Newsletter for the interchange of genealogical data and history of the Gann (and variant spellings) families who came mainly from England, Flanders (now Belgium), Holland, Ireland, and Russia. Some ancestors immigrated to Maryland and Virginia in the 1600s. In the 1700s, some settled in North Carolina, Mississippi, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, and Tennessee. Many Ganns settled in the Johnson City, Tennessee area. During the 1800s, some moved...

Contains information on the ancestors of Dorathy Anne Browne Stewart including the Gayneau (Gano) and Peerce families.

George Barkhurst (or Barcus) was born 1 May 1776 in Kent Co., Delaware. He was the son of William Barcus and Frances Burrows. George married Tamzen (surname unknown) prior to 1797. Tamzen died in 1828 and George married Rachael Richardson 25 June 1829 in Dearborn Co., Indiana. He was the father of at least ten known children and died 25 March 1855 in Lauramie Township, Indiana. Descendants lived primarily in Indiana, Kansas and elsewhere.

Moses Kemper (ca. 1783-ca. 1860-1867) was born in Virginia. He married Sarah Palmer in 1810. They moved to Fairfield County, Ohio after 1827. Descendants and relatives lived in Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Kansas and elsewhere. Includes ancestors to 1635.

Cornelius Coyle, the immigrant ancestor, was born before 1775 in Ireland and died 1823 in Lexington, Kentucky. He married Rebecca Allen of Clark Co., Ky. in 1803. The Gano ancestors came from France and lived on Staten Island, New York, New Jersey, Kentucky and elsewhere. Ancestors of William Penn Coyle (1878-1937), son of William Penn Coyle and Mary Florence Fife, who was born in Thomasville, Ga. and died in Orange, Texas. He was married to Emma...

Aaron Richardson was born in 1786 in Virginia. He married Elizabeth Herndon, daughter of Elloit Herndon and Sarah Carter, in 1813 in Franklin County, Indiana. They had nine children. He died in about 1865 in Romney, Indiana. Ancestors, descendants and relatives lived mainly in Virginia, Indiana, Illinois and California.

John Denman (1621-1691) was born in England. He married about 1640 after coming to America and lived in Salem, Massachusetts and South Hampton, Long Island. Ludwig Friderich Freysinger (later spelled Frisinger) (d. 1792) was probably born in Freising, Germany. He came to America in 1754 and settled in York County, Pennsylvania. He married Elizabeth Plessen before 1766. Samuel Denman (ca. 1847-1892) married Roseltha Frisinger in 1878. Descendants and...

Robert Howard Van Horn, son of Orrin Ellsworth and Golda Mae Howard Van Horn, was born 1926 in Union Twp., Calhoun Co., Iowa. He married (1) Phyllis Beigholfer (b. 1931); (2) 1987 Sally Brown (b. 1943). One early ancestor was, Cornelius Van Horn (1695-1744), son of Matthys Cornelisen of Holland and Fytie Adam (Sophia) Brower of New Amsterdam, N.Y. He was born in Brooklyn, Kings Co., N.Y. He was married three times: 1. Catherine Cox (1695-1723), daughter...