Hi Folks : I have scanned a few old deeds , wills and photos of my family (King) and a mystery civil war soldier from Durham . These scans even zipped are too big to conveniently e-mail to everyone who wants copies . What's a good way to deal with this ? Is anyone related to a civil war soldier from Durham ? He is probably one of the miners as the photo was found behind a mantle in the last remaining mine worker house along Cooks Creek across from the limestone quarry . Cheers Jim Walter -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: Friday, January 12, 2007 1:01 AM To: [email protected] Subject: PABUCKS Digest, Vol 2, Issue 12 Today's Topics: 1. Re: Yardley's ([email protected]) 2. CLAIRE-CLARA DE NORMANDIE, bp. 1761 Philly, m. THOMAS KIRKBRIDE BILES - info? ([email protected]) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 11:02:12 EST From: [email protected] Subject: Re: [PABUCKS] Yardley's To: [email protected] Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" I have tried in the past to see if I could tie in to Isaac White and have been unable to. My James White married Hannah Yardley. I know her parents (Richard), grandparents (Richard), but not his. We believe it was John White who had several sons, but have not been able to find positive proof. John White lived in Lower Makefield Township (near Yardley). Supposedly James died in 1812, probably buried in the Slate Hill Cemetery (again no proof, but one of his daughters, Lucilla White Cook and her children are buried there). His sons George and Samuel moved to Ohio about 1830. Had sisters one who married Mitchell lived in Miami Co Ohio. One married a Scott. Lived in Champaign Co. Ohio. Hannah moved to Miami Co Ohio a few years after her sons and died just a few years later..in the 1830s. Mike Daley ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 12:21:09 EST From: [email protected] Subject: [PABUCKS] CLAIRE-CLARA DE NORMANDIE, bp. 1761 Philly, m. THOMAS KIRKBRIDE BILES - info? To: [email protected] Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" CLAIRE/CLARA DE NORMANDIE was the sister of SARAH (DE NORMANDIE) ABERCROMBIE who was my 4-great grandmother & wife of JOHN JOSEPH ABERCROMBIE, SR. I found these items yesterday and wonder if anyone might have anything on THOMAS KIRKBRIDE BILES who d. 1821? This DE NORMANDIE family was very prominent in Bucks County, the emigrant was ANDRE DE NORMANDIE who was connected to FREDERICK THE GREAT, according to item found yesterday in GOOGLE BOOK search. See item below. I am expecting more on ERNESTINE and her mother's line (incl. ANDRE-ANDREW DE NORMANDIE) from the National Genealogy Society located in Virginia soon. ============================= IGI Individual Record FamilySearch? International Genealogical Index v5.0 North America CLAIRE <DENORMANDIE> Female Christening: 28 DEC 1761 Christ Church And Saint Peters, Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Father: ANTHONY DENORMANDIE Mother: MARY DENORMANDIE Messages: Extracted birth or christening record for the locality listed in the record. Source Information:Type: C725888 1750 - 1762 1490578 ====================================== OneWorldTreeSM Name: Clara Denormandie Birth: 5 Dec 1761 Parents: Anthony Denormandie, Mary Hall Spouse: Thomas Kirkbride Biles Died: 1821 Children: Thomas Biles M Charles Biles M William Biles M James Biles M Hannah Biles F Charles Biles M ================================== The History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania: From the Discovery of the Delaware to the Present Time By William Watts Hart Davis Published 1876 Democrat Book and Job Office Print 875 pages Page 344. & 345. The DE NORMANDIES were a princely family of France, holding feudal tenures in Champagne from the earliest times, the heads of the house being the lords de la Motte. In 1460 GIULLIAUME DE NORMANDIE was made royal governor of Noyon in Picardy, and founded the chapel of ST. CLAIRE in the church of ST. MARTIN. He married a DE ROYE, princess in her own right, and daughter of the lord of DE MAILLY D'AISILLY and MONTESCOURT. >From GIULLIAUME DE NORMAMDIE descended LAURENT DE NORMANDIE, the warm friend and supporter of CALVIN, and the executor of his will, who fled to Geneva, and, as did his sons after him, filled some of the highest offices in that republic. >From LAURENT came JEAN DE NORMANDIE, one of the deputies sent in 1603 to conclude a treaty of peace with the prince of Savoy, and from JEAN came JOSEPH, named after his uncle and godfather, the celebrated DUC DE LA TREMOUILLE. These were all counsellors of state and syndies of Geneva, as was MICHAEL, the son of JOSEPH. >From MICHAEL came ANDRE DE NORMANDIE, the confidential agent and lieutenant of FREDERICK THE GREAT at Neufchatel. In his old age this ANDRE DE NORMANDIE, born at Geneva in 1651, came to America in 1706, with his two sons, JOHN ABRAM and JOHN ANTHONY, and settled at Bristol, where he died in 1724. Of his sons, JOHN ABRAM, in 1688, and JOHN ANTHONY, in 1693, married HENRIETTA ELIZABETH, and MARY, daughters of DOCTOR FRANCIS GANDONET. The former died at Bristol in 1757, and the latter in 1748. The remains of father and sons repose in SAINT JAMES' church-yard. The children of the two sons married into the familes of BARD, of Burlington, and ANDERSON, whose whereabouts is not known. Some of the DE NORMANDIES sided with England in the Revolutionary struggle and got into trouble, while with others WASHINGTON was on terms of warm friendship. The families were valuable citizens in the church and ont of it. Some of them were physicians and men of science and culture, and they owned considerable real estate in the county. DOCTOR JAMES DE NORMANDIE, a physician with large practice in PENN's manor, was the last of the family to leave the county, and settled in Ohio about thirty-five years ago. His son JAMES is now a clergyman of the Episcopal church at Portsmouth, New Hampshire. The father married a sister of SAMUEL YARDLEY, formerly of Doylestown. Late in life DOCTOR JOHN ABRAM went to Geneva to claim property left him and his cousin, by an old nobleman. He there met VOLTAIRE, who was so pleased with his society that he made some preparation to return with him and lay his bones here. The doctor brought home a miniature given him by VOLTAIRE, which is yet owned by the descendants of the family. ARTHUR SANDS of Trenton, is a descendant of the DE NORMANDIES. ======================================================== Jacqueline Sleeper Russell website: http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=SRCH&db=jacquelinesr ------------------------------ To contact the PABUCKS list administrator, send an email to [email protected] To post a message to the PABUCKS mailing list, send an email to [email protected] __________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word "unsubscribe" without the quotes in the subject and the body of the email with no additional text. End of PABUCKS Digest, Vol 2, Issue 12 **************************************

On Jan 15, 2007, at 10:08 AM, Jim Walter wrote: > Hi Folks : > I have scanned a few old deeds , wills and photos of my family (King) > and a > mystery civil war soldier from Durham . > These scans even zipped are too big to conveniently e-mail to > everyone who > wants copies . > What's a good way to deal with this ? Jim, If you have a Yahoo! account (they're free), one of the features they offer is a "briefcase" to which you can upload up to 30M of files with a max of 5M for each file. You can keep files private or share them with others at your discretion. It's a nice feature. Hope this helps. Cheers Philip (Not a Yahoo shill, just a satisfied customer)