A note from the author, JARRELL JAY KNOWLES , and a partial BIBLIOGRAPHY
THE RESEARCH FOR THIS PROJECT BEGAN IN 1964 AT THE SAN ANTONIO PUBLIC LIBRARY AND WITH EXTENSIVE INTERVIEWS OF MADELINE TROWBRIDGE KNOWLES, IVA MARIE WARD CATRETT McCALL, JAY W. KNOWLES, MILDRED CATRETT KNOWLES, LORRAINE WARD CRAVEY, AND OTHER FAMILY MEMBERS. IN THE FALL OF 1965 THE WORK WAS CENTERED AT THE BARKER TEXAS HISTORY CENTER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS IN AUSTIN. DR. LORENA FRIEND OF THAT CENTER HELPED TREMENDOUSLY IN THAT EFFORT AND INTRODUCED YOUR WRITER TO UT'S VOLUMINOUS ARCHIVES. IN 1966 AFTER EXHAUSTING THE UT FILES OF DOCUMENTS AND MICROFILM DR. FRIEND TOOK YOUR STILL HUNGRY FOR FACTS RESEARCHER TO MEET HER GOOD FRIEND DR. GOLDEN OF THE TEXAS STATE ARCHIVES ON THE GROUNDS OF THE STATE CAPITOL IN AUSTIN. DR. GOLDEN OPENED MANY DOORS FOR THE YOUNG ARCHIVIST, LEADING HIM TO MANY OUT OF STATE RESOURCES, PUTTING MANY NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL REFERENCES AND CROSS-REFERENCES INTO HIS EAGER HANDS. IN THOSE PRE-COMPUTER DAYS FAMILY RESEARCH WAS A LONG DRAWN OUT HANDS-ON PROCESS. MUCH OF YOUR WRITER'S EARLY WORK INVOLVED ACTUALLY HANDLING
RARE AND FRAGILE DOCUMENTS AND NEWSPAPERS. MANY HOURS WERE SPENT IN THE TIME CONSUMING PROCESS OF SCANNING 100'S OF FEET ( OR WAS IT MILES ) OF UN-INDEXED MICROFILM OF THE VITAL RECORDS OF VARIOUS COUNTIES AND STATES, AS WELL AS THE NATIONAL CENSUS' FROM 1790 THRU 1890. THE STATE ARCHIVES ARE STILL A MAJOR SOURCE FOR THIS WORK, HAVING SPENT SEVERAL HOURS THERE AS RECENTLY AS JULY 13, 1996. IN ADDITION TO THE GOVERNMENT RECORDS HOUSED THERE ALONG WITH VOLUMES OF SCHOLARLY BOOKS ON FAMILY ORIGIN THERE ARE 1000'S OF SMALL PRESS AND PRIVATELY PRINTED FAMILY HISTORIES SOME OF WHICH DATE FROM THE EARLIEST YEARS OF OUR COUNTRY. THESE HISTORIES, FROM EVERY STATE IN THE UNION, HAVE BEEN A GREAT AID IN THIS ON-GOING WORK. IN RECENT YEARS THE EXPANDED AUSTIN PUBLIC LIBRARY AS WELL AS THE AUSTIN HISTORY CENTER HAVE FIGURED PROMINENTLY IN THIS RESEARCH. WITH THE ADDITION OF A COMPUTER, FAMILY TREE SOFTWEAR, AND CD-ROM INDEXES & GOVERNMENT FILES THE YEARS OF SOMETIMES PAINFUL RESEARCH HAS BLOSSOMED WITH NEVER EXPECTED FRUIT. ONLY DREAMED OF INTRA-FAMILY CONNECTIONS CAN NOW BE DOCUMENTED AND LAID OUT. WHO COULD OF IMAGINED A " HUSBAND OF THE 7TH COUSIN 6 TIMES REMOVED", OR A " WIFE OF THE 23RD GREAT GRAND UNCLE" BEING MAPPED OUT WITH CLEAR LINES 32 YEARS AGO WHEN THIS REPORT WAS STARTED. MADELINE TROWBRIDGE KNOWLES STARTED THIS ALL IN MOTION WITH MAGIC STORIES OF RELATIONSHIPS TO THE OUTLAW FAMILY OF THE DALTONS, YOUNGERS, JAMES', AND THE STARRS MANY YEARS AGO. HER GRANDMA BARTLETT TOLD HER IN KNOWLES, NEW MEXICO RIGHT AFTER THE TURN OF THE 20TH CENTURY TO, " NEVER FORGET YOU'VE GOT