Eliza Blake is the mother of Durell Blake whose will was blogged 27th September 2013:
http://kippeeb.blogspot.ca/2013/09/will-of-durell-blake-gentleman.html
The will of Eliza Blake has been probated eight days after her son Durrel Blake’s will was probated. George Poole, brother in law of Durrel and son in law of Eliza (he is married to her daughter Jane) has taken probate on both wills.
Eliza was married to Captain John Blake and she was a sister to Anne Sophia Blake whose will was blogged:
http://kippeeb.blogspot.ca/2013/09/will-of-anne-sophia-blake-widow-of.html
25th September 2013. Anne Sophie was married to Captain Michael Anthony Blake of Galway. What is not known is whether or not John husband of Eliza and Michael husband of Anne Sophie were related although both are from Galway. But just to make it very interesting both Eliza (the testatrix) and Anne Sophia were grand daughters of Captain Thomas Philip Durrell (Royal Navy).
http://www.cichw1.net/pmdurelltp.html
This is my first set of wills that pertain to the Galway Blake family and at this point it seems apt to look at one of the published works of the Blake family of Ireland:
Blake Family Records 1300 to 1600 by Martin J Blake
was my first book on the Blake family in Galway. He lists the progenitor of this Blake family as Richard Cadel. Martin Blake is a descendant of the Galway Blake family and had at hand a good deal of original material which he published. His records include a deed of grant in fee to Richard Cadel, surnamed Blake dated 1315. The records were passed down in the senior line of this Blake family down to 1788 when John Blake (15th in eldest lineal descent from Richard Cadel) died without issue. In the will of this John Blake, dated 27 Feb 1787 (probated PCC 21 Feb 1788), devised his estates to his first cousin John Blake (younger son of John Blake’s uncle Mark Blake). By a circuitous path they eventually came into the hands of the author.
Both Captain Michael Anthony Blake and Captain John Blake of Galway were born in the late 1700s. Looking towards the back of the book I can see that the family of Sir Edward Blake (son of William Hume Blake and Catharine Hume) is listed and his ancestry back. This Blake family continues in Canada but this is not my line as my Blake line is from Upper Clatford and before that Andover, Hampshire. The interesting part in this is that the father of William Hume Blake was the Reverend Dominick Edward Blake and that takes us back into the 1700s as Dominick was born in 1771 at Castlegrove, Galway.
I do not find either of these Blake lines in this book on the Galway Blake family but it is a very large family. I have meant to have a look at this published book on the Galway family and the opportunity wasn’t missed at this time. Placing these Blake lines into the Galway Blake family would be rather interesting I suspect. Later in the discussion I discover there is a second volume by Martin Blake and there is a reference that is interesting for this family on page 196.
From a requester on one of the Blake researcher sites: Durell Blake lived at Elkington Hall Somerset and Belmont county Galway was born by 1826. She however thinks that Durell Blake and John Durell Blake are the same person and I am not sure. The will of John is still to come. She has the other son as Daniel. Father Captain John Blake (married to Eliza the testatrix of this will) was of Belmont county Galway as well. Possibly a rather confusing family especially as the Harwood descendants in the US did not know the children of Eliza Durell Blake. Nor did they realize that he was also in the military and a Captain (i.e. Captain John Blake).
Another query on the same site and this is a Francis C Harwood looking for information on Captain Michael Anthony Blake who married Sophia Anne Durell 6 December 1815 at St Martin in the Fields, London. This researcher says that Michael was born in Tuan, county Galway and that his father was John Blake an ancestor of the family of Blake at Belmont county Galway. That would seem to indicate that Michael and John were related perhaps. Was their father John. He found this information in the book I was looking at above on Page 196 so will return to that page and see what is listed by Martin Blake in his book on the Blake family at Galway. The researcher continues with the information that Captain Michael Anthony Blake was in the 13th Somerset Light infantry and first appears in the 1806 Army list as Lt. Blake with a seniority date of 11 Jul 1805. He was promoted to Captain on 10 Jun 1813 and went on half pay 7 Mar 1816 and continued in this capacity until the Army list of 1825. The researcher thinks that he died in 1826 at Waterslade court, Fulham South West, London.
Paraphrased: John, ancestor of the family of Blake of Belmont, county Galway was born 26 Feb 1745 and married Miss Cuffe, sister of James Cuffe (afterwards first Baron Tyrawley), by whom he had a number of descendants some of whom now live in the United States.
The question remains are Michael Anthony Blake and John Blake closely related and descendant of this John Blake who was a son of George Blake and Juliane Lynch. George was born in July 1700 and was the second son of Martin Blake of Moyne.
I have decided to put these trees that Martin Blake has put together into Legacy in order to be able to search and utilize the information more readily. It will be a back burner project that I will work away at “in my spare time :)” but will be a start on the Blake family of Ireland which is very extensive and possibly larger than the Blake family of England. Still to look at are Scotland and Wales (although the Blake family descendant of Richard Cadel would have been originally Welsh as he was).
Curious now about the will of John Durell Blake to come.
Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 1 Oct 2013
Source: The National Archives, PROB 11/2095/371
Testator: Eliza Blake, widow
Place: Burnham, Somerset, England
Type of Record: Will
Date of document: 9 Sep 1846, probated 20 Jul 1849
Condition: 19th century English, legible copy
[Margin]: Eliza
[Margin]: Blake
[Margin]: 5
1 This is the last Will and Testament
2 of me Eliza Blake of Burnham in the County of Somerset Widow I
3 give devise and bequeath all my real and personal Estate unto my sons
4 Durell Blake and John Durell Blake equally to be divided between them
5 share and share alike as tenants in common and I appoint the said Durell
6 Blake and John Durell Blake Executors of this my Will and I revoke all
7 former Wills and declare this to be my last Will dated this ninth day of
8 September one thousand eight hundred and forty six Eliza Blake
9 Signed published and declared by the said Eliza Blake as her last Will in
10 the presence of us present at the same time Dan[ie]l Gould Solicitor
11 Honiton Jno E Burt Burnham
12 Prerogative In the Goods of Eliza Blake
13 Widow deceased
14 Appeared Personally John Edwin Burt
15 of No 40 Silvester Street Kingston upon Hull in the County of York Officer
16 of her Majesty’s Customs and made oath that he is one of the subscribed
17 witnesses to the last Will and Testament of Eliza Blake late of Burnham in
18 the County of Somerset Widow deceased bearing date the ninth day of
19 September one thousand eight hundred and forty six and now hereunto
20 annexed and he further made oath that on the said ninth day of September
21 in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty six the said Testatrix duly
22 executed her said Will by signing her name at the foot or end thereof in
23 manner as now appears therein in the presence of this deponent who then
24 resided at Burnham aforesaid and of Daniel Gould of Honiton in the
25 County of Devon Solicitor the other subscribed witness thereto both of whom
26 were present at the same time and thereupon the said Daniel Gould and
27 the deponent respectively attested and subscribed their names and places of
28 residence to the said Will in manner as also now appears thereon in the
29 presence of the said Testatrix and of each other Jno E Burt
30 on the 17th day of July 1840 the said John Edwin Burt was duly sworn
31 to the truth of this Affidavit Before me A Waddilove Jun[io]r
32 in the presence of J Henry Pitcher Not. Pub.
[Page 2]
33 On the 20th day of July 1849 Admon (with the Will annexed) of the
34 goods chattels and credits of Eliza Blake late of Burnham in the County of
35 Somerset Widow deceased was granted to George Poole the acting Executor
36 of the Will of John Durell Blake Esquire deceased whilst living the Son and
37 one of the Executors and Universal Legatees named in the said Will having been
38 first sworn duly to administer. Durell Blake and the said John Durell Blake
39 the Son the Executors and Universal Legatees named in the said Will respectively
40 survived but died without having taken upon themselves the probate and
41 execution of the said Will.
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Wednesday, October 2, 2013
Wednesday, July 24, 2013
Blake Newsletter posted to The Blake Family Site
24 Jul 2013
The process of working on the Blake family one name study has been very slow this past six months. We have been traveling and although I have transcribed a great number of wills on my blog throughout this time period, I have not been adding to this Blake Family website. I hope to see more changes to the website over the next six months. Working on my own for the most part means that I do not get more than one project done at a time. If anyone is interested in being a co-researcher on the Blake family in particular a member who lives in Australia/New Zealand, the United States of America or South Africa would be most helpful. Although I live in Canada my father was born in England and my studies are primarily there for the moment although I hope to begin work on the Blake families in the Canadian Census but again if anyone is interested in being a Blake researcher for this particular project and is from Canada they would also be most welcomed.
http://www.kipp-blake-families.ca/blakegoons/2012/07/08/blake-one-name-study/
Although our trips have been quite short, the preparation time has been lengthy. We visited a number of interesting archives including the Historical Society of Connecticut and the Connecticut Society of Genealogists. We have already visited the State Archives of Connecticut which is also a very good site for doing genealogy on your Connecticut ancestors of which my husband has a good many. We also were very lucky to find the gravestone for Doctor Benjamin Burt in Ridgefield which we had been unable to locate the last visit to this area. Earlier we visited Vermont for a family reunion of my husband's Foote family and the Connecticut visit was for the Rathbun Family Reunion which was held in Newport Rhode Island (the birthplace of my husband's furtherest back female ancestor born in the colonies in 1654 - Margaret Carr daughter of Robert Carr (brother to the Royal Governor) and his possible wife Hannah Hale. We have not yet been able to prove the name of his wife nor her place of birth but given the matches of his FGS she was likely British.
The process of working on the Blake family one name study has been very slow this past six months. We have been traveling and although I have transcribed a great number of wills on my blog throughout this time period, I have not been adding to this Blake Family website. I hope to see more changes to the website over the next six months. Working on my own for the most part means that I do not get more than one project done at a time. If anyone is interested in being a co-researcher on the Blake family in particular a member who lives in Australia/New Zealand, the United States of America or South Africa would be most helpful. Although I live in Canada my father was born in England and my studies are primarily there for the moment although I hope to begin work on the Blake families in the Canadian Census but again if anyone is interested in being a Blake researcher for this particular project and is from Canada they would also be most welcomed.
http://www.kipp-blake-families.ca/blakegoons/2012/07/08/blake-one-name-study/
Although our trips have been quite short, the preparation time has been lengthy. We visited a number of interesting archives including the Historical Society of Connecticut and the Connecticut Society of Genealogists. We have already visited the State Archives of Connecticut which is also a very good site for doing genealogy on your Connecticut ancestors of which my husband has a good many. We also were very lucky to find the gravestone for Doctor Benjamin Burt in Ridgefield which we had been unable to locate the last visit to this area. Earlier we visited Vermont for a family reunion of my husband's Foote family and the Connecticut visit was for the Rathbun Family Reunion which was held in Newport Rhode Island (the birthplace of my husband's furtherest back female ancestor born in the colonies in 1654 - Margaret Carr daughter of Robert Carr (brother to the Royal Governor) and his possible wife Hannah Hale. We have not yet been able to prove the name of his wife nor her place of birth but given the matches of his FGS she was likely British.
Saturday, August 6, 2011
Sir Francis Baildon and his nine page will
I transcribed the will of Sir Francis Baildon when I was first learning paleography. It was an enormous challenge for me at the time but I struggled through it five years ago. The last few days I have redone my transcription and I am amazed on the one hand that I did so well at the time and astounded, on the other hand, at my errors!
