On Mon, 10 Jul 2000 17:33:17 -0500 "Aaron Marchbanks" <amarch@airmail.net> writes: >>So, all of the kids of Leo (1898 - 1980) are >>alive? > >Almost all, my grandpa's brother Alan died >recently. Good to have so many still with us. >I apologize for not including myself, my >farther, and grandfather. I apologize for being pushy. I realize posting data on the living might be unwise. I hope not. I appreciate all the open records -- school annuals showing photos of the living with names (& ages implied), phone books with names & addresses, church bulletins with birth days, court house records with marriage records of the living, genealogies in print with birth & marriage info on the living, newspaper obits with names of the living survivors, marriage announcements & anniversaries of the living ... I like the past being connected right up to the present. After the genealogist dies it is a little difficult for her to finally release & include her dates while standing in the spirit world. LOL >Aaron David Marchbanks >Born: 7/3/71 Provo, Utah > >Father: >David Reid Marchbanks >Born: 8/6/51 Provo, Utah > >Grandfather: >Reid Marchbanks >Born: I will get you his b-day/Place (a.s.a.p) >G-grandfather: Thanks. I added the info to your entry: http://members.FortuneCity.Com/jgreen/Mbanks/linemarc.html#AMarchb I will add it to the Genealogy.Org site when it comes online. >GEDCOM starts - Leo Marchbanks > >>The Colony is not on my 1991 TX state road map, >>so I went to MapQuest to find it, thinking it >>might be on the map but just not in the index. >>MapQuest showed it in Denton County, so I added >>Denton County (in parentheses) to your snail >>address. I am glad I bothered to check. The AGM >>is in the USA every 4th year. This year it will >>be in Ft. Worth. I hope you can go, since it >>probably won't return to TX area for 25 or 50 >>years. It is the best chance the Texans will >>have to meet your & our chief. I guess the chief >>will be able to make it. > >I would very much like to be at the Ft. Worth >gathering. When can we start registering? Can I >do anything to help? That paragraph caused me to send this to the list, since I do not know who all is working on the AGM. On http://genealogy.org/~green/Mbanks/gatherf.html duplicated at: http://members.fortunecity.com/jgreen/Mbanks/gatherf.html I see that "Jim McDonald and Donna Lonnon are now working on our sight-seeing schedule". You should visit that web page & read about the AGM. I hope at least Jim & Donna & Bob will contact you. As for your contacting Donna Lonnon, I have her in the lineages file as: Donna I. Lonon. The lineages file is the 1st url I gave in this email. It's the same file that has your address & lineage. Jim McDonald's address is not in the lineages file. Jim McDonald, You will have to send me the info if you want your lineage & address included. If you sent the info & I failed to input it, if you know the date you sent it, I can probably find the email. >>Roger, notice that Aaron's line goes back to >>James MARCHBANKS b. 1783 Berweck On Tweed, >>Northumberland, England. Does that sound like a >>member of the cadet branch of Lees of >>Coldstream? His letter to the list did not give >>the data on this James who was on the LDS site. > >It seems no one from my family has been able to >get any further back than James of 1783? Any >records or information that would help me link >Father James with more of our ancestors would be >greatly appreciated!! Research is Roger Marjoribanks' forte. :) I guess you checked a map to see how close Roger's Coldstream was to your Berwick-Upon-Tweed. My ruler tells me it is 8" X 1.6 miles/inch = 12.8 miles. Coldstream is also on the River Tweed. >>How is it you came to subscribe? Had someone >>told you of the AGM? Is someone contacting all >>the M'banks in the Dallas Ft. Worth phone book? >>I have that you subscribed between 2 & 6 July, >>because you were not on the subscriber list of 2 >>July & you posted on 6 July so must have >>subscribed on or before 6 July. Do you remember >>when you subscribed? Are you subscribed in D or >>L mode? > >I found the Marjoribanks web site, and became >totally fascinated by the thought of finding out >who my ancestors where, and are. Sorry there was nothing there on your James. Looking at your lineage to guess at when your 1st Marchbanks came to America, I gather it was between 18 Jan 1853 when Edwin Joshua MARCHBANKS was b. in Essex Co., England and 18 Jun 1881 when Edwin Joshua MARCHBANKS m. Mary Emma ALLAN in Provo,Utah Co.,UT So I guess there are not so many descendants of your line in America as mine that came in 1794 or George's line that came in 1716. So, I guess that is why you are the 1st of your branch from which we have heard. BTW, looking up what you sent: "b.18 Jan 1853 Galley Wood Comm,(great Baddow), Essex, England", to