Saturday, December 1, 2018

Surname Saturday -- LNU (Margaret, wife of William Cheney, England to colonial New England)

It's Surname Saturday, and I'm "counting down" my Ancestral Name List each week.

I am working in the 9th great-grandmothers by Ahnentafel number, and I am up to Ancestor #2207 who is Margaret LNU (1605-1686). [Note: the earlier great-grandmothers and 9th great-grandfathers have been covered in earlier posts.]

My ancestral line back through one generation in this LNU 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)

8. Frank Walton Seaver (1852-1922)
9. Hattie Louise Hildreth (1857-1920)

16. Isaac Seaver (1823-1901)
17. Lucretia Townsend Smith (1827-1884)


34.  Alpheus B. Smith (1802-1840)
35.  Elizabeth Horton Dill (1791-1869)

68.  Aaron Smith (1768-1841)
69.  Mercy Plimpton (1772-1850)

136.  Moses Smith (1732-1806)
137.  Patience Hamant (1735-1780)

274.  Timothy Hamant (1699-1774)
275.  Hephzibah Clark (1699-1791)


550.  Joseph Clark (1664-1731)
551.  Mary Wight (1667-1705)

1102.  Thomas Wight (1629-1690)
1103.  Mehitabel Cheney (1643-1693)

2206.  William Cheney, born before 05 February 1599 in Barrington, Cambridgeshire, England; died 30 June 1667 in Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States.  He was the son of 4412. John Cheney and 4413. Elizabeth LNU.  He married about 1623 in England.
2207.  Margaret LNU, born about 1605 in England; died 03 July 1686 in Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States.

Children of William Cheney and Margaret are:
*  Ellen Cheney (1626-1678), married 1643 Humphrey Johnson (1620-1692).
*  Margaret Cheney (1628-1685), married 1651 Thomas Hastings (1605-1685).
*  Thomas Cheney (1633-1693), married 1656 Jane Atkinson (1635-1724).
*  William Cheney (1637-1681), married 1661 Deborah Wiswall (1641-1681).
*  John Cheney (1639-1671).
Mehitabel Cheney (1643-1693), married 1661 Thomas Wight (1629-1690)
*  Joseph Cheney (1647-1704), married (1) 1668 Hannah Thurston (1650-1690); (2) 1691 Mehitable Plimpton (1655-1725).

The parentage of Margaret LNU is not known.  Some online family trees indicate she may be Margaret Mason (1605-1686), daughter of John and Avis (Richards) Mason.


Information on the William Cheney family was obtained from:

*  Joan S. Guilford , The Ancestry of Dr. J.P. Guilford (Sheridan Psychological Services, Inc., 1990), Volume 1, page 144. 

*  Dean Crawford Smith, edited by Melinde Lutz Sanborn, The Ancestry of Eva Belle Kempton, 1878-1908, Part I: The Ancestry of Warren Francis Kempton (1817-1879) (Boston, Mass.: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1996).

I have done no original research on this family line.

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Friday, November 30, 2018

Genealogy News Bytes - 30 November 2018


Some of the genealogy news items across my desktop the last four days include:

1)  News Articles:


*  Ancestry Breaks November Sales Record

*  A Proposal to Make Money by Selling Your DNA Information

*  England, But New: How John Smith’s 1616 Map Helped Define America

2)  New or Updated Record Databases:

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New Records Available To Search this Findmypast Friday, 30 November 2018

 U.S. Naturalization Records & More New Genealogy Records Online

*  FamilySearch New and Updated Collections - November 1-30, 2018

*  Chronicling America Updates - November, 2018

3)  Genealogy Education:

 GeneaWebinars Calendar


*  LESS than 7 DAYS for the next i4GG (Institute for Genetic Genealogy) 2018 Conference!