My husband has an interest in this will as one of his ancestors was Daniel Belding who married Elizabeth Foote 10 Nov 1670 at Hartford Connecticut (CT). Their daughter Sarah (born 15 Mar 1682 at Hatfield CT) married Benjamin Burt 19 Oct 1702 at Deerfield Massachusetts (MA). During the raid on Deerfield of 1704 they were taken to Montréal and their first son was born there (Sarah was seven months pregnant for that trek through the snows of winter - it must have been a frightening experience). They were repatriated and on the return voyage their son (my husband's ancestor) Seaborn was born ( 4 Jul 1706 at sea). Continuing to come down Seaborn married Susannah Lobdell but the date and place of marriage are not known to me. Their son Benjamin Burt married Rebecca (surname unknown) and their daughter Sarah was born Jan 1771 at Ridgefield CT. We visited the cemetery at Ridgefield but couldn't find their gravestone (it was a dreary wet day and we couldn't find it; must return one day). Sarah married Philip Crouse 8 Apr 1791 at Queensbury New Brunswick (this is my husband's loyalist line). Their daughter Rebecca Crouse married Isaac Allen (another loyalist line) 8 Apr 1816 at Keswick New Brunswick. Their last child James C Allen was his great grandfather (born 24 Dec 1832 at Millstream New Brunswick). James Allen married Hannah Catherine Parlee (another loyalist line) 17 Jul 1856 at Burford Canada West (now Ontario). Their youngest daughter Margaret Evelyn Allen was born 3 Nov 1880 in McLean Township Ontario and she married Horace Lorenzo Link (loyalist line that came directly to Ontario in the early 1780s) 25 Nov 1903 at Audrey North West Territories (now Saskatchewan). His mother was born in Saskatchewan but they returned to Ontario when she was six weeks old in 1906.
That traces the line down from Daniel Belding and to work backwards now the parents of Daniel Belding were William Belding and Thomasine Sherwood who married at Wethersfield CT. The father of this William was said to be Richard Baldon (Balydon/Baildon) married to Margaret Ackrenden 9 Dec 1622 at Heptonstall West Yorkshire Riding (England). The possible father of this Richard Baildon was Sir Francis Baildon and mother was Margaret Goodrick who were themselves married at Ribston Manor West Yorkshire riding.
This is where the two questions enter. I found a book online "Concerning some of the Ancestors and Descendants of Royal Denison Belden and Olive Cadwell Belden by Jessie Perry Van Zile Belden. Printed for private circulation by J. B. Lippincott Company Philadelphia 1898. An interesting book in light of the articles published lately concerning the impossibility that Richard Baildon was the son of Sir Francis Baildon. Further on from this is the difficulty with William the supposed son of Richard born in America. In this book the only two sons mentioned are Samuel and Thomas. This appears to be another debate within the articles published on the Baildon family. Was William a son of Richard Bayldon? The one comment in the book mentioned earlier in this paragraph that catches my eye is on page 72 of this book (can be downloaded from Internet Archive) where I quote a quote from William Poley Baildon, F.S.A. and he was a member of the Council of the Archaeological Society of Yorkshire. The question that might remain in my mind is who was William Paley Baildon. Looking at the publication, William Paley was a barrister and had been collecting information on the family for twenty years searching through parish registers, court records, etc in Yorkshire. He created the pedigrees that are in the book. The quote follows:
"There is only one family of Bayldon; all persons bearing that name by inheritance must have sprung from the Yorkshire manor of that name. Richard Bayldon, son of Sir Francis Bayldon of Kippax, baptized May 26, 1591, was the only Richard, so far as I know, who would have had money to spend in the purchase of land, as Richard of Wethersfield did."
Now that doesn't prove that this Richard is the son of Sir Francis Baildon. Once I am happy with the transcription of the will (my husband will put that on his blog) than I will proceed to work on the Postmortem Inquisition that he also purchased from the National Archives. Certainly the will leaves one breathless with the extent of this man's holdings but also as I transcribed it I realized the tremendous responsibility placed on his children to carry out his many transactions and to follow through with his legacies. All of this to begin five years after the death of Sir Francis Baildon. His death was in 1623 so the duties would have begun to fall on Richard in 1628 presumably. The actual value of the estates of Sir Francis Baildon at his death does not appear to be as substantial as they appear on the will. His debts were large apparently and so the children would have had to bear this debt along with their legacies and balance it all out. This Richard had also made application to leave England in 1613 so perhaps felt with the dissension around him concerning King and Parliament and the responsibilities of the estate of his father that he might do better in America. I think that attributing this Richard to Lawrence Baildon when no baptism exists is perhaps questionable and that is the tone of later researchers in this family.
When next we are at Kew, I shall try to spend some time looking at all the Baildon material there to see if a stronger case could be made for Richard Baildon at Wethersfield being the son of Sir Francis Baildon. I will also look at the other Baildon families in Yorkshire although we have read through the Heptonstall Parish Registers. Always though one must bear in mind that the tendency in the 1800s was to try to link back to an illustrious family in Europe and that tainted many of the genealogical studies of colonial families produced in the United States in that time period. Plus there is still the query about William being the son of Richard; the name Baildon is uncommon and Belding/Belden equally uncommon. However, I shall not delve into this mystery as it is my husband's mystery and not mine! I just transcribed the will and that is my big part in the Baildon mysteries.
My husband has an interest in this will as one of his ancestors was Daniel Belding who married Elizabeth Foote 10 Nov 1670 at Hartford Connecticut (CT). Their daughter Sarah (born 15 Mar 1682 at Hatfield CT) married Benjamin Burt 19 Oct 1702 at Deerfield Massachusetts (MA). During the raid on Deerfield of 1704 they were taken to Montréal and their first son was born there (Sarah was seven months pregnant for that trek through the snows of winter - it must have been a frightening experience). They were repatriated and on the return voyage their son (my husband's ancestor) Seaborn was born ( 4 Jul 1706 at sea). Continuing to come down Seaborn married Susannah Lobdell but the date and place of marriage are not known to me. Their son Benjamin Burt married Rebecca (surname unknown) and their daughter Sarah was born Jan 1771 at Ridgefield CT. We visited the cemetery at Ridgefield but couldn't find their gravestone (it was a dreary wet day and we couldn't find it; must return one day). Sarah married Philip Crouse 8 Apr 1791 at Queensbury New Brunswick (this is my husband's loyalist line). Their daughter Rebecca Crouse married Isaac Allen (another loyalist line) 8 Apr 1816 at Keswick New Brunswick. Their last child James C Allen was his great grandfather (born 24 Dec 1832 at Millstream New Brunswick). James Allen married Hannah Catherine Parlee (another loyalist line) 17 Jul 1856 at Burford Canada West (now Ontario). Their youngest daughter Margaret Evelyn Allen was born 3 Nov 1880 in McLean Township Ontario and she married Horace Lorenzo Link (loyalist line that came directly to Ontario in the early 1780s) 25 Nov 1903 at Audrey North West Territories (now Saskatchewan). His mother was born in Saskatchewan but they returned to Ontario when she was six weeks old in 1906.
