Category: genealogy blog
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Margaret Elizabeth Victoria Ruttan (1845-1907) : Maggie
Margaret Elizabeth Victoria Ruttan is my fourth great-grandmother. She was born February 7th, 1845 in Adolphustown, Ontario. Her mother was Elizabeth McConkey of Ireland and her father was Captain Matthew Ruttan, a loyal British citizen who fought for the King during the war of 1812. The Ruttan family and other…
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Archibald Frederick Mitchell (1840-1865): The Doctor
Archibald Frederick Mitchell was born on the Isle of Bute, Scotland, November 23rd, 1840. His father is Donald Mitchell and his mother is Agnes McLean. In 1841, Archibald lived with his mother and sister Agnes on the Isle of Bute, near Rothesay. Archibald’s father Donald is not listed in the…
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Mary E Woodruff (1843-1920)
Mary Woodruff was born 1843 in Bohemia. Her father was Martin Woodruff and she had a sister named Sophia(1842) and a brother, Frank(1851). Mary and her family immigrated to Milwaukee in 1860. 1870 Census of Milwaukee, Wisc. She met and married fellow Bohemian Frank Peshek. They had seven children together…
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Wisconsin State Normal Schools
Nineteenth century higher education was mainly reserved for men. Victorian notions of separate gender spheres assigned rigorous academic pursuits to men. Professors were almost always male and passed on their knowledge to their male students. As women defied these notions and entered classrooms, they were constantly reminded that they were outsiders…
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Appleton
The territory where Appleton is today was traditionally occupied by the Ho-Chunk and the Menominee. The Menominee Nation ceded the territory to the United States in the Treaty of the Cedars in 1836, with Chief Oshkosh representing the Menominee. In the Menominee language, Appleton is known as Ahkōnemeh, or “watches for them place”. Fur traders seeking to do business with…
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Green Bay
Green Bay is located on Lake Michigan in Brown County, Wisconsin, at the mouth of the Fox River. The Menominee, Ho-Chunk, and other native peoples inhabited the area for at least 10,000 years, drawn to the area’s rich soil and abundant fish, wild rice, and waterfowl. The earliest reliably documented contact…
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What happened to the Gigueres?
In a previous post I revealed how I found Rose Peshek-Jolley’s connection to the Peshek family through her nieces, Blanche and Ruby Gegay. Let’s take a look at the Gegay family, which is sometimes spelled Giguere. Marriage register from the Wisconsin Historical Society Mary Peshek married…
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Jessie Ida Jolley (1885-1982): The Socialite
An ad for H. E. Pearson’s shop in the April 27th, 1905 edition of the Appleton Post Crescent. Jessie Ida Jolley is the younger sister of my 2nd great-grandmother, Rose. Rose was six years younger and she and Jessie were raised in Appleton, Wisconsin, by their mother, Mary Woodruff Peshek…
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Frank Peshek(1840-1913):Oconto Pioneer
Frank Peshek is my 3rd great-grandfather, father to Rose Peshek-Jolley, my 2nd great-grandmother. Rose’s mother, Mary Woodruff, divorced Frank Peshek sometime after Rose was born in 1882 and remarried Frank Joseph Jolley, who then adopted Rose. I’m intrigued by the story there. Mary and Frank had six other children together…
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Burial of Centennarian
Green Bay Press Gazette, Sept 23, 1899 After posting my previous article “Following a lead on Martin Woodruff“, Newspapers.com uploaded more copies of the Green Bay Press Gazette for the years 1870-2019. I searched Martin Woodruff and the first result was his obit from Sept. 23rd 1899! Sure enough, it…
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