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From: David Edwin Bell <>
Subject: Re: [CALVERT] Calvert FTDNA project underway...Reminder
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 14:52:43 GMT


Hi Catherine:

Clare is certainly distinct. The use of this name in my family appears to have occurred 3 or 4 times. I have yet to discover why. Another usage is the middle name Beck. This also would intimate a usage of a Surname but the origin remains undiscovered(Though with obvious implications). I do believe that my family does have a potential direct connection to the Calverts that end up in KY, namely via a William Calvert. This remains a tenuous thread and a matter of research which
I have just now begun. I previously had not thought that any of my ancestors ended up in KY until the late 19th century. It now appears that I need change my view on this and have begun looking at Allen County and others to familiarize myself with the families there.

Another associate family researcher has looked at the Clare middle name usage as well. It brings to point these potential factors:
1. The County Clare, Ire.
2. The English Surname, Clare (or Scot).

The use of the middle name Gallatin. I have not found a tie to this family surname so believe that it was for Albert who was famous and in politics and a Presidents Cabinet. Albert Gallatin Calvert b 1830
represented his district in the writing of the WV Constitution and was a State Representative. God, the relatives burned all of his books and papers when he died. Sheesh. A letter from family says that AG had a wagon load of books and documents and papers that lined the cabin house walls on shelves.

Let me know if you have any succinct concept of the Clare surname.
The Beck connection would appear to be very indicative of tying my
family to those of Virginia. And keep in mind that John D Calvert, B 1804, told a Greene Co. PA Newspaper in 1881, that the family was from Bucks and Lancaster, England.

David


-- Catherine Calvert <> wrote:
I don't think my family ties up with yours, but I am interested in the
"clare" name in your family--as names often repeat, and my grandfather
was Wallace Clare Calvert (a Kentuckian).
On 27 Feb 2004, at 04:47, wrote:

> This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list.
>
> Surnames: Calvert Colbert (Calvert - sic) Harris Harrison Alias
> Harrison/Harris
> Classification: Query
>
> Message Board URL:
>
> http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/WQH.2ACEB/1054
>
> Message Board Post:
>
> Once again I am posting that if you or you know of a Male of direct
> Calvert Descent for any Calvert Colbert (sic), Harris &
> Harrison(Aliases of especially), Please contact me as soon as
> possible. I believe we have 17 participants to date and more pending.
> We also have a list of willing contributors to assist with the cost of
> the test if necessary....cost is 169.00 per kit.
>
> There are Several Family lines which interest me greatly, but two of
> those which are not directly represented are
> John Calvert b 1666 who married Esther Jones and John Calvert b 1777
> who married a Mary? There are many more lines but specifically the
> descendents of George b 1668 who married Elizabeth Doyne or William
> Calvert b1643 who married Elizabeth Stone.
>
> A bit more recent in time would be Descendents of Aaron Calvert of
> this Calvert family of Gurnsey, CO OH, John Colbert who married
> Catherine Lynn but he was a Calvert...particularly if your family line
> is adjacent t to the Colberts in VA or PA and another locale of
> special interest is of the families coming out of Virginia especially
> Culpeper, Prince William, Fairfax, Loudoun Counties.
>
> In PA Washington, Fayette, Greene and Butler counties may provide us
> with succinct clues. Also the John B 1777 lived in Mifflin County.
>
> Other Calverts who might be noted as important are those family lines
> of Chester such as John, Daniel Isaac etc. There is in particular a
> John Calvert of Chester who was not a descendent of those Calverts of
> Ireland nor was he Quaker and it appears he, according to
> Hollingsworth researchers of this Quaker migration, was a descendent
> of Maryland Calverts.
>
> Of those there are many but less well known:
>
> ALexander Calvert who married Mary Wheeler in Somerset Co MD, or any
> of his sons, including William Wheeler, Isaac and Alexander Neal.
>
> I know there are more out there who have not done a Calvert DNA study.
> If you can help, please advise. If you have already had a DNA test
> done, that information and a family descent to ponder would be very
> helpful to all of use who have reached roadblocks in tracing our
> ancestry.
>
> My known Ancestors are:
>
> Isaac Calvert b c1747 VA? MD? married Faney Bullet
> Thomas Clare Calvert Sr b1769 VA m1 Anna Ewing(s)
> Thomas Clare Calvert Jr b1808 PA m Elizabeth Johnson
> Albert Gallatin b1830 VA m Mary A. Polly Cain
> John Ewing Calvert b1856 WV m Martha Lemasters
> Arthur Clay Calvert b1876 m1-4, 4, Amanda Sylvesta Rose
>
> Arthur was my Grandfather. I surely have good culprits for the father
> and grandfather of Isaac but no proof and it follows 3 separate paths.
>
> If you need to know about an ancestry, reply to this message with whom
> and where and when. It might help us find a DNA contributor.
>
> Regards, David Bell
>
>
>
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