That traces the line down from Daniel Belding and to work backwards now the parents of Daniel Belding were William Belding and Thomasine Sherwood who married at Wethersfield CT. The father of this William was said to be Richard Baldon (Balydon/Baildon) married to Margaret Ackrenden 9 Dec 1622 at Heptonstall West Yorkshire Riding (England). The possible father of this Richard Baildon was Sir Francis Baildon and mother was Margaret Goodrick who were themselves married at Ribston Manor West Yorkshire riding.
This is where the two questions enter. I found a book online "Concerning some of the Ancestors and Descendants of Royal Denison Belden and Olive Cadwell Belden by Jessie Perry Van Zile Belden. Printed for private circulation by J. B. Lippincott Company Philadelphia 1898. An interesting book in light of the articles published lately concerning the impossibility that Richard Baildon was the son of Sir Francis Baildon. Further on from this is the difficulty with William the supposed son of Richard born in America. In this book the only two sons mentioned are Samuel and Thomas. This appears to be another debate within the articles published on the Baildon family. Was William a son of Richard Bayldon? The one comment in the book mentioned earlier in this paragraph that catches my eye is on page 72 of this book (can be downloaded from Internet Archive) where I quote a quote from William Poley Baildon, F.S.A. and he was a member of the Council of the Archaeological Society of Yorkshire. The question that might remain in my mind is who was William Paley Baildon. Looking at the publication, William Paley was a barrister and had been collecting information on the family for twenty years searching through parish registers, court records, etc in Yorkshire. He created the pedigrees that are in the book. The quote follows:
"There is only one family of Bayldon; all persons bearing that name by inheritance must have sprung from the Yorkshire manor of that name. Richard Bayldon, son of Sir Francis Bayldon of Kippax, baptized May 26, 1591, was the only Richard, so far as I know, who would have had money to spend in the purchase of land, as Richard of Wethersfield did."
Now that doesn't prove that this Richard is the son of Sir Francis Baildon. Once I am happy with the transcription of the will (my husband will put that on his blog) than I will proceed to work on the Postmortem Inquisition that he also purchased from the National Archives. Certainly the will leaves one breathless with the extent of this man's holdings but also as I transcribed it I realized the tremendous responsibility placed on his children to carry out his many transactions and to follow through with his legacies. All of this to begin five years after the death of Sir Francis Baildon. His death was in 1623 so the duties would have begun to fall on Richard in 1628 presumably. The actual value of the estates of Sir Francis Baildon at his death does not appear to be as substantial as they appear on the will. His debts were large apparently and so the children would have had to bear this debt along with their legacies and balance it all out. This Richard had also made application to leave England in 1613 so perhaps felt with the dissension around him concerning King and Parliament and the responsibilities of the estate of his father that he might do better in America. I think that attributing this Richard to Lawrence Baildon when no baptism exists is perhaps questionable and that is the tone of later researchers in this family.
When next we are at Kew, I shall try to spend some time looking at all the Baildon material there to see if a stronger case could be made for Richard Baildon at Wethersfield being the son of Sir Francis Baildon. I will also look at the other Baildon families in Yorkshire although we have read through the Heptonstall Parish Registers. Always though one must bear in mind that the tendency in the 1800s was to try to link back to an illustrious family in Europe and that tainted many of the genealogical studies of colonial families produced in the United States in that time period. Plus there is still the query about William being the son of Richard; the name Baildon is uncommon and Belding/Belden equally uncommon. However, I shall not delve into this mystery as it is my husband's mystery and not mine! I just transcribed the will and that is my big part in the Baildon mysteries.
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
New England Regional Genealogical Conference
A very well organized conference and registering was very straight forward. We had received the syllabus in advance as an *.pdf file on our email. This is a very nice addition as you can fine tune your attendance at particular sessions. Our Hotel was quite fascinating. The rooms were in a triangle around an open central area (10 stories high). It was quite interesting to look down on the registration area on the 2nd floor from the 9th floor!
The sessions were held in two different hotels across the road from each other. Since I only attended the opening session, one lecture and the banquet in the second hotel it didn't affect me particularly. Most of my sessions were all in one particular area and a number of them in the same room (a smaller one as my sessions attracted fewer participants :) ). Since I have absolutely no American ancestors, my plan was to attend the French/French Canadian and Irish sessions for both my husband and our son-in-law's family lines. I actually have American cousins though as two of my grandmother's sisters married Americans and lived their entire adult lives in the United States.
The Opening Session was given by Joshua Taylor, Director of Education at NEHGS. He gave a rousing talk which was greatly enjoyed by the 800 people who attended this conference. Perhaps they were not all there but the large ballroom was very full. He looked at Facebook, Wiki, Geneabloggers, Family Search Wiki and Who Do You Think You Are. He emphasized what you can already see at the Conferences - not everyone is grey haired! There were a lot of young people at this conference. They were sitting there with their Ipads going to the sites that he mentioned and tweeting to those who did not have the good fortune to be in the lecture. He also mentioned that the new face of genealogy is people researching just the ancestors that interested them and ignoring the rest. It was a stimulating discussion. Facebook is the new face of genealogy he said and for sure my cousin (several times over) Thomas Routledge has spearheaded the Routledge family into the future with his Facebook Routledge group and his webpage. I think almost everyone in the group is under 30 and we are going to have a reunion in 2013 in Cumberland which is fantastic but all done on Facebook. I am rather hoping that other "older" descendants of the Routledge family will hear about it and attend since we plan to go.
