Star Wars Pop-Up Challenge May 2023 - Christopher Sean

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This page serves as a place to track our successful expansion of guest Christopher Sean (Friel)'s genealogical lines during the Star Wars Pop-Up Challenge in May 2023.

This event STARTS at 12 pm noon Eastern Time on Friday 5 May 2023 and ENDS at 12 pm noon Eastern Time on Monday 8 May 2023.

Intially, Christopher's ancestry had been identified as Irish, German, and Japanese. English and Dutch has now been added to this.

Contents 1 Starting Profiles 1.1 Brick Wall Profiles 1.2 Needs Work 1.3 Photographs 2 Tell Us What You Found!! 2.1 Interesting Finds 2.2 Military Profiles 2.3 Other notes 2.4 Locations 2.5 Free Space Pages 2.6 Categories

Starting Profiles

1. Paternal great-grandfather James J Friel (Irish)
2. Paternal great-grandmother Sophia F Gardner (German)
3. Paternal grandmother Mary Ellen Gardner (Friel) (German)
4. Maternal grandfather Akihisa Aoki (Aoki Akihisa) (Japanese)

Brick Wall Profiles

Needs Work

Photographs

Note: Please check with the challenge coordinator Steven Greenwood, if there are any questions about the images being protected by copyright.

• Add image link here

Tell Us What You Found!!

Interesting Finds

List interesting finds to share with the guest after the event weekend.

1. Direct descendant Ezra Horton (1761-1848) was a deacon in Massachusetts. -- Steven Greenwood
2. Direct descendant Barnabas Horton (c. 1600-1680) was part of the Great Puritan Migration. -- Greenwood-3667
3. Great-grandfather's brother, William Friel (1898-1911), was killed instantly when he was shot in the head during a "game" of wild, wild west. He was playing the part of a lonely traveler and his friend was the bandit. The bandit ordered him to throw up his hands, when he refused, the friend shot him. He later admitted to the sheriff that he knew the gun was loaded and Willie should have raised his hands. I'm not sure how long he spent in juvenile detention, but he fought in WWI, married, and had children. -- Lucy Selvaggio-Diaz
4. Confirmed relationship between Elizabeth Heffner Argubrite Wiltfong and father Henry Michael Hefner that leads back to third cousin three times removed Hugh Marston Hefner, founder of Playboy. -- Greenwood-3667
5. Elizabeth Heffner was married to William Argubrite at the age of 14 and this required a marriage bond document between Henry Michael Hefner and William Argubrite.
6. One of John William Hunt's three wives was Swedish, Hilda Carolyn Heglund. -- Greenwood-3667
7. Earliest ancestors likely to be Richard Horton born about 1470 possibly a bit earlier, died before 1515, and his wife Anna (Unknown) Horton born around 1470 died about 1515. Anna left a will probate granted in 1515. - Browning-5288 19:01, 7 May 2023 (UTC)
8. Within the adopted Gardner line, William M Gardner (c. 1820-1887), was a gunsmith. -- Greenwood-3667
9. Via Dynamic Tree App, if accurate, earliest ancestor is earliest legendary person on WikiTree through England, France and Wales, the questionable to exist Beli ap Bran (year 0060). Also means the Carolingians and Charlesmagne would potentially be along the way. - Greenwood-3667
10. Nelson Garner Tabor (1859-1936) was a music instructor, salesman and band musician and had six children. He played in a band into his seventies and it was interesting how his music legacy wove through his children's lives. One of his daughters Irma Irene (Tabor) Guthrie (abt.1889-abt.1970) married a minister, was a minister herself and had ten children. --Finch-7411
11. Christopher is a 36th great-grandson of Charlesmagne. -- Greenwood-3667
12. Christopher is a cousin to both Mark Hamill and Carrie Fisher, and has the same ID number as David Prowse-513 (Darth Vader physical actor). -- Greenwood-3667
13. Christopher is cousins with 33 of the 46 American Presidents, with the closest being Barack Obama - 8C (via Anna Margaretha (Unknown) Mallo (abt.1720-abt.1768)) -- Greenwood-3667
14. Additional notable cousins identified after challenge, using ID 38365098: -- Greenwood-3667

    William Mullins (abt.1572-1621) - 1C 13R (via Margerie (Elliot) Bridger (abt.1527-abt.1580)) and ten other Mayflower passengers

    Benedict Arnold V (1741-1801) - 4C 8R (via Elizabeth (Stoughton) Chamberlain (1600-bef.1647))

    Jesse Donald "Don" Knotts (1924-2006) -7C 2R (via Johannes (Lourens) Opdyck (1651-1729)) (and Christopher now has Dutch ancestors)

    Elvis Aaron Presley (1935-1977) - 9C 2R, and daughter Lisa Marie Presley (1968-2023) - 10C 1R (via William Wells (abt.1611-1671))

    Lucille Desiree Ball (1911-1989) - 9C 3R (via Phoebe (Browne) Cornish (1620-1664))

    Shirley Jane (Temple) Black (1928-2014) - 9C 3R (via Elizabeth (Stoughton) Chamberlain (1600-bef.1647))

    Julia Carolyn (McWilliams) Child (1912-2004) - 9C 3R (via Elizabeth (Stoughton) Chamberlain (1600-bef.1647))

