Thread: Family Jewels

I recently had a family reunion. Met all of my east coast people.

My Grandmother is from the Hull Family. Turns out I'm the GrGrGrGrgrandson of Commodore Isaac Hull of the USS Constitution during the war of 1812. Pretty groovy, eh?

Here's a picture of Grandad and his posse kicking some Limey ass. Yes, he's the short fat guy in the middle not doing anything.



So any other BF folks with rumored pedigree?

Rumored? Yeah. I'm still trying to check everything though. I got a lot of stuff from ancestry dot com, I just want supporting documents.

Originally Posted by Softskull

I recently had a family reunion. Met all of my east coast people.

My Grandmother is from the Hull Family. Turns out I'm the GrGrGrGrgrandson of Commodore Isaac Hull of the USS Constitution during the war of 1812. Pretty groovy, eh?

Here's a picture of Grandad and his posse kicking some Limey ass. Yes, he's the short fat guy in the middle not doing anything.



So any other BF folks with rumored pedigree?

I'll check some prison records and get back to you.

I had a great great grandfather who was captured in the ACW by Nathan Bedford Forrest. He spent his 18th Birthday in Andersonville. He was an ambulance driver with the Army of the Cumberland. I have his diary around here somewhere.

After the war he had 14 children, so many that the last two (13 and 14) were sent to an orphanage. Great great grandpappy got a job as a paymaster for a railroad and disappeared on a trip out west. Family story is that he was probably robbed and murdered. I won't rule out the possibility that he absconded with the dough and ditched his enormous brood. His son from the orphanage was my great grandfather, who sailed on the White Fleet in 1907. I met him as a very little boy. He scared me, because I had never seen anyone so wrinkly. He was also a mean old drunk who disappeared regularly when he forgot he didn't live in Bridgeport CT any longer (by then he lived with my Mom's parents in Springfield VT.). The family would get a call from the authorities eventually, from places as far afield as Boston and Baltimore. He woud just hop a train and go.


The only other line we have solid info on involved what looks like a scandal in Sweden in the 1870's. My great great Grandmother was a housemaid on a farm in Narike - a western province, and apparently the Arkansas of Sweden, and where almost half of U.S. immigrants came from. We know she had an illegitimate child, because in 1872 she shows up on a list in Goteberg to sail with her son, and in 19th Century Sweden women with illegitimate kids had a symbol affixed to their name by law. We know she didn't sail, because she shows up on a similar list in 1876, now married (which removed the symbol), with a husband, and they did in fact sail for NYC. The hubby was the farm handyman, so our guess is that she told him if he didn't make an honest woman of her she was going to America. He obviously did what he needed to do.

Once in America they ditched their original very plebian Swedish last name for a very aristocratic Swedish name. Basically putting on airs. That is my last name now, though I suppose it shouldn't be!

General Forrest is one of my favorite Civil War generals, sorry he captured your kin. Andersonville was horrific.

In researching my Hull family, it turns out his Uncle/adopted father was the General that surrendered Detroit to the Brits. We don't talk about Uncle Bill all that much.

Don't have much of a story to it but Edgar Allan Poe was my great (I forget how many times) uncle.

I maintain that it explains a lot.

My great great great grandfather's little brother died in Andersonville Prison. He was only 16.

Somewhere on my mother's side I'm related to the Dalton Gang.

Those two things I know for sure.

According to Ancestry, I'm related to John Renta Baker, Robert Baker, and Robert Bullock. John was a Colonel in the Revolutionary War. Robert was his grandfather, I think. Robert was the first to make the Long Rifle, also known as the Kentucky Rifle or Pennsylvania Rifle. Bullock was some relation to Pocahontas, George Bush, and John McCain.

I am related to Jose Oquendo for you baseball buffs, and Fres Oquendo who was a heavyweight boxer.

My great...................grandfather was an admiral in the Spanish Armada.

But all this comes from my dad who said we were royalty when the moors ruled Spain, and the later on became one of the largest Spanish Mafia Organizations in Spain before we were run out if the country.

My grandpa was a pilot and Luftwaffe hunter in WWII. He shot down 6 Nazis in his tour.

Granpa

One thing I feel I've learned from genealogy research is that damn near every man is a hero. To go through the heartache of losing several children, still keep your sanity, and work your entire life to support your family. That stuff has always been impressive to me. If I lost my little girls I think I would shut down. It was a different breed of men back then.

Originally Posted by olathebroncofan

I am related to Jose Oquendo for you baseball buffs, and Fres Oquendo who was a heavyweight boxer.

My great...................grandfather was an admiral in the Spanish Armada.

But all this comes from my dad who said we were royalty when the moors ruled Spain, and the later on became one of the largest Spanish Mafia Organizations in Spain before we were run out if the country.

It's Moops.