We have assembled a family tree with 13,800 names (see
surname list below). We are seeking to exchange
information and old family pictures with distant cousins around the world.
Click these links to see our family pictures
Karen (under construction)
We are looking for the following cousins on the Hay side of
the family in Canada
Gordon Hastie (AKA Bruce Hastie)
Jeanne Hastie (AKA Jean Hastie?)
These are the grandchildren of our great-uncle David and
Catharine Maria "Katie/Kitty", by their daughter Carmen. They lived in Ottawa/Nepean, Ontario.
On the Falconer side of the family, we are looking for
descendants of Charles Falconer.
He was born in Croy, Scotland 30 Apr 1856, and apparently
emigrated to New Zealand as a young adult, where he reportedly had a son (or
grandson?) named Colin John Falconer whose plane was shot down in World
War 2.
We are also looking for the descendants of Carl Otto Schulze
in Pottsville / Schuylkill Haven, PA
(He remarried and had 7 children with his second wife; we
have never met his second family)
We are also looking for cousins who are connected to the
following lines:
Anderson (Larbert, Scotland to Jersey City, NJ)
Burdick (Port Jervis / Deerpark / Huguenot, NY and points
north)
Colvin (Mountcharles, Donegal Ireland to MA)
Falconer (Croy/Inverness/Nairn, Scotland – a few went to
England and New Zealand)
Farquharson (Dundee/Angus/Perth, Scotland)
Franklin (George Edmund Franklin and Jane Herd – VA to IL to
WI to IA)
Griffin (Sullivan County / Port Jervis / Deerpark /
Huguenot, NY to Jersey City, NJ)
Hall (basketmaker Davis Hall of Nantucket)
Harthmann (Alsace-Lorraine to Jersey City,
NJ)
Hay (Perth, Scotland to Parry Sound, Canada)
Laird (Perth, Scotland; also Parry Sound, Canada)
McCurrach (Perth, Scotland to many places -
Devon, England, BC/Alberta, Chicago, New York, San Francisco and the Pacific
Northwest)
McFarland (Scotland to Ireland to
Bovina/Delhi, NY, then Wisconsin and Iowa – apparently others settled in PA)
Oliver (Virginia, Tennessee, Wisconsin, Missouri,
California)
Phair (Ireland to Ontario)
Schlotman / Schlottman (St. Clair /
Pottsville, PA and surrounding counties)
Schoonover (tri-state area near Port Jervis,
NY)
Schulze (Bodenteich/Hamburg, Germany to Pottsville, PA)
Stephenson (Boulmer/Longhoughton/Alnwick,
Northumberland, England)
Walker (Cornwall to Wisconsin, Iowa, and Montana)
If you think we might be connected, please send us an e-mail
at the following address: Tim Hall 1 at
gmail dot com
Oral family history maintains that the Franklin side of our
family was descended from one of Benjamin Franklin’s brothers. We have found no evidence to substantiate
this claim, and the stories that have passed down through the various branches
of the family all seem to have logical flaws of one sort or another. The oldest Franklin relative we can trace is
George Edmund Franklin (1777-1862), who was born in Virginia(?) and
moved west to Wisconsin. So who was
George Edmund Franklin? Relatively
little is known of him, but some recently-discovered notes from my grandmother Irene
Alizanah “Zanah” McFarland Hall (1901-2000) from her interviews with her
1st cousin once removed Lu McFarland Morton (1883-1975) shed some
light. Lu must have received this
information directly from her grandfather, George’s son Gilbreath Franklin,
who lived next door to Lu until his death in 1903 at almost 96 years of
age. Why Lu never seemed to find out
the name of Gilbreath’s paternal grandfather is a mystery.
"Jenny Herd and George Franklin - Gilbreath's parents. George Franklin, cousin of Benjamin F. - 6 footer - curly-haired - blue eyed - Englishman. George was buying horses which took him to Herd's farm. He came to Herd's and found Jenny Herd [tromping clothes? - illegible]. Love at first sight. Buried at little town (Dodgeville? not Avoca) in Wisconsin."