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Saturday, November 24, 2018

Book Of The Week: Pilgrim Notes and Queries

Pilgrim Notes and Queries,

Volume 2

George Ernest Bowman

1914 - Pilgrims (New Plymouth Colony)

Saturday, November 3, 2018

Book Of The Week: History of the Underground Railroad in Chester and the Neighboring Counties of Pennsylvania

History of the Underground Railroad in

Chester and the Neighboring Counties

of Pennsylvania

Robert Clemens Smedley

Office of the Journal, 1883 - Abolitionists - 407 pages

Saturday, September 30, 2017

Book Of The Week: A History of the Pioneer Families of Missouri

A History of the Pioneer Families of Missouri:

With Numerous Sketches, Anecdotes, Adventures, Etc., Relating to Early Days in Missouri. Also the Lives of Daniel Boone and the Celebrated Indian Chief, Black Hawk, with Numerous Biographies and Histories of Primitive Institutions

William Smith Bryan

Bryan Brand & Company, 1876 - Missouri - 528 pages

Saturday, September 23, 2017

Book Of The Week: Colonial Families of the Southern States of America

Colonial Families of the Southern States of America:

A History and Genealogy of Colonial Families who Settled in the Colonies Prior to the Revolution

Stella Pickett Hardy

Wright, 1911 - Southern States - 643 pages

(note: these books should be used a guides only, lineage is often revised as new discoveries are made)

Saturday, July 29, 2017

Book Of The Week: History of Plymouth Plantation

History of Plymouth Plantation

William Bradford

Published for the Massachusetts Historical Society, 1856 - Massachusetts - 476 pages

Monday, April 24, 2017

Notes From My Grandmother | Rowley Lineage and Genealogy, Part 1

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.

Rowley Family Story

Rowley is a Saxon name: 'row' means sweet 'ley' means field. Roilly is near Evreux, Normandy. Ralph Roilly came over with the Conqueror. The name traced to time of Edward II when Randolph de Roilly (Rowely) was seated at Carmichan county, Chester. Some American members of the family clan descended from William Rowley, noted dramatist in time of James I (Amer. Ances. - Hughes 2:106; 3:191)

Henry Rowley in Plymouth, Mass as early as 1633, coming it is surmised with Mr. Timothy Hatherly in the "Charles". (Gen. Dict. of New England - Savage; 3:582) One of the original settlers of Scituate as a freeman 1633 and with wife joined first church there 1635. He removed to Barnstable (five and more) at forming of the church which was then "gathered" in 1639.

Henry Rowley took place among the sturdy pioneers - was constable (an important and most honorable position) manager and representative to General Court 1634; 1643; 1650. His first wife (married in England) said to have been daughter of William Palmer, an early comer to Plymouth. Henry's second marriage took place in Plymouth October 17, 1633 to Ann "late wife of Thomas Blossom" (Mayflower Descendent 13:83). In January 1633/4 listed with "males" in colony who "able to bear arms". He is found among those in Barnstable.

Records are vague as to children of Henry Rowley - Mr Savage has Thomas Rowley of Windsor CT: freeman 1669 - m. 5th May 1669 - to Mary Denslow (ancestor of Emma Hale) and d. 4th May 1708.

Inventory of estate of Henry Rowley filed in Plymouth Colony. Wills and Inventories vol III - fol pg. 93. A copy printed in "Mayflower Descendent" 24:137 and is of interest ****inventory of estate**** on oath of Moses Rowley****said Henry Rowley's children:

1 - Sarah m. 11th April 1646 to Jonathan Hatch. They had four children born at
Barnstable 1648 - 1653 and four others; seven sons and two daughters in all
(NEHGR 2:194)
2 - Moses married Elizabeth Fuller.
3 - Joseph of Barnstable (Gen. Dist. of New England by Savage, 3:582)
*Rebecca probable - mentioned in William Palmer's will.

