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As of December 2,
2000:
I've finally added some of
the Sickman family information that I received several
months ago. A brief history of the family by Clara Smith
Bossuet is now available, as is Luke Sickman's military
history. (Luke is probably the brother of George
Sickman.) Luke served in the War of 1812 - here's an
overview just in case all you remember is that it took
place sometime around 1812.
Doing my regular search through
the ever-expanding Historic Pittsburgh website, I
discovered that Charles Natcher worked as the general
manager for Bower's Hardware in Homestead in 1890. Mrs.
Stephen K. Natcher was a member of the German Evangelical
Protestant Smithfield Church (Congregational) in
Pittsburgh as of March 28, 1926. In 1900 H. V. Natcher -
possibly our Henry - was the secretary and treasurer of
the M. B. Suydam Company, paint and varnish
manufacturers. I also found some information about
catholic churches in Duquesne in 1910,
I added some more articles from
the McKeesport Daily News, mostly from the fall of 1949.
Check out this ad - we had one of these in the laundry
room when I was little.
I've added a guest book and an
update mailing list for those who'd like to be notified
when there are changes made to this website.
As of November,
2000:
Mom, Susan and I went to
Ireland in October. It was wonderful to finally get to
see the land of the McDermotts and Topleys and Butlers
et. al. I didn't learn anything new about my Irish
ancestors, but Susan surely did - her Lincolns of county
Waterford were traced back hundreds of years by another
descendant. We got to meet two of her cousins (not sure
what degree) and visited her grandparents' home town of
Ardmore.
We kept a journal
of the trip. Putting it
up onto the website is my substitute for any genealogy
work this month. I hope you enjoy the story of our
travels.
As of October,
2000:
I took some time off from
genealogy research, but I'm back into it again. Only a
few new things to report for now, mostly from emails that
I received from other family researchers who did not
slack off during the summer.
Robert Harris answered a
question I had about John
A. Natcher, Civil War
veteran and prisoner at Andersonville Confederate prison.
Being a good researcher, Robert won't make the leap to
state that John is the son of George Natcher and Nancy
Kline, but it is a good working hypothesis. Anyone out
there have any proof?
I've received a lot of material
from other Sickman family researchers and I
promise I'll get it up on the site
soon.
Congratulations Duquesne High
School Class of 1950 on your 50th reunion! Sounds like
everyone had a wonderful time.
I found a great site that
contains Beers'
Commenorative Biographical Record of Washington
County Pennsylvania
published in 1893. A bio of one of Moses Curry's
grandsons is contained in this book: Joseph
Moore Curry.
Deaths in the family:
Cousin Ralfe Weinstein died on 9 July 2000. Cousin
Sam
Topley died on 3 August
2000.
New contacts:
Bette Topley of New York, Jack & Thelma Topley's
daughter
As of July 1,
2000:
I've spent time this month
revising the family tree pages to include more extensive
notes. If you haven't visited them for awhile, have a
look
around. Please let me
know if you find any bad links - I did a lot of coding by
hand and may have missed a few.
I continued to add more
McKeesport
Daily News articles this
month. I've almost finished transcribing the photocopies
I have - guess I'll have to make a trip to the
McKeesport
Heritage Center sometime
soon.
Cousin Kathy Langkamp Bentley
sent me some new information about the Beam family
connection. I've added Eleanor Sickman Beam's will to the
wills
page.
Jerry Dittman added to our
civil
war soldiers page with
more information he found in Bates' History of
Pennsylvania Volunteers. Thanks, Jerry!
Have you wondered how we might
be related to the late Rep.
William H. Natcher of
Kentucky? Joseph,
one of the sons of George
Natcher, moved to
Tennessee in 1845. One of Joseph's sons moved to Bowling
Green, Kentucky which coincidentially was Rep. Natcher's
district - think there's a connection?
Richard
Topley married Alice
McCabe in 1863 in the
parish church of Whickham, County Durham, England. I did
a quick search of the net and discovered that the church
is still there and has its own webpage. Check out
Whickham's church of St.
Mary the
Virgin.
As of June 1,
2000:
I've been reading the
McKeesport Daily News this month - from the 1940s. I
borrowed several reels of microfilmed issues through
interlibrary loan. Trying to find a reference to the
medal awarded to my grandfather for saving a co-worker's
life; no luck yet, but I enjoyed the research. Since I
was spending so much time living in wartime on the
homefront, I put together a quick Memorial
Day page from some of
the articles I copied. I'll add to it from time to
time.
