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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Question: Which Susan Kent? 0
Which Susan Kent is the mother of Francis Burnett? Susan Hill Kent, the daughter of Alexander Kent and Martha Stewart… or Susan Kent, the daughter of Alexander Kent and Elizabeth Horton. My paternal great-grandfather was Francis (Frank) Burnett, who according to his death record was born in 1861 in Nova Scotia to Wm. Burnett and …
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Burnett-Holman Family Photos 0
Probably the most sought after items for any family tree are ancestral photos. In our family they are precious few, and of course the further back we go, the possibility of finding any likenesses of our ancestors becomes an impossibility. Back in early November as I was researching the Youmans-Burnett family, ancestors of my brother …
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Gunner, Royal Artillery 0
Last Saturday I finally received William Burnett’s naturalization papers from the National Archives… JOY! All the records relating to William that I’ve found so far give his birthplace as simply “England”. There are dozens of William Burnetts born in England in the same time frame, so not surprisingly I was no closer to learning who …
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A Little About Brick Walls… 0
Specifically, my brick walls. Just in the past few weeks I successfully broke through a brick wall that had plagued me for years (see “Wife of Joseph Collins Hoyt …found?) but there are so many more! Here’s just a few, posted in the hopes that someone may stumble across this who can shed some light …
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