Welcome to our home page, cousin! If you wish, you may jump right to the bottom of the page for a selection of reports and family photos, but be sure to try the InterneTree! Just be patient while it builds... It's 2250 people large.
While much of our early gathering of ancestral information involved previously researched material, we felt that our proximity to New England and Nova Scotia vital statistics gave us a unique opportunity to verify each ancestral link, one-by-one, working out from ourselves. We are continuing to verify information all the time. Each of our families are tied to New England and Maritime Canada.
My father's Richards and White ancestry originate at Newfoundland, Canada at about 1900, and is currently under investigation.
My father's Copeland and Thompson lines are descended from the area of Pictou County, Nova Scotia, to about 1790. Interestingly, my mother's Nova Scotia heritage is linked to early Colonial Cape Cod. That is ... Nickerson, Eldredge, Smith, Crowell, Kenney, and Kendrick families from the towns of Chatham and Harwich, Mass. sailed up to Nova Scotia in 1758. If you've ancestral heritage in the Barrington, Clark's Harbour and Cape Sable Island region of Nova Scotia, take note, as you are almost certainly descendant of the Mayflower, Fortune, or Anne! See the Descendants of Stephen Hopkins, below.
The Lewis, Harrington, Winslow and Blagdon lines go to the State of Maine, where my research picks up currently at about 1797.
Flowers, Thompson, Chatterton, and Pennington ancestors are from the old British Loyalist town of New Carlisle, Quebec. Information on those familes thins out at the time of the Revolutionary War.
I've traced the unique Oresteen name completely back to the immigration of Frances Oresteen who was born in Naples, Italy. He came to Boston from Sicily in 1854 at the age of 17. If you are researching this name, you are most assuredly very close kin to me!
Barbara's maternal heritage is wonderfully detailed along the Dickerman and Hardy families, connecting everyone to Mass. during the Great Migration of the 1600's, and with many, many Revolutionary War Minutemen found at nearly every New England battleground! They include names of Holman, May, Stockwell, Barrett, Snow, Bent, Wales, Emery, Thurston, Williams, Goddard, Aspinwall, Ball and Prouty... with many, many more. DAR and SAR information can certainly be found among these lines. See the Descendants of Thomas Hardy, below.
Her paternal McLeod and Hicks heritage goes directly to New Brunswick, Canada in the mid-1800's, with the Cottrell and Mansell families going directly to England in the late-19th Century.
In recent years, we've placed a premium on the quality of information gathered, and are working hard at personal authentication through official, primary sources, which does take lots of time. Not all of our extended information has yet received our personal verification, but was gathered from information which has proved very accurate thus far. Because of this, we are confident to include it on our InterneTree and GEDCOM file.
We hope our reseach helps you. Visit our REPORTS and PHOTOS that follow. I am still adding "source" information all the time, so if you've any questions, be sure to drop a line!
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- Dana H. Richards (187 KB)
My late dad, enjoying a day of deep sea fishing off the Florida Gulf coast, about 1995.
- Harry & Dana Richards (196 KB)
My grandfather with my father, taken about 1938.
- Grace M. (Oresteen) Richards (92 KB)
My mother showing off in her Everett, Mass. High School photo.
- Thomas F. Richards in his youth (89 KB)
My Uncle Tom taking the helm at age 14!
- Harry Richards (385 KB)
My grandfather Harry in 1956. His Newfoundland heritage is currently being researched. If anyone can help, please e-mail!
- Mary Arline (Savage) Oresteen (249 KB)
The author's great "Gran "O", matriarch of the Oresteen clan, relaxing at West Harwich, Cape Cod, Mass., about 1956
- Ann F. (Copeland) Richards (79 KB)
My grandmother Ann, about 1944.
- Kenney Gang 1925 (167 KB)
Here's how the Kenney kids looked at a family outing in 1925 at Cape Sable Island, Nova Scotia. From left to right, rear: Cousin Olga, my aunt Grace, my grandmother Bess, uncle Ashward, (front left to right) uncle Almond, and uncle Normand.
- Arthur S. Oresteen & Bess O. (Kenney) Oresteen (197 KB)
My grandparents enjoying a cruise on Boston harbor, about 1955.
- Wayne C. Richards & Barbara A. (McLeod) Richards (95 KB)
The author and wife Barbara on sailing cruise in southern Caribbean in January, 1999... getting well-toasted!
- Copeland kids! (129 KB)
Wonderful photo of Teddy Bear posing with my grandmother Ann Copeland and her brother Thomas Copeland, ca. 1915
- Francis S. Oresteen (148 KB)
Author's great grandfather Frank's Boston Fire Department photo, ca. 1895. Sorry for the speckles, which do not appear on original. Courtesy BFD
- Three Generations of the Oresteen Family (204 KB)
Author's cousin Frankie, Aunt Margaret, Aunt Jessica & Uncle Frank, grandparents Bess (restraining author)& Arthur, Aunt Alice, and my mother Grace at Springvale Ave., Everett, MA ca. 1952
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