Re: IRISH LANTRON/LANTRUM with O' prefix.
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Re: IRISH LANTRON/LANTRUM with O' prefix.
Kathy Stewart 1/01/02
Hi Kathy,
Yes I'd like the scan.My e-mail is [email protected].
I'm not sure where this Lantron line is but could be Alabama.My search started with my paternal grandmother who was Blanche Annie Gathings.She grew up in New Orleans but was born in Alabama, I believe Baldwin County which is near Mobile.Her mother was Louise or Louisa G. Lantron who married Thomas S. Gathings (according to same Bible info).After years of looking I have many Gathings but no Thomas S.Very elusive!!Anyway my great Grandma Gathings (Louisa) lived into her 90s and my parents have photos of her when she visited my grandmother Blanche in Miami in the early '50s.Louisa is buried in Bogalusa LA.Once when I asked my grandmother about what she remembered about her father (or her genealogy in general) she gruffly said to let the past be in the past--about the only time I EVER remember her being abrupt with me.She was very sweet.She had a hard early life I know because her father died in 1902 leaving Louise with three small girls to raise, Blanche was 7 at the time and went to work in a factory--the other two were temporarily placed in an orphanage and later got back out when Louise could manage it.She had a boarding house in the Irish quarter of New Orleans.That would have been about 1905 and after.Anyway if Henry was Louisa's brother and was mulatto, then she would have been mulatto too unless that had one different parent, and maybe Thomas S. Gathings was mixed or something and that's why he's so hard to track down.It's just curious, eh?By the way, where do you live?I now live in Montana.My parents are in Florida, otherwise I'd send you a scan of Grandma Gathings.Maybe next time I go there I could get the photo and scan it.
Helen
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Re: IRISH LANTRON/LANTRUM with O' prefix.
Mary Self 1/24/02
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Re: IRISH LANTRON/LANTRUM with O' prefix.
Kathy Stewart 1/02/02
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Re: IRISH LANTRON/LANTRUM with O' prefix.
Kathy Stewart 1/02/02