My Trails into the Past

My 2x-great-grandmother, Anna Maria Gleeson, was born on 13 February 1860 in Carleton County, Ontario, Canada. [1] Through her, I am eligible for Canadian citizenship. I should work on gathering all the documents I need to prove my relationship to her. The problem I have is there is no marriage record for her and her husband, John H. Sullivan. [2] I also have no marriage record for her parents either, though with full-text search, I will investigate the records for John Gleeson and his wife, Margaret Tierney. I have previously written about this family for my BCG renewal. It will be interesting if more can be learned about them. This month, I will also investigate the parentage of Margaret Tierney. Timeline of John Gleeson Carleton County, Ontario, is further divided by townships. The earliest records show the Gleeson family lived in Goulbourn township. After being married, they had their children baptized at St. Philip Catholic Church in Richmond. However, their land was closer to...

This is the last post for the April families (Wollenweber & Voehringer), though a day late. But I wanted to get the last piece posted, after doing all the work. The previous post about Philippina, my husband’s 2x-great-grandmother, covered her timeline from her 1834 birth and baptism in Württemberg to her 1913 death and burial in Louisville, Kentucky. There were hints to some of her family who also immigrated to the United States. In the small village of Unterhausen in Schwarzwald, Württemberg, lived her parents, Johan Adam Vöhringer and Maria Agnes Reiff . To them were born eight children. [1] Philippina was the second child and was named the same as the deceased first child, Philippina Margaretha. [2] The church has family registers that list the couple at the top, then their children below. There are reference pages to other families, for example, the husband might be linked to his parents’ page, and the children once married, will be linked to their own family page. ...