Anyone else feel like crap? I’ve had some sort of bug this weekend and it knocked me out. Luckily the only thing I have now is a runny nose and sore throat, but it hurts like the dickens!
Anyway, Ancestry is letting me look at other people’s trees again (don’t tell them 
), so I’ve been able to make some more tentative progress. If you don’t mind, I’ll run you through my process, so no one has a heart attack over my sourcing. First, my tree is private. No one can see anything on it, so they can’t use possibly wrong information from it. Anyway, I use the other trees to get a foot in the door, hint wise. Sometimes I work straight from books and other sources, but they’re difficult to find since I can’t really travel. So if I think John Smith’s mother was, say, Elinor McGillacutty, I can google her and see if there’s any books or websites backing me up. Not the most sound research technique, I know, but I work with what I’ve got. You guys probably don’t care too much about that, though, as long as I’ve got names to share! Anyway, the list!
- Experience Aldrich (female, born 1708)
- Margery Aldrich (1714)
- Claertje Arents (female, Dutch, born about 1595)
- Charity Belt (1686)
- Pretitia Belt (1690)
- Deliverance Cleveland (male, 1722)
- Humility Coggeshall (female, 1671)
- Amyes Colle (female, 1692)
- Mehitable Hayward (1670)
- Cave (or Care) King (female, 1722)
- Kniertje (1610)
- Honor Mariarte (female, 1668)
- Lyle Jane McKay (female..Lyle? Really? 1635)
- Henrietta (mother’s maiden) (1803)
- Anneken Pier (1616)
- Otwell Shawcross (male, 1530)
- Trijntjen Sijmons (female, 1612)
- Charity Sparrow (1640)
- Jemima Taft (1702-1704, then 1713)
- Priscilla Taft (1721)
So, anything strike your fancy? I think Charity Sparrow is really a great case of the first and last name going smashingly together. It’s quite beautiful.
Monday, March 23rd, 2009 at 8:26 pm
Sorry you’re feeling poorly, dear. I hope you’re tops again soon!
I’m jealous you’ve got a Jemima in your tree, as well as Henrietta, Priscilla, Margery! and Mehitable (is that the right spelling? I ususally see the ending as -bel?) *shrug* I love Mehitabel, in any spelling, it’s honey in my mouth!
And I must ask, how in the world would Trijntjen be pronounced? My tongue is making feeble attempts but no luck in full!
Wednesday, March 25th, 2009 at 2:43 pm
The correct spelling is -bel, but people those days didn’t especially care, I don’t think.
I found a name, Trijntje, which might be what my person actually was. It’s pronounced something like Train-CHA. You can hear it on this page, although you have to look for it: http://homepage.mac.com/schuffelen/vermeer.html
I just love Dutch names.
Tuesday, March 24th, 2009 at 1:22 am
Charity Sparrow is lovely. I also like Margery and Honor. I’m intrigued by Claertje and Amyes — they could be pretty, depending on how they’re pronounced.
And Charity Belt? Substitute a very similar-sounding virtue name for the first name, and this one makes me giggle!
Wednesday, March 25th, 2009 at 2:54 pm
I have no clue about Claertje, or even if it is legit. I found Claartje, though, which according to my extremely novice Dutch skills, would be something like clar-cha. Don’t take my word for it, though!
Charity Belt makes me giggle in an immature fashion, too. Heh. Charity Belt.
Saturday, April 18th, 2009 at 12:44 am
How funny. I followed this link from another name website, not looking for anything genealogical, but it seems we are related! I thought the name Trijntjen Sijmons sounded familiar so I looked it up on the family tree a relative made; yep, there she is, born in 1612.
I also have Sparrows and Piers in my family tree.
Monday, April 20th, 2009 at 12:15 pm
Well hey there cousin! Sorry for not getting back to you right off, I’ve been taking a bit of a breather from the blog. Are you descended from Franz Delange and Rachel Pier? We should see for how long our lines mingle!