Chat
|
Daily Search
|
My GenForum
|
Community Standards
|
Terms of Service
|
|
|
My Greathouse family genealogy is limited to those people in whom I had an interest. I was not interested in Molly Grothausen.
William Jr. (Wilhelm) was born near Philadelphia and baptized in St. Michael's Church ( I was there in 2004 and it's in Germantown, Philadelphia and still not only standing but being used-unfortunately those very old headstones aren't marked) in 1749 (so your date of 1748 would be correct). He married Mary Owen, also of the Philadelphia area, and had moved to Harrison Co., (then Va.) by 1787, where he was elected constable for Clarksburg. By 1799 he and Mary moved to either Pa. or Ky. William Jr. died about 1809.
Wm. and Mary Own had a son JOhn (Sr.) who was born in 1778.
I LOVE the trivia about some of these people that I learned through my research:
Rosa Tanner Goff (Marshall's 2nd wife) lied about her age when she married her 1st. husband, John Goff. She said she was 17 but was actually younger.
The date on Marshall and Colombia's (Ratliff) marriage licence shows them being married AFTER their 1st. child, Charles, was born. (This might be a mistake since I only had 1 source-but it was a wonderful and colorful thought-my grandparents from my father's line had 2 kids before they married)
I looks like Marshall's father (James Washington) was married 3 times.
Sarah McDade gave land for a cemetery to Spencer provided no blacks would ever be buried there. (Roane County was the only W.Va. county to support the South during the civil war)
William Sr. sold his land in Washington Co., Pa. before moving to Harrison Co., W.Va.
The name Amelia Ann comes from: Amelia was John (son of Herman- Wilhelm Jr.'s grandfather),; and Ann was Herman's wife although enough time had gone by that maybe Amelia Ann wasn't named after these people.
Our genealogies look very different (in the work we did and families we followed) and I will help you when I can, but didn't follow everyone. Only my own line and that not completely.
Notify Administrator about this message?
Followups:
|
| http://genforum.genealogy.com/greathouse/messages/676.html | ||
 |
Link to GenForum Add Forum |
|