A friendly fellow researcher in
Ireland, Sharon Davison, generously took the time to copy
some Topley documents for me at the Public
Records Office of Northern
Ireland. The documents
are two
letters, one written in
1850 by Isaac Topley in Port Hope, Montreal, Canada to
his father Abraham in Markethill, Armagh. The second
letter was written by Abraham Topley in Port Hope,
Montreal to his brother-in-law James Boardman in
Tandragee,
Armagh. I was hoping for homesick letters asking about
dear uncle James and cousin Richard and mentioning the
old homestead and how lovely it was in the springtime
where it sits on the edge of town next to the church
where grandfather was married. Ah well, we now know the
price of mutton in Montreal. There are some clues in the
letters and Abraham is surely the Abraham that Dianne in
Canada is tracing. The letters mention some other names
(Leeper, Boardman, Chaats[?!]) that may provide
some clues.
Another researcher, Mike Maher,
searched an old directory of Armagh from 1819-1820 and
found one Topley listing there: John, a weaver in
Tandragee. According to Richard John Topley's
marriage
certificate, his father
John was a weaver.
Remember the pony from
last
month? I heard from
cousin John Borza - there was a winner!
"The winner was Ted
Weber of Sherman Ave., Duquesne. This was Mom's next
door neighbor by chance! When Ted won the pony, his
parents could not keep it so they sold it to Kennywood
Park, West Mifflin. My
Mom, her brother Jim
and of course, Ted received free rides when they
visited Kennywood
Park. Mr. and Mrs.
Weber saved the money from the horse and used it
towards Ted's college education. Ted Weber went on to
become a Lt. Col. in the service and is now
deceased."
I upgraded my genealogy
software, Reunion,
to the newest version. One of the new features is this
nifty fan
chart.
As of May 1,
2000:
I made a short trip up
North last month to visit my parents and spent some time
researching at the Carnegie Library in Oakland and the
Hillman Library at the University of Pittsburgh.
My very able assistant and
niece, Ms. Whitney Jordan, discovered the news about the
Shetland pony
contest in the
Duquesne Times at the Hillman library. When she
saw the ad while searching for a news article about her
greatgrandfather, she immediately recognized the
Butler
name. The drug stores did indeed belong to James and
Cyril Butler. Jimmy's store was on the corner of Grant
and First and Cyril's store was across from St. Joseph's.
Further research of the paper on the date of the drawing
did not yield the name of the winner of the pony. This
mystery was resolved when we reached home and Whitney
showed the ad to her grandmother, Mary Jane (Topley)
Wilkinson. The pony was never claimed! It remained in
Jimmy Butler's yard on Sherman street, much to the dismay
of his neighbors, and lived out its life
there.
Carnegie's microfilmed copies of
the Pittsburgh Press finally answered the question
"Who Shot J.T?" (Natcher) It was Billy Lee,
the dirty cur! Read
all about this 1889
murder and
other
stories of the day in
the Newspaper
area of the Life and
Times section.
Recent contacts:
- Jeff Topley, the
greatgrandson of Samuel
John Topley.
- David Natcher, another of
Charles
and Bessie Natcher's
greatgrandchildren
- Bill Curry, who is descended
from Dr.
Joseph Curry. We'll
be exchanging info, look for new Curry family stuff on
these pages soon.
- Jason Weinstein, great
grandson of Richard Topley
- Kathy Langkamp Bentley, Beam
family researcher
Added this month:
As of April 4,
2000:
I'm still busy with the
Topleys - my work is very much in progress, but
you're welcome to check out the Topleys
in Ireland page which is
currently under construction. Maybe you can help me
organize my information. I have more microfilm about
Armagh to go through at the Family History Center and
hope to add to the Topley story as I find out more about
the area where they lived.
Speaking of Topleys, yet another
Topley cousin has contacted me. Jeff Topley is the
greatgrandson of Samuel
John Topley, the real
estate tycoon and Allegheny Clerk of Courts. A month or
so ago, I sent out a generic email to all the possible
Topleys and Natchers I could find using Bigfoot,
Infospace,
WhoWhere
at Lycos and
Yahoo.
Jeff was one of the people who responded, as was David
Natcher who is (like me) one of Charles
and Bessie Natcher's
greatgrandchildren. I also just heard from Bill Curry,
who is descended from Dr.
