Saturday, April 23, 2016

Saturday Night Genealogy Fun -- Share Your Childhood Memories

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



Your mission, should you decide to accept it (cue the Mission Impossible! music) is to:


1)  Judy Russell asked six questions in her Keynote address at RootsTech 2014 to determine if audience members knew certain family stories about their parents, grandparents and great-grandparents.  She demonstrated very well that family stories are lost within three generations if they are not recorded and passed on to later generations.


2)  This week, I want you to answer Judy's six questions, but about YOUR own life story, not your ancestors.  Here are the questions:

a)  What was your first illness as a child?

b)  What was the first funeral you attended?

c)  What was your favorite book as a child?

d)  What was your favorite class in elementary school?

e)  What was your favorite toy as a child?

f)  Did you learn how to swim, and where did you learn?

3)  Tell us in your own blog post, or in a comment to this post, or in a Facebook or Google+ post.

Here are my stories:

a)  The first illness I recall as a child was the chicken pox.  I'm sure that I got it in the first two or three years of school from another classmate, and I passed it to my brother.  I still have a scar on the side of my nose from it.  

b)  The first funeral I attended may have been for my grandfather, Lyle Carringer, in November 1976.  I don't recall an earlier one in the family, or for friends.  I was too young to go to my great-grandmother's funeral in 1952, and my Massachusetts grandmother, who died in 1962, was too far away.

c)  My favorite book as a child was the World Book Encyclopedia.  I read it voraciously just about every day.  My favorite subjects were geography, history and science.  

d)  My favorite class at Brooklyn Elementary School was 4th grade.  Miss Williams was the teacher, and she was very patient and encouraging.  

e)  My favorite toy as a child was my Lionel train set.  My father, brother, and I would play for hours setting up the track through the house, and running at least two engines on it to try to make spectacular crashes.   I spent my allowance money on more train cars.

f)  I learned how to swim in summer 1954 at age 10 at Bass Lake near Yosemite.  That was our first family vacation away from San Diego, and it was memorable not only for swimming in the lake, but also fishing on the lake and buying baseball cards at the park store.  

I have no clue how my parents, or grandparents, or great-grandparents would answer those questions.  At RootsTech, I sat down before the first question was finished!  

I wrote my answers down so that they would be saved somewhere on the Internet and perhaps my children and grandchildren will see them.  When Judy's grand-niece gives a Keynote lecture at RootsTech 2054, my grandchildren will be able to answer some of the questions she might pose as a challenge to the audience!



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Surname Saturday - HATHAWAY (England to colonial New England)

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 #1411, who is Hannah HATHAWAY (1662-1749) 
[Note: the earlier great-grandmothers and 8th great-grandfathers have been covered in earlier posts].

My ancestral line back through three generations of this HATHAWAY family line is:


1. Randall J. Seaver

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

4. Frederick Walton Seaver (1876-1942)
5. Alma Bessie Richmond (1882-1962)


10.  Thomas Richmond (1848-1917)
11.  Julia E. White (1848-1913)

22.  Henry Arnold White (1824-1885)
23.  Amy Frances Oatley (1826-1864)

44.  Jonathan White (1805-1850)
45.  Miranda Wade (1804-1850)

88.  Humphrey White (1758-1814)
89.  Sibel Kirby (1764-1848).

176.  Jonathan White (1732-1804)
177.  Abigail Wing (1736-1806)

352.  William White (1708-1780)
353.  Abigail Thurston (1700-????)

704.  William White (1683-1780)
705.  Elizabeth Cadman (1685-1768)

1410.  George Cadman, born about 1660 in probably Portsmouth, Newport, Rhode Island, United States; died after 24 November 1718 in Dartmouth, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States.  He was the son of 2820. William Cadman and 2821. Elizabeth.  He married before 1683 in Portsmouth, Newport, Rhode Island, United States.
1411.  Hannah Hathaway, born 1662 in Dartmouth, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States; died before 14 March 1749 in Dartmouth, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States.  

Child of George Cadman and Hannah Hathaway is:

*  Elizabeth Cadman (1685-1768), married 1707 William White (1683-1780).

2822.  Arthur Hathaway, born about 1630 in England; died 11 December 1711 in Dartmouth, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States.  He married 20 November 1652 in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States.
2823.  Sarah Cooke, born about 1635 in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States; died after 26 February 1713 in Dartmouth, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States.  She was the daughter of 5646. John Cooke and 5647. Sarah Warren.

