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Wynell
I am searching for a William Childers born 1795 TN. What do you know of your
William? I am being mindful of the varaitions of spelling. Some of my ancestors
went by Childress while the bulk went by Childers.
WYNELLGEN(a)aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 1/29/99 12:30:13 PM Pacific Standard Time, CHILDERS-D-
> request(a)rootsweb.com writes:
>
> <<
> CAN someone STRAIGHTEN ME OUT ON THIS CHILDERS THING, I, AM LOOKING FOR
> INFORMATION ON CHILDRESS BUT AT THIS LOCATION I SEEM TO GET ALMOST
> EXCLUSIVELY
> PEOPLE WITH INFORMATION ON CHILDERS
> OR LOOKING FOR INFORMATION ON CHILDERS. WE ARE MOST LIKELY RELATED WITH
> JUST
> A CHANGE SOME WHERE IN THE SPELLING, BUT I CAN'T USE MUCH IF ANY OF THE
> INFORMATION I RECEIVE.
> APPRECIATE ANY HELP I CAN GET ON GETTING ROUTED TO THE PROPER LOCATION.
> THANK. LARRY CHILDRESS
>
> >>
>
> Larry,
> I know you will hear from one other person to the contrary, but a person would
> be foolish to not follow every lead no matter how the name is spelled. There
> may have been a difference over in England or where ever, but it has been so
> mixed up here by clerks, census takers, etc. that who knows what it originally
> was.
>
> I don't care what my Childers / Childress turns out to be as long as I can
> find the parents.
> My Frances Childers married Thomas Sidney McDuffie in Cherokee Co., AL about
> 1851.
> On the 1850 census she was CHILDERS; in some family papers she was Childers,
> however, I believe she had a brother named William CHILDRESS.
>
> Who knows.
>
> Good luck,
> Wynell
--
Hazel (Dedman) Conway
http://home.inreach.com/hazzie01/index.htm
Hi
I don't know about anyone else but I do not know what County my William Childers
was born in, I only know by what his children stated that he was born 1795 in TN.
Perhaps if you gave more detail of names, children etc. someone out there can
help you and the rest of us.
I am searching for information on William Childers who married Sally
Greenwood then Sarah Bosley. Names included in my line are -Bosley,
Greenwood, Songer, Montgomery, Elliott, Friend, Petty, Morris, Hudson,
Eagleton, Beck, Watson, Kelly, Reeder, Taylor, Luke, Shanklin,
McDonald, Seiber, Tadlock, McGrew, Kimball, Bayles, Reed, Clark,
Maughan, Beeman, Fair, Scoles, Jackson, Luckett, Logsdon, Wright,
Williams, Peterson, Hedge, Knapp, Clark, Smith, Misenheimer, Deiner,
Dorsett, Connelley, Gilliand and Colclosure.
I would love to hear from all who are researching the Childers and their
named above spouses.
--
Hazel (Dedman) Conway
http://home.inreach.com/hazzie01/index.htm
Sjw500(a)aol.com wrote:
> looking for a Childers Family that lived in renok CO Tenn. 1800s. can someone
> help me with this? sjw500(a)aol.com
>
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> CHILES, CHILTON, CHILDRESS, and even CHILDERS. If you know of other
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--
Hazel (Dedman) Conway
http://home.inreach.com/hazzie01/index.htm
Since we have all just been reminded of the Childress/Childers confusion, I
will try this one again.
Searching for parents, siblings of William Childress/Childers. He is listed
in 1850 census of Hamilton Co. TN as Childress and in the 1860 Hamilton Co.
as Childers. Married Esther Bennett.
Known children: Elizabeth Childers b.1828 md Joseph Minton
Sarah Childers b. 1833 md Vardaman Love
Minton
Asa Childers b. 1836 md Eliza A. ?
John W. Childers b. 1840 md Emmaline
Messamore
Jesse Childers b. 1844
Lucinda Childers b. 1845
Elijah M. Childers b. Nov. 25, 1850 md
Lurana McKinney
Elijah is my ggrandfather. Can anyone help? Lots of descendent info to
share.
