More Gregory: Immigrant Origins

April 22, 2019April 22, 2019 | fobafam

This week, taking my maternal grandmother’s line back to England, Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire.

See more Gregorys, descending from Lemuel, on Charts Page

The Foster Family

April 15, 2019April 22, 2019 | fobafam

Grave marker for Jared Foster, Opdyke Cemetery, Jefferson Co. IL

Mr. Perrin, above, has a couple of conflations in his piece. John Foster, who may be called Sr., though it isn’t clear he used this himself, was great-great-great-grandfather to the Jonathan who was Jared’s father. In between were Samuel and two Williams. John, born 1618, was the original immigrant, and settled in Salem, Massachusetts, the state in which the Fosters lived for several generations.

Jacob Barker, veteran of the American Revolution

April 7, 2019 | fobafam

The early ancestor, who (pre-revolution) was a colonial subject living in South Carolina

Copy of 1784 document, Jacob Barker paid for his service.

The Stewart Line

April 7, 2019 | fobafam

Some information on my grandmother’s (Vera Alene Stewart, 1905-2003) antecedents.

Schoolcraft Family Ties

March 31, 2019 | fobafam

A snippet from the Schoolcraft branch of the Barker line.

Bonus: My high school graduation get-up, 1979.

Nostalgic Pics

March 24, 2019 | fobafam

Old-time soft drink brands, and the bottles they came in.

My Barker grandparents’ kitchen in their Mt. Vernon, IL bungalow.

Another view. The door to the right went to the basement. The house had a sort of front and back parlor design; a little room behind a French door that you can see just on the left, was used for a bedroom/sewing room, but could have been used as a dining room. There were two “true” bedrooms, at either end of a little hall, and a front porch with a swing, the steps painted red.

A school project from the 1960s, East Elementary, Athens, OH.

Ramsey Ancestors

March 18, 2019 | fobafam

While given the reminder in New Zealand this week, of the tragic reach of religious intolerance and hatred, those of us descended from religious refugees can bear the American promise in mind, and strenghten it, when we find it within our power to do so.

The Wilhite group featured here arrived when Virginia was a possession of the British empire, probably from the Baden-Wurttemberg region of Germany.

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More Sweet Stuff

March 11, 2019March 11, 2019 | fobafam

Chocolate Chunk Blondies

1/3 cup butter, melted

1/3 cup sour cream

4 eggs

1 tsp vanilla

2/3 cup white sugar

2/3 cup brown sugar

1 cup flour

1 cup walnuts ground into meal

24 pcs Hershey Nuggets

1 cup white chocolate chips

1 tsp baking powder

½ tsp salt

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Instructions:

Mix butter, sour cream, eggs, vanilla, and sugar.

Make walnut meal by coarsely grinding English walnuts in the blender.

Add flour, baking powder, salt and walnut meal.

Pulse Hershey nuggets to various size chunks about 4 or 5 times, processing a handful at a time. Add to batter.

Add white chocolate chips.

Butter and flour a 13 x 9 baking pan and spread batter into it.

Bake at 350 degrees. Because ovens vary, begin checking for doneness at about 20 minutes. When golden brown and when a toothpick comes cleanly out of the center, remove from oven.