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McCauley

MarcielGilmore — 2009-11-05 19:34:49Z

1. William Smith, b. unknown, m. unknown d. 1848
2.David Smith, b. abt. 1808, m. Elizabeth Satterfield 16 Dec. 1839 d. 12 Sep 1879
3.Mary Ann Smith b. 27 Jul 1843 m. Edmund T. McCauley 26 Jul 1868 d. 4 Aug 1916
4. William Edward McCauley b. b. 9 May 1872 m. Mary E. Gray abt. 1893 d. 5 Jan 1928
5.Ida Mildred McCauley b. 19 Sep 1901 m. Otis Spicer abt. 1912 d. aft Oct. 1950
6. Catherine E. Spicer b. 1919

This is a brief lineage of the McCauley line down to Catherine E. Spicer since she is the person mentioned in the thread regarding Zechariah Fleetwood. I also have information of the collateral lines of McCauleys.

David Smith married (2) Elizabeth Ryan, Rion. This is my direct line and I could sure use some help with it.
Marcy

Re: Zachariah Fleetwood

JckBlueeyes — 2009-11-05 18:08:05Z

How would you like to do this? I would love to review what you have and I would be glad to give you what I have so far. I'm still fixing the duplicates in my tree and have to delete them out and get it flowing right, so right now, if you look at the tree start with Jacqueline Marie Fleetwood (me) and that path is all correct.

Jackie

Re: Zachariah Fleetwood

gamesman02 — 2009-11-05 12:58:53Z

I wouldn't mind sharing what I can on your McCauley or Fleetwood info.

Stansbury Willey, born 1845, Sussex county

josie982 — 2009-11-03 21:26:47Z

For a history project, I am seeking information on Stansbury Jacobs Willey. If anyone knows more about him, for example, his parents' names, etc., I would appreciate the information. One source says that he was born on his father's farm in Sussex in 1845. I have nothing on his mother.
Thanks,
Bill

Re: Zachariah Fleetwood

dsspicer1 — 2009-11-03 15:35:20Z

There are four Elzeys. 1)Son of Philip:Dob 1740- dod:10 Feb 1821
2) son of Tilghman, grandson of Elzey 1:DOb:13 Nov 1795-DOD 8 Sept 1864
3) son of John (brother of Elzey 1), grandson of Phillip: Dob 1755-DOD unknown but died in Onslow County, NC
4)son of William Spicer, grandson of Phillip: dob-abt 1766-dod04 Oct 1849 (lived in Bridgeville), wife Lucy Littleton. All of these Elzeys died in Sussex co except 3.

Phillip Spicer, son of John, lived with John Elzey in MD after his father's death and that is the origin of the first name, Elzey.

Be carefull with Spicers in MD. There appears to be three lines (DNA does not match)

Re: Zachariah Fleetwood

JckBlueeyes — 2009-11-03 14:53:58Z

That sounds good because there is probably a connection somewhere in the line.

Thanks, Jackie

Re: Zachariah Fleetwood

JckBlueeyes — 2009-11-03 14:49:13Z

Do you have Elzey Spicer 1740 born in Delaware? I have too many to list so I'll look up the ones from Delaware on my tree. I have alot from Maryland to. We are definitely related. Jackie

Re: Zachariah Fleetwood

dsspicer1 — 2009-11-03 04:41:09Z

yes that would be fine.

Re: Zachariah Fleetwood

MarcielGilmore — 2009-11-03 02:15:00Z

As I said in my previous post, I have not researched the Spicer line. However, if you would like the maternal line of Catherine Spicer including McCauley, Gray, and Smith, I can give you that.
Marcy

Re: Zachariah Fleetwood

dsspicer1 — 2009-11-03 00:39:37Z

Dear Jackie,
If you can send me your actual email I send you what I have.
dsspicer1@comcast.net

Dan S.

