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
Dear MO, Rick Gardner's and my John Drake sailed to VA from England about 1750. His son James Francis Drake landed in Scott Co, KY. He left a will and a couple kids. Tom Marilyn Otterson wrote: > 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 >>> >>> >>> >>>