The Borgquist/McCrea/Fryer/Kelly Family of NJ and INUpdated May 11, 2009 |
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Joan Kelly
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Welcome to our family homepage. We have traced the family back to James Layton, Sarah Scott, James Kelly and Flora Layton Kelly in Franklin, IN in the 1760s; to John Borgquist in Copenhagen, Denmark in 1825; as well as mid-19th century Irish immigrants Elizabeth Gorman Borgquist, and Mary Ann Mead McCrea. Grace Moulton Gilbert Fryer has been traced back to John Gilbert in Taunton, MA in 1636. William Penn McCrea has been traced through his grandmother, Mary Joyce Babbidge McCrea, back to Myles Standish, John and Priscilla Alden, Richard Warren and Henry Samson--all Mayflower passengers. James Kelly emigrated from Ireland to America before the Revolution, and served 8 years in the War for Independence. When the War of 1812 was declared, he again volunteered, dying on the battlefield in 1813 and leaving behind an orphaned 6 year old son. When the Borgquist family came over from Denmark, they first lived in Brooklyn and Staten Island, New York and later in the Oranges NJ including Minton Place and at 493 Valley Road, West Orange from about the 1920s until the mid 1950s. Family oral history tells that John Henry Borgquist's father (John) endowed a window to a Roman Catholic church in Staten Island in the 186os. He supposedly converted to Catholicism at about this time. The summer of 2004 was exciting for us as we travelled to ancestral homes in Deer Isle, Swans Island and Harrington, Maine; and to Duxbury and Plymouth, Massachusetts. We welcome your visit and any information you might provide. We will be happy to reciprocate. |
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