Anderson and Allied Families
Our family heritage flows from the very earliest settlers of New England and the mid-Atlantic seaboard. Our principal family line, Anderson originated in the Delaware, Maryland and Virginia area (DelMarVa as it is often denoted in family histories). This line joined with a number of others that have their roots in Massachusetts and Nantucket Island. Many of these early families were associated with the Quaker communities in America. We have ancestors from the Baynard line of Maryland, the Bunker/Paddock line of Massachusetts/Nantucket Island and North Carolina. Our family has a number of connections with the Horney family of Maryland, North Carolina and Ohio. Through this family we link to the Chipman family of New England, Delaware and North Carolina. This family through Hannah Harriet Chipman links our family to one of the very first English settlers in New England – John Howland of the “Mayflower Compact.” These various lines also link to the Coffin families of Nantucket, North Carolina and Ohio. Below is a brief overview of these ancestral surnames.
These various lines take our history well back into the 16th Century and in the case of the well-documented Howland lineage, into the 15th Century in England. I have included these very early ancestors and the family lines that eventually joined with the Anderson/Horney line. In this family the Anderson and Horney members occur most frequently in this history. As you will see in reading through the family history, the Anderson line is doubly joined with the Horney line: first three generations back and then again six generations back.
The first Anderson in this history is John Anderson (1755 – 1816), other earlier possible Anderson ancestors have been identified, but I have less confidence in those connections. The Anderson family proper lived in the Delaware-Maryland-Virginia area as early as the middle of the 18th Century. That family left the Chesapeake Bay area after the Revolutionary War for North Carolina where they settled for about a decade. That family then moved on to Ohio in the very early 1800s where they settled. Children of these Ohio families spread westward from there to Indiana, Illinois and Iowa, and eventually Washington and Oregon in the current generation.
The next set of ancestral surname is the Baynard family of Maryland. Genealogists and family historians have traced this family to 17th Century England and Thomas Baynard (1613 – 1691) Mary Bennet of Sommerset, England. This family has only a short time span in our history: from Thomas of England to Deborah Baynard of Maryland.
We also have ties to the Bunker family of England and Massachusetts. George and Jane Godfrey Bunker were early settlers in Massachusetts, they arrived from England about 1652. The nature of this early family and George’s wife/wives is a bit of obscure. This will be discussed in the introduction to the Bunker line.
The next surname in our ancestral panoply is Chipman. Through this family we descend from the very earliest settlers of New England – the “Mayflower Compact” families. Specifically our ancestor there is John Howland. His daughter Hope married John Chipman in 1646 in Plymouth Colony. This family traces to Thomas Chipman (1594 – 1623) and Ann Agnes Derby (1598 – 1638) of Dorchester, England.
The Coffin family is among the very earliest settlers of New England. Tristram Coffin (1609 – 1681) is the North American founder of this family. Tristram arrived in Massachusetts between 1640 and 1645. He settled into Nantucket Island. Tristram Coffin’s son, John Coffin married Deborah Austin in 1668. Deborah is the daughter of Sarah Starbuck Austin. Sarah Austin was responsible for the conversion of many of the Islanders to the Quaker faith. This link cements the family tie to the early Quakers of North America.
The Haacke surname belongs to my paternal grandmother’s line. The earliest couple I have identified of this surname is John Haacke (1775 – 1879) and Hannah Adams (1779 – ) of Canada. Hannah Adams is reputed to be a cousin of John Quincy Adams, though I have not been able to verify that connection in any way. John Haacke came to North America from Holland and settled in Canada. His son David Haacke immigrated to the United States and settled in Illinois. David cut a remarkable swath through Illinois history and the ladies of Illinois. He married 4 times! More about this family when the Haacke family line is introduced.
The Holmes surname is that of my paternal grandmother. George Holmes (1780 – 1850) and Rose Pearson are our earliest ancestors in this line. They lived and died in Northern Ireland, near Belfast. Their son, Robert Holmes (1813 – 1888) emigrated with his wife Anne Erwin (1810 – 1889) before 1840. The family initially settled in Philadelphia and later migrated to Illinois. Their story begins in the Holmes Line.