Re: Zachariah Fleetwood

dsspicer1 — 2009-11-03 00:37:46Z

Dear Marcy,

I would be very interested in your 5 generations of Spicers. My line originated in Dorchester County, MD. Some moved to Sussex, DE. I've tracked them all over the USA but there appears to be some who I may have missed in northern DE and I can't connect them to the Sussex Spicers because of the 1890 break in censuses and because of the commonly used first names.

Thanks,

Dan Spicer

Re: Zachariah Fleetwood

MarcielGilmore — 2009-11-02 23:53:53Z

I know nothing of the Fleetwoods, but I do have a Catherine E. Spicer in my lineage. She was born in 1919,probably in Wilmington, the daughter of Ida Mildred McCauley and Otis Spicer. The McCauley line is mine, so I haven't done any research on the Spicer line, but can go back 5 generations beyond Ida.
Do you think this is the same Catherine Spicer that you mentioned?

Marcy Gilmore

Re: Zachariah Fleetwood

Jones1025 — 2009-11-02 13:35:47Z

Hi Jackie, it sounds like we are chasing some of the same ancestors ..... I
am on a hunt for information on any of the Willeys who lived in Sussex in
both the 1700 and 1800 .... I am of the firm belief that they are all
connected and probably connected to the Willeys of Dorchester ...... Knowing
that there are a multitude of Willeys in Bridgeville and surrounding
territory which ones are you chasing ?? Sorry but no information of
Zachariah
Carol

Re: Zachariah Fleetwood

JckBlueeyes — 2009-11-01 18:43:12Z

Dan, I am Jacqueline Marie Fleetwood, born in Wilmington DEL in 1946. I am searching info for Catharine Spicer and the Fleetwoods and Lucy Littleton who are all my ancestors.
Just wanted to let you know I am researching Fleetwoods, Willey's of Bridgeville, Hammond's of Bridgeville and Greenwood and the list goes on.

Jackie

Re: Smith, David R. (born 1805/died before 1850)

bluelightning7 — 2009-10-27 04:03:00Z

Was your David R. Smith a sheriff for Sussex County? I have a deed record as follows: "This Indenture made this Third day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty six. By and between David R Smith Sheriff of Sussex County in the State of Delaware of the first part and Jehu Bennett of Baltimore Hundred in the County and State aforesaid of the other part."

Smith, David R. (born 1805/died before 1850)

JoniRabena — 2009-10-26 21:43:54Z

Hi, I'm looking for more information on a David R. Smith and his wife Mary E. Smith. They had at least three children: Sarah E. (born 1835); Edward B. (1837), and Phillip W. (1839).

They are on the 1840 census in Broadkill Hundred, Delaware. There were three other daughters that I do not have names for.

In 1850 Mary E. is living with her three children in Georgetown, Sussex, Delaware. David had died by then.

In 1860, Phillip had married a Martha R. Unknown.
In 1860, Edward R. was living in a Boarding House with families named Jefferson, Layton, Carey, Short, Godwin, Akeman and Carpenter.

I have not found who Sarah married nor can I find Edward after 1860.

In the 1870 census Philip is living with William S. Short and Mary Jefferson (from the 1860 census) in Georgetown Hundred. Phillip died in 1874.

I have a picture of Philip's tombstone:

Dr. Philip W. Smith, Son of David R. and Mary E. Smith, born April 9, 1839. Departed this life Sep. 18, 1873 - Gone by not forgotten.

Does anyone have extra information on this family.

Thanks,

Joni

Re: Plat Maps

DavidWilsonUSPL — 2009-10-25 20:38:39Z

Hi, Joni. Dagsborough (the spelling, at the time, of that town/village's name) was in its own hundred, Dagsborough Hundred. It wasn't part of Nanticoke Hundred - or at least it wasn't in 1868. (I have no idea about years previously.)

The nearest other hundreds to the portion of Dagsborough Hundred that the town or village of Dagsborough fell within were Indian River Hundred and Baltimore Hundred. (Each began a similar distance away: around three miles.) The nearest adjacent portion of Nanticoke Hundred, that you've mentioned, to Dagsborough Hundred began a much greater distance from where Dagsborough was located within Dagsborough Hundred - like around 12 or miles away. So, in this case, I don't think the Beers Atlas Nanticoke Hundred map is going to be of any relevant usefulness to you.

