Thanks for your CALVERT Family information. Is it possible that that you have clues for earlier Calvert information? My husband's lineage is documented to Isaac CHAPLINE (c1586-1628) who married Mary CALVERT (1586-1627). They were married about 1606. They were in Calvert Co MD. Thanks, Rubinette Niemann ----- Original Message ----- From: txcalvert <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2000 12:49 PM Subject: [CALVERT-L] Family Bible > Good morning cousins. I ran across this information sent to me by Steve > Calvert some time ago. One of those, put it where I could find it things. > LOL > Steve lives in Washington state and I had the privilege of meeting him a > couple of years ago. This is the same year I met George and his wife, 1997. > This may be of some use to some to other Calvert cousins. I am sending it > exactly as written by Steve. > > The Calvert Family Bible > owned origionally by Dudley and Samantha Johnson Calvert > Garrett Calvert & Diana Glass children this way (word for word): > > Dudley Calvert married Samantha Johnson > (Reuben)> Richard The Dock married Liggie Calvert > Thomas died in infancy > William married Susan Bain > Elisabeth married Samuel Hahn > (Permelia on census) Amelia married Dr. Jack Lankford > Ann Calvert married Jim Leathers > Ellen Calvert married Mark Thomas > Caroline Calvert married John Thomas > Mary Calvert married Nathaniel Thomas > > According to the Calvert bible, Diana Glass Calvert died in 1856, no date > given. > According to "Descendants of The Virginia Calverts" pg. 187, child #10 > Thomas Kirkland Calvert was the last born, 1856. Could it have been that > Diana died in childbirth? Her stone is next to Garretts in the Chaplin Fork > Christian Churchyard, but the stone is broken. > > I have since discovered that the birth order of Garrett's children are > correct but the first two children were born abt a year later than it says. > src > > This is the one I am descended from. src > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > page 2 > Calvert family ledgend has it that a Richard Calvert was called "snip nose > dick" because Indians from the area kidnapped him, and as was their custom > in males, snipped off the front part of his nose. He later escaped and was > tagged with this nickname the rest of his life. As to which Richard this > was, or even if the story is true, is anybody's guess. > I do have a theory however: Thomas died in 1808 abt 48 years of age, quite > young even for back then. Older sons Bennett and Reuben were both over 21 > and probably not living with Thomas Calvert at the time. It is possible that > Thomas Calvert was killed by indians while hunting and his son was > kidnapped? Richard was abt 13 years old in 1808 not considered a man as yet. > Men they would have killed -- but a boy, they would have taken to their > camp. Who knows? The reason I've included this here, is because this Richard > came to be know as "Specie Dick" already nicknamed, and with a bad > disposition, this very likely could be one and the same. src > > > > > http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/s/p/e/Vicki-K-Spencer/GENE1-0001.html > > http://www.parsonstech.com/genealogy/trees/vspencer/keith.htm > > http://www.parsonstech.com/genealogy/trees/vspencer/byers.htm > > > > ==== CALVERT Mailing List ==== > Please visit the surname mailing list homepage at: http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~cbrogan/calvert.html for information on this list, it's member's pages, queries and other helpful genealogy pages. >