This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --part0_917711894_boundary Content-ID: <[email protected]_out.mail.aol.com.1> Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII In a message dated 1/20/99 10:03:44 PM Eastern Standard Time, [email protected] house.com writes: << Hi Terri, How interesting to get your email. I am starting a small bed & breakfast in a town house in the South End of Boston--not South Boston but the South End (often confused). The reason for the name is that William H. Whitaker was the first owner in 1868. We liked the name and though that it "fit". Unfortunately, we do not know much about William Whitaker; I just traced the deeds back. I've been thinking how it would be interesting to know what he did, etc. His estate went to Jane Whitaker (daughter? in law?) and Alice Rodgers, which leads one to believe he had two daughters, Jane and Alice--or now that I think of it, Jane was probably his wife. Then in 1927, Catherine Rodgers sold the property to Morris Rosenthal--probably not from the Mayflower! :) That's about all I know. Let me know if any of this coincides with your family tree. Where are you? Hope this helps Best Regards, John Collette ----------------------- Headers -------------------------------- Return-Path: <[email protected]> Hello, Does anyone recognize these Whitaker names? If so, would you please let me know. the owner of the Inn is very interested. I have a couple William Whitaker's in my data but not the right one..... Thanks, Terri Whitaker-Pilon --part0_917711894_boundary Content-ID: <[email protected]_out.mail.whitaker-house.com.2> Content-type: message/rfc822 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Content-disposition: inline Return-Path: <[email protected]> Received: from rly-zd04.mx.aol.com (rly-zd04.mail.aol.com [172.31.33.228]) by air-zd02.mail.aol.com (v56.22) with SMTP; Wed, 20 Jan 1999 22:03:44 -0500 Received: from mail-out-0.tiac.net (mail-out-0.tiac.net [199.0.65.247]) by rly-zd04.mx.aol.com (8.8.8/8.8.5/AOL-4.0.0) with ESMTP id WAA11390 for <[email protected]>; Wed, 20 Jan 1999 22:03:39 -0500 (EST) Received: from mail-out-2.tiac.net (mail-out-2.tiac.net [199.0.65.13]) by mail-out-0.tiac.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA12074 for <[email protected]>; Wed, 20 Jan 1999 22:03:40 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from [email protected]) Received: from default (p45.tc3.state.MA.tiac.com [206.119.30.46]) by mail-out-2.tiac.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id RAA28890 for <[email protected]>; Wed, 20 Jan 1999 17:05:42 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from [email protected]) Message-ID: <[email protected]> Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 22:06:01 -0500 From: John Collette <[email protected]> Reply-To: [email protected] Organization: Whitaker House Bed and Breakfast X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (Win95; I) To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Hello References: <[email protected]> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit [email protected] wrote: > > Hi, > I was wondering Why this is the "Whitaker" house..... > My name is Terri Whitaker and I have done extensive family > research.....ok...that is putting it mildy....I am a genealogy fiend. > I have been to the Boston area and did not know you exsisted. > My entire Whitaker line is from Massachusetts, having come over on the > Mayflower and other early ships...right down to my grandfather who was from > Hadley. > Can I have a history lesson ? :) > Thanks, > Terri Whitaker Pilon Hi Terri, How interesting to get your email. I am starting a small bed & breakfast in a town house in the South End of Boston--not South Boston but the South End (often confused). The reason for the name is that William H. Whitaker was the first owner in 1868. We liked the name and though that it "fit". Unfortunately, we do not know much about William Whitaker; I just traced the deeds back. I've been thinking how it would be interesting to know what he did, etc. His estate went to Jane Whitaker (daughter? in law?) and Alice Rodgers, which leads one to believe he had two daughters, Jane and Alice--or now that I think of it, Jane was probably his wife. Then in 1927, Catherine Rodgers sold the property to Morris Rosenthal--probably not from the Mayflower! :) That's about all I know. Let me know if any of this coincides with your family tree. Where are you? Hope this helps Best Regards, John Collette --part0_917711894_boundary--