Hi, Morgan and Latayne!!!
MORGAN: THANK YOU for sending the photos of Ellis Island from the
brochure. Of course we'd love to have photos you took! Look forward to
your scanning them for us!
The certificate of registration in THE AMERICAN IMMIGRANT WALL OF HONOR
with our Jean Calvet's name on it is shown on page 66 of the book by our
wonderful cousin, Latayne Colvett Stanfill, COLVETT FAMILY CHRONICLES.
LATAYNE: Finding your book in the North Carolina State Library was one of
my most exciting genealogical research moments! (Checking out your book
was a great lesson for all of us to NEVER disregard different spellings of
surnames!) THANK YOU, LATAYNE, for writing the book! I'm so glad to have
my own copy now!
ALL OF YOU CALVIT/COLVETT/CALVET COUSINS: This summer my husband, Max, and
I spent a week in Virginia doing research and spent a day at the
Manakintown Huguenot church and monument and had a guided tour from the
interim Episcopal priest. Seeing the monument and church (not the
ORIGINAL, but about the 3rd church they built) and the church used now
(next to the older church) are worth the trip!
(The property where the original church was is now on private land.) I
hope all of you cousins have a chance to go, if you haven't been already.
Max and I are Episcopalians, so we were happy to find that the Huguenots
became Episcopalians after the Revolution; of course, before that, they
were Church of England. (The Episcopal Church in the U.S. is part of the
Anglican communion which includes the Church of England.)
Latayne tells about the monument and churches and has photos of the
monument and older church in her book. (Max also had ancestors who were
members of that church very early; one, John Peter Bondurant, has a plaque
on a pew in the newer church.) Probably many of you have other French
Huguenot ancestors and may find references to them at the church!
If I had a scanner, I'd send photos to all of you of the beautiful
needlepointed kneelers at the altar in the newer church; the kneelers
depict the Huguenots coming to Virginia, their first church, etc., and are
works of art! Maybe Santa will bring me a scanner, and then I can scan my
photos of the kneelers for all of you.
Norma Calvit-Hooker Preston
Hillsborough, NC 27278-2442
normachp(a)mindspring.com
At 08:39 PM 10/17/1999 -0400, you wrote:
Hi, gang!
I've been scarce, sorry!
For a year now I've lived about a 20-minute subway ride from the ferry to
Ellis Island. I figured it was about time I did the trip!
I enjoyed it so much! It's truly a memorable trip!
Jean Calvet is engraved on the The American Immigrant Wall of Honor. We
know he didn't come through Ellis Island, but a donor made sure his name
would be remembered. Many thanks!
(If that donor would like to step forward and tell us about the process to
get someone on the wall, why you chose your Calvit ancestor, etc, we'd
really like to hear from you. I didn't want to just give you away <g>.)
I scanned some of the brochure pictures I got while I was there. I also
took pictures of the name on the Wall. However, some of you know how bad I
am about getting pictures developed quickly! What I have now is up at:
http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~morgan/ellis/
Is there a Calvit web page out there somewhere? Do we want to make one? I'd
be happy to maintain it and keep it on the Rootsweb servers just like we
have this mailing list. Please let me know. It'd be a group effort to
donate bits of interest, links, etc.
Morgan
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