Monday, February 20, 2012

Abbott Family







My Abbott line includes Lucien P. Abbott who was born in 1836 and died in 1922. He did serve in the War but there were several Lucien Abbotts and not sure which one he is. He married Nettie M. Hall and she was born 1843 in Ohio and died in 1933. They had the following children:

Clara May Abbott
Eva V. Abbott
Carrie H. Abbott
Frederick Abbott
Leonard Abbott



Nettie's mother was Caroline Hall and she was born in 1813 and died in 1901.

Cemetery Links

I have composed a list of cemetery links to help you in finding your relatives. I have been able to find a few of my ancestors on some of these webpages. Some even had information I did not have. One I even was able to have back in our family's possession a book that belonged to my great grandfather.

Find A Grave
This is a wonderful sight in so many ways. I belong to this site and have contributed my share of memorials. It is also free. I have family listed in other states and I love the fact I can "visit" them pay my respects. Also I have found where family has been buried that I didn't know about or have the information. Always double check your information too. Sometimes you will find mistakes and not every cemetery is complete. But all in all this is a great site.

Interment ( Cemetery Records Online )
Another great site. Although I find more older inscriptions here. And less complete than Find A Grave. But I still have managed to find family here too that I did not find anywhere else. This is also free to view.

Names In Stone
This one does have a few inscriptions and cemeteries but only from cemeteries themselves. Seems this is a free site but if you subscribe monthly you will be able to get around more here. Also the cemeteries themselves have to pay to add themselves.

The Ancestor Project
Looking for cemeteries in Alaska? This has a few of them and pictures too. This is free and forum based.

Sunday, February 19, 2012

Oops

So I haven't been around lately and for that I am so sorry. The real world caught up to me and had a few things that needed my undivided attention. With that said and done I will be at least trying to add a few things a week here. I have been finding alot of neat websites to help with my genealogy. I will be sharing those links with everyone in the up and coming days.
Sundays I have started a new ritual quite by accident. As I started looking through things and websites I found a website that has televised masses from Ireland. The churches there are beautiful. I only wish it was televised from my great grandmother's church. But still listening to the Sunday Mass is wonderful. I will be posting the links soon within the next couple of days. So I am back and ready to go.

Monday, February 13, 2012

Preserve and Honor

It doesn't take much to make a difference but when a young person goes a little beyond the normal things a person his age would do and makes an even bigger difference...then I am truly amazed. Ricky Gilleland is one of those. Taking pictures of fallen heroes graves at Arlington National Cemetery and making his own website is really remarkable.
There is a story behind this which you can read here and here is the site itself

Thursday, February 9, 2012

Names I Am Researching

Abbott, Ackley, Adams, Alberts, Aldrich, Ames, Andrus, Angell, Arnold, Ashley, Ashton, Axtell, Ayers, Badcock, Baker, Ballard, Barber, Barry, Beale, Belcher, Benedict, Bent, Bigelow, Blossom, Blott, Boele, Bowen, Brandish, Bratt, Brewster, Bridgham, Brown, Campbell, Chapin, Charnock, Clark, Clarke, Clock, Cobb, Coeymans, Coffin, Collier, Cooley, Cross, Cutler, Davis, Davidson, Decter, Derby, DeVos, DeWeever, Dewey, Droogh, Duxford, Edwards, Egmont, Eggleston, Fellows, Fitzrandolphe, Flint, Fracker, French, Freeman, Frende, Fuller, Gardner, Garnsey, Garred, Gates, Gilman, Glover, Goeway, Goodall, Goodenow, Goodeth, Gorham, Greenleaf, Gulliver, Hall, Hallenbeck, Hanse, Hart, Haymes, Hayward, Hejlsdon, Henage, Herrick, Hickok, Higginbotham, Hill, Hinckley, Hobart, Hodsoll, Holebrook, Holmes, Hopcott, Horton, How, Howland, Hubbard, Humphrey, Hurst, Hyde, Inman, Jacob, Jacobson, Jenks, Jenkins, Johnson, Jones, Jordan, Jordon, Kendrick, King, Kingman, Kingsley, Kip, Klock, Larkin, Laskin, Learned, Lee, Leland, Leonard, Lessies, Lewes, Lockerman, Lockwood, Love, Macomber, Macy, Marr, Martin, Masson, Masterson, May, Mellows, Moore, Morgan, Morse, Mowry, Muldor, Muller, Munnings, Munson, Newell, Nichols, Olmstead, Osborne, Otis, Park, Parkhurst, Partridge, Patch, Penny, Philips, Phipps, Pierce, Pitt, Pitts, Prence, Proctor, Purple, Read, Reed, Robrets, Rockwell, Rogers, Roosevelt, Rux, Schermerhorn, Scherp, Schofield, Scofield, Seall, Severance, Sharparowe, Shattuck, Sheldon, Shumway, Singer, Soule, Spaulding, Spencer, Smith, Spoor, Starkweather, Starr, Stearns, Stevens, Stimson, Stone, Talcott, Ten Eyck, Thayer, Thompson, Thember, Tidd, Tilley, Tracey, Tuck, Tweedy, Van Buren, Van der Huel, Van Slyck, Van Whitbeck, Varney, Veare, Wait, Walker, Warren, Weed, Wells, Westcoat, Whedon, Wheeler, Wheelock, Whipple, Whitbeck, White, Whilton, Williard, Williams, Winne, Witter, Wood, Woodbury, Woodford, Wright.

