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The WikiTree Challenge 2022 Challenge 12

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WikiTree Challenge Week 12

Guest Star: Lois (McMaster) McMaster Bujold

Notes From The Guest

  • The Genealogy of the family of Gamaliel Gerould
  • This offer has, roundaboutly, got me doing a project I've been sitting on for decades, scanning and putting into postable Word files my mother's early 70s typescripts of a couple of 1864 family diaries. More on that if anyone's interested.
  • Quite a lot is known about the Gerould side of my family, going back to one Jacques Gerould, a French Hugenot doctor who sailed to America in 1700. One family legend has it that he later (presumably much later) married a girl he'd delivered on the ship. Following the Lockes back, I dimly recall seeing some family tree thing with dates in the 1600s. So there's likely a good bit to be found in that quadrant.
  • I did want to get accurate information on my Civil War Geroulds, to work on an intro for the diaries, my next project. Practically the first hit was the very book I remembered from family stuff. 19th. C. self-or-vanity published 1885, to my surprise by a glance at the intro by my great-grandfather Samuel Lankton Gerould, he of the Civil War memoir that will be part of the set. Most of the generation of interest were still alive when it was compiled, evidently from the lack of certain death dates. It was bound in a muted red cover; I don't have that copy, but somewhere in my stuff I remember having a photocopy of it, probably still lurking. I must have read the intro at some point, but so long ago I don't remember when, and had forgotten all the details.
  • My dad got interested in genealogy late in his life, and did some tracing on the McMasters, who came down from Ontario after the Civil War in the person of his grandfather. There was at one point an old McMaster family bible that got stolen in a burglary and never recovered, that according to my grandfather Royal McMaster had more information handwritten in it, going back to the 19th C. Gone now.
  • I know nearly nothing about my dad's mother, who died young a few days after giving birth to my dad's younger sister Ethel circa ~1916-18, not sure of the dates. Probably in Pittsburgh, PA by then, or the family might still have been back in Washington, PA. I know I saw a death certificate for her at one point, and there is one photo of which I have a scan taken circa 1910, the only image of her I've ever seen. Do you use visuals on your thing, or is it all audio podcast? She was such a blank silence in my family, I never thought to ask about her of my grandfather when he was alive, who would have been the only person who remembered her.
  • The other two family legends never confirmed is the belief that that branch was descended from Rebecca Nourse (sp?), who was among those hanged/judicially murdered in the Salem Witch Trials at age, like, 70-something. But I don't believe anyone got the last links connected up. And the other was that the Lockes were collateral descendants of English philosopher John Locke, also not confirmed. Or it might have been another John Locke -- seems to me it could have been a common English name combo. I'd be curious if your crew could find anything more on those two little mysteries.
  • Upon reflection, I do realize I'd met some older siblings of my grandfathers (both of whom died in the 60s.) We once visited Grandpa McMaster's brother down in Beaumont, Texas, in the late 50s; Authur, maybe? And in the 60s and maybe one other time, mother's paternal aunts Harriet and Marion in, hm, Medford, likely. (I wasn't sure at the time which one was married to Bill Brophy, but I remember Bill -- Boston lawyer, quite a character.) Most of the Gerould family memorabilia, including the books, came to my mom from them.
  • In the course of talking with, well, e-mailing, my older brother Jim re: the diary project he coughed up more scans of old family photos, including, finally, one with my grandmother McMaster's full name: Pearl Margurite Willard Beaver. (I'm not 100% sure of the spelling of her middle name.)
  • Dad's grandparents' names confirmed as Marshall McMaster and Hannah Parker. The family photo taken of the parents and all 4 boys when my grandfather Charles Royal was about 2 circa 1880 is v. cool.
  • The Civil War chapbook project is moving along. I have a nice professional cover for it, and most of its contents arranged and tidied up. The only mystery that remains is the identity of the "Polly Anderson" who passed the diaries along to my mother in the late 50s. I found a Mary Foster Gerould Anderson (1903 - 1972), daughter of John Hiram Gerould, older brother of my grandfather, who seems a likely candidate, but how you'd get "Polly" out of that name I don't know.
  • Relevant Goodreads Q&A answer from Lois

Needs Work

  1. Research on Ezekiel Thayer's (1746-1791) Revolutionary service. There are two other patriots named Ezekiel Thayer who received pensions. Could someone look at service records and exclude those receiving pensions, and see if there are any service records that would match the correct Ezekiel. His granddaughter said that he served in the War.