Kathleen Childers Woodall
The GA Civil War Soldiers Index CD
<< I would also like to order this CD. Would you post the address to where
we send the check online so all of us could have it. Thanks
Thanks for your note. Payment should be sent to
Eastern Digital Resources
PO Box 1451
Clearwater, SC 29822-1451
$7.50
John Rigdon
The Civil War in Georgia
http://www.researchonline.net/gacw
I thought this was an excellent buy for those who have roots in the Georgia
Civil War era.
Jack Childers in OKC
Following are some notations I found in the Knott County Historical
Society's surname files. Hope they prove beneficial. Please feel free
to correct any mistakes.
1-- Alfred Malloy CHILDERS Born: <1840> <Paris, Lamar, TX>
sp-Lucinda Jane OSBORNE Born: <1842> <Paris, Lamar, TX>
2-- James Franklin CHILDERS Born: 1 Nov 1866 <Summerfield,
Laflore Co, OK>
sp-Matilda Jane GASAWAY Born: <1868> <Paris, Lamar, TX>
3-- Luther Zachariah CHILDERS Born: 29 Jun 1888 Paris,
Lamar, TX
sp-Erba Grace BARNES Born: 22 Jan 1893 Joplin, Jasper, MO
4-- Zampa Gloe CHILDERS Born: 21 Jul 1912 Hugo, Choctaw,
OK
sp-LIVING Born: LIVING
4-- LIVING Born: LIVING
sp-Jesse Curtis JONES Born: 3 Nov 1914 Slate Springs,
Calhoun Co., MS
5-- Kathryn Louise JONES Born: LIVING
sp-LIVING Born: LIVING
sp-LIVING Born: LIVING
sp-LIVING Born: LIVING
4-- Lloyd Franklin CHILDERS Born: 13 Sep 1918 Pichen,
Ottawa, OK
sp-LIVING Born: LIVING
sp-LIVING Born: LIVING
4-- LIVING Born: LIVING
sp-LIVING Born: LIVING
sp-LIVING Born: LIVING
sp-LIVING Born: LIVING
4-- Wanda Lee CHILDERS Born: Sep 1933 Okmulgee, Okmulgee,
OK
4-- LIVING Born: LIVING
sp-LIVING Born: LIVING
sp-LIVING Born: LIVING
3-- Viola Elizabeth CHILDERS Born: 24 Jan 1890 Clarksville,
Red River, TX
3-- Cecil F CHILDERS Born: 7 Oct 1891 Paris, Lamar, TX
3-- Lila CHILDERS Born: <1892> Clarksville, Red River, TX
3-- Lula Elvira CHILDERS Born: 14 Jun 1895 Clarksville, Red
River, TX
Sincerely yours,
David R. Smith, President
Knott County Historical Society
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Oracle/5468
mailto:knothist@tgtel.com
Not only was my great grandmother, Eliza Gwyn married to a Childress
(Osborne Franklin Childress) her mother, Martha was also a Childress. This
is my 3rd and final line of Childresses......as far as I know today.
1. WILLIAM1 CHILDRESS was born Abt. 1790. He married FANNIE VEST 10
December 1817 in Stokes Co,
NC.
Children of WILLIAM CHILDRESS and FANNIE VEST are:
i. ELIZA2 CHILDRESS.
ii. MATILDA CHILDRESS.
iii. ROBERT CHILDRESS.
iv. SALLIE CHILDRESS, b. Abt. 1824; m. WILLIAM BOYD.
v. MARTHA CHILDRESS, b. 06 March 1822; d. 04 July 1910; m. FRANKLIN GWYN,
23 January 1845,
Mount Airy, Surry Co., NC.
vi. CHARITY CHILDRESS, b. Abt. 1834; m. WILLIAM MARTIN SR GRIFFITH, 01
January 1855, Surry
County, NC.
Charity Childress, married to William Martin Griffith was a sister to my
great great grandmother Martha, and a great grandmother of the actor Andy
Griffith.
