Newsletter for the interchange of genealogical data and history of the Townsend (and variant spellings) families who came mainly from England, Ireland, Normandy, and possibly from Holland. Some focus is on (but not limited to) John, Henry, and Richard Townsend who settled in Long Island, New York ca. 1640. Other Townsends settled Massachusetts, New Amsterdam (New York), and Rhode Island in the early 1600s. During the 1700-1800s, some settled in...

Virginia Porter was born in Utah in 1909 to Chauncey Union and Marietta Sailor Porter. Her father's family were early converts to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints who came west about 1850. She married Howard D. Roberts and they lived in southern Utah. Information on her ancestral lines especially her mother's non-Latter-day Saint lines are included in this collection. These families lived in many areas of the south including, Virginia...

Holland Weeks married Harrietta Byron Hopkins (d. 1813), daughter of Moses Hopkins and Anna Whiting, in 1799 in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. They had six children. He married Adelia Clapp Grave in 1815. He died in 1843 in Henderson, New York.

The first Weeks to come to America was Leonard Weeks (1635-1707) who settled in Portsmouth with his wife, Mary Haines. They were the parents of Joshua Weeks (1674-1758) who married Comfort Hubbard, the sister of a wealthy Boston merchant. Their descendants became prominent in New Hampshire. In 1786, John Wingate Weeks (1749-1818) moved his family to Lancaster, New Hampshire. Descendants live in Lancaster and other parts of New Hampshire.

Weeks family of Louisiana.

Friedrich Steinert was born probably in the early 1730's in or near Igelshieb, Germany.