Amy Johnson Crow, on her blog No Story Too Small, has challenged her fellow bloggers to post 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks. This is week twenty-five. My great-great-great grandmother, Elizabeth Humphreys, was born around 1820 in, we believe, Lisnarick, Co. Fermanagh, Ireland. I know nothing beyond her early years beyond that. Elizabeth married Christopher Summerville around […]
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52 Ancestors: #25 Elizabeth Humphreys (abt 1820-1886)
Posted in 52 Ancestors, Humphreys, Summerville on June 26, 2014 | 1 Comment »
52 Ancestors: #24 Christopher Summerville (1822-1901)
Posted in 52 Ancestors, Summerville on June 16, 2014 | Leave a Comment »
Amy Johnson Crow, on her blog No Story Too Small, has challenged her fellow bloggers to post 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks. This is week twenty-four. My great-great-great grandfather Christopher Summerville was born in April 1822 in Irvinestown, Co. Fermanagh, Ireland to James and Jane (unknown) Somerville. Family legend suggests Christopher had five brothers – two […]
52 Ancestors: #9 Jane (Summerville) Thomas (1851-1884)
Posted in 52 Ancestors, Summerville, Thomas on March 3, 2014 | Leave a Comment »
Amy Johnson Crow, on her blog No Story Too Small, has challenged her fellow bloggers to post 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks. This is week nine. My great-great grandmother Jane Summerville was born around 1851 in Sharon, Ontario. She was the fifth child born to Christopher Summerville and Elizabeth Humphries and the second Jane. Her […]
52 Ancestors: #8 Harrison Thomas (1846-1878)
Posted in 52 Ancestors, Summerville, Thomas on February 24, 2014 | 1 Comment »
Amy Johnson Crow, on her blog No Story Too Small, has challenged her fellow bloggers to post 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks. This is week eight. My great-great grandfather Harrison Thomas was the second son born to Reuben Thomas and Melissa Haight. Reuben was an immigrant from Cornwall, England, while Melissa had been born in […]
SNGF – Ancestral Name Roulette
Posted in Bascom, Summerville, Thomas on February 18, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
It’s Saturday night and for the first time in months, I actually have time to play along with Randy Seaver’s Saturday Night Genealogy Fun over at Genea-Musings. Tonight’s mission is: 1) What year was your paternal grandfather born? Â Divide this number by 100 and round the number off to a whole number. This is your […]
The Children of Peace & the Sharon Temple
Posted in Doan, Haight, Humphreys, Summerville, tagged Carnival, Photographs, Tombstone on August 29, 2011 | 2 Comments »
The Sharon Temple is located in Sharon, ON. It was built in the 1800s by the Children of Peace. I am not going to attempt to provide a comprehensive history of either the Temple or the Children of Peace. But I will touch on my ancestors’ connection to both. Should you wish to know more than I […]
SNGF: My Genea-Bucket List
Posted in Ansted, Bohle, Burton, Coulman, Davey, Doan, Fee, Haight, Hunter, Johnson, Lusty, Salter, St. John, Summerville, Thomas, tagged SNGF on July 2, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
It’s Saturday Night and time for some Genealogy Fun courtesy of Randy Seaver over at Genea-Musings. Our mission is to create a “Genea-Bucket List”. Knowing that a “Bucket List” is a wish list of things to do before death: 1) What is on your Genealogy Bucket List? What research locations do you want to visit? […]
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