Our Family Museum:
A Collection of Family History Notes

The files here are conversions into HTML format of portions of the genealogical compendium Our Family Museum by James Nohl Churchyard. A 1996 version of the full book (which contains many biographical details and source citations not included in this HTML version) is also available in plain ASCII text form as ftp://ftp.cac.psu.edu/pub/genealogy/text/data/chyfamus.zip (a compressed archive file, 1197781 bytes in length; I hope to have a more up-to-date version available soon); see an explanation of ".zip" here.

There are more than 835 individuals with over 360 different family names listed in the main charts (which mostly include direct lineal ancestors of James Nohl Churchyard and his first wife Martha Orr); and there is some information on a further 1,200 close collaterals here. The main regions of origin are England, Quebec/France, the Rhineland (Germany), Ulster, and colonial and post-revolutionary New England, New York (New Amsterdam), and the middle states.

The author's contact address is:

In the following table of contents, links which point to locations further down in this same file are marked "[This file]", while links to the begining of another file are accompanied by an indication of the length of the external file (given in units of kilobytes, abbreviated as "k").

Table of Contents

• Summary of main ancestral lines [This file.]
• Lineal Surname Index [This file.]
• Table of contents of detailed information available on some selected ancestors [This file.]
• Introduction (Part A of Our Family Museum): (25k)
  • Summary of main ancestral lines
    • Printing History
    • Copyright Notices
  • Contents
  • Reviews
  • The Contents and The Structure of this Book
  • Principal Family Names (attested for four or more generations): Anderson, Baldwin, Barnhart, Becker, Benedict, Best, Betzer, Bissonette, Blackwell, Carson, Casselberry, Churchyard, Demers, Denis-Lapierre, Drouillard, Dunkerson (Dunkerson), Eckerson, Evans, Freeman, Garvin, Goodwin, Hall, Hartley, Houde, Howes, Huntzinger, Lamarre, Lockwood, Lounhart, Lowry, Marvin, Monet(te), Moore, Nohl, Olmsted, Orr, Paddock, Remillard, Scott, Sears, Steinkopf, St. John, Surprenant, Threadkell, Uzille (Siele), van Dyck, Vredenburgh, Wright.
  • Roll of Ancestral Services
  • A Note on Dutch Given Names
  • Urgent Queries (Best, Blomfield, Chadderdon, Duncanson, McCluskey, Webb, Norton, St. John, Stone, Tobey)
• Detailed Lineal Ancestor Charts (Part B of Our Family Museum; also including a few collaterals in distant generations):
  • Index to Lineal Ancestry Charts:
    A-H, J-Z. (62k each)
    • Lineal Surname Index [This file]
    • Full Lineal Surname Indexes: A-H, J-Z; (with date and place annotations).
    • Indexes of Persons: A-H, J-Z; (lineal ancestors; with date and place annotations).
    • Index of surnames for which four or more generations are known.
  • Lineal Ancestry charts
    • Table of Contents to Charts (13k)
      (not the same as the indexes)
    • How to read the four-generation genealogical charts (4k)
      
    • Genealogy charts, Part 1A (59k)
      ...beginning with Chart B1.
    • Genealogy charts, Part 1B (58k)
      ...beginning with Chart B69.
    • Genealogy charts, Part 2A (57k)
      ...beginning with Chart B101.
    • Genealogy charts, Part 2B (59k)
      ...beginning with Chart B548.
    • Genealogy charts, Part 3A (59k)
      ...beginning with Chart B632.
    • Genealogy charts, Part 3B (60k)
      ...beginning with Chart B848.
• Comprehensive single overview chart of lineal ancestors (includes a few ancestors not included in the detailed Part B charts above):
  • HTML hypertext version of Overview chart (88k)
  • Plaintext non-HTML version of Overview chart (58k)
• Lineal Ancestor coverage table (3k)
• GEDCOM files:
  • Gedcom file of lineal ancestors and close collaterals (428k) (27 Oct 1997 version)
    
