Newsletter for the interchange of genealogical data and history about the Parley (and variant spellings) families who mainly came from England. Family origins began probably during the reign of Alfred the Great, AD 849-901, in Dorset, England. The foundation of a little church at West Parley was laid at "Pirige-Leah," which was Saxon for "inheritance or holding of the pear tree field." Later Pirige-Leah was called the "All Saints Church" in West...

Ashby Lee Ogburn was born 15 March 1863 in Mecklenburg County, Virginia. His parents were Wesley Ogburn (1834-1885) and Flournoy J. Gill (1834-1900). He married Harriet Jane Petty 16 October 1883. They had eight daughters. She died in 1899. He married Elizabeth Gascoyne in 1904 and they had one son. Ashby died in 1935. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina and South Carolina.

Frances Minerva Smith was born 24 March 1841 in Connecticut. Her parents were Eli B. Smith (1815-1871) and Emeline Corbin (1819-1869). She married Benjamin Franklin Page (1837-1931).

Newsletter for the interchange of genealogical data and history of the Piatt (and variant spellings) families who came mainly from England, France, Germany, and Holland. Some were Huguenots. Some allied families came from Ireland, Scotland, and Wales. Some focus is on (but not limited to) descendants of Rene Piat, alias LaFleur, who married Elizabeth Sheffield. Other Christian names he was known by include Renatus, Regnier, and Renipiat. His...

Thomas Burnham settled in Connecticut with the early Puritan settlers. Material from a book published in 1895 on his descendants is included with new material on the descendants of John Burnham who settled in Massachusetts before 1650 and ministered to a church in Chebacco. Descendants and relatives lived in Massachusetts, Maine, New York, Connecticut, New Jersey, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Ohio, New Hampshire, Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin, California and...

Brief vital data, arranged alphabetically, of descendants of Henry Addington (1720-1789), originally from London, England; and his wife Sarah (1723-1826) from England. They lived in Pennsylvania, Virginia and South Carolina. Sarah died in Richmond, Indiana. Descendants and relatives lived in Indiana, North Carolina, South Carolina, Alabama, Texas, Georgia, Arizona, California, Idaho, Washington and elsewhere.

John Williams (ca. 1745-1792) of Onslow County, North Carolina married Cloe Wilder, daughter of Hopkins Wilder, ca. 1768. She died ander 1804 in Duplin Co., North Carolina. Descendants lived in North Carolina, Texas and elsewhere.

John Joiner married twice, the name of his first wife is unknown. "He married a second time to a widow whose name was Elizabeth who had a daughter named Elizabeth."--P. 18. They moved suddenly from their previous residence to Nash County, North Carolina in 1782. "He just as abruptly disappeared in 1815."--P. 18. Descendants lived in North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Utah, New York, Florida and elsewhere. Some descendants became members of...