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Kind of a cool thing
Sep. 2nd, 2011 06:14 pmSo as I've mentioned here several times before, I'm the family genealogist. I've been incredibly lucky with many of the lines of my family and finding info. especially on my mom's side. Last night I found a connection that broke through one of my "brick wall" ancestors. She's my 4th Great-Grandmother and her name was Harriett (Bateman) Lasher Brommel Brommel.
This is the oldest family photo I have. It would have been taken somewhere around 1850 or possibly as late as 1860. There's another photo of a man taken around the same time, but I'm not sure if he was her husband at the time or possibly a son. (Hard to tell with the mustache.)
She married Frederick Lasher when she was around 25 or so. In March of 1836 she gave birth to twin girls Harriet and Maryette Lasher. Six months later though, Frederick died.
Harriett went on to marry John Brommel (whose family was English but spent a lot of time in France apparently) and have at least one more child (possibly as many as 5, I'm still working that out). John raised the twins as his own daughters. He died in 1883. Harriett was 74 at the time. She went on to marry John's younger brother William sometime in the next year. William died 4 years later. The family story is that there was another suitor waiting in the wings, but Harriett decided to stay single at that point until her death in 1892 at the age of 82. :)
Anyway, last night I was able to find information on her parents and this led me to other connections so that I can now trace the female line (ie my mother's mother's mother...etc) in my family 10 generations back from me. :)
The earliest in the line is Ms. Elizabeth (Blake) Durant who was born in 1636 in Surrey, England and who moved to the colonies somewhere prior to 1858 and married George Durant in Middletown, Connecticut and went on to have MANY babies. Her daughter Abigail (Durant) married Samuel Tinker when they were "found guilty of incontinence before marriage". Let's just say their oldest son was born 6 months after the wedding. :)
At this point I REALLY REALLY want to go to New England and hunt around and find all these ancestors. Most of my mom's side of the family came through Massachusetts and Connecticut well before the Revolutionary war. It'd be very cool to go to some of the spots and even to some of the grave sites that are still there.
What's really cool though is the more I dig into the women in my family, the more I find out how tough and sturdy these women were. All sorts of stories of them surviving adversity and thriving.
This is the oldest family photo I have. It would have been taken somewhere around 1850 or possibly as late as 1860. There's another photo of a man taken around the same time, but I'm not sure if he was her husband at the time or possibly a son. (Hard to tell with the mustache.)
She married Frederick Lasher when she was around 25 or so. In March of 1836 she gave birth to twin girls Harriet and Maryette Lasher. Six months later though, Frederick died.
Harriett went on to marry John Brommel (whose family was English but spent a lot of time in France apparently) and have at least one more child (possibly as many as 5, I'm still working that out). John raised the twins as his own daughters. He died in 1883. Harriett was 74 at the time. She went on to marry John's younger brother William sometime in the next year. William died 4 years later. The family story is that there was another suitor waiting in the wings, but Harriett decided to stay single at that point until her death in 1892 at the age of 82. :)
Anyway, last night I was able to find information on her parents and this led me to other connections so that I can now trace the female line (ie my mother's mother's mother...etc) in my family 10 generations back from me. :)
The earliest in the line is Ms. Elizabeth (Blake) Durant who was born in 1636 in Surrey, England and who moved to the colonies somewhere prior to 1858 and married George Durant in Middletown, Connecticut and went on to have MANY babies. Her daughter Abigail (Durant) married Samuel Tinker when they were "found guilty of incontinence before marriage". Let's just say their oldest son was born 6 months after the wedding. :)
At this point I REALLY REALLY want to go to New England and hunt around and find all these ancestors. Most of my mom's side of the family came through Massachusetts and Connecticut well before the Revolutionary war. It'd be very cool to go to some of the spots and even to some of the grave sites that are still there.
What's really cool though is the more I dig into the women in my family, the more I find out how tough and sturdy these women were. All sorts of stories of them surviving adversity and thriving.
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