Hoping this will help some.

Dave

Re: Plat Maps

JoniRabena — 2009-10-25 20:05:39Z

Thanks, David!

I think I am looking at the 1868 Nanticoke Beers Map, and it is good, but for some reason, it doesn't show Dagsboro. It shows it written down the side so I will probably have to go to the Delaware State Archives.

John Smith's land was in Dagsboro about 1855. He went to Fenwick Island 1859-1861. In 1862 John was still in Baltimore Hundred, and in 1865 his land in Dagsboro was seized and sold. I'm trying to find more info on who was living in the house when it was sold and who was living around it.

Joni

Re: Phillip White's Grandson Sirman McAllister

tedd11 — 2009-10-07 18:48:50Z

Sirman D. & Anna M. McAllister are buried at Carey's Cemetery in Frankfort, DE. Their stone only shows birth years - 1918 for Anna and 1915 for Sirman. If you can make it to the Delaware Public Archives in Dover, they have birth certificates on microfilm up through 1933. That should give you the names of Sirman's parents.

Regards,

Tedd

Re: Question re: Sussex Co. birth records

MarcielGilmore — 2009-10-20 03:44:33Z

Bill,
I would also appreciate a "pdf" copy of your booklet, "Baptism and Marriage Records of the Sound Church".
Thanking you in advance,
Marciel Gilmore
gilmores88@centurytel.net

Re: Question re: Sussex Co. birth records

SBW19962 — 2009-09-27 21:12:45Z

Bill -- I would be most grateful if you could please send me the "pdf" copy you have of "Baptism and Marriage REcords of the Sound Church." My email address is sally1will@aol.com. Many, many thanks. Sally

Re: Clement Watkins Story, b. 1828 Sussex Co., DE

Adina_Dyer — 2009-10-20 04:37:22Z

The name of the first wife of Clement Jr. (b. 1828) was Naomi Catherine Timmons. She is buried in Davis Cemetery in Green Hill, Warren County, near their son Henry Madison Watkins and her father-in-law Clement Watkins. You can find my Watkins research on my personal website:
http://home.comcast.net/~asdyer/WatkinDesc.htm

Re: Question re: Sussex Co. birth records

WOLong — 2009-09-26 13:27:30Z

Try:

http://files.usgwarchives.org/de/sussex/vitals/marriages/sou...

Let me know if that doesn't work.
Bill (wolong@aol.com)

Re: Question re: Sussex Co. birth records

WOLong — 2009-09-26 11:20:50Z

I have a booklet "Baptism and Marriage Records of the Sound Church" that I was given by a Mr. Collins, that lists births and marriages of southern Sussex Co., DE, of that time frame. I can email you an electronic "pdf" copy. (I had it posted on the Internet a few years ago, but someone complained that because it was printed matter it is copyrighted, and should not be made public, so I took it off.) William O. Long, Crofton, Maryland

Re: Colonial Paynters

mt7676 — 2009-10-04 17:01:32Z

Thanks board police. John Paynter b. 1775

Lewis Paynter B.1818 Sussex Co. Delware

mt7676 — 2009-10-02 15:38:46Z

I found my g-g grandfather's Lewis Paynter's obit in the Wilminton Journal in 1884. I thought he was born in New Castle Co....but apparently he was born of "poor means" in Sussexx.... In 1850 I assume ghis parents were living with him John and Rebecca. Lewis was a Wilmington City councilman... and had a sister Hannah.. I see there were more well to do Paynter's in Sussex...so I am not sure the relation. Here's his obit:

http://o.mfcreative.com/f1/exports/8/8c8f8126-7155-4f16-90bb...

