Through the years of research into my family’s history, there are certain individuals who stand out from the rest; sometimes due to a particularly interesting life story, or simply because a greater amount of records are to be found for them, giving a fuller picture of their life. For both reasons, one such person has …
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Finding Nemo! 0
Look no further, New England has found Nemo! The storm is raging, snow piling up at a tremendous pace. The visibility at times is nearly nil, and I can just make out the glow of lights in the windows of the house across the street . . . not the house itself! Miraculously we still …
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Friend of Friends Friday – Will of Samuel Fisher 0
Keeping myself busy today while riding out the blizzard had me browsing through the collections at FamilySearch.org. I found the will of Samuel Fisher, my 5th great grand uncle, who came from Londonderry, Northern Ireland as an early Scotch-Irish settler of Nutfield (now Derry and Londonderry) New Hampshire. He was born on 29 Jul 1722 …
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Tombstone Tuesday – John Archibald 5
Paternal 6th great grandparents, John Archibald and Margaret Wilson were both born in Ireland abt. 1691 and were there married in 1716. In the early 1720′s they arrived in New England, making their way with other Scots-Irish families to settle Londonderry (at that time called Nutfield) Rockingham, New Hampshire. They had several children, of which …
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Tombstone Tuesday – Sarah Collins Hoyt 0
Resting place of my 5th great grandmother, Sarah Collins. Sarah married John Hoyt (1729 – 1818) on 21 Nov 1751 in S. Hampton, Rockingham County, New Hamphsire. She died 17 Dec 1788. The resting places of Sarah Collins and her husband John Hoyt, along with John’s second wife Miriam Brown, are located at the Hoyt-Currier …
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Runaway Apprentice aka Joseph C. Hoit 0
After hours, days, months spent searching through dry (yet enlightening!) records and documents, every now and then an absolute gem is found that shines a light on the life of an ancestor and brings their day to day into sharper focus. This is one of those exceptional gems found on an otherwise quiet day in …
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Wife of Joseph Collins Hoyt…Found? 0
I’ve just recently returned to genealogy after an unplanned several-years long hiatus from it. The past few weeks have found me reorganizing boxes and notebooks full of notes, documents, photos and quite a collection of resource books to reacquaint myself up to the point where I left off. Lo and behold, the old brick walls …
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Halloween Visit to Old Village Cemetery 0
Halloween, a perfect day for a trip to the Old Village Cemetery in Chester NH! This very old and beautiful cemetery is located in the center of Chester village. I’ve visited here a few times before, searching through the headstones for any Hoyts to be found, and I did find a Mary and Emily Hoyt …
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