| Home Surname List Name Index Sources Gedcom File | Welcome to the Bolten, Stewart, O'Mara and Armstrong Genealogy SiteIt is with a certain degree of sadness that I read these entries which reduce the lives of so many to a framework of dates marking only such key events as birth, death, marriage and military service. All these people experienced joys, sorrows, struggles, successes and sometimes tragedies in their time on earth. My hope is that my children and grandchildren will use these reference dates as points of departure and learn something of the history which provided a backdrop for their forebears’ lives. The plight of the Irish who survived the Great Famine and crossed the North Atlantic is especially poignant. The Petersen men left their homes in Schleswig-Holstein to avoid conscription in the Prussian army. The motives behind the immigration of Charlotte Bootle Chambers and her daughters from the West Indies to Hudson, New York remain a mystery. According to Armstrong family legend, some members of Charlotte’s family were loyalists during the American Revolution and fled to the West Indies. She may have moved to New York five years after her husband’s untimely death in 1862 because she still had kinfolk in that state. This site contains much research done by my great-aunt, Jennie E. Stewart, and my cousin, Marion Stewart Trizila, who continued Jennie’s work on the descendants of Alexander Stuart/Stewart. Aunt Jennie moved to Boulder, Colorado because she suffered from tuberculosis and thought the mountain air would be beneficial. She supported herself by freelance writing. Jennie started family research about 1921 and published Peter Ginther’s Family in 1938. The Arapahoe Chapter of the D.A.R. submitted a copy of this for the National D.A.R library in two volumes. The Stocker (Stucker) Family in America from 1731 to 1931 was compiled by Jennie E. Stewart, Charles L. Stocker and Horatio G. Shull and finished before 1946. Jennie wrote The Loy Family in America between 1952 and 1955. I wish to acknowledge my kinswomen, Jennie and Marion, for their excellent work. Thanks also to Joseph DeMartino, my cousin-in-law, who did much of the research on the O’Mara/Kehoe/Neenan side of my family. His web site inspired me to make my findings available. I am also grateful to my aunt, Josephine O’Mara, who provided the basic framework for the O’Mara/Kehoe/Neenan data by contacting relatives in America and Ireland. Grover L. Hill compiled research on the Hill family. More extensive information on the Hains family can be found at http://www.geocities.com/hains.family/hains. Thanks to Lynn E. Chase for researching Peter Frederick Petersen’s family in Franklin County, Nebraska. I appreciate the efforts of Brenda Doyle of the Grey County Research Team (Owen Sound, ONT) in finding information about the Armstrong and Strain families.
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