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Showing posts with label Probate Records. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Probate Records. Show all posts
Friday, May 24, 2019

From the Probate Files: Peter Worden - Berkshire County, Massachusetts - 1808

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Note: This afternoon Christine asked me if I was ready to resume blogging and my answer was a firm "NO." However... The New Engl...
Friday, November 2, 2018

From the Probate Files: Vincent C. Tomlinson - Boone County, Iowa - 1892

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Vincent, my third great uncle, was the older brother of my great great grandfather George Marion Tomlinson . It's clear from his 1892 ob...
Friday, October 12, 2018

From the Probate Files: William Richardson - Anne Arundel County, Maryland - 1698

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I wasn't able to locate a scan of eighth great grandfather   William Richardson Senior 's will but here's a transcript of it: ...
Friday, September 7, 2018

From the Probate Files: John Chappell - Monroe County, Georgia - 1828

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An obituary found for John Chappell, one of my paternal fourth great grandfathers, gave his age as 65 years at the time of his death on Dece...
Friday, August 17, 2018

From the Probate Files: John Myer - York County, Pennsylvania - 1757

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With 7th great grandfather John Myer (1684?-1757) I'm so far up my family tree I'm can barely see the ground and I'm starting t...
Monday, August 6, 2018

Monday Is for Mothers: Sarah Coye Slater (About 1825 - ?)

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William Tiller Slater, my third great uncle, married Sarah Coye (or McCoy) on Valentine's Day in 1843 in Lawrence County, Illinois. The ...
Friday, June 15, 2018

From the Probate Files: John H. Hardy - Russell County, Alabama - 1857

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In 1857 John Hardy's son-in-law and the executor of his will David Lockhart listed the estate's heirs for the probate court: [...
Friday, June 8, 2018

From the Probate Files: John H. Hardy - Russell County, Alabama - 1855

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The probate file for John H. Hardy 's estate on FamilySearch contains 51 images* among which is this 1855 receipt for $12.50, the cost o...
Monday, June 4, 2018

Monday Is for Mothers: Frances Johnson (1681 - 1747)

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Frances Johnson, one of my paternal seventh great grandmothers,* lived in the same part of North Carolina her whole life.** She survived two...
Friday, June 1, 2018

From the Probate Files: John H. Hardy - Russell County, Alabama - 1854

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When this paternal fourth great grandfather John Hardy* made his will in April of 1854 he was 81 and had outlived two wives and a number of ...
Friday, May 18, 2018

From the Probate Files: William Freeman - Surry County, North Carolina - 1802

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I haven't found any information about my paternal 4X great grandfather William Freeman before 1753 when someone of that name appears in ...