This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/hAC.2ACE/1204 Message Board Post: In todays GloQuibs they noted that in 1972 Richard B. Sears, born in 1888, had a birthday party given by three of his daughters and one daughter in law. Mrs. Wilson, South, Roy, and Sears. Does anyone know anything about Richard's family.

Would the lady in California who contacted me in early January regarding the Miller Bible Records, please email me. I have had computer trouble and no longer have your email address. Thanks, Jane Goodsell

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/hAC.2ACE/1203.2 Message Board Post: alibris.com has one also for a little bit more. http://www.alibris.com/search/search.cfm?qtit=The%20Peopling%20of%20Virginia&qauth=Bean%2CRobert Rick

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/hAC.2ACE/1203.1 Message Board Post: You can go here to get a copy, but it's a pretty high price for it. http://s1.amazon.com/exec/varzea/ts/exchange-glance/Y04Y3345988Y4915133/qid=1013641798/sr=1-1/103-4920091-3423066 Or just go to Amazon.com and type in a search for "The Peopling of Virginia". Rick

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/hAC.2ACE/1200.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Got my answer from Frank Green in York County. Egg Island was near the mouth of the York off Poquoson...almost directly across the river from Guinea. Thanks, Frank.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/hAC.2ACE/1203 Message Board Post: Does anyone know where I can buy, borrow or steal a copy of R. Bennett Bean's "Peopling of Virginia" published by Chapman & Grimes in Boston in 1938 ? I understand that the book includes a section dealing with the countries of origin of Gloucester County's earliest European settlers.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: TILLAGE Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/hAC.2ACE/279.297.296.1075.1 Message Board Post: I'M SORRY THAT THE WRONG FAMILY LINE

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/hAC.2ACE/1150.3 Message Board Post: Looking for any information on Joseph Noel Wenner b. May 21, 1921 in Ct d. apr. 21, 1947 in Texas City, TX - parents, orther relatives, etc.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/hAC.2ACE/1200.1.1 Message Board Post: Thanks for the response. I believe this is Gloucester, Virginia because the add was run in the Williamsburg paper, and because the person who ran the add later was a Revoultionary soldier from Gloucester, Virginia, but you raise an interesting issue. I'll check it out. Cy

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hAC.2ACE/1201.1 Message Board Post: Vincent Hudson and Mildred Shackledford are my G-G-G-G grandparents. There daughter Maria J. Hudson was married to Meade Walker. One of their children was Enoch Washington Walker of whom I am descended. I have a copy of a 14 page document that a distant cousin sent to me on one of the ancestry boards. I am willing to share this since someone was kind enough to share it with me. Mildred's father was named Zachary in this document and it mentions her mother's name as Priscilla. It lists LOTS of family details. Would love to help. Stephen

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hAC.2ACE/1202.1 Message Board Post: Vincent Hudson and Mildred Shackledford are my G-G-G-G grandparents. There daughter Maria J. Hudson was married to Meade Walker. One of their children was Enoch Washington Walker of whom I am descended. I have a copy of a 14 page document that a distant cousin sent to me on one of the ancestry boards. I am willing to share this since someone was kind enough to share it with me. Mildred's father was named Zachary in this document and it mentions her mother's name as Priscilla. It lists LOTS of family details. Would love to help. Stephen

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hAC.2ACE/1200.1 Message Board Post: Cy, There is an Egg Island in the Delaware Bay on the New Jersey side. Gloucester Co. is located just north of E.I. I believe there is or was a York Town further up the Delaware. Or they could be talking about York,Pa. There were prison camps there during the Rev. times

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: SHACKELFORD/HALL/HUDSON/WALKER Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hAC.2ACE/1202 Message Board Post: I have 3 sisters named SHACKELFORD born in VA ca. 1771 =/- 10 years: Ann married Thomas HALL, Mildred married Vincent HUDSON, Elizabeth/Betsy married _____ WALKER. I believe that their father may have been a Zachariah SHACKELFORD born ca. 1748 in VA. Does anyone recognize these folks?

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: WALKER, SHACKELFORD, HUDSON Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hAC.2ACE/1201 Message Board Post: The 1850 Census lists a family headed by Peter WALKER, age 42, an oysterman. His wife appears to be Louisa, age 30, and there is a child Mary E., age 1. Next door is a "family" headed by an Elizabeth WALKER, age 60 or 50, with a Nancy SHACKELFORD, age 15, and a Mildred HUDSON, age 80. Is there anyone out there that recognizes this Peter WALKER and/or knows anything of these families?

