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From: "Cathy Berger" <>
Subject: Re: [DE-OLDSWEDES] List Future
Date: Sat, 5 Aug 2000 08:50:20 -0400
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Have you contacted Dr Peter Craig about your Stilles? He did a booklet on
the family.

Cathy
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Subject: Re: [DE-OLDSWEDES] List Future


> Antoinette, are your Stiddem's related to Stille's? I am a Still/Stille
> descendant who is having some trouble making the connection to the
original
> Delaware Stille settlers. My great grandfather and grandmother always
told
> us we were descended from them, but no family Bible old enough exists to
> complete the trail. I think I have a one-to-three generation missing
piece
> between the 1693 Stilles (from an old census) and the 1837 Stills of my
> family. The five generations that I have been able to track from current
> generation back have all been born in Delaware.
>
> I have been told that at least one of the original Delaware Stilles
married a
> Stiddem. Yours?
>
> Karen Carter
> ...daughter of Gertrude Clarke (b. 1923)
> ...granddaughter of Jennie Minerva Still (b. 1903)
> ...great granddaughter of George Joseph Still (b. 1873)
> ...great great granddaughter of William H. Still. (b. abt. 1837)
>
> Jennie had a sister named Gertrude; George had three brothers named
> Alexander, William H., Jr., and Harry. If you have Stilles or Stills or
> Stilleys, do any of these names repeat suggesting family connections?
>
> In a message dated 8/4/00 1:29:59 PM Mountain Daylight Time,

> writes:
>
> << Thank you for keeping the list going and activated. I descend through
> many a
> line from Delaware - and the old swede's <grin> -- Sinex/Sinnickson,
> Tossawa/Tussey, Stiddem, Werdman, Harmonsen etc for a few.
> Antoinette
>
>
> >>
>
>

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