The Friday Five: Genealogy
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saxikathI haven't particularly been into this whole "Friday Five" thing, but far be it from me to ignore a genealogy one!
1. What is your lineage? Where are your ancestors from?
Generally speaking, I'm about as WASP as it gets. My mother's family is from Indiana most recently, heavily Quaker on one side. If you go back further, though, you get to old New England and Virginia, and before that England. There are touches of Irish and German and possibly French (anyone know where the name Salla, pronounced "sally," might have come from?) on her side as well. My step-grandfather was half Spanish and half Irish, though that doesn't really count.
My umpteenth-great-aunt on Mom's side was the wife in the first recorded divorce in Plymouth Colony. Not quite as good as![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
davehogg's bigamist/adulterers, but I thought it was interesting...
My father's side is also largely English-derived. They're heavily New England-based, though my paternal grandmother's mother was Canadian -- her family had, apparently, been Huguenots in France and later Tories in the U.S. during the revolution, and wound up in New Brunswick.
2. Of those countries, which would you most like to visit?
Probably Ireland. Though I'd like to see the New Brunswick and French sides, too.
3. Which would you least like to visit? Why?
There aren't any I wouldn't want to visit, but I suppose England would be lowest on the list, since I've been there before.
4. Do you do anything during the year to celebrate or recognize your heritage?
Nothing particular. Once in a while I go visit some of the local New England cemeteries where assorted ancestors are based. (Which prompted the following from Dave when we visited a cemetery in Chesterfield, Massachusetts: "What is this, your family cemetery??")
5. Who were the first ancestors to move to your present country (parents, grandparents, etc)?
The earliest one I know about is Henry Sampson, who came over on the Mayflower. Yes, that's right, I could join the Mayflower Society and the DAR if I wanted to, but why would I want to? Henry was a distant ancestor of my father.
Other early arrivals included William Bassett, an ancestor of my mother, who arrived not long after the Mayflower, and Anthony Binford (also an ancestor of my mother) who received a land grant in Virginia in the 1660s.
Then there's John Bryant, who was living in the Plymouth area in the 1660s when he married Abigail Bryant. There were about five John Bryants living in that neck of the woods around then, and it seems, from all I've been able to figure out, that my John Bryant is the one of them about whom nobody knows anything. Dave has his John Bora; I have my John Bryant...
My most recent immigrant ancestors (not counting my step-grandfather) are my paternal grandparents' parents -- my grandmother's mother came from New Brunswick and her father from England, while my grandfather's mother also came from England, though his father was already in this country.
1. What is your lineage? Where are your ancestors from?
Generally speaking, I'm about as WASP as it gets. My mother's family is from Indiana most recently, heavily Quaker on one side. If you go back further, though, you get to old New England and Virginia, and before that England. There are touches of Irish and German and possibly French (anyone know where the name Salla, pronounced "sally," might have come from?) on her side as well. My step-grandfather was half Spanish and half Irish, though that doesn't really count.
My umpteenth-great-aunt on Mom's side was the wife in the first recorded divorce in Plymouth Colony. Not quite as good as
davehogg's bigamist/adulterers, but I thought it was interesting...My father's side is also largely English-derived. They're heavily New England-based, though my paternal grandmother's mother was Canadian -- her family had, apparently, been Huguenots in France and later Tories in the U.S. during the revolution, and wound up in New Brunswick.
2. Of those countries, which would you most like to visit?
Probably Ireland. Though I'd like to see the New Brunswick and French sides, too.
3. Which would you least like to visit? Why?
There aren't any I wouldn't want to visit, but I suppose England would be lowest on the list, since I've been there before.
4. Do you do anything during the year to celebrate or recognize your heritage?
Nothing particular. Once in a while I go visit some of the local New England cemeteries where assorted ancestors are based. (Which prompted the following from Dave when we visited a cemetery in Chesterfield, Massachusetts: "What is this, your family cemetery??")
5. Who were the first ancestors to move to your present country (parents, grandparents, etc)?
The earliest one I know about is Henry Sampson, who came over on the Mayflower. Yes, that's right, I could join the Mayflower Society and the DAR if I wanted to, but why would I want to? Henry was a distant ancestor of my father.
Other early arrivals included William Bassett, an ancestor of my mother, who arrived not long after the Mayflower, and Anthony Binford (also an ancestor of my mother) who received a land grant in Virginia in the 1660s.
Then there's John Bryant, who was living in the Plymouth area in the 1660s when he married Abigail Bryant. There were about five John Bryants living in that neck of the woods around then, and it seems, from all I've been able to figure out, that my John Bryant is the one of them about whom nobody knows anything. Dave has his John Bora; I have my John Bryant...
My most recent immigrant ancestors (not counting my step-grandfather) are my paternal grandparents' parents -- my grandmother's mother came from New Brunswick and her father from England, while my grandfather's mother also came from England, though his father was already in this country.
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Date: 2002-08-02 11:49 am (UTC)That was a wonderful vacation - 17 cemeteries, the basketball Hall of Fame, the world's worst zoo, the world's slowest gas pumps, an ape holding an automobile and the Miss America show. No one does New England quite like Kath and I.
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Date: 2002-08-02 12:45 pm (UTC)I think I may have you beat--not on the pedigree aspect but on the why-would-I-want-to. Thanks to great-great-grandpa Weil I could join the Sons of the Confederacy!