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I have been researching my family history for 16+ years. Here are my current areas of research.
1. My ancestors from the NJ area
Sussex and Warren Counties - My main family lines are the Price and Poyer families. My Price ancestor (Samuel Price of Hardwick) migrated to Sussex/Warren from Hunterdon county, NJ. The earliest known record of him is a land deed in Sussex dated 1786. He is mentioned in the will of Hunterdon county's James Price in 1796, though the exact relationship is unknown. Other NJ families in my tree: Green, Howell, Hunt, Parr, Smith, Van Doren, Vanderbilt, Wright, and Wyckoff.
2. My ancestors from the PA area
Columbia County - Webb, Thomas and Morgan families.
Berks County - Webb, Paine, and Boone families.
Also: the Currey and Russell families near Philadelphia.
The above Price, Poyer, Morgan and Thomas families lived in PA and NJ in the early-mid 1800s, then moved west in the 1850s and 1860s.
The Morgans, who moved to southwestern MN, were 1st generation Americans. They immigrated through the port of NY on Jul 11, 1843 from the parish of Wem in Shropshire, though they were originally from Denbighshire in Wales. They were supposedly related to the family of John and Mary (Jones) Davis/Davies, who settled near them in the area of Worthington, MN.
The Price and Poyer families ended up in the area of Spirit Lake, IA though the Prices lived for a few years in IL and the Poyers lived for a few years in MI before arriving in IA. The Prices were of Scots heritage. The Poyers were Welsh (from Haverfordwest, Wales) and had migrated to Warren county, PA from Jamaica Parish in Long Island, NY. Both families immigrated before the American Revolution, and intermarried with families of Dutch (Holland), Pennsylvania Dutch (Deutch=German), English, Irish, Welsh, and Swedish heritage.
3. My Canadian Irish ancestors were from the Carleton Place region of Lanark county, Ottawa, Ontario. They were the McCann, Murphy, Cogan and Poole families. The McCann/Murphy families moved to Ontario from county Wicklow, Ireland in 1840. The Poole/Cogan families moved to Ontario from county Kilkenny, Ireland in 1851. The McCann and Poole families moved to Oakwood, ND (near Grafton) in 1880.
4. My Canadian French ancestors were from the Laprairie region of Quebec, just south of Montreal. They were the Vary and LaRoche families and migrated to Oakwood, ND in 1880. An ancestor of my LaRoche line was Henry Schreiber, a Hessian soldier who moved to Quebec after having deserted from the British during the Revolutionary War.
5. I have multiple Norwegian lines which I am researching. The family names include: Hvidsten, Reiquam (Reikvam), Sylskar (Solvskar), Nelson, Stave, Fossen, Fauske, Galteland, Ulleland, and Aameland. The Reiquams were the first of my Norwegian lines to arrive in the US. They immigrated in the 1860s and 70s and settled first near Belgrade, MN and then in Chippewa county, WI. My line of Reiquams later moved to the Choteau, MT area. All my other Norwegian families settled in the Marshall county, MN area in the early 1880s.
6. I am researching 4 Polish lines.
Grzeszkiewicz (Gryszkiewicz/Gryskiewicz/Grace) and Cieklinski
These 2 families emmigrated on the SS MAIN in April of 1883 from Grudno, Poland (today Belarus) through the port of Bremen, Germany. They settled first near Winona, MN, and later migrated to northwestern MN, where they shorted the name to Gryskiewicz. Some members of the family settled in St. Paul and took the name Grace.
Kostrzewski (and wife Chwialkowski)
This family emmigrated from Koniaty, Posnan, Poland through the port of Bremmen on the vessel AMERICA. They landed in Boston on February 6, 1886. Their first child was born at sea. They lived first near Bloomington, IL for only a few years, then moved to northwestern MN.
For more information on these families, please visit my website at www.geocities.com/hvidsten_m
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