 1862


~ all information provided here has been taken directly from the John Fraser family tree compiled in 1880 and as such is the only source for these writings - the objective being to record his work for further study and documentation ~ 


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©1880 John Fraser - Scotland
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Tuesday, November 22, 2016

Finding Faulkner: The Progeny | Sarah Faulkner {Gen 2}

It started, as good quests always do, with a family tale.



Sarah Faulkner (James, William) was born to James Faulkner and Sarah Bull Faulkner on December 8th 1768, most likely in New Windsor, then Ulster Co, New York.

Sarah married Thomas Houston about 1792 most likely Near Middletown, New York.

To this union ten children were born (most likely Middletown, Orange Co, New York):


  • Ann Houston b. 1793 m. Henry W Denton d. November 8th 1871 - no issue 
  • Harriett Houston b. August 25ht 1794 m. John B. Booth
  • Gabriel Houston b. May 25th 1798 m. Susan Ann Owen
  • Adaline Houston b. May 1800 m. Rev. Gabriel Corwin d. April 21st 1861 - no issue
  • Catherine Houston b. 1801 m. David Corwin
  • Philinda Houston b. May 20th 1802 d. August 10th 1883 - never married
  • Jane Houston b. 1805 m. Henry O. Bronson M.D. d. May 28th 1878 - no issue
  • James Houston b. 1807 d. California - never married
  • Franklin Houston b. 1809 m. Caroline L'Hommedieux
  • Nelson Houston b. April 20th 1813 m. Sarah Townsend


Sarah Faulkner Houston died February 3rd 1847
Thomas Houston died August 5th 1859

both are buried in the Phillipsburg Cemetery in Phillipsburg, Orange Co, New York




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Monday, November 21, 2016

Notes From My Grandmother | Potwin Lineage and Genealogy, Beulah's Letters


Somehow, much of my grandmother's hand written and (badly) typed notes and research wound up in my possession. Traveling from Chicago to Los Angeles and back to Chicago again. It sat, in the dark of my mother's closet, until my dad passed and my mom decided to begin her great purge. Knowing I had picked up the torch, the next generation to pursue the Greatest Hobby on Earth, the papers came to live with me. Unsure for many years on just what to do with them, I have decided to bring them out and share them with you - transcribed, of course - no one can read my grandmother's handwriting! But in her own words; mistakes, rambling sentences, and all. I think she will be pleased her work and her writing are once again out in the light.



Dear Friend,

I have thought of you often - so don't cut me off your list. Whatever are you doing - living in the folds of Chicago. It can't be the same city I knew - way back in the gay 90's - all that snow. We had an open winter - ground never froze - in this central Wash. Seattle & Portland get the rain - we get the sunshine - no hot summers any more - plenty of snow in the mts beyond us.

I too read a lot of history all last winter - I find I can remember what I read in history but other books lose interest for me - and, I wonder what (so called) historians will say about our present mix-ups - we're a doomed country - thanks to (9 old men) Supreme Court - not to mention our misguided government.

Is Highland Park a suburb of Chicago? I still live by myself (no dogs) but hire so much done - I wish I could live in one of the lovely apts everywhere.

Don and Meg (my two youngest age 40) have lovely ones in Seattle but oh the rents! $170 for 2 bedroom one - etc and Seattle is too much for me - so I'll stay in my own home on a quiet street - Yakima is a lovely city.

I quit the newspapers - can't see they are needed - I enjoy the commentators on TV, especially Joseph Benti - Cronkite, both, and so I've just had my 84th birthday - but live "like 60".

I hope to hear from you soon - you say you are working - wish I could - I wanted to enter Real Estate 20 years ago but got "talked out of it".  Am I sorry!

Love,

Beulah E Potwin

All apologies for not answering sooner - -





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©1965 Beulah E Potwin - Private Collection

Sunday, November 20, 2016

Mayflower Month! My Connection to Edward Fuller


Edward Fuller has been generally identified as the son of Robert and Sara (Dunkhorn) Fuller, baptized on 4 September 1575 at Redenhall, Norfolk. Thomas Morton, writing in 1637, says that Samuel Fuller (brother of Edward Fuller) was the son of a butcher. The name Matthew also occurs in this Redenhall Fuller family. 

