Today in my database : Mary Crosby (b. December 4, 1629)

Today's featured relative in my database is my maternal 10th-great grandmother, Mary Crosby.

Mary was born December 4, 1629 at Holme-on-Spradling, Yorkshire, England. Mary married January 16, 1646/47 at Rowley, Essex Co., MA to Nicholas Longhorne. Nicholas was born 1622 in Yorkshire, England and died February 12, 1687/88 in Haverhill, Essex Co., MA. Mary died November 29, 1667 in Rowely, Essex Co., MA.

I descend from Nicholas and Mary (Crosby) Longhorne through their daughter, Elizabeth, as follows:
Mary Crosby and Nicholas Longhorne
Elizabeth Longhorne and Abraham Hazeltine
Bethiah Hazeltine and Thomas Spofford
Elizabeth Spofford and Bennett Field
Bethiah Field and Seth Pierce
Gordon Pierce and Thirsa Smalley
Francis S. Pierce and Rebecca Page
Edmund G. Pierce and Catherine Groenendyke
William Francis Pierce and Clara Pennisten
Edna Muriel Pierce and Virgil Lee Wright (my great-grandparents)

Updating FindAGrave Memorial Pages

Today I spent a little bit of time updating and adding a few memorial pages to FindAGrave. If you haven't checked out that site, I would encourage you to do so. Right now, my plans are to continue to add memorial pages for as many relatives as I can and request photos of their tombstones. So far, I've had success with photographs of tombstones as far away as Massachusetts and Iowa.

Kahre Connections

After working recently on another line for my daughter, I stumbled upon a WorldConnect database that had quite a bit of information on the Kahre family. I posted a "Post-Em" but have not received a reply. Much of the information appears to have come from a book entitled "The Kahre Connection" by J. Elwyn Kahre. A Google search turned up the title on Amazon.com but it was listed as unavailable.

My daughter's maternal 4th-great grandmother was Anna Maria Louisa Catherine Kahre, born April 25, 1840 in Kummerdingsen, Westphalia and died October 11, 1915 in Evansville, Vanderburgh Co., IN. She was the daughter of Heinrich Wilhelm and Marie Caroline Wilhelmina (Korff) Kahre. She married Karl Louis/Ludwig Ritt on July 28, 1864 in Vanderburgh Co., IN.

I will take the information from this database with a grain of salt, but it does give quite a few interesting clues - and traces the Kahre line back into the late 1690's.