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Hello, Mark! This has been an exciting 6 weeks in family history for me. The WHOLE of my mother's family was shrouded in mystery until James W. jumped off the 1900 census screaming "Here I am!" Since then...mercy, my Banyan tree is growing a new trunk every time I turn around.
I had the information about James moving to Higdon, but not the information that he ran a boarding house there. That's interesting. Makes me think maybe his son in law was the owner of the Commercial Hotel, since W.C. and Ada were with James on the 1910 census, along with son Grover. My cousin didn't indicate any of the nieces and nephews living there in 1910, so I will have to go looking for them. Unfortunately, that page seems to be missing on Ancestry, so I have been unable to view it. Maybe it was just uploaded in the wrong place.
I do know from the 1920 census and cemetery listings in Greene Co., that four of the five of Wiley's children moved back to Paragould,Greene Co. I don't have my notes, but I believe Mary might be there, too (the other two girls appear to have not married). In 1930 Gerard, 9, and Louise,13, Wood are living with Osmer, Donna and Ethel Hardy who are all listed as single.
Do you have any other information on James W.? I can't seem to find his parents in 1860. He claimed born in MS, but I have looked at every Hardy and variant of the spelling in both MS and AR and cannot find anyone that matches- so far. I've looked at MS twice, but have not gone back over AR, although I did look at anyone with a name even remotely resembling J.W. They may have been intransit to AR in 1860 and been missed on the census. What a miserable trip that would have been with a 5 year-old and very pregnant, since John was born in August of that year!
On to another subject, briefly: The possible Scottish connection. This baffled me a bit, I must confess. The River Tyne is about 19 miles long and is in an area of England called Northumbria. At one time the Tyne formed the southern border of Northumberland and the northern border of County Durham. Today the county of Tyne and Wear is between the two. There are still several towns and place names in Briatin that bear the name Tyne within them. If the Tynes took the name of the river as their surname, the only way they would be Scots was if they had migrated south of the Scottish border. This DID happen, if my memory serves. It seems to me there were some of the Scots nobles, mostly southern Scots not the Highlanders, that were loyal to the British Crown and were rewarded with titles and lands in the harsher northern counties (1200's onward). They were there to form a buffer between the two nations. And, of course, over time, the Scots migrated south and the English migrated north. I don't think that was as common in the mid 1600's though.
Where does all that lead, Susan? I spent 5 years in Britain when I was in the service and recall some stories about a group of people in the Newcastle upon Tyne area known as the Geordies. They are still there today, and the rank and file Briton has a very hard time understanding their speech. The Scots have an easier time of it. Interestingly, Southern Americans have the easiest time, especially those who have been around the Appalachian/Smoky Mountain/Blue Ridge Mountain people. The Geordies were the ones that brought the dialect to the Appalachians and Smoky Mountains that became associated with the mountain folks the "hillbilly" dialect. No disrespect intended at all,please, there's just not another term that people understand universally. I love the mountain people I have worked with.
Although I'm not from Appalchia, I'm southern enough that I had little trouble understanding the Geordies. Their language is the closest today of any living language to that the original Angles brought from Denmark. The people that settled in the Tyneside area became a nation of their own and spread northward into Scotland where they had a very large influence on the ancient Scots. Many today confuse the Geordie dialect with a Scots brogue if they have never been exposed to it. I believe I might have a look around Newcastle and the Northumbria area for the Tynes. That 19 miles of river isn't very big and it is at least a point with which to begin. From there it would be easier to springboard backward into Scotland, if they were indeed Scots. And I'm not refuting that at all, but it IS one of those "romantic" things that people like to claim (and I haven't yet found a Scottish surname any closer to Tynes that Tynte). Those stories abound in several of my lines that are nowhere near Scots! People are less likely to claim Geordie heritage (shame on them, they should be proud!)because it became a term of abuse, so they change it a little. This site gives a good view of the people: http://www.thenortheast.fsnet.co.uk/GeordieOrigins.htm
Just some thoughts from a newbie's perspective. Have a really wonderful day! By the way - are we cousins?
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