    • This same GEDCOM file, compressed in binary .zip format <104912 bytes> [See explanation of ".zip" here.]
  • Gedcom file of direct lineal ancestors only (186k) (27 Oct 1997 version)
    • This same GEDCOM file, compressed in binary .zip format <46828 bytes> [See explanation of ".zip" here.]
• Lists which include close collaterals (taken from Part C of Our Family Museum):
  • Index of both lineal and close collateral ancestors:
    • A-H Index (78k)
    • J-Z Index (77k)
  • List of siblings (and half-siblings and step-siblings) of lineal ancestors (cross-referenced with the lineal ancestry charts):
    • List of collaterals, Part 1 (60k)
    • List of collaterals, Part 2 (61k)
    • List of collaterals, Part 3 (61k)
    • List of collaterals, Part 4 (62k)
• Simple (non-hypertext) list of all surnames which are indexed in the plain ASCII text version of Our Family Museum (includes surnames of spouses of collaterals and other more remotely connected individuals who are not included in any of the HTML indexes above). (14k)
• Two graphic visual ancestor charts charts are available, in either PDF format (download the Acrobat reader from the Adobe.com web-site to view these files) or PostScript format (to be printed on US letter size paper, 8½ by 11 inches, by a PostScript printer):
  • 8-generation fan chart of lineal ancestors (PostScript) (21k)
  • 8-generation fan chart of lineal ancestors (PDF format) (25k)
  • Five generation chart with lineal and collateral ancestors (PostScript) (15k)
  • Five generation chart with lineal and collateral ancestors (PDF format) (10k)
• JNC -- Principal Family Names being Researched (2k)
• More detailed information on selected ancestors: (in rough chronological order; files marked [H.C.] were not actually written or assembled by James Nohl Churchyard)
  • Overview chart of lineal ancestors of Edward III of England and Philippa of Hainault (78k) [H.C.]
    • See also the hyperlinked Royal Genealogies with some annotations (off-site)
  • The genealogically weirdest situation ever (not my own relatives!) (4k) [H.C.]
  • Information on Pieter Jacobse Borsboom and his wife Grietje, in Dutch and British colonial New York. (9k)
  • The acknowledgement of the paternity of Maria Truax's child by a man other than her husband (1642, New Amsterdam) (3k)
  • Information on Alexander L. Glen and Catherine Duncanson in New Netherland (8k)
  • Data (mostly negative) on the English origins of Matthias St. John (Sension) (41k)
  • The French and Indian raid on Deerfield Massachusetts, 1704 (24k)
    Material from a talk given by James Nohl Churchyard; includes genealogical chart of Catlin and French of Deerfield
    ...and a map of the route of the march of the Deerfield captives.
    • The Catlin and Corse families of Deerfield Massachusetts (13k)
  • The strangest intermarriage among my ancestors (2k) [H.C.]
  • Dozens of Cousins -- cousin intermarriages among the Bradt, Slingerland, Mebie, etc. ancestors of Annatje Eckerson (born 1787, Schoharie NY) (11k)
  • Samuel St. John and his wife Thankful Lockwood, of New York and Connecticut (44k)
  • The Apprenticeship Indenture of Henry Churchyard (amusingly quaint legal document of 1845) (4k)
  • Immigration Trip Diary of Friedrich Nohl, 1849 (28k) (Westphalia, Germany - Wisconsin, USA)
  • The Civil War Diary of James Laughlin Orr (covers Sherman's march to the sea, November and December 1864) (22k)
  • A Brief Biography of William Carson, Indian Fighter (3k)
  • Photograph of Vesta Ruth Huntzinger Hann (Carson), taken for her high-school graduation, Indiana, 1900 (1k) [H.C.]
  • Miriam Florence Best, Doings Diary 1911-1913 (33k)
    College diary (Mankato, Minnesota); includes some interesting personal entries.
  • Newspaper clippings about an almost 600-mile hiking and hitchiking trip taken by Neva Churchyard in the early 1920's (she dressed in trousers, and relied on frequently being mistaken for a man...) (9k)

Here's a blinking genealogy icon (a stupid Netscape trick).
The original Postscript file from which the ancestor tree genealogy images were generated is also available (2k).

Summary of main ancestral lines

This volume presents the ancestry (as far as it is known) of the children of James Nohl Churchyard and his former wife, Martha Orr. The following eight ancestral lines start from parentage chart B1.

Churchyard

of Suffolk Co., England, and French-Canadian lines of Monette, Houde and many more, including Baldwin, Catlin, and Corse of Deerfield, MA.

Nohl

of Germany and several New England lines: Benedict, Lockwood, Olmsted, and St. John. A Nohl autobiography covering 1767-1838 (included in the plain ASCII text version) and an emigration diary of 1849 are available.

Best

includes several Palatine German (1709) and earlier New York Dutch, English, and Huguenot lines such as Barnhart, Eckerson, Glen, van Dyck, and Vredenburgh.

McCluskey

and Webb, New Brunswick loyalists; and Bailey and McCausland of County Tyrone, Ulster, including a link to the Buchanan clan of Scotland.

Orr

of Ulster and Indiana, including Howes, Anderson, Sears, and various New England lines, some to the Mayflower.

Dunkerson

(or Duncanson), Blackwell, and Jeffress of Virginia, Casselberry and Garvin of Pennsylvania. One line is carried back to King Edward III of England through the Wrights of Oyster Bay, New York.

Carson

of Franklin and Evansville, Indiana.

Huntzinger

of Pennsylvania and Indiana, Carpenter and Hartley of West Virginia.

Lineal Surname Index

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z ?

