52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks – Week Three – Long Lines

Long lines … interesting.    Long lines could mean a lot of things.

Return lines at Walmart after Christmas.

Or check out lines at a grocery store before a good winter storm in Michigan.

Or lines at a gas station in the south before a hurricane.

Or the dreaded TSA lines at the airport or customs lines

In genealogy or family history, long lines can have a few different meanings too.

Ancestors who were all fisherman, preachers, career military, scholars, teachers, lawyers, shop keepers, inn keepers, farmer,  patriots, government officials, statesman, Earls, Dukes!

Or your long lines can be lineages, lengthy lineages…

So lets look at my mother’s side of the family.

In Norway…

Soren Ostre Kjole (1565-1604) – 9th Great Grandfather

Anund Olsen Sevik (1613-1697)  – 8th Great Grandfather

Ole Evansen Vestgarden (1620-1680) Kristi (1630-1693) – 8^th Great Grandparents

These Norwegians are all fisherman.

In the Netherlands…

Andries Van Valkenburg (1540-1609) Lea Kittel (1560-1609) – 11X Great Grandparents

He was a nobleman.  This family left the Netherlands but at this time in history the borders between Germany and the Netherlands changed often  depending upon which warring faction raided the area this week.  In the midst of the Palatine persecution, Many Germans/ Dutch people left for safer countries.

In England…

Sir John Reynolds (1590- 1641) Sarah Chesterfield (1614-1657) – 8th Great Grandparents

Sir George Reynolds (1555-1634) Thomasyn Church ( 1566-1634) – 9^th Great Grandparents

Sir John Spencer (1300-1386) Alice Deverell – 18^th Great Grandparents

Sir Richard Deverell (1275-) – 19^th Great Grandfather

Sir Richard Polard (1278) – 19^th Great Grandfather

John Bailey ( 1618-1696) Lydia Backus (1637-1696) – 8^th Great Grandparents

Henry Baylie (1583-1638) Elizabeth Reade (1590-1620) – 9^th Great Grandparents

William Backus (1606-1664) Elizabeth Ellen Cook (1603-1643) – 9^th Great Grandparents

Sarah Moss – 10^th Great Grandmother

John Alexander (1603-1677) Agnes E Graham (1597- 1677) – 9^th Great Grandparents

Sir John Thomas Graham (1573-1626) Margaret Ruthven ( ) – 10^th Great Grandparents

John Pratt (1565- 1619) Elizabeth Webb (1567-1615) – 9^th Great Grandparents

William Gooden ( ) Elizabeth White (1591-1676) – 9^th Great Grandparents

Robert White (1558-1617) Bridget Allgar (1562-1605) – 10^th Great Grandparents

Edward Dix ( 1616-1660) Deborah (1615 ) – 8^th Great Grandfather

Anthony Dykes (Dix) (1580-1638) Tabitha Pittman (1605-1688) – 9^th Great Grandparents

John Perry ( ) Judith Vassell (1582- 1650) – 10^th Great Grandparents

John Vassell (1573-1625) Anna Russell (1549-1593) – 11^th Great Grandparents

Lord Jean de Vassal (1519-1612) Anne Hawes (1528-1545) – 12^th Great Grandparents

Frances Russell (1527-1585) Margaret St John (1524-1594) – 12^th Great Grandparents

John Burnham (1500- ) Dorothy (1501-) – 11^th Great Grandparents

Thomas Andrews (1512-1593) Anne Wiley (1544-1633) – 11^th Great Grandparents

Johane (Thomas) Franklin (1514-1570) Alice Alme (1525-1622) – 11^th Great Grandparents

And on my father’s side of the family….

In Germany ….

Jacob Cruetz (1680-1753) Maria Catherine Pette (1685-1719) – 8^th Great Grandparents

Hans M Raupp (1623-1694) Anna Catharina (1625-1683) – 9^th Great Grandparents

Hans Simon Nagel (1623-1693) Catharina (1625-1691) – 9^th Great Grandparents

In England….

William Dudley (-1684) Jane Lutman ( ) – 9^th Great Grandparents

Edward Slade ( -1604) – 12^th Great Grandfather

Sir Thomas Leete (1520-1582) Lady Dorothy of Warde (1528-1587) – 12^th Great Grandparents)

Robert Shute (1530-1590) Thomasine Burgoyne (1527-1577) – 11^th Great Grandparents

George Strong (1556-1636) Ann Bond (1560-1628) – 11^th Great Grandparents

Deacon William Holton (1608) Mary Winche (1612-1691) – 9^th Great Grandparents

All the English ancestors listed for both the paternal and maternal side of the family are early Colonial Settlers and /or their parents who may have remained in England. These that came to the colonies all arrived as free man and many are or have ties to nobility which is why the families have been painstakingly recorded. Peasants have much less accurate information. This is by no means a complete list but I thought it was enough for illustrate some “long lines”.

All the German/ Dutch ancestors left due to warring factions and instability in their home countries and promises of a new beginnings in the colonies. The Dutch and German except for nobility, came as indentured  settlers who became free after several years of dedicated service to colonies and the current Crown.

I had not really looked at theses lines for a time and was pleasantly surprised how many there were.  A number of years ago, I used a iPhone App called “We’re Related”.  It was a Metadata Crawler program which once started just continually ran comparing your tree data to other data on Ancestry.com. It was an app under the ancestry.com umbrella of tools.  Much of these long lines were established  through the use of this app and then researched to verify the accuracy of the data.

I have a new phone and I can no longer find the app in the app store.  I am not surprised the app is no longer available.  I am certain that the app reeked havoc with Ancestry’s network.  It was good while it lasted.  After the first year, I was so overwhelmed with data, that I started a spreadsheet and maintained it for  few years. All that data is now a part of my research pool.  When I have extra time or a research puzzle.   I dig into that data, use ancestry, familysearch.com and all my other tools.

So there you have it…a few on my “long lines”.

Happy Hunting,

Jan