Tag Archives: Massachusetts

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

Posted on October 22, 2023 by Anna Kasper, ACDP

I wrote this 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, graveyard 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 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 | Leave a comment

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 thought about 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 … 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 | Leave a 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. 34+ Women named Tacy in my Family Tree! 52 Ancestors, Week 24: Popular Name.

Posted on June 14, 2022 by Anna Kasper, ACDP

This week’s 52 Ancestors writing theme is “Popular Name”. This could include ancestors that have a name that was popular or trendy at the time, or a name that keeps getting used in your family tree. I decided to write … Continue reading →

Posted in 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks, Famous Kin, Genealogy, Religious | Tagged 52 Ancestors, Allen, Amy Adams, Babcock, Baptist, Barber, Billy Gilman, Burdick, Cash Warren, Christian, Clark, Cole, Congregational Church, Connecticut, Cooper, Crandall, Crumb, Davis, England, faith, family history, Family Names, Family Tree, Genealogy, Hall, Harry Chapin, History, Hubbard, Jeffrey, John Batterson Stetson, Kennedy, Kenyon, Larkin, Lewis, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Massachusetts, Maxson, New Jersey, Palmer, Price, Puritians, Rhode Island, Saretzki, Schullin, Scriven, Seventh-Day Baptist, Stillman, Tace, Tacie, Tacy, Tasy, 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 | 3 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 | 6 Comments

52 Ancestors: Week 35: Disaster. My ancestors John Cogswell / Elizabeth Thompson – The Great Colonial Hurricane of 1635 – The Ship Angel Gabriel

Posted on November 9, 2021 by Anna Kasper, ACDP

The ship Angel Gabriel was a 240-ton English passenger galleon. They journeyed from England to Massachusetts in a fleet of five ships, the Angel Gabriel joined by the James, the Elizabeth (Bess), the Mary and the Diligence. They left Bristol England on 4 June 1635. The Angel Gabriel was captained by Robert Andrews of Norwich, Norfolk, England. … Continue reading →

Posted in 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks, Famous Kin, Genealogy, Religious | Tagged 52 Ancestors, Angel Gabriel, British America, British Colonies, Calvin Coolidge, Christian, Cogswell, Colonial America, England, family, family history, family stories, Family Tree, Hampton New Hampshire, Historic Ipswich, History, Hurricanes, Isle of Shoals, John Adams, John Quincy Adams, JP Morgan, Lou Henry Hoover, Maine, Mamie Doud Eisenhower, Massachusetts, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Newfoundland, Pemaquid Bay, Pete Buttigieg, Prince Harry, Prince William, Princess Diana, research, Shipwrecks, Stormy Weather, Tennessee Williams, The Cogswells in America, The Great Colonial Hurricane of 1635, The ship Angel Gabriel, The ship Diligence, The ship Elizabeth Bess, The ship James, The ship Mary, Thompson, US Presidents, Westbury Leigh England, Westbury parish | 5 Comments

My Ancestor Rev. Thomas Shepard, an English and American Puritan Minister and Significant Figure in Early Colonial New England.

Posted on August 7, 2021 by Anna Kasper, ACDP

In this month of August on the 25th will mark the 372nd anniversary of the death of my quite interesting and significant ancestor Rev. Thomas Shepard. He and his third wife Margaret Borodell are my 8th great-grandparents. She was the … Continue reading →

Posted in Famous Kin, Genealogy, Religious, Theology | Tagged Abigail Smith Adams, Anglican, Anne Hutchinson, Antinomian Controversy, Armstrong, Barton, Bible Study, Bland, Borodell, Borrowdale, Boston, Cambridge University, Christian, Cogswell, Congregation Church, Crosthwaite, Cumberland, David Hartman, Denison, Emich, Emick, Emig, Emmanuel College, England, faith, Family Tree, First Church of Cambridge, First Ladies, Francis Marbury, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Genealogy, Grange in Borrowdale, Grover Cleveland, Gunpowder Plot, Harvard Univeristy, Henry Lee Higginson, Hicks, James Spader, Jesus, Jesus Christ, John Adams Morgan, John Cotton, John Quincy Adams, London, Lyons, Massachusetts, Mitchell, New England, Norris, Nutick, Oxford University, POTUS, Presidents of the United States, Puritians, Quakers, Sewall, Shepard, Shephard, Shepherd, Shirley Temple, T.S. Eliot, Talbot, Tammy Duckworth, The Bible, Thomas Shepard, Touteville, Towcester, UCC, United Kingdom, Wade, Wainwright, Weiss | 4 Comments

My Ancestor William Durkee – First Irish Catholic to settle in Massachusetts

Posted on April 20, 2021 by Anna Kasper, ACDP

My more recent immigrant ancestors were from in and around Gort and Peterswell Parish in Galway, Ireland, and from Klingenmünster in the Südliche Weinstraße (Southwest Wine Route) district in Germany. I have to go back an additional eighty-five years to find … Continue reading →

Posted in 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks, Catholic, Famous Kin, Genealogy, Religious | Tagged 52 Ancestors, Barbados, British America, British Colonies, Catholic, Colonial America, Essex County, Family Tree, Genealogy, George Martin, History, Ipswich, Irish, Irish Indentured Servants, Irish Slaves, Ispwich, Martha Cross, Massachusetts, Mercy Durkee, Puritians, Red Legs, Salem Witch Trials, Susannah Martin, Susannah North, West Indies, William Durkee | 6 Comments

Tag Archives: Massachusetts

Halloween Surnames. My Crackbone Ancestors from In and Around White Notley, Essex, England. Bones, Brooks, Ravens, and Crows. A Side Connection to Edgar Allen 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. 34+ Women named Tacy in my Family Tree! 52 Ancestors, Week 24: Popular Name.

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.

52 Ancestors: Week 35: Disaster. My ancestors John Cogswell / Elizabeth Thompson – The Great Colonial Hurricane of 1635 – The Ship Angel Gabriel

My Ancestor Rev. Thomas Shepard, an English and American Puritan Minister and Significant Figure in Early Colonial New England.

My Ancestor William Durkee – First Irish Catholic to settle in Massachusetts

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