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From: "Norah & Lennie Collins" <>
Subject: Re: [LDR] GORDY FAMILIES OF DELAWARE AND MARYLAND
Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2011 21:20:16 -0400
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HI,
MARIETTA GORDY MARRIED JOSEPH W HASTINGS. I ALSO HAVE SMITHS IN MY FAMILY
THAT MY HASTINGS MARRIED IF YOU CAN GIVE ME A SMITH OR TWO AND APPROX.
BIRTH YEARS I'LL SEE IF I HAVE THEM.

GOD BLESS,
NORAH HASTINGS COLLINS
----- Original Message -----
From: "Joni Rabena" <>
To: <>
Sent: Monday, April 18, 2011 1:31 PM
Subject: Re: [LDR] GORDY FAMILIES OF DELAWARE AND MARYLAND


> Hi, Norah,
>
> Thanks for this info. I don't have these Hastings in my Tree, but I do
> have
> other ones, so we'd connect also through them! I have seen your e-mails
> back and forth for years, so it is a pleasure to meet you. I have had so
> many positive e-mails from people on this list; it seems this is the list
> to
> find out just about anything!
>
> I have been contacted by Melinda Corporon who is quite involved with the
> Gordy name so will be working with her a bit. I hope to find out how the
> Gordy family connects to the Pusey family. I know William L. Gordy named
> one of his children Elihu Pusey Gordy, so I am sure the relationship goes
> back generations.
>
> In 1860 a John H. Gordy had two children with his own by the last name of
> Pusey - Henry and Thomas George, brothers, sons of Puah Pusey. Henry
> ended
> up married to Melissa Smith from the Trappe, Wicomico, Maryland, Smith
> family. They had a daughter, Emma, who went to live with my 2nd great
> grandmother, Sarah/Sallie. I looked for the connection to Sara/Sallie
> with
> Emma, but couldn't find it. Then when I realized their was a connection
> to
> John H. Gordy and the Puseys I started looking and realized I had one
> Gordy
> in my Tree - Benjamin Burton who married Sarah Jane Trader. Sarah Jane
> and
> my Sara/Sallie were first cousins, once removed, so you see now that all
> of
> these names are like waves coming in now meeting the shore. I am hopeful
> I
> can connect the Pusey name to the Gordy and Smith names, probably through
> marriages.
>
> It appears that searching for ancestors just never stops!
>
> Would you let me know which daughter of Benjamin and Sara married into the
> Hastings? I would be happy to send you my Trader/Gordy Tree as it now
> stands, but it seems I'll be adding to it today!
>
> Thanks, Nora,
>
>
> Joni
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From:
> [mailto:] On Behalf Of Norah &
> Lennie Collins
> Sent: Monday, April 18, 2011 10:45 AM
> To:
> Subject: Re: [LDR] GORDY FAMILIES OF DELAWARE AND MARYLAND
>
> JONI,
> I HAVE BENJAMIN BURTON GORDY IN MY LIN BECAUSE HIS AND SARAH TRADER'S
> DAUGHTER MARRIED INTO THE HASTINGS FAMILY BY MARRYING JOSEPH W. HASTINGS
> SON
> OF ARCHELAUS HASTINGS.
>
> NORAH
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Joni Rabena" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Sunday, April 17, 2011 3:04 PM
> Subject: [LDR] GORDY FAMILIES OF DELAWARE AND MARYLAND
>
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm starting to solve one of my brickwalls, so I'm hoping I can get some
>> more information from the people on this list.
>>
>> I have two Gordy families I am trying to connect.
>>
>> (1) Benjamin Burton Gordy, born about 1823 in Maryland, married Sarah
>> Jane
>> Trader, daughter of Joshua Trader. I believe Benjamin Burton Gordy's
>> parents were John Perry Gordy and Mary Dale. His brothers were John S.
>> Gordy, James D. Gordy, and William Garretson Gordy.
>>
>> (2) John H. Gordy, born about 1822 in Delaware, married Sarah Williams.
>> Their children included Mary E. Gordy, Sarah F. Gordy, Elizah W. Gordy
>> and
>> Isaac W. Gordy. I cannot identify the parents of John H. Gordy.
>>
>> Does anyone know about the Gordy families? Do you think these two men,
>> Benjamin and John H., could be cousins?
>>
>> The reason I am hoping to connect these two is dragging in a couple of
>> other
>> names for you.
>>
>> On the 1880 census with my second great granmother, Sarah/Sallie Smith,
>> was
>> a little girl, age 11, by the name of Emma Pusey. Her parents died after
>> the 1870 census. She was called a cousin. Emma's parents were Henry
>> Pusey
>> and Mellie Ann Smith from Trappe, Wicomico, Maryland. I have spent the
>> last
>> year trying to connect the Smiths in Trape with my Sarah/Sallie Smith,
>> who
>> was born in Nanticoke Hundred, then on to Dagsboro, then on the Baltimore
>> Hundred before settling in Maryland, but I believe little Emma was
>> related
>> through the Gordy and Trader family now.
>>
>> In the 1860 census, Emma's father, Henry and Henry's brother, Thomas
>> George,
>> orphaned, went to live with John H. Gordy in Delaware. If I can connect
>> this John H. with the Benjamin Burton Gordy family, I can then connect
>> them
>> to Sarah/Sallie Smith through the Traders. Sarah/Sallie's mother was
>> Amelia
>> Trader, daughter of Henry Trader, brother of Joshua Trader.
>>
>> Any tips, suggestions, will be so much appreciated! Sorry if this seems
>> convoluted!
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>>
>>
>> Joni
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