Ancestors of the Ayres/Ayers/Ayer and Wood families are traced back many centuries, including historical events that shaped their lives. The earliest ancestors of the Ayres family are recorded in the medieval period when Charlemagne was King of the Franks, and a Roman emperor, and when Vikings were raiding the European and Mediterranean coasts. Members of this family came across the Atlantic as some of the earliest settlers in New England and proceeded...

Includes Boyer ancestry and presumably contains the ancestors, descendants and relatives of the author's Boyer family. Samuel Bayer, possibly the son of Johann Adam Beyer and Maria Elenora Fuhrs, lived in Flomersheim, Pfalz, Germany from 1700-1710 and in Eppstein, Pfalz from 1711-1732. His wife was Maria. They had eleven children.

George Soule (ca.1590-1680), who was probably an Englishman rather than a Huguenot Frenchman, immigrated on the Mayflower in 1620 to Plymouth, Massachusetts. He married Mary Beckett, and they had eight children. Descendants and relatives lived in New England, New York, Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota and elsewhere. Includes ancestral history and genealogical data about the Soule family in England, Scotland (including Norman Soules in Scotland)...

Nicholas Stephens, son of John and born in Scotland, served as a general under Cromwell in Ireland and, after Cromwell's defeat, immigrated to New England in 1669. Descendants lived in New England, New York, Ohio, Wisconsin, California and elsewhere.

The Francis Brayton family lived in Portsmouth, Rhode Island in 1643. It is thought by some family members that Francis may have come from England but definite proof is unavailable. "The will of Francis Brayton, dated 17 Oct 1690 and "proved" (probated) 5 Sep 1692, at Portsmouth, R.I., names his wife Mary Executrix ... "--P. 3, vol. 2. Descendants and relatives lived in Rhode Island, New York, Colorado, Illinois, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Nebraska,...

Clara and Timothy Bowen were the children of David Brian Bowen and Ann Atwell Huegelmeyer. David, son of Robert James Bowen and Leslie Lee Lang, was born September 20, 1984 in Rochester, New York. He married Ann September 10, 2011 in Hammondsport, New York. Ann, daughter of John J. Huegelmeyer and Mary Louise Natoli, was born December 11, 1980 in Frederick, Maryland.

"David O'Killea [was] b[orn], in Ireland; d[ied], in Old Yarmouth now Dennis, Mass., 1697. m[arried], Jane Powell b[orn] in Wales; d. Yar. Oct. 17, 1711. They resided in Old Yarmouth near the Head of Follin's pond, presently a section of Dennis called Mayfair."--P. [19]. Descendants lived in Massachusetts, Maine, Vermont, Ohio, Wisconsin, California, Rhode Island, Michigan, Florida, Montana, Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Missouri, Kansas, New York,...

Malcolm Stevens Nill, son of Samuel Edward Nill (1869-1921) and Ellen Dodds McInnes (1877-1914), was born in 1907 in Fresno County, California. He married Mary Florence Deer in 1943. Ancestors and relatives lived mainly in Germany, Scotland, Pennsylvania, New York, Ohio and Indiana.

Ancestral families, relatives and descendants of the author, Carl Boyer, 3rd and his wife. He was born at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1937 the son of Carl Boyer, Jr. (b. 1908) and Elizabeth Timm Boyer (1906-1979). He married Ada Christine Kruse in 1962 at Cincinnati, Ohio. She was born at Cincinnati in 1942, the daughter of Henry Hurbert Kruse (b. 1912) and Esther Harriet Marshall Kruse (1916-1973). They had three children, 1963-1967, born at Los...