"servant", household "laborer". works in field Janet -------Original Message------- From: Casa Del Luna Date: 01/28/07 13:06:36 To: martin@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [MARTIN] Surnames connected to my MARTIN Line Using the term "servant", may be misleading. What I think it means is "laborer". It was quite common all over the country, in those times, for farmers to have hired hands that lived with the family. This looks like the case here. Keep the name noted, but, as a rule, the daughters did not marry the help. Mac ----- Original Message ----- From: "MartinFamilyTree" <martinfamilytree@gmail.com> To: <martin@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, January 28, 2007 8:30 AM Subject: Re: [MARTIN] Surnames connected to my MARTIN Line > Hi Y'all, > > I'm a newbie at this family tree research business and I have a question. > My Great Grandfather Wiley Martin moved from Macon County, Tennessee to > Hill > County, Texas with his family during the period from 1880 - 1900. In the > census of 1900 of Hill County, Texas he has a "servant" listed as Charley > A. > Stanley, born in Alabama. My Grandfather John Taylor Martin moved from > Tennessee with his father Wiley Martin to Hill County, Texas and he too > has > a servant named John Ovington who was born in Mississippi. These > servants > lived in the home. I'm wondering if we need to search for these > "servants" > to find daughters they might have married and took away from the home? > > Carl > > > On 1/28/07, CarolinaRamosdeL@aol.com <CarolinaRamosdeL@aol.com> wrote: >> >> I have MARTIN, CARRICO, ROSS, HUGHS/HUGHES, BAIN/BAINES kinda traveling >> together - and my MAYFIELDS stuck with the DEANS >> Carolina >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> MARTIN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes >> in the subject and the body of the message >> > > > > -- > Carl Martin > Greater Harris County Family Tree Club > MartinFamilyTree@gmail.com > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > MARTIN-request@rootsweb.com 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 MARTIN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.432 / Virus Database: 268.17.12/655 - Release Date: 1/28/2007 1:12 PM .