Tag Archives: Massachusetts

Surname Saturday: My Cock Ancestors of Southwold, Suffolk, England

Posted on March 8, 2025 by Anna Kasper, ACDP

My maternal 12th great-grandmother is Christian Cock. She was born about 1560 in Southwold, Suffolk, England, and died before 3 November 1612 in Somerleyton, Suffolk, England. She married about 1580 in Southwold, Suffolk, England, to Thomas Gentleman. After her husband’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Genealogy, Religious | Tagged Ancestry, Balden, Battle of Solebay, Christian, Church of England, cocc, Cock, Cocke, cok, coke, Colonial Massachusetts, Cook, Cooke, Cox, Davidson, England, faith, family history, Family Tree, Fishing, Fishing port town, Genealogy, Gentleman, Gilman, Harrison, History, Massachusetts, Massachusetts Bay Colony, Puritan, Somerleyton, Southwold, Sudwald, Sudwolda, Suffolk, Suffolk England, UK | Leave a comment

My English Gilman Ancestors and My Famous Cousin U.S. President Abraham Lincoln.

Posted on February 24, 2025 by Anna Kasper, ACDP

Abraham Lincoln has always been one of my favorite U.S. Presidents. When I traveled to Washington, D.C. in the spring of 2000, I made sure to visit the Lincoln Monument, Ford’s Theater, and the house across the street where he … Continue reading →

Posted in Famous Kin, Genealogy | Tagged Abraham Lincoln, Bruen, Caston, Clark, Cole, Colonial Massachusetts, Cunningham, Davidson, Davison, Doman, England, family history, Family Tree, Famous Kin, Flowers, Genealogy, Gilman, Gilmyn, Guerney, Gyllman, Hanks, Hawley, Hingham, History, Jacob, James, Jones, Lassell, Lincoln, Lyford, Massachusetts, Massachusetts Bay Colony, Norwich, Prindle, Russell, Saham Toney, Salter, Snell, UK | 1 Comment

Gravestone of Sarah Cooper Woodruff. 52 Ancestors, Week 37 & 38, Tombstone & Symbols.

Posted on September 12, 2024 by Anna Kasper, ACDP

This week’s writing prompt is Tombstone, the following week is Symbol. I decided to write about the interesting gravestone of Sarah Cooper Woodruff. It is pictured above. The combination of the cross bones effigy with an hourglass flanked by doves … Continue reading →

Posted in 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks, Genealogy, Religious | Tagged 52 Ancestors, Armstrong, Baker, Barton, Birds, Cemeteries, Christian, Christian Iconography, Colonial Massachusetts, Colonial New Jersey, Colonial New York, Cooper, Dove, Elizabeth New Jersey, Elizabethtown, faith, family history, Family Tree, First Presbyterian Churchyard, Genealogy, Grave Marker, Gravestone, Hatfield, Hourglass, Knigh, Lyon, Lyons, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Parsons, Puritan, Puritans, Skull and Crossbones, Symbol, symbolism, Symbols, Tombstone, Vines, Woodruff | 1 Comment

Halloween Surnames. My Crackbone Ancestors from In and Around White Notley, Essex, England. Bones, Brooks, Ravens, and Crows. A Side Connection to Edgar Allan Poe.

Posted on October 22, 2023 by Anna Kasper, ACDP

I wrote this blog entry five days early, knowing the 52 Ancestors writing prompt coming up was going to be Spirits. To me, Crackbone is a perfect surname to write about at Halloween. It conjures up thoughts about cracking bones, … Continue reading →

Posted in Famous Kin, Genealogy | Tagged All Saints Terling, Anglican, Baldwin, Bones, Branford, British America, British American Colonies, British Colonies, Brooks, Cambridge Massachusetts, Canfield, carrion crow, Chaplin, Christian, Clelmsford, Coggeshall, Cole, Colonial America, Colonial Connecticut, Connecticut, Cracbone, Crackbon, Crackbone, Crag, Cragbone, crak, Crakeborne, Crows, East Hanningfield, Edgar Allan Poe, Edgar Allen Poe, England, Ernest Hemingway, Essex, family history, Family Tree, FDR, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Genealogy, Gifford, Gloria Vanderbilt, Great Yeldham, Halloween, krákr, Mallory, Massachusetts, New Haven, Norton, Pequot War, Plumb, Preston, Prindle, Purcas, Purchas, Ravens, Sale, Sara Delano, Spaynes Hall, spirit animals, Terling, The Poole, The Raven, UK, Weathersfield, White Notley, Wood | 3 Comments

Three Interesting Tradesmen/Occupational Surnames in My Family Tree with Unique Meanings. Blower and Horne in England and Höerner/Hörner in Germany. 52 Ancestors, Week 36: Tradesman.