    Kyra Sedgwick - 10C 1R (via Richard Stout (abt.1615-bef.1705))

    Tom Selleck - 10C 1R (via Hendrick (Hendrickssen) Kyp (1600-1685))

    Isaac Newton (1642-1727) - 11C 10R (via Richard (FitzAlan) de Arundel (abt.1314-1376))

    "Judy" Frances Ethel (Gumm) Garland (1922-1969) - 11C 4R, and daughter Liza Minnelli - 12C 3R (via John (Croker) Crocker Esq. (abt.1500-1569)

    Jonathan Swift DST (1667-1745) - 12C 10R (via Edmund FitzAlan (1285-1326))

    King Charles III (Windsor) Mountbatten-Windsor KG - 13C (via Alice (Whiting) Strode (1517-1593))

    Susan Brownell Anthony (1820-1906) - 16C 5R (via Richard (FitzAlan) de Arundel (abt.1314-1376))

    James "Jimmy" Maitland Stewart (1908-1997) - 17C 4R (via Richard (FitzAlan) de Arundel (abt.1314-1376))

    Harriet (Ross) Tubman (1822-1913) - 21C 5R (via Margaret (Beaumont) de Quincy (bef.1172-abt.1235))

Military Profiles

• Elias Davidson Horton (1834-1917) - served in the American Civil War with Company I, 1st Wisconsin Cavalry. He was present and wounded at the Battle of Burnt Church and was discharged due to wounds at the end of the war, 15 Apr 1865.
  • Another member of the 1st Wisconsin Cavalry was Richard Handy Chittenden (1836-1911) who served in Company E, and later in 1889, discovered that the surface of the earth and moon are proportional to their sidereal periods, and, having been appointed United States Volunteer Observer, first noted and reported the oscillation of the magnetic needle on the approach of a cyclone (and happens to be a sixth cousin, six times removed of Greenwood-3667).
• William Ray Tabor (abt.1892-abt.1959) served in the Wisconsin National Guard and then World War I in a musical capacity.

Other notes

• Sophia Gardner Friel was a challenge to track down, but using her sister's obituary and finally locating her mother, Martha's death certificate, which Sophia was the informant, able to add her parents, Ernest Weingartner and Martha Kleiner; surname changed to Gardner on his Ohio Death Certificate, Both of Sophia's parents were born in Germany. Martha Kleiner arrived in 1891 according to the 1900 census. -- Margaret Meredith
• A useful web-page to translate Japanese to English - Jisho (https://jisho.org/) Thomas-29419 06:36, 8 May 2023 (UTC)
• Looking for references to Christopher's maternal grandfather, Aoki Akihisa. Found a reference under http://www.towninfo.jp/urls/word/y/u/kawara.html.
  • aobanoie(Kanagawa) -(2002)
    • "Please consult also about problems, such as a nursery and a life help desk which Yugawara town assembly member Akihisa Aoki manages, a home, illness, and law , freely . (Life , Suckling, helpdesk , kanagawa-ken, Ashigara-Shimo, Consultation) "
  • Yugawara (湯河原町, Yugawara-machi) is a town located in Ashigarashimo District, in the far South-Western corner of Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. It is 24 miles South-East of Mount Fuji and 55 miles South-West of the centre of Tokyo.
  • I would like to find out more about the place where Aoki Akihisa lived. I note that one of Yugawara's "Sister Cities" is Port Stephens, New South Wales, Australia. If I had more time I would ask Port Stephens what they know about government services in Yugawara Thomas-29419 06:36, 8 May 2023 (UTC)

Locations

List any countries or states that you research that are not part of the starting profiles.

1. Canada

   Lower Canada

2. England

   Leicestershire

   Mowsley

   Wigston Magna

3. Germany

   Baden

   Emmendingen

   Ötigheim

4. Ireland

   County Mayo

   Ballintubber, Castlebar

5. Sweden
6. United States

   California

   Connecticut

   New London (Connecticut Colony)

   Tolland County

   Union

   Indiana

   Henry County

   LaPorte County

   Rolling Prairie

   Illinois

   Iowa

   Cerro Gordo County

   Mahaska County (not direct)

   Massachusetts

   Michigan

   Minnesota

   New Jersey

   Hunterdon County

   Hopewell Township

   New York

   Franklin County

   Malone

   Jefferson County

   Cape Vincent

   Oswego County

   Oswego

   Suffolk County

   Southold, Long Island

   North Carolina

   Edgecombe County

   Rowan County

   North Dakota

   Ohio

   Allen County (not direct)

   Cuyahoga County

   Fairfield County (not direct)

   Hardin County (not direct)

   Logan County (not direct)

   Meigs County (not direct)

   Oregon

   Douglas County

   Pennsylvania

   Bucks County (not direct)

   Chester County (not direct)

   Vermont

   Virginia

   Frederick County (not direct)

   Isle of Wight County

   Isle of Wight

   Pendleton County (if confirmed)

   Brandywine

   West Virginia

   Wisconsin

   Clark County

   Jefferson County

   Fort Atkinson

   Sauk County

   Valton, Town of Woodland

   Waupaca County

   Weyauwega

   Wyoming

Free Space Pages

List of Free Space Pages created for or linked to members of this family.

Categories

List of Categories created for or linked to members of this family

• Category:湯河原町 (Yugawara, Kanagawa)