13 Generations to 10 Generations
Feb. 27th, 2005 03:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
celina80I think I've finally finished tracing my family history. Minus the fact that I don't know who Philena Chewning married, but I just know she had a daughter named Laura Chewning who married a Charles Woolfrey or Wolfrey...they had my Great Grandmother.
But on my Mom's mother's side I can trace it back to 1636 when the first Chewning came to America. Then they were called Chowning. Including the marriage of my parents, it goes back 13 generations. Included in them is the man who owned the plantation Mount View, aka The Chewning Farm located in the Wilderness where the Battle of the Wilderness was fought during the Civil War.
On my Mom's father's side I can trace it back to John Price the Pioneer. It stated that he was from the most eastern of the India Islands of Barbados. Funny thing...I've not seen a bit of Indian in the lineage. Ok besides the fact that there is a child named Anger, that could be a clue. So including the marriage of my parents, it goes back 10 generations.
I have found my links to the Civil War, so if I wanted to I could apply to become a part of the Daughters of the Confederacy. I wonder what there is for people who know of family that was in the Revolutionary War? Yep, I found them too.
I feel like I've unraveled a mystery of my family. Of course I'm still looking into my great grandfather. I found out that he worked as a Boilermaker in a Navy Yard. So, little by little I'm finding information out about my own family.
As for my father's side...Since my great grandparents were orphans, I doubt that I have any clues beyond them. Even then it starts to get rather messy. But...it's the thrill of the search.
But on my Mom's mother's side I can trace it back to 1636 when the first Chewning came to America. Then they were called Chowning. Including the marriage of my parents, it goes back 13 generations. Included in them is the man who owned the plantation Mount View, aka The Chewning Farm located in the Wilderness where the Battle of the Wilderness was fought during the Civil War.
On my Mom's father's side I can trace it back to John Price the Pioneer. It stated that he was from the most eastern of the India Islands of Barbados. Funny thing...I've not seen a bit of Indian in the lineage. Ok besides the fact that there is a child named Anger, that could be a clue. So including the marriage of my parents, it goes back 10 generations.
I have found my links to the Civil War, so if I wanted to I could apply to become a part of the Daughters of the Confederacy. I wonder what there is for people who know of family that was in the Revolutionary War? Yep, I found them too.
I feel like I've unraveled a mystery of my family. Of course I'm still looking into my great grandfather. I found out that he worked as a Boilermaker in a Navy Yard. So, little by little I'm finding information out about my own family.
As for my father's side...Since my great grandparents were orphans, I doubt that I have any clues beyond them. Even then it starts to get rather messy. But...it's the thrill of the search.
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Date: 2005-02-27 09:48 pm (UTC)That's really cool that you've managed to trace your family roots. One of my aunts did that with one side of my family, traced it all the way back to a Dutch merchant who came over on the Mayflower.