The Bradshaw line has a rich history. I have told you about Great Great Grandpa Thomas Bradshaw, and haven't even gotten into his father Smith Bradshaw. But they both married women of interesting lineages on their own. Thomas married Nancy Catherine Hopkins in 1865. I came across a book written in 1905 about our Hopkins line. I am slowly doing what I can to verify the information in it. It is called A chapter in Hopkins Genealogy 1735 - 1905. It tells the tale of the Scotch-Irish (I have the feeling our actual Campbell line is Scotch Irish as well) pg2. This is the tale of 3 brothers, John, William and Archibald, in Colonial America, settling new land, dealing with all the hardships and effort.
Here are some transcribed pages from the will of Archibald (our direct ancestor). I find it quite interesting.
p1 p2 p3 p4 p5 p6
Archibald had 5 children with his wife Jennet Love Hopkins, one of whom was a son Ephriam.
Ephriam had 7 children with his wife Nancy Shanklin Hopkins, one of whom was a son Archibald (this is a popular name in this family).
Archibald had 6 children with his wife Ruth Gordon including a daughter Sarah Ann,
Sarah Ann had 8 children with her husband Archibald Hopkins (a cousin) one of whom was Nancy Catherine whom married Thomas Bradshaw.
Monday, May 31, 2010
Sunday, May 30, 2010
Pictures
I've been trying to get some pics together. Here are some fun ones I've got so far.
I start with this one, my parents wedding :)
Here is one at my parents wedding reception. it's great because it's got both of their parents in it as well. They look mahvelous
Here is a great pic of my mothers parents, Ole and Mildred Lund, looking suave in Panama
Here is a pic at my Grandma Charles and Elsie Campbell's 50th Wedding Anniversary. This includes their children Marian, Glenn, my dad Jerry, Virgil and Virginia.
Some more pics from my moms side....
my uncle Dick harvesting on the Lund homestead
My Mothers Maternal Grandfather Carl Hendriksen
My Mothers Paternal Grandparents Olaf and Lina
more to come
I start with this one, my parents wedding :)
Here is one at my parents wedding reception. it's great because it's got both of their parents in it as well. They look mahvelous
Here is a great pic of my mothers parents, Ole and Mildred Lund, looking suave in Panama
Here is a pic at my Grandma Charles and Elsie Campbell's 50th Wedding Anniversary. This includes their children Marian, Glenn, my dad Jerry, Virgil and Virginia.
Some more pics from my moms side....
my uncle Dick harvesting on the Lund homestead
My Mothers Maternal Grandfather Carl Hendriksen
My Mothers Paternal Grandparents Olaf and Lina
more to come
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Friday, May 21, 2010
Judge Thomas Bradshaw
Thomas Bradshaw is my paternal Grandpa's maternal Grandpa. Got that ;) Thomas was born in Lewis County Mo. in 1843 to Smith Bradshaw and Elizabeth Chrisman Bradshaw. To elaborate on his connection, his daughter, Annie, married Marion Campbell, and their son was my Grandpa Charlie.
Cencus records would indicate Smith Bradshaw was farming in MO in the years Thomas grew up. He and Elizabeth had 11 children. Thomas was one of the youngest if not the youngest. When the civil war broke out, Thomas joined the Confederacy. He would have been only 18 years old.
I had heard we had a confederate in our family, and my cousin confirmed he was the one, so I started digging. The whole thing makes me kinda sad really, for all involved. I have very strong feelings about the confederacy and then the first records I found on Ancestry.com were POW records. The Confederates didn't keep alot of records, especially not the outfit he was part of I'd imagine. Let me elaborate. The POW records list his unit as Porters, in Marion County, MO. Now I feel pretty comfortable associating our Thomas with this regiment as Joseph C Porter , was actually Thomas' cousin. Porter was tasked with recruitment and bushwacking in Northern Mo where he lived. So it makes alot of sense. The records are less than perfect but it looks like Thomas was captured Oct 10, 1862 and looks to have been in custody till June of 1863, spending time in Gratiot Street Prison and Alton Prison, neither of which I would wish on anyone.
