Author: Scott Williams
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Looking for George Williams
I have been trying to learn more about George Williams, my fourth great-grandfather, and recently I got a little more help from Lynn, who knows a lot about the old churches of Bertie County, North Carolina. She gave me some additional clues about where George may have come from before he turned up in West…
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Dr. William Beanes and The Star-Spangled Banner
While Dr. William Beanes is not a direct ancestor of mine, he was closely connected to the Marbury family and is now one of those people I will think about every time I hear “The Star-Spangled Banner.” Leonard Marbury was my sixth great-grandfather. He had a brother named Luke Marbury Sr. Luke Sr.’s son, also…
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From Alex and Liv to Alfred the Great
The journey from Scotland to Haywood County, Tennessee The Marbury family is loaded with interesting characters and, if you are willing to hop back and forth between husbands and wives for a few generations, it appears possible to get from my daughters, Alex and Liv, all the way back to Alfred the Great. Along the…
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The Ark and The Dove
The Marbury family has kept me busy the last few weeks. There are a lot of men named Francis and Leonard, and once you get back into Maryland, they begin to multiply in a hurry. Add in old naming patterns, Revolutionary War service and genealogy sites that copy from one another, and it can be…
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John Castellaw and Martha Butler
The story of my fifth great-grandfather and his early mixed-race marriage While researching the Castellaw side of my family, one story that deserves closer attention is that of my fifth great-grandfather, John Castellaw (c. 1726–c. 1813), and the relationship he had before his later marriage. John Castellaw appears in records in Bertie County, North Carolina,…
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Jack Castellaw and the Immortal Ten
A Disaster in Texas My second great-grandfather, Tom Castellaw Jr., spent his entire life in Haywood County, as did most of his children. His brother Fletcher’s family took a different path. Fletcher’s son moved to Ennis, Texas, before the turn of the century. There, Jack Coleman Castellaw became a pharmacist and owned a drugstore. Jack…
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Dr. William “Randy” Lovelace II
A Few Good Women When researching their ancestry, most people are hoping that, at some point, they’ll find they are related to a president, a great general or at least a king or two. Up until now, I have uncovered your basic assortment of early settlers, farmers and the like. But last week, I found…
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Virginia & Guy Lovelace’s Farm
A Haywood County Farm I’ve been working a lot this weekend trying to get the Lovelace family line completed on my website so I would have two complete family lines live. My daughters were at my parents’ house, so it made me think about all the summers I would go to my own grandparents’ houses…
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Will Williams
Trying to get the research posted correctly while figuring out HTML at the same time is proving to be a challenge, to say the least. Tonight I have been working on the Will Williams branch of my genealogy. He was my paternal grandfather’s father. Will experienced a great deal of loss, although that was not…
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Thomas A. and Quincy A. Shirley Lovelace
Photo: Thomas A. Lovelace (1812-1876) and Quincy A. Shirley Lovelace I recently met my distant cousin Joan in Bells, Tennessee, and she connected me with another family member, Diane, who also had some ancestor photos I have not seen. Among the Lovelace photographs I hope to share later, Diane had something I never expected to…