Joseph Curry, one of the
sons of Moses Curry. Bill found us through Rootsweb and
has lots of terrific information about that branch of the
family. I'm thinking of starting a page with family email
addresses on it since I've been meeting so many relatives
on line - I'll be in touch with you soon to ask
permission to include you if you're in my genealogy
address book.
As of March 1,
2000:
I've been busy doing a lot
of Topley research this month. It's not quite organized
enough to publish. I have found a number of Topleys in
Ireland, but I haven't made any connections between them
yet. Received death certificates from Allegheny county
for John Natcher and John T. Natcher. John T. died of a
gunshot wound, contributing cause of death is listed as
"homicide"! I'll be trying to dig up newspaper articles
from 1889 to find out what happened and will let you
know.
Managed to put a few things
online:
- A search engine has been added
to this site. Now you can search for specific words
anywhere in the site. See below for the Search field.
"Search" also appears on every page in the
footer.
- Additional Butler county
newspaper
clippings about tragic
accidents in the Topley family added to the Newspaper
area of the Life and Times section.
- Added a Photo
Album link for
family photos.
- There's a Topley family reunion
in Canada this summer. More
info here.
As of February 1,
2000:
- Lots of Topley news this month.
I met with Sandy Topley Davidson, my
third-cousin-once-removed, and we exchanged lots of
information about our Topley families. Her father was
James
B. Topley of Slippery
Rock, PA and his father was James Topley of East
McKeesport (see the above picture.) She graciously lent
me a bunch of family photos to scan and added quite a bit
of data to the family tree. I also made copies of some
newspaper
clippings about tragic
accidents in the Topley family and have added them to the
Newspaper area of the Life and Times section.
- Cousin Richard
Topley passed away on
January 21. Family members came together for his funeral
at St. Joseph's church in Duquesne.
- I received a letter from Dianne
Topley of British Columbia, Canada who is organizing a
Topley family reunion there this summer. Her Topleys are
descended from Abraham Topley of county Armagh in
Ireland. I'm looking for a connection between our
families. Sandy confirmed that our Topleys are from that
county also and I've begun digging into Irish records to
find our John Topley there. If you're interested in
attending the reunion, email me and I'll give you the
details.
- Added a new Biographies
section. This contains biographies of family members from
various sources such as the county history books which
were very popular between 1880 and 1910. Take them with a
grain of salt - the information was given to the writers
by family members and is not as accurate as that found in
primary sources like birth certificates or land
records.
- I've started scanning some of
the documents I have, such as birth and marriage records,
and will include them in the Records section. It's
kind of cool to see John Wilkinson's signature on his
naturalization form or to read Felix and Elizabeth's
entry in Scotland's marriage registry.
- Quite a few updates to the
Curry/Sickman/Linhart pages from information I've picked
up on the Linhart mailing list and emails from Kathy
Langkamp and her father Richard. Kathy's gggrandmother
was Eleanor
Lydia Sickman, sister to
our Jeremiah.
Thanks to Wendy and Jason Weinstein
for sending info on the Weinstein
family. These are my second cousins that I grew up with and,
until now, I had more information in my files about third
and fourth cousins I've never met!
As of January 1,
2000:
- Check out the McDermotts
picture above! Felix is my great great grandfather -
isn't that neat? My cousin John Borza asked his mother to
get the picture for me from our cousin Kathleen McDermott
of Duquesne (her father was John
McDermott - in the back
row.) I received it in time to use it on the cover of the
millennium calendar I made for my mother for Christmas.
- Another new cousin contacted
me. Jim Linhart has been researching his Linhart line for
some time and knew a Sickman had married into his family.
He found our Jeremiah
and Elizabeth Linhart
Sickman on this website
and added several generations to that line for us, all
the way back to Christian Linhart, b. 1722 in
Germany.
- (Non-genealogy page:
Christmas
pictures)
- Added or revised:
As of December 1,
1999:
- New location!! This site has a
new location on the internet. We're still with Rootsweb
(the best genealogy service online), but we now have a
URL that's a little easier to remember:
wilkinson-topley.rootsweb.com
- I've added the contributions to
the Butler branch of the family tree made by cousins
John
Borza and
Daniel
Butler. Check out all
these new cousins!
- My partner Susan
has been working on her family tree and I've finally
added her research to my Reunion database (and therefore
to these pages.)
