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Surnames: Chester, Whitfield
Classification: Query
Message Board URL:
http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/AdI.2ACIB/376.1.2.1
Message Board Post:
Hi Carol
Very glad to hear from you. Your relative is actually my husband John, but I am the one doing the family tree. I expect that you are related to the Frances Chester who married John Hall. Is that correct? I would love to compare notes with you. You can reach me direct at the email address listed when you click on my name.
It might be easier to that at this point.
Looking forward to hearing from you.
Sandra
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Surnames: Chester, Hall, Whitfield,
Classification: Query
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http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/AdI.2ACIB/376.1.2
Message Board Post:
Hello Sandra:
We are cousins of some sort if you are related to Isaac Chester and Elizabeth Whitfield, to Scarborough, Ontario. I heard there was a teacher in Unionville called Ian Chester.
Our Chester married a Hall.
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James, I know we already went over this a year ago via email, but I thought I'd better leave a post for the record.
Samuel R. Springer first married Sarah Chester, second Sarah McCarty. He had children with both. A note, one male from each wife's line has DNA tested for SPRINGER.
take care,
melissa
I am in absolutely no doubt that your ancestry is in the United Kingdom. The Medieval information I have sent confirms it must be so. I have notes of some who migrated to the US.
Hey, take a look at this and imagine how my head did a reel when I first found these records! I was about to blame IGI, but there was a certificate referral.
Remember, my father was CHESTER and I'm in my 60s and I found a distant cousin in the same line, the gt grand daughter of my father's brother.
John Chester born 14 January 1871
He married 27 Dec 1899 New York Manhatten
His wife Agnes Irvine.
Agnes Irvine's parents were: [wait for it]
John Irvine and Agnes Chester married 23 June 1865
Marriage between first cousins is still permitted in Scotland. I have another instance of it.
I have paper documentation to confirm the Irvine/Chester marriage. I would otherwise have wagered it was an IGI unreliability, but, "No" it was absolutely right. I've found a lot of inter marriage in this family line in Scotland. It makes it all the more fascinating.
I'll look out my US records and post them as soon as I can.
If I may comment about membership in these lists. I have found that there is little credence to those of us in our senior years and I think it is a shortfall in thinking because, after all, how many of us wished we had talked with our grandparents? If you find one in your list membership why not draw them into discussion to make up for what might have bee lost. I really do think that genealogy lists need to seek out and identify those who are in their - perhaps - twilight years, before computers and even the fountain pen to acknowledge information from them.
Janet
----- Original Message -----
From: "Val Hoover" <valhoover(a)comcast.net>
To: <CHESTER-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Friday, March 24, 2006 10:13 PM
Subject: Re: CHESTER of Glasgow, Scotland
> Thanks, Janet, for the information.
>
> My surname is Chester, b. 1939 San Francisco.
>
> My father, Charles Chester, was born August 1910 in San Francisco, CA, died
> in Spokane, WA 1979
>
> His father, Raymond LeRoy Chester, was born in 1883? San Francisco, CA, died
> in Albany, OR 1971. He was a carpenter.
>
> His father, Charles C. Chester, was born in IL in 1853 - I have traced him
> to the 1880 Census in Tomales, Marin Co., CA, then Gilroy CA 1900 and San
> Francisco after that. Died in SF in 1907. No known siblings. Have not
> found him in 1870. He was a blacksmith. He may have been in the Monterey,
> CA area at some point.
>
> His father was born in PA, mother in IRE - have not found either of his
> parents, first names unknown..
>
> Have not found 1853 Charles Chester in IL 1860 Census where I can prove it
> is the right one.
>
> Have not found his parents in PA or IL
>
> So, maybe our ancestors were from Scotland??
>
> Happy hunting.
>
> Val
My father was Robert ROWAT CHESTER born Glasgow 26th October 1915. My parents were divorced during WW2 and I never met him. In September 2004 when my curiosity as to whether he had died found me a live cousin, living in East Kilbride, through Genes Reunited, within about 24 hrs of subscribing started my genealogy research. We have a family tree, based on a lot of personal records, back to 1770s.
The names appearing in the tree are
CHESTER who married HELFERTY, MCKIRDY and ROWAT - My Grandfather! That could have been a real nightmare but the dear man gave the address he lived at each time he married. He changed his occupation each time.
HORN, STIRLING, CAMPBELL/McINNES, & ROWAT - My Grandmother's line of a family that originated on the Isle of Mull, Argyllshire.
