Saturday, September 24, 2016

What Books Do You Read? -- Saturday Night Genealogy Fun

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) 
What kind of books do you read now and do they reflect your genealogy hobby? What was the last book you’ve read?

2)  Share your response in a comment on this blog post, in your own blog post (and provide a link in a comment on this post), or on Facebook or Google+.

My thanks to Jacquie Schattner for providing this challenge via email.

Here's mine:

The last genealogy book I read from cover to cover was George G. Morgan's Advanced Genealogy: Research Techniques.   I am reading Nathan Goodwin's latest book, The Spyglass File, at present on my tablet while watching baseball games.  I have the Blaine Bettinger and Debbie Parker Wayne book, Genetic Genealogy in Practice, on my reading table in the family room. 

I usually read mysteries, thrillers and historical fiction when I'm watching TV in the evening.  The current book is Stephen Frey's Trust Fund.  Before that it was James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge's Alert.

I have read and pretty much exhausted the books by David Baldacci, C.J. Box, John Grisham, John Sandford, Brad Thor, Jack Higgins, Daniel Silva, Vince Flynn, Harlan Coben,Edward Rutherford, Mary Higgins Clark, Stephen Cannell, Michael Palmer, Michael Connelly, Stephen Frey, Lee Child and several others.  

If anyone has suggestions, I'm open to them!


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Surname Saturday - HOLMES (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 #1467, who is Mary HOLMES (1632-1690) 
[Note: the earlier great-grandmothers and 8th great-grandfathers have been covered in earlier posts].

My ancestral line back through two generations of this HOLMES 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)

182.  Nathaniel Horton (1730-1819)
183.  Sarah Pray (1734-1820)

366.  Richard Pray (1683-1755)
367.  Rachel LNU (1685-1755)

732.  John Pray (1653-1733)
733.  Sarah Brown (1662-1733)

1466.  John Brown, born about 1628 in England; died about 1706 in Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, United States.  He was the son of 2932. Chad Brown and 2933. Elizabeth Sharparowe.  He married about 1658 in Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, United States.
1467.  Mary Holmes, born about 1632 in Lancashire, England; died after 1690 in Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, United States.

Children of John Brown and Mary Holmes are:
*  Mary Brown (1659-1678), married Arthur Aylesworth (1653-1726).
*  Sarah Brown (1662-1733), married 1678 John Pray (1653-1733).
*  Martha Brown (1664-1727), married 1682 Joseph Jenckes (1656-1740).
*  Obadiah Brown (1668-1746).
*  Deborah Brown (1670-????).

2934.  Obadiah Holmes, born before 18 March 1610 in Didsbury, Lancashire, England; died 15 October 1682 in Newport, Newport, Rhode Island, United States.  He was the son of 5868. Robert Hulme and 5869. Katherine Johnson.  He married  20 November 1630 in Manchester, Lancashire, England.
2935.  Katharine Hyde, born 1608 in Manchester, Lancashire, England; died 15 October 1682 in Newport, Newport, Rhode Island, United States.

Children of Obadiah Holmes and Katharine Hyde are:
*  Mary Holmes (1632-1690), married 1658 John Brown (1628-1706).
*  Jonathan Holmes (1633-1712), married 1664 Sarah Borden (1644-1713).
*  Lydia Holmes (1634-1693), married 1663 John Bowne (1627-1695).
*  Hopestill Holmes (1638-????).
*  Martha Holmes (1640-1711), married 1660 John Audley (1642-1711).
*  Samuel Holmes (1642-1679), married 1665 Alice Stillwell (1645-1709).
*  Obadiah Holmes (1644-1728), married 1679 Elizabeth Cooke (1641-1715).
*  Joseph Holmes (1646-????).
*  Sarah Holmes (1651-????).
*  John Holmes (1654-1712), married (1) 1671 Frances Holden; (2) 1680 Mary Sayles (1652-1717).

Information about the Holmes family was obtained from:

Carl Boyer 3rd, Ancestral Lines, Third Edition (Santa Clarita, Calif.: the author, 1998).

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Friday, September 23, 2016

A Death Date for Mary (Smith) Row (1750-1843)

I noticed the updated United States Revolutionary War Pension Payment Ledgers, 1818-1872 record collection on FamilySearch today, and decided to put some of my pensioners in and see what the collection had.

I'm glad I did!  Here is the page for Mary Row, the widow of my Revolutionary War Soldier Philip Row (1752-1817) of New Jersey, who received a pension after her husband died:


There are names down the left-hand side, and years across the top of the page.  When the pensioner died, there is usually a note about the death date and how long the pension was paid.

The line with Mary Row on it is:


The extracted data for this record is:

*  Name:  Mary Row - widow of Philip 
*  Rank:  Private 
*  Half-year allowance: 10.00 
*  Commencement:  4th Mar 1831
*  Note:  Died 9 October 1843, Paid 1st Q^r 1850

The source citation for this record is:

"United States Revolutionary War Pension Payment Ledgers, 1818-1872," digital image, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org : accessed 23 September 2016), 16-vol O Widow pensions, page 126, Philip Row in entry for Mary Row, 04 Mar 1831; citing New Jersey, United States, NARA microfilm publication T718 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1962), roll 16; FHL microfilm 1,319,396.

So now I have a death date for a widow of one of my Revolutionary War soldier.  I never thought I would get an exact date.  It looks like the family kept receiving the pension until 1850!

Mary (Smith) Row lived to be almost 93 years old.  I wish I could have sat at her knee and listened to the stories of her life.  I might even have found out the name of her parents!  She was one of my 4th great-grandmothers.

Now I need to look for records for my other Revolutionary War pensioners.

Do you have Revolutionary War pensioners for whom you do not have a death date?  Here's an opportunity to find one!  For free, too.

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New Records Available To Search This Findmypast Friday, 23 September 2016

I received this information from Findmypast today:

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