*  Upcoming Family Tree Webinar - Wednesday, 5 December, 11 a.m. PST:  Ins and Outs of Indexes: Keys to Unlocking County and State Records, by Mary Kircher Roddy

*  Upcoming AmericanAncestors Webinar - Thursday, 13 December, 12 noon PST:  Using Maps in Your Family History Research, by Alice Kane

*  Archived Family Tree Webinar:  Railroad Records and Railroad History: Methods for Tracking, by Paula Stuart-Warren

*  Archived Family Tree Webinar:  Legacy 9 Unlocked (part 8): The Smoking Gun, by Geoff Rasmussen

*  Archived Family Tree Webinar:  Family Secrets: The Court Records Tell It All, by Sharon Monson

*  MyHeritage LIVE 2018: Lectures now online!

*  Genealogy Journeys Podcast:  Podcast 63 - Stories from Genealogy Journeys Cruise 2018

*  Fisher’s Top Tips Podcast:  #023 – When Ancestors Don’t Appear Where They’re Supposed To!

*  Generations Cafe Podcast:  How Not to Bore People With Genealogy

*  Lots of RootsMagic TV YouTube:  https://www.youtube.com/user/RootsMagicTV/videos

*  Family History Fanatics YouTube:  Are Citations Overdone in Genealogy?

*  Family History Fanatics YouTube:  The One Genealogy Myth that MUST DIE!

*  Ancestry YouTube:  Step Two for Building a Family Tree | Ancestry

*  Valerie & Myrt's Excellent Genealogy Adventures YouTube:  Valerie's Delta Airlines Agent

*  Valerie & Myrt's Excellent Genealogy Adventures YouTube:  Booking tickets @ THEGenealogyShow

*  Who Is Nicka Smith? YouTube:  BlackProGen LIVE!: Ep 73: “How I Did It” Part 2

*  Genetic Genealogy Ireland YouTube:  Raising the Dead (Martin McDowell)

*  Genetic Genealogy Ireland YouTube:  WATO - the latest tool for your atDNA (Andrew Millard)

*  DearMYRTLE YouTube:  RootsMagic: Adding Media Files

4)  Bargains:

*  Genealogy Bargains for Friday, November 30,  2018


5)  DNA Success Stories:

*  State senator meets long-lost sister

*  Woman meets her biological father after unexpected DNA test kit results

Did you miss the last Genealogy News Bytes - 27 November 2018?

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New Records Available To Search this Findmypast Friday, 30 November 2018

I received this information from Findmypast today:


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New Records Available To Search this Findmypast Friday

Findmypast is excited to bring you some of the earliest marriage records we hold with records from as early as 1115. Fifteen English counties are represented including London, Lancashire, Suffolk, Exeter, Lincoln, Yorkshire, and more. Marriage licenses will reveal your ancestor's intended spouse, father's name, and the intended marriage place. The collection consists of a mixture of more than 536,000 handwritten and typed record books from 1115 until 1906 provided by the College of Arms, Anguline Research Archives, and Gould Genealogy.
A marriage licence was obtained from the Church of England for a fee and with a sworn declaration that there were no legal impediments to the marriage. The licence waived the banns period necessary for a marriage to take place. Marriage licences were first introduced in the 14th century.
Was your ancestor baptised in Scotland? Search this index of more than 30,000 baptism records from the Free Church of Scotland in Caithness, Cromarty-shire, Inverness-shire, Moray, Ross-shire, and Sutherland.
With each result, you will find a transcript of the vital facts that may include a combination of your ancestor's birth date, baptism date, location, parent's names, residence and occupation.
Explore the history of Leicestershire with five fascinating publications including histories of the Belvoir Castle and the Belvoir Hunt, Parish Registers of Muston, a Pedigree of Henry Wood – Freeman of Leicester and a historical accounting of horse racing in the county.
The publications in this collection are presented as PDFs. The detail you will find in each one will differ depending on the topic. This collection includes:
·        History of Belvoir Castle, published 1841
·        History of The Belvoir Hunt, published 1899
·        Parish Registers of Muston, published 1908
·        Pedigree of Henry Wood Freeman of Leicester, published 1890
·        The Cream of Leicestershire - Eleven Seasons Skimming, published 1883

