Don Boyd's Family History PageUpdated October 14, 2008 |
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Donald L. Boyd
1830 Hibiscus Court
Centerville, OH 45459
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Our ancestry is typically American -- from the original European settlements in New England to the post-Civil War immigration of David L. Boyd from Ireland to Iowa. Many were of Palatinate and Swiss origins. One line is from the Delawares (Lenni-Lenape), Native Americans descended from the migrants from northeast Asia 12,000 or more years ago, and who were residents of Eastern Pennsylvania when the first German Anabaptists began arriving in the early 1700's, later known as the "Pennsylvania Dutch". Our ancestors were Protestants of all denominations -- Congregationalists, Quakers, Presbyterians, German Baptists (Church of the Brethren), Mennonites, and Lutherans. Surnames like "Chollage", "Blinn", and "Triem" suggest that some of the Palatine lines were descendants of French Huguenots who fled east from France after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, across the Saar River, and settled around the villages of Rosenkopf, Krähenberg, and Käshofen. Through church records, some of the Palatine and Swiss lines can be traced back to the time of the Reformation, when they broke with their Roman Catholic tradition. Our ancestors lived in colonial settlements in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Amsterdam, Pennsylvania, and Virginia. After the Revolutionary War, their descendants migrated westward as pioneers, through the Appalachians to Kentucky, Ohio, and points west. They served in the Revolution, the War of 1812, the War Between the States, the Spanish American War, and both World Wars. The lives and migrations of our ancestors are reflective of the large events of American history, and include such prominent families as the Boones and Lincolns. Major research challenges include the parents of Enoch Fuller. Enoch came as a young man from New York state to Ashtabula, Ohio about 1806. His daughter claimed they were from the Mayflower Fullers, but his parents' identies remain a mystery. Other challenges are the Jack, Cornelius, and Jeffrey families of Muskingum and Noble Counties, Ohio, pre-Civil War. Note: The genealogy data presented here is from my database, but mostly represents the work of others, to whom I am deeply indebted. In quality, it ranges from well-documented to pure hearsay. It is provided for the use of other researchers of these families, without limitation (or guarantee of accuracy). Ancestral Surnames: BAKER, BLINN, BOONE, BOYD, BRAGG, BROMBACH, BRUMFIELD, CARPENTER, CHOLLAGE, CORNELIUS, CRAIG, DELLINGER, DEWALT, DIEHL/THIEL, FISCHBACH, FREDRICK, FULLER, GILMORE, GORDON, HART, HERSHEY/HIRSCHI, HOSTETTER/HOCHSTETLER, HUBBARD, HUDELET, HUPPERT, HUTCHISON, JACK, JEFFREY, KIRKENDALL, KRICK, LANG/LONG, LARIMORE, LINCOLN, LINN, LUCAS, LYNE, MILLER, MUNSINGER/MUNZINGER, PALMER, PATTERSON, PREISZ/PRICE, QUATTELBAUM, RODGERS, SCHEURER/SHIRER, SCHNEIDER, SMITH, SMYTH, STARLING, STARR, STAUFFER/STOUFFER, STEINER/STONER, SULLIVANT, SWARTZ, TALLMAN, TRAUTMANN, TRIEM, WENDEL/WENDELL/WINDLE, and YEAGER. |
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