David McKnight
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I was working on a very old couple in my ancestry, James Tute and Keziah Carey, and I have notes on Keziah's parents (uncertain). That family was really in the most distress during a normal time (i.e. not Witch Trials) I have ever seen in my 25+ years of doing this. Evidently they were paupers who hung around and lived off of charity and had a family while doing so- a real mess. Further research needs to be done if possible, but it makes sense for uncertain parents.
So I see that we are connected through John Clark and Elizabeth Cooke and possibly other ways and it's really interesting the name "Sumner" is used because I have a lot of Sumner ancestry.
My 3rd great grandfather, Oscar Tourson, lived in Northfield, MN at the same time your ancestors lived there- Edwin Drake I believe. It's pretty bizarre that I stumbled upon that... I don't see many people have ancestors from Rice and Dakota counties, much less Northfield. Evidently they were also there when Jesse James and his gang robbed the bank in 1877! He lived there for many years after until he moved to Farmington, MN very late in life and I have two newspaper letters to the editor from him from 1904, both say Northfield, MN.
If I run across anything that could help you, I'll pass it on.
Darrell
edited by Darrell Larocque
You recently changed the parents for Cornelius Ryan Jr (Ryan-9650). The parents that were originally attached to them were the correct parents. I have my sources listed on their respective pages. If you think the parents are duplicates, please look over the profiles and suggest merges.
Thank you,
Emily
Thank you for adding me to Susanna Skelton's trusted list. Sharon
Your 'thank you' inspired me, so I added some content to William Palmer.
We are not descendants - the Palmer family of Rehoboth and Stonington are my husband's ancestors, so I stumbled onto William in trying to sort out them out.
One always has something new to learn - in this case, about coopers. We have some coopers in our tree - I didn't know it was such a complex and skilled trade.
yr fellow WikiTree genealogist,
April Dauenhauer