FAULKNER, HAND, REYNOLDS, RAWSON/ROWSON/RAUSE(N)/ROUSE ETC.
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FAULKNER, HAND, REYNOLDS, RAWSON/ROWSON/RAUSE(N)/ROUSE ETC.
 KarenBirkWeatherford57
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Posted: 31 Jan 2008 6:01AM GMT |
Classification: Query
Surnames: FAULKNER, HAND, REYNOLDS, RAWSON/ROWSON/RAUSE(N)/ROUSE ETC.
Dear Fellow Researchers,
I'm writing to see if we might have any family connections?
My proverbial genealogical dead-end is my paternal grt.grt. grandfather, a man whose surname was Reynolds/Rouse/Rause(n)/Rousen/Rawson/Rowson or something along those lines. His first name is unknown which of course makes him next to impossible to find! Therefore, my grasping at any straws I can find :~)
All I know is that he MAY have been Irish and of a New York banking family, totally unverified, simple family oral history. He MAY or may not have actually married my grt.grt. grandmother, Lucinda Isablle Reynolds who was born in 1854 in Morgan County, Illinois. In any case, they had a child named Claudius (middle name Paul?) who was born in August 1874 in East St. Louis, Illinois. Lucinda had no other children, which is doubly unfortunate as they could have been a possible source of information as well. Lucinda was the daughter of James Madison Reynolds/Runnels and Amelia Hand; her father was Jeremiah Hand who was also one of the earliest settlers of Greene Co., IL (1827).
The end of my knowledge is the death of Mr. "Rowson" circa 1873-1878. The story is that he died in a train accident (probably in St. Louis) while traveling the country with his stable of racing horses. I've searched through many old newspaper articles regarding train accidents and so far have not had any luck. Lucinda remarried to a Thomas Henry Faulkner in 1878 in Sangamon County, Illinois and he subsequently adopted Claudius; erasing the 4 year old's biological surname from our family once & for all.
If you think there might be the slimmest chance that he is from your family tree, I would GREATLY appreciate hearing from you, and I thank you very
much for your time.
Sincerely,
Karen Birk Weatherford
South Carolina
I'm writing to see if we might have any family connections?
My proverbial genealogical dead-end is my paternal grt.grt. grandfather, a man whose surname was Reynolds/Rouse/Rause(n)/Rousen/Rawson/Rowson or something along those lines. His first name is unknown which of course makes him next to impossible to find! Therefore, my grasping at any straws I can find :~)
All I know is that he MAY have been Irish and of a New York banking family, totally unverified, simple family oral history. He MAY or may not have actually married my grt.grt. grandmother, Lucinda Isablle Reynolds who was born in 1854 in Morgan County, Illinois. In any case, they had a child named Claudius (middle name Paul?) who was born in August 1874 in East St. Louis, Illinois. Lucinda had no other children, which is doubly unfortunate as they could have been a possible source of information as well. Lucinda was the daughter of James Madison Reynolds/Runnels and Amelia Hand; her father was Jeremiah Hand who was also one of the earliest settlers of Greene Co., IL (1827).
The end of my knowledge is the death of Mr. "Rowson" circa 1873-1878. The story is that he died in a train accident (probably in St. Louis) while traveling the country with his stable of racing horses. I've searched through many old newspaper articles regarding train accidents and so far have not had any luck. Lucinda remarried to a Thomas Henry Faulkner in 1878 in Sangamon County, Illinois and he subsequently adopted Claudius; erasing the 4 year old's biological surname from our family once & for all.
If you think there might be the slimmest chance that he is from your family tree, I would GREATLY appreciate hearing from you, and I thank you very
much for your time.
Sincerely,
Karen Birk Weatherford
South Carolina