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The Taylors, Johnston and Millirons |
Biographies
The Fred and Anna Taylor Biography - a family history from the first half of the twentieth century of a Kansas farm family.
The story of the Sam Taylor family,
pioneers in Phillips County, Kansas. Sam was Edwin Taylor's brother.
A Miracle Finding of Lost Love A young lady comes to America in search of the father of her child, a McBride story. Includes the story of Covenanters leaving Scotland for Ireland in the 1600's.
Kansas Ho! - A Recollection of a Trip
in a Covered Wagon in Kansas in 1906, by Marjorie (McBride) Weaver.
I have listed our three pioneer families in the Kansas Pioneer Project.
Visit my Kansas History Page for a collection of links to web sites about your Kansas heritage.
- the Beatys |
Hulda Sarah (Beaty) Taylor's grandfather, Robert Beaty, was likely a descendant of immigrants John and Susanna (_______) Beaty, born about 1667 in Ireland, and died March 17, 1745/46 in Chester County, PA.
See the Beatty Home Page for
more information about immigrant John Beaty and his family.
Most of what we know about the Beatys comes from several people who have assembled their knowledge in the Beaty database known as Beaty Project 2000. Many thanks to those of you that contributed your hard earned material from the descendants of Hulda (Beaty) Taylor!
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John and Martha (____) Earhart Pennsylvania > Ohio > Missouri |
John Earhart, our earliest known Earhart ancestor, born in 1777, in, we believe, PA. The origins of both the Millirons and Earhart families, based solely on the origin of their names, is presumed to be German / Palatine. It appears that both families migrated through Pennsylvania, and therefore may be considered that class of immigrant called Pennsylvania Dutch (which actually means German, i.e. from Deutshe) or also called Palatine German. The migration patterns of these two families seems to somewhat parallel each other. .
Earliest Known Ancestor - John and Martha (________) Earhart
Stories of the Migrations of the Children
of Benjamin Earhart, Rebecca Donalson, Sarah Shotwell, and Hiram Boulware.
Benjamin Earhart was married twice. He had children by both marriages and
his second wife had children from a previous marriage. So, as far as we
descendants are concerned, we have full cousins, half-cousins, and step
cousins from these four ancestors, depending on your perspective. These
children were born from 1835 - 1864.
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German Palatine Immigrant - 1759 Revolutionary War Veteran |
Kansas Pioneer Hulda (Beaty) Taylor was a granddaughter of Jacob and Mary (Connoly) Vatter / Feather through Sarah (Feather) Beaty, Iowa Pioneer. Jacob Vatter (Feather) was a Palatine immigrant, i.e. from the area of Germany called the Rhineland Palatinate, an area of devastation and famine in the late 1600's and early 1700's. Palatine German's migrated to various parts of the world, many to US, particularly Pennsylvania. The term Pennsylvania Dutch includes Palatine immigrants, and can also include immigrants from other parts of Germany.
Pages concerning Jacob Feather, immigrant:
Recap and Summary of Jacob
Feather's Revolutionary War Pension File
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From Danby Dale, Danby Parish, Yorkshire, England |
Mary Fletcher was the wife of immigrant Joseph Nellis. I don't know if they married in England and came to America, or if she came came to Canada with her folks and she married Joseph in Canada.
She was born November 10, 1805, at the time of the Louisiana Purchase,
in Danby Dale, Danby Parish, Yorkshire, England to John and Mary
(___) Fletcher. She and Joseph Nellist had their first child of which we
are aware, Mary, on December 04, 1834, in Colborne, Cramahe, Northumberland,
Ontario, Canada (about the time of the Texas Revolution). Mary would marry
Archibald Johnston, of a neighboring family, on January 01, 1857, in Colborne,
Ontario, Canada. She and Archibald would then migrate to the United States
during the Civil War, and with several stops on the way, homestead in Kansas
in 1881.
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The Johnstons from Berwickshire, Scotland Migrated to Canada 1836 |
Multi-generation Timeline History
Visit the Berwickshire Web Page to learn more about Berwickshire and resources about its history and genealogy.
Maps
Click on
the Scottish Borders section of this map of Scotland. The portion of
the map entitled "Scottish Borders" is where these generations of our Scottish
ancestors lived. Click on that area of the map and you will see reference
to towns called Dun, Coldstream, and others mentioned in our genealogy.
Click on the area called Dumfries and Galloway, and you will see mention
of the historic Johnston place names Annandale and Lockerbie. Our Kansas
Pioneer, Archibald Johnston, was born in the area called Berwick, (which
I gather is the equivalent of the name for a county to us Americans), in
the general area of Duns and Coldstream, now part of what is called the
Scottish Borders. Others of Archibald's brothers and sisters were pioneers
in Ontario, Canada and Michigan.
