In honor of the approach of Halloween, I’ll look at the only story of an accused witch that I’ve found in my family tree. On my maternal grandfather’s side of the family, the DeCamp family of New Jersey and Western Pennsylvania go back to colonial era Quakers on Long Island,…
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I have written quite a bit about the Cannonier family history in St Kitts, Montserrat, and Dominica. This includes a connection between the Cannonier and Chambers family names in St Kitts that I’ve been able to flesh out somewhat recently. There is a St Kitts vital record from 1899 that…
The Carte de Visite was a type of photograph popular during the Civil War in the United States, mainly because it was relatively inexpensive to produce. It came in particularly handy for those with friends and family serving in the war, as they were produced in multiples and could be…
An interesting newspaper article in a September 1839 issue of the St Christopher Gazette and Charibbean Courier reported that a petition had been submitted to the House of Commons in London, by an MP named Sir Stephen Lushington. Lushington (1782-1873) was the Oxford educated son of the chairman of the…
I have written about my Vosler relatives of Western Pennsylvania, including the physician David Clair Vosler who died during the influenza pandemic at the end of World War 1. David Clair’s only child was son Robert Gere Vosler (1904-1968). Robert Gere lost his father at age 14, and was sent…
A distant cousin of my husband was labor leader, historian, and scholar Edgar Oscar Challenger (1905-2000), through a shared ancestry of two Madeiran sisters who immigrated to St Kitts. I recently stumbled on a fascinating collection of letters that Challenger wrote in the 1930s to someone he always addressed respectfully…
One of my maternal 3rd great grandfathers was Christian Geyer, who was born in 1795 in Germany and immigrated to Ohio with his large family in 1842. My 2nd great grandfather was his son Edward. Edward had two brothers named Ernest and Gustavus, who both had an important notation next…
I have written in the past on my husband’s Maillard ancestors. They were a family of French Huguenots who settled on the small Caribbean island of St Kitts in the 17th century. His earliest well-documented ancestor was Ann Francis Catherine Maillard (1828-1919) who married William Mallalieu in 1853. From a…
My husband’s great-great-grandfather was Richard Johnson Marshall (about 1845-1922), who was born in Antigua. He was educated there to be a teacher, and settled in St Kitts where he worked as a school master for several decades. He may very well have been the son of enslaved parents, and his…
I have written about the startling discovery that my husband descended (through an out-of-wedlock birth) from the Reverend Roger Kedington (1750-1818), a Cambridge educated clergyman who came from a line of lawyers, clergy, and land owners. Although Roger held a series of clerical appointments in the Anglican church, including a…