16 Great Great Grandparents

I'll be using the framework of the 16 Great Great Grandparents as a framework. I ran across it one day and find it a helpful way of organizing my thoughts and pattern-making around a person. Most of us have met at least one great grandparent, most of us can name our four grandparents, so it is an easy stretch to think about the eight great grandparents, and are we lucky enough to name all 16?

I only remember meeting my great grandmother Laura Frances Allen Bickford once. I was quite young, and she seemed so far away in time. We have many letters that her mother, Emma, wrote. These will be scanned in and given their own section.

My great grandfather Winslow Page Burhoe was more familiar to me. He lived ten years longer than Emma, which is quite a big jump in a child's memories.

So who were these 16? 

The New Englanders: Massachusetts

William Allen
Emma Frances Jones

The New Englanders: New Hampshire

Charles Perley Bickford
Amanda Ann Folsom

The Canadians: Prince Edward Island

James Ingram Burhoe
Selena Richards

Janet Ann Holmes
Stephen Trenamen Stumbles

The Germans: Swabia

Eva Margaretha Maier
Johannes Maier

Wolfgang Adam Haspel
Christiane Jüngling

The Germans: Bavaria

Gottlieb or Johan Gottlieb Schätz
Barbara Schram

The Germans: the Rhineland

Karolina or Carolina Hahn
Jakob Hess

I'm currently at a wall with Schätz, Schram, Hahn, and Hess. But I have breadcrumbs to records in Germany.

The Maiers are well documented. And yes Eva Margaretha Maier did marry another Maier. There seem to have been many Maiers in the town. To make it worse, both Eva Margaretha and Johannes had fathers with the same name, Joseph Maier.