Tarkus Member Username: Tarkus
Post Number: 540 Registered: 04-2006
| Posted on Tuesday, June 24, 2008 - 9:19 am: | |
Grand fathers line from England came over in 1720. His son was a Col. under General George Washington. And was one of the original founders of Vermont. |
Udmphikapbob Member Username: Udmphikapbob
Post Number: 593 Registered: 07-2004
| Posted on Tuesday, June 24, 2008 - 9:41 am: | |
Mother's side is from Surrey - Woking and Oxshott - but only two generations ago. That's cool that you can trace back that far. |
Ray1936 Member Username: Ray1936
Post Number: 3301 Registered: 01-2005
| Posted on Tuesday, June 24, 2008 - 12:16 pm: | |
Thomas Downing was the immigrant from Devon to Pennsylvania in 1717. A Quaker, he was likely seeking religious freedom in William Penn's land. The town of Downingtown, PA, is named for him. My 6th gt grandfather. Thomas' line is traced back six more generations to 1555 thanks to a parish church in Devon. |
Kathleen Member Username: Kathleen
Post Number: 2918 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Tuesday, June 24, 2008 - 3:41 pm: | |
On my mother's mother's side of the family, we are descended from three Mayflower passengers: Richard Warren, a London merchant; and John Cooke and his Francis Cooke, who married Richard's daughter Sarah at Plymouth. Another ancestor Benjamin Nye, born 1620 in Kent, England, was a shiphand on The Abigail and arrived in America in 1635. It is not known whether he stayed, but eventually he did settle in Barnstable County, Massachusetts. Supposedly the Nyes are descended from the King of Sweden in the 1300s. This line of the family came to Michigan when my grandmother came from Indianapolis to Detroit when she married my grandfather (a 2nd-generation Irish-German American). |
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