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Monday, September 30, 2019

52 ANCESTORS IN 52 WEEKS 2019 WEEK 40: WILLIAM HASKELL JR OF GLOUCESTER, MA.

8x great grandfather William Haskell Jr. diversified and did quite well at it. He had two mills along with his farm and quite a bunch of acres of land, most of it salt marsh. He also owned four beehives which are mentioned in the estate inventory.

Here's a short sketch from William Richard Cutter:

II) William (2) Haskell, eldest child of William (1) and Mary Haskell, was born August 26, 1644, in Gloucester, and operated grist and saw mills in that part of the town now Rockport. He died June 5, 1708, and his estate was inventoried at six hundred sixty-six pounds, most of it going to his eldest son William. He married, July 3, 1667, Mary, daughter of William and Mary Brown, known as Mary Walker, from her stepfather, Henry Walker. She was born 1649, and died November 12, 1715. Children: Mary, born April 29, 1668; William, November 6, 1670; Joseph, April 20, 1673 ; Abigail, March 2,1675 ; Henry, April 2, 1678: Andrew, July 27, 1680; Lydia, September 4, 1681 ; Sarah, February 26, 1684, died 1691 ; Elizabeth, April 5, 1686; Hannah, October 30, 1688; Jacob, mentioned below; Sarah, September 11, 1692.p442

New England Families, Genealogical and Memorial: A Record of the Achievements of Her People in the Making of Commonwealths and the Founding of a Nation, Volume 1  Lewis Historical Publishing Company,  N.Y., N.Y.1915

William died at Gloucester, Ma. sometime before 12Aug 1708 when his will was filed. I've found his Probate file at AmericanAncestors.org and it's on my long list of things to be transcribed.

Tuesday, September 24, 2019

52 ANCESTORS IN 52 WEEKS 2019 WEEK 39: WILLIAM HASKELL SR OF GLOUCESTER, MA.

I have two lines of descent from 9x great grandparents William Haskell and Mary Tybott, One is through their eldest son William Jr. and the other through youngest son Mark. The two lines eventually were joined in the marriage of Samuel Haskell and Ruth Safford, Mark's great granddaughter.

William is among the small number of my ancestors who made their living on the sea, although he also had a farm. Here's an excerpt from the book History of the Town of Gloucester, Cape Ann by John James Babson:

WILLIAM HASKELL was born about 1620, and was connected with the family of Roger Haskell of Salem. He first appears in Gloucester in 1643; and, in 1645, mention is made of his land at Planter's Neck. He probably resided here a few years following the last date; but the hiatus in the recorded births of his children affords ground for conjecture that he was not a permanent resident from that time. If he left town for a season, he had returned in 1656, and settled on the westerly side of Annisquam river, where he had several pieces of land; among which was a lot of ten acres, with a house and barn, bought of Richard Window, situated on the west side of Walker's Creek. His sons took up land on each side of this creek, which is still occupied by descendants. The public offices to which he was elected afford sufficient proof that he was a prominent and useful citizen. He was a selectman several years, and representative six times in the course of twenty years. In 1681, he was appointed, by the General Court, lieutenant to the trainband, of which he was afterwards captain. He was also one of the first two, of whom we have any knowledge, that were deacons of the First Church. He married Mary, daughter of Walter Tybbot, Nov. 16, 1643. She died Aug. 16, 1693; and he four days after (on the 20th), leaving an estate of £548. 12s. His children, whose births are recorded, were — William, born in 1644; Joseph, 1646; Mark, 1658; Sarah, 1660; and Elenor, 1663. Besides these, he had sons Benjamin and John, and daughters Ruth and Mary.-p99

History of the Town of Gloucester, Cape Ann: Including the Town of Rockport,  Procter Brothers, - Gloucester, Ma 1860

Saturday, September 21, 2019

ANNOUNCING THE ELEVENTH ANNUAL GREAT GENEALOGY POETRY CHALLENGE

It's that time of year again! Time to start thinking about a post for the Eleventh Annual Great Genealogy Poetry Challenge!