- John sent me a
"History
of the Butler Family"
written by Mary Butler which I've added to the Family
History section.
- I wrote to the Diocese
of Pittsburgh to request
a search for the marriage of greatgrandparents
Bernard
McDermott and Annie
Butler. No record found
- they possibly were married at St. Patrick's in Coulter
and the parish records were lost in a fire. I've added
the baptismal information about their children to the
"Various
Church records"
page.
- I had the McKeesport Heritage
Center send me copies of The Daily News articles about
the terrible automobile accident which killed
James
and Estelle Topley in
1914. The story was frontpage news for days and
went into great detail about the accident itself and
about all the people involved. I've uploaded the
articles
to the Life and Times section.
- Added or revised:
As of November 1,
1999:
- John Borza, my newly-met third
cousin, has given me a wealth of information about the
Butlers. John became interested in the family history as
a teenager and inherited the research that his aunt
Catherine Butler had done. Catherine was the head
librarian at the Carnegie library in Homestead, PA.
John's additions to the family tree included
Daniel
Butler. I discovered
that our Daniel had been added to the IGI by one of his
descendants, also named Daniel. John contacted Daniel and
they are sharing family information which I'll upload
next month. (The International Genealogical Index, or
IGI, is an enormous database maintained by the Church of
Latter Day Saints which can be searched
online.)
- While attempting to organize my
records, I came across an article in the Carlisle Herald
regarding a plan to erect a Civil War memorial. It
contains a list
of soldiers from
Cumberland County, PA who fought and died in the Civil
War.
- The research I did last month
for on the Natchers turned up quite a few
"extra"
Natchers that I haven't
been able to tie in to our tree yet. I've added the notes
I took in case anyone can shed some light on these
folks.
- I received a letter this week
from another cousin, Jean Topley Scrivens. Her son-in-law
found me through Rootsweb and put us in contact with one
another. It turns out that Jean is originally from East
McKeesport and is descended from James
Topley, brother of my
greatgreatgrandfather Richard John. I'm trying to track
down an article I read on microfilm at the McKeesport
Heritage Center about the auto accident which killed
Jean's grandparents in 1914. Her father Frank was only 11
years old and was also injured in the
accident.
- Jean was inspired to track down
Topleys when she received an invitation to a Topley 2000
reunion in British Columbia. These Canadian Topleys, Ron
and Dianne, also trace their family to county Armagh,
Ireland. I'm searching for a connection.
- Added or revised:
As of October 1,
1999:
Catherine
McDermott Schorr died this
month at the age of 95. She was the last remaining child of
Annie and Bernard McDermott and lived a very long and happy
life. Her daughter Janet has just begun researching the
Schorr family. My mother spoke with a cousin from the Butler
side of the family at the funeral whose son is also
researching the family - our mothers put us in touch and I
look forward to receiving data from John soon.
I did a lot of work on the Natchers this month in preparing
material for Mom to take with her to a family wedding. I've
uploaded the narrative I put together for her about the
Natchers
and hope to create one for each branch of the family. As a
followup to last month's tidbit about the Turner and Natcher
construction company, I discovered a reference to "John
Turner, a Carlisle builder," in a history of Carlisle,
Pennsylvania. I've uploaded the map of Carlisle from 1858
that I included in the Natcher booklet. You can check out
the smaller GIF
file or go to the large JPG
file that shows more detail. I have also includedthe index
with the property
owners of the lots.
I've added a page with rambling memories
of growing up in Duquesne. I'll expand it with stories from
my family as they send them to me.
Added or revised:
As of September 1,
1999:
Most of my genealogy time this
month was spent doing lookups in the History
of Allegheny County for
people on the PA
Allegheny County mailing
list. It was fun and I
learned more about Allegheny history. I will focus on the
family again in September.
Added or revised:
Revised census records for UK for
1851,
1861,
1871
to include County Durham records
As of August 1,
1999:
The biggest news is that my website
has moved - I am now a proud sponsor of Rootsweb, the
Internet's largest and oldest genealogy site, and these
pages are now housed on their servers. If you're not
familiar with Rootsweb,
wander on over there after you check out this site. The
other big news is that I connected with another cousin on
line. Bob Minteer's my third cousin through the Natcher line
- check out his
site and say hello. His
great-grandfather John
Herbert Natcher is the
brother of our Charles
Edson Natcher. I've
continued to track down Topleys, Coyles and McKennas in 1861
and 1871 in Durham, confirming what I found last month in
the 1881 and 1891 census returns. Figuring out which Coyles
and McKennas were related to each other and how has been an
interesting puzzle.
