Exploring the Stewart-Ricketts family history
Louis Muller immigrated from Schwetzingen, Germany to London, England during the mid-1800’s. Evidence of his passage (passenger lists etc.) remains elusive but there is plenty of evidence supporting the families’ origins in census and marriage data....
by [email protected] · Published September 9, 2017 · Last modified August 8, 2019
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...
Elsie May Cox Else May Cox was born in Saffron Walden, Essex, England, in the first quarter of 1893 to George Robert Cox and Susan Anne Bletstow 1,4. The UK Census of 1901 has the Cox...
Alice LeGrande Birth Alice Lorene Legrande was born on Sep 9th, 1920 near the small town of Meridian, Logan County, Oklahoma 1,2,4,5. Her father was James Oscar LeGrande and her mother Gertrude Eva Burrows...
Sarah Shreeve was born to John Shreeve and Happy Harvey around 1838 near Rollesby, Norfolk, England. She was a well traveled woman who led an eventful life. Moving from a small English town in rural East...
by [email protected] · Published March 8, 2015 · Last modified February 23, 2020
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...
The warm colors of this Oklahoma sunset hide the cool air of a winters day as the wind cuts cross the open landscape. As the sun dips below the horizon even the gathering darkness...
Cornelius Burright was born in 1774 on the eve of the American Revolution. Little is known about his father John but his son was the next in line of what was to prove a...
Milton Burright was a born in New York state to Cornelius Burright and Olive Messenger. Part of an old and well established American lineage he lived a long and successful life ending his days...
Born in Flegg, Norfolk, England Charles Shreeve traveled with his family, first to Canada and then to Illinois. He died fighting in the American Civil War at Kenesaw Mountain, Georgia. Birth and immigration According...