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30 October 2012

Van Valkenburg/Vollick UELAC

Issac Vollick  




Loyalist Directory: Isaac Vollick
(For a short explanation of each row, click on the row title ex. "surname")
Surname : Vollick
Given name : Isaac
Rank : Private
Where Resettled : Louth Township, Lincoln County, Ontario
Status as Loyalist : Proven
Source : UEL List
Notes (Expunged, Suspended, Reinstated) :
Regiment : Butler's Rangers
Enlistment Date :
Date & Place of Birth : In 1732 at Schoharia, New York Province
Settled before war :
Date & Place of Death : post 1802 Ontario
Place of Burial :
Wife Name : Married Anna Maria Warner at Schoharie NY on 28 October 1757.
Children : Vollick, Storm m. Spierback, Esther
Vollick John, m. Decou, Sarah
Vollick, Cornelius m. Larraway, Eve
Vollick, Sarah m. Crumb, Benoni
Vollic, Catherine m. Hainer, ?
Biography :
Proven Descendants : St. Catharines 1990.10.17
Col. John Butler 2003.03.10
Col. John Butler 2004.04.20
Col. John Butler 2006.10.10
Col. John Butler 2011-03-07
Col. John Butler 2011-07-11
Military Info :
Loyalist Genealogy : See the certificate application from Dian J. McIntee to her loyalist ancestor Isaac Vollick
Family History :
Family Genealogy :
Other Info : Information provided by Rick Smith and Dian J. McIntee



Information taken from:

http://www.uelac.org/Loyalist-Info/detail.php?letter=c&line=845

Lake Erie Ship Wrecks

David Putman , Shipwreck in Lake Erie, sunken ship
  Seeking out my ancestors ship wreck in Lake Erie is not easy at all.  Not only are ship wrecks shrouded in mystery but so are Maritime records.  Where does one even begin to know where to search?


I have been trying discover all possible leads on The ship "Good Intent".  I find more then one vessel with the same name:

Here are some things I have discovered:

Newspaper clipping web site Maritime History Of The Great Lakes., 

 NAVIGATION OF LAKE ERIE.---The GOOD INTENT, of 35 tons, was built by Capt. Lee in 1799 and navigated the lake till 1806, when she ran on Point Abino and was lost, together with her cargo and crew.
      Monroe Evening News
      February 1, 1834


The Schooner GOOD INTENT of 35 tons, was built in 1810, and lost on Point Appineau in 1816.
      Report on Buffalo Harbor
      Commercial Advertiser & Journal, Buffalo
      Wednesday, June 9, 1841 pp 2 col. 3, 4 & 5

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See my dilema

Then in books/Web addresses I have found by searching the Internet:

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GOOD INTENT
Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 180?, Mill Creek, Lake Erie
Specs : (30 t.)
Date of loss : 1825
Place of loss : 2 mi NE of Dunkirk, NY
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : (storm)
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : Wrecked, no detail available.
Another vessel named GOOD INTENT (maybe same vessel) was reported lost in 1805 or 6 on Point Abino with loss of all hands. She was built by Capt. Wm Lee in 1799 or 1800.
Sources: sol,h,hgl,mpl


Nothing conclusive.  Do you think they could ever say who the Captain was for the trip when it Sunk???

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Erie County, Pennsylvania

History of Erie County, Pennsylvania 1884

by Samuel P. Bates, 

Submitted by Gaylene Kerr Banister

 

Chapter XVI - Lake Navigation

The first vessel to sail the waters of Lake Erie was built by Robert Cavalier de la Salle, an adventurous Frenchman, on the Niagara River, six miles above the Falls, in the year 1677. She was named the Griffin, and was of sixty tons burthen. La Salle navigated Lakes Erie, Huron and Michigan, to Green Bay, in the present State of Wisconsin, where, with a picked number of men, he left the vessel and marched overland to the Mississippi. The remainder of the crew attempted to return to the Niagara, and are supposed to have been lost in a storm, as neither vessel nor men were heard from afterward. Nearly a hundred years later the French built another sailing vessel with which they undertook to navigate the lake. This second venture was as unsuccessful as the first, the vessel having foundered and forty-nine of her crew having been drowned.

No record is to be found of any other sailing vessel on the lake until 1766, when the British, who had secured possession of both shores, built and launched four. They were of light burthen, and were chiefly used for carrying troops and army supplies. All transportation of a commercial character, and all of the very limited passenger business was carried on by batteaux until after the close of the Revolutionary war. They kept close to the shore, were mainly propelled by paddles or oars, and if a sail was used it was simply a blanket fastened to a pole, to take advantage of favorable winds. The earliest American sailing vessel on the lake was a small boat, owned and run by Capt. William Lee, in which he carried passengers and light articles of freight between Buffalo and Erie. She was constructed to use oars in going against the wind, and had no crew, the passengers being obliged to work for their passage.

