Our Family Museum:
A Collection of Family History Notes

November 1995

The files in this archive (located at ftp://ftp.cac.psu.edu/pub/genealogy/text/data/chyfamus.zip) are plain ASCII text files, comprising the genealogical compendium Our Family Museum, by James Nohl Churchyard, as well as conversions into HTML format of portions of this book (the full work has many biographical details and source citations not included in the HTML files). See the file README for descriptions of all files.

Over 360 different family names, and 835 individuals are indexed in these HTML files (and there is some information on a further 1,200 close collaterals). The main regions of origin are England, Quebec/France, the Rhineland (Germany), Ulster, and colonial and post-revolutionary New England, New York (New Amsterdam), and the middle states.

The author's contact address is:

(The author is not on-line, but e-mail to H. Churchyard -- who did the conversion into HTML -- at [email protected] [as of 2/96] will be forwarded.)

Table of Contents

• Summary of main ancestral lines [This file.]
• Lineal Surname Index [This file.]
• Table of contents of detailed information available on some selected ancestors [This file.]
• Introduction (Part A of Our Family Museum): (25k)
  • Summary of main ancestral lines
    • Printing History
    • Copyright Notices
  • Contents
  • Reviews
  • The Contents and The Structure of this Book
  • Principal Family Names (attested for four or more generations): Anderson, Baldwin, Barnhart, Becker, Benedict, Best, Betzer, Bissonette, Blackwell, Carson, Casselberry, Churchyard, Demers, Denis-Lapierre, Drouillard, Dunkerson (Dunkerson), Eckerson, Evans, Freeman, Garvin, Goodwin, Hall, Hartley, Houde, Howes, Huntzinger, Lamarre, Lockwood, Lounhart, Lowry, Marvin, Monet(te), Moore, Nohl, Olmsted, Orr, Paddock, Remillard, Scott, Sears, St. John, Surprenant, Threadkell, Uzille (Siele), van Dyck, Vredenburgh, Wright.
  • Roll of Ancestral Services
  • A Note on Dutch Given Names
  • Urgent Queries (Best, Blomfield, Chadderdon, Duncanson, McCluskey, Webb, Norton, St. John, Stone, Tobey)
• Detailed Lineal Ancestor Charts (Part B of Our Family Museum; also including a few collaterals in distant generations):
  • Index to Lineal Ancestry Charts:
    A-H, J-Z. (62k each)
    • Lineal Surname Index [This file]
    • Full Lineal Surname Indexes: A-H, J-Z; (with date and place annotations).
    • Indexes of Persons: A-H, J-Z; (lineal ancestors; with date and place annotations).
    • Index of surnames for which four or more generations are known.
  • Lineal Ancestry charts
    • Table of Contents to Charts (13k)
      (not the same as the indexes)
    • How to read the four-generation genealogical charts (4k)
    • Genealogy charts, Part 1A (68k)
      ...beginning with Chart B1.
    • Genealogy charts, Part 1B (70k)
      ...beginning with Chart B72.
    • Genealogy charts, Part 2A (68k)
      ...beginning with Chart B110.
    • Genealogy charts, Part 2B (69k)
      ...beginning with Chart B567.
    • Genealogy charts, Part 3 (71k)
      ...beginning with Chart B812.
• Comprehensive overview chart of lineal ancestors (includes a few ancestors not included in the detailed Part B charts above):
  • HTML hypertext version of Overview chart (88k)
  • Plaintext non-HTML version of Overview chart (58k)
• GEDCOM files:
  • Gedcom file of lineal ancestors and close collaterals (407k) (3 Mar 1996 version)
  • Gedcom file of direct lineal ancestors only (184k) (3 Mar 1996 version)
• Lineal Ancestor coverage table (3k)
• Lists which include close collaterals (taken from Part C of Our Family Museum):
  • Index of both lineal and close collateral ancestors:
    • A-H Index (78k)
    • J-Z Index (77k)
  • List of siblings (and half-siblings and step-siblings) of lineal ancestors (cross-referenced with the lineal ancestry charts):
    • List of collaterals, Part 1 (60k)
    • List of collaterals, Part 2 (61k)
    • List of collaterals, Part 3 (61k)
    • List of collaterals, Part 4 (62k)
• Simple (non-hypertext) list of all surnames which are indexed in plain ASCII text version of Our Family Museum (includes surnames of spouses of collaterals and other more remotely connected individuals who are not included in any of the HTML indexes above). (14k)
• Two Postscript charts, an 8-generation fan chart of lineal ancestors (21k) and a 5-generation chart with collateral ancestors (15k) (to be printed on US letter size paper, 8½ by 11 inches)
• JNC -- Principal Family Names being Researched (2k)
• More detailed information on selected ancestors: (in no particular order!)
  • The strangest intermarriage among my ancestors (2k)
  • Dozens of Cousins -- cousin intermarriages among the Bradt, Slingerland, Mebie, etc. ancestors of Annatje Eckerson (born 1787, Schoharie NY) (11k)
  • The Civil War Diary of James Laughlin Orr (covers Sherman's march to the sea, November and December 1864) (22k)
  • The Apprenticeship Indenture of Henry Churchyard (amusingly quaint legal document of 1845) (4k)
  • Immigration Trip Diary of Friedrich Nohl, 1849 (28k) (Westphalia, Germany - Wisconsin, USA)
  • Information on Pieter Jacobse Borsboom and his wife Grietje, in Dutch and British colonial New York. (9k)
  • The acknowledgement of the paternity of Maria Truax's child by a man other than her husband (1642, New Amsterdam) (3k)
  • The French and Indian raid on Deerfield Massachusetts, 1704 (24k)
    Material from a talk given by James Nohl Churchyard; includes genealogical chart of Catlin and French of Deerfield.
    • The Catlin and Corse families of Deerfield Massachusetts (13k)
  • A Brief Biography of William Carson, Indian Fighter (3k)
  • Overview chart of lineal ancestors of Edward III of England and Philippa of Hainault (78k)
    • See also the hyperlinked Royal Genealogies with some annotations (not part of this archive)
  • Miriam Florence Best, Doings Diary 1911-1913
    College diary (Mankato, Minnesota); includes some interesting personal entries.
  • Photograph of Vesta Ruth Huntzinger Hann (Carson), taken for her high-school graduation, Indiana, 1900
• Raw list of HTML files in this directory