I don't really know what happened to him during the rest of the war. I do know he met and married Nancy Catherine Hopkins in Rockingham County Va (I have requested those records), in Oct 1865. They moved back to Mo. Together they had 8 children, 5 of whom survived to adulthood. They farmed. Later in life he became a Judge. He passed in 1910.
I am attaching a copy of a civil war POW record, his obituary, and his death certificate
Cencus records would indicate Smith Bradshaw was farming in MO in the years Thomas grew up. He and Elizabeth had 11 children. Thomas was one of the youngest if not the youngest. When the civil war broke out, Thomas joined the Confederacy. He would have been only 18 years old.
I had heard we had a confederate in our family, and my cousin confirmed he was the one, so I started digging. The whole thing makes me kinda sad really, for all involved. I have very strong feelings about the confederacy and then the first records I found on Ancestry.com were POW records. The Confederates didn't keep alot of records, especially not the outfit he was part of I'd imagine. Let me elaborate. The POW records list his unit as Porters, in Marion County, MO. Now I feel pretty comfortable associating our Thomas with this regiment as Joseph C Porter , was actually Thomas' cousin. Porter was tasked with recruitment and bushwacking in Northern Mo where he lived. So it makes alot of sense. The records are less than perfect but it looks like Thomas was captured Oct 10, 1862 and looks to have been in custody till June of 1863, spending time in Gratiot Street Prison and Alton Prison, neither of which I would wish on anyone.
I don't really know what happened to him during the rest of the war. I do know he met and married Nancy Catherine Hopkins in Rockingham County Va (I have requested those records), in Oct 1865. They moved back to Mo. Together they had 8 children, 5 of whom survived to adulthood. They farmed. Later in life he became a Judge. He passed in 1910.
I am attaching a copy of a civil war POW record, his obituary, and his death certificate
Thursday, May 20, 2010
Danish Saga Kings? Ja Youbetcha
When I was young, my mother reestablished connections with family in Norway, related to her beloved Grandfather Carl. When I was a freshman in college, a zillion years ago, she went to visit, and some of them have come here as well. I have in all honesty been pretty peripheral in all this, and regret that now. I have been saying for some time I want to take her back to Norway, and still hope we can accomplish that.
Apparently this family has done extensive research into their heritage. Mom was given a copy of some of the final output relating directly to her Grandfather. I don't know what documentation was done.
So last night I started trying to translate the forward to this book. Jay! This is for you! Viking Kings and Archers abound.
"Schytte-family are our oldest known relatives in the Nordic countries. With the help of the family seal, this family traced back to the old Danish saga-kings,
all the way to the last part of the 8th century. The family's oldest members stand out as good archers, and although the seal has changed over time, archery remains in the design of the seal. Their family members who took the doctor degree in the 16th and 17th century, selected the nickname toxotious, (Latin for archery). It is likely that the actual family name Schytte comes from archery.
Right up to the 15th century Taa was used as a nickname in the Schytte-family. Professor Barry Koht believed that it came from club foot, that often walked in the family. Several Danish and Norwegian Viking Kings were of Taa/Schytte family, among them Harold Harfargre.
The image of family vapnet / seal is from "Geschlechterbuch der Familie Schutte" by Albert Schuthe, Harburg-Wilhelmsburg, Germany. "
so this is gonna be interesting. What I do know is that Great Grandpa Carl (Hendriksen) came from an island called Vega in Norway. He spent at least some time fishing with his father. His father, Hendrik Johan Eriksen, drown on a fishing boat. His mother's name was Henrika Peternella Johanna Klaudatter. These are taken directly from the family document. I will post some family sheets as I continue going through it.
Apparently this family has done extensive research into their heritage. Mom was given a copy of some of the final output relating directly to her Grandfather. I don't know what documentation was done.
So last night I started trying to translate the forward to this book. Jay! This is for you! Viking Kings and Archers abound.
