Stephen Bartram 1751-1821

In my last post I mentioned Stephen Bartram. He is my 5th Great Grandfather. Stephen is a bit of a mystery as it continues to be hard to find actual documentation to prove some of the facts in his life that are listed in stories and books. According to one book, he was to have served under George Washington, which would be great for me as I could then apply for a supplement for my DAR, but that is another story. However, I struggle to find him in any revolutionary documents. The search will continue!

Here are some facts about my Bartram line:

Stephen's son John P. Bartram 1784-1845 is my 4th Great Grandfather, his daughter Nancy Jane Bartram 1804-1875 is my 3rd Great Grandmother and that is where the Bartram line ends for me. All my Bartrams lived in Virginia although Nancy Jane died in Cattlesburg KY. She was living with one of her sons, not my direct ancestor.

Nancy married Edward Adkins 1803-1833 and their daughter Mary Elizabeth Adkins 1829-1833 married my second Great Grandfather Thomas J. Stephens. This group lived in Wayne County West Virginia area.

Finding cousins

After moving to Tampa I joined a new church and ended up in the choir even though I can't read music and am a very average singer but in the process found a new friend who shares my love of genealogy. Turns out we are fifth cousins once removed with both of us tracing our family back to Stephen Bartram in Virginia.

It makes me wonder how many others people that I see every day might just be my relatives.

Welcome to my blog! I have to admit that this is a bit out of the box for me and has taken quite a while, not gonna say how long exactly, to get this going. Thanks for checking it out.

I hope to meet new relatives and share family information with other researching the same branches and limbs. Just to get started some of the family names I am researching are: Burke, Schwiebert, Herman, Freytag, Curtiss, Stimmell, Roesch, Freytag, Preston, Frettinger, Stevens/Stephens, Florentz, Chandler, Pierre, Adkins, Herald, Eitenne, Meisler, Griffith, Adkins and Bartram. I think that is plenty for now and goes back 5 generations. I am sure more names will enter the picture.

Most of these families are found in West Virginia, Virginia, Ohio, France, Germany and England. Do these names and places sound familiar? Maybe we are related.