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Summary of main ancestral lines

This volume presents the ancestry (as far as it is known) of the children of James Nohl Churchyard and his former wife, Martha Orr. The following eight ancestral lines start from parentage chart B1.

Churchyard

of Suffolk Co., England, and French-Canadian lines of Monette, Houde and many more, including Baldwin, Catlin and Corse of Deerfield, MA.

Nohl

of Germany and several New England lines: Benedict, Lockwood, Olmsted and St. John. A Nohl autobiography covering 1767-1838 (included in the plain ASCII text version) and an emigration diary of 1849 are available.

Best

includes several Palatine German (1709) and earlier New York Dutch and Huguenot lines such as Barnhart, Eckerson, van Dyck and Vredenburgh.

McCluskey

and Webb, New Brunswick loyalists; and Bailey and McCausland of County Tyrone, Ulster, including a link to the Buchanan clan of Scotland.

Orr

of Ulster and Indiana, including Howes, Anderson, Sears, and various New England lines, some to the Mayflower.

Dunkerson

(or Duncanson), Blackwell, and Jeffress of Virginia, Casselberry and Garvin of Pennsylvania. One line is carried back to King Edward III of England through the Wrights of Oyster Bay, New York.

Carson

of Franklin and Evansville, Indiana.

Huntzinger

of Pennsylvania and Indiana, Carpenter and Hartley of West Virginia.

Lineal 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 ?