Posted on August 31, 2023 by Anna Kasper, ACDP

This week’s writing prompt is Tradesman. I considered writing about some of my ancestors and their trades and occupations, but instead opted to write about three of the surnames of my ancestors that are derived from their trade/occupation, all three … Continue reading →

Posted in 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks, Genealogy | Tagged 52 Ancestors, Albert, Armstrong, Baden-Württemberg, bellows-pumper, Blower, Brackett, Braintree, British Isles, calcant, church organs, Cole, Colonial Maryland, Colonial Massachusetts, Cummings, drinking horns, England, English, family history, Family Tree, French, Frost, Genealogy, German, Germany, hand blown organs, Hoerner, horn blower, horn maker, Horne, Horner, horns, Janet Horne, Jenny Horne, Kennedy, Kingsley, London, Main-Tauber-Kreis, Maryland, Massachusetts, Massachusetts Bay Colony, Medieval, Medieval Blow Horn, Merchant, New York City, Niklashausen, Norfolk, Norris, Occupational Surnames, Ohio, organs, Pennsylvania, Pennsyvania, Price, Rona Munro, St. Mary's County Maryland, Stanstead, Sudbury, Suffolk, the blower, The Last Witch, Tradesmen, Tudor, Umlaut, United Kingdom, Walpurgis, Washington County Maryland, Wheatley, Witches, Witches in England, Witches in Scotland, Witches in UK | 1 Comment

My Beardsley Ancestors, The Lost Village of Beard’s Wood, My Family Connection to P.T. Barnum and General Tom Thumb. 52 Ancestors, Week 20: Bearded.

Posted on May 11, 2023 by Anna Kasper, ACDP

This week’s writing prompt is the word bearded. Although, my great-great grandfather John Davis Kennedy had a pretty cool looking beard in the photo of him in his US Civil War Union uniform, there is not much else to write … Continue reading →

Posted in 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks, Famous Kin, Genealogy | Tagged 52 Ancestors, Albright, Allis, Amy Adams, Anna Gunn, Bardsley, Beard, Beard's Wood, Beardslee, Beardsley, Belding, Blakeman, Boston, Christian, Church of England, Clement, Cole, Colonial America, Colonial Connecticut, Colonial Massachusetts, Concord, Connecticut, Derbyshire, Doman, Edward Norton, Emily Dickinson, England, English, Erewash River, family history, Family Tree, Frank Kellogg, French, Fuller, Genealogy, General Tom Thumb, Harvey, Harvie, Howard Dean, Howard Hawks, Ilkieston, Janis Joplin, Jeremiah Day, leah, Leicestershire, Leonard, London, Lost Villages, Massachusetts, Meekins, Merchant, Mollis Chapel, Northup, Nottinghamshire, Phil Knight, Prindle, PT Barnum, Root, Scott, Ship Planter, St. Mary's Ilkieston, Stratford, The Black Death, Treat Williams, Wells, WK Kellogg, Wood, Zoe Kazan | 3 Comments

Famous Fahey Kin. Actress Myrna Fahey. 52 Ancestors, Week 28 – Characters.

Posted on July 16, 2022 by Anna Kasper, ACDP

This week’s writing prompt is Characters. Although we are always free to be creative and interpret the prompt however we wish, some suggestions were: every family has a person who might be described as a “character,” or someone named for … Continue reading →

Posted in 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks, Famous Kin, Genealogy, Uncategorized | Tagged 52 Ancestors, 77 Sunset Strip, Actor, Actress, Adam West, Bangor, Batman, Bonanaza, Boyounagh, Burke, Burt Ward, Catholic, Colonial Massachusetts, Cousins, Daniel Boone, Disney's Zorro, Edgar Allen Poe, Fahey, family history, Family Tree, Famous Kin, FBI, Frank Sinatra, Galway, Genealogy, George Hamilton, Glenamaddy, Gort Galway, Gunsmoke, Gurtymadden, Guy Williams, Hopkins, House of Usher, Ingraham, Ireland, Irish, Irish American, Jeff Fahey, Jennifer Lawrence, Joe Dimaggio, Laramie, Louisville Kentucky, Maine, Mark Damon, Massachusetts, Maverick, Mayflower Pilgrim, Minnosota, Mountbellew, Murphy, Myrna Fahey, Newcomb, Nick Sevano, Penobscot County, Perry Mason, Peterswell Galway, Spencer, Stephen Hopkins, The Fall of the House of Usher, The Time Tunnel, Vincent Price, Wagon Train | 2 Comments

The First Name Tacy. There are 35+ Women named Tacy in my Family Tree! 52 Ancestors, Week 47: The Name’s the Same.

