Subj : Re: memories of welland c To : JOE MACKEY From : NANCY BACKUS Date : Tue Feb 11 2020 21:38:00 -=> Quoting Joe Mackey to Nancy Backus on 02-10-20 06:52 <=- JM> Nancy wrote -- > One just has to dig deeper to get those stories... sometimes one can > find out from newspaper articles... or might be able to extrapolate from > histories of the area... :) JM> For the most part they are were settlers and always on the move JM> west. They moved from Philadelphia were they landed in 1756 and by JM> 1856 where in parts of VA that is now WV. They took up lumbering, had JM> a saw mill, etc. The era they settled down when my great-grandfather JM> was born (c.1850s) was heavily forested. Still is, though they did JM> their part to change that. :) What they did in Scotland before 1756 JM> is unknown. Probably smugglers. Smuggling was a respectable business... at least among some groups... ;) One of my Scottish ancestors was a bookseller, and also published/edited a literary magazine for a while.... his son came to the States and became a seed merchant in Norfolk Va... :) > Actually, If your mother's kin came from England in the 1600s, they > quite likely were younger sons of somewhat noble families JM> I used to always joke they were probably indentured servants or JM> scoundrels. :) Also possible, I suppose.... JM> As for her fathers side they came from Germany but no idea when. I JM> used to tell her they were probably Hessian POWs who stayed on. Possible... some of those were actually quite respectable people... :) > So you are clearly a cousin of mine, of some sort... JM> Well in the grand scheme of things we are all related somehow. :) True... ttyl neb .... A plan so cunning that if it had a tail it would be a weasel. ___ Blue Wave/QWK v2.20 --- Platinum Xpress/Win/WINServer v3.0pr5 * Origin: Fido Since 1991 | QWK by Web | BBS.FIDOSYSOP.ORG (1:123/140) .