Saturday, August 6, 2016

Saturday Night Genealogy Fun -- Male Ancestors Age at Death

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) Review your Pedigree Chart (either on paper or in your genealogy management software program) and determine the age at death of your Male ancestors back at least five generations (and more if you want to).


2)  Tell us the lifespan years for each of these ancestors.  Which of your male ancestors in this group lived the longest?  Which lived the shortest?  

3)  Share your results in your own blog post, in a comment to this post, or on Facebook or Google+.

Here's mine (I'm going to use ahnentafel numbers here):


FATHER:

2.  Frederick Walton Seaver (1911-1983) - 72 years

GRANDFATHERS:

4.  Frederick Walton Seaver (1876-1942) - 66 years
6.  Lyle Lawrence Carringer (1891-1976) - 85 years

GREAT-GRANDFATHERS:

8.  Frank Walton Seaver (1852-1922) - 70 years
10.  Thomas Richmond (1748-1917) - 69 years
12.  Henry Austin Carringer (1853-1946) - 93 years
14.  Charles Auble (1849-1916) - 67 years

2nd GREAT-GRANDFATHERS:

16.  Isaac Seaver (1823-1901) - 78 years
18.  Edward Hildreth (1831-1899) - 68 years
20.  James Richman (1821-1912) - 89 years
22.  Henry Arnold White (1824-1885) - 61 years
24.  David Jackson Carringer (1828-1902) - 74 years
26.  Devier James Smith (1839-1894) - 55 years
28.  David Auble (1817-1894) - 77 years
30.  James Abraham Kemp (1831-1902) - 71 years

3rd GREAT-GRANDFATHERS:

32.  Benjamin Seaver (1791-1825) - 34 years
34.  Alpheus B. Smith (1802-1840) - 38 years
36.  Zachariah Hildreth (1783-1857) - 74 years
38.  Thomas J. Newton (ca 1795 - ca 1840??) - ca 45 years
40.  John Richman (1788-1867) - 79 years
42.  John Rich (1790-1868) - 78 years
44.  Jonathan White (1805-1850) - 45 years
46.  Jonathan Oatley (1790-1872) - 82 years
48.  Henry Carringer (1800-1879) - 79 years
50.  Daniel Spangler (1781-1851) - 70 years
52.  unknown
54.  Samuel Vaux (1816-1880) - 64 years
56.  John Auble (1780-1831) - 51 years
58.  William Knapp (1775-1856) - 81 years
60.  Abraham Kemp (1795- ca 1861) - ca 66 years
62.  Alexander Sovereen (1814-1907) - 93 years

So in those five generations, the longest lived was probably Alexander Sovereen (1814-1907) of Norfolk County, Ontario, at 93 years.  The shortest lived was Benjamin Seaver (1791-1825) of Massachusetts, at 34 years.

The average for these 30 males is about 68.5 years.  The generation averages and age ranges are:

*  Generation 1 (father) - 72 years
*  Generation 2 (grandfathers) - 75 years (range 66 to 85)
*  Generation 3 (great-grandfathers) - 75 years (range 67 to 93)
*  Generation 4 (2nd great-grandfathers) - 72 years (range 55 to 89)
*  Generation 5 (3rd great-grandfathers) - 65 years (range 34 to 93)

This was not much different from the females in the five generations we did last week.

As a male aged 72 at present, it appears that I have exceeded the five-generation average already.   I am older now than my father was at death.  Just lucky, I think.  Only 13 of these 30 male ancestors lived longer than I have.  I feel mortal when I do these types of analyses.

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Surname Saturday -- PRENCE (England to colonial Massachusetts)

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 #1449, who is Mary PRENCE (1639-????) 
[Note: the earlier great-grandmothers and 8th great-grandfathers have been covered in earlier posts].

My ancestral line back through two generations of this PRENCE 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)

90.  Simon Wade (1767-1857)
91.  Phebe Horton (1772-1820)

180.  Simon Wade (1731-1800)
181.  Deborah Tracy (1731-1800)

362.  John Tracy (1695-1751)
363.  Mary Hawkins (1710-1767)

724.  John Tracy (1661-1701)
725.  Deborah LNU (1662-????)

1448.  John Tracy, born 1633 in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States; died 30 May 1718 in Windham, Windham, Connecticut, United States.  He was the son of 4896. Stephen Tracy and 4897. Tryphosa Lee.  He married about 1660 in Massachusetts, United States.
1449.  Mary Prence, born about 1639 in Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States.

Children of John Tracy and Mary Prence are:
*  John Tracy (1661-1701), married 1701 Deborah LNU (1662-????).
*  Apphia Tracy (1663-1739), married 1683 John Sparrow (1656-1735).
*  Hannah Tracy (1666-????).
*  Stephen Tracy (1674-1769), married 1708 Deborah Bingham (1683-1735).
*  Susannah Tracy (1676-1751), married 1698 James Rogers (1673-1751).

2898.  Thomas Prence, born 1600 in Lechlade, Gloucestershire, England; died 29 March 1673 in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States.  He was the son of 5796. Thomas Prence and 5797. Elizabeth Tolderby.  He married (2) 01 April 1635 in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States.
2899.  Mary Collier, born before 18 February 1612 in Southwark, Surrey, England; died 09 December 1658 in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States.  She was the daughter of 5798. William Collier and 5799. Jane Clark.

Children of Thomas Prence and Mary Collier are:
*  Jane Prence (1637-1712), married 1660 Mark Snow (1628-1695).
*  Mary Prence (1639-????), married 1660 John Tracy (1633-1718).
*  Judith Prence (1645-1691), married 1665 Isaac Barker (1640-1710).
*  Elizabeth Prence (1647-????), married 1667 Arthur Howland.

Information about the Thomas Prence family was obtained from:

*  Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633, Volume III (Boston, Mass. : NEHGS, 1996), pages 518-524, Thomas Prence sketch.

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