Canadian Reeves, Part 1

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 …

Samuel Houston Reeve’s Siblings and Their Families

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 …

Non-Conformists/Dissenters and Marriage in the 18th and Early 19th Century

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 …

Jonah Reeve and Elizabeth Houston of Bocking, Essex

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 …

Sophia Reeve and the Reeve Family

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 …

More on Corinth and the Guess Brothers

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 …

Memorial Day

I meant to follow up my Corinth/Guess post yesterday (Memorial Day), as it would have been appropriate. Memorial Day, of course, is a day of remembrance for those who died in service of the United States, and began as a result of the Civil War. It officially began with a proclamation by General John Logan in …

Guess Brothers at Corinth

One of my recent distractions was a business trip to Mississippi, and I decided to take a side trip to Corinth, one of the sites in Mississippi where relatives of mine fought during the Civil War.  Or, at least, were stationed during the Civil War. It was a sobering experience. The relatives in question are …

May 22, 2017: General Update

Long time since I posted, and obviously I have not been keeping up with the running updates. I decided to postpone the marathon I was aiming for in early May. More specifically, I was going to drop down to the half, but then realized it was even easier to postpone until 2018, and since I …

The Humphreys Family: Wisconsin to Washington State

Although the Humphreys returned to Wisconsin after the first move west, the desire to seek out land or opportunity further west apparently remained. Although Owen was still in Springvale when the Civil War draft registration occurred in 1863, by the time of the next Federal Census in 1870, the family had again moved to Minnesota, …