On Genealogy
Jun. 29th, 2013 06:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
robbyI spent some time on ancestor.com, and traced everybody* back to Europe, except my one great-great grandfather, born in New York state in 1826. When you get that far back, I think you have to go to church records and such that aren't on the internet.
His name was George Washington Majory, and I believe his grandfather was a Revolutionary War veteran from Massachusetts. I can't find definitive birth records online, but it's a rare name, and all the Majorys in Massachusetts seem to be descended from a John and Benjamin Majory (Le Mesurrier), cousins from the Isle of Jersey who came over about 1640. Benjamin's father was born in 1590.
One married a woman that emigrated in 1624, 4 years after the Mayflower. Those were the starving times and often these people that survived eventually had 3 or more spouses. These were the Puritans, and my ancestors may have been French Huguenots.
I wrote to a Le Messurier, still on the Isle of Jersey. He was into geneology, but he hadn't heard of my ancestors that came to New England early on.
He told me the church records over there are pretty spotty, and many have been lost over the years.
*except a maternal great-grandfather. His wife died young, and his two sons were raised by her family. I couldn't find anymore on him after that point.
I just found a reference to a Majory in Edward Randolph's 1680 report on the Massachusetts Bay Colony. He was listed as a military man who was loyal to the King.
His name was George Washington Majory, and I believe his grandfather was a Revolutionary War veteran from Massachusetts. I can't find definitive birth records online, but it's a rare name, and all the Majorys in Massachusetts seem to be descended from a John and Benjamin Majory (Le Mesurrier), cousins from the Isle of Jersey who came over about 1640. Benjamin's father was born in 1590.
One married a woman that emigrated in 1624, 4 years after the Mayflower. Those were the starving times and often these people that survived eventually had 3 or more spouses. These were the Puritans, and my ancestors may have been French Huguenots.
I wrote to a Le Messurier, still on the Isle of Jersey. He was into geneology, but he hadn't heard of my ancestors that came to New England early on.
He told me the church records over there are pretty spotty, and many have been lost over the years.
*except a maternal great-grandfather. His wife died young, and his two sons were raised by her family. I couldn't find anymore on him after that point.
I just found a reference to a Majory in Edward Randolph's 1680 report on the Massachusetts Bay Colony. He was listed as a military man who was loyal to the King.
