Exploring the Stewart-Ricketts family history
by [email protected] · Published February 18, 2021 · Last modified February 19, 2021
There’s an old story that our Ricketts lineage had a connection to the Tolpuddle Martyrs. But the Martyrs story is well documented and told many times, and there’s no mention of any Ricketts’. So,...
Cornelius Warren Burright was the son of Orrin Burright and the grandson of Cornelius Burright. He was born in Van Wert County, Ohio in 1842. By 1861 Cornelius had moved to Iowa, where he...
Gasoline, Texas doesn’t sound like the most attractive place to live, but in the early 1900s, the Tracy family returned to this community three times after moving to other towns in Oklahoma, Texas, and...
17 Easebourne Street, in Easebourne, Sussex is an ancient wattle and daub, timber-framed building. It was a fixture of my childhood and remains a major touchstone in our family history. This was where my...
If the Burright family is one of the branches of a family tree you’re currently researching there are a number of specific online and traditional book resources that you’ll find very helpful. So, once...
John Shreeve and his family migrated from England to Canada between 1845 and 1847. The family included a young Sarah Shreeve, who was later to marry Joseph Warren Burright. According to The Sun Rides...
By June 1940 the British Expeditionary Force had been pushed back to the French coast by the advancing German army. Among the thousands of British troops heading for the beaches was my great uncle...
On the first page of The Sun Rides High, Orrin Burright describes how, in 1845, the Burright family left Ohio and headed west. He notes that families traveled together for protection, before mentioning that...
by [email protected] · Published September 9, 2017 · Last modified July 13, 2020
On the steps of Guthrie Junior High School, the 8th-grade children of Logan County receive their honors on the 1st of June, 1936. Among their ranks is a young Alice Lorene LeGrande, daughter of Charles M....
by [email protected] · Published September 9, 2017 · Last modified July 13, 2020
Arkansas City, Kansas, 1889. Orrin Ulysses Burright walks into the Derry Brothers photography studio to get his picture taken. One of the thousands of settlers who amassed in camps around this small city prior...
During the 1920s Reba Burright and Ivy Burright took a train journey to Chicago to meet up with their sister Ora Blanche Burright. Reba documented the trip in one of her notebooks. The notebook has several...