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	Links to further information organized by surname This page will be updated frequently, so check back often
Welcome Web Family Cards Surname Links	Some links are to information on my pages. They are highlighted in bold and italics. All other links have plain formatting. If you find link that doesn't work, have a link to add, or would like to comment please email me. Quick Surname Index A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X |Y | Z A   back to Quick Surname Index B BLY or BLIGH (see ETNYRE and RATHBONE) My BLY line migrated to Ogle Co., Illinois about 1845 from Chenango Co., New York.and married into my ETNYRE line. The BLYs had migrated through Rhode Island and Connecticut to Hermiker Co., New York and then to Greene in Chenango Co. A draft report Tracing the BLY Family is available. This report is currently being updated with new information so check back soon! Jamie L. BLY's Home Page of the Family BLY is a resource for the genealogy of this BLY line, though his page has no marriage or descendant data for my 4G Grandfather Thomas Rathbone BLY. My 3 G Grandfather, Henry BLY, served in the 140th Illinois One Hundred Day Regiment in the Civil War. A History of the 140th is available on-line.   back to Quick Surname Index C   back to Quick Surname Index D   back to Quick Surname Index E ETNYRE (See BLY) My Great Grandfather Henry Mentor ETNYRE was a descendant of Johannes EIDENEIER who arrived in Philadelphia on 4 Oct 1751 from the Palatinate. Other spellings of this surname include ETNIER, ETNIRE, ITNEYER, ITNYER, and ITNYRE. A report giving six generations of descendants of Johannes EIDENEIER is available. The primary source for this information is Etnier - Etnire - Etnyre - Itneyer - Itnyer - Itnyre; Descendants of Johannes Eideneier - Eidinor (Ide-ee-neer) compiled by Oliver L. ETNIER in the years 1925-1928. back to Quick Surname Index F FUCHS My 4 G Grandfather Pastor Adolf FUCHS and his family immigrated to Texas in 1846 from Koelzow near Rostock in Mecklenburg-Schwerin. Highly educated, he served as school teacher in the Cat Spring school in Austin County. He is recognized by an exhibit at the Institute of Texan Cultures as an early proponent of public education in Texas having petitioned the legislature for financial aid for the school in 1849. Later he taught music to the young ladies of the Baylor Female College at Independence. Petition to the Texas State Legislature Two Generations of descendants of Adolf and Luise FUCHS Brian BIVONA's Genealogy Page Brian BIVONA's wife is a descendant of Adolf and Luise FUCHS. Brian's page has a transcription of Adolf FUCHS' farewell sermon to his parish in Koelzow, as well as a transcription of a letter he wrote later from Texas to friends and relatives in Germany. Adolf's daughter and my 3 G Grandmother, Ottilie Fuchs GOETH, published her memoirs Was Grossmutter Erzaehlt in 1915. Irma Goeth GUENTHER, one of her granddaughters, translated them into English and published them privately in 1969. At the urging of, among others, Professor Hubert HEINEN of the University of Texas at Austin, Mrs. GUENTHER published them with Eakin Press in 1982. Though now out of print, the volume is as Professor HEINEN characterized in the introduction of the 1982 edition "... a classic document of Texas pioneer days ... She wrote with the descriptive and objective eye - and at times in the manner - of a nineteenth-century realistic novelist and thus provided memoirs which are at once aesthetically pleasing and at the same time invaluable as a source for scholars, teachers and students ..." back to Quick Surname Index G   back to Quick Surname Index H   back to Quick Surname Index I   back to Quick Surname Index J   back to Quick Surname Index K   back to Quick Surname Index L   back to Quick Surname Index M   back to Quick Surname Index N NUNN My NUNN line traces back to my 6 G Grandfather Francis NUNN in Craven Co., North Carolina. Later, Edmund NUNN was one of the first settlers of Sumter Co., Georgia. Other decendants of Francis NUNN include Former President James Earl CARTER, Jr., and Former U. S. Senator from Georgia Sam NUNN. Toni Reed maintains a NUNN Genealogy Page which includes my line. Read my transcription of Rev. George WHITE's 1855 description of Sumter Co., Georgia. It includes a list of the earliest settlers. back to Quick Surname Index O   back to Quick Surname Index P  PEARCE (see TIPS) My PEARCE line came to Texas in 1835 from Adams Co., Illinois, and before that from Mason Co., Kentucky. The PEARCEs developed ties with several prominent German Texan families. Benjamin B. PEARCE married Louisa HORNUNG; her sister Julia HORNUNG lived with them for a few years before she married Henry RUNGE, a merchant in Indianola and Galveston. Benjamin and Louisa's daughter Mary Jane married Walter TIPS, who became a successful businessman in Austin. I am currently researching this line. A presentation of the evidence I have linking this PEARCE line to the BYRAM line in Mason Co., Kentucky is available back to Quick Surname Index Q   back to Quick Surname Index R RATHBONE or RATHBUN (see BLY) John RATHBONE was the patriarch of the RATHBONEs in the United States emigrating from Lancashire in the 1650's. He was one of the 16 original settlers which purchased and settled Block Island in the 1660s. My RATHBONE line migrated across Connecticut to New York. The RATHBONE Register collects information on RATHBONE and other variations of the name worldwide. The RATHBUN-RATHBONE-RATHBURN Family Historian is a resource for the family history of the descendants of John RATHBONE. Another link with information on this line of RATHBONEs and still another RATHBONE link. The University of Liverpool has a collection of papers from a prominent family of RATHBONEs in that city. back to Quick Surname Index S   back to Quick Surname Index T TIPS My 4 G Grandfather, Johann Conrad TIPS, who had been a city official in Elberfeld, as well as a Knight of the Red Eagle Order, left for Texas with his wife and eight children in 1849 aboard the Neptune. They settled near Seguin. While Johann and one of his daughters died in a yellow fever epidemic the following summer, the family prospered in Texas. My 3 G Grandfather, Walter E. TIPS, became an influential businessman in Austin and Texas State Senator. A history of the TIPS family is available. The major source for this information is the TIPS section of Robert J. ROBINSON's Die Bremerverwandschaft in Deutchland und in Texas. A photo of the TIPS hardware store on Congress Avenue in Austin is available at the University of Texas' Austin History page. Elise TIPS, Walter's older sister married Otto WUPPERMANN in September 1850. In the last days of the Civil War the family returned to Germany by way of Mexico. After her marriage Elise began to keep a diary, Texanische Tagebücher. Their daughter, Clara Wupperman TAFEL wrote her Texas Reminiscences in 1925. These are collected on-line and prefaced by letters from Otto WUPPERMANN to his father from his early days in Texas. back to Quick Surname Index U   back to Quick Surname Index V   back to Quick Surname Index W   back to Quick Surname Index X   back to Quick Surname Index Y   back to Quick Surname Index Z   back to Quick Surname Index
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