This post is a summary of what's to come. As discussed when I started this blog, one of my goals is to identify when all of my ancestors came to the US (or North America) and from where. This turned out to be a big task, and I may never finish, and the hardest people … Continue reading My Family and Immigration in the First Half of the 19th Century
William Beckwith Reeve's older brother Thomas Houston Reeve also moved to Ontario (then Upper Canada). In the 1901 Census, Thomas's daughter Fanny identified the family's immigration date as 1834. Although this is not the ideal source (coming nearly 70 years later when Fanny was 86 and the other siblings no longer alive), it is consistent … Continue reading Canadian Reeves, Part 2: Thomas Houston Reeve and Family
As mentioned in the prior post, my mom was labeling and organizing a lot of family photos in the 2016 and 2017, and was excited to show me what she had done during the holidays at the end of 2016. Some of the ones of her were ones I had been long familiar with, some … Continue reading Jan Guess Jones (13 Sept 1942 to 14 Dec 2017)
I started this blog a bit more than a year ago, and for a variety of reasons have not been posting for a while. Life has been crazy and stressful (not all bad, but I have not been good about keeping up with my training plans and moved almost all my big race plans into … Continue reading Returning to the Blog: What’s Been Going On
It's taken me a while to get back to this, since doing any research in Canada is new to me, and I've been a little frustrated by the lack of records for the period I am currently interested in. As noted below more specifically, at least it's allowed me to identify a reason to go … Continue reading Canadian Reeves, Part 1
Samuel Houston Reeve was the second youngest of 13 children, 12 who lived to adulthood. Learning more about his siblings and their families is likely to explain more about his own life and uncover any relationships that they may have had with Samuel's children after he died at only 31. It also may show more … Continue reading Samuel Houston Reeve’s Siblings and Their Families
Before carrying on with the Reeve and Houston families, here's a quick and simplistic detour into English marriage law, with a plan to elaborate on the legal stuff and non-conformists later. As noted in the prior posts, the Reeve family seem to have been longtime Non-Conformists, or Christians who were not part of the Church … Continue reading Non-Conformists/Dissenters and Marriage in the 18th and Early 19th Century
Following up from Sophia Reeve and the Reeve Family, Sophia's father Samuel Houston Reeve was the son of Jonah, a grocer in Bocking, and his wife Elizabeth, who had numerous children. These included (1) Elizabeth (born Jan 1774), (2) Sarah (born Nov 1775), (3) Mary (born May 1777), (4) Rebeckah (born Oct 1778), (5) Joseph (born … Continue reading Jonah Reeve and Elizabeth Houston of Bocking, Essex
I really haven't been keeping up on this lately -- been busy, mostly, but I will try to be more consistent. I realized that after posting The Jones Family in Kent, England, where I found Frank Reeve Jones's parents William and Sophia, that I had spent quite a lot of time following up on William Jones's … Continue reading Sophia Reeve and the Reeve Family
As I mentioned a couple of posts ago, I went to Jackson, Mississippi a couple of weeks ago, and decided to go a day early to drive up to Corinth. Not entirely sure why I picked Corinth instead of Oxford (forget the Civil War and focus on Faulkner) or one of the various sites that … Continue reading More on Corinth and the Guess Brothers
