Exploring the Stewart-Ricketts family history
by paul.a.ricketts@gmail.com · Published November 17, 2021 · Last modified January 25, 2022
We believe that Jakob Louis Muller arrived in the Holburn District of London in the 1860s, after which he took a job as a waiter. He had emigrated from Baden in Germany. In 1873...
by paul.a.ricketts@gmail.com · 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...
by paul.a.ricketts@gmail.com · Published February 18, 2020 · Last modified July 13, 2020
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...
by paul.a.ricketts@gmail.com · Published February 5, 2020 · Last modified July 13, 2020
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...
by paul.a.ricketts@gmail.com · Published August 17, 2019 · Last modified July 13, 2020
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 paul.a.ricketts@gmail.com · Published April 9, 2019 · Last modified July 13, 2020
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...
by paul.a.ricketts@gmail.com · Published March 30, 2019 · Last modified July 13, 2020
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 paul.a.ricketts@gmail.com · 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 paul.a.ricketts@gmail.com · 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...