In the Beginning – Denman Family line
I have decided to take the first 52 Ancestors challenge from Amy Johnson Crow’s list for 2025 and use it to write about the first ancestral family for each of my family lines this year. I am choosing to start …
Tag: Neversink New York
Basketball and My Family – 52 Ancestors, # 41
I was raised in the middle of Indiana until high school, and so I learned about basketball and to like it as a sport. Basketball was a big school sport, followed by the students enthusiastically. When Sports came up as the …
A Random Act of Genealogical Kindness
Two weeks ago I got an email that there was a comment to be approved on our blog. When I read the comment I was thrilled and then, I have to admit, just a tiny bit suspicious (sorry, Linda!). The …
Ann Boorman Denman (1772-1842)
My four greats grandmother was Ann Boorman Denman. She was born in Staplehurst, Kent, England on 9 Aug 17721. She married my 4 great grandfather, William Denman, on 24 Jun2 or 24 Dec 1790, in Headcorn, Kent, England. The date …
Wakeman 5. Early Denmans and Apple Orchards in Northern Ohio
My Denman family line first migrated from Ditchling, Sussex, England to New York state up the Hudson River around Kingston and Rondout Creek in about 1795. They settled in the Neversink area in Sullivan County. It was from there that …
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