As of July 1,
1999:
I found more information in County
Durham, England in the 1891 census. Aggie and Richard Topley
were no longer in Benfieldside, but quite a few Coyles and
McKennas were still there. The widow Annie Coyle was listed
as an innkeeper - possibly Aggie's sister-in-law. Still
figuring out all the connections. The Civil War database on
Ancestry.com was free for a few days, so I looked for any of
our male family members who were of fighting age at the
time. Several possibilities, a few I'm pretty certain of.
There were three Natchers fighting for the North - none of
them the William Natcher that I found last year in the
Cumberland Historical Society files!
Added Census
records, Civil
War soldiers,
History
of Duquesne by Mary Zella
Butler.
As of June 10,
1999:
Found the Topleys in England! In
1881 Richard
and Agnes were living with
their families in Benfieldside, County Durham. Richard's
parents were both born in Ireland. James Coyle was born in
County Tyrone, Ireland. Catherine McKenna Coyle was born in
Lanarkshire, Scotland. (Sound familiar? Check out the
Butlers and McDermots!) There were a bunch of Coyles and
some McKennas nearby that look like ours. I also got to look
at the birth register for Wheeling, WV and found Fanny Fern
Merkle's parents, Albert
and Anna Mericle .
As of May 1,
1999:
I received a birth certificate for
Richard
John Topley, my
grandfather's older brother. He was born in 1893 in
Benfieldside in the north part of County Durham. The family
was living at 13 West Row, Black Hill, at the time. Now I
can order the 1891 UK census and find them. I borrowed the
book MacDermot of Moylurg through Interlibrary Loan
to determine whether I want to buy it from the
MacDermot
Clan Association. It's an
extensive history of the MacDermot family going back into
the 4th century. Definitely adding it to my Christmas list.
I'm making a research trip to Allegheny County this month so
look for lots of new information in June!
As of April 1,
1999:
There's not much new this month,
except that I discovered that Richard and Alice (my
grandfather's older brother and sister) were not born in
Lancaster, but Lanchester. Wish I had known that before I
read through the 1891 Lancaster census! I've sent for
Richard's birth certificate to get more information.
Lanchester is in northern England, in the north part of
County Durham.
As of March 1,
1999:
This month was mostly NOT finding
people. Sometimes that's the way the research goes. Not
finding Kennedys in New Monkland, Scotland in 1871. Not
finding Hugh Gavin in Bothwell, Scotland in 1871 (3 years
after his wife died.) Not finding anyone in Bothwell in
1851. No Curry wills in Chester county. Ah, well.....I've
added a section called "Life and Times" that has
miscellaneous documents relating to the places and times in
which our family lived over the centuries. These aren't
family records, but they can give us an idea of what life
may have been like for our ancestors. They will contain
descriptions of the places our family has lived, churches in
which we've worshipped, how we earned our daily bread, etc.
As of February 1,
1999:
Papers from the Scottish
General Records Office
arrived. I now have a birth certificate for Bernard
McDermott, born November 29, 1860 at 1:00 AM in
Johnstonhall, parish of Bothwell.The
death certificates for Martin
and Anne McDermott also
arrived. Martin died in 1864 of "asthma and cardiac
disease." The certificate gave his parents' names! I wasn't
expecting that - another generation to add to the tree. His
father was Michael, his mother Bridget. And her maiden name
was on there - Cockburn. So we have more names to narrow the
search once I get to the Irish records. Anne's certificate
held more surprises. She died in 1868 and was listed as
widow of Martin and wife of Hugh Gavin! So she remarried
after Martin passed on. Her father was Martin Hart and her
mother Anne, maiden name Colman.
As of January 17,
1999:
Spent some more time checking out
Margaret Turner Natcher in the records of the Carlisle
Methodist Episcopal Church. No further information about her
expulsion. In addition to mother Rebecca, Sarah and Susan
Turner both attended classes. John Natcher also attended
classes organized by the Methodists. I spotted a Joseph
Turner in 1850, but I don't know if he's one of ours. There
was a family of Rudicells in 1851. Don't know yet how that
surname is connected to our Rudicill Natcher, but I'm
looking. I've also rented the Carlisle Presbyterian records
microfilm and hope to review it in the next few
weeks.