• Adriaens, Agatha, Alfred, King of England, Anceline, Anderson, Archambault, Armand, Arsick, Aubert.
• Bailey, Baldwin, Bangs, Barnhart, Bartlett, Beale, Bearse, Beaupre, Beauvais, Becker, Beer, Benedict, Bernhardt, Bernhart, Best, Betzer, Beyer, Bissonette, Blackwell, Blumfeild, Blyant, Bobie, Boecker, Boivin, Bonner, Boquet, Borsboom, Boteler, Botjagers, Boucher, Bouck, Boudemer, Boughton, Boulet, Bourdon, Bouton, Bouvillon, Bradt, Bray, Breton-Helie, Brewster, Bridgum, Bristow, Buck, Burr.
• Cadiel, Calye, Cam, Carpenter, Carson, Casse, Casselberry, Cassier, Catlin, Chadderdon, Chaire, Chapman, Charlemagne, Emperor of the West, Charles, Chaucer, Chedville, Childs, Choret, Churchyard, Clement-Labonte, Clerice, Cochet, Coles, Colet, Collier, Corse, Cortedouat, Cowper, Creste, Croshaw, Crowell.
• Dagert, Dagesse, Dalzell, Damen, Darmine, David, Davis, de Arsick, de Beaufort, de Bresworth, de Coggeshall, de Monceaus, de Tymworth, Deane, Defoe, Demers, Denis-Lapiere, Denis-Lapierre, Denote, Dewey, Doerth, Doreward, Doublet, Doyley, Driby, Drouillard, du Chesne, du Trieux, Dubois, Dumas, Dumats, Dumont, Dumontet, Duncanson, Dunkerson, Dunkeson, Dutost, Duttenfield.
• Eckerson, Edgar, Edward III, King of England, Ermolin, Ernst, Evans.
• Faunce, Fayenne, Feuillart, Fiset, Fitzjeffries, Fizet, Foderinghay, Fotheringhay, Fonton, Foran, Forestier, Fournier, Francis, Francoeur, Franke, Freeman, Furford.
• Gaboury, Gadbury, Garvin, Gaschet, Gaudin, Gilbert, Glen, Glenn, Goodwin, Gosselin, Goupillet, Gravely, Grenier, Greviere, Guillaume, Guillois, Gunn, Gylbert.
• Hagenohl, Hall, Harding, Harrison, Harsick, Hartley, Hawkwood, Hawkyns, Hedge, Hethersall, Higginson, Hillard, Hobart, Hogan, Holland, Hopkins, Houde, Houle, Hourdouil, Howard, Howes, Hubbard, Hulin, Huntzinger.
• Jaeckel, Jeffers, Jeffress, Jernegan, Jette, Jissioum, John of Gaunt, Jolivet, Jones.
• Kassenberg, King, Klein, Kool, Kuhn.
• Labbe, Labrecque, Laekens, Lamarre, Lambert, Lankester, Lansing, Lapierre, Larouche, Lauzon, le Strange, Lebec, Leber, Leduc, Lefebvre, Leger, Legrand, Lelong, Lemay, Lepotier, Liger, Livingston, Lockwood, Lounhart, Lowry, Lussier.
• Malet, Malier, Manby, Martense, Maugis, Mayo, McCausland, McCluskey, Mebie, Merwin, Meunier, Meusnier, Monet, Monette, Moore, Moorehead, Mordaunt, Morel, Morissette, Moulin.
• Nelson, Neville, Niard, Nohl, Noirett, Nolde, Norton.
• Olmsted, Orr.
• Paddock, Palmer, Paxson, Peek, Peirin, Pepin, Petit, Philippa of Hainault, Pier, Pineau, Pomponelle, Porter, Prence, Prince.
• Quentin, Quint.
• Rau, Rees, Remillard, Richards, Ring, Robinson, Roet, Rogers, Rokele, Rolleville, Roulois, Roux.
• Saltz, Savard, Schmidt, Schoales, Scofield, Scott, Sears, Senecal, Serre, Shaw, Shipp, Siele, Slany, Slingerland, Smith, Snow, Solde, Soulard, Sparrow, St. John, Stavely, Stebbins, Steinkopf, Stewart, Stone, Strutt, Surprenant, Swits.
• Taine, Tanfield, ten Kate, Testard, Tetu, Tetu-Lariviere, Threadkell, Tinker, Tobey, Toplady, Tourault, Townsend, Trommels, Truax, Turner, Tyndall.
• Usille, Uzille.
• van der Zee, van Dyck, van Etten, van Norden, van Rotmers, Veillon, Venet, von Danzich, von Heydt, Vredenburgh.
• Walker, Waller, Ward, Warner, Warren, Watson, Webb, Whatlock, Wheldon, Whitlock, Wilder, Willard, William the Conqueror, Wiseman, Witchingham, Wotshall, Wright, Wunneberg, Wyndham, Wyseman.
• Yardly, Young.
• Zimmermann.
• [Unknown Surnames].

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