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So the final score on my pure maternal bloodline ancestors (mother of my mother of my mother...) is:
Lorraine Lucille Montijo (this last name is not the last name of her father; my mother is, in short, a bastard) 1944-
Marion Lou Willcoxon 1925-
Evalyn Sarah Norfleet 1895-1984 (what a shame, she even died in San Jose, if only my mother had found this out sooner I might have met the only known great-grandparent who didn't die before I was born!)
Louella Belle Mayfield 1871-1909
Sarah Amanda Davis 1839-1909 (hi![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
the_misha! not likely, actually, this is a patronymic name and there are a kajillion "Davids" out there who could have generated this name for their children)
Elizabeth Isobel Watt 1821-1883
Elizabeth Lowden 1788-1862
??? Shannon (haven't been able to track down which of several possible female Shannon children it could be, as I can't find one with a record of marrying a person named Lowden. damn people tended to have large families then)
Jean Reid 1725-1806/07
Lady Jane Stuart 1699?-1752 (one cite as "of the house of Stuart" but I figure they must just mean "household" as this person was born in Delaware and I really don't see any way they could even be the most minor English nobility. I couldn't find any upline information, which makes any kind of noble lineage extremely suspect if not near impossible.)
So there you have it. It is basically all English, except for Shannon which is of course Irish. The name of my mother's actual father is not known, although her notes say that the person taking the birth information noted him as being Irish. There are several other places Irish pops up (including, of course, my paternal line) as well as Scottish (including a good amount of "Scots-Irish", that is, Scots living in Ireland) and more Welsh than I thought, but all in all I'm just your basic Anglo-Saxon/Norman kind of thing. Plus that weird blop of Bohemia from my paternal grandmother, whose own mother was born in Germany and immigrated at a quite late date (1891). Haven't found any evidence of anything odd yet (the most interesting thing was the bit about the Campbells). I still have no idea where I would start looking if I wanted to find out about family legends of, ahem, unusual ancestry.
Last amusing thing - at the top of my pure maternal line is Stuart, that is, "steward". If you branch off to a female one step before the top of the pure paternal line, you find "Butler", which is just what it sounds like. I'm descended from servants! (granted, high-ranking ones, but still.)
Lorraine Lucille Montijo (this last name is not the last name of her father; my mother is, in short, a bastard) 1944-
Marion Lou Willcoxon 1925-
Evalyn Sarah Norfleet 1895-1984 (what a shame, she even died in San Jose, if only my mother had found this out sooner I might have met the only known great-grandparent who didn't die before I was born!)
Louella Belle Mayfield 1871-1909
Sarah Amanda Davis 1839-1909 (hi
the_misha! not likely, actually, this is a patronymic name and there are a kajillion "Davids" out there who could have generated this name for their children)Elizabeth Isobel Watt 1821-1883
Elizabeth Lowden 1788-1862
??? Shannon (haven't been able to track down which of several possible female Shannon children it could be, as I can't find one with a record of marrying a person named Lowden. damn people tended to have large families then)
Jean Reid 1725-1806/07
Lady Jane Stuart 1699?-1752 (one cite as "of the house of Stuart" but I figure they must just mean "household" as this person was born in Delaware and I really don't see any way they could even be the most minor English nobility. I couldn't find any upline information, which makes any kind of noble lineage extremely suspect if not near impossible.)
So there you have it. It is basically all English, except for Shannon which is of course Irish. The name of my mother's actual father is not known, although her notes say that the person taking the birth information noted him as being Irish. There are several other places Irish pops up (including, of course, my paternal line) as well as Scottish (including a good amount of "Scots-Irish", that is, Scots living in Ireland) and more Welsh than I thought, but all in all I'm just your basic Anglo-Saxon/Norman kind of thing. Plus that weird blop of Bohemia from my paternal grandmother, whose own mother was born in Germany and immigrated at a quite late date (1891). Haven't found any evidence of anything odd yet (the most interesting thing was the bit about the Campbells). I still have no idea where I would start looking if I wanted to find out about family legends of, ahem, unusual ancestry.
Last amusing thing - at the top of my pure maternal line is Stuart, that is, "steward". If you branch off to a female one step before the top of the pure paternal line, you find "Butler", which is just what it sounds like. I'm descended from servants! (granted, high-ranking ones, but still.)
