A TIMELINE OF SOME OF THE MALE IMMIGRANTS OF THE MACKEY FAMILY

1624 JORIS RAPALJE FROM PARIS, FRANCE TO FORT ORANGE, ALBANY ON THE SHIP, UNITY 

1630 JOHN SEALS FROM SUFFOLK, ENGLAND TO NEW ENGLAND

1636 ALBERT BRADT FROM FREDRICKSTAD, NORWAY TO NEW AMSTERDAM

1639 TEUNIS NYSSEN FROM BUNNICK, GILDERLAND, HOLLAND TO NEW AMSTERDAM 

1655 ROELOFF SWARTWOUT FROM OURDE-KERK, AMSTERDAM, HOLLAND TO NEW AMSTERDAM

1664 BROERSEN DECKER FROM HUSOM, COPENHAGEN, DENMARK TO NEW NETHERLANDS ON THE SHIP, BLUE COCK

1675 BOURGON BROUCARD FROM MANHEIM, PALATINE, GERMANY TO BUSHWICK, NY

1682 PAULUS KUSTER FROM CREFIELD, GERMANY TO GERMANTOWN, PA, SHIP CONCORD

1682 ABRAHAM OP-DEN-GRAEF FROM CREFIELD, GERMANY TO GERMANTOWN, PA, SHIP CONCORD

1724 J. VALENTIN BERNTHAUSEL FROM BAD KREUZNACH, GERMANY TO PHILADELPHIA, PA, SHIP SAMUEL

1739 J. JACOB WILTENSENN FROM ALZEY, PALZ, GERMANY TO PHILADELPHIA, PA, SHIP JAMAICA GALLEY

C. 1740 WILLIAM MACKEY FROM INVERNESS, SCOTLAND TO PHILADELPHIA, PA

1853 JOSEPH MAUS FROM PORT HAVEN, GERMANY TO CASTLE GARDENS IN NEW YORK, SHIP NEW YORK

1853 AZARIA S. PHILLIPS FROM SOUTHERN WALES TO PENNSYLVANIA

Our Wilderson Line of Descent

Gottleib Wiltensinn was born about 1670 in Baden-Wurttenberg, Germany

Johannes J. Wiltensinn was born in 1690 near Alsey, Pfalz, Germany

John Jacob Wildasin was born in 1747 in Hanover, Lancaster, PA

Charles Wilderson was born in 1770 in Mannheim, York, PA

Henry Wilderson was born in 1811 in Mannheim, York, PA

Mary Ann Wilderson was born in 1849 in Newton, Trumbull, OH, our great grandmother who lived with her daughter, Cora Phillips,  in the Ellet district of Akron, Ohio before WWII.

The Wilderson Cemetery of Newton, Trumbull, Ohio, in the photograph above, holds the graves of Charles and Henry Wilderson and some of their family members and nearby neighbors. Mary Ann was buried in the cemetery of Niles, Ohio in Trumbull County, Ohio.

The Kuster/Custard Line of Descendants

Kuster, Reinhart 1592-1616 of Kaldenkirken, Germany

Kuster, Johannes 1576-1650 of Kaldenkirken, Germany

Kuester, Johannes 1606-1679 of Kaldenkirken Germany

Kuster, Paulus 1644-1708 of Krefeld, Germany, the emigrant to Germantown, PA

Kuster, Arnold 1667-1739 born in Kaldenkirken but lived in Pennsylvania most of his life

Custard, Conrad 1695-1772 of Germantown, moved to Brocks Gap, VA

Custard, William 1729-1806 of Philadelphia County and Pike County, PA

Custard, Jane 1752-1850 born in Sussex, NJ; lived most of her life in Harrison County, OH

Jane Custard married George Davis Brokaw, from another long line of ancestors in our family tree, as I showed you in a recent blog. The Kusters and Brokaws are our grandmother, Alma Spitzer's ancestors. 

OUR BROKAW LINE

We have seven generations of Brokaw/Broucard/Brouquart ancestor surnames, as follows:

Louis Brouquart, of Belgium, born 1620
Bourgeon Broucard, of Normandy, France, born 1645
John Broucard, of Flatbush, NY, born 1678
Abraham Brokaw, of Somerset, NJ, born 1728
George Davis Brokaw, of Somerset, NJ, born 1755
Abram Brokaw, of Somerset, NJ, born 1778
Mary Brokaw, of Harrison, OH, born 1815

Mary Brokaw, our great, great grandmother married John Morrison. Their daughter, Sarah Emeline Morrison married David C. Spitzer whose daughter, Alma Spitzer Mackey is our grandmother. 

OUR BARNHISEL LINE OF ANCESTORS

When I began my family research c. 1985, I knew only one great grandparent, Mary Ann Wilderson. I soon learned that her mother's maiden name was Rachel Barnhisel, the last name on our Barnhisel descendancy list below. I had the mistaken idea that Barnhisel was a very unusual name and that it would be a difficult name to find records for. When I visited my local Family History Center to begin my study of the Barnhisel surname, one of the volunteers heard me speak the name, Barnhisel, and said that John Milton Bernhisel was an important figure in the Mormon Church history. John was a good friend of the founder of the church, Joseph Smith, and was elected to be the church's representative in the United States Congress c. 1850s. You can imagine my surprise and pride in my "cousin" Bernhisel! From that point on, I found out that unusual names are the easiest kinds of names to find for the simple reason that there are fewer to find. Compare these kinds of names to having names like Smith, Jones, or Johnson to search for, for instance.