Posted on June 14, 2022 by Anna Kasper, ACDP

This week’s 52 Ancestors writing prompt is “The Name’s the Same”. I had prior written about how my ancestor named Tacy was a very popular name in my tree. I decided to update and add to my original post and … Continue reading →

Posted in 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks, Famous Kin, Genealogy, Religious, Theology | Tagged 52 Ancestors, Allen, Amy Adams, Anastacia, Babcock, Baptist, Barber, Betsy-Tacy series, Billy Gilman, Burdick, Cash Warren, Christian, Clark, Cole, Colonial America, Congregational Church, Connecticut, Cooper, Crandall, Crumb, Dare Me, Davis, Due or Die Trying, England, Eustacia, faith, family history, Family Names, Family Tree, Genealogy, Hall, Harry Chapin, History, Hubbard, Jeffrey, John Batterson Stetson, Kennedy, Kenyon, Larkin, Lewis, Lucille Ball, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Massachusetts, Maud Hart Lovelace, Maxson, New Jersey, Palmer, Preston, Price, Puritians, Rhode Island, Sale, Saretzki, Saunders, Schullin, Scriven, Seventh-Day Baptist, Stillman, Tace, Tacie, Tacy, Tasy, The Long Long Trailer, The Name's the Same, Virginia, Washington County Rhode Island, West Virginia, Williams, Yeomans | 5 Comments

52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks. Week 8: Courting. My Ancestor Mary Wheldon Taylor. Her Life and Death.

Posted on February 24, 2022 by Anna Kasper, ACDP

The writing prompt for this week is “Courting”. Either as in courting in the law or courting as in romance. I could write about the myriad of ancestors that are found in Colonial American court records, including the ancestor I … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged 52 Ancestors, Ancestry, Arnold, Barnstable County, Basford, Cape Cod, Colonial Massachusetts, Coroners Inquest, Courting, Dennis Township, Duxbury, Duxbury Bay, Edward Doty, England, family history, Family Tree, Gabriel Wheldon, Inquest, Jury of Inquest, Marchant, Martha Cross, Mary Wheldon Taylor, Massachusetts, Merchant, Nottinghamshire, Plymouth Colony, Robin Hood, Sherwood Forest, United Kingdom, Wheldon, William Durkee, Yarmouth | 4 Comments

52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks. Week 7: Landed. February Theme: Branching Out. My Contentious and Quarrelsome Mayflower Pilgrim Ancestor Edward Doty.

Posted on February 15, 2022 by Anna Kasper, ACDP

When I received the writing prompt for this week, Landed, I considered taking it in several various directions, I do have some British ancestors that were considered Landed Gentry, as well as owners of large amounts of land in early … Continue reading →

Posted in 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks, Famous Kin, Genealogy | Tagged 52 Ancestors, Barrett, Bill Weld, British American Colonies, British Colonies, Calvin Coolidge, Christian, Clarke, Colonial America, Davis, Dick Van Dyke, Doty, Doughty, Dueling, Edward Doty, Edward Leister, Eliphalet Remington, England, Fahey, Fahy, faith, Family Tree, Fay, Fisher, Genealogy, Gooden, Harmon, Jordana Brewster, Lamb, Lavinia Warren, London, Massachusetts, Massachusetts Bay Colony, Mayflower, Mayflower Pilgrim, McGuire, Orsen Bean, Plymouth, Plymouth Colony, Raquel Welch, Schermerhorn, Snow, Stephen Hopkins, Tuesday Weld, United Kingdom, Warren Buffett, William Bradford | 12 Comments

Tag Archives: Massachusetts

Surname Saturday: My Cock Ancestors of Southwold, Suffolk, England

My English Gilman Ancestors and My Famous Cousin U.S. President Abraham Lincoln.

Gravestone of Sarah Cooper Woodruff. 52 Ancestors, Week 37 & 38, Tombstone & Symbols.

Halloween Surnames. My Crackbone Ancestors from In and Around White Notley, Essex, England. Bones, Brooks, Ravens, and Crows. A Side Connection to Edgar Allan Poe.

Three Interesting Tradesmen/Occupational Surnames in My Family Tree with Unique Meanings. Blower and Horne in England and Höerner/Hörner in Germany. 52 Ancestors, Week 36: Tradesman.

My Beardsley Ancestors, The Lost Village of Beard’s Wood, My Family Connection to P.T. Barnum and General Tom Thumb. 52 Ancestors, Week 20: Bearded.

Famous Fahey Kin. Actress Myrna Fahey. 52 Ancestors, Week 28 – Characters.

The First Name Tacy. There are 35+ Women named Tacy in my Family Tree! 52 Ancestors, Week 47: The Name’s the Same.

52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks. Week 8: Courting. My Ancestor Mary Wheldon Taylor. Her Life and Death.

52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks. Week 7: Landed. February Theme: Branching Out. My Contentious and Quarrelsome Mayflower Pilgrim Ancestor Edward Doty.

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