Newsletter for the interchange of genealogical data and history of the Hollingshead families who descend from John and Grace Hollinshead, Quakers from Cheshire, England, who immigrated in 1678 to Burlington County, New Jersey. Some of their descendants fled from New Jersey to Ontario, Nova Scotia and elsewhere in Canada ca. 1776. Focus is on a later descendant, Nelson Stoyell Hollingshead (1824-1884) a son of Thomas and Aurelia (Mathews) Hollingshead....

Caldwell Ragan, son of George Washington Ragan (1846-1936) and Bettie Gibson Caldwell (1871-1947), was born in 1898 in Gastonia, North Carolina. He married Jocelyn SIkes (1902-1988), daughter of Vann Sikes and Alice Parker, in 1928. They had four children.

"... the story of a New South family, yeoman farmers in the backcountry of antebellum North Carolina, who returned from America's devastating Civil War to emerge as builders of the Carolinas Piedmont. It is a biography that focuses primarily on two men, a father and son, their antecedents and descendants, whose history extends from the time of their eighteenth century arrival in America up to the present." -- dust jacket flap.

James Regan Sr. (1748-1820) and his family were the only Regans living in Rowan County, North Carolina from about 1791 until after 1822 (when Davidson County was formed). Descendants (many spelling the surname Ragan, and some spellings of Reagan, Riggan, Regun, Reegan, etc.) and relatives lived in North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Missouri and elsewhere. Some of these descendants and relatives were Quakers, and some of these endowed Guilford...

George Washington Ragan was born 16 September 1846 in Gaston County, North Carolina. His parents were Daniel Franklin Ragan and Harriet Francis Glenn. He fought in the Civil War. He married Amanda Zoe Reid in 1883. They had three daughters, only one of whom lived. Zoe died in 1891. He married Bettie Gibson Caldwell, daughter of Robert Allison Caldwell, in 1896. His son, Caldwell Ragan, was born 27 August 1898. The family was instrumental in...

Matthew Day was born in 1668 possibly in England and died in 1717 in Prince George County, Maryland. His wife is unknown. They had two sons, Leonar and Matthew. Descendants lived main in Maryland, West Virginia, Indiana, Kentucky, and Missouri.

Family history and genealogical information about the descendants of Thomas Suggs Sr. who was likely born ca. 1700 in Norfolk Co., Virginia. He was the oldest son of George Sugge and Sarah Ives. He married Mary Harbert ca. 1725. They lived in Anson Co., North Carolina and were likely the parents of four sons and three daughters. Descendants lived in North Carolina, South Carolina, Oklahoma, Texas and elsewhere.

Journal for the interchange of genealogical data and history of the Purcell (and variant spellings) families who came mainly from England, France, Ireland, and Normandy. One of the earliest records of the Purcell name was of Sir Hugh Purcell in Normandy ca. 1035 A.D. Some Purcells immigrated in the 1600-1700s to Connecticut, Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, South Carolina,...

Timothy Reagan (ca.1750-1825/1830), possibly an Irish immigrant, married Elizabeth Trigg about 1776 in Maryland (?), and lived in Virginia, Caswell County, North Carolina, and Sevier County, Tennessee. Descendants and relatives lived in Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Missouri, Illinois, California and elsewhere.