Are you interested in South Carolina?

Question

The US History project has many subprojects, including one for every state! I know many of you have ancestors that lived in or traveled through South Carolina at some point. Anyone that is interested is invited to join.

Please just answer yes to this question and I will award you the US History Project badge.  Check out our project page to see what else you can do to participate in the project! Here is the link:

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Project:South_Carolina

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Yes, I would like to join.

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Yes,,,

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I would like to join the South Carollina project.  Many of my Jones ancestors came from Abbeville, South Carolina.  Most came to Fayette County, Georgia.

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Yes, thank you!

Answer 1

Hello Paula,
My only ancestor that may of came from South Carolina is John Robinson, Robertson. The 1850 census states he was born in SC, but the 1860, 1870 census has Ky. His father was from Ireland and in Ky. by 1810. Johns birth was about 1805. I have looked for Allen in SC with no luck. I'm decended from two of Allen's children John & Izabella. Just letting you know we might have something in common. South Carolina.

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Yes I think we do! Census takers might have made a mistake or maybe about that time he didn't want to admit it! Let's have a look and see what we can find out. I know you have already looked but it never hurts.

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John I don't supposed this Robertson/Robinson family ended up in Mississippi?

I have recently started adding my sons biological line which is Robertson.  I am stuck at a John A. Robertson who shows on the census as the father of Thomas E Robertson b. 1849.

I am having serious problems finding "good" sources for the family before they are in Mississippi.

Thomas E Robertson

Answer 2

Yes ... my Ross ancestors lived in Chester District from about 1770. Old Hugh was a South Carolina militiaman in '75.

Answer 3

Yes :) please add me to the South Carolina project

Answer 4

Yes. North Carolina. South Carolina, and Tennessee

Answer 5

Yes most of my family lived in South Carolina, York County, Lancaster and Chesterfield Counties.

Answer 6

Hi!  I realized I am a little late to the boat but I'd love to get on for the voyage if I can!  I am actually a 7th generation Andersonian from multiple lines of my family.  I am a descendant of George Brown & Rachel Felton; George Marshall & Jane Carson; as well as being a Brooks, Butler, Burriss, Horton, Major, Breazeale, Chaplin, Reynolds, Smith, Zeigler, Pope, Gary, Calmes, Simpson, etc.  My family is from Anderson, Abbeville, Greenwood, Charleston, and Belton.  

Could I please be added to the group?

Comments

Hi Jane,

You need to confirm your email address on your profile and then I can add you to the project. Thanks!

Answer 7

Yes - particularly interested in NC SC TN GA before 1850  - Tugalo Crossroads - King's Mountain Battle veterans

Answer 8

Yes, and thanks A Lowe for answering late and making this hit my Home page.  :)

I have Ward, Weems, Williams, Lanier, Hart, Thompson, Varnado, Gilbert.....oh let's make it easy and say most ALL of my ancestors came from or through South Carolina.

Only one I can think of came to New Orleans, Louisiana from Pennsylvania as far as I can trace and that was the family of Elijah Stevens.

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My husband and I also have a deep history in South Carolina- Anderson, Oconee, Pickens, Abbeville, Greenwood, and Edgefield are the counties most often represented in our tree.  Many of the surnames that you have mentioned are in our family, too. Of the surnames listed, the only one not currently represented in our tree is Weems.

Answer 9

Yes, I would like to join. My adopted Roux family were Huguenots that came to South Carolina from Switzerland in 1772. They remained in Charleston until the early 1800's when they moved to Florida and became pioneers there.

Answer 10

Yes I would like to join! A good part of my family have been in South Carolina since the 1700s.

Answer 11

Yes, please. Both of my parents' families have ancestors hailing from all over SC since the early-mid 1700's.

Answer 12

Yes. I am interested

Answer 13

Yes please add me to the project.  My family has lived in South Carolina since the late 1600s , early 1700 and they fought in the civil war, and spent time in Yankee prison camps.

Answer 14

Yes, my mother's ancestors emigrated from Ireland to South Carolina in 1770, settled on a royal land grant in the Chester District (now Chester County) and joined the Revolution in '76. They left for Florida two generations later, driving their cattle south.

Answer 15

Yes, my family emigrated at Charles Town SC in about 1732 and seemed to have moved to Kingstree SC until after the Civil War when they moved to Florida.

Answer 16

Yes, Marion, Dillon Charleston, Chesterfield, Lancaster (1790 - current)

Answer 17

Yes. (Already working with USBH SC project). Upstate is Holland, Maddox, Meares, Dupre, Hudson. Charleston is Dupre, Allston.

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I also descend from the Holland family in Upstate South Carolina.  My third great-grandmother was born Eliza (or Elizabeth) Frances Holland, wife of Berry Madison Pressley.

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Oh excellent! I am traveling today but will run our kits tomorrow…. My moms kit is A364880. Xox

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Cool! My mother's GEDmatch kit is: BT9759649.

Answer 18

Yes, I would like to join. My ancestors came to South Carolina from the coast, from Savannah, down the Great Wagon Road, and from the Blue Ridge Mountains.

Answer 19

Yes. I ama 13th generation Couth Carolinian and Have a private genealogy database of over 2800, the large percentage of which originated in SC.

Answer 20

Yes, I would like to join.

Parts of my family have been in South Carolina for over 250 years. :)