Nunn Other Than

This is the last of the names to add at the 2x great level (well, except for the dead ends).  Next week I’ll be moving to 3x great level.  I’ve been eager to get my lines out into the internet in case someone else is researching and can offer up information.  Soon, though, I’ll need to assess what I’ve accomplished and what my new objectives will be.

Mary Nunn, my great-great-grandmother was born (in 1826), was married and died in Lycoming County, PA.  Her parents were Aaron Nunn and Ann Hall.  (I’m guessing her mother connects to my Lycoming Hall line, but I ran into some issues--i.e., conflicting data--with my Hall research, so I haven’t pursued that further.)  Her parents were both Pennsylvania born and bred, but I believe Aaron came to Lycoming County from Northumberland. Aaron died in 1870 of lung fever--tuberculosis.  I hadn’t found anyone in the Federal Census Mortality Schedules before so that was an interesting find.

Born in 1794, Aaron was the only child of Thomas Nunn who was born in New Jersey and migrated to Pennsylvania before the Revolutionary War.  He was involved in the Great Runaway and returned to New Jersey for a time.  So many families in my line were involved in the Great Runaway, I wonder if the bonds that developed were part of the reason these lines merged—or was there just a small population and not many alternatives?  With how transient my era and my geographic region are, it has amazed me to see these concentrations of ancestors in only a few areas.

The Lycoming County Historical Society didn’t have anything on my Nunn line, and this everything reliable I’ve turned up online.  It’s not much, but I probably want to conclude my research assessment before I spend much more time on the Nunn line.

In Search of the Right Hall

At the 2x great level, more maternal lines are added in and there is less information and more dead ends.  At the 1x great level I could still follow the additional maternal lines back into the mid-1700s---and some even further, but now when they split for paternal/maternal lines, I’m finding it to be much more difficult to be an armchair genealogist.

Today I’m writing about the Hall family.  Margaret Hall, my great-great-grandmother, was born in 1813 in Lycoming County.  She married a fellow Lycoming Countian, Jacob Klees.  Lycoming County is filled with ancestors from my mom’s side of the family.  Many Halls appear on the 1873 map I wrote about last month, near various members of the Gortner and Klees families.

The Halls were relatively easy to find in the censuses throughout 1800s.  Margaret’s parents, were Jonathan Hall and Mary Marsh.  In addition to finding them in the census, I found them in the Family Data Collection on ancestry.com.  I wasn’t familiar with this collection and researched it a bit only to discover some controversy with it.  Still, I may have picked up some potentially useful information, including Jonathan’s birth date in 1788 and marriage year of 1812, along with his parent’s names.  I also found a transcription of an 1812 marriage announcement for Jonathan and Polly Marsh.  That was when I found out Polly is a nickname for Mary.  Funny, I never knew that before.

According to the Family Data Collection, Jonathan’s father was Richard Hall and his mother’s name was Mary.  But, I received information from the Lycoming County Historical Society that indicates his mother was Sarah Burrows. But, information from two books on archive.org, indicate Jonathan was the son of Richard Hall and Margaret Rogers.  Well, I think I have to go with the Historical Society because they have Richard Hall’s will from 1849. It lists his wife Sarah (Burroughs), his sons, Jonathan, James and Joseph, and his daughters, Elizabeth, w/o Samuel Hall and Susannah w/o William Ramsey.  I’m guessing there are several Richard Halls I should sort out.

Wish me luck.

Mappy Monday: Muncy, Lycoming County, Pennsylvania

When I was researching the Klees line, I spotted Gortners as neighbors in the censuses.  In 1870, the John Gortner family was on pages 15 & 16 of the Muncy Township census and the Jacob Klees family was on page 17.  My great-grandmother Sarah Gortner was 10 and my great-grandfather, Henry Klees, was 17.  They were married in 1883.

It was fascinating then to see them as neighbors (J. Kleese and J. Gordner) in Huntersville, Muncy Township on this 1873 map of Lycoming County, PA.:

Historic Map: Muncy, Muncy Creek, Pennsville, Atlas: Lycoming County 1873, Pennsylvania - Historic Map Works, Residential Genealogy ™

I'll be posting about the Gortners later this week.