Tuesday, February 04, 2014
Sunday, February 02, 2014
Mary "Polly"
Saturday, February 01, 2014
James Dean #CousinOfTheWeek
James Dean was born February 8, 1931, in Marion, Indiana, to Winton and Mildred Dean. His father, a dental technician, moved the family to Los Angeles when Jimmy was five. He returned to the Midwest after his mother passed away and was raised by his aunt and uncle on their Indiana farm. After graduating from high school, he returned to California where he attended Santa Monica Junior College and UCLA. James Dean began acting with James Whitmore's acting workshop, appeared in occasional television commercials, and played several roles in films and on stage. In the winter of 1951, he took Whitmore's advice and moved to New York to pursue a serious acting career. He appeared in seven television shows, in addition to earning his living as a busboy in the theater district, before he won a small part in a Broadway play entitled See the Jaguar.
In a letter to his family in Fairmount in 1952, he wrote:
"I have made great strides in my craft. After months of auditioning, I am very proud to announce that I am a member of the Actors Studio. The greatest school of the theater. It houses great people like Marlon Brando, Julie Harris, Arthur Kennedy, Mildred Dunnock...Very few get into it, and it is absolutely free. It is the best thing that can happen to an actor. I am one of the youngest to belong. If I can keep this up and nothing interferes with my progress, one of these days I might be able to contribute something to the world." [He worked with Arthur Kennedy in "See the Jaguar"; he would later star with Julie Harris in "East of Eden" and Mildred Dunnock in "Padlocks," a 1954 episode of the CBS television program "Danger."] Dean continued his study at the Actors Studio, played short stints in television dramas, and returned to Broadway in "The Immoralist" (1954). This last appearance resulted in a screen test at Warner Brothers for the part of Cal Trask in the screen adaptation John Steinbeck's novel "East of Eden." He then returned to New York where he appeared in four more television dramas. After winning the role of Jim Stark in 1955's "Rebel Without A Cause," he moved to Hollywood
James Byron Dean is my 18th cousin.
You
→ Mom
your mother → Pvt. Garnett Hancock, WWII Veteran
her father → Burrell H Hancock
his father → Samuel Austin Hancock
his father → Peter Hancock, CSA Soldier
his father → John Hancock 1785
his father → Benjamin Hancock 1759
his father → unknown
his parent → Benjamin Hancock
his/her father → John Hancock
his father → William Hancock, III
his father → Elizabeth Hancock
his mother → William Nicholas Spencer, Sr
her father → Nicholas Spencer, I
his father → Rose Cokayne
his mother → Chad Cockayne
her father → Catherine Cockayne
his mother → Sir John Savage V, K.B., K.G.
her father → Ellen Legh
his sister → Sir Piers Legh, of Lyme and Haydock
her son → Jane Legh, of Lyme
his daughter → Thomas Garrett
her son → Thomas Garrett
his son → John Garrett
his son → Francis Garrett
his son → Dennis Garrett
his son → Johanna Cole (Garrett)
his daughter → Joseph Cole
her son → Sarah Chamness
his daughter → Martha Hussey (Chamness)
her daughter → Christopher Hussey
her son → Sarah Williams
his daughter → Betty Smithson
her daughter → Adeline Woollen
her daughter → Emma Dean
her daughter → Winton A Dean
her son → James Byron Dean
his son
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Dean
Friday, January 31, 2014
How is Selena related to Justin? #trivia
Selena Marie Gomez is Justin Drew Bieber's first cousin 21 times removed's husband's 21st great granddaughter.
Justin Drew Bieber
→ P. Mallette
his mother → D. Dale
her mother → V. Henry
her father → Marguerite Louse Babin
his mother → Charlotte Babin
her mother → Marie-Élisabeth Poirier
her mother → Élisabeth-Charlotte Arseneault
her mother → Jean Baptiste Arseneault
her father → Marguerite Bujold
his mother → Joseph Bujold
her father → Elisabeth Melancon
his mother → Marie-Marguerite-Anne Mius d'Entremont
her mother → Philippe Virginie Mius d'Entremont
her father → Béatrice Coligny d'Entremont
his mother → Gaspard II de Coligny, comte de Coligny
her father → Louise Marie de Montmorency
his mother → Anne Pot
her mother → Guy de Pot, baron de Saint Pol
her father → Jacques Pot
his father → Catarina d'Anguissola
his mother → Beatrice Visconti
her mother → Galeazzo II Visconti, duca di Milano
her father → Bernabò Visconti, signore di Milano
his brother → Donnina Visconti
his daughter → Sir John Hawkwood
her husband → Antiocha Hawkwood
his daughter → Alice Coggeshall
her daughter → Thomas Tyrell
her son → Elizabeth Tyrrel
his daughter → Anne Darcy
her daughter → Sir Thomas Moyle, Speaker of the House of Commons
her son → Anne (Amy) Moyle
his daughter → George Kempe
her son → Sarah Jane Julian Shipp
his daughter → Mary Stott
her daughter → John Stott, Sr
her son → Mary Callahan
his daughter → Darby Callahan
her son → Edward "Red Ned" Callahan
his son → Zelphia Cornett
his daughter → Samuel Brack Cornett
her son → Laborn Cornett
his son → John William Cornett
his son → Wallace Frederick Cornett
his son → Ernest William Cornett, Sr.
his son → D. Cornett
his son → A. Teefey
his daughter → Selena Marie Gomez
her daughter
Thursday, January 30, 2014
Shut up Peg! Why is the name Peggy short for Margaret?