Mike Thompson
mt7676@aol.com
917-733-9938

Re: Plat Maps

DavidWilsonUSPL — 2009-10-25 19:45:09Z

Hi. You specifically mentioned the 1860-1865 period. An excellent resource for just a few years later is the Beers Atlas maps, made in 1868, that show each Hundred in the State of Delaware, on individual maps. These maps indicate who all the land owners were, and you can see proximity of properties (or at least of land owners) to one another. While a map such as this may not help you with the precise span of years that you asked about, the Dagsborough Hundred map from that Beers Atlas map series may very well show some of what you want to know. This resource could easily come in very handy if you already know who some related, and/or neighbouring, families were, as hopefully at least some of them would appear on the map. The Beers Atlas maps are available from the Delaware State Archives. They'll gladly make and mail you photocopies (for a copying and mailing charge, of course).

Hoping this suggestion will prove of some help.

Best regards,

Dave Wilson

Phillip White's Grandson Sirman McAllister

schatji1 — 2009-10-05 04:48:33Z

I am trying to get on the parents of Sirman McAllister. It is my understanding that his mother (possibly Charity White) passed away from complications of child birth. He was left in the care of his grandparents Phillip & Mary White. Later he stayed with his uncle and aunt, William & Edith White possibly in Millsboro. I can find no records concerning the McAllisters except census records confirming that he lived with the above relatives. Does anyone have any information that could help?

JOHNSON/KINNEY

DEAHENDERSON1 — 2009-10-08 22:20:21Z

I have family that lived in Seaford/Bridgeville area. I am looking for relatives of
Lovenia Johnson Kinney sister of Harry Johnson and Mary.

Harry Johnson son is Harry William Johnson and Mary Ellen his daugter.

Re: Question re: Sussex Co. birth records

BarbaraMunson60 — 2009-09-26 01:00:05Z

Thanks, that's a cool little search engine. Unfortunately none of them are listed there. I did bookmark the site for future reference, though.

Thanks!

Re: Question re: Sussex Co. birth records

BarbaraMunson60 — 2009-09-26 00:48:47Z

Unfortunately I don't know what their church affiliation was.

The online images of their WWI draft registrations unfortunately don't show up - the images are blank. Doesn't that just figure?

The two whose names and dates I know for sure are:

Howard Rufus Wells born June 25, 1886

Harvey M. Wells born March 18, 1890

Their mother was Mary A. Lippincott of New Jersey, and I THINK their father was Charles Wells. He apparently died before 1900 and I have yet to find him in any census, so I'm really trying to find something proving his name.

I would appreciate any suggestions anyone can offer.

Question re: Sussex Co. birth records

BarbaraMunson60 — 2009-09-25 18:44:10Z

My grandfather was supposedly born in Sussex Co. in 1886, and his brother was supposedly born there in 1890. Is there any possibility of a birth record being recorded somewhere? I know the state didn't require birth records until 1913.

Re: Question re: Sussex Co. birth records

BarbaraMunson60 — 2009-09-26 14:31:36Z

That would be great! Thank you!

My email address is munsonfly@yahoo.com.

I really appreciate this! I looked at the marriage records at the link you posted, but they were back in New Jersey by the time they got married.

Re: Question re: Sussex Co. birth records

ElizabethSmith10 — 2009-09-25 22:33:34Z

If you know their religion, you MIGHT possibly find church records of a christening. If they registered for the service in World War 1, their birthdates should be listed on those records. If you have names, I would be willing to look.

Re: Question re: Sussex Co. birth records

ElizabethSmith10 — 2009-09-26 12:04:54Z

Could you possibly send me a copy also? I have a boatload of bricks in Sussex - I could make a wall, if only I could sort these people out.

Elizabeth Smith
EMSCRS@aol.com

Re: Question re: Sussex Co. birth records

ElizabethSmith10 — 2009-09-26 15:33:35Z

Got it, thanks. Turns out it is too recent for me.