As in the past, I'll be posting the links to the submissions on Thanksgiving Day,which this year falls on Thursday, November 28th. So the deadline for submissions will be a week before, on Thursday, November 21st. That gives everyone  two months to find (or write) and share their poem or song. If you find one long before that deadline (as I have) you can post it on your blog now, but don't forget to send me the link to it before November21st

These are the Challenge rules:

1. Find a poem by a  poet, famous or obscure, about the region
one of your ancestors lived in. It can be about an historical event, a
legend, a person, or even about some place (like a river)or a local
animal. It can even be a poem you or one of your ancestors have written.
0r, if you prefer, post the lyrics of a song or a link to a video of someone
performing the song.

2. Post the poem or song to your blog (remembering to cite the source
where you found it.).  If you wish to enter an older post, you may as long
as it has not appeared here in an earlier Poetry Challenge.

 3.Tell us how the subject of the poem or song relates to your ancestor's
home or life, or the area of the country where they lived.

4.Submit your post's link here to me  in a comment or send me an emaill  

by midnight Thursday, November 21st and I'll publish all links to the entries 
on Thanksgiving Day, November 28th

5. If  you submit a humorous poem or song that will be entered under the
"Willy Puckerbrush" division. Willy was the late geneablogger Terry
Thornton's alias for some humorous posts and comments.


There you have it. You have two months to find your poem and post it to your
blogs. I will be waiting to see what you come up with this year!

Friday, September 20, 2019

SOME NEW GERMAN FAMILY DISCOVERIES PT5

I now knew that my 3x great grandfather Christian Luick's  parents were Christian Luick and Justina Beringer and that his wife's name was Christiane Ruppmilk. Searching the records at the FamilySearch website yielded more information:

- I found the birth record for my 3x ggf Christian and found that Justina's middle name was Dorothea.

-Using that I found Justina's birth and baptism records in the Germany Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898. Both took place at Evangelisch, Neckarwestheim, Neckarkreis, Wuerttemberg and her parents name were Jacob Friederich Beringer and Maria Elisabeth Franck.  She was born on 4 Nov 1797 and baptized on 5 Nov 1797.

-I found the marriage of Christian to Christiane Ruppmilk in the Germany Marriages, 1558-1929 collection. It took place on 12 Jan 1845 at Evangelisch, Neckarwestheim, Neckarkreis, Wuerttemberg and it says she was born on 25 Jul 1819. Her full name was Christiane Catharine Ruppmich and her parents were Johannes Ruppmich and Christina Barbara Krehwisch.

Now, I had mixed luck extending the lines back further. I haven't had been able to go further back on the Luicks and Offingers yet. The Beringers and Ruppmilk/Ruppmilch lines and associated families seem to go back as far as the 17th century and in one case to the 16th century but I am proceeding cautiously,  trying to analyze  the records I've found. This is all new to me, a foreign country with records I can't easily access. So this will be a slow process.

Still, I now know more about my German ancestry than I ever did before.

Wednesday, September 18, 2019

52 ANCESTORS IN 52 WEEKS 2019 WEEK 38: JONATHAN MOORE OF BOLTON MA.

 My 8x great grandfather Jonathan Moore was a farmer in Bolton, Ma. and one of the early settlers of the town. Here is what William Richard Cutter had to say about him.

Jonathan, son of John (2) Moore, was born in Lancaster, Massachusetts, May 16, 1669. Although several of his children were baptized in Lancaster, he lived in Bolton, Massachusetts. In 1732-33, he deeded land to his son Oliver, which he had received from his father, and in 1740 he deeded to his son Abraham, "who lives with me." land and his new home and barn. His will was dated December 1, 1741, and he died in Bolton, February 6, 1742, he mentioned his children and his brother John. He married Hannah ,who died in Bolton, May 1, 1765. In her will she mentioned all the children but Isaac, who was deceased. Children: Zerviah or Sophiah, born 1700, married, July 28, 1720, Benjamin Houghton; Joseph, mentioned below; Jonathan, baptized 1708, Lancaster, married, April 19, 1727, Mary Wheeler, died December 10, 1795; Oliver, baptized 1708, Lancaster; Maria, baptized 1708, Lancaster, married, December 7, 1775, in Harvard, Thomas Houghton; Hannah, baptized May 21, 1710, married. December 17, 1730, Jonathan Powers; Amos, baptized August 17, 1712, died before 1740; Dinah, baptized February 28, 1713-14, married, October 4, 1732, Jabez Beaman; Abraham, baptized March 31, 1716-17; Isaac and Jacob, twins, born September 6, 1717.-p1376

 New England Families, Genealogical and Memorial: A Record of the Achievements of Her People in the Making of Commonwealths and the Founding of a Nation, Volume 3 Lewis historical publishing Company, New York, 1914

I've found Jonathan's probate file at AmericanAncestors.com and in his will Jonathan left my 7x great grandmother Meriah (Maria) forty pounds in bills of credit.I plan to eventually post a transcription here.

