Family Feuds,Ties and Mergers

 Compton, Royalty, Staveness  No Responses »
Oct 212012
 

I have found it interesting in my search of family trees that there can be a lot of Families ties that are interesting just by the fact of how in one area there will be a connection and then the connection folds back on itself.

I recently received an email from Cynthia which states:
I’d like to look at your work for help with my search. There is a great deal of confusion re whether the Ky Comptons descend from Willeum of Gravesend.
As an aside, you might find humerous that I descend from Nicholas Stillwell on my Paternal side, Willeum on maternal. I guess the two families now have been fighting since the 1600′s.
I thought it just started when my parents divorced in 1960′s! Thx, Cindy

And then in my own family there is the Hamilton connections where my ex-husband and myself were both connected to Hamilton Families that came from the same area in our past lines. You can find that Hamilton connection information here

Of course there is always the interesting mix in the marriages of the Royal families, which makes genealogy searches very interesting and  people that have searched Royal Families knows the families span across many counties which makes the search even more interesting.

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 Compton, Lincoln, Pilgrams, Prather, Royalty, Staveness, Titanic  3 Responses »
Nov 052011
 

In this day and age of blogs everyone is researching and looking up information. But Blogs still seem to lack one key factor, a place to actually start and continue a discussion. Oh yes there are comments, but they seem to lack something because sometimes you can never tell who is really talking to who.

That is where Enchanted Family is making a new change. We have added a new forum for you to enjoy. A place where you can start up new discussions and join in on old ones. So lets get started because the best part of Genealogy is finding new family.

Everyone has family links and ties, so maybe you did not find a link within the Enchanted Family.  You can try posting a message on the forum under the section “LOOKING FOR”  You never know who might see it and be able to help you out.

Anyway, This is just one more way the Enchanted Family is getting more Enchanted!

Staveness – Hamilton Connections

 Staveness  4 Responses »
Aug 302011
 

For years I have been on the search for this connection.  I have gotten close, so now I am asking you for help with this one.  The search all started 30 years ago when my daughter Rebecca and my son Jon were very young.    I had recently married Marlin Staveness while I was over in England.  My father was stationed at a Military base in England and I went to High School at Lakenheath England which is where Marlin was stationed with the Military.

On one of my first visits to Marlin’s parent’s house, his mother (Mary Jane Froggner Staveness) and I started talking about our genealogies.  She mentioned her ancestors were HAMILTON.  Knowing my mother had done genealogy I knew my ancestors were also named HAMILTON.  She mentioned that her Hamilton’s had something they called the “Hamilton Finger” a crooked pinky finger.  Looking down at my hands we both noticed that I, Kathleen, had a crooked pinky finger.

So the search was on and this is what I found so far:

Both sides of the family both indeed have Hamilton’s and both sides of the Hamilton families lived in Skagit Washington at the same time. On the Same1910 Skagit County Census lists Frank and James in Sedro Woolley Precinct 2, Skagit, Washington and Motz and Daisy in Hamilton, Skagit Washington The places are 12.9 Miles apart.

In 1883 Frank R owned a historical Farm which is now called Ovenell’s Heritage Inn at 46276 Concrete Sauk Valley Road, Concrete, Washington, which is only 30 miles from where William Alexander Hamilton lived in Skagit River, Washington.

Both sides of the Family lived in the Skagit County Washington Area between the years 1883 and 1939.

I have yet to find the actual connecting persons but I think I am getting close.

Here is the time line in picture form to help see the connections (the picture has a lot of notes to help see the connections:

Hamilton Connections

Hamilton Connections

Enchanted Family History Book

 Compton, Lincoln, Pilgrams, Prather, Royalty, Staveness, Titanic  2 Responses »
May 042011
 
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Here is a book that took many years to research. It is a book of the Enchanted Family History. The Book has Royal lines of many countries, fun facts, Pilgrims, The Captain of the Titanic, Magna Carta Signers, Lady Godiva, Castles, Fables, charts, graphs It even goes back to Adam and Eve. The Enchanted Family History book was placed in a viewer so it would be easy and fun to read. I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed making it.

Staveness Family

 Staveness  No Responses »
Dec 172010
 

JonGradRebeccaSo why the Staveness Family you ask, well this was not built for Lady Kathleen, but in fact Lady Kathleen’s children, Rebecca and Jon.  This is their fathers line.   Thanks to their Great Uncle Henry, this line goes back a ways and includes a lot of pictures that came from him.  While Uncle Henry is not around anymore he did get to see the starting of his family line being processed.

This line mostly resides in the Wisconsin area.  Lady Kathleen met and married Marlin Staveness in England, he was in the Air Force and she was attending Lakenheath High School.  As Marlin was in the military Rebecca was born in Las Vegas at the Air Force Base.  Now Jon got to hold onto tradition and was born in Wisconsin.

One of the interesting facts about this lines is that even though Kathleen and Marlin are divorced it is believed that Marlin and Kathleen are still distant cousins.  This is a link that Kathleen has been working on for many years.  The link seems to be through Kathleen and Marlins Hamilton line.  And Marlin’s Mother Mary seems to strongly believe that connect is there.