Amy Johnson Crow, on her blog No Story Too Small, has challenged her fellow bloggers to post 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks. This is week forty-six, in my attempt to catch up before the end of the year! My great-great-great-great grandfather was Nicholas Thomas. He was born sometime around 1770, likely in Cornwall, England. Pallot’s Marriage […]
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52 Ancestors: #46 Nicholas Thomas (ca 1770 – 1848)
Posted in 52 Ancestors, Philipps, Thomas on December 25, 2014 | Leave a Comment »
52 Ancestors: #23 Melissa (Haight) Thomas (abt. 1819-1873)
Posted in 52 Ancestors, Haight, Thomas on June 10, 2014 | Leave a Comment »
Amy Johnson Crow, on her blog No Story Too Small, has challenged her fellow bloggers to post 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks. This is week twenty-three. I don’t know very much about my great-great-grandmother Melissa Haight. She was born around 1819 to Harrison and Agnes (Doan) Haight. I am assuming she was born somewhere in Ontario County, […]
52 Ancestors: #22 Reuben Thomas (1817-1909)
Posted in 52 Ancestors, Thomas on June 3, 2014 | 2 Comments »
Amy Johnson Crow, on her blog No Story Too Small, has challenged her fellow bloggers to post 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks. This is week twenty-two. My great-great-great grandfather Reuben Thomas was born on May 31, 1817 in Luxulyan, Cornwall, England, to Nicholas and Elizabeth (Phillips) Thomas. Family lore suggests Reuben came to Canada around 1840. […]
52 Ancestors: #9 Jane (Summerville) Thomas (1851-1884)
Posted in 52 Ancestors, Summerville, Thomas on March 3, 2014 | Leave a Comment »
Amy Johnson Crow, on her blog No Story Too Small, has challenged her fellow bloggers to post 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks. This is week nine. My great-great grandmother Jane Summerville was born around 1851 in Sharon, Ontario. She was the fifth child born to Christopher Summerville and Elizabeth Humphries and the second Jane. Her […]
52 Ancestors: #8 Harrison Thomas (1846-1878)
Posted in 52 Ancestors, Summerville, Thomas on February 24, 2014 | 1 Comment »
Amy Johnson Crow, on her blog No Story Too Small, has challenged her fellow bloggers to post 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks. This is week eight. My great-great grandfather Harrison Thomas was the second son born to Reuben Thomas and Melissa Haight. Reuben was an immigrant from Cornwall, England, while Melissa had been born in […]
52 Ancestors: #2 Gertrude (Thomas) St. John
Posted in 52 Ancestors, St. John, Thomas on January 13, 2014 | 1 Comment »
Amy Johnson Crow, on her blog No Story Too Small, has challenged her fellow bloggers to post 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks. This is week two. My great-grandmother, Gertrude Ethel Thomas was born on May 25, 1875 in East Gwillimbury, Ontario. She was the first child of Harrison Thomas and Jane Summerville. Her sister, Maud […]
SNGF – Ancestral Name Roulette
Posted in Bascom, Summerville, Thomas on February 18, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
It’s Saturday night and for the first time in months, I actually have time to play along with Randy Seaver’s Saturday Night Genealogy Fun over at Genea-Musings. Tonight’s mission is: 1) What year was your paternal grandfather born? Â Divide this number by 100 and round the number off to a whole number. This is your […]
Wordless Wednesday – Reuben Thomas at 87
Posted in Thomas, tagged Photographs on September 28, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
My great-great-great grandfather Reuben Thomas on his 87th birthday in 1904. He lived to 91. I don’t know who the woman is, but given her relative youth she may be a granddaughter.
Wordless Wednesday – Reuben Thomas (1817-1909)
Posted in Thomas, tagged Photographs on September 7, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
My great-great-great grandfather Reuben Thomas (1817-1909) in an undated photograph.
SNGF – Ahnentafel Roulette
Posted in Hunter, Thomas on September 3, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
It’s Saturday night and time for some genealogy fun thanks to Randy Seaver over at Geneamusings. Tonight’s mission is ahnentafel roulette: 1) How old is your great-grandfather now, or how old would he be if he had lived? Divide this number by 4 and round the number  off to a whole number. This is your […]