--Joyce Bunch
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This is on my grandmother's side (she was a Childress and married a
Childress)......as if the Childress line wasn't hard enough to find on ONE
line!! This begins with my 3rd great grandparents. Osborne and Eliza Jane
are my great great grandparents. Their daughter, Maggie, who later married
Isaac Chandler, Patrick Co. Va, is my great grandmother.
1. MARTIN1 CHILDRESS was born Abt. 1826 in NC. He married (MARTHA)
FRANCES BOWMAN.
Children of MARTIN CHILDRESS and (MARTHA) BOWMAN are:
i. CORNELIA "ANNIE"2 CHILDRESS, b. Abt. 1849; d. 07 September 18651.
ii. JOHN W CHILDRESS, b. Abt. 1851; m. RUTH M.
iii. OSBORNE FRANKLIN CHILDRESS, b. 23 October 1853, Patrick Co., VA; d.
11 September 1918; m.
ELIZA JANE GWYN, 06 January 1873, Patrick Co., VA
iv. JAMES ANDERSON "BABE" CHILDRESS, b. 1855; d. 1907, Patrick Co., VA; m.
FRANCIS COLUMBIA
"LUM" SMITH, 15 February 1875.
v. FRANCIS M CHILDRESS, b. 06 March 1860, Patrick Co., VA; d. 07 December
1862, Patrick Co., VA.
vi. ELIZABETH "FANNIE" M CHILDRESS, b. Abt. 1861; d. 04 January 1890,
Patrick Co., VA; m. J L
MANKINS.
vii. CHARLES R CHILDRESS, b. Abt. 1866.
Joyce Bunch
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This is one of my Childress lines: Am looking for the father or Robert
Childress, Sr, or additional info on anyone in his family. This is my
great great grandparents. His son, William Mart Childress, married to
Lorena Dawson were my great grandparents. Their son, Foy Childress, was my
grandpa.
ROBERT SR CHILDRESS was born in Carroll County, VA. He married MASSEY H
BOYD Abt. 1851,
daughter of JOSEPH BOYD and SARAH MANKINS.
Notes for MASSEY H BOYD:
At the time of the 1850 Census for Patrick Co., VA, Massey was 20 years old.
Children of ROBERT CHILDRESS and MASSEY BOYD are:
i. JULIANA2 CHILDRESS, b. Abt. 1852, Carroll Co., VA; m. GEORGE W HIATT,
03 August 1868, Surry
Co., NC1.
ii. POSEY CHILDRESS, b. 17 September 18532.
iii. EDWARD CHILDRESS, b. Abt. 1856.
iv. CONSTANTINE CHILDRESS, b. Abt. 1857; m. JENNY BELTON, 29 December
1875, Surry County, NC.
v. FAITHY ANN CHILDRESS, b. Abt. 1860; m. W A BELTON, 28 September 1876,
Mount Airy, Surry Co.,
NC.
vi. ROBERT "BOBBY" CHILDRESS, JR, b. Abt. 1864; m. DELPHIA DAWSON, 04
September 1885.
vii. WILLIAM MART (BILLY) CHILDRESS, b. 1866, Patrick Co., VA; d. 06 June
1927, Mount Airy, Surry
County, NC; m. LORENA DAWSON, 21 July 1888.
Notes for WILLIAM MART (BILLY) CHILDRESS:
William "Billy" Mart Childress was a trader.
Notes for LORENA DAWSON:
The Randolph County 1870 census has her listed as "Sarena" and 3 months old.
Endnotes
1. Marriages of Carroll Co Folk, Outside the County.
2. Patrick Birth Records 1853-1869.
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Hello everyone, good evening. My name is Jay Odom, I am in desperate need
for everyone to look in their info. and see if they can make a connection to
this name James Childers. Seeing all this about Childers, Childress, and
Childres I decided I would post another message. I don't know that the other
names Childress, and Childres could be a possibility but, I'm not having
luck on James Childers anywhere. I found on his grave stone it says James
Childers, but that is in Lamar Co.,Roxton, TX. He was actually born in
Sharon, York Co., SC. We don't know anything of him from before he married
in Texas. Here is his info. that I am aware of. James
Childers/Childress/Childres was b: Oct. 19, 1855 in Sharon, SC. Died : April
16, 1913 in Roxton, Lamar Co., SC. He married Ida Mae Goodman on March 16,
1884 in Lamar Co., TX. We know he was married once before but to whom we
don't know. That is why his last name m,ay be misleading. It may have been
the other and then when he made his way to Texas, may have changed it, we
just don't know. All his children were born in, at least the ones after 1888
were biorn in Lamar Co., TX. There is two children we are not certain of.