The Horney family has a prominent role in the early days of our family. Three Horney sons married the three daughters of John Anderson. All were first cousins. This family in America begins with Geoffrey Horny (1640 – 1711) and Juliana. Geoffrey immigrated to Maryland from England between 1680 and 1685. This is a large family and very well documented by genealogist/family historians over the years. From their roots in Maryland this family dispersed to North Carolina, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois. Though there is no clear evidence that the family was Quaker, the surnames of Quakers figure prominently in the story of the family. Furthermore the families lived in or near Quaker communities form the late 1700s into the late 1800s.
The Janes name comes to us from William Janes (1752 – 1801) and Margaret Seybert (1746 – 1801) of Virginia. William is the great-great-grandfather of Margaret Horney, my great-grandmother. The Janes family story will be introduced with the Janes Lineage.
Hunt, Paddock, Robinson and Sears are other early family surnames. However their lineage in our history is very brief as the lines merge with ours in the 17th Century.
My Family Lineages
The lineages have as the century date the century of birth of the earliest member of the direct lineage. You will see that I have traced families into the 15th and 16th Centuries in England. For each lineage I have also included where that line first appears in North America, many during the colonial period. Several of these lineages are connected with early Quaker communities along the east coast: Anderson (Nicholites); Coffin; Harwood; Horney and Robinson.
- Anderson Lineage — 1700, Delaware/Ohio
- Austin Lineage — 1600, England/New Hampshire
- Baynard Lineage — 1600 England/Maryland
- Browne Lineage — late 1600s, Delaware
- Bunker Lineage — 1600 England/Massachusetts
- Chipman Lineage — 1600 England/Massachusetts
- Clifton Lineage — late 1600s, Delaware
- Coffin Lineage — 1600 England/Massachusetts
- Gardner Lineage — late 1500s, England/Massachusetts
- Gary/Garey Lineage — 1600s, England/Maryland
- Godfrey Lineage — late 1500s, England
- Haacke Lineage — 1700 Holland/Canada/Illinois
- Harwood Lineage — 1600 Maryland
- Holmes Lineage — 1700 Ireland/Pennsylvania/Illinois
- Horney Lineage — 1600 England/Maryland
- Howland Lineage — 1400 England/Massachusetts
- Hunt Lineage — 1700 Pennsylvania/North Carolina
- Janes Lineage — 1700 Virginia/Ohio
- Macy Lineage — 1600s, England/Massachusetts
- Manlove Lineage — 1600s, England/Massachusetts
- Paddock Lineage — 1600 England/Massachusetts
- Paine Lineage — 1600s, Virginia
- Pemberton Lineage — 1600s Delaware
- Robinson Lineage — 1700 Maryland/Ohio
- Sears Lineage — 1500 Ireland/Massachusetts
- Seybert Lineage — late 1600s, Germany
- Skiff Lineage — 1600s Massachusetts
- Thies Lineage — late 1600s, Rhine-Pfalz, Germany
- Tilley Lineage — late 1500s, England
Wow, your Anderson and Allied Families report/presentation is beautiful!
I hope I can do a nice summary like that some day.
I came across your ancestry information because of these listings: Baldwin Drew Ward (my bio dad’s adopted father) and Baldwin’s second wife, Edna Agnes Severy. Baldwin and first wife, Elva Serena Smith adopted David Baldwin Ward (my bio dad) as an infant and raised him as their only child. David only learned that his parents were adopted and not biological at age 18 when he needed a birth certificate to enlist in the Navy during WWII. Long story short – seeing his original given name (Glenn Tazewell Hemingway or maybe Hemenway) and bio mom (Louise Hancock) activated congenial yet somewhat guarded letters and a couple telephone calls between Louise and David. After his Naval service then university degree (via the G.I. bill) Louise was to visit David (1954+/- and when I was about age 5) but the ball was somehow dropped, she never came and that was the end of the connection so they never did meet.
Jumping forward now – The last 2+ years, I’ve been trying to locate info about Louise Hancock and my dad’s early life. David and Louise are both deceased as are Baldwin Ward and Elva Ward but I’ve learned a lot about ancestry researching and I have visited my dad’s small town high school, getting to see all four years of his yearbooks.