Tuesday, September 17, 2019

SOME NEW GERMAN FAMILY DISCOVERIES PT4

Continuing my discussion about my recent new discoveries of my Mom's German ancestors.
I didn't get very far with the line of Mom's paternal grandfather Offinger line and unfortunately the same was true about her paternal grandmother's Luick relatives. But I did have a bit more sucess with the ancestors of one of her German great-grandmothers.

I already knew Joanna Luick's parents were Christian and  Christiana Luick. Using that information I did a search at FamilySearch Records and found a big surprise: it appears Joanna was not the only member of her family to make their way to Massachusetts.

-First I found a death record for 71 year old Christian Luick in Cambridge, Ma on  6May 1891 from apoplexy. He was born in Germany to a Christian Luick and Justina Peringer(beringer?). The entry number is 484:





"Massachusetts Deaths, 1841-1915," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HT-68L3-SMN?cc=1463156&wc=MJCK-RM9%3A1043014601 : 22 May 2019), 0961504 (004224896) > image 107 of 559; State Archives, Boston.

-I also found death records from the city of Boston for two men in Boston who may be Joanna's brothers. The first was Carl Luick, who died on 8Aug 1875 of pthisis (tuberculosis). He was 48 years old,  born in Germany and his parents were Christian and Christiana. The other brother was Ernst Luick who died of a gunshot in Boston at age 49. He was born in Germany to parents Christian Luick and Christina Ruppermilk.

Now with that information I started searching the FamilySearch German records.

To be continued...

Saturday, September 14, 2019

52 ANCESTORS IN 52 WEEKS 2019 WEEK 37:THOMAS HOUGHTON OF LANCASTER MA.

With  6x great grandmother Hannah Houghton we reach a point where some of her ancestors have already been discussed Her parents were Thomas Houghton and Meriah Moore.They were 1st cousins 1x removed  through their mutual descent from Thomas Sawyer and Mary Prescott.

Ellery Bicknell Crane wrote the following about Thomas:

IV) Thomas Houghton, son of James Houghton (3). born in Lancaster, Massachusetts, about 1690-1700; married Maria or Moriah Moor and settled on the homestead in Harvard. He was a farmer. Children were: 1. Hanah, born December 16, 1728-9. 2. Thomas, born October 9, 1731. 3. Moriah (as Maria was then spelled by the family), born September 5, 1736. 4. Elijah (see forward).-p264
 
Historic Homes and Institutions and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs of Worcester County, Massachusetts: With a History of Worcester Society of Antiquity, Volume 1  Lewis Publishing Company, New York, New York 1907

Thomas Houghton died  9Mar 1764 in Harvard, Ma. By then  Hannah and Eljiah were the only of his children left alive along with two grandchildren. I've found the probate file and will be transcribing it,

52 ANCESTORS IN 52 WEEKS 2019 WEEK 36:JOHN PIERCE OF HARVARD, MA.

I don't know much  yet about 6x great grandfather. Daniel Pierce/Peirce. He was born on May 23, 1716, in Woburn, Massachusetts. At some point he moved to Harvard, Ma.sometime before 1744 where he married Hannah Stone. Unfortunately she and their infant daughter died about a year later. In 1747 he married my 6x great grandmother Hannah Houghton and they had nine children together, all born in Harvard or nearby Bolton, Ma. He moved back to Woburn in his old age and died there in 1799.

    Meriah Pierce+ b. 19 Oct 1748, d. 12 Apr 1781
    Hannah Pierce b. 1750, d. 1750
    Hannah Pierce b. 25 Aug 1751
    John Pierce b. 15 Jul 1753
    Thomas Pierce b. 2 Oct 1754, d. 14 Jun 1757
    Sarah Pierce b. 9 May 1756
    John Pierce+ b. 22 May 1759, d. 1828
    Luther Pierce b. 16 Jun 1764, d. 1832
    Calvin Pierce+ b. 1 Mar 1766, d. 1832

I'm descended from Meriah Pierce who married her cousin Elisha Houghton.