His second wife, Ida Mae Goodman was born in Tchula, MS. Her family was also
from Laurens Co,SC. We don't know if the families knew each other before
Ida and James got married, but Ida was the second child and her older sister
was born in 1864 in MS. So, I don't know if the families would have ever
crossed paths. If anyone has any info., please email me, THANKS,
Jay Odom
jodom1(a)excelonline.com
Larry,
The following is the welcome page from the Childress-L(a)rootsweb.com Mail
List. It may explain some basics of the problem.
EDITORIAL - CHILDRESS vs. CHILDERS
A gravestone of a CHILDRESS who died in 1819 makes reference to an
ancestor coming to America "in a ship of his own, with cargo, in 1745".
In 1819, the year the gravestone was carved, 74 years had passed since
the crossing of the Atlantic. The gravestone marks the grave of the
FATHER of Sarah Childress Polk (wife of President Polk), but does not
mention the deceased with words of bereavement, such as "loving father",
nor does it list the accomplishments of the deceased. Instead the
gravestone mentions the deceased's GRANDFATHER who came to American
in his own ship with cargo. It enshrines in stone this terse reference
to a life or death event..... a gamble of all for all... man, woman and
child, non-sailors on a journey of a lifetime... and for the descendants
a journey of a millennium. I suspect that the details of this event
must
have been quite a story to hear. Certainly the children of the children
of the children of those who crossed thought it resonated enough to put
something of that story on the tombstone of their father who himself was
not even born until 30 years after the crossing.
About the same time of the Childress crossing in 1745, the deliberate
policy of Britain was to populate Virginia with new immigrants. Land
promotions in Virginia were advertised in Ulster from 1718 through about
1775. During economic downturns in Ireland, immigration increased and
departures to the American colonies left from all ports in the British
Isles. In the 1740's crop failures in Ireland spurred a major push to
emigrate and there was a concerted effort by Virginian land promoters to
bring new colonists to Virginia. One such land promoter was James
Patton, a sea captain with his own ship, who may have imported up to
7,000 immigrants by himself. It was big business for entrepreneurs.
The cost of buying a ticket to America was about the same price of
owning a small parcel of land in Ireland, so those who had land in
Ireland could sell it and pay their way to America and arrive broke.
Those who didn't own land could indenture themselves for between 4 to 7
years and, in the best promotion I've seen, receive 50 acres in
Pennsylvania at the end of their indentured servitude. But indentured
servitude precluded parents with children from bringing the children. So
the choice for many immigrants was between paying for passage for the
entire family and arriving broke, or leaving the children and going into
indentured servitude. If they chose to bring their toddlers, the journey
was highly lethal for young children packed into the holds of
overcrowded ships.
The Chidresses of 1745 came up with a third alternative. Buying their
own ship. We know nothing of the ship's size but we speculate that it
was small enough to be affordable, but large enough for "cargo" as
mentioned on the gravestone. We are searching for the records of this
ship's existence and the search will be conducted overseas as well. We
speculate here about the ramifications of owning a ship and carrying
cargo and where records might be found.
