This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: llynn56 Surnames: warren Classification: lookup Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.warren/4406.92.512/mb.ashx Message Board Post: I am tring to find my fathers side of the family when I came across your post I wanted to check more into it. My father always said this rocker that I have came from my ggrandmother,and that it came over on the Mayflower I have a picture of my grandmother when she was young sitting on it. My father didnt have much to do with his family after his mom an dad died.She died in 1931& he died in 1935.So his grandmother from his mom side raised him.My fathers given name is Randolph Burdett Warren But he went by Ralph Warren.His step sisters called him Bud.My ggrandfaters name was Adonis, and his fathers name was George.That is all I know tring to find out more.The rocker had the old time material on it.Its a nursing or childs.I am not sure of all the maiden names.My father didnt know alot either. Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.
Your best bet may be to look up the family in the 1930 census and work backwards. Search for them by their location and family make-up. Children with unusual names are sometimes easier to search for than parents with common first names. If you don't have access to the census, I could see if I could find them (I'd need all the names and approximate birth dates as well as where they lived). Bob Warren rewarren@aol.com -----Original Message----- From: gc-gateway@rootsweb.com <gc-gateway@rootsweb.com> To: WARREN-L@rootsweb.com Sent: Sat, 28 Mar 2009 11:02 am Subject: Re: [WARREN] Richard Warren/Mayflower-1620n This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: llynn56 Surnames: warren Classification: lookup Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.warren/4406.92.512/mb.ashx Message Board Post: I am tring to find my fathers side of the family when I came across your post I wanted to check more into it. My father always said this rocker that I have came from my ggrandmother,and that it came over on the Mayflower I have a picture of my grandmother when she was young sitting on it. My father didnt have much to do with his family after his mom an dad died.She died in 1931& he died in 1935.So his grandmother from his mom side raised him.My fathers given name is Randolph Burdett Warren But he went by Ralph Warren.His step sisters called him Bud.My ggrandfaters name was Adonis, and his fathers name was George.That is all I know tring to find out more.The rocker had the old time material on it.Its a nursing or childs.I am not sure of all the maiden names.My father didnt know alot either. Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to WARREN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message
The idea of searching by unusual first name is a great one. I had an ancestor of another surname, who married a woman with first name of Modena. It was a brick wall. Early research had her married to a different brother! I searched early census data -- 1800, 1810, 1820 -- found family of an Elizuer, whom I thought might be my GG Grandfather; but no way to tell if it was my guy - and family members were not named in early censuses. Finally, in 1830, while searching for all Modena women in the US, she turned up in the same location where Elizuer was found. So, he had died in the last 10 years, and she was head of the family -- by comparing distribution of children and ages, I could confirm they were the same family I was looking for. They had relocated from another part of the state, and were living near a son... who also had a rather unusual first name. Maggie On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 5:31 AM, <rewarren@aol.com> wrote: > Your best bet may be to look up the family in the 1930 census and work > backwards. > Search for them by their location and family make-up. Children with unusual > names are > sometimes easier to search for than parents with common first names. If you > don't have > access to the census, I could see if I could find them (I'd need all the > names and approximate > birth dates as well as where they lived). > > Bob Warren > rewarren@aol.com > >