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/hAC.2ACE/249.726 Message Board Post: Hello, John Pepper Boswell is my GREAT-GREAT GRANDFATHER. I have entered my info on the Ancestry.com site...... I hope this helps you......

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Lemon Lemmon Lemons Lemmons Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/hAC.2ACE/627.679.2.1.1 Message Board Post: I echo your comments re: the Lemon family, and I have even more information to honor this family: Few people know that Mr. William Lemon, a free man of color in Gloucester, served as the second Pastor of the original predominantly white Petsworth Baptist Church, from about 1793 until 1801. The author Semple writes about him in his "History of Baptists in Virginia." I said "predominantly white" because the circumstantial evidence is that the first Petsworth congregation was made up of both whites and free blacks.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/hAC.2ACE/1200 Message Board Post: According to a notice in the Virginia Gazette on January 28, 1773 "Run away from Captain McKillups's Brig, lately stranded on Egg Island, about 50 IRISH CONVICTS, many of which are said to have landed in Gloucester County...Whoever apprehends..Servants and bring them to me in York Town..20 shillings reward for each....." /S/ Thomas Lilly Where is(was) Egg Island?

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hAC.2ACE/627.679.2.1 Message Board Post: Rick wrote: In what way(s) has the Lemon(s) families made significant contributions to the county. This is a fair question to the grand statement I offered previously. Infact, I do not have direct facts to support the favorable comment. However, I was inclined to make it after a study of the public Gloucester Censuses beginning in 1810 and because I have a very high view of those that serve God and support their families faithfully over many years. From these census records, I have noticed that family surnames come and go, but those surnames that continue stand out. As a white man, I wished to express my appreciation of a family name of people of color that was sustained in large numbers over such a long period of time. I guess I should have stated that they were a distingished family, and let other write of their significant contributions. My study of the early census showed a growing number of free-colored families, and for 1850 and 1860, the given names of the entire family were listed. I assume that if they were sustained, they contributed. I would like to know how these free coloreds lived while the other coloreds were slaves. Sorry, if I mislead anyone by my grand comment. Roane Hunt

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Lemon Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hAC.2ACE/627.679.2 Message Board Post: You wrote: "I think the Lemon Family of Gloucester should be recognized for their significant and continued contribution to the county." In what way(s) has the Lemon(s) families made significant contributions to the county. Thanks, Rick

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hAC.2ACE/627.679.1 Message Board Post: Roane, Thank you VERY much for your informative reply. Researching Gloucester County genealogy can be confusing at times because of the similarity in names. James Frank Lemon (1850-1936) who is buried in the graveyard at Morning Glory Baptist Church Woods Crossroads is definitely my great-grandfather. But somewhere, I also saw a birthdate of 1844 for him. I know very little about him or his family's contributions to Gloucester County. Would you please tell me more about them and the Reed family -- I've been trying to research both for years. It was always said that Frances (Fannie) Reed was an Indian, who died during childbirth, when my grandfather Frank was born. I don't know where she is buried or anything else about her. On the 1850 Census for the county, a John (age 35) and Sally Lemon (age 40) are living next to the three households of: Robert and Hester A Lemon; Sally, Benjamin and Elizabeth Blueford; and Elizabeth and Thomas Blueford. According to the 1850 Census, living in John and Sally's household, are: Laura Lemon (age 6), Jane Lemon (age 5), Lucy Lemon (age3) and Frank Lemon (age 3/12). In the 1870 Census for Gloucester County (Ware Township, Lancaster Court House), there is a: John Lemmon (age 50), Sarah A. (age 54), Frank (age 20), Isaih (age 17), and John (age 13). Based on the names and ages, this seems to be my great-grandfather Frank Lemon and his parents' family. So, it would seem that the person named James Franklin Lemon who was born in 1874 was not my grandfather, but perhaps another child of Frank and Frances (Fannie) Lemon's. Just to add a little more confusion, another family story stated that my great-grandfather's original surname was something like Kellingham, Keiningham, Kunningham, etc. And that the Lemons - who were either friends or relatives - raised him, and he took on their name. A local historian also told me that the Keininghams were an old Gloucester County family who had a tavern for many years during and after the Revolutionary War. In the center of Gloucester Courhouse, there is a monument to Major Baytop's local militia. Listed there is a Private Wm. Keiningham. I noticed that one of the other names you have researched is Keinningham. Can you tell me anything about them? That surname is on a 1767 list of land owners in the county, and is listed on some of the census records for the county. Thank you again for getting in touch. As I said, I've been trying to trace this branch of my family history for years, without much success. Anything you can tell me would be of great help. Please feel free to e-mail me directly at home. Sam Lemon (SamLemon@home.com)