Anyway, my goal/dream is to find the exact Louise Hancock and learn anything I can about the bio grandmother I never knew.
Thanks for listening … what got you started? Find any surprises? Any connection to Baldwin Drew Ward or Edna Severy Ward?
Best regards,
Claudia Ward
Mendocino, CA
Claudia,
I received notice of your comment while my wife and I were on an extended road trip. At the time we were on our way home after visiting Anderson ancestral family locations in Ohio, Illinois and Iowa. My Anderson family originated in Delaware and Maryland on the east shore of Chesapeake Bay (earliest records from mid-1700s.) The family migrated to Ohio where they settled in Greene County about 1801. I found the burial site there of my great-great-grandfather, James Anderson and his Quaker wife, Priscilla Coffin. We then drove on to Illinois to visit the place where my grandmother Anderson was born (Toulon, Stark County, Illinois). There we found the head stones for her parents and grandparents. In Iowa we visited the place where my grandfather Anderson was born and the head stones for his parents, Margaret Horney and Harmon Anderson. From there we went on to visit the town where I was born. There we photographed the town, including the locations of my maternal grandfather’s blacksmith shop (now the office of a developer of historic buildings) and of my grandfather Anderson’s office (now a vacant lot between the police station and city offices).
I did a quick review after I got home to see what I could find on Baldwin Drew Ward. I have very little other than a brief entry relating to his second marriage to Edna Agnes Severy. This family is on a collateral branch that I have not researched thoroughly. What I do have can be found in my family tree on Ancestry.com — Anderson Horney Haacke and Holmes Families.
I got interested in the family story some time after my grandfather gave his descendants a little monograph called The Anderson Story. At that time we had just gotten started on our family and in my career as a Sociology professor. As the kids got older I began to explore the family history and developed an interest in putting all the information my grandfather had collected on the computer. Part of my teaching also involved using computers to teach. In that realm I learned a bit about the web and preparing documents for the web.
My interest in doing things on the web naturally extended to the family history. For the last 10-15 years I have been diligently searching what was available on the web and adding these sources and information to my work on the family. In just the last 5 years or so there has been a literal explosion of information and accessible data sets on the internet. The federal censuses from 1850 to 1940 are exceptionally valuable as they list entire families, making it easier to sort among families with similar names and histories. Much of my initial documentation of the family history comes from these sources.
Folks have become interested in finding their families and posting that information to such web sites as Ancestry.com or to family web sites that they have created. These sites often prove to be valuable secondary sources of information, providing clues as to where to look for original or supporting information. I have exploited these sources to confirm what I had learned from the very early, unsourced family history done by my grandfather and the Anderson clan in 1968.
Because of my interest in the family history I have fallen heir to or given access to diaries, letters, photographs and other family documents. These have proven invaluable to the progress of this work.
I enjoy writing, research and interpreting facts, events and things about the family and the places they have lived. There have been some surprises — first cousins marrying (three great-great-great-aunts married great-great-great-uncles); second cousins marrying (my great grandmother and great grandfather were second cousins).
Perhaps the most interesting was the discovery that my fishing buddy and I are related — we are seventh cousins. We had been on a fishing trip and were stopped by a county deputy on a Labor Day weekend where he reminded us to keep at the speed limits, no ticket though. As he was checking us out he leaned down, looked across at me, then at my buddy, then back to me and asked: “Are you two twins?” At the time we just thought it was funny. Later we found a surname we had in common. He was interested in tracing his family relationship to that surname. I did that for him and then decided to see if there was a possible connection, sure enough I found one several generations earlier — we both had common ancestors in the Coffin line in New England.
There have been other interesting connections discovered because of the work with family history.
I wish you good searching for the Ward family. The fact of adoption will make it interesting. You have the beginning in that the names of your biological grandparents are known. You may be able to find more about them through Ancestry.com or through RootsWeb.com. As I am sure you know, Ancestry is a subscription service; Rootsweb is free.
Finally thank you for your interest in my family history work.