Minor Genea-Origins: Dempsey

Saturday, August 20, 2016

Saturday Night Genealogy Fun – “Mary’s” With No Last Name

Randy Seaver in his “Genea-Musings” blog posts a weekly challenge for digging deeper into our family history.

This week’s post is about analyzing our female ancestors to find any with the first name of “Mary” but who’s last name (maiden) is unknown. The link to his post is: http://www.geneamusings.com/2016/08/saturday-night-genealogy-fun-how-many_20.html .

Here’s my analysis.

Yes! I have some Mary’s in my genealogy database program with an unknown maiden name.

I found twelve women named “Mary” or “Maria” who’s maiden name is unknown. Additionally, I am going to add one more for a baker’s dozen of thirteen. My third great grandmother, Maria Nufer’s maiden name is not nailed down yet. Of these thirteen unknown Mary’s only three are in my direct line.

I use 5 underscores (_____) to denote that a name is unknown rather than the word.

Direct Line -

1. Maria Margaretha _____ - this is my 7^th great grandmother through my Stenger line. She is the wife of Johann Reubert who likely lived in Wasserlos, Germany.

2. Maria _____ - this is my 6^th great grandmother through my Stenger/Pfeifer line. She is the wife of Nikolaus Griesing from Germany.

3. Maria _____ - My third great grandmother through my Loescher line. Her married name is Nufer. Possible maiden names include “Lehnifger”, “Cotchie” and “Schnitzer”.

More research is needed to figure out who these women are to give them back their names!

Tags –SNGF, Nufer, Stenger, Reubert, Dempsey, Pfeifer, Loescher, Griesing, Lehnifger, Cotchie, Schnitzer

Saturday, August 6, 2016

Saturday Night Genealogy Fun – Male Ancestors Age at Death

Randy Seaver in his Genea-Musings blog posts a weekly challenge for digging deeper into our family history.

This week’s post is about analyzing our male ancestors and their age at their deaths. The link to his post is : http://www.geneamusings.com/2016/08/saturday-night-genealogy-fun-male.html .

Here’s my analysis. I have used the ahnentafel numbering in this list.

Father -

2. Father – I am blessed to still have my father .

Grandfathers -

4. W. Minor – 88 years

6. Robert T Miars – (1915 – 1999) 84 years. He missed the millennial celebrations by just a couple of weeks which is something he was really wanting to see.

Great Grandfathers -

8. John R Minor – (1880 – 1937) 57 years.

10. R. K. Fristoe – (1892 – 1965) 73 years.

12. Frank Miars – (1870 – 1932) 61 years.

14. Joseph L Stenger - (1878 – 1966) 88 years.

2^nd Great Grandfathers -

16. Francis Grant Minor – (1852 – 1918) 65 years.

18. William Dempsey – (1842 – 1911) 68 years.

20. J C Fristoe – (1852 – 1927) 73 years.

22. G W Craft – (1855 – 1939) 84 years.

24. William Miars – (1943 – 1916) 73 years.

26. Thompson J Saltonstall – (1848 - ??) Death date unknown. This is one of my brickwalls!!

28. Frank Stenger – (1837 – 1918) 81 years.

30. Francoise Loescher – (1848 – 1902) 53 years.

3^rd Great Grandfathers -

32. John Minor – (1819 – 1885) 65 years.

34. Ewald Pruschwitz – (?? - ??) Unknown.

36. Peter Dempsey – (1800 - ??) Unknown.

38. John G Kellar – (1791 – 1849) 58 years.

40. _____ Fristoe – Unknown.

42. _____ Craft – Unknown.

44. Martin Miars – (1801 – 1885) 84 years.

50. Amos Hodgson – (1810 – 1866) 56 years.

52. Alexander Hamilton Saltonstall – (1817 – 1856) 39 years.

54. Peter Ringenberger – (1810 – 1892) 82 years.

56. Franz Stenger – (1806 – 1890) 84 years.

58. Jakob Schmitt – (1806 – 1883) 76 years.

60. Antoine Loescher – (1815 - ??) Unknown.

62. Martin Nufer – (1823 – 1873) 76 years.

In the four generations (grandfathers through 3^rd great grandfathers), the average age is 71.3 years old at the time of death. There is a tie for oldest as my paternal grandfather was 88 when he died and my great – grandfather Joseph L Stenger was as well. The youngest at their death was a 3^rd great grandfather, Alexander Hamilton Saltonstall who died at 39 years. I do not know the whole story on his early death. More research is needed here.