When Did Your Family Emigrate?, And where from?

Raven! I am part of the Heinz 57 club too!

Me too!


My paternal Grandma came to the US from Brisbane, Australia after she married my Grandpa. (THey met in WWI)

My paternal g-g-grandpa came from Germay, from what I understand.

My maternal grandparents are german, and dutch. The other half is From Guernsey, with some Taylors adn Johnsons mixed in.


That is all I know

Here's part of my list:

My Ewing ancestor, Alexander Ewing, immigrated to Maryland from Inch Island, County Donegal, Ulster, Ireland in the early 1700's.

My Gillespie ancestor, William John Gillespie arrived in the U.S., from County Antrim, Ulster, Ireland, November 21, 1847 (my great-greatgrandfather Benjamin Gillespie (William's son) also arrived at the same time).

My Billingsley ancestor, John Billingsley, immigrated to Maryland from Holland in 1673.

My Powell ancestor, John Powell, arrived in Jamestown, Virginia, from England, in 1609.

My Boulding ancestor, Thomas Boulding III arrived in Virginia, from England, in the early 1600's.

My Pixler/Bixler/Bichsel ancestor, Christian Bixler, arrived in Pennsylvania in the mid to early 1700's from Switzerland.

My Fortney/Fortinuex ancestor, Jean Henry Fortineux, arrived in America August 29, 1730 from Germany.

My Rice ancestor, Deacon Edmund Rice, arrived in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in the mid 1600's, from England.

My Bruce ancestor, Thomas Bruce, arrived in America before 1676 from Scotland.

My Grandfathers line is supposed to have Dutch in it. I believe the name that is associated with the Dutch heritage is Dixon? Does that sound right?

My mother's father's family ( Gardiner ) arrived here in Marys Land in 1634... her mother's side ( Fields ) in the early 1700's. My fathers family ( Kuster, McEwen ) arrived about the mid 1700's. I am of English, Scot, and German decent.

I dont have the exact date..damn gedcom files are missing...but my line has been here since the late 1600's....damn..,been here a while

I am 5th generation American of Irish decent. The old boy (Male side on my fathers line) came from Ballingar in Co. Rosscommon. Female side of my fathers line came from Wexfod. Solid wearer's of the green.
My Mom is an Ostrander, and they originally came out of the Belfast area. Orangemen to the core.

I know I said before that most of my family came from Yorkshire, England. Well at the airport yesterday I met a lady from Yorkshire! I was so delighted and she was even more delightful! I didn't want to let her go! I enjoyed talking to her so much! she told me what it was like there. Just had to share!

that is very cool,rose! Neat!

Irish on my father's side. Not really sure how long we have been here. I am 5th generation German on my mothers' mother's side. French/Canadian on her father's side (they were French living in Canada until they moved to Michigan). I wish I knew more details because I find it very interesting but oh well.

Both of my parents came here as young adults....
In the 30's .
Mom from Malian..(Italy) Dad from Smerna (Greece)

That makes me first generation American !

In Service to the Dream,
Paula

My Grandfather came form Denmark just in time to get sent back to France for WWI. This is my fathers side. On my mothers side it gets interesting, she was a Daughter of the American Revolution. Her father also fought in WWI, While he was over seas his family sold all his belongings, well its not like they expected him to come back alive.

My ancestors migrated to the New World between 1620 and 1869. My Soule ancestor came from England on the Mayflower, my Lucas ancestors were in CT by 1640 from England, I have Cattell's in NJ in 1690 from Scotland, I have Copsey's from England to Barbados and then to MD around 1725 My Martin's and Greens were in here during the Revolution but I don't know exactly when they got here or where the came from. I have Peters in my past that came from Prussia around 1850 and Wohltmann's who came over in 1869 from Hanover. There are also some French Canadian, Welsh, and Swiss ancestors hanging out in my tree but I don't know when they came to America just that it was before 1869.

I just realized that all of my grandparents were born in the 19th Century which I guess makes me older than dirt. I don't feel that old but I'm sure that some of you reading this are much younger than my kids.

I don't know precisely when my family immigrated. There are marital records from 1840, and some people with the same last name in the Ellis Island records. Plus, there's a bit of Cherokee on my father's side and some Arapahoe on my mother's.

My Grandfather was born in Castlederg, Co. Tyrone in 1909. I don't know when he arrived in the U.S., but I do know he was married in 1938 in Connecticut.