"Schytte-family are our oldest known relatives in the Nordic countries. With the help of the family seal, this family traced back to the old Danish saga-kings,
all the way to the last part of the 8th century. The family's oldest members stand out as good archers, and although the seal has changed over time, archery remains in the design of the seal. Their family members who took the doctor degree in the 16th and 17th century, selected the nickname toxotious, (Latin for archery). It is likely that the actual family name Schytte comes from archery.
Right up to the 15th century Taa was used as a nickname in the Schytte-family. Professor Barry Koht believed that it came from club foot, that often walked in the family. Several Danish and Norwegian Viking Kings were of Taa/Schytte family, among them Harold Harfargre.
The image of family vapnet / seal is from "Geschlechterbuch der Familie Schutte" by Albert Schuthe, Harburg-Wilhelmsburg, Germany. "
so this is gonna be interesting. What I do know is that Great Grandpa Carl (Hendriksen) came from an island called Vega in Norway. He spent at least some time fishing with his father. His father, Hendrik Johan Eriksen, drown on a fishing boat. His mother's name was Henrika Peternella Johanna Klaudatter. These are taken directly from the family document. I will post some family sheets as I continue going through it.
Monday, May 17, 2010
Ladies Night
I was looking for some travel documents on my mothers side tonight, to confirm what I've been told about her family. I found the manifests for both my Mother's Grandmothers. Emma Petersen Hendriksen and Oline Nagelhus Lund.
Emma, my mothers maternal grandmother, arrived on the Bergensfjord in New York on 6/19/1916. Sadly she passed away in 1928 of complications after gallbladder surgery, leaving behind her husband Carl and young daughter, Mildred. She is listed as being from Helgeland district of Norway.
Emma Part 1 Emma Part 2
Lina was my mothers paternal grandmother. She arrived in New York on 10/5/1909, on a ship called United States. She was from Snaasa (yeah I'm sure I'm spelling that wrong), Norway. Lina went to Spokane, WA with her friend, and I am not sure how she wound up meeting my Great Grandpa. Have begun looking for her Marriage document. Olaf and Lina had three boys, Ole, Arnold and Ivar, and one girl, Anne together. I posted some information about their homestead in Simpson, MT a few days ago, and after farming and raising their family they retired to Mesa, AZ. Lina lived a long productive life, if the records I have are to be believed, 98 years long. I met her once or twice when I was quite young. I am hoping maybe my mom will tell us a little bit about what kind of person she was as she knew her in the comments.
Lina Part 1 Lina Part 2
Emma, my mothers maternal grandmother, arrived on the Bergensfjord in New York on 6/19/1916. Sadly she passed away in 1928 of complications after gallbladder surgery, leaving behind her husband Carl and young daughter, Mildred. She is listed as being from Helgeland district of Norway.
Emma Part 1 Emma Part 2
Lina was my mothers paternal grandmother. She arrived in New York on 10/5/1909, on a ship called United States. She was from Snaasa (yeah I'm sure I'm spelling that wrong), Norway. Lina went to Spokane, WA with her friend, and I am not sure how she wound up meeting my Great Grandpa. Have begun looking for her Marriage document. Olaf and Lina had three boys, Ole, Arnold and Ivar, and one girl, Anne together. I posted some information about their homestead in Simpson, MT a few days ago, and after farming and raising their family they retired to Mesa, AZ. Lina lived a long productive life, if the records I have are to be believed, 98 years long. I met her once or twice when I was quite young. I am hoping maybe my mom will tell us a little bit about what kind of person she was as she knew her in the comments.
Lina Part 1 Lina Part 2
Sunday, May 16, 2010
Germany
Well yesterday I went to a conference about ways to trace your genealogy in Germany. My paternal grandmother Elsie was born to two immigrants of German descent from Pomerania. Considering WWII sits in between their departure and my current efforts, and the land now belongs to Poland, I had some serious concerns about my ability to accomplish anything on the other side of the Atlantic. But I learned at the conference that the family history center (our friends in Salt Lake City) do have alot of records on microfilm. I hadn't gotten the impression, on my earlier brief investigation, that they did. The nice thing is that they have branch centers all over and I can simply order most microfilm to view right here.