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Interesting Finds

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  1. The eighth great grandmother of Lois, Rebecca (Towne) Nurse (1621-1692), was accused of witchcraft and executed by hanging in New England during the Salem Witch Trials of 1692. She was fully exonerated less than twenty years later.
  2. In April 1901, Lois's great grandfather Samuel Lankton Gerould purchased a large scrap book and had it placed in the Social Library in Hollis, New Hampshire, calling for the public to send in "all items of interest they may find," to help preserve the history of the community.
  3. Lois's great grandfather Samuel Lankton Gerould in 1885 published "The Genealogy of the Family of Gamaliel Gerould son of Dr. Jaques (or James) Jerauld of the Province of Languedoc France."
  4. The 1850 census lists Lois's third great grandparents Peter Thayer and his wife Abigail (Blake) Thayer as living in the Poor House in Acworth, Sullivan County, New Hampshire. They were listed as "paupers."
  5. The marriage record of Andronicus Drummond and Anna L Turner for 3 Jul 1917 lists him as having 3 previous marriages, (Still looking for other wives)
  6. Fred Schoaf, Lois's first cousin twice removed, survived the Great War, rising to the rank of battalion sergeant major of the 60th Field Artillery, only to plunge to his death in 1922 while going on a flight with his brother, Ralph, a flight instructor during the war.
  7. Lois's 2nd great grandmother Cynthia Locke Gerould "taught a class in the Sunday-school of the state's prison after she was seventy years of age."
  8. The home of Martin L Gerould (brother to Lois's great Grandfather) in St Louis Missouri is preserved by the state Office of Historic Preservation. See https://mostateparks.com/sites/mostateparks/files/Marshall%20Place%20Survey.pdf and search for "Martin Gerould House"; he bought the site in 1869, apparently for a bride-to-be who died before the marriage. He lived elsewhere in Webster Groves, then sold the house in 1882.
  9. Gen.William Tecumseh[Sherman-393] and Lois are 6th cousins four times removed; both are descendants of Grace (Makin) Sherman (abt.1578-aft.1643) and her husband Edmund Sherman of Dedham, Essex, UK, who crossed the Atlantic by 1635 to found of a major American Sherman family. She also shares the same connection to his brother, Sen, John H. Sherman Sherman-2207 (1823 - 1900) who gave his name to the Sherman Anti-Trust Act.
  10. John H. Albee (abt.1833-1915), Lois's first cousin four times removed, was a Unitarian minister turned Transcendental poet, known for his friendship and correspondence with Ralph Waldo Emerson. He published a memoir that includes his mother's stories about his grandmother, Huldah (Thayer)(Thayer) Albee, Lois's fourth great-grandmother. "My mother, your grandmother, was a widow. I never saw my own father, for I was born while he was away fighting in the battles of the Revolution and he never returned; he was killed at Yorktown. When I was about ten years old my mother had an offer of marriage from a farmer in Medway who had lost his wife... she set out for Medway upon the mare's back, taking me with her on a pillion behind. ... your grandmother was a large, stout woman and we had a number of bags and bundles fastened onto the saddle, and I almost hidden among them... She wore an immense bonnet flaring wide in front and big bowed silver spectacles." [Cole-12288]
  11. During the American Revolutionary War Anna (Weyerbacher) Hennig (1767-1794) Lois's 5th great grandmother and her elder sister Elizabeth were captured by a group of marauding Indians allied with the British. The Indians set fire to the cabins and departed with the two girls. In a few days Anna returned, the 14 years old girl having escaped from her captors, but her sister Elizabeth Weyerbacher (1765 - ) choose to stay with the tribe and married an Indian.
  12. Johannes S. Bieber (1764-1846) owned 5 beehives when he died, as well as a copper barrel kettle (commonly used for moonshine). Urbach-13
  13. Lois’s eighth great grandparents, Henry Adams 1583-1646 and Edith (Edith (Squire) Adams (1587 - 1672), arrived in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1638 and founded a family dynasty so large and powerful (89 grandchildren and later, two Presidents) that they were sometimes referred to as the Founders of New England. As a result, Lois is a third cousin 6 times removed to President John Adams and a fourth cousin 5 times removed to his grandson, President John Quincy Adams.
  14. Joseph Hutchinson, Lois's 8th great Grandfather, was one of the complainants who procured warrants for the first accusations of the Salem witch trials. Later he seemed to be more skeptical, signing a petition vouching for the character of Rebecca Nurse (accused by others for witchcraft, and 8th gr-grand of Lois). [Cole-12288]

