Friday, December 7, 2018

New Records Available To Search this Findmypast Friday, 7 December 2018

I received this information from Findmypast today:

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New Records Available To Search this Findmypast Friday

Over 18,000 new Index Cards and POW records covering the years 1939 to 1945 have been added to the collection. The Index cards record brief and abbreviated details of service histories while the POW records list the location & date of capture, liberation, escape or death as well prisoner and camp numbers for HAC members held by German or Italian forces.
Did your ancestor serve with the oldest regiment in the British Army? Discover multiple records for one ancestor. Explore a selection of rare photographs of the HAC from World War 1, full admission and regimental records for 1848 to 1922 and much more. Most of the collection is focused on the years 1908 to 1922. Every record will include a digitised image of the original source and a transcript. The amount of information listed will vary depending on date and nature of the document.
Over 35,000 new records covering the Widnes and Warrington areas have been added to the collection. These new additions cover the following parishes:
·        Culcheth, New Church -1599 to 1928
·        Hargrave, St Peter - 1883 to 1928
·        Kelsall, St Philip - 1868 to 1928
·        Warrington, All Saints - 1887 to 1896
·        Warrington, St Barnabas - 1902 to 1923
·        Warrington, St Paul - 1907 to 1920
·        Widnes, St Mary - 1818 to 1917
·        Widnes, St Paul - 1884 to 1928
Each record contains an image and a transcript of the original Church of England parish registers. The information listed will vary, but most records will list a combination of your ancestor's baptism date, birth date,place of birth, parish, parent's names and father's occupation.
Over 14,000 new records covering 7 parishes have been added to the collection. These new additions cover:
·        Culcheth, New Church – 1607 to 1928
·        Hargrave, St Peter – 1841 to 1928
·        Kelsall, St Philip – 1869 to 1928
·        Warrington, St Barnabas – 1905 to 1928
·        Warrington, St Paul – 1907 to 1928
·        Widnes, St Mary – 1859 to 1907
·        Widnes, St Paul – 1895 to 1925 Search these records
Each record contains an image and a transcript of the original Church of England parish registers. The information listed will vary, but most records will reveal the date of the marriage, the location of the marriage, the names of both the bride and groom, their occupations, father's name, father's occupation and witnesses.
Over 13,000 new records have been added to the collection covering:
·        Culcheth, New Church - 1607 to 1928
·        Kelsall, St Philip - 1868 to 1928
·        Widnes, St Mary - 1858 to 1910
Each record contains an image and a transcript of the original Church of England parish registers. The information listed will vary, but most records will list a combination of your ancestor's age at death, death date, date of burial, place of burial, marital status and relative's names.
This week we have added 142,416 new pages to The Archive. We have two brand new titles joining the archive this week, the Enniscorthy Guardian, published in Wexford and covering dates between 1889 and 2005, and the Kerryman, with pages covering the years between 1904 and 2002.
We also have updates this week to six of our existing titles. There are extensive nineteenth century updates to Scottish title the Airdrie & Coatbridge Advertiser, as well as further updates to Irish titles the Evening Herald (Dublin) and the Irish Independent. We have added new pages to the Manchester Evening News and the Tavistock Gazette.
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52 Ancestors - Week 255: #380 Sylvester Kenyon (1710-1800) of Rhode Island and Connecticut

Sylvester Kenyon (1710-1800) is #380 on my Ahnentafel List, my 6th great-grandfather, who married #381 Anna Barbara (1717-after 1800) in 1740 in Rhode Island.

