Clay: I have several photocopies of pages from indexes and other books that I can mail to you, but your E-mail keeps bouncing. Regards Don Tunison-Campbell Eureka BClayShannon@aol.com wrote: >I have now determined some things about my Wiyot ancestress, although not >what her maiden name was nor the surname of the man who impregnated her. > >Susan (?) Gorham, born 1840 > Mary (Gorham) Silva, born 1865 > Emma (Silva) Nelson, born 1893 > Esther (Nelson) Shannon/Welch, born 1912 > >Susan was Wiyot. I've heard her nickname was "Lucky". Besides the identities >of Mary (Gorham) Silva's parents, I'm looking for information on the first >three husbands: > >Suzy's husband George Gorham (who was not the father of her baby--he was >given a ranch by a prominent family to marry Suzy, because one of their sons had >impregnated Suzy and they didn't want the "scandal", apparently and/or didn't >want a Wiyot in the family) was born in Massachusetts in 1819, but I haven't >been able to find out anything more about him. > >Mary's husband John Emmanuel Silva was, I assume, Portuguese, but I'd like to >know where he came from (Portugal or the Azores or...), when he was born, and >whether he was full-blooded Portuguese. > >Emma's husband Jeremiah Bliss Nelson was a seaman, born 1865, who at some >point abandoned his family (or was lost at sea?). All I know about him is his >name and birth year. Where was he originally from? Was he a whaler from >Nantucket, or...? > >I know all about Esther Silva (Nelson) Shannon/Welch and her husband Theodore >Roosevelt Shannon, as they were my grandparents. > >Clay Shannon, >author of the novel "the Wacky Misadventures of Warble McGorkle" >Now available on amazon.com: http://tinyurl.com/ysran > > > > >