For my first session I chose Graphoanalysis for Genealogy by Irene Lambert. Actual title: Genealogy Document Examination: Identifying the Writer of Your Family Papers. This was like an image into yourself actually as we learned how the slant of the writing, the size of the writing, the spacing of the writing could determine the character of the individual. As a basically introverted conservative person I discovered that it was all in my handwriting for everyone to see! This room was small and not overly full but the group was quite fascinated by her lecture and examples.
My second session was on French Canadian Pathways by Patty Vigeant Locke and proved to be quite interesting and again a smallish group. Not quite as applicable as I thought it might be because it, of course, concentrated on French Canadians/Acadians moving down into the United States, but it was most interesting and informative. There was a Grand Trunk Railway Map from 1885 that I found very interesting. The St Albans trunkline was established in 1845 and the flow of French Canadians south was quite sizeable. I met quite a few people who traced their ancestry back to 17th and 18th century Quebec.
The third session of the day I chose DNA for Genealogy by Jay Sage. The notes had already told me that this would be a beginner session but none of the other sessions interested me that much so I decided to attend the DNA lecture. Good discussion on DNA and surname studies especially. I think most of the attendees (it was again a small session) were keen to get started on testing their DNA that hadn't done so already. This session was predominantly male which I didn't notice until I stood up to leave as I always sit at the front so that I can see the slides.
In the evening, there were some special interest groups offered and my husband headed off to Connecticut Research in the other hotel (he was back and forth quite a bit!) and I stayed for French Canadian Research. We ate French Canadian food - it was very nice. Lots of discussion on French Canadian recipes and other details. I would have said that most of the people were 2nd or 3rd generation down from their French Canadian ancestors but they have not lost the culture which is great. Most of them have/had parents who spoke French as their first language.
The next day we had a full slate of sessions (5) plus one whole hour of free time in the market place (with a 1.5 hour lunch break that one could also use in the Market Place). Fortunately we did attend the Market Place as this was the only day that Family Societies had a table at the Conference. There was a Foote Family Association (my husband's ancestor). We learned there is to be a Foote Family Reunion in Niagara Falls NY which sounds very interesting. The Foote family has now published a couple of the lines coming down from the emigrant family (Nathaniel Foote and Elizabeth Deming and their seven children) who emigrated to the New England Colonies in the 1630s and were at Wethersfield Connecticut. They have published two of the children thus far (Elizabeth who married Josiah Churchill and Mary who married John Stoddard) and are starting to put Nathaniel together and this is my husband's ancestor. Nathaniel Foote married Elizabeth Smith (daughter of Lieutenant Bert. Samuel Smith).
Just before the next session there was an ongoing question and answer period (Paul Milner did this before every one of his lectures and it was an interesting period to be present at), one of the other attendees had a document with an unusual Quebec address which I need to check out now that I am home. I now need to find her card although I have not yet located the place of interest! I gave her my email though and eventually, if I cannot find the card and do find the place, I hope she writes to me.
But I digress and my first session was by Paul Milner and the lecture was Irish Emigrants to North America: Before, During and After the Famine. Although this lecture was slanted towards the United States Irish Emigration I learned that the initial Irish emigration to the United States was through Canada but as a result of the American Ship Companies building boats especially designed for transporting people the Irish people switched to the American boats and American ports. The reasons for migration were, I thought already known to me, but he did bring a number of items to the table that I had not realized before.
My second session looked at Major Ethnic Migration to Connecticut (1635-1935) by Richard G Tomlinson. I have heard this speaker before and decided on this lecture because of that and no other lecture particularly appealed to me. Principally the part of this lecture that most interested me with regard to my husband's ancestors was over in the first five minutes (all of his Connecticut ancestors arrived before 1650!). I did learn that the Connecticut Society for Genealogists holds thousands of family charts which my husband will likely find interesting (he joined the society as well but not because I told him about the family charts - this is an interesting society and their publication is packed with interesting reports). Hartford, Wethersfield and Windsor were settled from Massachusetts in the 1630s and Saybrook from London itself but my husband had already gleaned that from his studies.
Then followed our Market Place time and my husband joined two societies which should prove to be interesting for his research. I bought yet more books and I now have a stack of about 25 books to read. I also acquired a map of Quebec which will prove to be most helpful with our son-in-law's families and I may find the place mentioned above that had been queried by the attendee.
My third session of the day was in some ways a bit of a disappointment on the one hand but quite fascinating on the other. The title Researching Your Ancestors in Medieval France by Raymond Cassidy was in a room without a computer projector so he was forced to use overheads and he apologized for doing so. They were not too bad however. I had thought it would be geared towards emigration but was instead looking to see if you have royal lines in your ancestry. I ended up learning more than I realized I would about royal lines and now need to look at the Amiot and Miville lines in our son-in-law's ancestry because of the lecture. Also included are d'Amours, Le Marchand, De Longueval, Gueret dit Dumont. I have ended up with a number of sites to check out. I haven't progressed back to France with any of his lines other than the names of parents given in the marriage registers in Quebec. I generally stopped tracing as soon as I reached the parents of the emigrants if given. I thought I would leave that for our son-in-law and daughter to trace when they make trips to France in the future but we shall see. I may do more work on that after all.
My fourth session of the day was absolutely a gem. The Iconography on New England Gravestone - Donna Walcovy, PhD. She gave an absolutely excellent lecture and I learned so much about the meaning of the many images on the early gravestones of New England. She mentioned that on into the 1700s the iconography changed to representing the person buried rather than the sorrow of death which was an interesting concept and I find now that looking in graveyards I am noticing that more and more. A not to be missed lecture if you are ever able to hear this person speak.
My fifth session of the day was supposed to be Western Massachusetts Migration with my husband. I understood now why the migration westward was often through Dutchess County but this lecture clearly pointed out the reason for going south or west into New York State. I know my husband found this to be a very interesting lecture and I gained quite a bit of knowledge on the history of the time.