ROYAL BLOOD." NOW, AT THE TURN OF THE 21ST CENTURY THIS RESEARCH HAS LAID IT ALL OUT TO BE CLEARLY SEEN. I OWE A GREAT DEBT TO THESE AND ALL THE OTHER FAMILY MEMBERS WHO KEPT THE FAMILY HISTORY ALIVE, MOTHER TO DAUGHTER, FATHER TO SON UNTIL I, WITH THE AID OF ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY, COULD PUT IT ALL TOGETHER IN ONE PLACE. IN THE EARLY 1920'S WILLIE PEARL HOUX TROWBRIDGE TOLD HER DAUGHTER MADELINE TO " CARRY YOURSELF WITH PRIDE, BECAUSE YOU ARE A MORNINGSTAR." THAT LITTLE HINT, PASSED ON TO THE COMPILER OF THIS STUDY IN THE MID-1960'S LED TO THE DISCOVERY OF THE LANDING ON AUGUST 24, 1728 OF THE MORTONHAUS FROM ROTTERDAM AND JOHANNES ENGELBERT MORGENSTERN ( GERMAN FOR MORNINGSTAR) A PATRI ACH OF THE HOUX LINE. JOHANNES, A WEALTHY PHILADELPHIA MERCHANT WHO MADE NUMEROUS TRIPS BETWEEN THE COLONIES AND EUROPE, AND HIS CHILDREN HAD BEEN LOST IN THE MISTS OF TIME, FORGOTTEN BY THEIR 20TH CENTURY OFFSPRING, BUT FOR THE VERBALLY HANDED DOWN MOTHERLY ADVICE. MADELINE HAD NO IDEA HOW MORNINGSTAR FIGURED INTO HER FAMILY, JUST THAT IT DID AND THAT IT WAS SOMEHOW IMPORTANT. THAT CLEARLY SHOWS THE VALUE OF THE SMALLEST BIT OF ORAL FAMILY HISTORY, A SINGLE WORD, THAT EVENTUALLY LEADS THE RESEARCHER TO A BRECK THRU IN MAPPING FAMILY ORIGINS. OF COURSE NOT ALL ORAL FAMILY TRADITIONS ARE FRUITFUL. THIS WRITER HAS HAD HIS SHARE OF TRIPS DOWN BLIND ALLEYS INTO MAZES FULL OF DEAD ENDS. ONE OF THE MOST FRUSTRATING CONCERNED THE PORTWOOD FAMILY, WHOSE ORAL HISTORY HELD THAT THEIR START IN THIS COUNTRY WAS AS A BRITISH PRISONER SENT TO THE GEORGIA COLONY. FOR YEARS YOUR FAITHFUL REPORTER SEARCHED EVERY TYPE OF GEORGIA RECORD FROM THE 1850'S BACK BY HAND, ROLLING THRU WHAT SEEMED LIKE MILES OF MICROFILM TO NO AVAIL. FINIAL LY IN 1996 WITH THE AID OF COMPUTER CROSS INDEXING THE RELATIVES WERE FOUND IN SOUTH CAROLINA, NOT GEORGIA. ALL FAMILY GATHERED INFORMATION SHOULD EVENTUALLY BE DOUBLE CHECKED THRU OTHER SOURCES. BELOW ARE SOME OF THESE RESOURCES USED BY THE WRITER OVER THE LAST 33 YEARS.
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ADDITIONAL RESEARCH HAS BEEN CONDUCTED IN THE FILES OF THE TEXAS LAND OFFICE IN AUSTIN, THE BAYLOR CO., JEFFERSON CO., AND WICHITA CO. COURT HOUSES, THE RED WINE ABSTRACT COMPANY OF SEYMOUR, TEXAS AND CEMETERIES ACROSS THE STATE OF TEXAS FROM WEIR & BEAUMONT TO SEYMOUR, ROUND TIMBERS & PALO PINTO. THE WORK OF OTHER FAMILY MEMBERS HAS ALSO BEEN INCORPORATED INTO THIS WORK. CLAYTON MCDONALD'S FILES ON THE NEW MEXICO CONNECTIONS, RUBEN KNOWLES' PROFESSIONALLY ACQUIRED TRACINGS OF THE TROWBRIDGES, AND MOST NOTABLY WINFORD KNOWLES' HOURS IN THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND COMPUTER RESEARCH INTO THE FISH AND SCHRIVER BRANCHES OF OUR TREE ARE 3 THAT COME COME INSTANTLY TO MIND.