Children of Arthur Hathaway and Sarah Cooke are:
*  John Hathaway (1653-1732), married (1) 1683 Joanna Pope (1667-1695); (2) 1696 Patience Hunnewell (1670-1732).
*  Sarah Hathaway (1656-????).
*  Hannah Hathaway (1662-1749), married 1683 George Cadman (1660-1718)
*  Lydia Hathaway (1663-1714), married 1680 James Sisson (1660-1734).
*  Mary Hathaway (1665-1728), married 1681 Samuel Hammond (1656-1728).
*  Thomas Hathaway (1669-1748), married 1696 Hepsibah Starbuck (1680-1740).
*  Jonathan Hathaway (1672-1727), married 1701 Susannah Pope (1681-1760).

5644.  Arthur Hathaway, born about 1602 in England; died after 1655 in Massachusetts, United States.  He married about 1625 in England.
5645.  Mary, born about 1602 in England; died 03 May 1670 in Portsmouth, Newport, Rhode Island, United States.

Children of Arthur Hathaway and Mary are:
*  Arthur Hathaway (1630-1711), married 1652 Sarah Cooke (1635-1713).
*  Susanna Hathaway (1634-1679), married 1664 William Palmer (1634-1675).

Information about this Hathaway family was obtained from:

*  Carl Boyer 3rd, Ancestral Lines, Third Edition (Santa Clarita, California, 1998).  Boyer refers the reader to the work of Elizabeth Starr Versailles who has compiled three monumental editions of Hathaway families for the family association.


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Friday, April 22, 2016

Genealogy Blog Party - Time Travel to an Ancestor

Elizabeth O'Neal has started a monthly meme - a Genealogy Blog Party - see her post Join the April 2016 Genealogy Blog Party! (posted 13 April 2016) on the Little Bytes of Life blog.


The theme for April is to Time Travel to an Ancestor. For this task, we are to answer these questions:

*  Who is the ancestor you will meet?
*  What question(s) do you need him/her to answer?
*  Is there a problem you can help your ancestor solve?
*  Will you reveal your true identity to your ancestor? If so, how will your visit impact the future? (Remember what happened to Rose when she went back to meet her father.)
*  Will you bring your ancestor to the future to meet his/her descendants? What will be the outcome, if you do?

So put your time travel headset on and we're off:

1)  Who is the ancestor you will meet?

I had a wide choice of ancestors to meet because so many seem to be interesting people, or are real mystery people, or I have so many questions for them.

I am going to choose my third great-grandfather, Thomas J. Newton, born in Maine about 1800, who purportedly married Sophia (Buck) Brigham (1797-1882), probably in Massachusetts, in about 1834.

Almost everything I know about Thomas J. Newton is in my blog post 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks - Week 31: #38 Thomas J. Newton (ca 1800 - ????) (posted 1 August 2014).

 I'm going to assume that I meet him in about 1840, probably in Westborough, Massachusetts.  The biggest problem might be finding him!  I know where he was in 1832 and where Sophia was in 1834 when Phineas Brigham, her husband, died.  I would need to study up and practice on New England social norms, mannerisms, speech and accents in the early 19th century.

2)  What questions do you need him/her to answer?

I have so many questions for Tom! 

*  What is your birth date and birth place?
*  What is your middle name?
*  What are the names of your parents, their birth and death dates and places, and their marriage date and place?
*  What are the names of your grandparents?
*  What are the names of your siblings?
*  What is your marriage date and place with Sophia (Buck) Brigham?
*  What are the names, birth dates and birth places of your children?
*  How did you meet Sophia?  How long did you romance her?
*  What happened to her two children with Phineas Brigham?
*  Were you married before or after you married Sophia?  Did you have other children?
*  What is your occupation?  Where have you worked for a living?

3)  Is there a problem you can help your ancestor solve?

I sincerely doubt it, since I don't know a lot about his life.

4)  Will you reveal your true identity to your ancestor? If so, how will your visit impact the future?

Probably not until after the interview is over, and only if he asks me.  I think that I would pretend to be a distant Newton cousin and have enough information about my pretend ancestors that I could answer the same questions as I ask him.

I cannot imagine revealing who I am in his presence unless he is on his death bed and alone.  I would not want to share with Sophia (Buck) (Brigham) Newton or her daughter, Sophia Newton (my second great-grandmother) what would happen later in their lives.   It would be great fun to meet them, talk to them, see their living conditions, etc.

5)  Will you bring your ancestor to the future to meet his/her descendants? What will be the outcome, if you do?

I really don't think so.  Would I have to send him back?

What else should I ask Thomas J. Newton?  

I hope that other geneabloggers will take part in this Genealogy Blog Party!  

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