Search for your English ancestors in this collection of historical Gloucestershire publications, including parish registers, a poor book, records of The Corporation of Gloucester, and more. Some of these records date back to the early 18th century. This collection of Gloucestershire registers and records includes the following publications:
·        Elkstone Its Manors, Church and Registers, Published 1919
·        History & Antiquities of Tewkesbury, Published 1790
·        Parish Registers of Westbury-On-Trym, Published 1912
·        Poor Book - Tithings of Westbury-On-Trym, Stoke Bishop & Shirehampton, Published 1910
·        Records of The Corporation of Gloucester, Published 1893

Over 400 additional images have been added to our collection of British Directories and Almanacs. The collection includes trade directories, county guides, almanacs and general directories spanning three centuries that may help you uncover your ancestor's address and occupation or explore the history of your home address.
Almanacs and directories are an excellent resource for anyone researching their family history and want to understand more about their ancestor's life. They provide topographical accounts of towns, social statistics and comprehensive guides of towns or cities, as well as full listings of gentry, business owners, trades people, civil servants, church leaders, school teachers and much more. Furthermore, you can explore the history of your home by searching the publications by address, where you may discover previous proprietors.
This week we have added 153,688 new pages to our Archive. We have updated five of our existing titles, with additions to the Belfast Telegraph, cinema title The Bioscope, Norfolk based title the Eastern Daily Press and Welsh title the Western Mail.
We have one brand new title this week, the Sunday Tribune. The Sunday Tribune was a Dublin based newspaper, and you can now find 619 issues on the Archive, covering the years 1993 to 2002.
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Disclosure:  I have a complimentary subscription to Findmypast, and have accepted meals and services from Findmypast, as a Findmypast Ambassador.  This has not affected my objectivity relative to Findmypast and its products.
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52 Ancestors - Week 254: #379 Judith (Greenman) Card (1694-1786) of Rhode Island

Judith (Greenman) Card (1694-1786) is #379 on my Ahnentafel List, my 6th great-grandmother, who married #378 Job Card (1690-about 1760)  in about 1716 in Rhode Island.

I am descended through:

*  their daughter #189 Phoebe Card (1730-1787), who married #188 Elijah Champlin (1730-1779)  in 1751.
*  their son #94 Joseph Champlin (1757-1850), who married #95 Nancy Kenyon (1765-1833) 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:                         Judith Greenman[1]    
*  Alternate Name:         Judith Card [2]

*  Sex:                            Female    

*  Father:                       Thomas Greenman (1669-1728)    
*  Mother:                     Mary Weeden (1673-1743)  

2)  INDIVIDUAL EVENTS (with source citations as indicated in brackets):

*  Birth:                         about 1694, Westerly, Washington, Rhode Island, United States[1]  

*  Death:                        before 10 December 1786 (before about age 92), Charlestown, Washington, Rhode Island, United States[1] 

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

*  Spouse 1:                   Job Card (1690-about 1760)    
*  Marriage 1:                before 1716 (before about age 26), probably Westerly, Washington, Rhode Island, United States[1]    

*  Child 1:                     Job Card (1718-1777)    
*  Child 2:                     Joseph Card (1720-    )    
*  Child 3:                     Joshua Card (1722-1808)    
*  Child 4:                     Martha Card (1724-    )    
*  Child 5:                     Prudence Card (1726-1774)    
*  Child 6:                     John Card (1728-1803)    
*  Child 7:                     Phoebe Card (1730-1787)    
*  Child 8:                     Jonathan Card (1732-1811)  
     
4)  NOTES (with source citations as indicated in brackets):  

Biographical information about Job Card and his wife, Judith, and their descendants were obtained from:

*  Maxine Phelps Lines, "Descendants of Richard Card of Newport," Rhode Island Genealogical Register, Volume 3, Number 3 (January 1981) to Volume 4, Number 4 (April 1982).[1] 

Judith Greenman was born in about 1694, perhaps in South Kingstown or Westerly, Rhode Island, probably the daughter of Thomas Greenman and his wife, Mary Weeden.  

