Kentucky SIG

Submitted by Host GFS Rip

 

Happy November, All

Sorry this is so long this month... comes from not sending one out for a few months :) Here is the link for our November GFNewsletter. Be sure to read it and find the article submitted by our own KY Researcher NelliRu! <G>

Remember, anytime you want a copy of the list of our KY surnames, let me know and I will be happy to send it to you. It is long (about 34 pages and updated August 7) and I can send it to you in an attachment or I can break it up and send it to you in several emails. I would not blame you at all for not accepting an attachment nowadays. I only have 1 or 2 people I will accept them from now, so I don't mind sending them in separate emails if you want. In addition to listing our Kentucky Surnames on this list, I also have several people who have sent me the URL for their personal web pages, and have those on this list. 

Also remember, anytime you want to be removed from this mailing list, all you have to do is email me and asked to be removed. <G>

 I still have my ongoing WEBSITES pages. That one is now 56 pages long. If you want a copy of that one, just email me. 

Our own Dear Bill finished 3rd in the August Genealogy Quiz. Is he a genius, or what? <G>

Please join the fun on November 2, 2001 for the next quiz.

In The Family Tree House! 

Barren County Marriages

http://www.imagin.net/~tracers/kybarren_a.htm

Gallatin County / 1850 (Partial)

ftp://ftp.us-census.org/pub/usgenweb/census/ky/gallatin/1850

BARTLETT, CASWELL, DEMOSS, EVANS, FLACH, FOX, GARVER, GRADY, HUDSON, LEHMAN, LUECKE, MANNING, RATHSAM, SEELEY, SMITH, WILLIAMS. These families emigrated between 1750-1880s from Wales, England, Ireland, and Germany; settled in Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, and Kentucky.

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~hdfamilytree/

 Bath County: Owingsville: Warner Graveyard, 77 records; Darrell Warner

http://userdb.rootsweb.com/cemeteries/ 

Clark County

http://www.rootsweb.com/~kyclark/

 COX Family Genealogy. From Henrico County, Virginia (1600), to Hopkins County, Kentucky. Surnames: COCKE, COX, and HODGES.

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~coxfamily/

 CROW FAMILY HISTORY AND GENEALOGY. Crow family traced from Maryland, Delaware, Virginia, Kentucky, Missouri to California. Other surnames: NEWMAN, MILLER, WRIGHT, and PRITCHETT.

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~crow2000/

 Daviess County. THOMPSON marriages - 112 records; Beverly Thompson Tyler

http://userdb.rootsweb.com/marriages/

 Hart County: Polston/Poston Family Cemetery,

20 records; Edith Bastin

http://userdb.rootsweb.com/cemeteries/

 Monroe County Tax List

http://www.imagin.net/~tracers/18301.htm

 PHILLIPS. Families from Virginia, Maryland, Kentucky and Arkansas), Great Britain, Australia, New Zealand and Canada.

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~geniepage/

 PICKETT. Families from North Carolina, Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee and Arkansas.

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~geniepage/

 PEARL, PERRILL FAMILY NOTES. Virginia, Kentucky, Maryland, Ohio, and Oregon.

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~sengercm/indexpearl.html

 Tidbits of Hart County

http://www.imagin.net/~tracers/ky_tidbits.htm

 WILSON AND ALLIED FAMILY TREE. Genealogy reports for COOMER, GARMON, WHEELER, WILSON, and YARBERRY families of Adair County, Kentucky.

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~mysurnames/

In SEARCH FOR YOUR BRITISH AND IRISH ROOTS (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1991 reprint, p. 47), genealogist Angus Baxter suggested a pattern to naming practices of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, especially in England and Wales, which may give some clues for studying families of the American colonies and the United States.

Eldest son---------------often named for the father's father

Second son---------------for the mother's father

Third son----------------for the father

Fourth son---------------for the father's eldest brother

Eldest daughter----------for the mother's mother

Second daughter----------for the father's mother

Third daughter-----------for the mother

Fourth daughter----------for the mother's eldest sister

 In the United States, this pattern may be considered a clue but certainly not a rule. Some families did name eldest sons for paternal grandfathers, but the naming of children for relatives generally followed no particular pattern or order.

 Of course, a daughter was, and still is, sometimes given a feminine form of her father's name: Josephine/Joseph, Georgianna/George, Pauline/Paul, Philippa/Philip, Willie/William, Jessie/Jesse, Charlotte/Charles, and even Drusilla/Drew.

 Every culture and era seems to have names whose origins are obscure. They may be nicknames, "made-up" names, combinations of other names, names of characters in literature, or place names. Parents may have simply liked

the sound of a name or wanted to choose something different. When we genealogists find these names in records, sometimes they are a result of phonetic spelling. Some may be corruptions of other names or attempts to keep names in a family within a particular pattern: names in alphabetical order, or names beginning with the same initials. These are some of the numerous such names found in this country from 1750 to the present: Benoba, Bivy, Callie, Devra, Dicy, Dovie, Floice, Fena, Hattie, Jincey, Kitcey, Ora, Olan, Olean, Ottie, Ozora, Parilee, Parizade, Perlissa, Peariby (Pheribah, Pheriby, Fereby), Rebia, and Sinah.

 In the United States, each era seems to have had its favorite names, in addition to the standard ones which have been used for centuries. The "period" names may be related to the attitudes, events, or personalities of the generation, even in subtle ways; or they may be simply "fads" which give way to new patterns after several decades.