I am descended through:

*  their son #190 John Kenyon (1741-1831), who married #191 Ann Kenyon (1746-1824) in 1764.
*  their daughter #95 Nancy Kenyon (1765-1833) who married  #94 Joseph Champlin (1757-1850)  in 1785.
*  their daughter #47 Amy Champlin (1798-1865), who married #46 Jonathan Oatley (1791-1872) in 1813.
*  their daughter #23 Amy Oatley (1826-1864), who married  #22 Henry Arnold White (1824-1885) in 1844.
*  their daughter #11 Julia E. White (1848-1913) who married #10 Thomas Richmond (1848-1917) in 1868.
*  their daughter #5 Alma Bessie Richmond (1882-1962) who married #4 Frederick Walton Seaver (1876-1942) in 1900.
*  their son #2 Frederick Walton Seaver (1911-1983) married #3 Betty Virginia Carringer (1919-2002) in 1942.
*  their son #1 Randall Jeffrey Seaver (1943-living)

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1)  PERSON (with source citations as indicated in brackets):
*  Name:                      Sylvester Kenyon[1–5]    
 *  Alternate Name:     Sylvester Kinyon[6–7]  

*  Sex:                         Male    

*  Father:                    John Kenyon (1682-1734)    
*  Mother:                  Elizabeth Remington (1686-1747)  

2)  INDIVIDUAL EVENTS (with source citations as indicated in brackets):
*  Birth:                      7 April 1710, North Kingstown, Washington, Rhode Island, United States[1–2]    
*  Deed:                     31 May 1764 (age 54), gave land in Richmond to son Giles Kenyon; Richmond, Washington, Rhode Island, United States[4]    

*  Census:                  1774 (about age 64), Richmond, Washington, Rhode Island, United States[6]    
*  Census:                  1777 (about age 67), Richmond, Washington, Rhode Island, United States[7]    

*  Death:                    9 May 1800 (age 90), Voluntown, New London, Connecticut, United States[1,3,5]    
*  Burial:                    after 9 May 1800 (after age 90), Riverside Cemetery, Sterling, Windham, Connecticut, United States[5]  

3)  SHARED EVENTS (with source citations as indicated in brackets):

*  Spouse 1:                Anna Barber (1717-1800)    
*  Marriage 1:             7 April 1740 (age 30), North Kingstown, Washington, Rhode Island, United States[3]    

*  Child 1:                  Giles Kenyon (1740-    )    
*  Child 2:                  Sylvester Kenyon (1741-1838)    
*  Child 3:                  John Kenyon (1742-1831)    
*  Child 4:                  Abigail Kenyon (1744-1814)    
*  Child 5:                  Paul Kenyon (1746-    )    
*  Child 6:                  Moses Kenyon (1750-1824)  
     
4)  NOTES (with source citations as indicated in brackets):  

Sylvester Kenyon was born on 7 April 1710 in North Kingstown, Rhode Island, the son of John and Elizabeth (Reminton) Kenyon [1-3].  

Sylvester Kenyon was made a freeman of Charlestown, RI 1739[1,3].

He married Anna Barber on 7 April 1740 in North Kingstown[3].  She was born on 8 October 1717 in South Kingstown, the daughter, and last child, of Moses and Susanna (West) Barber.  Sylvester and Anna (Barber) Kenyon had six children born between 1740 and 1750, all were probably born in Richmond[1,3].  There are no birth records for the children.  They were:

*  Giles Kenyon (about 1740 - ????), married 1760 to Priscilla Briggs (1741-????). 
*  Sylvester Kenyon (1741-1839), married 1760 to Sarah Kenyon (1742-????).
*  John Kenyon (1742-1831), married 1764 Ann Kenyon (1742-1824).
*  Abigail Kenyon (1744-1814), married 1773 James Woodmansee (1752-1814)
*  Paul Kenyon (1746-????)
*  Moses Kenyon (1750-1824), married 1788 Mary Champlin (1769-1857)

He was appointed guardian to his nephew, Christopher Kenyon on 7 March 1747. He took Simeon Kenyon, son of Thomas Kenyon, deceased of Charlestown, as an apprentice on 6 April 1778[1].

Sylvester was a justice of the peace in Richmond from 1753 to 1760 and in 1763, 1764, and 1767[3].

He owned land in Richmond, which he disposed of during his lifetime. He deeded land in Richmond to his son Giles Kenyon of Richmond, yeoman for love, dated and acknowledged 31 May 1764[4].  He also deeded land in Richmond to son John of Portsmouth and son Sylvester Jr. in 1766[3].

