Tag: Timeline

January 14, 2018 Dennis Ayers

As with earlier depictions of ancestor lineages, I have used a timeline chart below, to show the life spans of each Jackson ancestor over the last three centuries. In the chart you can see Mathew Jackson, the last of the line who lived in England. He is followed in sequence by his son, William Jackson Sr, who was our immigrant ancestor to America arriving in the Virginia colony around 1679, and then by his son, John Ellis Jackson, and so forth.

 

As with previous lineages, to give a better perspective of when our Jackson ancestors lived across more than three centuries, I’ve added major wars to the timeline. As I continue to describe family stories of this Jackson lineage, you might find it useful to refer back to this chart to get a feel for the time period in which they lived.

 

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March 25, 2013 Dennis No comments exist

Note:  This is a January 2021 revision to the original post from 2013.

As with earlier depictions of ancestor lineages, I have used a timeline chart below, to show the life spans of each Depew ancestor over the last three centuries. In the chart you can see Walter (Gaultier) Depew on the left who was our ancestor living first in France and then England. He is followed in line by his son, John Walter Depew, who was our immigrant ancestor to America arriving in New Jersey, before the Revolutionary War, and then by his son John W. Depew Jr.,  and then his son Edward and so forth.

Dozens of dedicated researchers tried for many years to identify the parents of Isaac Newton Depew (IND), but without success due to lack of records. Circumstantial evidence of the right time period and the right location in East Tennessee seemed to point to a connection with the John W. Depew line, but without hard proof. Recently, however, I was able to use DNA forensic analysis to develop a very strong case that the connection was  through John W. Depew, Jr., and his son, Edward H. Depew. Although this analysis is still not absolute positive proof, it is still the best currently available identification without records. My DNA forensic analysis was based on the same approach and technology now being used by some law enforcement agencies to solve cold case crimes.

Again to give a better perspective of when our Depew ancestors lived across the three centuries, I’ve added major wars to the timeline. As I continue to describe family stories of this Depew lineage, you might find it useful to refer back to this chart to get a feel for the time period in which they lived.

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December 26, 2011 Dennis Ayers No comments exist

It has been suggested by a number of researchers that the Derryberry family living in North Carolina by 1778 were descendants of Michael Dürrenberger who may have come by way of Virginia. There is also a possibility that they might have descended from Dürrenbergers who came directly from Alsace or Switzerland to the Carolinas by way of Charleston. There is no direct evidence to support which of these theories is correct.  What is definitely known, however, is that DNA evidence now exists that proves the Derryberry line originated from the Alsatian/Swiss Dürrenbergers regardless of how they arrived in North Carolina.

 

After they first appear in North Carolina, it is difficult at best to determine which of the earliest Derryberrys are descended from whom. Records are scarce and the repetition of so many given names makes it necessary to use as much circumstantial evidence as possible to reconstruct relationships up through about 1850. However, thanks to the diligent work of other researchers like Don Cross and Bob Derryberry, a most likely set of family relationships has evolved and this is what I show on the Ayers-Derrie Family Tree website, and what forms the basis for the early years on the Derrie lineage shown below.

 

As with our Ayers lineage, I have used a timeline chart to show the life spans of each Derrie ancestor over the last three centuries.  In the chart, you can see the New Jersey ancestors in green on the left side, and then the North Carolina and beyond ancestors on the right side in blue.  I show a dotted line between Michael Dürrenberger of New Jersey and John Derryberry of North Carolina to indicate there are no actual records to tie them together, only DNA test results.

 

                                      Derrie Lineage Timeline — Click for a larger view

 

Again to give a better perspective of when they lived across the three centuries, I’ve added major historical events.  As I continue to describe family stories of this lineage, you might find it useful to refer back to this chart to get a feel for the time period in which they lived.

 

March 28, 2011 Dennis Ayers No comments exist

As it became clear that the Northern Ayers Line connects to the Southern Ayers Line, it also became possible to string together our entire Ayers lineage in North America.  To do this, I used a timeline chart to show the life spans of each ancestor over the last four centuries.  In the chart shown below, you can see the New England and New Jersey ancestors in Green on the left side, and then the Southern Ayers ancestors in blue on the right side.

Ayers Lineage Timeline — Click to get a larger view

The Southern Line starts with Nathaniel Ayers and I’ll be discussing him in my next post.  Note that I’m still showing a dotted line between John Ayers of New Jersey and Nathaniel Ayers to indicate there are no actual records to tie them together, only DNA test results.  The numbers next to each name indicate the generation back from myself shown at the very bottom.

 

To give a better perspective of time across the four centuries, I’ve added notations on the chart indicating when some major events or wars occurred.  From now on as I talk about each ancestor in the Southern line, you might want to refer back this chart to get a feel for the time period in which each lived.