Tuesday, May 23, 2023

Colonial Immigration: Adopted vs. Birth Families

 Working on two separate family groups, adopted and birth, have made for some interesting comparisons.

For the most part, my adopted families arrived between 1620 and 1700. A few arrived during the mid-1700s. The McHughs arrived during the 1830s and finally, Catherine O'Neill arrived in 1852.

A sizable number of individuals who arrived during the "Great Migration" settled in New England [Massachusetts Bay, Plymouth, Rhode Island, Connecticut]. The Dutch and Huguenots landed in what would become New York. Quaker families called Pennsylvania home before migrating south into Virginia,

New England, New York, Pennylvania and Virginia folks headed for Ohio before settling in Indiana. [1824-1876 and 1913] 

My birth families wee a completely different breed. There was some New England and New York settlement between the 1630s and the late 1600s. Several families landed in Pennsylvania, then migrated to what would become Kentucky or into Virginia.  A large number of the immigrants first called Virginia home, the western Carolinas and eastern Kentucky.

Nearly all of the families settled in Kentucky after the Revolutionary War and started migrating into southern Indiana shortly after statehood in 1816. Those families that drifted into Indiana from northern environs arrived in territorial Indiana, settling in old Knox County.

The "birth families" were well established in the frontier regions by the Revolutionary War. There is that one exception: Charles Everhart found his way to America in 1820.

The ol' computer is slowing down considerably and needs to go into the shop. The blog will probably be shut down until repairs are done or a replacement is found!!


Monday, May 22, 2023

Family Origins

 ILLIG: arrived 1733 - Adelshoffen, Heilbronn, Baden-Wurtenberg [Germany]

STEFFY: arrived by 1745 - Bern, Switzerland

STIEFF: arrived 1753 - Baden-Wurtenberg [Germany]

Sunday, May 21, 2023

Family Origins

 a trio of mystery names:

GEORGE: 6 generations - English [maybe Welsh]

PARKER: 2 generations - English

DUNNING: 2 generations - Scottish

Saturday, May 20, 2023

Family Origins

 BALL: arrived before 1678 - England

PHILLIPPI: arrived 1747 - Volksberg, Bas-Rhin, Alsace [France]

EICHELBERGER: 1733 - Argau, Switzerland

Friday, May 19, 2023

Family Origins

 HOGUE: arrived about 1685 - Musselburgh, Midlothian, Scotland

HUME: arrived about 1685 - Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland

HARRELL: arrived before 1659 - England

Thursday, May 18, 2023

Family Origins

 As mentioned in the previous post, there are families of "yet to be determined origin."

Akers: 2 generations - possibly English, maybe German

Russell: 2 generations - Scottish, Irish or Ulster Scots

Bland: 2 generations - probably English from Sedburg, Yorkshire

Clark: 2 generations - English or Scottish

This group ends up in southern Indiana.


Wednesday, May 17, 2023

Family Origins

 Stillwell: arrived by 1638 - Dorking, Surrey, England

NEIL: arrived  1683-1685 - Innerwick, East Lothian, Scotland

EDWARD(S) : arrived 1683-1685 - Stevenson, Haddington, East Lothian, Scotland

More mysteries:

EDDY: 2 generations - English or Cornish

GRAHAM: 7 generations - Scottish