The name of Edward Fuller's wife has not been discovered. In James Savage's Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England (1860-1862), Edward Fuller's wife was given as "Ann". However, there are no American or English records which give her name. I suspect James Savage may have made a simple typographical error: Mayflower passenger Edward Tilley had a wife Ann; or perhaps he was thinking of their sister Ann Fuller. Nonetheless, numerous sources published after 1860 have utilized Savage's Genealogical Dictionary, and so the identification of Ann can be found in numerous other books and online resources.

Very little is known about Edward Fuller. What is known is that he, his wife, and his son Samuel came on the Mayflower in 1620 to Plymouth. A single Leiden judicial document mentions Edward Fuller, and proves that he, like brother Samuel Fuller, were living in Leiden. Both Edward and his wife died the first winter, but son Samuel (who would have been about 12), survived. An older brother, Matthew, had stayed behind, and came to America later. ~from MayflowerHistory.com

My Lineage


  • Edward Fuller
  • Matthew Fuller (1605/1678) married Frances LNUK
  • Elizabeth Fuller (1627/1714) married Moses Rowley Sr (1627/1705)
  • Moses Rowley Jr (1654/1735) married Mary LNUK (some say Fletcher, not proved)
  • Moses Rowley III (1679/1735) married Martha Porter
  • Daniel Rowley (1719/UNK) married Bethiah Langrill (1725/1750)
  • Joseph Langrill Rowley (1750/1837) married Hannah Loveland
  • Joseph Rowley (1788/1853) married Annie Beach (1790/1863)
  • Rossiter Clark Rowley (1818/1912) married Rhoda Ann Vredenburgh (1818/1890)
  • Flora Dell Rowley (1857/1932) married Jesse Louis Twining (1850/1933)
  • Carrie Elizabeth Twining (1881/1969) married Irving A Potwin (1878/1938)
  • Elizabeth Twining Potwin (1904/1985) married Robert W Thomas (1804/1955)
  • Elizabeth A Thomas (1936 - ) married Robert L Faulkner (1934 - )
  • ME

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Saturday, November 19, 2016

Book Of The Week: Sketch of the Public and Private Life of Samuel Miles Hopkins, of Salem, Connecticut


Sketch of the Public and Private Life of Samuel Miles Hopkins, of Salem, Connecticut
Samuel Miles Hopkins, Sarah Hopkins Bradford
Society, 1898 - 56 pages

Samuel Miles Hopkins (1772-1837) was the son of Samuel Hopkins and Mary Miles (1811-1858) of Goshen, Connecticut. He was a descendant of the emigrant John Hopkins and his wife Jane (Strong?) of Hartford, Connecticut. John was the possible second son of Stephen Hopkins who was the fourteenth on the list of forty-one passengers who signed the Mayflower Compact in December 1620. John came to Massachusetts with the Reverend Thomas Hooker in 1633. The historical sketch traces the Puritan lineage of the author. Samuel Miles Hopkins married Sarah Elisabeth Rogers (1778-1866) of New York City in 1800. They were the parents of seven children: Mary Elizabeth (b.1802), William Rogers (b.1805), Julia Anne (b.1807), Hester Rogers (b.1808), Samuel Miles (b.1813), Woolsey Rogers (b.1815) and Sarah Elizabeth (b.1818.





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Friday, November 18, 2016

Photo Friday :: E W Ashby's Daughters



This series was birthed from the large old photo album I rediscovered in the back of my closet. Many of the photos are from my grandmother's side of the family. There are also unknown photos that came with the album. Story goes my dad, an avid garage saler, picked up a celluloid covered Victorian era photo album on one of his scavenges. It already contained photos of an (as yet) unidentified family. My parents put our own vintage family photos in the album alongside the mystery family's.  As children we marveled at the old fashioned clothing and settings, often wondering who these people were and what their lives were like. Of course, we thought that ALL the people in the photos were our relations! It wasn't until my mom passed the album on to me after my dad died that I learned of the mystery family residing alongside our own!

I plan to share these photos over time, sometimes they will be my family, and identifiable, others will be of the mystery family. Thanks to the world wide web, they may find their way home yet!

Enjoy!



labeled "Eusebius Ashby's daughters"

Well, maybe. He had six of them. And, as I am discovering, the labels on some of the photos are not quite correct. If these are EW's daughters, I would guess them to be the two youngest, Priscilla, born 1876 and Ester, born 1880.


