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Why a Wee
Dram Report?
With our love for the natural streams that flow in life, we
respect the earth and creatures who live and share with us.
I am not sure why the Celts, Scots or Irish defined the concept of "Wee Dram",
but to me it is a legacy of family and a refined
measure of a work and craft from our life. The results of these efforts
have been and are passed down from generation to
generation as a holy form of family history and courage. I decided this
symbol of Wee Dram should be the name of our Family Cousin Report to
show our dedication to our
ancestry monuments. Their previous family steps were on a long march forward of
their family or Clan. Thus the FamilyCousin research was begun as a
result of enjoying as we are now making more family cousin - Wee Drams.
We have been encouraging our
cousins to write stories of their work and life experiences. This keeps
the mind active and records the simple and complexity of life. Some
cousins have been on the fast track and others in the normal lane. Both
must deal with the life cycle and a slowing as we move toward the later
chapters. Writing is a healing of the once forgotten but important facts
from our lives. Cousin's care about lost, old and new cousins - so the
interaction becomes an important part of sharing one's life with someone
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New information on
Richard and Charlotte Waite and family immigration in 1830. |
!!! Flash, I think we found the
ship log that brought the Richard and Charlotte Waite and family to
New York. I do not yet have the name of the ship but the log shows
the following. I have placed the backup details on Richard Waite
tab on the Waite eBook under cousin books in familycousin.com:
Ship log 503.12 page 1027:
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Date and port of arrival. Extracted
from national Archives Microfilm #237, rolls 13-18. Name
of ship, occupation, gender of the immigrant, country of
origin, and place of intended destination are also
provided. Pages 1-727 were indexed in PILI 2003 Part 2
as source number 503.11
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BENTLEY, ELIZABETH P. Passenger
Arrivals at the Port of New York, 1830-1832, From Customs
Passenger Lists. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co.,
2000. pp. 728-1106 |
.The birth dates are close and typical of ship
logs.
Richard Waite, age 50, birth 1780
Charlotte Waite, age 50 birth 1780
John Waite. age 26, birth 1804
Joseph Waite age14 birth 1816
James Waite, age 17, birth 1813
Nathan Waite age 11 birth 1819
Sara Waite age 25 birth 1805 - (perhaps wife of Richard Jr or William)
Sara Waite age 24 birth 1806 - (John's wife)
Thomas Waite age 19 birth 1811
William Waite age 25 birth 1805
Richard Jr b 1807 is not on this list. He may have come on an
earlier or later ship in 1832.
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Mental
stimulation and mysteries of ancestry can be fun to solve.
Here are some of the Family
Cousin Wee Dram Report research topics now underway:
1. The William Mackway arrival
from Scotland to the America in 1721 missing links to our William
Mackway.
2. Richard Waite wife clarification of Bland vs Scott married in
Northamptonshire UK
http://familycousin.com/richard_waite/richard_and_charl.htm
3. The burial site of Richard Waite US or UK.
4. More on the Ruth, Grace & Wallace Mackway, Samuel Vaillancourt and
Anna Dahlquist families
5. The May Knaf 1924 US census child relationship to Eunie.
6. The disappearance of Hiram Wood from Aunt Florence raising the
Vaillancourt girls
FlorenceWoodhome.htm
7. Who were the 1910 US census Smith people with the Vaillancourt girls
and the mystery name in 1920 census and why the name
Eofglle Daellauconsh.
8. Frances Majer family Baptist role in immigration.
9. The dna Zane Grey Waite link between first arrivals and Richard
Waite.
10. The Harold Mackway - Lutheran Minister move from Chicago to Pa.
11. The Louise Weinbauer two marriages
12. The Harold Mackway two marriages.
13. The confirmed Osborn dna links with Gerry and Dick and Ralph
14. The confirmed Leon Waite and Ralph Waite dna linkage
and more I
have forgotten...senior moments... |
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Osborn Mysteries
The following are bits and pieces for Osborn
Check out the internet searches for more details. |
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We request Ryan and other new generations to help
our research. |
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Life in a small town, a Ralph
eBook Life in a small town runs at a different
pace. It seems to be set by the local business attitudes and activities.
It also could be the Pennsylvania Dutch (German) people. They were
dedicated hard workers but at a farmers pace.
My hometown was Sellersville, which is next to Perkasie, Souderton,
Telford, Quakertown and far away Doylestown - the county seat. Actually
my family was renting in 17 Noble St, Sellersville and mom and dad decided to build
their house up on a hill just outside of Sellersville in West Rockhill
Township. It was well named since we had these red colored rocks
everywhere we tried to dig.
This rambling is a "Mackway thing" (my mother's family) they take a
written road and follow it to a crossroad in their mind and then make a
turn and keep repeating these turns until they have lost the reader in a
maze of written subject turns. But we need to get back to Life in the
slow lane.
(to read more work in progress visit
Ralph Blog above:
http://www.familycousin.com/waite/ralph_ebook.htm)
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we dedicate the first
eBook to the memory of Ralph Sr & Naomi and Earle & Bess
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Above are Don, Ralph Sr,
Bess and Marion Waite,
there is an exclusive eBook by
Ralph Waite Sr
just select the Diary below to go online now
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Ralph Waite was a friend to all who know him and a
caring father to me.
He respected and loved Naomi and she was a good person and mother. |
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Ralph Sr diary shows the
compassion and complexity of his dreams and learning in life. He was
moving from Bethlehem to Bucks County, Sellersville, Pa and he lived in
the Washington House, which remains an active center in Sellersville. He
had lost his mother to throat cancer in 1932 and was was still grieving
- but his writing was optimistic for his future and life challenges. |
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06/16/2008 a
ralphwaite.com site
http://familycousin.com
mailto:ralphwaite@familycousin.com |