Free Space Pages

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

Military Profiles

  • SEVEN YEARS WAR / FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR (1754-1763)
In 1754, the French and Indian War, part of a series of wars between France and England, erupted. Although most Pennsylvania German settlers stayed out of the conflict to tend their farms, Johannes Nicholas Weyerbacher (Lois's 6th great grandfather) decided to fight for the English and enlisted in the company of John Nicholas Weatherholt, stationed in Hydelberg Township, North­ampton County, in 1758; he enlisted for three years, but he continued his service until the war ended in 1763.
  • WAR OF 1812
Lois's 3rd great grandfather Daniel Williard served in the 22nd United States Infantry during the War of 1812.
  • CIVIL WAR
Lois's great grandfather Samuel Lankton Gerould served in Company G of the 14th New Hampshire Infantry.
Lois's 2nd great grandmother's brother Gawin Drummond served in Company E of the 206th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry.
Lois's 2nd great grandmother's other brother Andronicus Drummond served in Company F, 206th Regiment, Pennsylvania Infantry, from 1861 to 1865
Three of Lois's great grandmother Laura Etta (Thayer)Gerould's brothers served in various units. William McClure Thayer served in Company A of the 117th New York Infantry. Leonard Edward Thayer served as a Sergeant in Company K of the 96th New York Infantry. Hiram Orcutt Thayer served in Company A of the 83rd New York Infantry and died from wounds five weeks after mustering in, in August 1863.
Lois's 2nd great grandfather Warren Thayer's nephew Charles Edward Tupper served in Company G of the 2nd Vermont Infantry. He died in a regimental hospital in December 1861 from typhoid fever.
William Hennigh, a nephew of Lois's 3rd great grandmother Jane Hennigh, served during the Civil War in the 138th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment and died on 30 Nov 1863 aged ~28 in Locust Grove during the Mine Run Campaign, an unsuccessful attempt of the Union Army of the Potomac to defeat the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia.
  • WORLD WAR I
Lois's first cousin twice removed, Fred Schoaf started in the National Guard, in a new unit stood up in 1916 to fight on the Mexican border, was federalized when the US entered WWI, and rose to the rank of battalion sergeant major in the 60th Field Artillery.

Ancestors

Brick Walls

These links will be added mid-week by Mindy and the Karen. Remember to claim any brick wall bounties in the G2G!

Paternal Brick Walls

  1. Robert Henry (1772-1861)
  2. Edward Lawes (abt.1750-) Solved!
  3. Dewald V Bieber (1792-bef.1865)
  4. Frederick Willyard (1773-1856) Solved!

Maternal Brick Walls

  1. Hannah (Bancroft) Jewett (abt.1740-abt.1773)
  2. Abigail (Blake) Thayer (1779-abt.1861)
  3. Barnabas John Reedy (abt.1764-abt.1834)
  4. Robert Travis (abt.1761-abt.1841)

Resources

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Specific Country Resources

Canada

Denmark

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England

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France

Germany

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Ireland

  • Tip: The census records are a good start, and you should be able to find images of all the birth records for each child on irishgenealogy. They have exact birth date, places, fathers Occupation, and mother’s maiden names. Once you get that, you can search for the marriage of the parents, and that gives their fathers names. The civil records are great, but only go back to 1864 for births, a bit earlier for marriages.


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