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Thursday, November 17, 2016

Video Of The Week: Searching Study Projects on AmericanAncestors org

We watch a lot of videos in the Cave. Webinars, instructional videos, continuing education videos, you name it! If it helps with our genealogical pursuit we are all over it!

Each week we thought we'd share one we've enjoyed.

Hope you enjoy it too!






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Wednesday, November 16, 2016

Frasers of Fife: Generation Three | George Fraser and Janet Turpie

1880 John Fraser Family Tree

21. George Fraser (Alexander -5, Duncan -1) born April 30th 1807 - mechanic

married

Janet Turpie birth not recorded


child born to this union:

i. Janet Fraser birth not recorded


George died April 6th 1844 aged 37
Janet's death is unrecorded



~ all information provided here has been taken directly from the John Fraser family tree compiled in 1880 and as such is the only source for these writings - the objective being to record his work for further study and documentation ~ 


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©1880 John Fraser - Scotland
All Rights Reserved

Tuesday, November 15, 2016

Finding Faulkner: The Progeny | William Bull Faulkner {Gen 2}

It started, as good quests always do, with a family tale.


William Bull Faulkner (James, William) was born to James and Catherine Bull Faulkner in the town of New Windsor, then Ulster County, New York in 1758; according to the Bull Family Book.

William married an UNK first wife about 1774.

to this union four children were born (most likely Middletown, New York):


  • John Faulkner b. August 1775 m. Catherine McCord
  • Achsah Faulkner b. about 1777 m. James Boak
  • Matthew Faulkner b. 1778 m. Isabelle Robinson
  • Levi Faulkner b. 1779 d. September 20th 1804 - fell from a horse and died/never married

William married Agnes 'Nancy' McWilliams April 3rd 1788 at the First Presbyterian Church in Goshen, New York.

to this union four children were born (all Orange County, New York):

  • Sarah Faulkner b. 1789 m. William T. Bush Jr.
  • Letty Faulkner b. 1790 m. Benjamin Everett
  • Joseph Faulkner M.D. b. 1795 d. January 17th 1856 - never married
  • Esther Faulkner b. 1798 d. UNK

William Bull Faulkner died in 1798.

Agnes McWilliams Faulkner married for a second time, William Stubbs, Jr. in 1802. (per Bull Family Book) She died December 3rd 1830



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Monday, November 14, 2016

Notes From My Grandmother | Potwin Lineage and Genealogy, Beulah's Letters



Somehow, much of my grandmother's hand written and (badly) typed notes and research wound up in my possession. Traveling from Chicago to Los Angeles and back to Chicago again. It sat, in the dark of my mother's closet, until my dad passed and my mom decided to begin her great purge. Knowing I had picked up the torch, the next generation to pursue the Greatest Hobby on Earth, the papers came to live with me. Unsure for many years on just what to do with them, I have decided to bring them out and share them with you - transcribed, of course - no one can read my grandmother's handwriting! But in her own words; mistakes, rambling sentences, and all. I think she will be pleased her work and her writing are once again out in the light.



Dear Mrs. Thomas,

I am disappointed at my efforts in writing - Hope you can make sense out of all the notes I send - 

I only have one contact with East Windsor now, a sister-in-law, Stephen's wife - but she sent me all th data she had so I have "jotted" it all down for you - wish I could have had it typed up - I will be 83 in April - no one believes me but my Dr. says heredity has a hand in it - strong ancestry counts -

I think I gleaned all the "work" habits of my paternal Scotch grandmother and all my children inherit her neatness to the point it is almost painful -

I keep active we're a "reading" family - 

notes

Thomas Costain now dead did much research in medieval history so that helps us - we couldn't have done it.

So the Magnificant Century written by Costain has a chapter "The Poitevines Rule England" - look on the paperback shelves of any good store, even drug stores - that is where I found the above book.

But Costain wrote:

"Conquering Family" which tells the story of the Poitevins of Aquitaine France

Elinor of Aquitaine who started the Plantaganet Line married Henry II England

Magnificent Century

Plantaganets

The Three Edwards

all these you may find in paperback editions - in one book ancestry thru Elinor's family goes back to Jerusalem - it makes fascinating reading - all of Elinor's 4 sons by Henry II were bold fighters but very bad kings.