We had decided to only do one banquet so we had a quiet evening looking at the next day's lectures. Meals could occasionally be a challenge but actually was not a problem. If one restaurant was closed there was usually another close by that we could order a meal.
There was a very good selection of lectures under seven main headings: Skills and Methodology, English and Irish Research, Ethnic Genealogy, New England Research, Records and Sources, DNA and Technology and Treasures on Saturday. Friday's track was Skills and Methodology, Working with Records, Ethnic Genealogy, New England Research, Records and Sources, and Immigration and Migration. Thursday's track was Immigration and Migration, Ethnic Genealogy, Records and Sources, New England Research, Thinking outside the box, and Stretching your Research Skills. There were a number of excellent Workshops and had I know the cemetery workshop would be so interesting I would have attended as it was the same person who gave the lecture on Friday.
My first session on Saturday was Finding Your English Ancestors: The Big Four by Paul Milner once again. This was a largish session and quite full. He of course talked about Civil Registration, Parish Registers (Diocesean Records), Probate and Census. Principally I listened as he didn't actually tell me anything I didn't know except for probate indexes coming online on various Wikis. I knew of some but from the lecture I need to investigate this more thoroughly for some of the counties that I am interested in.
My second session of the day was a fascinating session Come to Ireland to Find your Irish Ancestors by Eileen M. O Duill. Eileen was born an American but lives full time in Ireland with her Irish husband and children. Lots of good ideas for visiting Ireland which I had never actually planned to do until just lately I have been thinking about it. The lecture was very timely as she gave quite a bit of discussion on visiting the Archives which I would now like to do. You may only purchase five records per day though and that was a good item to know.
Again we had market place time and then lunch for a 2.5 hour break which moves by very quickly. This time I visited the Tiara booth and purchased a couple of interesting items there. We also visited other book stalls and bought more books so that as usual when we pass by customs at the border we again have to tell them that we once again spent money on books except this time they did not ask how we spent the money other than to know if we had cigarettes or alcohol.
I went then to my only lecture in the other hotel and it was packed by the time everyone arrived - I decided to arrive early and hear the question and answer session by Paul Milner who was once again the speaker. Finding Your 17th Century Ancestors was his topic and he asked how many of us had attended his lecture earlier in the day and a substantial number had done so. We got quickly down to work and he brought up a few collections that I was not that fluent in so that I ended up with just a little over a page of items to check out although mostly clandestine marriage records (for my ancestors that I can not locate anywhere else! and I have just a couple). I want to investigate the Compton Census - I have heard of this before but had not yet investigated it.
This was a day of same speakers as my next session was back to the lady who had spoken earlier on Irish Ancestors. This time the lecture was entitled Irish Birth, Marriage and Death Records for the Beginner. There was some repeat but I enjoyed the refresher and checking back to make sure I had correctly interpreted what she had said. Again an excellent lecture.
My last lecture of the day and conference was perhaps the one lecture that I had especially wanted to attend. How Autosomal DNA Testing is Changing Genealogy. I have completed my Family Finder Results and once again either all of my ancestor's descendants do not exist, or they have been spirited away by aliens or perhaps they have just not tested. I do not have any matches closer than 4th cousin or greater and assuredly none of these people are my fourth cousins; they are all greater than fourth cousins. I had been wondering about the mapping though as my mapping indicated I was 89% Western European and 11% Eastern European. The 11% Eastern is very interesting as all of my ancestors are from England way back into the 1600s and mid 1700s except for one line which I can not be absolutely sure about - my maternal grandmother's line and my mtDNA. My best matches on the coding region are from Ossettia which is Eastern Europe but my grandmother's mother was born in England and by family lore her family too was English and my best matches on the control region of my mtDNA are from Argyll Scotland and County Antrim Ireland. It was food for thought and I greatly enjoyed this last lecture of the day and conference.
That evening we did go to the Banquet where John Philip Colletta, PhD spoke on Hacks and Hookers and Putting Up Pickles: Snares of Yesteryear's English. I did not make notes but his talk was enjoyed by all present. I thought I would remember many of the items that he referred to but they have disappeared into my memory banks somewhere not to be recalled at the moment. The banquet was excellent and we learned that we were to be treated to breakfast in the morning.
The breakfast was quite pleasant and we then headed off to the remainder of our trip which involved staying at the Deerfield Inn overnight and visiting the graveyard there where Nathaniel Foote is buried (and likely many others but only his stone remains). Ed's ancestors were carried off in the Raid of 1704 to Montreal and were repatriated back to Boston and Deerfield a couple of years later. This was the first time that we had stayed in Deerfield not far from where the Foote and Burt homes stood.
The remainder of our trip involved going to the Connecticut State Archives, a number of local graveyards (all found by GPS and actual graveyard sites marked by GPS now), The Horace Greely Home, Chappaqua, NY and a workshop by the New York Genealogical Biographical Society at Elmsford, NY. All of this done readily with the use of a GPS - a must tool for genealogists.
John Reid reminded me that I had not fulfilled my promise of writing up the New England Regional Genealogical Conference last evening at the OGS Ottawa Meeting. It was true it had passed my mind and I thank him for the remembrance. I trust that anyone who has read this far has found it interesting and informative.
The sessions were held in two different hotels across the road from each other. Since I only attended the opening session, one lecture and the banquet in the second hotel it didn't affect me particularly. Most of my sessions were all in one particular area and a number of them in the same room (a smaller one as my sessions attracted fewer participants :) ). Since I have absolutely no American ancestors, my plan was to attend the French/French Canadian and Irish sessions for both my husband and our son-in-law's family lines. I actually have American cousins though as two of my grandmother's sisters married Americans and lived their entire adult lives in the United States.
