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From: "Reba" <>
Subject: Re: [MDGEN] Eastern shore families - esp RINGGOLD and MERRICK
Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2005 19:07:24 -0500
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You are so lucky to have all of these early records I envy you.
Wish you had Johnson. Arthur Johnson Jr b 1747 in August. Somewhere "east"
of Virginia. Been looking for this information for years.
Enjoy reading your postings.
Reba
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Subject: [MDGEN] Eastern shore families - esp RINGGOLD and MERRICK
> Following names included in this posting: BARRON, BENNY, BLADES, BROWN,
> CONNER, CRYER, EDMONDSON, HARRIS, LOWERY, MERRICK, MILLAN, PRICE, PROUT,
> RINGGOLD,
> ROGERS, VAUGHAN, WALKER, WICKES, WILLOUGHBY. Mostly Kent and Talbot
> Counties.
>
> Throwing some names out with some stumbling blocks to see if anyone has or
> needs information on these families. I need info on most of the female
> lines,
> and have sufficient info worth sharing on Ringgold, Merrick, Prout, and
> Robert
> Vaughan.
>
>>From Kent County, I have Louisa Wickes RINGGOLD, daughter of Thomas
>>Charles
> Ringgold (1822-1881), son of Thomas Ringgold of Queen Anne's County (b.
> 1799),
> son of Thomas Ringgold (1745-1816), son of William Ringgold (1729-1790),
> son
> of James Ringgold of Coxes Neck back in Kent (1704-1740), son of James
> Ringgold
> of Talbot (1671-1704), son of Major James Ringgold (1626-1686), who
> immigrated with his father Thomas Ringgold (1609-1672)in 1650.
>
> Sarah MILLAN married Thomas Charles Ringgold. Ancestry of her parents,
> William Millan and Mary Ann WICKES (married in 1823), has proved a
> stumbling block.
>
> Rebecca BROWN married William Ringgold in 1741. All I know about her
> parents
> is they were Dr. Isaac and Margaret Brown.
>
> Mary LOWERY married Thomas Ringgold in 1726 in St. Paul's Church. I know
> nothing about her parentage.
>
> James Ringgold of Talbot married Mary HARRIS, daughter of Moses and Mary
> Harris, before 1700.
>
> Major James Ringgold in 1673 married Mary VAUGHAN, daughter of Captain
> Robert
> Vaughan, about whom much is written.
>
> In Talbot County, I follow this MERRICK line:
>
> Daniel MERRICK (1645-1726) immigrated to Talbot County, possibly from
> Virginia.
>
> His son John Merrick (d. 1709) married Jane WALKER, daughter of Daniel and
> Alce (sic) Walker.
>
> Their son James Merrick (1690-1760) married Elizabeth BARRON in 1713.
>
> Their son James Merrick, Jr. (d. 1799) married Mary CONNER.
>
> Their son Mathias (b. 1745) married Rebekah ROGERS, possibly related to
> Michal Rogers.
>
> Their son James (1780-1845) married Elizabeth BLADES.
>
> Their son Daniel (1814-1882) married Sarah EDMONDSON in 1840.
>
> Their son Thaddeus (b 1866) married Carrie BENNY, daughter of William R.
> (Frank) Benny, son of Thomas Benny and Henrietta PRICE (married 1832).
> Carrie's
> mother Mary Anne Elizabeth CRYER (1843-1907) was daughter of Capt. William
> Cryer (1800-1875) and Sarah Ann Leonard (1815-1857). William's parents
> were Jacob
> Cryer and Sarah (Sally) WILLOUGHBY.
>
> Thaddeus Merrick's family moved to California between 1910 and 1920, in
> the
> Pasadena area. His daughter Mary Merrick (1894-1975) was my grandmother.
> She
> married Carrow Tolson PROUT (1885-1961) in 1913 after he went to
> California to
> fetch her, and they returned to Maryland.
>
> Cheers,
> Mollie Merrick King
> currently of Calvert County, MD
>
>
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