Saturday, August 20, 2016

Saturday Night Genealogy Fun -- How Many "Mary LNU" Persons in Your Family Tree?

Calling all Genea-Musings Fans: 

 It's Saturday Night again - 
time for some more Genealogy Fun!!



Here is your assignment if you choose to play along (cue the Mission Impossible music, please!):

1)  I have many females in my family tree database without a last name.  One of those female first names is "Mary."  Do you have situations like this, where you don't know the surname of some females? [I call them LNU persons - Last Name Unknown.]

2) How many "Mary" persons without a surname do you have in your genealogy database?  How many of them are your ancestor?  

3)  If you have one that is your ancestor, have you looked recently to determine if there are more records online that might lead you to her surname?  Go look for one - you might be surprised!

4)  Tell us about your MaryLNU ancestors with no surname.  Perhaps someone will read it and help you out!

5)  Share your information in a blog post of your own, in a comment to this blog post, or on Facebook or Google+.

6)  NOTE:  If you don't have any "Mary" persons without a surname, then pick another female first name.

Here's mine:


 I have 156 Mary LNU persons in my database of 46,561 persons.  40 of them are my direct-line ancestor.  Almost all of them are persons born before 1700, and many of those were born before 1600.

Three of the most recent ancestors named Mary --?-- are:

1)  Mary LNU (1700-1738), married in about 1720 to Johannes Trimmer (1700-1750), and mother of Matthias, Anthonius, Andreas, Amos, George, Herman, Hannah and Mary. Matthias Trimmer (1722-1793) is my ancestor, who married Anna Martha Nachbar (1724-????).  

2)  Mary LNU (1688-????), married in about 1708 to William Hawkins (1676-1744), and mother of Mary, John, Josiah, Job, Rufus and Sarah, all born in Rhode Island.  Mary Hawkins (1710-1767) is my ancestor, who married John Tracy (1695-1751).

3)  Mary LNU (1639-1677), married in about 1658 to Thomas Follansbee (1637-1725), and mother of Rebecca, Mary, Ann and Thomas, all born in New Hampshire  Rebecca Follansbee (1659-1711) is my ancestor, who married Thomas Chase 1654-1734).

For these three Mary LNU, I looked on Ancestry Member Trees using the spouse's name, and did not find any real help.  There are too many entries and they are not ordered in any rational way.

I also looked on the FamilySearch Family Tree and found:


1)  Mary LNU who married Johannes Trimmer:  there are two sets of parents suggested for this Mary:  (1) Anthony Dierdorff (1683-1743) and Christiana Devers (1672-1730; (2) Johannes Christopher Wintermute (1655-????) and Christina Dierdorff (1683-1747).  These are both good possibilities and I will try to follow up.

2)  Mary LNU who married William Hawkins:   no maiden surname or parents are given for this Mary (LNU) Hawkins.

3)  Mary LNU who married Thomas Follansbee:  There is one profile for Mary Bradford (1639-1680) who married Thomas Follansbee in 1659 in England.  This one is worth following up on, since a set of parents are listed.



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10 comments:

Diane said...

HI Randy....here is the link to my blog post about this! Enjoy your weekend!

http://genea-origins.blogspot.com/2016/08/saturday-night-genealogy-fun-marys-with.html

Lois Willis said...

Here's the link to my blog post
http://loiswillis.com/2016/08/21/sunday-afternoon-genealogy-fun-how-many-mary-lnu-persons-in-your-family-tree/

Lisa S. Gorrell said...

I didn't have as many Marys as you. Just 2. http://mam-massouthernfamily.blogspot.com/2016/08/saturday-night-genealogy-fun-how-many.html

GeniAus said...

I've quite a few Randy, can't manage to list them all right now.

LNU will be finding its way into the geneadictinary soon.

Mary Rohrer Dexter said...

It is a busy weekend for me this weekend so I am late. My post can be found here: http://skeezicks1957.blogspot.com/2016/08/how-many-mary-lnus-do-you-have-challenge.html
And I will get around to reading all the other participants later today and comment on their posts.

Anonymous said...

Just found your blog...
My current Mary road block is Mary, married to John Ginevan, b. 1805 Maryland. John and his brother Reuben appear in the 1840 census in Frederick Co., MD. They are parents of Elizabeth (b. MD 1830) who married Seth Sweetser in Baltimore; Reuben Henry (b. Adams, PA 1831); Catherine "Kate" (b. Hanover PA christened at Emmanuel's Reformed Church in York County, Pennsylvania, 1833); John Matthias (b. Hanover PA 1836) and William Elias (b. Germantown, MD christened at 7 Oct 1841 Apples Lutheran and Reformed Church, Thurmont, Frederick, MD. Mary does not appear with the family in 1850 and the children and John are living in different households in Clark Co. OH. Elizabeth is living with a family in Baltimore and married in 1851 to Seth Sweetser Rogers.
Thanks for all of your generous work.

Mary Rohrer Dexter said...

Diane - since i no longer have a google plus account I can't comment on your blog post but you did a nice job and I hope you have some luck in finding these women's missing maiden names.

Mary Rohrer Dexter said...

Patte - I hope you have luck finding yours too. Did you know the Maryland State Archives has all their land records online. It is a little tricky to navigate their site to find the older land records but when I called them the people working the archives were helpful and I was able to figure it out. https://mdlandrec.net/main/

Nancy Ward Remling said...

Here is my version. I chose to right about a Jerusha instead of a Mary. Jerusha Wooster whom we have no maiden name for.

https://remlinggenealogy.blogspot.com/2016/08/the-unknowns.html

RcHoehn said...

Anyone able to find a Diana LNU Mary who had children with and/or married a washington marion rhodes in cape girardea, MO