How far back can you trace your family?

[Armistead]

How far back?

If they came to America, when?

Wars fought?

Anything else you want to share, famous people, things they did...

[Sailor Steve]

I haven't bothered to go across the ocean to England, but here, if you can stand it, is my direct lineage to that time. I'll leave out all the brothers and sisters and just stick to the direct ancestors. Well, I have to leave in one or two brothers, just because of their military service.

James Bradfield: (No birth date listed), South Wales, Great Britain. Listed as living on the Rappahannock River near Fredericksburg, Virginia in 1785, and in Loudon County, Virginia, in 1787
Elizabeth Lorentz: 1765, Wales
Married around 1785 - 2 sons

Lewis B. Bradfield: 1786, Dumfries, Prince William County, Virginia – 1870, Uniontown Alabama. His younger brother John served in the War of 1812.
Mary C. “Polly” Farrar: December 20, 1788, Rockingham County, North Carolina – 1855, LaGrange, Georgia
Married November 24, 1807 - 6 sons, 3 daughters. The youngest son served in the Confederate army.

William Bradfield: April 15, 1813 – November 7, 1893, Madison, North Carolina
Ann Elizabeth Talley: July 4, 1822, Green County, Georgia – November 7, 1893, Madison, North Carolina - 1 daughter, 6 sons

James Olin Bradfield: December 2, 1843, Troup County, Georgia – March 7, 1932, Austin, Texas
Served in Company E, 1st Texas Regiment, Hood’s Brigade, Longstreet’s Corps, Army of Northern Virginia. His younger brother, John Anderson Bradfield, served in Company F, 4th Texas, Hood's Brigade.
Louisa A. Estes: I have no other information on her, or when they were married - 2 sons

Robert Olin Bradfield: October 24, 1889 – July 1, 1965, Dallas, Texas
Blandena Frances Safronia Keller: July 28, 1895, Dallas, Texas – May 22, 1973, Dallas, Texas
Married January 1914 - 7 sons, 3 daughters

Donald Edward Bradfield: December 11, 1927, Dallas, Texas – July 19, 2012, Redondo Beach, California
US Navy, 1947-1949. He had two older brothers who were at Pearl Harbor, and several more served in the war, but I have no details.
Doris Gwendolyn Sutton: December 12, 1927
Married 1949, Divorced 1958 - 1 son - me
Barbara Daily: November 23, 1939
Married August 1, 1961 - 1 daughter, 1 son




Now aren't you sorry you asked?

[Red October1984]

I know my grandma has published books on the lineage of that side of the family.

Back to the Mayflower I think. I know I've got family from England and Ireland on that side.

On the other side, it's Italian and German.

Having an Italian family is awesome...The food alone is good....


I think I'll start up an Ancestry.com account and do the free trial and see what shows up. Thing is, my name is so common it'll be hard.

[Armistead]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

Lewis B. Bradfield: 1786, Dumfries, Prince William County, Virginia – 1870, Uniontown Alabama. His younger brother John served in the War of 1812.
Mary C. “Polly” Farrar: December 20, 1788, Rockingham County, North Carolina – 1855, LaGrange, Georgia
Married November 24, 1807 - 6 sons, 3 daughters. The youngest son served in the Confederate army.



Now aren't you sorry you asked?

You might be related to my wife by marriage...Steve, we're family

Several Farrah family members still around here from Polly. I got married in the Wentworth Courthouse. I bet they went drinking in the old tavern across the street from it..

[Armistead]

The earliest I can trace my family is to 1561.

Coming to America

Philip Wolf 1760's, settled on land in NC/SC border granted him by King George III. Fought and wounded in battle of King's Mountain. His brothers son was George Wolf, Governor of Pa around 1830's.

Henry Wolf
Sampson Wolfe Large Planter, about 5000 acres
Martin Wolfe Capt. 22NC Company E. CSA {Survived Pickett's Charge}

and so on down to me.

[Cybermat47]

Originally Posted by Armistead

Survived Pickett's Charge

I still remember the chilling line from Gettysburg:

"General Lee... I have no division."

[Armistead]

Originally Posted by Cybermat47

I still remember the chilling line from Gettysburg:

"General Lee... I have no division."

The 22nd had a wonderful history. They have the honor of being the farthest to the front during Pickett's charge. He kept a detailed CW journal that we have, along with his sword, uniform and pistol. He was wounded twice, but returned to service. His worse injury being a sabre slash to the achilles.

[Red October1984]

Originally Posted by Armistead

The 22nd had a wonderful history. They have the honor of being the farthest to the front during Pickett's charge. He kept a detailed CW journal that we have, along with his sword, uniform and pistol. He was wounded twice, but returned to service. His worse injury being a sabre slash to the achilles.

Got to respect guys like that. The ones who get injured and keep going.

[Gargamel]

To the Mayflower, John Alden I believe. Probably could keep going from there.

[Red October1984]

Originally Posted by Gargamel

To the Mayflower, John Alden I believe. Probably could keep going from there.

I know I've got family back on the Mayflower...I just don't know names.

[Oberon]

I do intend, at some point to dig deeper into the further reaches of my familys history, I've got pretty concrete routes to about four generations back and then it gets a bit hazy. My grandfather on my mothers side apparently did do some research a while ago but how accurate it was is debatable.
I know that I have links to Lithuania through my fathers mothers side of the family, and we're pretty sure that on my mothers side there's links to Hungary. There's also suspected Norse involvement somewhere down the line, but given how much of the UK they visited I think that comes as little surprise.
It's also suspected that somewhere along the line we had someone who fought in Crimea as a part of the Light Brigade, and yes, they were at Balaclava, and were one of the survivors of that infamous charge.
There's also reports that our family was once quite rich but the fortune was lost during card games, but again it's not known how much of this is true.

[Wolferz]

My family tree has been traced back to the 1800's and the trail ends there due to a courthouse somewhere in Pennsylvania burning down and all the records along with it. I guess someone wanted to erase their past.
My ancestors were some of the first through the Cumberland gap when the west was young. Or so I've been told.
I have been told that Davy Crockett is a distant cousin. My father served during WWII and an uncle on my mothers side served in Korea. I served during the Gulf war. I'm sure I had other family that served in other wars.
My surname (Newhouse) isn't a right common one. I just wish I could trace it back a little further to find out if it is English or converted from the German (Neuhaus). My maternal grandfather was a Bolton, so, he was definitely of Irish descent. There is a castle in Germany that bears the name Neuhaus Schloss. Not sure if it's any relation.

[Jimbuna]

Never really looked so can only say three generations

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by Wolferz

My surname (Newhouse) isn't a right common one. I just wish I could trace it back a little further to find out if it is English or converted from the German (Neuhaus).

I'm told that "Bradfield" goes all the way back to the Saxon invasion of England in the 400s, and was originally "Brodfeld". I haven't done the research myself, so it's just hearsay at this point. Someday I'm going to buckle down and give money to Ancestry.com and do some serious looking. I know nothing of my mother's family past her mother, and I've promised my daughters that I'd look into their mother's antecedents.

But not today.

Oh, and thank you for stepping up and giving your family name. I respect people who are willing to come out from behind the internet wall and show themselves. Same goes to Armistead and several others here.

[Betonov]

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

Never really looked so can only say three generations

Same for me

Some talk about one branch coming from Russia in the 19th century and the red-ish beards the males from my mothers side tend to have tells me something about a celtic heritage. Thats about it. Farmers, the lot of them