At 04:20 AM 06/08/2000 -0700, you wrote: >OZMENT-D Digest Volume 00 : Issue 10 > >Today's Topics: > #1 [OZMENT] Osments in England [LonRMartin@aol.com] > #2 [OZMENT] Cecilia Ozment of TN. ["Marsha McWilliams" <rmmcw@effingh] > >Administrivia: >To unsubscribe from OZMENT-D, send a message to > > OZMENT-D-request@rootsweb.com > >that contains in the body of the message the command > > unsubscribe > >and no other text. No subject line is necessary, but if your software >requires one, just use unsubscribe in the subject, too. > >To contact the OZMENT-D list administrator, send mail to >OZMENT-admin@rootsweb.com. > _____________________________X-Message: #1 >Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2000 12:22:11 EDT >From: LonRMartin@aol.com >To: OZMENT-L@rootsweb.com >Message-ID: <6b.543f690.266fd0b3@aol.com> >Subject: [OZMENT] Osments in England >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > >Hello All, >Hope everyone is doing fine. >I have been getting email from a young 15 year old man in Bath, England who >is going to boarding school right now. He has shared with me some of his >findings on his own line. I thought y'all might find the following >interesting. Be sure and keep scrolling down. I have his permission to only >share the following with y'all: > >To: LonRMartin@aol.com > >Dear Sir, > I saw your request for information on Osments and i have >some regarding that matter, I myself am a Osment in England. > What I know is that the English branch of the Osments are >descended from Norman armourers from the period of 1066 and becoame small >hold knights. I hope this is a help to you. > Yours faithully, > James Osment, 15 >also in another email: > > Also when my late Grandfather researched about >Osments he found that there is some kind of conference of >Osments every year in the U.S. and I wander if you know >more. Also in the 1950-1970s there was a mass exodus of my >branch of Osments to Australia and New Zealand leaving my >Grandfather( one of four brothers) behind 'flying the flag' >for the Osments in England. He may have left if he hadn't >have been serving in the Royal Navy, which incidently was >in for around 35 years having joined at 15 and leaving at >50. > My Great Uncle in Australia is writing two books one >about the Osments( I think it's just our branch) and one >about his own life. > I hope this e-mail finds you in good health and I'll >be more than happy to continue recieving and sending e- >mails to you. > yours faithfully, > James Osment, Bath, England > Ozzie > >And finally this last email: >Dear Lonnie > As they say in the British Telecom >adverts 'it's good to talk', which it is. It is a pleasure >to correspond with you and I hope we can do that some >more. It is good to hear there is a Osment/Ozment cemetery >in Tenesse, but I suppose Wilson county is probably bigger >than the British counties like surrey. Our branch of the >family,as I have said before, were descended from small >hold Lords and eventually became yeoman farmers. However >this probably lasted up to the English Civil War and being >Wiltshire men probably fought for the king. And we have a >long military heritage. There was definately an Osment >serving for the regular armies of King George in the >American war for independance( he may have even fought >against your ancestor!, at such battles as guildford >courthouse, bunker hill and yorktown, perhaps). After that >I am pretty sure that Osments have fought in every major >British conflict, and in fact I myself I am going that way. > I met an army recruiter and he said I could join after >I went to university as an officer! Which would be good. > Anyway I hope this letter finds you in good health and >perhaps next time you write you couyld tell me a little >about yourself. > yours faithfully > James Osment, Bath, England > > Ozzie Lon, Very interesting info from the young Osment/Ozment researcher. Hope you two keep in touch. We need fresh sources and documented facts about our English heritage. Best regards, --Dwight W. Ozment > dwozment@worldnet.att.net Richmond, VA >______________________________X-Message: #2 >Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2000 11:53:54 -0500 >From: "Marsha McWilliams" <rmmcw@effingham.net> >To: OZMENT-L@rootsweb.com >Message-ID: <000f01bfd0a1$0a7030e0$17b5220c@oemcomputer> >Subject: [OZMENT] Cecilia Ozment of TN. >Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="iso-8859-1" >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > >Hello Everyone, > >I haven't seen where anyone else has answered Elizabeth yet (unless they've >done it privately?) > >Think maybe I may be on to something here. Other than what I wrote >yesterday, Andrew PITTS (from NC) was one of the sureties to John PAVEY's >estate in 1814, Washington Co., IN. Also, one of the Admin. to his Estate >(other than John Pavey's 2nd wife, Frances "Fannie" Martin Pavey) was >William LINDLEY who was married to a Mary PITTS. The LINDLEYs were Quakers >who had migrated from Orange Co, NC. The PITTS family it seems, was >primarily from the Rowan/Guilford Co. area. > >I have been unable to locate the connection between Andrew and Mary Pitts >Lindley. Unfortunately, I may have had it in my pre-computer crash of 1998. >I have put out some new inquiries though. > >Is there anyone else that has come across any PITTS family before? > >Marsha >