The Fortier Family, and Allied Families

The Fortier Family, and Allied Families
Author: Estelle Mina Fortier Cochran
Publisher:
Total Pages: 302
Release: 1963
Genre: Louisiana
ISBN:

François Fortier (b.1697) immigrated in 1720 from France to Biloxi, Mississippi, and moved later to Natchez, Louisiana and then to New Orleans. He married Gabrielle Moreau either in France or Louisiana. Descendants and relatives lived in Louisiana, Mississippi, Maryland and elsewhere, and many intermarried with Acadians or others who had moved to Louisiana from Canada. Includes ancestry in Canada, France and elsewhere.

Genealogies in the Library of Congress

Genealogies in the Library of Congress
Author: Marion J. Kaminkow
Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
Total Pages: 882
Release: 2012-09
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780806316673

This ten-year supplement lists 10,000 titles acquired by the Library of Congress since 1976--this extraordinary number reflecting the phenomenal growth of interest in genealogy since the publication of Roots. An index of secondary names contains about 8,500 entries, and a geographical index lists family locations when mentioned.

Harrison, Waples and Allied Families

Harrison, Waples and Allied Families
Author: William Welsh Harrison
Publisher:
Total Pages: 532
Release: 1910
Genre:
ISBN:

Thomas Harrison, Jr. (1741-1815) was a son of Thomas Harrison and Hannah Benson of Thurstonfield, Cumberland County, England; all were Quakers. Thomas, Jr. immigrated in 1763 to Philadelphia, where he married Sarah Richards of Chester County at the Philadelphia Monthly Meeting. Both Thomas, Jr. and his wife were active speakers and leaders against slavery, to aid the sick and homeless, and Thomas Jr. was on the city's "orphan committee." Both traveled in these benevolent activities, and Sarah was granted a special audience by George III while on a trip to England. George Leib Harrison (1811- 1885), a grandson of Thomas Jr. and Sarah, married Sarah Ann Waples (d.1850) in 1841, and in 1856 married Letitia Henry Mitchell. Descendants and relatives lived in Pennsylvania, New York, Virginia and elsewhere. Includes genealogical data about various lines of ancestors in England, some to the mid-1300s; many of these ancestral lines were part of the English nobility.

The Waggamans and Their Allied Families

The Waggamans and Their Allied Families
Author: Thomas Clarke Edwards
Publisher:
Total Pages: 552
Release: 1983
Genre:
ISBN:

Jonathan Waggaman (1679-ca. 1724)--son of Hendrick Gillissen Waggaman and Winnefred Schin of The Netherlands--was born in London, and married Margaret Elliott in 1707. They immigrated to Accomack County, Virginia, and later moved to Somerset County, Maryland. Descendants and relatives lived in Virginia, Maryland, Washington, D.C., New York and elsewhere.

An Index of the Source Records of Maryland

An Index of the Source Records of Maryland
Author: Eleanor Phillips Passano
Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
Total Pages: 506
Release: 1967
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 9780806302713

The major part of this work is an alphabetically arranged and cross-indexed list of some 20,000 Maryland families with references to the sources and locations of the records in which they appear. In addition, there is a research record guide arranged by county and type of record, and it identifies all genealogical manuscripts, books, and articles known to exist up to 1940, when this book was first published. Included are church and county courthouse records, deeds, marriages, rent rolls, wills, land records, tombstone inscriptions, censuses, directories, and other data sources.