II - Moses (son of Henry) probably born in England and with father came in 1632 to Plymouth (named in will of his grandfather William Palmer) In 'Hughes Amer. Anc. 3:191' calls him second son and a freeman at Barnstable 1617, and represented Suckonessett (Falmouth) in General Court 1692.

Moses married Elizabeth Fuller 22nd April, 1652 at Barnstable. Moses died 1705 in East Haddam, CT.

Children:

1 - Mary - 1653
2 - Moses - 1654 - freeman 1690 - m. Mary
3 - Child b./d. 15 Aug 1656
4 - Schubael (twin) b. 11th Jan 1660/61 - d. Mar 1714 - m. Catherine Crippen
5 - Mehitable (twin) b. 11th Jan 1660/61 - m. John Fuller ("Little John Fuller" - son of
Samuel Fuller, who with his father Edward came to Plymouth in the Mayflower
1620)
6 - Sarah - b. 10th Sep 1662
7 - Aaron - b. 1st May 1666
8 - John - b. 22nd Oct 1667

***editor's note: this is a transcript of research completed in 1982 based on information available at that time. I have not yet researched this family further, but suspect there is more information/clarification available to us today. I will follow up at a future date with fresh data. ***

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***editor's note II: My grandmother stopped here - picking up her research a generation later in the Rowley line. She never connected the dots. When I inherited the research I discovered that she had erroneously traced her family back to the wrong Rowley brother, never making the connection. I straightened it out here. (that was fun!) Next week I will fill in the missing generation with my own research, then link grandma's notes and research. Sure wish she was here!***

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

Friday, February 3, 2017

Sunday Sopabox: Special Edition ~ Immigrant Ancestors

I usually reserve the Sunday Soapbox for getting something off my chest. On Sunday. But I am feeling compelled, strongly, by all the recent global events to take a minute and give a shout out to all my immigrant ancestors. The ancestors who risked everything, everything, to make a new life for themselves. In a strange new world. Thousands upon thousands of miles away from all that was familiar. Not really knowing what fate awaited them, but believing that staying where they were was certain death, if not certain destitute poverty. We all want a bright, hopeful future. We all want a better life for our family and our children. This has not changed in the 2 million years since our first ancestors walked out of Africa. Countless wars have been waged over this very same issue. Territory. My territory, your territory. Heck, it's waged in sandboxes and kindergarten playgrounds every day, all around the globe.

But I digress.

I am here now, in this place, because of this roll call of dreamers and doers who had the gumption to get up out of their mediocrity - leave their ancestral homelands - go boldly toward the hope of a brighter tomorrow. To believe in themselves, and in humankind, enough to create something better than what had been. And in doing so joined millions of other immigrants, speaking a variety of languages, celebrating different customs, yet all cohabiting in this the New World. Working toward the same goal.

Most of my immigrants were not 'legal' by today's standards. They just got on a boat and came. (Although I think a few may have come by TARDIS ....) But they all contributed to the tapestry that is America today. There are names of Pilgrims, Patriots, Pioneers and a lot of just plain folk working hard and getting by. Professors and politicians, housewives, farmers, lots of farmers, doctors, inventors, preachers, the list goes on. I am proud of them all.

Immigrant Roll Call:

