Saturday, May 6, 2017

Saturday Night Genealogy Fun -- I Write Like ...

Hey genea-folks, 
it's Saturday Night again, 

 time for more Genealogy Fun!

 


Your mission this week, should you decide to accept it, is to:


1) Find something that you have written that you are really proud of - the best of your work. Do an Edit > Copy of it.

2) Go to the website
 http://iwl.me/ and Paste your text into the waiting box.

3) Tell us which famous author you write like. Write it up in your own blog post, in a comment to this blog, or post it on Facebook. Insert the "badge of honor" in your blog if you can.


Here's mine:

I chose two pieces that typify my work:


1)  Dear Randy: How Do You Handle Female Names? (posted 21 April 2017):



The description of H.P. Lovecraft is:

"Howard Phillips Lovecraft (August 20, 1890 – March 15, 1937) — known as H. P. Lovecraft — was an American author of horror, fantasy and science fiction, especially the subgenre known as weird fiction."

2)  Is There Really an Ancestry.com "Big Tree?" (posted 9 March 2017):



The short description of Agatha Christie is:

"Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie DBE (née Miller; 15 September 1890 – 12 January 1976) was a British crime writer of novels, short stories, and plays. She also wrote romances under the name Mary Westmacott, but she is best remembered for her 66 detective novels and more than 15 short story collections (especially those featuring Hercule Poirot or Miss Jane Marple), and her successful West End plays."

Who knew? Two really different writers, eh?  Both fiction, though.  Maybe I should choose something not so like an engineer? But everything is like technical writing with me, it seems.


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Surname Saturday -- LNU (England to New England, Wife of Francis Hamant)

It's Surname Saturday, and I'm "counting down" my Ancestral Name List each week.  

I am in the 8th great-grandmothers and I'm  up to Ancestor #1781, who is Sarah LNU (1629-1708) 
[Note: the earlier great-grandmothers and 8th great-grandfathers have been covered in earlier posts].

My ancestral line back through two generations of this LNU family line is:


1. Randall J. Seaver (1943-????)

2. Frederick Walton Seaver (1911-1983)
3. Betty Virginia Carringer (1919-2002)


6.  Lyle Lawrence Carringer (1891-1976)
7.  Emily Kemp Auble (1899-1977)

12.  Henry Austin Carringer (1853-1946)
13.  Abbie Ardelle "Della" Smith (1862-1944)

26.  Devier James Lamphier Smith (1849-1894)
27.  Abigail A. "Abbey" Vaux (1844-1931)

54.  Samuel Vaux (1816-1880)
55.  Mary Ann Underhill (1815-1883)

110.  Amos Underhill (1772-1865)
111.  Mary "Polly" Metcalf (1780-1855)

222. Burgess Metcalf (1741-1816)
223.  Jerusha --?-- (1750-1817)

444.  Michael Metcalf (1706-1771)
445.  Melatiah Hamant (1704-1751)

890.  Timothy Hamant (1667-1718)
891.  Melatiah Clark (1674-1747)

1780.  Francis Hamant, born about 1625 in England; died 27 July 1692 in Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States.  He married about 1650 in probably Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States.
1781.  Sarah LNU, born about 1629 in England; died 29 September 1708 in Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States.

Children of Francis Hamant and Sarah are:
*  John Hamant (1651-1708).
*  Mary Hamant (1653-1738), married 1674 Michael Wilson (1644-1731).
*  Sarah Hamant (1655-????), married 1674 John Weeks (1651-????).
*  Elizabeth Hamant (1659-1733), married 1677 Jeremiah Morse (1651-1716).
*  Hannah Hamant (1660-????).
*  Samuel Hamant (1663-????).
*  Timothy Hamant (1667-1718), married 1696 Melatiah Clark (1674-1747).
*  Abigail Hamant (1669-1741), married 1708 Jonathan Lawrence (1665-????).

Information about this Hamant family was obtained from:

*  Frederick Stam Hammond, History and Genealogies of the Hammond Families in America (Oneida, N.Y. : Ryan & Burkhart, Printers, 1902), pages 420 and following.

A review of online family trees shows:

*  FamilySearch Family Tree lists Sarah's surname as Gleason, but provides no parents or supporting information.

*  In Ancestry Member Trees, there were 135 trees for Francis Hamant born ca 1625 with a wife "sar*".  28 of those said her maiden name was Gleason.  Other names were Sarah, Sarah unknown, Sarah Hamant, Sarah Hammond, etc.  

I think Sarah is probably an LNU!


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