Calling All Genea-Musings Fans:
It's Saturday Night Again -
Time For Some More Genealogy Fun!!
Our assignment tonight from Randy Seaver of Genea-Musings is to:
1) Today's challenge is to answer the question "Who Is the Earliest Ancestor in Your Maternal Family Tree?"
[thank you to Linda Stufflebean for suggesting this topic!]
Here's mine:
Last week we tackled the paternal line and I do not go back very far on my father's side. However, on my mother’s side, I have in my RootsMagic database a John Sellman (1645-1707). He would be my 8x-great-grandfather.
I have him in my database from copying the lineage from the book John Sellman of Maryland and Descendants by W. Marshall Sellman, who self-published in 1975. I viewed the book many years ago at the FamilySearch Library in Salt Lake City.
The passage I copied said “Buried in All Hallows Church, Anne Arundel, Maryland. He came to Calvert County, Maryland in 1658 from England at twelve or thirteen years old, his passage paid by Mrs. Mary Brashear. He was indentured for ten years. He married Mrs. Brashear’s youngest daughter, Elizabeth, in 1679.
I am the daughter of Lela Nell Johnston (1934-1992) confident
Lela is the daughter of Tom J Johnston (1912-1973) confident
Tom is the son of Nell L. Hutson (1888-1919) confident
Nell is the daughter of Sarah H Selman (1858-1916) confident
Sarah is the daughter of Greenlee Bean Selman (1820-1888) confident
Greenlee is the son of Benjamin F Selman (1795-1873) confident
Benjamin is the son of Thomas Selman (1762-1816) – from the book
Thomas is the son of Benjamin L Selman (1710-1775) – from the book
Benjamin is the son of John Sellman (1680-????) – from the book
John Sellman is the son of John Sellman (1645-1707) – from the book
I’m sure if I look at the FamilySearch Family Tree or Wiki Tree, I might find more generations further back. Someday, I would like to document the Selman families with some original records. I do have some marriage and census records.
You have Hutsons? I have Hutsons!! Where were your Hutsons? Mine were in Indiana.
ReplyDeleteMine are in Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi and Texas.
DeleteWell, foo. That certainly doesn't seem as though we'll connect. But it's still something to look into!
DeleteLisa, you might connect with my husband through the Brashear line. His grandmother was Pearl Lillian Brasher and her line goes back into early Maryland. Problem is that no one can figure out if or how the early families connect to Robert Brashear.
ReplyDeleteI have not done any research on the Brashears, only known the names of the parents of Elizabeth, who married John Sellman. At this point in my life, it's too far back for me to care.
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