Sunday, September 08, 2019

52 ANCESTORS IN 52 WEEKS 2019 WEEK 35: DANIEL PIERCE OF WOBURN, MA.

My 7x great grandfather Daniel Pierce was born in Woburn, Ma on 7 Oct 1676 He  married Dinah Holt in Andover, Massachusetts, on July 3, 1705. They had seven children together, all born in Woburn:

Abigail was born on May 18, 1706, in Woburn, Massachusetts.
Thomas was born on October 30, 1707, in Woburn, Massachusetts.\
Sarah was born on May 30, 1709, in Woburn, Massachusetts.
Joseph was born on May 5, 1711, in Woburn, Massachusetts.
Daniel was born on June 23, 1714, in Woburn, Massachusetts.
John was born on May 23, 1716, in Woburn, Massachusetts.
Dinah was born on November 2, 1719, in Woburn, Massachusetts.

Daniel died in Harvard, Ma.on  14 Mar 1754. I'm descended from his son John.

Saturday, September 07, 2019

SOME NEW GERMAN FAMILY DISCOVERIES PT3

Continuing my discussion about my recent new discoveries of my Mom's German ancestors.

I didn't get very far with the line of Mom's paternal grandfather Offinger line and unfortunately the same was true about her paternal grandmother's Luick relatives. But I did have a bit more sucess with the ancestors of one of her German great-grandmothers.

I already knew Joanna Luick's parents were Christian and  Christiana Luick. Using that information I did a search at FamilySearch Records and found a big surprise: it appears Joanna was not the only member of her family to make their way to Massachusetts.

-First I found a record for 71 year old Christian Luick in Cambridge, Ma on  6May 1891 from apoplexy. He was born in Germany to a Christian Luick and Justina Peringer(Beringer?)

-I also found death records from the city of Boston for two men in Boston who may be Joanna's brothers. The first was Carl Luick, who died on 8Aug 1875 of pthisis (tuberculosis). He was 48 years old,  born in Germany and his parents were Christian and Christiana. The other brother was Ernst Luick who died of a gunshot in Boston at age 49. He was born in Germany to parents Christian Luick and Christina Ruppermilk.

All three records are in  the Massachusetts Deaths, 1841-1915 collection at the FamilySearch Records page.

To be continued...

Monday, September 02, 2019

SOME NEW GERMAN FAMILY DISCOVERIES PT2



German genealogy is a whole new ball game for me. I've been pretty lucky with my Dad's  New England colonial ancestors. There's plenty of records and documents available on line, and even if the handwriting is hard to decipher on some, at least I can figure most of it out. But my German ancestors were...well... German, so that's what language the place names are in. And the documents so far are behind paywalls which I can't  afford right now.

So what I have found so far are mostly record transcriptions on the FamilySearch records site. I knew that my 2x great grandfather Charles (Karl) Offinger was born in Wurttemberg, Germany around 1848, and that his parents names were Jacob and Christiana. Using that information as a starting point on the FamilySearch records page, I found:

- A birthdate in a baptismal record for Karl Jacob Offinger of 17Dec 1848, son of Jacob Ruland Offinger and  Regine Christiane Friederike Kaufmann. He was baptized at Evangelisch, Aalen, Jagskreis, Wurttemberg. The recod is in the Germany Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898 collection

--A birthdate in a baptimal record for Jacob Ruland Offinger of 7Jan 1821, son of Caspar Offinger and Rosine Catherine Landgraf. He was baptized on 10Jan 1821 at Evangelisch, Aalen, Jagskreis, Wurttemberg. The record is in the Germany Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898 collection.

-A marriage record for Jacob Ruland Offinger and  Regine Christiane Friederike Kaufmann. It took place on 5May 1848 at Evangelisch, Aalen, Jagskreis, Wurttemberg. Rosine Catherine's parents are given as Alois Kaufmann and Anna Maria Brucker. The record is in the Germany Marriages, 1558-1929 collections.

That is as far as I've been able to get with the Offinger line.

I'll discuss the Luicks in the next post.