Judith is not listed as a child of Thomas and Mary (Weeden) Greenman in the book by:

*   Peter Holden Greenman, The Greenman Family in America, published 1988 by the Greenman Family Association.  The Thomas Greenman family sketch is on pages 7-8[2].

 In his will dated 11 November 1728 on file at Charlestown, Rhode Island, Thomas Greenman mentioned his wife Mary, sons Silas and Sylvanus, and unnamed daughters.  There is no distribution of the estate of Thomas Greenman included in the Charlestown town probate records.  The only real circumstantial evidence that Judith may have been the daughter of Thomas and Mary is that Job Card (either her husband or his father) was a witness to the 1728 will of Thomas Greenman[1].   

Judith Greenman married Job Card (1690-1760) in about 1716, and they had eight children, all probably born in Westerly, but none of them were registered in a town record[1].  The children were:

*  Job Card (1718-1777), married Martha Davis (1721-1803) in about 1744.
*  Joseph Card (1720-????), married Rebecca --?-- (1723-????), in about 1745.
*  Joshua Card (1722-1808), married Alice Clark (1726-1760) in 1745.
*  Martha Card (1724-????), married Thomas Potter (1722-????) in 1747.
*  Prudence Card (1726-1774), married Elisha Clark (1714-1778) in 1746.
*   John Card (1728-1803), married (1) Sarah Simmons (1730-1750) in about 1748, and (2) Dorcas Potter (1733-1807).
*  Phoebe Card (1730-1787), married Elijah Champlin (1730-1779) in 1751.
*  Jonathan Card (1732-1811), married Sarah Niles (1743-????) in 1759.

Point Judith apparently was named for Judith (Greenman) Card. A tradition says that in crossing from Block Island to the mainland with her husband, she exclaimed, "I see land." He said, "P'nt Judy, P'nt." The land which she saw is a dangerous point on the coast at the southeast corner of the state on which a government lighthouse now stands. The location is still known as Point Judith and is now in the town of Narragansett, formerly South Kingstown[1].

The name of Job Card's wife did not appear in any of the records until after his death, when "Job Card was appointed guardian of his aged grandmother Judith Card." When the grandson Job Card IV (1745-1815, son of Job Card III) could no longer act, John Card, the son of Job and Judith, was appointed administrator. After he died, son Joshua Card was made administrator of the estate of Judith Card late of South Kingstown. An inventory of the estate of Judith (Greenman) Card was taken 10 December 1786[1].  

Judith (Greenman Card died before 10 December 1786 in South Kingstown, Rhode Island.  There is no extant burial date or location.
 
5.  SOURCES

1. Maxine Phelps Lines, "Descendants of Richard Card of Newport," Rhode Island Genealogical Register, Volume 3, Number 3 (January 1981) to Volume 4, Number 4 (April 1982), Volume 3, Number 3, Page 195-6, Job Card sketch.

2. Peter Holden Greenman, The Greenman Family in America (Cohasset, Mass. : Greenman Family Association, 1988), pages 7-8, Thomas Greenman sketch.

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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, November 29, 2018

Seavers in the News -- Lester P. Seaver Dies in Moline, Illinois in 1950

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 Dispatch[Moline, Illinois] newspaper dated 4 March 1959:

The transcription of the article is:

"Milan Man Found Dead at Foot of Stairway in Alley

"Lester P. Seaver, 52, who resides 1-1/2 miles south of Milan on Route 67, was found dead shortly before 6 last evening in the cellarway at the rear of the State Furniture Co., 1134 Fifteenth avenue, East Moline.

"Neighbors reported that a noise was heard in the alley and Walter E. Crow, who lives in an apartment above the store building, investigated.  He reported that he found the body of the Milan man at the foot of the stairway.  Coroner Leslie Banning, investigating the death, said this morning that Seaver apparently had fallen down the 14 cement steps of the stairway.  Cause of Seaver's death was not determined immediately although it is believed he may have suffered a heart attack.