And all tho I am not a Potwin (but by marriage) we are all interested in genealogy and, in reading medieval history. My daughter Inez in the Graduate Dept at U of W discovered "Elinor of Aquitaine" and having read in history how Wm of Normandy had a Poitevine with him on his war trips to Ireland - England etc - We knew we had found some history -




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Sunday, November 13, 2016

Mayflower Month! My Connection to Isaac and Mary (Norris) Allerton



Isaac Allerton may have come from the vicinity of Ipswich, co. Suffolk, England.  He first appears in Leiden, Holland records on 4 November 1611, when he married Mary Norris.  Isaac had a sister named Sarah who also resided in Leiden, and who married future Mayflower passenger Degory Priest.  He was probably also related, perhaps a brother, to Mayflower passenger John Allerton.

Isaac Allerton is one of the most complex figures in early Plymouth Colony.  He was elected assistant to Governor Bradford in 1621, and continued in that capacity well into the 1630s.  He was the individual sent to handle most of the buyout negotiations with the London investors that ccommenced in 1627, and continued through the early 1630s.  Allerton soon began to take advantage of his position by engaging in some personal trading deals, and engaging the Pilgrims' joint-stock company in business ventures they had not authorized.  After driving the colony deeper into debt with ill-advised business opportunities, he was eventually removed and replaced by Edward Winslow.  After the death of his wife Fear in 1634, he retreated to the New Haven Colony and married there to Joanna Swinnerton.  

Allerton became an active merchant trader, engaging in transactions and trade with many neighboring colonies including the Dutch at New Netherlands; New Sweden; Virginia; Massachusetts Bay; and Barbados. ~from MayflowerHistory.com

Mary (Norris) Allerton was about thirty when she came on the Mayflower with her husband Isaac and three children Bartholomew, Remember, and Mary.  Her marriage record in Leiden indicates she was from Newbury, which is presumably Newbury, Co. Berks, England.  Searches of this area for her baptism record and other Norris family records have not yet turned up anything conclusive.  They buried a child at St. Peters, Leiden, on 5 February 1620, and she gave birth to a stillborn son in Plymouth Harbor on 22 December 1620.  She herself died during the height of the first winter, on 25 February 1620/1, though her husband and three children all survived. ~from MayflowerHistory.com

My lineage:


  • Isaac Allerton married Mary Norris 
  • Remember Allerton (1614/1652) married Moses Maverick (1611/1686)
  • Elizabeth Maverick (1649/1698) married Nathaniel Grafton (1642/1670)
  • Priscilla Grafton (1671/1698) married Thomas Jackson 1673/1710)
  • Mary Jackson (1698/1766) married John Potwine Sr (1698/1792)
  • Thomas Potwine Sr (1731/1802) married Abigail Moseley (1732/1759)
  • Thomas Potwine Jr (1756/1824) married Martha Stiles (1760/1822)
  • Benjamin A Potwine (1788/1852) married Cornelia Curtis (1798/1885)
  • Monroe A Potwin (1837/1917) married Ella A Burt (1850/1902)
  • Irving A Potwin (1878/1938) married Carrie E Twining (1881/1969)
  • Elizabeth T Potwin (1904/1985) married Robert W Thomas (1904/1955)
  • Elizabeth A Thomas (1936 - ) married Robert L Faulkner (1934 - )
  • ME

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Saturday, November 12, 2016

Book Of The Week: Mayflower Descendents and Their Marriages for Two Generations...


Mayflower Descendents and Their Marriages for Two Generations After the Landing: Including a Short History of the Church of the Pilgrim Founders of New England

Bureau of Military and Civic Achievement, 1922 - United States - 40 pages




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Friday, November 11, 2016

Photo Friday :: Aunt Hettie, Most Likely


This series was birthed from the large old photo album I rediscovered in the back of my closet. Many of the photos are from my grandmother's side of the family. There are also unknown photos that came with the album. Story goes my dad, an avid garage saler, picked up a celluloid covered Victorian era photo album on one of his scavenges. It already contained photos of an (as yet) unidentified family. My parents put our own vintage family photos in the album alongside the mystery family's.  As children we marveled at the old fashioned clothing and settings, often wondering who these people were and what their lives were like. Of course, we thought that ALL the people in the photos were our relations! It wasn't until my mom passed the album on to me after my dad died that I learned of the mystery family residing alongside our own!

I plan to share these photos over time, sometimes they will be my family, and identifiable, others will be of the mystery family. Thanks to the world wide web, they may find their way home yet!

Enjoy!


