Dear Listers, As I have been working in South America for years I only have online access for my Stoyell family genealogy research which I've done with some measure of success BUT... I'd greatly appreciate help in answering our family's most important question regarding our direct ancestor's arrival in the Colonies when crossing the big pond approx. 1738-1742, through any Great Migration Records on English Port Records, Ship Records or Virginia Colony Arrival or Plantation Records. THE LEGEND According to a 1928 privately published book "The Stoyell Family", Stephen Stoyell (abt. 1718-1787) arrived from Liverpool, England as a young man c. 1740 on the shores of the James River, Colony of Virginia, stayed 5-6 years there and then driven by a need to find his only relative searched and found his uncle in Voluntown CT in 1746 when the uncle offered to make him his heir if he changed his surname to Stoy, which he did, and then changed it back to Stoyell upon his uncle's death. MY RESEARCH Stephen did arrive in Voluntown CT in 1746 according to his "Uncle" John's will but no Stoy had lived in Voluntown CT 30 years before or after Stephen's arrival there. According to my research, "Uncle" John (abt. 1681-1760) was using the Stoyell surname at least since 1708 when he was declared the best school headmaster in the Colony of Connecticut when he worked as such in Pomfret, Plainfield and Woodstock CT. He later became one of the principal landowners in Voluntown CT and their town lawyer before the Crown, always as John Stoyell, until his death in Voluntown. Nevertheless, in several historical records he also appears as John Stowell as in owning Egunk Hill between Pomfret and Voluntown, also known as Stowell Hill, and according to his wife's (Dorothy Larrabee) cousin's famous "The Joshua Hempstead Diaries" where she was called his kinswoman, Dorothy Stowell. All of Stephen's 12 children were born in Voluntown CT between 1753-1772 with the Stoyell surname (the last child born 12 years after "Uncle" John Stowell-Stoyell's death). Many of Stephen's children, at some time or other, in historical records had their surname mixed up with the Stowell surname but always used the Stoyell surname on official records. MY CONCLUSIONS Stephen's change to the Stoy surname was pure legend and what I think really happened was his "uncle" had chosen the Stoyell surname to distinguish himself from the more common surname of the Stowells from Massachusetts whose descendants were also living in Pomfret CT at that time. "Uncle" John's request was probably to change Stephen's surname from Stowell to Stoyell (changing the consonant as in changing it to "Stoy" instead of "Stow"). I believe his uncle was really an older blood relative whose grandfather arrived in the Colony of Virginia c. 1646, also recorded as John Stoyell and/or Stowell on a Potomac River plantation deed in 1657 and on the Isle of Kent, Virginia Colony in 1658-61. This last conclusion is a conjecture, as no one knows where Uncle John Stowell-Stoyell came from and where he received his outstanding education as a school headmaster and town lawyer but since there was an estate sale for the abruptly deceased John Stoyell-Stowell of the Isle of Kent in 1661 and the fact he was married to a Jane Fox with children, I have made a hypothesis that our famous Uncle John from Voluntown CT was the grandson of the John Stoyell-Stowell of the Isle of Kent whose education and income was a product of the sale of 3500 acres of plantation on the Potomac River and 300 acres of a "headright" tobacco plantation off the Stowell Branch on the Isle of Kent (now Kent Island, MD). MY SPECIFIC URGENT REQUEST We are having a Mega Stoyell Family Reunion on August 3rd this year with about 500 Stoyell descendants who have been invited and I'd love to give them a gift of definitively finding out if their last name was originally Stowell, as I have concluded, and ideally who Stephen Stowell-Stoyell's parents were. I've been avidly reading and participating on this list for years and know there are excellent researchers out there who might be able to help me as I can't access any inter-library books or documents from South America. Perhaps, our English genealogy expert, Nivard, might help me out regarding the Liverpool Port documents? According to my "legend", Stephen Stowell travelled from Somersetshire, England (home of the Stawells-Stowells of England) to board a ship out of the Port of Liverpool to seek his fortune in the New World perhaps by his own means or as an indentured servant for 4-7 years on the Virginia Tobacco Plantations? I'd be very grateful for any and all help from my fellow listers. Best personal regards, Rick Richard A. Stoyell, son of Loyal A. Stoyell II ________________________________ From: roots-bounces@rootsweb.com on behalf of roots-request@rootsweb.com Sent: Sun 6/24/2012 3:00 AM To: roots@rootsweb.com Subject: ROOTS Digest, Vol 7, Issue 193 If you respond to this digest, please replace the subject line of your response (so it doesn't read "Re: ROOTS-L Digest") and please don't quote the digest ... a few lines from the message to which you are responding or (better still) a brief summary of that message will do. Thanks! Today's Topics: 1. ROOTS Digest, Vol 7, Issue 192 Birth and death Certificates. (theclown16) 2. Susannah Spitler or Spitten 1792 (noranell1) 3. French Quebec marriage vow (WM LYMAN) 4. Re: French Quebec marriage vow (Nivard Ovington) 5. Yearbook Initials (Gail Mcmullin) 6. Re: Yearbook Initials (Gale Gorman) 7. Re: Yearbook Initials (news) 8. Woodworth family Dublin and Bristol England (dianna charles) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2012 08:29:41 -0400 (EDT) From: theclown16 <theclown16@optonline.net> Subject: [ROOTS-L] ROOTS Digest, Vol 7, Issue 192 Birth and death Certificates. To: roots@rootsweb.com Cc: roots@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <892df8e.28e4.1381951b5ea.Webtop.13@optonline.