At 05:56 AM 11/2/2006, you wrote: >In Brunswick County, we had a group of Anabaptists from Cape May, New >Jersey, immigrate to the Supply/Holden Beach area. In NJ they had been >whalers primarily. In Brunswick County they fished and farmed. If you can >tell me what surnames you are looking for I'll see if they appear among the >list of people who left the church in Cape May and came south. Some of the >names include Holden, Leonard, Hewett. The surname is Page. The ancestor is John Page Sr., b. 1760. Nothing is known of his father and mother or where the family came from. There is a lot of speculation about this man's wife, but a fairly well known NC genealogist, Leora McEachern, who researched the family (her husband had Page ancestors) did not ID a spouse. It appears he lived in New Hanover Co, moving to Duplin Co between 1820 and 1825. It is interesting that you mention these folks came down from Cape May, NJ as that is where the Page emigrants I mentioned were said to have lived. >Also, we have one community, Varnamtown, that was settled by families >coming from Massachusetts, including Varnam/Varnum. I have not researched >this but it is my understanding from others who have is that they worked >their way down the East Coast over a period of years and finally settled at >the mouth of the Lockwood Folly River. Mass was the other state where the DNA match is best. The DNA testing has proved very interesting. It has blown out of the water two theories about where my family had its origins. One family member had us descended from Col. John Page of Williamsburg, VA. (He was quite a famous man in his day and I think most Pages in the US with an interest in family history would like to think they are descended from him.) But my DNA is very distant from that of Pages who can prove descent from the good Colonel. Another school of thought is that we are descended from Pages (unrelated to the Colonel) who came down to NC to VA, but here too the DNA disproves it. There seems to be no way to get past this brick wall. >This community is having a HUGE oyster roast this Saturday if you are >anywhere within driving distance of Brunswick County. $20 per person or >fish plates $10--Susan Usher Eggert That really sounds inviting. I love seafood and I would love to be there, but about 3,000 miles stands in the way - I live in Lacey, Washington state, about 50 miles south of Seattle. My Dad was from Warsaw, NC but he went north during the Great Depression and married a Yankee. He never went back to live in "God's Country" as he always called it. You may see the family name on signs around the eastern part of the state. My uncle, now deceased, owned a hardware/home appliance store in Warsaw and I think there are now 2, maybe 3, Page Home Appliance stores in the state. I ended up out here after retiring from the Air Force. Thanks so much for your reply and if you find anything in that list it will be very much appreciated. Regards, John -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.409 / Virus Database: 268.13.24/514 - Release Date: 11/2/2006