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My Taylor line is descended from Matthew and Janet Taylor who came from Ireland and settled in Londonderry (now Derry) New Hampshire

Looking for others who descend from this line to share information. My direct lineage is as follows:

My dad, Robert Charles Taylor, b. Cedar Rapids, IA, d. Terre Haute, Vigo County, IN

Elmer Robert Taylor, b. ATlantic, IA, d. Rochester, MN

Charles R. Edward Taylor, b. Derby, Lucas County, IA, d. Des Moines, Polk County, IA

Robert Calvin Taylor, b. Wapello, IA, d. Omaha, NE

John M. Taylor, b. Lucas Co, IA, d. Humeston, IA

Robert Taylor, b.…

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Added by Pat Taylor Jennings on March 22, 2010 at 4:07pm — 5 Comments

Missionary to Australia? That’s what he told the family!

My great great grandfather, the music Professor Caleb Rand Bill came from Nova Scotia to New England with his wife. They had their nine children in succession from…

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Added by Heather Wilkinson Rojo on March 18, 2010 at 5:57pm — No Comments

Healys and Crosbys from Massachusetts to Chebogue, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia

From Cape Code to Nova Scotia to Beverly, Massachusetts

My ancestor Joseph Edwin Healey arrived in Massachusetts from Nova Scotia sometime between his marriage in 1848 and the birth of his first child in Beverly, in 1852. I’m not sure if he arrived on a boat, but being a mariner, he probably sailed to his new home with his new bride. He is listed as a sailor or mariner on his children’s birth records in Beverly, and as a fisherman on the… Continue

Added by Heather Wilkinson Rojo on December 1, 2009 at 4:00pm — 5 Comments

The Other Mayflowers, Voyage 4

The Hessian Soldier who stayed in the New World

Part four in my Thanksgiving series about ancestors who DIDN’T arrive in the New World on the Mayflower. My 4x great grandfather Johann Daniel Bollman was a surgeon from Hammersleben in Saxony, Germany. He came to North America with Baron de Riedesel’s Brunswick Regiment of Hessian Soldiers in 1776. The Duke of Brunswick had contracted with England to send 3,964 foot soldiers and cavalry to America.… Continue

Added by Heather Wilkinson Rojo on November 19, 2009 at 10:00am — No Comments