OUR GENEALOGY AND HISTORY
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THE EARLIEST KNOWN ANCESTOR OF MY FAMILY IS HUGO DE WALFORD WHO WAS BORN ABOUT 1109 IN WARWICKSHIRE, ENGLAND AT WALFORD CASTLE. THE ORIGIN OF THE NAME WALFORD IS "TO WOBBLE" AS IN A TREACHEROUS BRIDGE OR CROSSING. THE NEXT OLDEST IS WARREN OF TIDESWELL WHO WAS BORN AROUND 1208. BETWEEN THESE ANCESTORS AND NOW THERE ARE COUNTLESS NAMES, MANY OF WHICH WE'LL NEVER KNOW BUT MANY THAT WE DO, INCLUDING: ABBOTT, BARNES, BARNET/BARNETT/BARNETTE, BERNARD, BENNETT, BROOKE, BROWN, CAMERON, CHAMBERS, DAVENPORT, DAVIS, DELLINGER, DENNARD, DORE, FARNUM, FISK, GARMON/GARMAN, GODFREY, HARDEN/HARDIN, JACKSON, KNOX, MARSH, MILLS, MOLINSEM, MOORE, MURDOCK, PASLEY/PASSLEY, PLUNKET/PLUNKETT, PRESCOTT, SCHNEIDER, SEAY, SHAW, SMITH (OF COURSE), STEPHENS, STRONG, THOMPSON, TIDESWELL/TIDDESWALL/TIDWELL/TYDDESWELL/TYDSWALL, WALFORD/WOLFORD/WOFFORD, WATERS, WEIDNER, WHITENER/WHITNER, WILFONG, WILSON, WOODCOTE AND YOUNG.
IN THE PAST COUPLE OF HUNDRED YEARS MY FATHERS FAMILY IS DESCENDED FROM ISSAC WOFFORD, JR. WHO HAD BENJAMIN WHO HAD A SON GROVER CLEVELAND, GC HAD SEVERAL CHILDREN WITH BESSIE WATERS WOFFORD, INCLUDING MY GRANDFATHER JOSEPH HARRISON WHO HAD MY FATHER JOSEPH MARCUS, JM FOR SHORT.
MY MOTHERS FAMILY IS NAMED SHAW, HER FATHER WAS REV. WILLIAM D., WHOSE FATHER WAS GEORGE WASHINGTON, WHO WAS THE SON OF REV. GEORGE A. WHOSE FATHER WAS EDMUND JACKSON WHO WAS THE SON OF WILLIAM W. WHO WAS THE SON OF JOHN SHAW, SR. WHOSE FATHER WAS JAMES WHO WAS THE SON OF JAMES.
MY GRANDMOTHERS WERE WATERS, GARMONS, PASLEYS, AND BARNETS, WHO DESCENDED FROM PLUNKETS, ABBOTTS, DAVIS', AND WHITENER WOMEN. MY GREAT-GRANDFATHERS WERE DESCENDED FROM GODFREYS, YOUNGS, SHELDON/ SHELTONS, AND MOORE WOMEN.
MY ANCESTORS LANDED IN NORTH AMERICA IN MANY DIFFERENT PLACES INCLUDING MASSACHUSETTS, MARYLAND, VIRGINIA, NORTH, AND SOUTH CAROLINA AND PENNSYLVANIA.
THE FIRST WHITE ANCESTOR LANDED HERE ABOUT 1620, MY NATIVE AMERICAN ANCESTORS HAVE BEEN HERE FOR MANY MORE YEARS OF COURSE AND INCLUDE MUSCOGEE AND TSA-LA-GI NATIONS ( CREEK AND CHEROKEE.)
RECENTLY WE HAVE BEEN TRYING TO DETERMINE IF WE HAVE ROMA, (GYPSY) AND MELUNGEON (A TRI-RACIAL MIX OF WHITE, NATIVE AMERICAN AND MEDITERRANEAN BLOOD) DUE TO THE PRESENCE OF THALASEMIA IN OUR BLOODLINE AFTER MATTIE HARDEN, WHO WAS MY GREAT-GRANDMOTHER LULA WHITENER BARNET'S MOTHER. THERE HAVE BEEN SEVERAL CASES OF THIS DISEASE MANIFESTING ITSELF IN OUR FAMILY AND IN SOME CASES IT HAS BEEN FATAL.
MOSTLY OUR HERITAGE IS ENGLISH, SCOTTISH, IRISH, GERMAN, FRENCH (HUNDREDS OF YEARS AGO), AND NATIVE AMERICAN. MY FATHERS FAMILY IS MOSTLY ENGLISH WHILE MY MOMS IS MOSTLY SCOTTISH; MY WIFES FAMILY INCLUDES ENGLISH AND NATIVE AMERICAN THAT WE KNOW ABOUT.
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