Labeled "Mrs. E. Ashby"
"Aunt Hettie"
"taken mid-1800's"


Note: I'm a bit perplexed by this one. Mrs E Ashby's given name was Elizabeth Ann, Mr E Ashby had a sister named Hester/Ester. Either the author of the label was confused and this is actually a photo of Mrs A B Dicken, E Ashby's sister, or Elizabeth was called Hettie? 
If this is the sister and not the wife, then here is a photo of the daughter.  
Do I see a resemblance? Or am I just grasping at straws?

fun with photos!



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Thursday, November 10, 2016

Video Of The Week: Find Your 17th-c. New England Ancestors with NEHGS

We watch a lot of videos in the Cave. Webinars, instructional videos, continuing education videos, you name it! If it helps with our genealogical pursuit we are all over it!

Each week we thought we'd share one we've enjoyed.

Hope you enjoy it too!








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Wednesday, November 9, 2016

Frasers of Fife: Generation Three | James Fraser and Agnes Calander

1880 John Fraser Family Tree

20. James Fraser (Alexander -5, Duncan -1) born May 24th 1805


married


Agnes Calander born June 6th 1807



children of this union:


      i. Elizabeth Fraser b. September 29th 1842 d. June 10th 1847

      ii. Janet Fraser b. February 10th 1844 d. 1847

      iii. Henry Fraser b. December 11th 1845

58. iv. Alexander Fraser b. May 10th 1848 married Elizabeth Martin

      v. George Fraser b. July 26th 1850



James died December 31st 1867 aged 65 years
Agnes' death is not recorded



~ all information provided here has been taken directly from the John Fraser family tree compiled in 1880 and as such is the only source for these writings - the objective being to record his work for further study and documentation ~ 


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Tuesday, November 8, 2016

Finding Faulkner: Mash-Up | Happy Birthday Dad


It started, as good quests always do, with a family tale.

My dad would have been 82 today.

He left us far too young.

He still had "miles to go", but cancer robbed him.

As a tribute to his life, and the catalyst for Finding Faulkner, I'd like to share a photoblog of his life with you. I'm not quite ready to honor him with words - his loss is still painful although it's been 9 years - but the photos make me smile .....










I will leave you with his favorite poem:

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.

My little horse must think it queer
To stop without a farmhouse near
Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year.

He gives his harness bells a shake
To ask if there is some mistake.
The only other sound’s the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.

~Robert Frost

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Monday, November 7, 2016

Notes From My Grandmother | Potwin Lineage and Genealogy, Beulah's Letters


Somehow, much of my grandmother's hand written and (badly) typed notes and research wound up in my possession. Traveling from Chicago to Los Angeles and back to Chicago again. It sat, in the dark of my mother's closet, until my dad passed and my mom decided to begin her great purge. Knowing I had picked up the torch, the next generation to pursue the Greatest Hobby on Earth, the papers came to live with me. Unsure for many years on just what to do with them, I have decided to bring them out and share them with you - transcribed, of course - no one can read my grandmother's handwriting! But in her own words; mistakes, rambling sentences, and all. I think she will be pleased her work and her writing are once again out in the light.


March 3 - '66

Dear Friend,

 Have you survived the winter in good shape? We really had some here though usually rather mixed winters and I see on TV daily what your Chicago winter has been like. -

I am writing to ask if you will soon send me data about your children their marriages and issue with full names and dates. - I am trying to complete  the genealogy so my daughter can make copies. -

Did you receive my last letter - about Iowa and such! It could have gotten lost - so many planes acting up - 

It looks like spring but spring weather is most unpredictable out here - down to 17 last night and the orchardists worry over the fruit these coming cold nights.

I just finished reading Wm the Conqueror - learned that his fore bearers were Scandinavian - and being overgrown in their North country decided to ravage elsewhere - so they took Normandy - Then Wm grew up and history reports that he not only took England - subdued the people, but ravaged the land - And he was ruthless!! He had a son John - first Wm was King of England then (by conquest) - Then his son John and John had a son John II who married Elinor - etc -

A few weeks back Time magazine had an article that told how England was celebrating a day in honor of Wm the C. But I don't see the sense to that - he did nothing for them - so it goes - 

Hope you are well - write soon

Sincerely, 

Beulah E Potwin


113 N 27th Ave
Yakima Wn



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©1965 Beulah E Potwin - Private Collection

Sunday, November 6, 2016

Mayflower Month! My Connection To The Pilgrims


Well, it's November. 