The first sailing vessel built on the south shore of Lake Erie was the sloop Washington, of thirty tons, under the superintendence of Eliphalet Beebe, at the mouth of Four Mile Creek, for the Pennsylvania Population Company, owners of the bulk of the land in the Triangle. She was launched in September, 1798, was employed for some twelve years in the service of the company, and was removed on rollers across the Niagara Peninsula, to Lake Ontario in 1810, where she was lost. The first vessel launched at Erie was built at the mouth of Mill Creek, in 1799, Capt. Lee and Rufus S. Reed being her principal owners. She was named the Good Intent and sunk at Point Albino in 1806, with all on board. The Harlequin, built at Erie in 1800, by Mr. Beebe, was also lost the first season, with her entire crew. About 1801, the Wilkinson, of sixty-five tons, was owned at Erie. She was commanded by Capt. Daniel Dobbins, in 1805. Another early Erie vessel was the schooner Mary, of 100 tons, built by Thomas Wilson, 1805.


Now to just find out where the ship was built??? 

 




29 October 2012

Flamborough Castle, UK



Constable Castle, Cumberworth, Maramduke



Catherine Cumberworth, Marmaduke Constable, Castle

Information & photos came from :



Flamborough Castle
TA 226-703 Yorkshire England
Flamborough Castle was originally a medieval fortified manor house, founded by Constable family. In 1351 and 1352, Marmaduke Constable founded the stone castle, when he was granted a licence to crenellate. The earlier clay rampart and ditch, was strengthen by a chalk curtain wall and a small chalk pele tower, with a vaulted basement, added to the complex range of buildings. Now only surrounded by earthworks, the three remaining walls of the Danish Tower, stand to first floor level. 4 miles south-west is The Bayle and 10 miles north-west is Hunmanby Castle.

Catherine Cumberworth, Marmaduke Constable, Castle


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 You may also like to a peek at this web site: http://www.flamboroughmanor.co.uk/village.htm
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Coat of Arms of Constable
Catherine Cumberworth, Marmaduke Constable, Castle



Ancestors and Hurricanes

Bad weather makes great conversation.  So here we have Sandy bout to make Landfall in 6+ hours.  

Hurricanes, Tornadoes, & Earthquakes.



Thinking about the Ancestors and how such storms could of ruined their livelyhood.

Do you have a story of your Ancestors and how their fate changed with with a Bad Storm?

I found a Blog/weatherunderground with listed year and storm info:

 http://www.wunderground.com/hurricane/deadly.asp

Please do share it.

26 October 2012

Name Origins

























 Name Origins








by Julie Helen Otto, Staff Genealogist of NEHGS
NUSS (m): Nuss S. Butterfield (d. 1839) of Stockbridge, Vt. (Hartford Probate District, Vt.; with thanks to Scott Andrew Bartley, who brought this name to my attention many years ago). Mr. Butterfield’s first name is probably a truncated form of some name with –nus as an element, perhaps the final syllable (e.g. Oceanus), a construction that abounds in both Latin and Greek. NUSS might also be a derivative of Celtic NAOISE (pronounced something like NEE-sheh), a name borne in ancient Ireland by the lover of Deirdre. I rather suspect a classical, or commemorative, derivation in this case.

Immagrant Style of Dress Was it sensable for their Tasks?

Would the  Immigrating Ancestors found these clothes  a hinderance to their new life in the New World?

fashion, Native American, New France


Here are clothing styles.  As I believe would not be suited for pastoral life but suited to city life.  Which of course they are over dressed for the Wilderness!

fashion, Native American, New France
By coping Native American dress, the fur traders were in the fore front of changing styles in New France.


fashion, Native American, New France

New France Arrivals.

fashion, Native American, New France



      












Name Origins from NEHGS




Name Origins

by Julie Helen Otto, Staff Genealogist
ALCIBIADES (m): A prominent Athenian statesman (ca. 450-404 B.C.) during the Peloponnesian War, who claimed descent from the Argonaut Nestor (who appears in Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey). In childhood a ward of Pericles, and later a friend of the philosopher Socrates, Alcibiades held power in Athens but defected to Sparta after accusations of sacrilege, and later to Persia. Returning to Athens, he was reinstated and was instrumental in several victories but was again exiled and later assassinated; his character and career are still controversial. Alcibiades Whittier (b. Dorchester, Mass. ca. 1818-20) of Reading, Mass. was a cabinet maker in Massachusetts (he is enumerated in Reading in 1850 as “Archibald” Whittier, in the household of future father-in-law Washington Damon); a later Alcibiades [also later Archibald] Whittier (ca. 1840-1928), a carriage maker in Hyde Park, Mass., was related, but apparently not a son.

25 October 2012






Occupations of Parents & Other Ancestors

My mom she was a Telephone Operator before she married my dad.

 Dad,  Mom, Occupations Family History,Dad,  Mom, Occupations Family History,


My Dad he was an Electrician.  This photo is probably from when he was a Journyman.