Mam-ma's Southern Family

This is my fourth year working on this year-long 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks prompt, hosted by Amy Johnson Crow. I will write each week in one of my two blogs, either Mam-ma’s Southern Family or at My Trails into the Past. I have enjoyed writing about my children’s ancestors in new and exciting ways. My maternal side of the family is all southern ancestry. I probably have family in every southern state from Virginia all the way west to Texas. One of the names that is prevalent in my mother’s Coor and Welch family lines is the first name Dempsey. There are eight generations of men named Dempsey. I shall keep them straight by referring to them with their birth year. The earliest named Dempsey that I have found is Dempsey Welch , supposedly born in 1725 in Virginia, and husband of Priscilla Perry, who was born in 1731 in North Carolina. I have not yet researched this family personally, but a proposed father of Dempsey was Jacob Welch. However, there is no wife's name. Could she have ...

This is my fourth year working on this year-long 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks prompt, hosted by Amy Johnson Crow. I will write each week in one of my two blogs, either Mam-ma’s Southern Family or at My Trails into the Past. I have enjoyed writing about my children’s ancestors in new and exciting ways. Our family is not blessed with lots of multiple births. On my husband’s side, there are none in the Gorrell, Shotts, Bishop/Bischoff, Wollenweber, or Voehringer lines.  There was one set of twins in the Davey line: Julia & Emma Davey, born in October 1845 in London, but they both died in the same year. On my side of the family, there are none in the Hork/Horoch, Sommer, Trösster, Döbener, Sievert, Sullivan, Gleeson, Tierney, Johnston, Hutson, Selman, Welch, or Polly lines. However, there were a few sets of twins: Laura and Ellen Jones, both born in 1863, however, Ellen did not survive childhood. Earl and Pearl Lancaster, who were born 4 Jun 1907 and lived to marry. George and M...