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My maternal great Aunt Marybelle Crownover Sayed started our family geneology research around 1940. My maternal grandmother, Elsie Oaks Crownover Lederle, showed a great interest in it and she and I discussed geneology for as long as I can remember. My mother, Jacqueline Elizabeth Lederle May was also interested. I owe much of the information contained in this website to them and especially to my maternal grandmother, Elsie, for generating within me the desire to complete this important work. It is a great family masterpiece that we have here. I would like to remember my great Aunt Ethel May, whom I visited in 1984 along with my children, Erik Chad Leamon and Ingrid Marie Leamon. We spent an entire afternoon on her front porch swing on a sunny, warm summer afternoon in Myersdale, Somerset County, Pennsylvania. while she related all the family history that she knew. I remember her as a warm, affectionate, and humble person who welcomed my children and me with open arms and made us feel so very much at home. I now dedicate this family masterpiece to all of the aforementioned people who are now all gone and to my beloved children and grandchildren, to both my brothers, to all my nieces and nephews, to my living cousins, and to my favorite Uncle John Hirst Lederle, the current patriarch of the Lederle family. We are now the only ones left. And I have been told that as the oldest female and oldest child on both sides of my immediate family that I am the matriarch of the family now and as such; it is paramount to me that I ensure that this work is forever kept intact and added to as the future generations of my legacy are born. Above all, this is the best gift I can leave to my beloved family. I love and cherish you all and all those who came before us and made us what we are today.
"There is no life that does not contribute to history"
Dorothy West
"History is the essence of innumerable biographies"
Thomas Carlyle
FAMILY SURNAMES: Concentration: Western Pennsylvania & Chicago and Early New York City, New Jersey, and Virginia
MAY--------------German/French/ or English?
Imhoff-----------Swiss/ German
Romesberg--------German
Bender-----------German
Brunner----------German
Bischoff---------German
Keller-----------German
Dively-----------German
STEMM (originally Stemmen)---------German
Hanbury----------------------------French
D'Evelin---------------------------French
Folger-----------------------------French
Franklin---------------------------English
LEDERLE------------German/Austrian
Weinand------------German
CROWNOVER--- Covenhoven --- Von Kouwenhoven --- Dutch
originally they were Spanish Jewish relocated to France and then to Holland during the Inquisitions
Van Derveer---------Dutch
Monfoort------------Dutch
DeMendeville--------Dutch
Predmore------------Dutch
Cool----------------Dutch
Jansen--------------Dutch
Oaks----------------English
Hirst---------------English
Walker--------------English
Newman--------------English
Jerret--------------English
Thomas--------------English
McCormick-----------Scots
Scott---------------Scots
Wilson--------------Scots
Stewart-------------Scots
Maguire-------------Irish
NATIONALITIES:
The May's: German/ Swiss
The Stemm's: German/ French/ English
The Lederle's: Pure German
The Crownover's: Heavily Dutch/ English/ Scots/ Irish/Spanish
Jewish
When checking the family trees, link the pages by looking at the earliest male surname of the line you are interested in and finding the tree which starts with his child and then you will be able to follow the line intact.
I am forever a product of all those who came before me. Therefore, all my future descendents will forever be, in part, products of me.
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