At the top of our Barnhisel list below, is the man who begins this surname. Hans Bernhard Hausele who was a butcher in Bad Kreuznach, Germany. According to Hans, he was not allowed to reveal his birthplace, former residence, or family background. These were the rules of the Butcher's Guild of which he was a member. It seems that eventually two of his names became combined, leaving out the "hard" part=Bernhausele. As I have mentioned many times, the spelling of surnames changed often, due to lack of education and various other reasons. So our list of Barnhisels reflects some of those changes.

Hausele, Hans Bernhard born aft. 1610, lived in Kreuznach, Germany d. 1670 Germ.
Bernthausel, Johann Martin 1651-1726 in Kreuznach, Rheinland, Germany
Bernthausel, Johann Valentin 1699 in Kreuznach; emigrated to PA; d. 1764 in Albany, PA
Bernthausel, Johann Martin 1729 in Klein-Neidesham, Germ; d. 1802 in Tyrone, PA
Barnhisel, Henry Adam 1776 in Albany, Berks, PA; d. 1824 in Girard, Trumbull, OH
Barnhisel, Martin 1799 in Tyrone, PA; d. 1875 in Wethersfield, Trumbull, OH
Barnhisel, Rachel 1823 in Wethersfield, Trumbull, OH; d. 1908 in Newton, OH

THE MACKEY LINE OF DESCENT

Our Mackey ancestry has been traced back to the birth of Jonathan Mackey who was born in the County Down of Ireland in 1615. Here is his list of descendants and their places of birth:

I. Johnathan Mackey  b.1615 County Down, Ireland
II. John Mackey unknown birth information
III. William Mackey  b. 1712   Inverness, Scotland
IV. Robert Mackey       b. 1750                     Maryland
V. William Mackey     b. 1803   Welsh Run, Franklin, PA
VI. James Mackey       b. 1830   Welsh Run, Franklin, PA
VII. Thomas Mackey   b. 1852   Galion, Crawford, OH
VIII. Guy Mackey        b. 1875   Galion, Crawford, OH
IX. Robert Mackey  b. 1908   New York City, NY, NY
X. Phillip Mackey        b. 1943   Akron, Summit, OH
XI. Gabriel Mackey b. 1988   Westerville, Franklin, OH

Most Irish and Scottish genealogists are in agreement that the 

words Mackay, Mackie, Mackey, etc. are Anglicization's of 

MacAoidh or son of Aoidh. The proper pronunciation sounds like 

eye or "McEye". When I began researching our ancestors in Galion,

Ohio the census takers had written our surname as McKey and

other variable ways of spelling the name. The prefix "Mac" means

 "son of ".

We also know that many Scotland people were sent to Ireland in the 1600s, our people among them. These people were called Scots-Irish by their neighbors in America, because of where they emigrated from in the 1700s. The "Scots-Irish" would have preferred to be called Scots or Scotch. They remained true to their Scottish upbringing even though they lived in Ireland for about a century. I am proud of my Scotch heritage!

The John and Judith (Dillingham) Shatswell Family

These ninth great grandparents from England are my last Mackey Family ancestors that I will tell you about, as I explained in an earlier post last month.  I will keep this blog page available for me to post stories about other collateral relatives and some other kinds of  genealogical material that I'll want to share with you occasionally.

John and Judith were both born in Ipswich, Essex, England and were married c. 1597 there. Here is the list of their children: 

1597 John
1600 Elizabeth
1601 Sybil
1602 Richard
1605 Mary
1608 Theophilus
1609 Curwin
1612 William
1613 Margaret, our ancestor
1614 Judith


Neptune Marina Quay, Ipswich

During the 14th to 17th centuries Ipswich was a kontor for the Hanseatic League, the port being used for imports and exports to the Baltic. In the time of Queen Mary the Ipswich Martyrs were burnt at the stake on the Cornhill for their Protestant beliefs. A monument commemorating this event now stands in Christchurch Park. From 1611 to 1634 Ipswich was a major center for emigration to New England.

JOHN SHATSWELL
BORN: abt 1574 in Ipswich, Essex, England
DIED: Unknown

JUDITH DILLINGHAM
BORN: 1578 in Ipswich, Essex, England
DIED: abt 1617 in Sibbertoft, Northamptonshire, England
SOURCES: In an article by David A. Macdonald titled "A new look at the Corwin and Shatswell Families" in the Register (NEHGR) 150:180 (Ap r 1996). Discusses a Chancery court proceeding in 1627 against the administrator of the estate of widow Judith Shatswell of Sibbertoft, Northhamptonshire, England, who had died more than a decade earlier. There is reference to "two of ye uncles and neere kinsemen". So it looks like we can say that Mary (Shatswell) (Webster) Emery was from Sibbertoft, and her mother was named Judith; DEATH:The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, The New England Historic Genealogical Society; GENERAL:Pedigree Resource File CD 4, Pedigree Resource File CD 4, (Salt Lake City, UT: Intellectual Reserve, Inc., 1999) !GENERAL:Pedigree Resource File CD 3, Pedigree Resource File CD 3, (Salt Lake City, UT: Intellectual Reserve, Inc., 1999) !GENERAL:Ancestral File (TM), Ancestral File (TM), The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, June 1998 (c), data as of 5 JAN 1998 Repository: Family History Library 35 N West Temple Street, Salt Lake City, UT 84150 USA !GENERAL:Pedigree Resource File CD 5, Pedigree Resource File CD 5, (Salt Lake City, UT: Intellectual Reserve, Inc., 1999) !GENERAL:Ancestral File (TM), Ancestral File (TM), The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, June 1998 (c), data as of 5 JAN 1998 Repository: Family History Library 35 N West Temple Street, Salt Lake City, UT 84150 USA !GENERAL:The New England Historical and Genealogic al Register, The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, The New England Historic Genealogical Society;Ancestry Family Tree; Essex County, Massachusetts Probate Records Supplement, 1644 - 1691; Ref: LDS Archive Family Group Sheet