"East Moline police and fire departments were called but efforts to revive the man with a resuscitator failed.  It was not learned what Seaver was doing in the alley at the time of his death.

"The body was taken to the Crummy funeral home, Reynolds, where an inquest was scheduled to be held this afternoon.

"Funeral services will be held at 2 Monday afternoon in the Crummy funeral home, the Rev. Roy E. Stocking, retired Methodist minister, officiating.  Burial will be in Memorial Park cemetery, Rock Island.  Friends may call at the funeral home after 6 tonight.

"Lester Philip Seaver was born in Taylor Ridge, Jan. 21, 1898, a son of Jacob and Anna Seaver.  He attended Rock Island schools and normal school in Moorhead, Minn.  He resided in Rock Island county all of his life except for 10 years when he lived in Minnesota.

"Mr. Seaver was a veteran of World War 1.  He was a member of the Rock Island Eagles and the Congregational church in Moorhead, Minn.

"Surviving are the widow; the parents in Reynolds; a brother, Douglas B. Seaver of Milan; a niece and a nephew."

The source citation for the article is:

"Milan Man Found Dead at Foot of Stairway in Alley," obituary, The Dispatch [Moline, Ill.], 28 October 1950, Page 3, column 1, Lester P. Seaver obituary; digital image, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com : accessed 29 November 2018).

The obituary provides his full name, birth date and residence address, does not name his spouse, and names his parents and brother.  Apparently, he had no children.  You would think that the funeral home would choose a more dignified name...perhaps it was named after a person.

Lester Philip Seaver was born 21 January 1898 in Taylor Ridge, Illinois, and died 27 October 1950 in Moline, Illinois.  He was the son of Jacob Allen Seaver (1868-1962) and Anna Clarke Bendle (1867-1959).  He married Ada Faye Wakefield (1900-1988).  

I had Lester and his wife and his Seaver ancestral families in my RootsMagic family tree.

I am not related to Lester Philip Seaver - his great-grandparents, Jacob and Esther (Croberger) Seaver were born in Virginia, and settled in Switzerland County, Indiana.

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1830 U.S. Census Record for Isaac Buck Household in Sterling, Mass. -- Post 439 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 1830 U.S. census record of the Isaac Buck household in Sterling, Massachusetts:


The Isaac Buck household record is the second entry on the page: 




The extracted information in the census record  is:

*  Head of household:  Isaac Buck
*  Males of twenty and under thirty:  1 [probably one of the three younger sons of Isaac Buck]
*  Males of seventy and under eighty:  1  [certainly Isaac Buck]
*  Females of 60 and under seventy:  1   [likely Martha (Phillips) Buck]

The source citation for this record is:

1830 United States Federal Census, Population Schedule, Worcester County, Massachusetts, Sterling town, Page 51 [penned], line 2, Isaac Buck household; indexed database and digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 29 October 2011);  citing National Archives Microfilm Publication M19, Roll 68.

Isaac Buck (1757-1846) and Martha (Phillips) Buck (1757-after 1830) of Sterling, Massachusetts are my 4th great-grandparents.  I am descended through their daughter, Sophia Buck (1797-1882) who married (1) 1817 Lambert Brigham (1794-1834), (2) about 1834 Thomas J. Newton (about 1800 - ????); (3) 1862 Jonathan Stone (1795-1868).  

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Wednesday, November 28, 2018

All MyHeritage LIVE! 2018 Classes Available on Family Tree Webinars Site for FREE

MyHeritage and Family Tree Webinars have announced that all 24 class sessions at the MyHeritage LIVE! 2018 conference are available for FREE on the Family Tree Webinars site at  https://familytreewebinars.com/intermediate_page.php?diply_nm=mhlive2018.


The classes were (courtesy of the Legacy News site):


Keynote Session
DNA Track
Genealogy Track
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