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ellyssianWell, Tom Riddle is, anyway.
Or, at least, I expect there's at least one Thomas in the pages o' Riddles.
I've looked in exactly four folders out of many that my dad had collected, and I've really only made a half-way thorough pass through one of them. There are now 250 relations in my family tree. Justin read them off, helped me sift through, and document everything, starting with the Warren folder.
We have lots of letters to read in-depth - I know some of them contain information that is pertinent, along with a dose of interesting happenings. Scanning some of that material, we discovered that the Genesee Mill in Michigan (likely Hillsdale, but I don't recall) was built by thrice-Great Grandfather, John Morris Warren I. I have two grandmothers (so far) named Rachel - to be fair, one is Rachael. They are twice and thrice great, if memory is to be trusted. Then again, my memory makes swiss cheese look secular, it's so holey.
There's a whole flock of Ebenezers back there in the Wight --> White line, about six or so, although the two more recent (1700-1800's) ones spell their last name Inglesbe instead of Ingoldsby. Which goes back to one of the two oldest relatives I found in a quick scan of some of my dad's materials - the date 1556 is mentioned for Sir Richard Ingoldsby, and that line stops there. His contemporary - generation-wise - is without a date, just the name George Allen. I'm thinking that Sir Richard just might be the kingly ancestor that is somewhere down the White line. A tyrant king, but a weren't they all back then?
Down the Irish line of McFadden - which I've barely begun to document - are the Riddles and also the Ghosts. There I discovered a few mentions of circa-1600s folk coming from Germany - with a name like Johann, Germany is the first place that comes to mind! Quite a few, really, but on the quick look I gave the material, I couldn't see if all that Germany was down one expanding line or scattered a bit throughout. A little before that in the 1700s there's mentions of Ireland and York and a handful of other places I couldn't focus on that late at night. It's not so much the matter of the ocean in between, it's the distance back in time that really makes it blurry...
I did get all the way back to Obidiah, sort of. The only thing I've found so far naming his wife as Mercy Blood is my dad saying that. To make it more nebulous, the only reference I've found for Obidiah at all is a mention that a great aunt's cousin stated that Peter Obid Warren's father was Obidiah. So it may not even be so.
I plan to add Obed Warren and his wife Mercy Blood as unrelated parties - probably still leaving Obediah and Mercy as placeholders and different people, until I find out differently. One of the things that started this whole thing was that a casual search uncovered some descendants of Obed and Mercy - and their parental data matched that of the Obed and Mercy match the information I found, via the Blood family, back in the mid-nineties in the AOL daze.
And yes, Mercy Blood is directly related to the real-life piratey-type portrayed in film by one Errol Flynn.
There are some other possible-relations in the Warren family - including a Warren who led the patriot efforts at Bunker Hill, as well as a Dr. Warren who was featured on Liberty Kids. To get those connected, I have to find a Joseph Warren in my ancestry, and he's not there. Yet. There is also the matter of Richard Warren, who sailed on the Mayflower, and is portrayed by an actor at a certain plantation in Plymouth...
Not there yet, but I'm working on it.
Or, at least, I expect there's at least one Thomas in the pages o' Riddles.
I've looked in exactly four folders out of many that my dad had collected, and I've really only made a half-way thorough pass through one of them. There are now 250 relations in my family tree. Justin read them off, helped me sift through, and document everything, starting with the Warren folder.
We have lots of letters to read in-depth - I know some of them contain information that is pertinent, along with a dose of interesting happenings. Scanning some of that material, we discovered that the Genesee Mill in Michigan (likely Hillsdale, but I don't recall) was built by thrice-Great Grandfather, John Morris Warren I. I have two grandmothers (so far) named Rachel - to be fair, one is Rachael. They are twice and thrice great, if memory is to be trusted. Then again, my memory makes swiss cheese look secular, it's so holey.
There's a whole flock of Ebenezers back there in the Wight --> White line, about six or so, although the two more recent (1700-1800's) ones spell their last name Inglesbe instead of Ingoldsby. Which goes back to one of the two oldest relatives I found in a quick scan of some of my dad's materials - the date 1556 is mentioned for Sir Richard Ingoldsby, and that line stops there. His contemporary - generation-wise - is without a date, just the name George Allen. I'm thinking that Sir Richard just might be the kingly ancestor that is somewhere down the White line. A tyrant king, but a weren't they all back then?
Down the Irish line of McFadden - which I've barely begun to document - are the Riddles and also the Ghosts. There I discovered a few mentions of circa-1600s folk coming from Germany - with a name like Johann, Germany is the first place that comes to mind! Quite a few, really, but on the quick look I gave the material, I couldn't see if all that Germany was down one expanding line or scattered a bit throughout. A little before that in the 1700s there's mentions of Ireland and York and a handful of other places I couldn't focus on that late at night. It's not so much the matter of the ocean in between, it's the distance back in time that really makes it blurry...
I did get all the way back to Obidiah, sort of. The only thing I've found so far naming his wife as Mercy Blood is my dad saying that. To make it more nebulous, the only reference I've found for Obidiah at all is a mention that a great aunt's cousin stated that Peter Obid Warren's father was Obidiah. So it may not even be so.
I plan to add Obed Warren and his wife Mercy Blood as unrelated parties - probably still leaving Obediah and Mercy as placeholders and different people, until I find out differently. One of the things that started this whole thing was that a casual search uncovered some descendants of Obed and Mercy - and their parental data matched that of the Obed and Mercy match the information I found, via the Blood family, back in the mid-nineties in the AOL daze.
And yes, Mercy Blood is directly related to the real-life piratey-type portrayed in film by one Errol Flynn.
There are some other possible-relations in the Warren family - including a Warren who led the patriot efforts at Bunker Hill, as well as a Dr. Warren who was featured on Liberty Kids. To get those connected, I have to find a Joseph Warren in my ancestry, and he's not there. Yet. There is also the matter of Richard Warren, who sailed on the Mayflower, and is portrayed by an actor at a certain plantation in Plymouth...
Not there yet, but I'm working on it.
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Date: 2006-08-08 04:02 pm (UTC)I will call it The Wall of Pretension.
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Date: 2006-08-08 04:37 pm (UTC)That'll teach 'em.
Okay, so it won't, but it would be fun to think about.
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Besides being out of luck on the whole Daughters thing (considering I'm not one,) as far as I can tell until my grandparents retired to NC and my grandfather's brother's family relocated from NY to GA and FL, none of my ancestors headed down south in any way, shape, or form. MA, NY, PA, OH, IN, IL, and, MI - those are what I've seen so far.
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Date: 2006-08-08 05:40 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-08-08 06:06 pm (UTC)