Plus these of immediate family :

Bourke-Bohola, Mayo County Ireland, Mackrodt- Bronx, NY, Kilgallon- Bohola, Mayo County Ireland, Swenson- Kings County, NY, Weed- NY, CT Dennie- MA and CT, Wells- Wantagh, NY, Mayflower- Brewster, Howland, Tilley Allerton, Feagle-NewberrySC, Lake City, Florida

Book Sources

Besides just getting information from family members you can always try books. This is a list that I will add too of sources where you might find that book on your family's origins.


Kindle - Do you own a Kindle? Even if you dont you can download their software for the PC and read books on your computer. Here is a list of Kindle Books about Genealogy ( the list changes and may include novels so look over the description carefully )

Alibris- This is a new or used book store online. Books range in price from $.99 an up. Some are even books from libraries. I have found some books on Irish cemeteries and some New York ones.

eBay- Great place to find old books like family bibles and other genealogy works. Just double check and make sure the book you found has the information before buying it and that it's from a reliable source.

Burke/ Bourke

Bridget Agnes Bourke was born Feb 3r or 5th in 1897. We were told she never could remember what day it was. I have always found that a bit odd. Her parents were Patrick Bourke and Ann Kilgallon. They were married in the Church of Immaculate Conception and St. Joseph in Bohola, Ireland in 1890 I believe and the name was Burke. There were brothers too; John and Walter, which we are positive of. But there was one or 2 more. There was a story told that one of her brothers was killed while walking down the road by a gang of uprisers but we do not know when or who this brother was.
Unfortunately there are many Burkes/Bourkes in that area even though Bohola is a small town. So finding them in censuses has been difficult. We do know John was living in Chesire England in the 30s or 40s and Walter in Bohola because Bridget had them listed in her address book. There was an Aunt Mary and Uncle Walter Bourke mentioned in postcards and postcards from them that my grandmother had ( Bridget's oldest daughter ) and this was after Bridget had died. Bridget later went by her middle name Agnes because it was said she didnt not want to be known as Bea. But on one of her son's birth certificate she is listed as Beatrice. We do not know why. Later in life she went by Agnes. Agnes is listed in the 1930 US Census as immigrating here in 1914.

Name: Agnes Wascher
Event: Census
Event Date: 1930
Event Place: Freeport, Nassau, New York
Gender: Female
Age: 34
Marital Status: Married
Race: White
Birthplace: Ireland
Estimated Birth Year: 1896
Immigration Year: 1914
Relationship to Head of Household: Wife
Father's Birthplace: Ireland
Mother's Birthplace: Ireland
Enumeration District Number: 0029
Family Number: 250
Sheet Number and Letter: 10A
Line Number: 13
NARA Publication: T626, roll 1458
Film Number: 2341193
Digital Folder Number: 4661128
Image Number: 00184
 HouseholdGenderAge
Spouse Walter Wascher M 40
  Agnes Wascher F 34
Child Walter Wascher M 11
Child Margaret Wascher F 9
Child Dorothy Wascher F 7

But we cant find her in the Ellis records.  We were told she was sponsered by her uncle Thomas Kilgallon but he is not mentioned in any Ellis files with any Bourke/Burke. I am now being lead to believe he only paid her way and that was considered being her sponsor. One that does fit her description with having a father in Limerick as Patrick was Bridget Burke and she came here in 1914 and was born in 1897. But as far as who she was going to see was an aunt Chrissie Plunkett and we have never heard of that name. But the height is too tall and has her listed as having blue eyes and brown hair when she was not even 5 foot tall and had black hair and brown eyes.


The Church of Immaculate Conception and St Joseph has been a family church of the Bourkes and Kilgallons. St Joseph's Cemetery is the church cemetery but it is not on the church property. A listing of internments on findagrave only mentions a Jimmy Kilgallon but I see its not complete as in the cemetery picture there is a Mary Burke that isnt even listed.
Agnes died in 1952 from pancreatic cancer in Freeport. Her husband Walter had left the family in 1939 and we later found out he went to Maryland and worked for the Social Security Board and then moved out to California where he died in 1952 also. He changed his middle name from James to John. We do not know why he left. As far as we know Agnes never heard from him after he left. He is buried in an unmarked grave in CA. Agnes and Walter had 3 sons and 3 daughters. They are all deceased now.