Saturday Night Genealogy Fun -- Which Ancestor Moved the Furthest?

It's Saturday Night, 

time for more Genealogy Fun!!

For this week's mission (should you decide to accept it), I challenge you to:

1)  The Family History Hound listed 20 Questions about your Ancestor, and I'm going to use some of them in the next few months.  

2)  Please answer the first question - "Which ancestor moved the farthest from their home?"

3)  Write your own blog post, make a comment on this post, or post  your answer on Facebook or Google+.  Please leave a link to your answer in comments on this post.

Here's mine:

I have several possibilities here, so I asked Google to tell me the distance:

1)  My own ancestry:

a)  Samuel Vaux (1815-1880) was born in South Petherton, Somerset and moved to Aurora, Erie County, New York, then to Burnett, Wisconsin, then to Andrew County, Missouri, and died in Concordia, Kansas.  The great circle path from Somerset to Kansas is 4,352 miles.  The great circle path between the different places is more; the actual path from England to New York is not a great circle, of course.  

b)  Johan Nicolaus Konig (1707-1776) was born in the Palatinate in present-day, Germany, and migrated to York, Pennsylvania.  The distance from the Palatinate to York is 6,340 km, or 3,939 miles.

All of my known immigrants came from western Europe to New England, New York, Pennsylvania and New Jersey in the 17th and 18th centuries, except for my two English ancestors in the 19th century (including Samuel Vaux above).  I think Samuel is probably my guy.

2)  My wife's ancestry:

This is really a no brainer.  Linda's second great-grandmother was Rachel (Morley) Whittle (1821-1860).  She was born in Bolton-le-Moor, Lancashire, England, sailed with her husband to Sydney, Australia, and sailed to San Francisco, California in 1851.  The great circle distance from Bolton-le-Moor to Sydney is 10,557 miles, and from Sydney to San Francisco is 7,416 miles.  So at least 17,973 miles.  I won't worry about the actual sailing distance from Bolton to Capetown to Singapore to Sydney...  or that she probably died in Sacramento.  

I would love to have some time with these persons and hear their stories?  I can only imagine.

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Surname Saturday - HOSKINS (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 #1893, who is Rebecca HOSKINS (1634-1683) [Note: the earlier great-grandmothers and 8th great-grandfathers have been covered in earlier posts].

My ancestral line back through two generations of this HOSKINS 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)

14.  Charles Auble (1849-1916)
15.  Georgianna Kemp (1862-1952)

28.  David Auble (1817-1894)
29.  Sarah G. Knapp (1818-1904)

58.  William Knapp (1775-1856)
59.  Sarah Cutter (1785-1878)

118.  Stephen Cutter (1745-1823)
119.  Tabitha Randolph (1752-1841)

236.  William Cutter (1722-1780)
237.  Mary Kent (1726-????)

472.  Richard Cutter (1682-1756)
473.  Mercy Kelsey (1698-1760)

946.  Joseph Kelsey (1673-1742)
947.  Joannes DeCamp (1677-1739)

1892.  Mark Kelsey, born about 1634 in probably Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States; died before 27 February 1723 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, United States.  He was the son of 3784. William Kelsey and 3785. FNU LNU.  He married 08 March 1659 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, United States.
1893.  Rebecca Hoskins, born about 1634 in Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States; died 23 August 1683 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, United States.

Children of Mark Kelsey and Rebecca Hoskins are:
*  Rebecca Kelsey (1660-????), married 1678 Nathan Messenger (1651-1700).
*  John Kelsey (1661-1685)
*  Thomas Kelsey (1663-1715), married 1687 Elizabeth Maskell (1669-1726).
*  male Kelsey (1667-1667).
*  Ruth Kelsey (1669-1767), married 1698 Obadiah Spencer (1666-1741).
*  William Kelsey (1670-1698), married 1695 Abigail Whitcomb (1674-1752).
*  Joseph Kelsey (1673-1742), married 1697 Joannes DeCamp (1677-1739).

3786.  John Hoskins, born 1585 in England; died 03 May 1648 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, United States.  He married 06 May 1630 in Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States.
3787.  Ann Filer, born about 1600 in England; died 06 March 1662 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, United States.

Children of John Hoskins and Ann Filer are:
*  Anthony Hoskins (1632-1706).
*  Rebecca Hoskins (1634-1683), married 1659 Mark Kelsey (1634-1723).

Information about this Hoskins family was obtained from:

*  Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins, Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633 (Boston, Mass. : New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995), Volume II, pages 999-1002, John Hoskins sketch.

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