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WELCOME TO OUR GENEALOGY HOME PAGE! FAMILY LINES TO BE FOUND ON THESE PAGES GORDON - NY/MI, from 1779: Robert and Elizabeth Gordon were both born in1779 in the State of New York and New Jersey respectively.They and their children migrated from New York to Michigan Territory sometime between 1827 and 1830. PETTRY - VA/WV/O, from 1757: Shian's Pettry Family Line is well documented to Martin Petry, born in Orange County, Virginia, January 19, 1757. PARSONS - NF/O/MI, from before 1844: We now know that our Parsons Family Line (Don's mother was a Parsons) stems from George Parsons and his wife, Mary Hunt.They were both born in Harbour Grace, Newfoundland, about 1824.The family is then traced from Newfoundland to Quebec, and to Kingston, Ontario. They moved to Detroit, Michigan about the turn of the century. HART - ENG/MA/RI/NY/MI, from about 1575: The Hart Family Line (Don's middle name is Hart, which was his paternal grandmother's maiden name) is traced to England in the sixteenth century. This line of Harts is traced back to Colonial Massachusetts about 1642, and from there to Little Compton, Rhode Island; Edinburg, New York; and finally Detroit, about 1837.It includes a connection to the Mayflower passengrers Francis Cooke, John Cooke, and Richard Warren also. LOEHNE - PRUSSIA/NY/MI, from 1823 William C. Loehne and his wife, Louisa S. arrived in New York during the 1850s, apparently settling first in Rochester.William was a Carriage Finisher by trade, and after a few years (during which three of their eight children were born), they moved to Michigan, settling in Howell, Livingston County, in 1867. ROSSITER - ENG/MA, from about 1440: The Rossiters married into the Hart Line, and they were early settlers of New England. BURNHAM -- ENG/CONN/VMT/MICH from 1617: The Burnhams later connect with the Clossons and the Harts, ending up in Detroit about 1840. TABER - ENG/MA/RI, from about1580: Like the Rossiters, the Tabers were an early New England family, tracable to England. CLOSSON - RI/MI, from 1625: The Closson Family arrived in Massachusetts very early, shortly after the Pilgrims. COOKE, MAHIEU, WARREN, from before 1620: These families were all travelers on the "Mayflower". IN THE WORKS, AND COMING SOON: McSURLEY and MARKHAM. ABOUT US:We are Don (Donald Hart)and Shi (Ramona Shian) GORDON, and we live inNorthwestern Pennsylvania, south of Erie, near the City of Meadville. We've been working on our families' genealogical lines off for a long time. The results of our efforts continue to amaze us, and they have connected us to living relatives ("cousins") we have not previously known.If you have wandered here to our Family Home Page in search of some relative connected with one of our family branches, perhaps you are also part of our growing group of cousins.Feel free to enquire of us to find out if we might be related! Don, born in 1932, grew up in Detroit. The GORDON side of his family arrived in Michigan about 1830, settling in Livingston County, near the town of Howell. His mother's side of the family, the PARSONS, moved to Detroit just before 1900 from Kingston, Ontario, and they trace their roots to Newfoundland (where "Parsons" is the second most common name to be found). Don also descends from the HART family ("Hart" is his middle name), and that line can be traced to England in the mid-fifteenth century. It is an interesting line, since it also includes some of the Mayflower passengers (COOKE and WARREN). Some of the other surnames traceable through the Hart ancestral line are:CLOSSON, TABER, MASTERS, ROSSITER, BURNHAM, and BENHAM. Shian was born in Charleston, West Virginia in 1952. The PETTRY family on her father's side stems from MARTIN PETTRY, a militia conscript in Virginia at the time of the Revolution.Her mother was a McSURLEY, another old West Virginia family. | Don and Shi's Marvelous Maze Updated December 20, 2003 |
Donald H. and Ramona S.Gordon 25623 Pinney Road Saegertown,Pennsylvania 16433 A-United States 814-763-4074 [email protected] | |
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