Tag Archive | Walton
William Walton – GeneaStar Reveals an Unusual Relative – 52 Ancestors 2015 #39
I am going back now to pick up the week 39 theme of 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks. As I mentioned before, I am not doing these in order anymore. It is also unlikely that I will finish this year. That’s okay, I did the challenge last year and I have a lot of other […]
Nettie Walton – A Documented Idiot – 52 Ancestors 2015 #33
This week’s optional theme for 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks is “Defective, Dependent, & Delinquent.” Amy Johnson Crow describes the theme this way: In 1880, there was a special census schedule for “Defective, Dependent, and Delinquent Classes” — the blind, deaf, paupers, homeless children, prisoners, insane, and idiotic. Do you have someone in your family […]
Margaret “Maggie” Miranda Walton – Our Link to Founding Colonial Families – 52 Ancestors #48
Entry #48 My mother-in-law is the one with the deep Colonial American ancestry. It took me years of research (due to several errors in a family tree compiled by one of her aunts) to tap into these lines. My mother-in-law’s great-grandmother was NOT Margaret Amelia Walton, but Margaret “Maggie” Miranda Walton. Maggie Walton’s husband, Theodore […]