Re: Thomas Blades Wildgoose

dianeoreo — 2009-10-09 21:59:37Z

I am interested in the research that you did on Thomas Blades Wildgoose. My great great grandfather was John Wilgus who moved to Logan County. Robert and Leigh had 4 sons and 5 daughters. thanks dianeoreo

Re: Sussex Ancestors

marshall964 — 2009-09-20 03:47:29Z

THE ONE IN REDDEN SHOULD READ LOUIS J. NOBLES JR. HE DIED IN 1997 HE WAS MY STEPFATHER. I AM LOOKING FOR INFORMATION ON MY GRANDFATHER MARSHALL D. MORGAN HE NEVER TALKED ABOUT ANY OF HIS FAMILY. HIS UNCLE AND AUNT RAISED HIM THEY WERE JAMES C. AND ANNIE M. DONOVAN. ANY HELP WOULD BE APPRECIATED. THANKYOU

Re: Thomas Blades Wildgoose

bluelightning7 — 2009-10-12 19:09:11Z

I am not sure who the request was send to but I do have a little information on this Thomas Blades Wildgoose. Gus Wilgus has more.
Send me an email offline.
bluelightning75@aol.com

Re: Question re: Sussex Co. birth records

rayjterry3 — 2009-09-26 00:26:48Z

Some may be found online here --

http://search.labs.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html#...

The images are often not very good. New Castle County is overly represented.

Re: Robert A. Lynch

elfwife80 — 2009-09-20 03:53:05Z

Did you ever find the parents of robert a lynch b. 1815? I believe him to be the brother of my great grandfather William and his brother Elisha but I can't prove it. Any progress?

Re: Plat Maps

JoniRabena — 2009-10-25 17:02:51Z

Hey, thanks for sending this site along. I will give it a try!

Joni

Re: Plat Maps

JoniRabena — 2009-10-25 17:01:40Z

Thanks, I will definitely contact them. I was hoping they were on line for more of the years. I just found the 1868 Sussex County on-line, which was great, but I am interested in about 1857 to 1865 - naturally.

Joni

Plat Maps

JoniRabena — 2009-10-24 19:29:54Z

Hi,

I'm hoping someone can tell me where I can find land records and/or maps of Sussex County, Dagsborough Hundred, about 1860 - 1865.

My John Smith of M. at that time was in Baltimore Hundred. He had property in the village of Dagsboro seized and taken and sold for cash.

There was a house and outbuildings on it.

I'd like to find out more about this land and also who lived around it.

Thanks!

Joni
Calgary, AB

Re: Clement Watkins Story, b. 1828 Sussex Co., DE

redjoker1972 — 2009-10-20 04:21:37Z

can u please tell me clem jr wife name.

im searchen for clem jr wife maiden name people on ancestry that my mom pays for got sarah e farrell but she deep down dont think its accurate.

i just got told about 30 min ago clement watkins married mary butler same yr as william watkins who also married a butler.

my clem i think if i didnt skip a generation had a son maybe other kids but his son raymond watkins is my great gramps.and he married into burrow family.

please respond on ure clem jr wife information i really appreciate it..thanks

Re: Plat Maps

linesandlimbs — 2009-10-25 14:32:03Z

ALSO I JUST FOUND www.historicalmaps.com. that site has some very old maps.you can check them out for free .

Re: Plat Maps

linesandlimbs — 2009-10-25 14:28:55Z

THE DELAWARE STATE ARCHIVES IS A GOOD START.OR THE COURT HOUSE.THEY ARE IN DOVER.

Re: Question re: Sussex Co. birth records

linesandlimbs — 2009-09-25 22:30:30Z

CHECK WITH THE DELAWARE STATE ARCHIVES IN DOVER.

Rachel West

TLEESPRATT — 2009-09-21 18:32:12Z

I am looking for the parents of Rachel West born @ 1810 in Sussex Co. She married Joseph Cyrus Carmean. Their daughter Sallie married John Dauncy Messick. Haven't found his parents either. Any help will be appreciated.Thanks.

Colonial Paynters

frostfreedet — 2009-10-04 15:21:52Z

The person who began this thread specified colonial Paynters,
e.g. before 1775.

There were Paynters in the Lewes area by the 1690s.