Hi Ann, I am interested in the Simmons´es and have done a lot of research in connection with St Thomas and the Netherland Antilles. What do you know about Statian Simmons´es moving to St Croix? Please, welcome to my homepage at http://w1.176.telia.com/~u17612143/ Regards, Gosta ----- Ursprungligt meddelande ----- Från: "Ann Whiting" <aqw8326@hotmail.com> Till: <CARIBBEAN-L@rootsweb.com> Skickat: den 20 juni 2003 05:30 Ämne: Re: Estate two friends on St.Croix > Jason, > > I have Brewster, Busby, who came to St. Croix about the same time as Gov. > Heyliger, from Stacia, McBean, Clendenin, Hewitt, Dyer, Bryan, Petersen, > Saunders, Hendricks, My St. Thomas people Adams, Benjamin, Francis, > Monsanto, Simmons, Quetel, Gereau, Christian, Francois, DelVallie, Jarvis, > and those are the ones off the top of my head. > > I am trying to find the census' for 1860-1911, > My faternal frandfather died sometime before 1917, so he does not show on > the census, his wife does not show either, but I think that she did not give > up her danish citizenship at the transfer. > Let me know if you want the maps and list > Ann > > > "Sharing the information." > Researching the USVI, St.Eustatius, St. Barts, Barbados > > > > > > ----Original Message Follows---- > From: Jnlnjack@aol.com > Reply-To: CARIBBEAN-L@rootsweb.com > To: CARIBBEAN-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: Estate two friends on St.Croix > Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2003 01:42:27 EDT > > Ann, > > I have read every book that I could find in NYC on early St.Croix > history/genealogy. I thank you for the email. I am still looking for the > elusive key > bit of info to take me to the next island back. I have Heyliger, Richardson > and > dewindt genealogies. I have copies of the beck map and the earlier map that > he copied his from. I have some of the early tax list info. I have bits of > property info. I have plantation histories, etc. I guess I have been off > the > topic for a while and am rusty. At some point I will go thru my file boxes > and organize the st.croix files. I need to put them online. Do you know > Heather Nielsen? She has been very helpful to me this past year. I have > quite a > bit of posts on the various lists that are for st.croix genealogy. The 300 > person list you mentioned is the one from 1767 or so? I have that one, > thanks. > Perhaps we could compare notes sometime. What are your surnames for the > early 1700s? Mine are heyliger, Ruan, Gumbs, DeWindt, Richardson, BArnes, > etc. > > regards, > Jason Carpenter > > > ==== CARIBBEAN Mailing List ==== > Before posting a query, check to see if the question has already been asked > on the List. All messages posted to CARIBBEAN-L are archived by date or > thread at http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/CARIBBEAN. You can search > the archives at > http://listsearches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl?list=CARIBBEAN. > > _________________________________________________________________ > Add photos to your messages with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. > http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemail > > > ==== CARIBBEAN Mailing List ==== > For information on individual islands, research aids, island bulletin boards or history please visit the CaribbeanGenWeb project at > http://www.rootsweb.com/~caribgw/ >

I know that Grace was indeed related to the Simmonses and that George Simmons who was Administrator of St. John was regarded as part our family but we do not know exactly how.