Again. 

Here in the United States we celebrate Thanksgiving later this month. The characters of our Thanksgiving are the Pilgrims who sailed across the ocean on the Mayflower to land at Plymouth Rock, and thus colonize the New World. Every schoolchild knows the story. Parents and Grandparents sit through 'The First Thanksgiving" plays, watching their progeny in construction paper headdresses and Pilgrim hats. A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving airs on TV. And personal curiosity to find a connection to one of the original 102 travelers peaks. Everybody wants to have a Mayflower Connection!! 

At least in November.

The blood of several Mayflower passengers courses through my veins. It is exciting, as a genealogist and family historian, to make the connection. To think of those people, my ancestors, and their lives; struggles and triumphs, wins and loses. The oppression that drove them to a virtually unknown wilderness across a vast ocean, guided by their beliefs. Facing delay and peril, yet forging ahead.

Strong people. 

Stubborn people. 

My people.

To date I have discovered my connection to three families:

  • Isaac and Mary (Norris) Allerton through their daughter Remember.
  • Edward Fuller through his son Matthew.
  • Stephen Hopkins through his daughter Constance.

In the coming weeks I will briefly explore each of these families and share my connection. As so much has already been written on these folks I seen no need for in-depth coverage, but I would like to share my ties, and hopefully discover some 'cousins' who share some of the same ancestors.

Until next time here are some links for further reading:

MayflowerHistory.com
Wikipedia 
TheMayflowerSociety.org


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Saturday, November 5, 2016

Book Of The Week: A History of the Allerton Family in the United States



A History of the Allerton Family in the United States: 1585 to 1885, and a Genealogy of the Descendants of Isaac Allerton, "Mayflower Pilgrim," Plymouth, Mass., 1620

Walter Scott Allerton, Horace True Currier
Higginson Book Company, 1900 - 149 pages







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Friday, November 4, 2016

Photo Friday :: The Mystery Boys of Champaign IL


This series was birthed from the large old photo album I rediscovered in the back of my closet. Many of the photos are from my grandmother's side of the family. There are also unknown photos that came with the album. Story goes my dad, an avid garage saler, picked up a celluloid covered Victorian era photo album on one of his scavenges. It already contained photos of an (as yet) unidentified family. My parents put our own vintage family photos in the album alongside the mystery family's.  As children we marveled at the old fashioned clothing and settings, often wondering who these people were and what their lives were like. Of course, we thought that ALL the people in the photos were our relations! It wasn't until my mom passed the album on to me after my dad died that I learned of the mystery family residing alongside our own!

I plan to share these photos over time, sometimes they will be my family, and identifiable, others will be of the mystery family. Thanks to the world wide web, they may find their way home yet!

Enjoy!





Here's the first "mystery photo"! This could be three brothers or it could be a father and two sons, the man on the left looks older to me. Anyway - complete mystery! Not related to my family so I'd love to find them a proper home. Only hint is Champaign IL, unfortunately. Look familiar to anyone?


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Thursday, November 3, 2016

Video Of The Week: Discovering Your Colonial Immigrant Ancestor

We watch a lot of videos in the Cave. Webinars, instructional videos, continuing education videos, you name it! If it helps with our genealogical pursuit we are all over it!

Each week we thought we'd share one we've enjoyed.

Hope you enjoy it too!




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Wednesday, November 2, 2016

Frasers of Fife: Generation Three | Margaret Fraser and George Mackie

1880 John Fraser Family Tree

19. Margaret Fraser (Alexander -5, Duncan -1) born November 26th 1798


married 1828


George Mackie born at Leslie 1800



children of this union:


54. i. Alexander Mackie b. 1831 married Margaret Fouler

55. ii. James Mackie b. July 28th 1835 married Jane Dickson married Marion Crabbie

56. iii. Janet Mackie b. August 7th 1837 married George Crichton

57. iv. Andrew Mackie b. October 15th 1838 married Ann Lessels

     v. Duncan Mackie b.  October 1844 d. May 1st 1862


Margaret died September 2nd 1852 aged 52 years
George died December 17th 1876 aged 76 years



~ all information provided here has been taken directly from the John Fraser family tree compiled in 1880 and as such is the only source for these writings - the objective being to record his work for further study and documentation ~ 



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Tuesday, November 1, 2016

Lloyd Anson Faulkner, M.D.: Eclectic Doctor and Mineral Merchant (52 Ancestors #27)

Lloyd Anson is the man that lit the fire under my Finding Faulkner series. After my dad died and I inherited the genealogy files he had kept, I came across a file marked "Operation Grampa". Lloyd Anson was my father's "Grampa". Seems he was trying to learn more about the man. Happy to oblige, I dug in ...... which took me on the journey of a lifetime, and concluded with me actually finding our Faulkner, our original immigrant. So wish my dad were still here to share this with. But this is a sketch about Lloyd.

