Category: genealogy blog
-
Minnie C Rutherford (1880-1941)
I have so many questions about Minnie C. Rutherford, my 5th great-grandmother. I first encountered her when researching my Dad’s maternal lines. Following maternal lines back is fascinating work because the family names change every generation. Imagine my surprise when I find Minnie C. Rutherford in the census living with…
-
The Mathey Family
Standing: Emilie and Alexander Mathey, Sitting: Rosalie and Joseph Mathey Standing: Lucy, Louisa, Josephine, Joseph, Catherine, Mary Antionette. Sitting: Joseph and Marie Rosalie. The Mathey family were my Swiss ancestors who immigrated to Manitowoc, Wisconsin before the Civil War. One of Mathey’s granddaughters, Louisa Greenwood, recalled what she knew of…
-
The Sanford Family
William Sanford was a German Quaker, born about 1804 in Brockville, Ontario and was one of the earliest settlers of Gosfield, north of Kingsville. Nancy Ann Geauvereau He married about the year 1827 Ann Geauvereau, of Gosfield, the grand-daughter of Simon Girty; with whom he had eleven children: Peter(1829)of Kingsville,…
-
Samuel Hopper (1772-1857): Cherokee Land Lottery
Samuel Hopper is my 4th great-grandfather. He was born about 1772 in North Carolina, according to the 1850 Census. 1850 Census, Militia District 536, Rabun, Georgia He died around 1857, and he and his ten children are mentioned in the Georgia Estate Records, Deed Book E. Here is the transcript…
-
John A Hopper(1826-1891)
John A Hopper is my 3rd great-grandfather. He lived in Rabun County Georgia for most of his life. His father was Samuel Hopper and he was the seventh of ten children! In the 1850 Census, he was living with his widowed father Samuel, and brothers Zachariah and Joseph, and his…
-
Adolphustown, Ontario
The township of Adolphustown lies in the south western portion of the county of Lennox, is triangular in shape, being bounded on the south and west by the Bay of Quinte, and on the north east by the townships of north and south Fredericksburgh, and at its south western…
-
Lt. William Ruttan(1759-1843): The Loyalist
William Ruttan was born on April 2,1759 in Schraalenburgh, N.J. and baptized on the 24th of June, 1759. He was the eleventh of twelve children born to Willem Ruttan and Maria Demarest. His family were some of the first settlers to the Dutch “New Netherland”, which is…
-
Capt. Matthew Ruttan, Esq. (1802-187?)
Matthew Ruttan, Esq. was my 5th great-grandfather. He was born in Adolphustown, Ontario about 1803, the 6th child of William Ruttan and Margaret Steele. The Ruttans were one of the large and well known families in the and the area ever since the first settlement of the Province by the…
-
Eliza McConkey(1815 – 1897)
I know very little of my Irish, 5th great-grandmother, Eliza McConkey. She married Matthew Ruttan in Cape Vincent, NY on January 28th, 1845. I found mention of it in William D Reid’s Marriage Notices of Ontario, which is a compendium of newspaper notices from 1813-1854. According to Reid, he found…
aspen mitchell 