52 Ancestors Week 7: Love

Question

Ready for Week 7 of the 52 Ancestors challenge?

You're encouraged to share a profile of an ancestor or relative who matches the week's theme. This week's sharing prompt:

LOVE

From Amy Johnson Crow:

Valentine's Day is this week, but that doesn't mean you have to focus on romantic love. Besides the ancestral love stories, you could share an ancestor who you love to research. Are there any "love" names in the family tree, like Lovie or Valentine? (Come to think of it, "Amy" is based in Latin meaning "beloved"... ) 

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My great uncle: Strickland, Lovie Noah https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/strickland-4897

Answer 1

valentines day is  a celebration that only recently has been celebrated in my country. My aunt Betsy was born on the 14th february. And I always try to send her a special birthday card. Dementia is taking over in her brain so I hope she still enjoys her cards.

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I know what you mean my dad has vascular dementia, 2 types of cancer inside of him and has to take dialysis 3 times a week and lives in a memory care unit in Brookdale in Greeneville, Tennessee. I think she does because my dad does he is 86 and will be 87 on July 11th.

Answer 2

I wrote about my great aunt Sarah Bird Northrup who defied her family and socity at large, marrying a Cherokee chief.

https://genealogybyjanelle.blogspot.com/2019/02/love-sarah-bird-northup-1804-1856-and.html

Answer 3

Love reminds me of Great Aunt Liz.

Actually she was my paternal Grandfather’s step-mother. She married his father after his first wife died (after having 10 children). I can find no evidence that she ever bore children, but she raised the children with love. So much so that in her latter years she lived with my grandparents. She was always known as Great Aunt Liz to my cousins and I.

Answer 4

It took nearly a month to research all that I was able to find for the couple that I chose for the February BioBuilders Challenge, so I used the same couple married on Valentine's Day for #52Ancestors Challenge, hopefully I'll be caught up what I'm behind this week.

For this challenge I chose Manasseh Miner and Hannah (Haley) Miner to blog about.

Note: I don't like using incomplete WikiTree profiles when I include them in a blog, so research was necessary, and as soon as I thought I found everything I could, something else turned up, and because there was a discrepancy between Published Genealogies about the children, I took a little longer to research the children as well.

Answer 5

The ancestor that comes to mind is John Brydone, not because of a name meaning, or passionate research, or anything like that. But because he is my connection to the country I love most - Scotland. 

I find no greater joy than discovering connections to this wonderful country for which I have such an affinity. I can't explain it, but I feel so connected...must be my DNA 

Answer 6

Hi, 

This is my grandmother, who married for love. After my grandfather passed, she was never the same without him around.

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Mayoh-2

Answer 7

I haven't done a lot of research on this person that I am going to use for this prompt but I have discovered that I have with both my mom and dad that I have several relatives that has their first name as Valentine. Also I have some relatives with their last name is Love. On my mom's side there is about 4 Valentines first names and a lot of Love for last name that are from Rhea County. Then there is one person on my dad's side that has Valentine as their first name that came from North Carolina. That is the person I am going to use and I will do some more research on him probably during the clean - a - thon this year. His name is Valentine Honeycutt. He is my dad's grandmother's uncle It took me some time and searching before I find the Valentines and Love's of my relatives. I had a lot of the Honeycutts on my dad side researced some. There is some Honeycutts on my mom side of the family.

Here is the person I am putting in here:https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Honeycutt-1472

Answer 8

My paternal great-grandmother, Lovey Jane (Hoover) Budd for her name but also, because she fell in love with the boy next door, Carl Budd. 

Answer 9

One of the more unusual names I've come across in my tree is Myfanwy Margaret Traherne. 

As I understand, the name Myfanwy is derived from the Welsh 'annwyl', which means beloved.

Answer 10

My Great Grandmother Cora Lovelace Dale had a love of God unmatched by anyone else I have found. I never heard her sing anything other then hymns. She could quote the Bible front to back and loved to listen to her favorite preacher on her radio and would lay her hand on it and feel the spirit of god! She would tough her daughter and she would pass the spirit on to her and she would get up and dance in the spirit! 

Answer 11

A notable Love in my family was my 6th-great grandfather was John Love who was bound out as an orphan in 1759, Augusta County, Virginia, after his parents had died. We can only assume that his mother died, because sometimes children were bound out as orphans after their father died, even though their mother survived.

John apparently came through the experience unscathed since he later served as a Sergeant in the Virginia Line during the American Revolution and received a Virginia Veteran Land Warrant for land in Nelson County, Kentucky.

Answer 12

Annie Mathers Pozzi must have had a strong and confident love for Albert Frohberger. Albert left Scotland in August 1906 and went to Brandon, Manitoba, Canada in August 1906. In the spring of 1908, Annie left all of her family behind in Ireland and Scotlan and brought her 17-year old brother Stuart on the long jouney to Canada, then by train to Brandon. At Winnipeg, Albert interrupted their journey and got them off the train. They were married the next day, on 7 May 1908 in Winnipeg before proceeding to Brandon.

Answer 13

My cousin, James A Poinatale, married Debra Smith on 14 Feb 2006.  They were wed in Plymouth, Connecticut, USA.

Answer 14

While it would be nice if my daughter "loved" her name, my first born daughter was named "Cherilee" (cheri- French for beloved, or precious, and Lee, a prefix reference to my father Ernest Leroy). Cheri, as she was called as a child, was the first granddaughter to George and Jody Lamothe.