Quaker Ancestors

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Comment by Jennifer Hutmire on July 15, 2009 at 3:28am

My Quaker ancestors settled in Cecil county, Maryland, and include the following names: England, Haines, Brown, Gatchell, Slater, Kirk, Bye, and Kinsey.

Comment by Donna Kay Railsback Braly on July 14, 2009 at 12:55pm

I descend from Wm. Armfield and Jacob Brown. I submitted these lines on my grandsons for the Children of the American Revolution and they were accepted. I submitted these for myself to the DAR and they haven't been approved yet.

Comment by Debra on July 13, 2009 at 6:35pm

I have a Ezekiel Thomas son of William Thomas and Mary. I have heard he was a quaker.He lived in New Jersey. His father was probably born in New York or Pennsylvania.Ezekiel Thomas was married to Maria Reynolds.

Comment by Tina Wells on July 11, 2009 at 12:35pm

Brad, I am not sure where in Indiana they were. I have a Ellen/Eleanor/Nellie Adamson married to John Tharp b. Ohio - when/were??? Their eldest children are said to be born in Indiana - maybe Indianapolis. Their youngest - Martha - born in Missouri. I find them in census records for 1850 (Japser Co, IA), 1870 (Page County, IA) and 1880 (Nemaha County, NE) - plus several Iowa State Census. I also do not find any hint of John Tharp before they show up in Japser Co. It is possible that one or both had a previous marriage and his/hers/their kids, hence the confusion.

I suspect the Eleanor is the daughter of John Adamson and Mary Hammer (same age and birth state) - http://www.quakersurnames.net/adamson.html (about 2/3 the way down) - but all the online family trees have her married to a Joseph Herron or Hearn and dying maybe in Texas or Tenn??. Most of John and Mary's other children went to Jasper County, Iowa along with a number other families from Lost Creek MM.

I have the descendants of my Eleanor and John Tharp listed here - http://iagenweb.org/jasper/pioneers/tharp-john.htm . The Jasper County site has a lot more about the Adamsons and Hammers. I had found a book at Heritage Quest for Indiana Quaker minutes - but Eleanor is never listed, but lots of other Adamson's are....Thanks so much for any guidance..........

Comment by Pam Nixon on July 11, 2009 at 10:40am

I am researching the ancestry and descendants of the Quaker families surnamed NIXON, ARNOLD, HICKMAN and CHAMBERLAIN(E) residing in CHESTER, DELAWARE and BUCKS counties, PENNSYLVANIA in the late 1600's and early 1700's. Specifically looking for a WILLIAM NIXON of BUCKS COUNTY, PA who had a son named GEORGE born about 1718. Surname may also be spelled as NICKSON.

Comment by Brad Manzenberger on July 11, 2009 at 9:29am

Tina, I have some Adamson's in my tree that fit your description. Were they in Wayne Co., IN? I have a Jonathon Adamson d. 1835 in Wayne Co., IN. Was married to Ruth Williams, daughter of Isaac Williams Sr and Rachel Overman Pike. I also have a John Wesley Adamson married to Fannie Kern and a Thomas Adamson married to Rachel Williams, sister of Ruth. Guessing that Thomas and Jonathon were brothers.

Comment by Tina Wells on July 10, 2009 at 9:52pm

Anyone researching the Adamson family. They were in the LostCreek MM in Jefferson County, Tennessee in the early 1800's. They then moved to Indiana, then to Missouri and finally to Jasper County, Iowa.

Comment by Joan Foster on July 10, 2009 at 11:59am

To Tracy
I have many Quakers in my family. Quaker records are wonderful for genealogy if this is true for you. Meeting records show births, deaths, movement from one Meeting to another, marriages both within the Meeting or with a person who was without, discussions about matters of faith, and so forth.

If your possible Quaker ancestors were in an area with a relatively large Quaker population, you may be fortunate enough to have the minutes of the Meeting(s) indexed by William Wade Hinshaw, who published a number of volumes in his Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy. I personally shelled out the big bucks to have a personal copy of his Vol III, New York, on my shelf because of my many old Long Island and NYC area ancestors. He did other volumes with which I am less familiar, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Iowa, and others. In whatever genealogical library you use, I suggest looking for his Encyclopedia for a possible location, or in his surname index for your surname(s) of interest. His Encyclopedia may probably be online various places as well, though I haven't needed to look.
I will gladly do look-ups for anyone in my well-used New York volume.....

Comment by Keith McKain on July 10, 2009 at 10:09am

Anyne run across:

Hill Riale (1846-1904) and Mary Elizabeth Jackson (1843-1926)

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Husband: Hill Riale
AKA: Hill Rial, Hille Riale
Born: 26 Mar 1846 - , Chester, Pennsylvania, USA
Died: 6 Aug 1904 - , Chester, Pennsylvania, USA
Buried: 10 Aug 1904 - Upper Oxford Twp, Chester, Pennsylvania, USA
Father: Richard Riale (1798-1867)
Mother: Hannah Cooper (1810-1890)
Marriage: Abt 1873

Wife: Mary Elizabeth Jackson
AKA: Mary Jackson Dorsy, Mary Riale
Born: 3 Feb 1843 - , , Pennsylvania, USA
Died: 4 Feb 1926 - , Chester, Pennsylvania, USA
Buried: - Upper Oxford Twp, Chester, Pennsylvania, USA
Father: Hugh Jackson (1801-1883)
Mother: Mary Jane Wilson (1807-Bef 1902)
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Other Spouse: ---?--- Dorsey (Bef 1843-Bef 1943) Date: Bef 1873
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Children

George Alvin Riale 1872 - 1950 m Sallie E Jenkins (1872-1942)
Warren Ray Riale 1875 - 1953 m Martha Jane Null (1879-Abt 1957)
Lewis Edwin Riale 1876 - 1947 m Alice E McCrabb (1877-1972)
Ellis Kennedy Riale 1879 - m Blanche Leta Smythe (Abt 1883-)
Thomas Hill Riale 1882 - 1975 m Anna Fuhrman (Abt 1898-Bef 1981)
Walter Angelo Riale 1883 - 1957 m Mary ---?--- (Abt 1883-)

General Notes: Husband -
Birth also listed as May 1846
West Chester Death Records 1893-1906 Vol. 2 page 221 show Hill Riale age 57, Upper Oxford, died 6 Aug 1904, buried 10 Aug at Homeville Friends

Daily News issue of 9 Aug 1904 obit, partial abstract, "Hill Riale died 6 Aug;
was fifty-eight years old; resided vicinity all his life; survived by wife and
six sons, interment Homeville Friends"

Tombstone Homeville Friends graveyard: Hill Riale Mar. 26, 1846-Aug. 6, 1904

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General Notes: Wife -
Tombstone Homeville Friends graveyard: Mary Elizabeth Riale Feb 3, 1843-Feb 4, 1926

Thanks,
Keith

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Comment by Barbara Bradley Petura on July 10, 2009 at 10:09am

My fourth great-grandmother Hannah Baker [1775-1843] was received as a Quaker in 1805 in the Valley Preparative Meeting, Plattekill, Ulster County, NY. She married Caleb Church in 1796 and had 10 children including son Benjamin, my ancestor. She became a Quaker preacher and went around on horseback with Hannah Frye. I am trying to find her parents, likely in Ulster County. Also would like to know more about Hannah Frye. Thank you.

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