• Adriaens, Agatha, Alfred, King of England, Anceline, Anderson, Archambault, Armand, Arsick, Aubert.
• Bailey, Baldwin, Bangs, Barnhart, Bartlett, Beale, Bearse, Beaupre, Beauvais, Becker, Beer, Benedict, Bernhardt, Bernhart, Best, Betzer, Beyer, Bissonette, Blackwell, Blumfeild, Blyant, Bobie, Boecker, Boivin, Bonner, Boquet, Borsboom, Boteler, Botjagers, Boucher, Bouck, Boudemer, Boughton, Boulet, Bourdon, Bouton, Bouvillon, Bradt, Bray, Breton-Helie, Brewster, Bridgum, Bristow, Buck, Burr.
• Cadiel, Calye, Cam, Carpenter, Carson, Casse, Casselberry, Cassier, Catlin, Chadderdon, Chaire, Chapman, Charlemagne, Emperor of the West, Charles, Chaucer, Chedville, Childs, Choret, Churchyard, Clement-Labonte, Clerice, Cochet, Coles, Colet, Collier, Corse, Cortedouat, Cowper, Creste, Croshaw, Crowell.
• Dagert, Dagesse, Dalzell, Damen, Darmine, David, Davis, de Arsick, de Beaufort, de Bresworth, de Coggeshall, de Monceaus, de Tymworth, Deane, Defoe, Demers, Denis-Lapiere, Denis-Lapierre, Denote, Dewey, Doerth, Doreward, Doublet, Doyley, Driby, Drouillard, du Chesne, du Trieux, Dubois, Dumas, Dumats, Dumont, Dumontet, Duncan, Duncanson, Dunkerson, Dunkeson, Dutost, Duttenfield.
• Eckerson, Edgar, Edward III, King of England, Ermolin, Evans.
• Faunce, Fayenne, Felles, Feuillart, Fiset, Fitzjeffries, Fizet, Foderinghay, Fotheringhay, Fonton, Foran, Forestier, Fournier, Francis, Francoeur, Franke, Freeman, Furford.
• Gaboury, Gadbury, Garvin, Gaschet, Gaudin, Gilbert, Glen, Glenn, Goche, Goodwin, Gosselin, Goupillet, Gravely, Grenier, Greviere, Guillaume, Guillois, Gunn, Gylbert.
• Hagenohl, Haggar, Hall, Harding, Harrison, Harsick, Hartley, Hawkwood, Hawkyns, Hedge, Hethersall, Higginson, Hillard, Hobart, Hogan, Holland, Hopkins, Houde, Houle, Hourdouil, Howard, Howes, Hubbard, Hulin, Hunloke, Huntzinger.
• Jaeckel, Jeffers, Jeffress, Jernegan, Jette, Jissioum, John of Gaunt, Jolivet, Jones.
• Kassenberg, King, Klein, Kool, Kuhn.
• Labbe, Labrecque, Laekens, Lamarre, Lambert, Lankester, Lansing, Lapierre, Larouche, Lauzon, le Strange, Lebec, Leber, Leduc, Lefebvre, Leger, Legrand, Lelong, Lemay, Lepotier, Liger, Lockwood, Lounhart, Lowry, Lussier.
• Malet, Malier, Manby, Markham, Marsh, Marvin, Maugis, Mayo, McCausland, McCluskey, Mebie, Merwin, Meunier, Meusnier, Monet, Monette, Montgomery, Moore, Moorehead, Mordaunt, Morel, Morissette, Moulin.
• Nelson, Neville, Niard, Nohl, Noirett, Nolde, Norton.
• Olmsted, Orr.
• Paddock, Palmer, Paxson, Peek, Peirin, Pepin, Petit, Philippa of Hainault, Pier, Pineau, Pomponelle, Porter, Prence, Prince.
• Quentin, Quint.
• Rau, Rees, Remillard, Reresby, Richards, Ring, Robinson, Roet, Rogers, Rokele, Rolleville, Roulois, Roux.
• Saltz, Savard, Schmidt, Schoales, Scofield, Scott, Sears, Senecal, Serre, Shaw, Shipp, Siele, Slany, Slingerland, Smith, Snow, Solde, Soulard, Sparrow, St. John, Stavely, Stebbins, Steinkopf, Stewart, Stone, Strutt, Surprenant, Swits.
• Taine, Tanfield, ten Kate, Testard, Tetu, Tetu-Lariviere, Threadkell, Tinker, Tobey, Toplady, Tourault, Townsend, Trommels, Truax, Turner, Tyndall.
• Usille, Uzille.
• van der Zee, van Dyck, van Etten, van Norden, van Rotmers, Veillon, Venet, von Danzich, von Heydt, Vredenburgh.
• Walker, Waller, Ward, Warner, Warren, Webb, Whatlock, Wheldon, Whitlock, Willard, William the Conqueror, Wiseman, Witchingham, Wotshall, Wright, Wunneberg, Wyndham, Wyseman.
• Yardly, Young.
• Zimmermann.
• [Unknown Surnames].