On Sunday evening, I am getting to the SaturdayChallenge.
1) My friend and colleague Linda Stufflebean posted JUST
FOR FUN – 4 X 6 = 24 FAMILY TREE QUESTIONS on her blog this week, and
I thought we could answer half of the questions this week and half next week.
2) Here are the first three questions:
* What four places did my ancestors live that are geographically the farthest from where I live today?
* What are the four most unusual given names in my family tree?
* What are the four most common given names in my family tree?
2) Here are the first three questions:
* What four places did my ancestors live that are geographically the farthest from where I live today?
* What are the four most unusual given names in my family tree?
* What are the four most common given names in my family tree?
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| Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Maine |
a) The locations- these would
be origins of some of the major lines, since as far as I know, all came from
their places of origins to somewhere in what is now the United States. None of the direct lines ventured to other continents in between.
-Wooster from Chedingham,
Buckinghamshire, England
-Brown from Ulster in the North
of Ireland, said to be Scotch Irish in older genealogies.
-Duff from Island McGee in
county Antrim, Ireland.
-Du Colon is rumored to be from
near Colon, France. Nobody yet knows for sure where Dr Claudius Du Colon
(1716-1801) was born or the route he took to the US.
b) There are not a lot of
unusual names in the family tree, so I cheated and used 2 collateral and 2
direct lines. Some of these names combined with their surnames are just too
good to miss!
-Preserved Fish (several on 4th
and 3rd cousin lines) one is the son of Thomas Fish and Grizzel
Strange. Now, that’s a combination!
-Titus Titus (4C5R) son of John
Titus and Elizabeth Hungerford. What
were they thinking? It is a family name within both lines, but…
-Mindwell Chatfield (5th
Great grandmother) wife of Moses Wooster. Daughter of Ebenezer Chatfield and
Abigail Prindle. A virtue name from the
Puritans.
-Quartis Brown (3rd Great
grandfather) husband of Julia Gibbs. Son of Robert Brown & Elizabeth
Campbell. I’ve never seen Quartis otherwise.
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| A card from Quartis Brown's pension application |
c) The most common names. I’m not
sure how to determine this with my database, so I estimated it from the names I
come across most often. Including siblings of my direct ancestors, George and
Elizabeth would be on the list as well. I think they are pretty standard names for Protestant
English and Irish lines.
-William
-John
-Mary/Maria
-Ann
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