Pursuing the Scottish census
records a little further, I found more information about the
McDermotts and Butlers. I looked through the 1871 and 1881
census reurns for Bothwell parish and discovered that
sometime between 1861 and 1871 the McDermott boys lost their
parents and were living with their grandmother Bridget. In
1881 the family was no longer in Bothwell, possibly having
gone to America by that time. Felix and family were there in
both 1871 and 1881 (which explains why I couldn't find them
in Allegheny in 1880.) Going back to the Scottish
General Records online
search, I located and sent
for death records for Martin and Anne McDermott in 1864 and
1868. Since I had already paid for my time, I checked out
the 1891 census index that they now have at the site and
guess who's still in Scotland - Felix! He must have left
shortly afterward and gone straight to Duquesne.
As of December 31,
1998:
Lots of news since my last update.
I did find an obituary for Felix Butler in the Duquesne
Times. He moved to Duquesne around 1890. His wife died five
years later. The Scottish General Registry Office now has an
on-line search service where I discovered that Felix married
Elizabeth Kennedy on May 24, 1865 in Airdrie. I sent for a
copy of the marriage registration and discovered that her
parents were Thomas Kennedy and Ann Derby. James and
Catherine (McKendrie) Butler were listed as Felix's parents.
Felix gave his residence as Bothwell Parish in Lanark
county. Why does that sound familiar? Because Martin and Ann
McDermott also lived there! I reviewed the 1861 census for
Bothwell and discovered the Butlers, James, Catherine,
Daniel Felix and Matilda living on Legbranock Road. All of
them had been born in county Antrim in Ireland. The
McDermotts (Martin, Ann and the boys) lived nearby on Ward
End Street. Hugh (Ann's brother) and Bridget Hart lived next
door or in the same house. Elizabeth Kennedy was living with
her parents in Airdrie at the time of the census. She and
her brothers Bernard, Thomas, John and James were born in
Ireland. Sisters Ann and Mary were born in Scotland; the
family emigrated between 1854 and 1857. Next step will have
to be the Irish records, but I'm putting it off in hopes of
finding a reference to the town or parish that these folks
were from. Irish records apparently can be a wee bit of a
mess.
Disappointment on the Natcher
front. William was not one of the fallen brave of
Gettysburg. He was killed by friendly fire while stationed
in Washington, D.C. I don't think this William was
Rudisill's son, more likely a nephew or cousin. Interesting
news about Rudisill's daughter-in-law Margaret. She was
expelled from the Methodist Church in 1847 for "immorality".
Well, well. Margaret's mother Rebecca had attended classes
at the church with her between 1839 and 1844, along with
Sarah Turner. I found the widow Rebecca Turner with
daughters Elizabeth,Susan, Caroline, and Elmira in the 1850
census. Ten years earlier, David Turner lived in Carlisle
with a housefull of females - good chance that these are our
Turners.
Still looking for those Wilkinsons.
The earliest listed in the Great Gonerby parish record is
the marriage of Thomas Wilkinson in 1800. I've started
searching outward from there for Wilkinson families in
Lincolnshire hoping to find the family that moved to Great
Gonerby. There are a lot of George Wilkinsons in
Lincolnshire!
As of June 25,
1998:
I finally located a date for Philip
"Felix" Butler's death when I was in Pennsylvania this
spring. I stopped at the former Holy Name RC Church in
Duquesne (now Christ the Light of the World RC Church) and
asked about parish records. Felix was buried in Holy Name
Cemetery on November 27, 1920. Now that I have a date, I'll
be looking for an obituary in the Duquesne and McKeesport
papers.
The Natchers definitely moved to
Pittsburgh from Cumberland County, probably in 1868. The
earliest Natcher I have is Michael in Harrisburg in 1790.
I'll be visiting the Cumberland County Historical Society in
July. A William Natcher died in Carlisle in July 1863, a few
weeks after the battle at Gettysburg. Is he the same William
who served in the US Cavalry and died in the war? Is he
Rudisill's son? Stay tuned.
I'm currently reviewing the parish
registry for Great Gonerby, Lincolnshire. There are
baptismal records for Wilkinsons starting in 1802. Wonder
where they came from before then? I'll let you know as soon
as I figure it out.
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