make sure Essex was a County & not a city (i.e. that there was a Galley Wood near Baddow or Gt. Baddow all in Essex Co.), I find in my RAC Atlas 1, outside of Chelmsford, is Great Baddow & just south of Great Baddow is Galleywood. Shall I change the spelling to this current spellings & capitalizations to aid future generations in finding the places? What was "Comm" in "Galley Wood Comm"? community or commons or something else? Hmm, on rechecking I see in said atlas, Galleywood, Galleyend, Galleywood Hall, & Galleywood Common. Galleywood Common is along the road leading south from Galleywood for a mile. It is not marked as being built up, but maybe it once was. If you all have not checked the 1846 to 1899 1:10,560 maps of the Gt.Brit. on the web, I recommend it. I just checked for Galleywood Common & their map shows it. Go to my: http://genealogy.org/~green/Mbanks/5merkos.html and http://millennium.fortunecity.com/byker/362/Mbanks/5merkos.html click on Get-a-map click on old-maps.co.uk This brings you to 1:10,560 maps made between 1846 and 1899. Click on Essex County. click on Galleywood That will bring you to a web page with the map inset. Push the encroaching frames back or go straight for the gif: http://www.old-maps.co.uk/10ess121/GIFs/12052001d.GIF I had a hard time finding Galleywood Common because the maps are so large. If you have screen resolution set at 640 x 480 (don't change) & you browse to the gif so IE fills the window and you have IE's standard buttons turned off and you scroll all the way to the bottom and all the way to the left, you will see "ommon" written vertically across the middle of the screen. "ommon" is the last of Galleywood Common. I said don't change resolution because I did that & my computer went black. Evidently the other resolution's screen driver/s is not loaded. I had to reboot in safe mode to change it back. That meant shutting down without being able to see to move a mouse & closing windows without seeing how many windows were open or just powering off & then running scan disk to fix the crash. Georges, I also got one of these old maps for what I thought might be Sineland. I kept wanting to use Sineland in email so needed the word where I could find it so put it beside my Link to Leigh's web site & one thing lead to another & soon I had the maps linked from the word Sineland. To see it, click on Sineland in #27 on http://Genealogy.Org/~green/MbanksOld.html or http://members.FortuneCity.Com/jgreen/MbanksOld.html Sorry for overstepping my bounds. It is probably a worthless page except that George definitely came from somewhere in Teviotdale and the page shows Teviotdale in ca. 1610. Pretty map, no? You say: "James MARCHBANKS b.30 Mar 1824 Portsea,Hmpshr,Engl" Where did you get that abbreviation? My atlas says Hampshire is abbreviated Hants. I agree that Hmpshr is more recognizable to we in the USA. Brits, how did the Brits come to say Hants for Hampshire? I appended Co. to Hmpshr, Hamps, & Essex. With that said, I will move on, without continuing on checking that the towns are in said counties & thus the implied counties are meant to be counties. >I was subscribed 7/6/00. I think I am subscribed in D mode. OK I added that to your lineage entry. >>Did you attend the annual Gathering & Games in >>Arlington this past month? I think it is the >>biggest in that part of the USA. I sure wish we >>could have found someone to do a tent for us >>there. > >No, I wish I had known it was going on. > >I spent about 3, or 4 months in Winnsboro, NC back >in 1991. What a beautiful area of the country. I think you mean SC. "Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder." I wonder that my ancestors settled here in an RFD of Winnsboro in the 1750s & 1760s (way before A/C)! When I go out into the woods at this time of the year, there are red bugs, ticks, poison ivy/oak, snakes, and black berry briars nearly 10 ft. high that one cannot walk through. However we now have bush hogs that can mow the briars, kudzu, bamboo, & little trees, if we don't get the tractor stuck in a creek or swampy spot. There are gullies 20 ft. deep & 100 ft. x 100 ft. all over the county caused by rain & not contour farming back when cotton was king. We get more rain than London, but less than Wales. This county is were my [Marjori]Bankses settled in 1794. Admittedly the immigrant (Sam) did try to leave & return to the UK, but his wife was afraid of the waves she saw at Charleston. LOL >Kind Regards, >Aaron Marchbanks -- James W. Green III/285 Agnew Rd/Winnsboro SC 29180 CSA home: 803-635-9236 http://www.Genealogy.Org/~green & http://millennium.fortunecity.com/byker/362/ ________________________________________________________________ YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH FOR THE INTERNET! 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