In the 1774 Rhode Island Census, Sylvester Kinyon was enumerated in Richmond with of household of[6]:

*  1 white male above 16
*  2 white males under 16
*  2 white females above 16

In the 1777 Military Census for Rhode Island, he was enumerated in Richmond[6].

After 1777, Sylvester, his wife Anna and several of his children moved from Richmond, Rhode Island to Voluntown, Connecticut and acquired substantial land holdings in and around the Oneco district (now Sterling, Connecticut).  On 4 September 1784, Sylvester Kenyon gave 70 acres to son Moses in Voluntown for love and affection[3]. 

Sylvester Kenyon died on 9 May 1800 in Sterling and is buried in Riverside Cemetery there[1,3,5].

Son Moses Kenyon administered the intestate estate in Sterling, in which the widow Anna shared[3].
 
5.  SOURCES

1. Captain Howard N. Kenyon, American Kenyons : History of Kenyons and English connections of American Kenyons, genealogy of the American Kenyons of Rhode Island, miscellaneous Kenyon material (Rutland, Vt. : Tuttle Company, 1935), page 115, Sylvester Kenyon sketch.

2. "Rhode Island, Vital Records Extracts, 1636-1899," indexed database and digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com), Volume 5, "Washington County Births, Marriages, Deaths," North Kingstown Births, page 84 (image 93 of 523), Sylvester Kenyon birth entry.

3. Anne Borden Harding (editor), Mayflower families Through Five Generations : Volume 3: George Soule (Plymouth, MA : General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1980), page 93, Anna Barber sketch.

4. Nellie M.C. Beaman, "Abstracts of Richmond Land Evidence, Volume 2, 1758-1771," Rhode Island Genealogical Register, Volume 6, Number 3, (January 1784)., Volume 6, Number 3 (January 1784), Sylvester Kenyon to Giles Kenyon.

5. Find A Grave, indexed database and digital image,  (http://www.findagrave.com), Riverside Cemetery, Sterling, Conn., Sylvester Kenyon memorial #39314115.

6. "Rhode Island Census, 1774," indexed database, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com), Sylvester Kinyon entry.

7. " Rhode Island Compiled Census and Census Substitute Index, 1740-1890"" indexed database, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com), 1777 Military Census, Sylvester Kinyon entry.

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NOTE:  In 2014, Amy Johnson Crow suggested a weekly blog theme of "52 Ancestors" in her blog post  52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks on the No Story Too Small blog.  I have extended this theme in 2018 to 260 Ancestors in 260 Weeks.

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Thursday, December 6, 2018

Seaver in the News - Mary Jane Seaver Dies in 1951 in Florida

It's time for another edition of "Seavers in the News" - a weekly feature from the historical newspapers about persons with the surname Seaver that are interesting, useful, mysterious, fun, macabre, or add information to my family tree database.

This week's entry is from the Tampa Bay Times [St. Petersburg, Fla.] newspaper dated 23 June 1951:

The transcription of the article is:

"Mary Jane Seaver, 68; Moved Here Year Ago

"Mary Jane Seaver, 8121 Fourth Street North, died in a local hospital late Thursday night in a hospital at 68.

"Mrs. Seaver came here a year ago from Norwalk, O.  She was a member of the Baptist Church.

"Survivors include her husband, Charles H. Seaver, this city; sons William Fred and Edward Leonard, Detroit, Mich.; and a sister, Mrs. Martha Sentell, Knoxville.

"The funeral party will leave today for Knoxville, where services and burial will take place."

The source citation for the article is:

"Mary Jane Seaver, 68; Moved Here Year Ago," obituary, Tampa Bay Times [St. Petersburg, Fla.], 23 June 1951, page 18, column 2, Mary Jane Seaver obituary; Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com : accessed 6 December 2018).