Arrival 1601 to 1700
1609 - Stephen Hopkins - England
1613 - Joseph Cobb - England
1620 - Isaac Allerton - England
1620 - Mary Norris - England
1621 - Stephen Deane - England
1621 - Elizabeth Ring - England
1623 - Nicholas Snow - England
1628 - Thomas Gerrard - England
1628 - Susannah Snow - England
1630 - John Doane - England
1630 - Mosses Mavericke - England
1630 - John Moseley - England
1630 - William Phelps - England
1631 - Richard Lyman - England
1631 - Sarah Osborne - England
1632 - Moses Rowley Sr - England
1632 - Henry Howland - England
1632 - Thomas Woodford - England
1632 - Mary Blott - England
1632 - Nathaniel Merriman - England
1633 - Matthew Allyn - England
1634 - Rowland Stebbins - Engalnd
1634 - Sarah Whiting - England
1634 - Thomas Newberry - England
1634 - John Stiles - England
1635 - John Thomas - England
1635 - Sarah Pitney - England
1636 - John Plumb - England
1636 - Dorothy Wood - England
1638 - Henry Burt - England
1638 - Ulalia Marche - England
1638 - John Hutchins - England
1638 - Walter Chiles - England
1638 - Polly Strangeman - England
1640 - Matthew Fuller - England
abt 1640 - Daniel Cole - England
abt 1640 - William Twining Sr - England
abt 1640 - John Curtiss - England
abt 1640 Elizabeth Welles - England
1643 - Robert Ellyson - Scotland
1650 - Robert Harris - Wales
1652 - Isaac Sheldon - England
1655 - Richmont Terrell - England
1655 - Elizabeth Wather - England
1656 - Mary Norton - England
1669 - William Overton - England
1669 - Mary Elizabeth Waters - England
1669 - John Hampton - Scotland
1679 - Christopher Gist - England
1679 - Edith Cromwell - England
1682 - Ezra Croasdale - England
1684 - Ann Peacock - England
1683 - Thomas Canby - England
1685 - Thomas Curtis - England
1685 - Jane Ogborne - England
1695 - John Potwine - England
abt 1699 Zachariah How - England
abt 1699 - Sarah Gilbert - England
1700 - Jerome Dumas - France
1700 - AbsolomVaughn - ?

Arrival 1701 to 1800
abt 1710 - Jonathan Hays - England
1726 - William Faulkner - Scotland
1726 - Mary Faulkner - Scotland
1728 - James McBride - Ireland
1729 - John Busby - England
1729 - Elizabeth Lisle - England
1732 - Thomas Wilson Sr - Scotland
1732 - Mary Riley - Ireland

Arrival 1801 to 1900
1819 - Michael Sammon - Ireland
1819 - Catherine Dunne - Ireland
1830 - Francis O'Rourke - Ireland
1830 - Ann Mclingin - Ireland
1832 - Alexander Fraser - Scotland
1832 - Elizabeth Chalmers - Scotland
1840 - James O'Connell - Ireland
1840 - Mary Dempsey - Ireland
1870 - Frederick Colyer - England

Born in America - parents unknown (probably came by TARDIS)
abt 1600 Thomas Crew
1631 Samuel Rockwell
1632 Elizabeth Wallace
1634 Mary Holton
1636 Abigail Bartlett
1640 Susannah Brooks
1642 Nathanial Grafton
1642 John Rogers
1649 Mary Claiborne
1655 Elizabeth Mayo
1658 Matthew Peatross
1660 Mordecai Price
1660 Henry Watkins
1662 Mary Parsons
1668 Mary Tilden
1669 Sarah Jarvis
1670 Ruth Bancroft
1670 Sarah Gatley
1670 Sarah Hill
1673 Anne Myhill
1673 Thomas Jackson
1680 Abigail Root
1681 Unity Smith
1684 Patience Lumbert
1684 Anne Skinner
1690 Elizabeth Elliot
1696 Mary Osborne
1704 Apphia Lewis
1717 Keturrah Merryman
1723 Melchezedec Brame
1726 Thomas Loveland
1728 Samuel Mannon
1734 Hannah Norcott
1740 Jerusha Kingsley
1744 William Wilton Ashby
1745 Sarah Williams
1772 Naomi Clarke
1775 Nathan Bass
1760 Samuel Beach
1786 Jesse Thomas
1790 Hackaliah Vredenburgh
1791 Sally Blackman
1803 Margaret Roberts
1829 Pamela Thompson
1833 Jennie Whitford

This land is your land, this land is my land

From the California to the New York Island

From the Redwood Forest, to the Gulf stream waters