Lloyd Anson Faulkner, middle child, was born in the brand new state of Minnesota on September 30th 1862. Son of Harrison and Jennie Whitford Faulkner. He was welcomed into a family that already consisted of older brother, Arthur Edward and half brother, James Nichols. His younger brother, Louis Nelson would follow soon after.

Lloyd at 16
Lloyd's parents divorced in 1878, when he was 15. He and his brothers continued to reside with their mother until her death in 1888.

511 State Chicago
In 1884 Lloyd and his mother moved temporarily to Chicago, IL so that Lloyd could attend Bennett Medical College. While Lloyd attended classes, mother Jennie worked as a nurse.

Lloyd Anson graduated on April 1, 1885 as an Eclectic Physician. According to Wikipedia: "Eclectic medicine was a branch of American medicine which made use of botanical remedies along with other substances and physical therapy practices, popular in the latter half of the 19th and first half of the 20th centuries." 
Graduation Announcement
from Chicago Tribune

The very next month Lloyd and his mother returned to Minnesota, residing in St Paul with brothers Arthur and Louis.

Dr Faulkner opened his practice in Duluth, on Superior Street. He held office hours daily, even Sunday!

In 1888 Jennie Faukner died, Lloyd was only 25. I do not know the cause of death, but it must have been hard on Lloyd, being a doctor, not being able to prevent or prolong it. (Well, perhaps he did prolong it, one can hope anyway.)

Lloyd continued to practice medicine, and in 1891 married Anna O'Connell, who had moved to St Paul from New York several years earlier.

The couple's first son Raymond Lloyd, was born before their first anniversary. Daughter Mary Edith would follow in 1894. The couple now resided in Duluth and Lloyd had opened a side business dealing in gems and minerals obtained from Lake Superior. This new venture was called the Natural Science Establishment.

Their second son James Harrison came along in 1897.

By 1900 the family was back in St Paul, where the final children, a set of twins, were born. Louis Lester and Catherine Lila, delivered, like all the other children, by their father Dr Lloyd, joined the family in 1902.

Lloyd Anson Faulkner was a lifelong member of the AOUW, Ancient Order Of United Workmen. Perhaps his father was a member as well, I have yet to discover any more on this.


1905 brought the death of Lloyd's father Harrison. For the next two decades the family seemed to move around a lot, always remaining in Minnesota. Perhaps Lloyd was a traveling physician at this time. The family moved between Blue Earth and Crow Wing, with stops in Rice and Sibley. Or, based on the dates of the census records, Dr Faulkner may have done the travelling, taking his family with him for the summer months.

At any rate, things settled down by 1920. Dr Faulkner was back in St Paul, his office was in the Baltimore building and the family resided on Hague Ave. In August of that year Lloyd's brother Louis died of a horrible disease easily curable with modern penicillin, which would not be discovered for another 9 years.

Children's marriages were celebrated on at least three occasions. The family may have traveled to Chicago in 1914 for the wedding of the oldest son, Raymond Lloyd; and again in 1928 for the marriage of youngest son, Louis Lester. The oldest daughter Mary Edith was married by 1930, most likely in St Paul.

Raymond and his wife Marion would give Lloyd a grandson and a granddaughter.

Sometime after 1930 Dr Lloyd Faulkner began to feel tired, run down. He was in his late 60's. Perhaps it was time to retire? I do not believe Dr. Faulkner ever got that chance, he actively practiced medicine until July of 1933. On December 18th 1933 at 10:51 in the morning Dr Lloyd Anson Faulkner passed away after a valiant fight with prostate cancer.

He is buried in Acacia Park Cemetery, in Mendota Heights, Minnesota.

He looks a lot like my dad.

Posthumously Lloyd Anson Faulkner became grandfather to two more grandchildren. A grandson from youngest son Louis Lester and a granddaughter from youngest daughter Catherine Lila.

"Operation Grandpa" concludes.





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