Funny to discuss Gardners on the Armstrong list but then funny things happen on the Armstrong list. We haven't a clue where our Gardners came from First show up here in NC in 1770. There are people on my DNA page who are descended from the Nantucket Gardners. I'd be happy to claim them but they don't match our markers. In fact, only a guy name LaMor matches us so far which means either my Gardners were great lovers or those LaMors had wonderful gardens. I prefer the former. Marilynn IBSSG ----- Original Message ----- From: "Marilyn Otterson" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, September 30, 2006 5:09 PM Subject: Re: [ARMSTRONG] Web Site > OK, you guys...I have both Drakes and Gardners in my mother's genealogy. > In > fact, Drake was a name I started with when I began this obsessive hobby. > My > grandmother was a Drake and she had the genealogy all the way back to 1654 > in this country...and I began with the peripheral names to do more > research. > My mother's father had Gardners in his line. Both were New England > branches. > > It's interesting that you are stuck with your Gardners around 1770s. My > Gardners settled near Salem MA in the 1600s, went to Nantucket with a few > pioneers who were Quakers. Gardner was a very big name there but around > the > time your ancestors are found in the south is about the same time a lot of > folks from Nantucket left for the south including a bunch of Gardners. > The > forests had pretty much been cut down, the harbor was silting up and the > British were harassing the whaling and trade along the coast. My Gardner > branch was about the only one I've found so far of that bunch who went up > to > the wilds of Maine to settle, but many more ended up in the NC area. Have > you looked for your earliest Gardner in New England, specifically > Nantucket? > Just wondering... > > These folks were my mother's ancestors...then she married my Dad who was > an > Armstrong. > > Marilyn (the one with only one N) > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Thomas S. Fiske" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Saturday, September 30, 2006 2:11 PM > Subject: Re: [ARMSTRONG] Web Site > > >> Dear MM, >> >> One of the members on the Drake List is also a Gardner. Rick Gardner. >> But he lives in Michigan, I think and is not likely a NC Gardner. Rick >> is a Drake in my line from about the year 1770 in Virginia. >> >> Tom >> >> Marilynn Masten wrote: >>> When you have nothing else to do, take a look at our Gardner/Garner Web >>> Site http://www.usroots.com/~gardners/. We just wanted to prove the >>> point that genealogical research need not be dry. >>> Marilynn >>> IBSSG >>> >>> ------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >>> [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >>> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > >