The Great Migration of Canada ~ This Bramble Bush

   52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks 2021: Week 14 (GREAT)

When I thought about GREAT I immediately thought about the great grandparents that make up this Bramble Bush. 

In searching for the biggest great I started clicking through the top of our lines. I discovered I am only up to about 5th or 6th greats on most of our lines.

 When I first started searching I hit several brick walls. By adding extended family I was able to break through those early brick walls. I decided then that I would not race to the top. I would make sure I added as many family connections as I could before going higher. 

It seems I need to refocus on going higher before going any wider. 

In pondering what else I wanted to write about I stumbled upon THE GREAT MIGRATION OF CANADA, 1815-1850. 

I was intrigued to learn that over 400,000 British citizens left their homes to move to Canada.

What an adventure that must have been. They bravely set off for a land they knew nothing about. After many days at sea they traveled across a new land in search of their new home. 

Their journey resulted in this family calling itself CANADIAN. Their courage and hopes resulted in this Bramble Bush being rooted solidly in Canada.

What a gift I was given by these early immigrants who braved all to come to Canada. 

Each had a story that I do not know, but wish I could have asked before it was too late. 

I was intrigued by a group of Bayes siblings who immigrated to Canada within THE GREAT MIGRATION timeline.

Samuel & Elizabeth had 10 children.  Their children were aged 8 months to 16 when Samuel died.

7 of their children immigrated to Canada: Rosemond, John Christmas, Mary, Ann, Samuel,  Solomon, James (Joseph). One stayed in England: Elizabeth. Two I have not been able to confirm yet: Rebecca & Celia.  

Rebecca and her husband (James Hewitt) appear to have stayed in England, but their daughter was married in Canada when she was 22.

In looking at the movement from England to Canada it's clear the family members moved at different times. I haven't yet found the arrival dates for most of them.  They all ended up in the same general area. Some were married in England before coming to Canada, and some married in Canada. It appears as though not all of the members of this family immigrated to Canada, but a reasonably exhaustive search hasn't yet happened to make this conclusion. 

There are more branches of this Bramble Bush who arrived from Britain during THE GREAT MIGRATION OF CANADA.

This one family is on my maternal grandmother's paternal side.

THE BAYES FAMILY 

The Parents

Samuel Bayes
BIRTH ABT. AUG 1778 • Thornage, Norfolk, England
DEATH 21 JUL 1818 • Hunworth, Norfolk, , England
and
Elizabeth Alexander Saunders
BIRTH ABT 1784 • , Norfolk, England
DEATH JANUARY 1866 • Burgh, Norfolk, England, UK

The Children

Rosemond Bayes
BIRTH 11 SEP 1801 • Edgefield, Norfolk, England
DEATH 4 JAN 1896 • Haldimand, Northumberland, Ontario, Canada

Rebecca Bayes
BIRTH 10 FEB 1803 • Thornage, Norfolk, , England
DEATH Unknown

John Christmas Bayes
BIRTH DEC 1804 • King’s Lynn, Norfolk, England
DEATH 3 NOV 1877 • Peel, Ontario, Canada

Mary Bayes
BIRTH 6 SEP 1806 • Hunworth, Norfolk, England
DEATH 4 JAN 1896 • Haldimand, Northumberland, Ontario, Canada

Ann Bayes
BIRTH 22 JAN 1809 • Hunworth, Norfolk, England
DEATH 1852 • Hamilton, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Celia Bayes
BIRTH 23 SEP 1810 • Hunworth, Norfolk, England
DEATH Unknown

Samuel Bayes
BIRTH 3 APR 1812 • Hunworth, Norfolk, , England
DEATH 20 NOV 1884 • Bidwell, Algoma, Ontario, Canada

Elizabeth Bayes
BIRTH 2 JAN 1814 • Hunworth, Norfolk, England
DEATH DEC 1878 • Holt, Aylsham, Norfolk, England

Solomon Bayes
BIRTH 26 NOV 1815 • Hunworth, Norfolk, , England
DEATH 25 OCT 1882 • Northumberland, , Ontario, Canada

James (Joseph) Bayes
BIRTH NOV 1817 • Norfolk, , England
DEATH 4 MAY 1897 • Forest, Lambton, Ont.

Solomon Bayes is my 4th great grandfather. He was 26 years old when he married 18 year old Mary in Canada. Mary was also born in England. I have not found the date of her arrival in Canada, but she immigrated with her parents and the majority of her siblings. 

Mary Ann Tuck
BIRTH 15 JAN 1823 • Sharrington, Norfolk, England
DEATH 28 JAN 1908 • Cramahe, Northumberland County, Ontario, Canada

Her parents:

James Tuck
BIRTH 19 JAN 1791 • Sharrington, Norfolk, England
DEATH 13 JAN 1881 • Cramahe Township, Northumberland, Ontario, Canada
&
Martha Bolter
BIRTH ABT 1788 • Norwich, Norfolk, England
DEATH 24 NOV 1883 • Northumberland, Ontario, Canada

I will never know the story firsthand of how my people decided to journey to Canada or how difficult their decision & journey was. 

I will always be grateful that I was born into a world where I was safe & free. Their efforts were not squandered by those who came after them.

Grateful to be Canadian!

This is why I search - 



Cause ... 