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed; delsp=no I would look for the family in the 1850 census. That will give you lots of information on the family make-up. Names and ages as well as birth locations for further research. A really good starting point. Usually the approx. birth dates are off by one year since the question usually asked on the day of the census includes age at last birthday. If someone had a birthday one day before the census they would be one age and another if the birthday was the day after the census was taken. sometimes people don't realize this and complain that the ages are wrong. theclown16 ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2012 07:00:42 -0700 From: "noranell1" <noranell1@gmail.com> Subject: [ROOTS-L] Susannah Spitler or Spitten 1792 To: <ROOTS@rootsweb.com> Message-ID: <004801cd5148$94f6f480$bee4dd80$@com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Looking for siblings and family of Susannah Spitler who was supposedly born 1792 in Huntingdon Co., PA to William Spitler and Mary Weltmer. She married Thomas Jackson Spiller in Jefferson Co., Ohio 23 Oct 1810. Lived in Jefferson Co until about 1830 when she moved to Meigs Co, Ohio with her husband and younger children. We believe she died there in Meigs County but don't know exactly when. ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2012 16:52:55 -0700 (PDT) From: WM LYMAN <bilnflo@yahoo.com> Subject: [ROOTS-L] French Quebec marriage vow To: "roots@rootsweb.com" <roots@rootsweb.com> Message-ID: <1340409175.33093.YahooMailNeo@web122505.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Can anyone translate the atch French Canadian document? ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2012 16:23:28 +0100 From: Nivard Ovington <ovington1@sky.com> Subject: Re: [ROOTS-L] French Quebec marriage vow To: roots@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <4FE5DF70.5040605@sky.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Hi ?? If you mean the attached ? Rootsweb lists do not support attachments You will have to put it up online somewhere and send a link or send to people individually Rootsweb boards do accept attachments Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK) On 23/06/2012 00:52, WM LYMAN wrote: > Can anyone translate the atch French Canadian document? ------------------------------ Message: 5 Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2012 12:58:02 -0500 From: Gail Mcmullin <gdjslmsa@grandecom.net> Subject: [ROOTS-L] Yearbook Initials To: roots@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <20120623125802.56472mne9cxmrctm@webmail.mygrande.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; DelSp="Yes"; format="flowed" Need help with initials from a year book G F L. Any help will be greatly appriciated ------------------------------ Message: 6 Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2012 13:29:07 -0500 From: Gale Gorman <gale_gorman@me.com> Subject: Re: [ROOTS-L] Yearbook Initials To: Gail Mcmullin <gdjslmsa@grandecom.net> Cc: roots@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <F575B480-66F2-4E2F-AAA9-B3BDE825D43E@me.com> Content-Type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII On Jun 23, 2012, at 12:58 PM, Gail Mcmullin wrote: Need help with initials from a year book G F L. Any help will be greatly appriciated -----------snip---------- That's not much to go on. Could just be someone's initials. You don't mention any particular year. Are you thinking along the lines of BFF? Gale Gorman Houston ------------------------------ Message: 7 Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2012 21:21:11 -0500 From: "news" <news@gendisasters.com> Subject: Re: [ROOTS-L] Yearbook Initials To: "Gail Mcmullin" <gdjslmsa@grandecom.net>, <roots@rootsweb.com> Message-ID: <7EEE5A6E97A547BA8290FCBF12AD99C3@ownercd461a0b5> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original What year and where is the yearbook from? Where were the initials in the yearbook? If they under the students name and above a list of accomplishments (baseball, senior play, etc). The initials could indicated a course of study. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gail Mcmullin" <gdjslmsa@grandecom.net> To: <roots@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, June 23, 2012 12:58 PM Subject: [ROOTS-L] Yearbook Initials > Need help with initials from a year book G F L. Any help will be > greatly appriciated > > ===== > If you would prefer digest mode to mail mode, drop a note to > roots-admin@rootsweb.com and ask for the digest... > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ROOTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------ Message: 8 Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2012 13:49:17 +1000 From: "dianna charles" <diamonddi57@optusnet.com.au> Subject: [ROOTS-L] Woodworth family Dublin and Bristol England To: <roots@rootsweb.com> Message-ID: <10CC298DF26443BB8D572ABC2B672300@charlestw> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Hi Everyone I'm trying to find any information on Robert WOODWORTH b c 1781 in Dublin he may have been married to my GGreat Aunt Rosetta BYRNE. Nothing has been found on their marriage as yet, they were living in Dublin City in 1827. My Rosetta would have been born approximately the same time as her husband. She was born I think in Kildare or Co. Bracknagh in Co. Offaly. Their is a Robert WOODWORTH living in England on the 1841/1851 Census. 1851 he is at 19 College St Bristol Gloucestershire (A Widower) Head aged 67 engineer b Dublin with daughter Rachel Woodworth aged 40 Unmarried and Granddaugther Selina (she was born in Bristol) Children of Robert Woodworth are Rachel b 1816, Joshua b 1815, George 1818 Robert, b 1819 and Winfred/Wynfred b ? all born Dublin Wynnsfred (sic) Woodworth was married to Anne ROLAND in 1830 Diocese of Cork and Ross Co. Cork Ireland. (From Irish Records Extraction Database) Selina is the daughter of Winfred Woodworth and Ann Roland, she was born in 1832 Gloucestershire, Selina married Robert Holloway in 1851, she died Bristol 1912 aged 81. Would love to find more information and too see if there is anyone else researching the Dublin/Bristol Woodworths Kindest regards Dianna ------------------------------ To contact the ROOTS list administrator, send an email to ROOTS-admin@rootsweb.com. To post a message to the ROOTS mailing list, send an email to ROOTS@rootsweb.com. __________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ROOTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word "unsubscribe" without the quotes in the subject and the body of the email with no additional text. End of ROOTS Digest, Vol 7, Issue 193 *************************************