This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Hemmion/Hemion Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/YUB.2ACI/913.939.945.1 Message Board Post: Hello Mary Ann, Here is the only info I have on Jacob, it appears there may be a generatiom miss, or perhaps the immigration date is wrong: COPY OF LETTER DATED 17 FEB 1939 WRITTEN BY NORMAN HEMION TO HIS NEPHEW ROGER HEMION ANCESTRY THE HEMMIONS (OK--You asked for it) "Sometime about 1730, after some severe struggling probably, a family of father, mother, eleven daughters acquired in succession every tenth month, and one son, for which they made all that endeavor to perpetuate the name, left Holland when the boy was 9 days old and he walked ashore when they landed in America 13 months later. (Them were the good old days before aeroplanes started the forty-one hour ferry--they were in England for a number of months awaiting passage to America.) . . . Here traces of the girls fades except the family lines branch out and back like dog tracks on a snowy field. "The son, Yohan (Johann) Hemmion grew up and did his bit to please "Faddy" as his father was affectionately called, by making him grandsire of a son, David, who may probably have moved to Nova Scotia where a colony of the name located, for he seems lost to local legend, and of two brothers named Yon (Jon) and Yon Yokopee (Jon Jakopi) and two daughters, Kate and Katerina in the Dutch dialect or John and John Jacob, and Kate and Katherine in English--Some say John Jacob was the one that went to Nova Scotia and David settled near Passaic, NJ. All I can say is they all likely lived and died not thinking someone would care in 1939. "Johan Hemmion married Mary Osborne . . . and their children were Hannah, married to Thomas Howell; Margaret, married to David Campbell; Mary Jane, married twice among the Fisher and Fox families; and Jacob, seemingly the favorite son (who is held down by a near seven ton monument) . . . and a granddaughter, among many, that became a renowned local actress; . . . and John Osborne, that's the one that concerns us. He was born on May 24, 1819, and married Anne Marie Christie, born January 3, 1819, sometime in 1838. Their children were David Christian; John Jacob, who died at age 21; Betsy Anne who drowned as a child; Hannah Jane, married to John Wanamaker; Maria Louisa, married to Henry Alcott; Margaret Elizabeth, married to Peter Konight, (this is the Aunt Lib who died a year ago--[1938]--mother of Benjamin and Annie who I believe you met). John Osborne Hemmion showed his lazy streak by starting the use of one "m" in writing the name, so it's been Hemion ever since. He wa! s spoken of as Dominy John Hemion to distinguish him from a John D., a John Nelson, Mart's John and John his father. (They're all gone now . . . "As to Dave Chris, he was born February 16, 1840, and married to Malinda Elizabeth Hunt October 15, 1876, just in time to spend their honeymoon at the Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia. Her birthdate was August 3, 1860. Her ancestry, I cannot go further than that her mother was Christina, Andrus's daughter (no surname of her own if what was carved in the chest she brought from Sweden told the story), born in 1825; and her father, he was a dog (Hund) from Germany, born in 1826--he soon switched that name for it's English equivalent HUNT when he started to become a citizen . . . a son died in infancy, and a daughter, Esther Christina Johnson--now 73 and the last of that generation. Her son Clayton has two children. (A family of poor resources somewhat as the sharecroppers in everyday life now were the Hunts) . . .