You can pick your friends, but you can't pick your family you know!
















***Any errors are my own. Please send me any updates or corrections via the comments at the bottom of this blog post***




Sources:

Exodus: Movement of the People Conference, The Great Migration of Canada. Retrieved April 9th 2021 from https://www.exodus2013.co.uk/the-great-migration-of-canada/

Intriguing History, The Great Migration of Canada saw one of the biggest movements of people around the globe1. Retrieved April 9th 2021 from
https://intriguing-history.com/great-migration-of-canada/

xtimeline, 1815-1850 The Great Migration, Retrieved April 9th 2021 from
http://www.xtimeline.com/timeline/Events-leading-up-to-Canadian-Confederacy/1815-1850-The-Great-Migration-1

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When Two Lines Become One ~ Clarissa (nee Buchner) Rittenour

52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks: 2020 Week 11 (LUCK)

When I made my first tree on Ancestry in 2013 I didn't use the best research techniques. I hadn't yet taken a genealogy course so didn't have any idea what a reasonably exhaustive search meant. I began adding people willy nilly to my tree without any regard to whether the facts fit. The only thing I looked for was the same name. I had no idea that there was anything wrong with my tree. 


Then one day I realized that I had one set of parents with 40 children. I knew that many of the families back then were pretty prolific,  Did they really name 4 of their children John?  Was it a nickname?  Did the older one die, and the younger given the same name?  Nope - I had added the same John 4 times. I had also done the exact same thing with his 9 siblings. 


I then began looking at my tree with a closer attention to detail. I had children born after their parents died. I had children married to their parents & grandparents. I had multiple marriages for the same person. I had the same child with both their birth name and nickname, and sometimes multiple nicknames. Things were a real mess. 


The only excuse I might be able to use is that I was recovering from surgery when I made that tree. I had purchased an all access membership to assist with my 6 week recovery time thinking that I would be too obsessed to want to leave my resting position for the entire 6 weeks. It was the first time I had paid for access for genealogy research. No one had warned me this would be my gateway. I really was like a kid in a candy store - racing from one shaky green leaf to the next. I had thought Ancestry wouldn't give me hints that didn't actually fit. It was a rude awakening when I discovered those 40 children for one couple many weeks after my successful recovery and return to work.


I tried to fix the errors, but in the end it became too much and I started over after deleting my tree.  Although I still ended up with some errors there were a lot less once I began carefully considering details before adding a new person.


It was several years later that I was working on my father-in-law's maternal side of the family tree when the shaky green leaf presented Clarissa Buchner married to George W Rittenour. Clarissa & George are my husband's 4th great grandparents via his father' maternal line. My father-in-law's paternal line is Buchner, and LUCKILY I listened to my instincts that the name Clarissa Buchner was familiar to me. 


A quick search of my tree in a second search tab, and voila I found that Clarissa's parents were my husband's 4th great grandparents via his father's paternal line, and Clarissa with husband George was already in my tree. 


This was the first time that I discovered a relative already in the tree was connected via a different family line. Since then I have found several on my mother's maternal line.


The lucky discovery is outlined below:


My husband's:
4th great grandparents via his father' paternal line
&
5th great grandparents via his father's maternal line
are:
Jacob Buchner
BIRTH 31 MAY 1763 • Hardwick Twp., Sussex, New Jersey, USA
DEATH 11 AUG 1841 • Woodhouse, Norfolk County, Ontario
and
Catherine Shelar (Shuler) (Schuler)
BIRTH 20 SEP 1767 • Sussex County, New Jersey

DEATH 8 FEB 1855 • Woodhouse, Norfolk County, Ontario

  
His two  lines descend through siblings (bold, underline & italics below)

3rd great grandparents
Jacob Clasnor Buchner
BIRTH 20 APR 1803 • Woodhouse Twp, Norfolk County , Ontario, Canada
DEATH 29 JUN 1886 • Houghton Twp, Norfolk County , Ontario, Canada
&
Amy Catherine Matthews
BIRTH ABT 1801 • Woodhouse, Ontario
DEATH 10 MAR 1880 • Cultus, Norfolk County, Ontario, Canada

4th great grandparents
Clarissa Buchner
BIRTH 1815 • Norfolk County, Ontario, Canada
DEATH 1898 • Wheeler Twp, Michigan, USA
&
George W Rittenour
BIRTH 1801 • Ohio, USA
DEATH 6 OCT 1874 • Ontario, Canada


My husband's 4th great grandmother via his father's maternal line, and his 4th great aunt via his father's paternal line!

Clarissa (nee Buchner) Rittenour

Lakefield Cemetery, Saginaw County, Michigan, United States of America

In our BRAMBLE BUSH FAMILY TREE on Ancestry I use a DNA symbol as the profile photo of the confirmed through a descendant match.

This line resulted in the creation of a new symbol (combining the two DNA strands normally used to track each line into one photo). 

Father's paternal and maternal line

When two lines become one the potential relatives reduce greatly, but DNA matching becomes a bit more complicated!







This is why I search - 



Cause ... 





You can pick your friends, but you can't pick your family you know!
















***Any errors are my own. Please send me any updates or corrections via the comments at the bottom of this blog post***







Links:

Amy Johnson Crow, 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks Challenge
https://www.amyjohnsoncrow.com/

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Please & Thank you!

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