The Opening Session was given by Joshua Taylor, Director of Education at NEHGS. He gave a rousing talk which was greatly enjoyed by the 800 people who attended this conference. Perhaps they were not all there but the large ballroom was very full. He looked at Facebook, Wiki, Geneabloggers, Family Search Wiki and Who Do You Think You Are. He emphasized what you can already see at the Conferences - not everyone is grey haired! There were a lot of young people at this conference. They were sitting there with their Ipads going to the sites that he mentioned and tweeting to those who did not have the good fortune to be in the lecture. He also mentioned that the new face of genealogy is people researching just the ancestors that interested them and ignoring the rest. It was a stimulating discussion. Facebook is the new face of genealogy he said and for sure my cousin (several times over) Thomas Routledge has spearheaded the Routledge family into the future with his Facebook Routledge group and his webpage. I think almost everyone in the group is under 30 and we are going to have a reunion in 2013 in Cumberland which is fantastic but all done on Facebook. I am rather hoping that other "older" descendants of the Routledge family will hear about it and attend since we plan to go.
For my first session I chose Graphoanalysis for Genealogy by Irene Lambert. Actual title: Genealogy Document Examination: Identifying the Writer of Your Family Papers. This was like an image into yourself actually as we learned how the slant of the writing, the size of the writing, the spacing of the writing could determine the character of the individual. As a basically introverted conservative person I discovered that it was all in my handwriting for everyone to see! This room was small and not overly full but the group was quite fascinated by her lecture and examples.
My second session was on French Canadian Pathways by Patty Vigeant Locke and proved to be quite interesting and again a smallish group. Not quite as applicable as I thought it might be because it, of course, concentrated on French Canadians/Acadians moving down into the United States, but it was most interesting and informative. There was a Grand Trunk Railway Map from 1885 that I found very interesting. The St Albans trunkline was established in 1845 and the flow of French Canadians south was quite sizeable. I met quite a few people who traced their ancestry back to 17th and 18th century Quebec.
The third session of the day I chose DNA for Genealogy by Jay Sage. The notes had already told me that this would be a beginner session but none of the other sessions interested me that much so I decided to attend the DNA lecture. Good discussion on DNA and surname studies especially. I think most of the attendees (it was again a small session) were keen to get started on testing their DNA that hadn't done so already. This session was predominantly male which I didn't notice until I stood up to leave as I always sit at the front so that I can see the slides.
In the evening, there were some special interest groups offered and my husband headed off to Connecticut Research in the other hotel (he was back and forth quite a bit!) and I stayed for French Canadian Research. We ate French Canadian food - it was very nice. Lots of discussion on French Canadian recipes and other details. I would have said that most of the people were 2nd or 3rd generation down from their French Canadian ancestors but they have not lost the culture which is great. Most of them have/had parents who spoke French as their first language.
The next day we had a full slate of sessions (5) plus one whole hour of free time in the market place (with a 1.5 hour lunch break that one could also use in the Market Place). Fortunately we did attend the Market Place as this was the only day that Family Societies had a table at the Conference. There was a Foote Family Association (my husband's ancestor). We learned there is to be a Foote Family Reunion in Niagara Falls NY which sounds very interesting. The Foote family has now published a couple of the lines coming down from the emigrant family (Nathaniel Foote and Elizabeth Deming and their seven children) who emigrated to the New England Colonies in the 1630s and were at Wethersfield Connecticut. They have published two of the children thus far (Elizabeth who married Josiah Churchill and Mary who married John Stoddard) and are starting to put Nathaniel together and this is my husband's ancestor. Nathaniel Foote married Elizabeth Smith (daughter of Lieutenant Bert. Samuel Smith).
Just before the next session there was an ongoing question and answer period (Paul Milner did this before every one of his lectures and it was an interesting period to be present at), one of the other attendees had a document with an unusual Quebec address which I need to check out now that I am home. I now need to find her card although I have not yet located the place of interest! I gave her my email though and eventually, if I cannot find the card and do find the place, I hope she writes to me.
But I digress and my first session was by Paul Milner and the lecture was Irish Emigrants to North America: Before, During and After the Famine. Although this lecture was slanted towards the United States Irish Emigration I learned that the initial Irish emigration to the United States was through Canada but as a result of the American Ship Companies building boats especially designed for transporting people the Irish people switched to the American boats and American ports. The reasons for migration were, I thought already known to me, but he did bring a number of items to the table that I had not realized before.
My second session looked at Major Ethnic Migration to Connecticut (1635-1935) by Richard G Tomlinson. I have heard this speaker before and decided on this lecture because of that and no other lecture particularly appealed to me. Principally the part of this lecture that most interested me with regard to my husband's ancestors was over in the first five minutes (all of his Connecticut ancestors arrived before 1650!). I did learn that the Connecticut Society for Genealogists holds thousands of family charts which my husband will likely find interesting (he joined the society as well but not because I told him about the family charts - this is an interesting society and their publication is packed with interesting reports). Hartford, Wethersfield and Windsor were settled from Massachusetts in the 1630s and Saybrook from London itself but my husband had already gleaned that from his studies.
Then followed our Market Place time and my husband joined two societies which should prove to be interesting for his research. I bought yet more books and I now have a stack of about 25 books to read. I also acquired a map of Quebec which will prove to be most helpful with our son-in-law's families and I may find the place mentioned above that had been queried by the attendee.
My third session of the day was in some ways a bit of a disappointment on the one hand but quite fascinating on the other. The title Researching Your Ancestors in Medieval France by Raymond Cassidy was in a room without a computer projector so he was forced to use overheads and he apologized for doing so. They were not too bad however. I had thought it would be geared towards emigration but was instead looking to see if you have royal lines in your ancestry. I ended up learning more than I realized I would about royal lines and now need to look at the Amiot and Miville lines in our son-in-law's ancestry because of the lecture. Also included are d'Amours, Le Marchand, De Longueval, Gueret dit Dumont. I have ended up with a number of sites to check out. I haven't progressed back to France with any of his lines other than the names of parents given in the marriage registers in Quebec. I generally stopped tracing as soon as I reached the parents of the emigrants if given. I thought I would leave that for our son-in-law and daughter to trace when they make trips to France in the future but we shall see. I may do more work on that after all.
