My Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Grandmother

[NHBandit]

Very cool ! I love tracing my family history. I have a 7th generation great grandfather who was at the battle of Lexington & Concord.. On the winning side of course.. He carried the body of Captain Isaac Davis off the battlefield. Davis was the first officer killed by the British and is the man who the statue of the minuteman is modeled after.

 

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[piegrande]

My wife is descended from the Aztec Emperors. Her great-grandma was a Moctezuma, and we well know when and where she died and from what cause.

Moctezuma I, in the late 1400's sent a daughter to marry a local chieftain. We assume she is descended from him, though the Moctezuma family did own local land here, and allegedly they came up here as to a summer home.

There are gaps in her family history. The problem is the records for her family are in a special library in the state capitol and only authorized people can access them. So, we have had to simply assume the gaps in the record based on the surnames over the years.

Over the years, from much studying on the existence of the treasure, and genealogy I have concluded that there were so many marriages between the various families over that 500 years that the whole town is also descended from the Moctezumas.

 

[kcm]

*singing* "From the halls of Moctezuma, to the shores of Tripoli...." *lol*

No offense intended piegrande. Song just popped into my head while reading your post.

 

[huntsman53]

My' grandfather on my' mother's side was Edward Harry Upchurch who served in the Spanish American War, possibly in WWI and maybe to some extent in WWII and he helped build the Atomic Bomb at Oak Ridge.

My' great great great great great Grandfather on my' Dad's mother's side was Francis Winstead who was a Minuteman and First Sergeant in the Revolutionary War. He and his' troops were tasked with guarding Cherry Point on the Potomac from British incursions. The Winstead lineage has been traced back to around 1200 AD in England.

My' Ferrell ancestry on my' Dad's father's side has been traced back to the O'Fearghail (O'Farrell) Kings of Ireland then on back to King Fergal (Fearghail) of Conmaicne (Son of King Angall) who died at the battle of Clontarf and who was given the name "Man of Valour" King Fergal (Fearghail) and descended from Ir, the 5th son of King Milesius (King of Spain and Father of the Irish Race) and who was a direct descendant of Noah.

The family has a lot of work to do on the remaining family member's ancestry.


Frank

 

[piegrande]

In English, that song is Halls of Montezuma. Cortes changed the name to Montezuma. And, it was not originally Moctezuma. One of the earliest church documents here, around 1620, spelled it Motecuzoma. Some folks who think his treasure was taken into the USA, use claims by Indians, make that alleged claims by Indians, that they had trade with Montezuma, which instantly tells you they did not. Only Europeans and Americans used that name.

 

[Cruisin]

I know that this is an old thread but I hope MOJJAX sees this post - we are related. Mary Perkins Bradbury's parents are my g-grandparents also. Small world!

 

[mojjax]

I know that this is an old thread but I hope MOJJAX sees this post - we are related. Mary Perkins Bradbury's parents are my g-grandparents also. Small world!

That's Amazing !!!!!!