 Girls, and sometimes boys, of the latter seventeenth century and the eighteenth century, especially among New England Puritans, were named for virtues: Patience, Piety, Prudence, Amity, Obedience, Rejoice, Reason, Temperance, Truth, Grace, Charity, Civility, Mercy, Faith, Honour, Hope or Hopeful, Constant or Constance, and Pleasant. Another group of names perhaps suggested experiences of the parents: Desire, Sorrow, Mourning, Comfort, Anguish, and Seaborn. Some Southern men had the given names of Merit and Sterling, which could come from surnames as well as from valued traits.

 n the late seventeenth century, Germans poured into Pennsylvania, bringing with them their custom of giving children two names. Some families even kept the first name the same for all the sons, for example, and varied only the middle name: Johann Peter, Johann Friedrich, Johann Sebastian, and Johann Georg. As these families and their descendants moved throughout the colonies, other ethic groups picked up the double-naming custom. By the mid-nineteenth century, the practice was widespread.

 Especially between 1650 and 1860, many children received Biblical names, some of which, of course, are "standard" names which have been favorites for centuries.

 United States children were, and are, also named in honor of famous Americans or prominent local personalities. In the early years of the Republic, some families showed their patriotic feelings by naming daughters and sons Liberty, Justice, or America. Other families, caught up in the westward movement, named daughters for their new or former states: Virginia, Carolina, Tennessee, Missouri, Louisiana, and Georgia.

 These given names of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries were not titles but actual first names: Major Croom, Admiral Croom, Squire Blalock, Pharaoh Lee, Doctor Godwin, Lieutenant Campbell, and Patsy Empress Jones.

 From the mid-eighteenth century to about the mid-nineteenth century, Europe, and therefore the United States, experienced a revival of classical architecture, language, and cultural influences, which seem to have carried over into naming practices. Of course, Latin and Greek names and derivatives used during the classical revival period. Some are still used today and are considered quite usual. Others are used for boys and girls alike: Aurelius, Artemis, Artemesia, Caesar, Cassius, Cassia, Claudia, Clementine, Chloe, Fortunatus, Florian, Fabius, Fabian, Fabia, Guglielmo, Guglielmus, Horatio, Honoria, Hortense, Julius, Junius, Justin, Latinus, Lydia, Lucian, Lucius, Lucia, Marcellus, Marcus, Nonna, Ophelia, Octavius, Octavia, Pericles, Pompey, Primus, Parmenius, Phyllis, Philena, Portia, Penelope, Parmelia, Philadelphia, Quentin, Rhoda, Sylvanus, Sylvia, Stephanie, Sophia, Sibyl, Sophronica, Theophilus, Theodocia, Tessa, Urban(us), Valentine, Virginious, Virgil, Xene, Zeta, Zenobia, Zephyr.

 Many nineteenth-and early twentieth-century daughters, especially in the South, received the names of flowers and gems: Violet, Pansy, Rose, Daisy, Lily, Ruby, Jewel, Pearl, and Opal. Interesting combinations have come from these names: Lillie White, Rosey Brown, and Pansy Violet Flower.

 In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, more children than in recent or later generations seemed to be named Edna, Elvira, Ethel, Gladys, Gertrude, Gussie, Lillian, Lula, Malvina, Maude, Mildred, Nora, Thelma, Verna, Albert, Alvin, Claude, Elmer, Ernest, Grover, Herbert, Marvin, Maurice, Maynard, and Oscar. Likewise, the mid-twentieth century had a set of popular names that were not so common in earlier or later years: Barbara, Carol, Carolyn, Diane, Gay(e), Janet, Jill, Joan, Joyce, Karen, Linda, Marilyn, Sharon, Shirley, Carl, Dean, Dennis, Jerry, Kenneth, Larry, Ron(ny), and Terry.

  NOTE FROM RIP: Another curious names I have found in my own research is that many times parents will name a new baby after a deceased sibling.

Dr. Melba Porter Hay, of the Kentucky Historical Society, , Division Manager, Research and Publications will speak on one of our most famous Kentuckians in her talk, "The Life and Times of Henry Clay."   November 10, 2001 at 10:30am at the Kentucky Department of Library and Archives, Frankfort.

 Members of the public who are exploring their own family's history and those generally interested in history and genealogy will be most welcomed. Board meeting follows at 11:30am.

 For further information call (502)597-6380 (Frankfort), or e-mail jimmonomoy@aol.com

 I'm in the process of posting all the mining accidents in KY in 1899 on the Appalachian life mailing list I will give you that list address now:

APPALACHIAN-LIFE-L@rootsweb.com

Laurel Mine-near Pittsburgh, operated by the Laurel Coal Co..

 Star mine - near East Bernstadt, operated by Bastin & Prichard

 PeaCock Mine operated by, Peacock Coal Co. Closed in 1889

New Manchester Mine-opened 1889

New Diamond Mine closed 1889 reopened same year under new management

Kentucky Mine Near Pittsburgh

East Altamont located at East Altamont

Lily Mine - at Lily KY

Daisy Mine-near East Bernstadt

Swiss Mine - Near East Bernstadt

Standard Mine - East Bernstadt

Victor Mines - near Pittsburgh

Pittsburg Mines - Near Pittsburgh Kentucky

Join the other site. Its very interesting and a lot about mining in your area, hope this might help you narrow it down for you but there was so many opening and closing during those times its not easy.  

Shirley

Hope to see you in KY real soon <G>. If we don't, Host GFS Merle and I want to wish you and yours a very Happy Thanksgiving.

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