My fourth session of the day was absolutely a gem. The Iconography on New England Gravestone - Donna Walcovy, PhD. She gave an absolutely excellent lecture and I learned so much about the meaning of the many images on the early gravestones of New England. She mentioned that on into the 1700s the iconography changed to representing the person buried rather than the sorrow of death which was an interesting concept and I find now that looking in graveyards I am noticing that more and more. A not to be missed lecture if you are ever able to hear this person speak.
My fifth session of the day was supposed to be Western Massachusetts Migration with my husband. I understood now why the migration westward was often through Dutchess County but this lecture clearly pointed out the reason for going south or west into New York State. I know my husband found this to be a very interesting lecture and I gained quite a bit of knowledge on the history of the time.
We had decided to only do one banquet so we had a quiet evening looking at the next day's lectures. Meals could occasionally be a challenge but actually was not a problem. If one restaurant was closed there was usually another close by that we could order a meal.
There was a very good selection of lectures under seven main headings: Skills and Methodology, English and Irish Research, Ethnic Genealogy, New England Research, Records and Sources, DNA and Technology and Treasures on Saturday. Friday's track was Skills and Methodology, Working with Records, Ethnic Genealogy, New England Research, Records and Sources, and Immigration and Migration. Thursday's track was Immigration and Migration, Ethnic Genealogy, Records and Sources, New England Research, Thinking outside the box, and Stretching your Research Skills. There were a number of excellent Workshops and had I know the cemetery workshop would be so interesting I would have attended as it was the same person who gave the lecture on Friday.
My first session on Saturday was Finding Your English Ancestors: The Big Four by Paul Milner once again. This was a largish session and quite full. He of course talked about Civil Registration, Parish Registers (Diocesean Records), Probate and Census. Principally I listened as he didn't actually tell me anything I didn't know except for probate indexes coming online on various Wikis. I knew of some but from the lecture I need to investigate this more thoroughly for some of the counties that I am interested in.
My second session of the day was a fascinating session Come to Ireland to Find your Irish Ancestors by Eileen M. O Duill. Eileen was born an American but lives full time in Ireland with her Irish husband and children. Lots of good ideas for visiting Ireland which I had never actually planned to do until just lately I have been thinking about it. The lecture was very timely as she gave quite a bit of discussion on visiting the Archives which I would now like to do. You may only purchase five records per day though and that was a good item to know.
Again we had market place time and then lunch for a 2.5 hour break which moves by very quickly. This time I visited the Tiara booth and purchased a couple of interesting items there. We also visited other book stalls and bought more books so that as usual when we pass by customs at the border we again have to tell them that we once again spent money on books except this time they did not ask how we spent the money other than to know if we had cigarettes or alcohol.
I went then to my only lecture in the other hotel and it was packed by the time everyone arrived - I decided to arrive early and hear the question and answer session by Paul Milner who was once again the speaker. Finding Your 17th Century Ancestors was his topic and he asked how many of us had attended his lecture earlier in the day and a substantial number had done so. We got quickly down to work and he brought up a few collections that I was not that fluent in so that I ended up with just a little over a page of items to check out although mostly clandestine marriage records (for my ancestors that I can not locate anywhere else! and I have just a couple). I want to investigate the Compton Census - I have heard of this before but had not yet investigated it.
This was a day of same speakers as my next session was back to the lady who had spoken earlier on Irish Ancestors. This time the lecture was entitled Irish Birth, Marriage and Death Records for the Beginner. There was some repeat but I enjoyed the refresher and checking back to make sure I had correctly interpreted what she had said. Again an excellent lecture.
My last lecture of the day and conference was perhaps the one lecture that I had especially wanted to attend. How Autosomal DNA Testing is Changing Genealogy. I have completed my Family Finder Results and once again either all of my ancestor's descendants do not exist, or they have been spirited away by aliens or perhaps they have just not tested. I do not have any matches closer than 4th cousin or greater and assuredly none of these people are my fourth cousins; they are all greater than fourth cousins. I had been wondering about the mapping though as my mapping indicated I was 89% Western European and 11% Eastern European. The 11% Eastern is very interesting as all of my ancestors are from England way back into the 1600s and mid 1700s except for one line which I can not be absolutely sure about - my maternal grandmother's line and my mtDNA. My best matches on the coding region are from Ossettia which is Eastern Europe but my grandmother's mother was born in England and by family lore her family too was English and my best matches on the control region of my mtDNA are from Argyll Scotland and County Antrim Ireland. It was food for thought and I greatly enjoyed this last lecture of the day and conference.
That evening we did go to the Banquet where John Philip Colletta, PhD spoke on Hacks and Hookers and Putting Up Pickles: Snares of Yesteryear's English. I did not make notes but his talk was enjoyed by all present. I thought I would remember many of the items that he referred to but they have disappeared into my memory banks somewhere not to be recalled at the moment. The banquet was excellent and we learned that we were to be treated to breakfast in the morning.
The breakfast was quite pleasant and we then headed off to the remainder of our trip which involved staying at the Deerfield Inn overnight and visiting the graveyard there where Nathaniel Foote is buried (and likely many others but only his stone remains). Ed's ancestors were carried off in the Raid of 1704 to Montreal and were repatriated back to Boston and Deerfield a couple of years later. This was the first time that we had stayed in Deerfield not far from where the Foote and Burt homes stood.
The remainder of our trip involved going to the Connecticut State Archives, a number of local graveyards (all found by GPS and actual graveyard sites marked by GPS now), The Horace Greely Home, Chappaqua, NY and a workshop by the New York Genealogical Biographical Society at Elmsford, NY. All of this done readily with the use of a GPS - a must tool for genealogists.
John Reid reminded me that I had not fulfilled my promise of writing up the New England Regional Genealogical Conference last evening at the OGS Ottawa Meeting. It was true it had passed my mind and I thank him for the remembrance. I trust that anyone who has read this far has found it interesting and informative.
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