What we learned yesterday was that there are some basic tools to help identify the correct microfilm/s to order. I have jumped one hurdle I believe, in that I have basically located place of origin for both my Great Grandpa Frederick (Fritz) Matthies, and my Great Grandma Bertha Beise.
I lucked out really. Bertha travelled with her parents Carl and Johanna? (this is interesting in that cencus records list her as Minnie), a brother August, and two sisters, Anna and Martha. They travelled out of Hamburg, on the Dania (click on the D at the top and scroll down to Dania), May 10, 1890, and arrived in New York harbor May 22, 1890. Hamburg kept good records and I have record of both ends of the journey documenting the town they came from. Bertha was 13.
Her future husband Frederick Matthies arrived in Baltimore on the SS Oldenburg on Apr 14, 1892. I am still investigating whom he travelled with. He was 24, but there was a Matthies family that travelled on that ship, and there was some kind of relationship. The Oldenburg sailed out of Bremen. They didn't keep their departure records, and thankfully the arrival records included town of origin. Finding his record was a trick. Love Ancestry, but his record wasn't coming up on my searches of his index. It was suggested that town of origin was on his naturalization records, so I went to Minnesota Historical Society and got a copy of those records. There I found the month and year of arrival and port of arrival, and was able to scan the ship records visually to find him.
I have several documents from Swift County MN, where they settled temporarily, including Fritz and Berthas marriage certificate, and Fritz's naturalization records, but don't have them scanned at this point in time. I am attaching the departure/arrival records
Bertha departure Bertha arrival Fritz departure
From there they introduced us to some tools to determine what town originally held the records that are needed for the search, because that is how the FHC would have them indexed. The interesting thing is most the records would be kept by Churches of course, and you really should know whether they were Protestant or Catholic (or Jewish if that is the case) cuz the Churches or Synagogue might not be in the same town. This might sound dumb but I don't honestly know the answer to this for Fritz and Bertha but am expecting Protestant. Soooo next step is to check into this and order the microfilm!
What we learned yesterday was that there are some basic tools to help identify the correct microfilm/s to order. I have jumped one hurdle I believe, in that I have basically located place of origin for both my Great Grandpa Frederick (Fritz) Matthies, and my Great Grandma Bertha Beise.
I lucked out really. Bertha travelled with her parents Carl and Johanna? (this is interesting in that cencus records list her as Minnie), a brother August, and two sisters, Anna and Martha. They travelled out of Hamburg, on the Dania (click on the D at the top and scroll down to Dania), May 10, 1890, and arrived in New York harbor May 22, 1890. Hamburg kept good records and I have record of both ends of the journey documenting the town they came from. Bertha was 13.
Her future husband Frederick Matthies arrived in Baltimore on the SS Oldenburg on Apr 14, 1892. I am still investigating whom he travelled with. He was 24, but there was a Matthies family that travelled on that ship, and there was some kind of relationship. The Oldenburg sailed out of Bremen. They didn't keep their departure records, and thankfully the arrival records included town of origin. Finding his record was a trick. Love Ancestry, but his record wasn't coming up on my searches of his index. It was suggested that town of origin was on his naturalization records, so I went to Minnesota Historical Society and got a copy of those records. There I found the month and year of arrival and port of arrival, and was able to scan the ship records visually to find him.
I have several documents from Swift County MN, where they settled temporarily, including Fritz and Berthas marriage certificate, and Fritz's naturalization records, but don't have them scanned at this point in time. I am attaching the departure/arrival records
Bertha departure Bertha arrival Fritz departure
From there they introduced us to some tools to determine what town originally held the records that are needed for the search, because that is how the FHC would have them indexed. The interesting thing is most the records would be kept by Churches of course, and you really should know whether they were Protestant or Catholic (or Jewish if that is the case) cuz the Churches or Synagogue might not be in the same town. This might sound dumb but I don't honestly know the answer to this for Fritz and Bertha but am expecting Protestant. Soooo next step is to check into this and order the microfilm!
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