This obituary provides the name of Mary Jane's husband and two sons and a sister, but does not provide her maiden name or birth date and place.  The sons resided in Detroit, and the sister in Knoxville, and Mary Jane will be buried in Knoxville.  

I did not have Mary Jane, her husband or sons in my RootsMagic family tree database.  After an hour of research on Ancestry and Find A Grave, I found the birth date for Mary Jane (Lee) Seaver (1883-1951), records for Charles Henry Seaver (1889-1958) and for sons William Fred Seaver (1909-1990) and Edward Leonard Seaver (1913-1978).  

I am not related (to my knowledge) to this Seaver family.

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FamilyTreeWebinars.com Adds Captioning to Hundreds of Genealogy and DNA Education Classes

I received this information from Legacy Family Tree and Family Tree Webinars today:

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Legacy Family Tree Webinars, the leading genealogy and DNA webinar platform, announced today the addition of closed captioning to its service. Implemented as a full human-curated transcription via synced subtitles, closed captioning is now available as an option for all live and members-only webinar recordings released since May 1, 2018. In addition, the most popular 50 webinars on the platform and all MyHeritage-specific webinars have been captioned. Legacy will add captioning to all new webinars going forward.

“We are committed to providing the best genealogy and DNA education for all, including people who are hard of hearing,” said Geoff Rasmussen, founder and host of Legacy Family Tree Webinars. “Captioning is an excellent way to make online education more accessible, and is also a benefit to non-native English speakers who struggle with spoken English but have an easier time with written English”.

Legacy has exciting plans for 2019, which include the hosting of webinars in non-English languages as well as the translation of English captions to select foreign languages.

“When we acquired Legacy last year, we promised to invest resources to improve the webinar platform and increase its reach, while maintaining its high quality and unique character”, said Gilad Japhet, founder and CEO of MyHeritage. “The addition of closed captioning makes good on this promise and, with translated captioning coming up soon, will help make the webinars accessible to millions of people in Europe and other countries, true to MyHeritage’s goal of making genealogy and DNA testing available to huge consumer audiences worldwide”.

To access closed captioning, webinar viewers may click on the blue CC icon in the lower right-hand side of the video interface. A list of the 207 webinars already available with captioning is available here (or see list below).

Access to captions requires the viewer to log in with their annual or monthly webinar membership. Information about subscribing is found here. Captioning is also available for free for select free webinars, such as all 24 lectures from MyHeritage’s recent LIVE 2018 conference which took place in Oslo, Norway.

In addition to all webinars from May 1, 2018 onwards, the following popular webinars are also now available with closed captioning:

Beginners


Board for Certification of Genealogists
DNA
FamilySearch
Google
Legacy Family Tree
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MyHeritage
Organization
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Places
Records
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Watch Geoff Live
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1704 Marriage Record for John Kenyon and Elizabeth Remington -- Post 440 for Treasure Chest Thursday

It's Treasure Chest Thursday - a chance to look in my digital image files to see what treasures I can find for my family history and genealogy musings.

The treasure today is the 1704 marriage record of John Kenyon and Elizabeth Remington in North Kingstown, Rhode Island:

The John Kenyon marriage record is:


The transcription of this record is:

"KENYON, John Jr., and Elizabeth Remington; m. by Thomas Mumford, Justice, July 1704"

The source citation for this record is:

"Rhode Island, Vital Records Extracts, 1636-1899," indexed database and digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com), Volume 5, "Washington County, Births, Marriages, Deaths," page 30 (image 39 of 583), John Kenyon and Elizabeth Remington marriage entry.

John Kenyon, Jr. was born about 1682 in Kingstown, Rhode Island to John Kenyon and his unknown first wife, and died before 28 February 1734/5 in Westerly.  He married Elizabeth Remington in July 1704.  She was born in about 1686 in Kingstown to John and Abigail (Richmond) Remington, and died before 5 October 1747.

John and Elizabeth (Remington) Kenyon are my 7th great-grandparents, through their son Sylvester Kenyon (1710-1800) who married Anna Barber (1717-after 1800).

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