jgo Ancestors and Cousins, & cousins of cousins through marriage (and a few other folks)

updated: 2023-12-07

"The fool in a hurry drinks his tea with a fork." --- Charlie Chan, fictional character created by Earl Derr Biggers of Warren, Trumbull county OH (the same town as James Ward Packard near Canton, Youngstown, SE of Cleveland) (quoted at Yunte Huang 2010 _Charlie Chan_ pg159) I fear I am like this fool drinking tea by using a fork. I have in mind several half-baked, partially-prototyped ways of jumping to my various sources (and my own notes from various family members, family documents, & old genealogy books) and searching out shortest-possible-parent/child-paths between individuals, coping with multiple name variants, etc., but the task of parsing, isolating, extracting, and following the links through multiple sites has done little more than cause a lot of nail-chewing anxiety (I really dislike parsing with the exceptions to the exceptions to the exceptions, the nesting of parens, braces, brackets, vertical-bars of various sorts, quotes, apostrophes, German double-chevron quotes, triple-chevron quotes, escape characters, escape-escape characters...) and so, for now, I manually read read read, cogitate over anomalies, make human decisions, and type type type into these web pages.

Link to section with portraits/pictures, for some of which we do not have names of the individuals nor photographers, nor photography studios, locations, etc. The last one who knew the names tried to give me some of these back around 1984, but I did not have a safe place for them and asked her to write the names on the backs/edges of the frames, but, alas, that did not happen and she is gone, and the other family member to which she passed them is gone, and the family members who then found them did not know. This is how information is lost. A distant cousin recognized one of them, and claimed to have seen a slightly different photo of the same person, but beyond that, we have been stumped.

Conundra
Did Anne McKie/Ann Mackey m: Patrick Hannay or Alexander Hannay?
Who was Ethe Hannay? Was he the same as Aedh Hannay (i.e. is "dh" a substitute/equivalent of the "thorn" character)?
Tree conflicts?
It could be that Odo=Ethe, because there are historical figures referred to as Aedh or Ethe, but then some sources equivalence Aedh with Hugh.
Conundra2
The puzzling grandma Agatha Maybe she's another of the ancestors genetically engineered in a vat by aliens 👽 on the flying saucer 🛸 that dropped her and took off before anyone spotted it?

Seeking information about:
??Hans Graff/Hans Jakob Graff/Hans Heinrich Graff (s of Marx Sporri Graf & Anna Heller) m: Ursula b: c. 1665 at Rafz, Zurich, Switzerland m: Susanna Orndorf Kundig/Susanna Orndorf Kendig (d of Hans Jagli Huffelberg Kundig & Elsbeth Wintsch Meili) b: c. 1675 d: 1748 at Groffdale, W Earl twp Lancaster county PA
??Peter B. Groff (?s of Hans Graff & Susanna Orndorf?) b: c. 1704 d: 1764 November m: Susanna Musselman m: Barbara Jotter/Barbara Yoder b: c. 1705-01-01 d: 1740

Henry Grove i/Heinrich Groff? b: 1738-04-26 d: 1805-02-26 buried: Shock/Schoeck burial ground, E Donegal twp Lancaster county PA m: 1764-06-26 with ?Anna Engel (d of Ulrich Engel b: 1711-03-15 or 1743-07-01 in Bern 1755-12-07 lived in Donegal twp Lancaster county PA d: 1757-06-14 or 1799-09-28 & Anna Brechbuehl/Braechtbuehl b: 1715 d: 1764 or Magdalena Bicksler? b: 1741 d: 1821-09-13 both buried at "Wildcat Farm" half-mile below Schock's Mills?? or at least in Lancaster county; gd of Jost Engel & Christina Rohrer) b: c. 1741 in/near Corgemont, Bern, Switzerland d: c. 1805 at Maytown, Lancaster county PA??
Henry Grove II & Sophia/Sophie Bentzel?/ Bentzyl? b: c. 1771 in PA or VA d: in OH;
Henry Grove III & Martha Ann Fleming/Martha W. Fleming;
George Richard Grove, & Catherine Anderson, need better confirmation or refutation of her burial place & her parents

Karl/Carl Otto birth-place c. 1825 and how did he meet Wilhelmine of Sieber bei Herzberg am Harz in the Harz Mountains (East of Goettingen; S of Braunschweig; S of Goslar; W of Quedlinburg); Did he live and work in Frankfurt am Main?
Rebecca A. Ford, & Joseph Ford & Catherine;
James Newberry & Sarah Guest/Geist;
Jacob Taylor & Elizabeth Lewis;

Samuel Oulrey (Ulrich/Ullery/Woolery) & Sarah;
major George Scott at Ft.Laurens and Angeletta Craighill;
John William Craighill or William John Craighill & Elizabeth Addison or Elizabeth Rolfe;
Charles Vance & Sarah (and reverend Hugh Vance & Hannah Vance & Thomas Vance & Robert Vance);
William Patterson (and Sarah Jane & Hannah & Agnes Ann Patterson) of Berkeley county VA (now WV);
colonel Philip Pendleton of Martinsburg, Berkeley county VA (now WV);
John Parks & Mary Patterson;
parents of Grey Bynum Fancher (and how he got that name through his Grey and Bynum ancestors [which I once thought I had fairly quickly figured out and recorded, but...]);

Basil/Barswell/Bazel L. Daniel/Daniels (s of ?Jeremiah Daniel? & ?Abigail Fisher?) m: ?Sarah Fogg? and how/when they reached the Carolinas in the late 1700s.
Mary Hanna (d of ??) m1: Abraham Goodnight/Gutknecht m2: John Davidson?

Am wary of the marriages connecting Hannas/Hannays with the MacDowalls, Stewarts of Dalswinton & Garlies, Stewarts of Bonkyl, Patterson with Pendleton with lots of old Virginia cousinages, but not wary enough to write them off so far (especially what with leaving home to go to university 700-900 miles away from relatives... only to find I had been working closely there with distant cousins [blood relatives as they say in the Deep South] at a university founded by a distant relative via marriages, at a state agency with an uncle of a friend of my mother's, glancing up from a sidewalk near the library to notice the grave-stones of distant relations by marriage, working at a national lab with my apartment on the other side of what was once the farm of a relation via marriage through the above-mentioned Pendletons & Seldens, with an office along a roadway named for another, that another not-so-distant relative had been chief supreme-court judge in the state where my head-hunter was based and where a close relative lived for a time, etc.).

And so I add these two to my list of far-out possible relatives along with Constantius Chlorus, Constantine, Charlemagne, Yaroslav the wise?, St. Margaret, St. Doda, St. Balthilde, St. Arnulf, king David, Abraham, Adam ha Rishon, Odin, the Nibelungen, and such:
Jack Hanna, the Columbus, OH zoo guy.
William Hanna 1910-2001 (Hanna-Barbera: Tom & Jerry, Yogi Bear, Jetsons, Flintstones, Top Cat, Scooby-Doo, Ruff & Reddy, Huckleberry Hound, Quick Draw McGraw, Magilla Gorilla, Johnny Quest, Adam Ant/Secret Squirrel, Sinbad junior, Space Ghost, BirdMan, Fantastic Four, Samson & Goliath, Banana Splits, New Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Penelope Pitstop, Mutley, Josie & the Pussycats, Amazing Chan, Super Friends, Addams Family, CB Bears, Popeye, Casper, Shmoo, The Fonz, Space Stars, Smurfs, Little Rascals, Richie Rich, Dukes...) & Peter Hanna 1841-1900

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