Oh, OK, a "Johnny-come-lately" Drake. :^) Guess we aren't in the same clan unless they had an ancestor in common. Cousin Marilyn ----- Original Message ----- From: "Thomas S. Fiske" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, September 30, 2006 7:05 PM Subject: Re: [ARMSTRONG] Web Site > 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 >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> > > > ------------------------------- > 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