My name is Robert Charles Adrian, born February 12, 1943, in Port Huron MI, son of Robert Charles August Adrian (1918-1997) and Sylvia Ruth (Hinkley) Adrian (1916-).
Both paternal and maternal families have their backgrounds in Michigan: Paternal in the Rogers City, Presque Isle County areas; Maternal in the St Clair and Sanilac-Lapeer County areas, mainly in and about Brown City, Fremont Township (in Sanilac county) and Yale and Brockway township (in St Clair co).
Paternal ancestry is from Pommerania and Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Prussia areas of Germany (before the unification).
Maternal ancestry are basically English-Scottish arriving in emigrating to the Michigan in the mid to late 1800's from Canada.
Paternal family ancestral names include: Adrian, Horn, Quade, Roeske, Florip. Most having emigrated from Germany to the United States between the years 1840-1890. (None known to have immigrated before 1840.)
Maternal family ancestral names include: Hinkley, Drader, Harris, Spring, Shell (Schell), and Westover.
My wife's full name is Karen Ann (Houghton) Adrian, born November 7, 1943, in Lancaster, WI, daughter of Kenneth LeRoy Houghton (1911-1981) and Florence Leone (Cohoe) Houghton (1916-1995).
Both paternal and maternal families have their backgrounds in the Grant County area of Southwestern Wisconsin, namely Beetown, Cassville, Ellenboro, and Lancaster.Paternal familes migrated from England in the early to mid-1800's.Maternal familes are found in the US as early as post-Revolutionary period moving westward though Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Kansas and Nebraska and back to Wisconsin in the very early 1900's.
Paternal ancestral names include: Houghton, Clinger (Klinger), Birch, Sumner.
Maternal ancestral names include: Cohoe, Harville, Rolston, Haines, and Ivers.
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