“Margaret” has spawned a bewildering variety of nicknames, from “Margot” to “Daisy.”
The name itself is a variant of the obsolete word “margarite,” meaning “pearl” or “precious stone.” It is apparently of ancient Asian origin, filtered through Greek, Latin, Teutonic and Old French.
It became a very popular given name in medieval England and Scotland, where it was conventionally taken to mean “pearl.”
Since “Margaret” is quite a mouthful, nicknames soon spun off from it. Perhaps the strangest is “Daisy.” It’s a pun dating to a time when “margaret” was also an English slang term for the ox-eye daisy. It became an independent first name during the 1900s fad for flower-based names.
More common were such shortenings and diminutions as “Maggie,” “Meggie” and “Meg.” Some etymologists say that the diminutive “Maggie” form came first, with “Meg” following as a shortened form; others say the shortened form “Meg” came first, with “Maggie” and “Meggie” following as diminutive forms. Nobody really knows.
What we do know is that “Peg” is an altered form of “Meg,” and “Peggy” is an altered form of “Meggie.”
“Meggie” and “Meg” were distinctively Scottish nicknames, so “Peg” and “Peggy” probably were, too.
But no one knows why the “M” was changed to a “P.” (A theory about Celtic-language influence has proven fruitless.) They are similar consonant sounds; maybe the change was inspired by a nonsense-rhyme nickname like “Meggy-Peggy.”
Interestingly, the same morphology can be seen in nicknames for “Mary.” “Molly” is a pet form of “Mary”; “Polly” is a variant form of “Molly,” with the “M” also mysteriously changed to a “P.”
It’s unusual for a nickname to become an independent first name by itself. But “Peg” and “Peggy” have done so (apparently first occurring in the U.S.), no doubt aided by their lack of clear connection to “Margaret.”
http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20060818052837AAz7m9H
The name itself is a variant of the obsolete word “margarite,” meaning “pearl” or “precious stone.” It is apparently of ancient Asian origin, filtered through Greek, Latin, Teutonic and Old French.
It became a very popular given name in medieval England and Scotland, where it was conventionally taken to mean “pearl.”
Since “Margaret” is quite a mouthful, nicknames soon spun off from it. Perhaps the strangest is “Daisy.” It’s a pun dating to a time when “margaret” was also an English slang term for the ox-eye daisy. It became an independent first name during the 1900s fad for flower-based names.
More common were such shortenings and diminutions as “Maggie,” “Meggie” and “Meg.” Some etymologists say that the diminutive “Maggie” form came first, with “Meg” following as a shortened form; others say the shortened form “Meg” came first, with “Maggie” and “Meggie” following as diminutive forms. Nobody really knows.
What we do know is that “Peg” is an altered form of “Meg,” and “Peggy” is an altered form of “Meggie.”
“Meggie” and “Meg” were distinctively Scottish nicknames, so “Peg” and “Peggy” probably were, too.
But no one knows why the “M” was changed to a “P.” (A theory about Celtic-language influence has proven fruitless.) They are similar consonant sounds; maybe the change was inspired by a nonsense-rhyme nickname like “Meggy-Peggy.”
Interestingly, the same morphology can be seen in nicknames for “Mary.” “Molly” is a pet form of “Mary”; “Polly” is a variant form of “Molly,” with the “M” also mysteriously changed to a “P.”
It’s unusual for a nickname to become an independent first name by itself. But “Peg” and “Peggy” have done so (apparently first occurring in the U.S.), no doubt aided by their lack of clear connection to “Margaret.”
http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20060818052837AAz7m9H
Tuesday, January 28, 2014
Rubie Irene Nichols Hancock #TombstoneTuesday
She was born in Floyd County and was a daughter of the late Rufus Samuel and Mamie Collins Nichols.
She was also preceded in death by a sister, Hazel Woods.She was retired from the dietary department at Blue Ridge Nursing Center and was a member of Trinity Baptist Church.
Graveside services were conducted Monday at Trinity Baptist Church. Memorial contributions may be made to Trinity Baptist Church Cemetery Fund, c/o Paul Holt. Arrangements were by Moody Funeral Home in Stuart.
Monday, January 27, 2014
#MysteryMonday #MysteryoftheWeek Millie Vaughan Bourne
My mystery of the week is Midred Vaughan Bourne, wife of William Emmett Bourne. She is my Great Great Grandmother.
http://www.geni.com/people/MILLIE-BOURNE/6000000022275970076
http://www.geni.com/people/MILLIE-BOURNE/6000000022275970076
Why are there so many Johns in the family tree???
According to the English naming scheme... The scheme goes first son after father of father, second after father of mother, third after father's oldest brother, and so on; the girls were named the same only after mothers.
http://genforum.genealogy.com/turner/messages/16119.html
http://genforum.genealogy.com/turner/messages/16119.html
Saturday, January 25, 2014
#FotoOpFriday My Heritage Family Crest
Here is a nifty little crest I made.
You can make one too at www.MyHeritage.com
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