Calling all Genea-Musings Fans:
It's Saturday Night again -
Time for some more Genealogy Fun!!
Your mission, should you decide to accept it (cue the Mission Impossible! music) is to:
1) Sometimes an ancestor or relative has no name at all - not even a given name (for males, we usually can surmise a surname, but ...) -- we all have millions of them.
2) Tell us about one (or more) of your ancestors that have no given name and no birth surname who has perhaps married an ancestor with a given name and surname from whom you are descended. (Don't worry, we'll do unknown parents some time soon).
3) When was the last time you looked for this no-name ancestor?
4) Share information about your no-name ancestor(s) in a blog post of your own, in a comment to this blog post, or in a Facebook comment.
Here's mine:
(NOTE: I'm not going to use the unknown parents of my 2nd great-grandfather Devier James Lamphier Smith (1839-1894) who was adopted by Ranslow and Mary (Bell) Smith in about 1840 in Jefferson County, New York.]
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The nearest "no-given/no-surname" ancestor on my family tree is the woman married to my known ancestor, my 5th great-grandfather, Stephen Feather (1736-1804, could be Fether, Fetter, Fethers, Fetters, Feathers). He probably was born in Germany, married about 1760 (where?), resided in Middlesex County, New Jersey in the 1770s and 1780s, and resided in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania from 1787 to 1804.
Stephen Feather's wife's name is not known. I have no birth/baptism or death/burial date for her. I have found no birth, marriage, death, burial, church, land, tax, probate record that lists her name. Any suggestions would be welcome!
They had children:
- John Feather, born Mar 1760, Middlesex, New Jersey, United States; married Mary Wheeler, 1785, Virginia, United States; died 3 May 1838, Salem Township, Mercer, Pennsylvania, United States.
- David Feather was born about 1765 in Middlesex, New Jersey, United States.
- Stephen Feather was born about 1774 in Middlesex, New Jersey, United States.
- Cornelius Feather, born 25 Feb 1777, Middlesex, New Jersey, United States; married Mary Partridge, bef 1804, probably Trumbull, Ohio, United States; died 1 Apr 1853, Salem Township, Mercer, Pennsylvania, United States.
- Anna Feather, born Oct 1786, Westmoreland, Pennsylvania, United States; married David Fobes, 12 May 1808, Trumbull, Ohio, United States; died 10 Sep 1839, Wayne, Ashtabula, Ohio, United States.
It's possible that my unknown Mrs. Stephen Feather had a given name of Anna, but that's a shot in the dark. It could be Maria, Catharina, Christina, Elisabetha, Martha, Sophia, etc.
I last searched for Mrs. Feather last week, when I searched the New Jersey and Pennsylvania records for her husband (all name variations!) on Ancestry.com and FamilySearch Full-Text Search for church, probate and land records, and Find A Grave for burial records. I found nothing that I did not already have.
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