The Johnston clan was a border clan (or upland clan, as opposed to a highlander clan or lowlander clan), which can trace our history back to 1200 A.D. We are most likely of the Annandale branch of the Johnston clan (as opposed to the Aberdeenshire branch), as our ancestors' home in the Scottish Borders is just east of the ancestral Johnston area called Annandale and city of Lockerbie. Our historical enemies included the clan's Maxwell and the Douglas's. Our legendary "primary" castle was Lochwood. The Johnston's were generally known as pro-Jacobite's, (i.e. for the Stewart family regaining the English crown) but the civil war split families and clans, so not sure which side our family may have been on during the years of the Bonnie Prince Charlie uprising. See this biography of James Johnston, the Chevalier de Johnston, a Jacobite at the Battle of Culloden.
We have traced three generations of our ancestors in Scotland to the county of Berwick. This website talks about how William Wallace, the person whom the movie Braveheart was about (starring Mel Gibson), recaptured Berwick from the English before his big defeat at Falkirk.
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Henry and Mary (Tombleson) McCart Early Ohio Pioneers - 1812 |
Henry and Mary (Tombleson) McCart were among the earliest pioneers in Ohio, we think by 1802, certainly by 1812. The petition for entry of the Northwest Territory into the United States was in 1799, when the territory had reached the minimum population of 500 souls to petition. He was in the Northwest Territory at that time. After marrying Mary Tombleson in 1802, they became a member of the earliest settlement group in Richland County, Ohio, in the spring of 1809. Then, by about 1815, they moved and were amongst the earliest settlers in Plymouth township in the northwest part of the county. They would stay here for the rest of their lives.
Earliest Known McCart Ancestor
See my Irish Heritage Page to learn
more about Irish heritage.
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Early Pennsylvania Pioneers |
We descendants of Kansas Pioneers find ourselves descended from McClelland
Stock with the marriage of Agnes / Nancy McClelland to Thomas Taylor approximately
1790. For more of the story of that family down to the current day, see
the Taylor section. We don't know much about the ancestry of our McClelland's,
only that Agnes' dad's name was John. We do, however, have extensive knowledge
of Agnes' siblings and are in touch with several cousins from those siblings.
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Scotch-Irish Pioneers |
My McConnell lineage stems from the marriage of Margaret McConnell
to John McClelland. Their daughter, Nancy Agnes McClelland, married Thomas
Taylor in Westmoreland or Beaver Co, Penn approximately 1790.
McConnell links, including links to McConnellsburg, founded by our ancestors in about 1786, as well as other McConnell pages.
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From PA to KY(?) to OH and then.... |
Michael Millirons was born, in 1760, who later married a lady with the first name Martha, and had 10 children, one of which is Samuel, the ascendant of the branch I am in. After leaving, we believe, Pennsylvania, the Millirons went to Kentucky first (there in 1810), then onto Scioto County, OH (there in 1830), which is where many of the mounds of the Mound Builder indians are located. This county is on the southern edge of Ohio and is bordered on the south by the Ohio River. Across the river is West Virginia. This is where the Millirons lived for many years before some of the children migrated to Missouri in the 1850's.
Time-Line History of the Millirons family and its migrations.
Biography of John and Martha Jane (Earhart)
Millirons and their Children.
Links:
The Millirons Surname Study Page: Millirons Anyplace - Anytime. Links, a Millirons database.
Many Millirons in the Altman Genealogy Home DataBase
Michael and Christopher Millirons in the Madison Co, Scioto Co, census on-line.
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Milliron Genealogy - Not related to ours as far as I know
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From PA to Ohio to Iowa |
We find our earliest Taylor's in Pennsylania just following the Revolution. Early pioneers to Westmoreland County, and then among the earliest of settlers in Beaver Co, Penn, when it was opened for settlement in the 1790's.
Earliest Known Ancestor
See my Scotch-Irish Heritage Page
See the histories of Thomas Taylor and his children. Samuel, Alexander, Robert, James, Johnson, Nancy and Thomas W. growing up in Beaver County, PA and Richland County, Ohio.
See the biography of Iowa Pioneer James (1811-1889) and Sarah (McCart) Taylor and, the parents of Kansas Pioneer Edwin Maxwell Taylor. He immigrated to Iowa from Ohio in 1856.
See the story of the Migrations of James Taylor and His Children. From Beaver County, PA, to Richland County, Ohio, to Washington County, Iowa.
The Biography of Edwin and Hulda (Beaty)
Taylor. From Washington County, Iowa to Cloud County, Kansas.
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From ?? to Scioto Co, Ohio |
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Fairfield, Ohio |
Henry Tomlinson was in Fairfield, Ohio by 1800. His daughter, Mary,
married Henry McCart, in Fairfield Co, Ohio February 18, 1802
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