Our Family Connections
this is a place to share our family history and information
Welcome to Our Family Connections. Like many of you reading this today, I have become addicted to family research. After making some headway over the last few years, I was looking for a way to share my information with other people who might be researching some of the same family names.
The pages contained here are graciously hosted by http://www.spanitz.com so please visit there and see what information you might find useful for home or business. After your tour, come back and see if there is a surname here that holds a branch on your own tree.
Killey - Killey Link
If like me, you've been researching the Killey surname and are hitting your head on lots of brick walls, you might find something of use here. Do we have a connection? We might, if:
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Your Killey ancestry takes you from the Isle of Man after 1817 to Ontario, Essex County, Canada by at least 1842.
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Your Killey ancestry either leaves you in Ontario, Canada or sends you with a more adventurous ancestor to the state of Michigan.
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Your Killey ancestry begins in the state of Michigan, since you haven't been able to get back too far because the surname spelling keeps changing.
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Your Killey ancestry includes any of the children born to Thomas Killey and Elizabeth Whittle: John, William, James, Jane, Elizabeth, Alexander, Robert, George, Almenian, Thomas, Mary, Hugh, or Frederick.
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People mispronounced your name all your life. My family always pronounced the name KILL-ee.
English - English
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"English, just like the language" is what we say when people look at us oddly and ask, "How do you spell that?" The English clan is a very large one, at least in generations past. Are your Englishes connected to mine? They might be, if:
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Their roots begin in Virginia, by 1700.
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They settled in Bedford and/or Franklin County, Virginia.
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If there is ongoing debate over the maiden name of John English's wife, Mary, whom he married by 1706.
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If the branches of your tree lead you to Stephen English, who married Dinah Haynes, we might be cousins.
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If a more recent generation led your search to Michigan, Ohio, or Florida, we might be more closely related.
Starkey - Starkey Link
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A Starkey descendant met and married an English, once upon a time. We might have information to share if:
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Your Starkey family lived in Franklin County, Virginia and the patriarch of this particular branch is named Joshua.
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If one of your Starkey ancestors uprooted his family to Callaway County, Missouri.
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If you have a few untold and embellished tales regarding Cherokee ancestry in the line, as recent as 1858.
How to View the Family Reports
To protect the privacy of people who are still among the living, the family tree contained herein is password protected. If you think we have a connection, contact me and we can compare notes.
To view the Killey information, click on "Killey" and a box will pop up for your username and password. The English and Starkey information can be viewed by clicking on "English" and you will again need to provide a username and password.
Sources
Source pages for each family name are included at the end of each report. The Starkey sources are included within. As a newbie way back when, I was less particular about citing sources but have since been reformed. My sincere apologies to anyone I've missed in giving credit where it is due.
Disclaimer
Genealogy is my hobby, and though I am as much a stickler for details as the next person, family memories are often faulty. The truth is somewhere in between the memories of many people and what you read on the documents cited here. If nothing else, do not take what you read as gospel truth. Use it instead as a starting place or a point of comparison for your own research.
The family tree is an ongoing project and will be updated periodically.
