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.
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