Janet
Thanks, Janet, for the information.
My surname is Chester, b. 1939 San Francisco.
My father, Charles Chester, was born August 1910 in San Francisco, CA, died
in Spokane, WA 1979
His father, Raymond LeRoy Chester, was born in 1883? San Francisco, CA, died
in Albany, OR 1971. He was a carpenter.
His father, Charles C. Chester, was born in IL in 1853 - I have traced him
to the 1880 Census in Tomales, Marin Co., CA, then Gilroy CA 1900 and San
Francisco after that. Died in SF in 1907. No known siblings. Have not
found him in 1870. He was a blacksmith. He may have been in the Monterey,
CA area at some point.
His father was born in PA, mother in IRE - have not found either of his
parents, first names unknown..
Have not found 1853 Charles Chester in IL 1860 Census where I can prove it
is the right one.
Have not found his parents in PA or IL
So, maybe our ancestors were from Scotland??
Happy hunting.
Val
----- Original Message -----
From: "Janet" <wightway(a)tiscali.co.uk>
To: <CHESTER-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Friday, March 24, 2006 12:37 PM
Subject: Re: CHESTER of Glasgow, Scotland
> It's a good question Val. Bearing in mind that I have a tree in Scotland
> as far back as I have, and, with some evidence they travelled to Ireland
> to work, and, find a wife, its surprising, I will agree.
>
> The surname Chester is a derivative of Chesters. Some of mine included
> the consonant "s" in their census records. I went searching only a few
> days ago because I had the same thought as I think you might i.e. named
> after the City of Chester, England. Not so I think. Hey, take a look at
> this.
>
> I am quoting from the mail I sent to a mailing list: I think you will
> find it interesting.
>
> I have a paternal tree dating back to mid 1700s in which these names
> appear. CHESTER was my paternal name and I have anticipated a time when I
> might find they were English, by the place of that name. However, it
> appears that at one time, ca 1100, Cumberland, Westmorland, Northumbria, &
> Carlisle were Scottish.
> http://www.aboutscotland.com/hadrian/chesters.html and this medieval site
> confirms the possibility.
>
> http://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/usbiography/monarchs/malcolmiv.html
> Throughout his reign the pious and frail Malcolm was consistently
> out-thought and outmanoeuvred by Henry II, who was crowned King of England
> in 1154, much to the dismay of many Scottish nobles. In 1149 Henry had
> promised David I he would uphold Scotland's claim to much of northern
> England. But in 1157 Henry summoned Malcolm to meet him at Chester. There
> they signed the Treaty of Chester under which Malcolm relinquished
> Scottish claims to Cumberland, Westmorland, Northumbria, and Carlisle. In
> return he was granted the Earldom of Huntingdon: arguably his by rights
> anyway in succession to his father.
>
> In short, our name goes back to medieval times when Northumbria was part
> of Scotland.
>
> Janet
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Val Hoover" <valhoover(a)comcast.net>
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Do you think the surname CHESTER is of Scotch heritage or English??
>>
>> Val
>>
>>
>
>
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Hi,
Do you think the surname CHESTER is of Scotch heritage or English??
Val
----- Original Message -----
From: "Janet" <wightway(a)tiscali.co.uk>
To: <CHESTER-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Friday, March 24, 2006 11:02 AM
Subject: CHESTER of Glasgow, Scotland
> My father was Robert ROWAT CHESTER born Glasgow 26th October 1915. My
> parents were divorced during WW2 and I never met him. In September 2004
> when my curiosity as to whether he had died found me a live cousin, living
> in East Kilbride, through Genes Reunited, within about 24 hrs of
> subscribing started my genealogy research. We have a family tree, based
> on a lot of personal records, back to 1770s.
>
> The names appearing in the tree are
>
> CHESTER who married HELFERTY, MCKIRDY and ROWAT - My Grandfather! That
> could have been a real nightmare but the dear man gave the address he
> lived at each time he married. He changed his occupation each time.
>
> HORN, STIRLING, CAMPBELL/McINNES, & ROWAT - My Grandmother's line of a
> family that originated on the Isle of Mull, Argyllshire.
>
> Janet
>
>
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Surnames: Chester
Classification: Query
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http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/AdI.2ACIB/484
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Prudence Chester, 1699 - 1780, is listed on the American Silversmiths website.
I am not related to this person, just passing on this information, which comes from a website called "American Silversmiths"
The link for the site is listed below where you can click on any name for more information.
Joyce
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~silversmiths/others.htm