The puzzlement is how did the Childress family finance the ship and what
clues might be surmised from that. We speculate that it may have been a
group effort of the extended Childress family, involving every cousin,
in-law, church member, and every neighbor that could be persuaded to buy
into the plan. It is reasonable and likely that the ship might have
been too small to carry everybody on a single voyage, that several trips
may have been necessary and that the several trips resulted in "cargo
"being a part of the means of defraying the financing. No single
crossing could have been profitable enough to pay for a ship. It would
have required several crossings to pay off the investors or to transport
the investors. When the English family, Childers, immigrated circa
1640's there may have been 3 or 4 on the first journey. When the
Childress family immigrated in 1745 the numbers would likely have been
far greater. We don't yet know the full extent. That is what we are
researching. But it seems reasonable that once the first crossing
proved successful other family members and their relatives would have
been encouraged and could have clamored in large numbers to come to
Virginia on subsequent voyages.
Before the record of the gravestone was widely disseminated to
researchers, and in the absence of any evidence, there developed a
theory that the sudden explosion of the Childress name must have
resulted due to name changes from Childers to Childress. Some
early researchers were aware that there were Childress families claiming
to be Scotch-Irish and that the name changes can't change a person's
origin from English to Scotch-Irish. But there was no ship's passenger
list with a Childress name to support the "out-of-Ireland" lore. Over
the years, some Childers/Childress researchers have mixed the 2 separate
gene pools with increasing disregard for the names, resulting in many
inaccurate pedigrees. By the very nature of mixing gene pools,
pedigrees have been disseminated that claim "name changes" or "variant
spellings" to explain their inconsistencies. The name changes argument
is more often used than proved and is a source of misuse and abuse.
The Scotch-Irish Childress families knew they were not English
(Childers) and didn't like paying tithes (taxes) to support the Anglican
(English) Church in Virginia and didn't fit into an English hierarchy in
Virginia. The Scotch-Irish were Presbyterian and their church preached
individualism and the thinking that a man makes his own destiny by his
own efforts. The individual was responsible to himself and for himself
and was not beholding to a higher authority. The Scotch-Irish had an
identify they were proud of. They were not Irish and would have
protested or fought had you called them such. They were Scottish who
happened to have lived for a while in Ireland, but never assimilated
into Irish culture. It has been stated by historians that the favorite
hobby of Scotch-Irish Presbyterians of the period was to recite
ancestral lineages. The Scotch-Irish, Presbyterian, Childress family
who crossed knew their roots and they knew their identity. They were
Childress.
For general information on the SCOTCH IRISH HERITAGE go to
http://www.zekes.com/~dspidell/ulster.html#Voyage
Can Childress sometimes be Childers?
There are 2 families. The Childers are English and immigrated to
Virginia in
the 1640's. The Childress are Scotch-Irish and immigrated to Virginia in
1745. There is also evidence of continued immigration of both the
Childers
Childress surnames in the 19th Century. But there are misspellings
of both names in the records which means researchers confuse the two.
Records relating to both families have abundant misspellings by
NON-FAMILY
MEMBERS..ie.clerks. What has happened is that researchers will look at
a
Census or Deed or other document CREATED BY A NON-FAMILY MEMBER and draw
the
conclusion that document indicates the way the family spelled the name.
Only a signature of a family member can tell you how that family member
was
spelling his name...ie. to which family he belonged.
The family members have been very consistent, at least from what I have
seen of
the Childress lineages, at preserving the correct spelling...amongst
family
members. But the clerks are all over the map in variant misspellings.
You
can't tell by looking at a document created by clerk which family,
Childers or
Childress, you are tracking. It's terribly confusing. And as a
consequence
there are a lot of errors in the pedigrees of both lines, depending on
how much
care went into the pedigree trying to differentiate when a record was
for a
Childress family member and when a record was for a Childers family
member.
Adding to the confusion are a few instances (I have found 2, and there
are apt
to be a few more around) where there is a documented name change by one
family
to take on the name of the other.
The point that is lost most often, is that records created by non-family
members don't help you determine which family you are looking at. A
while
back.
All this confuses researchers especially researchers at an entry level.
For example: Those researchers at entry level look at a Census record
with 28
names ALL spelled "Childress" and say "they are all Childress."
Those researchers at a more experienced level look at the same Census
records
of 28 names ALL spelled "CHILDRESS" and say "I dont know if they are
Childress or Childers until I see their signatures, look at who they
married,
look at who are their neighbors, or find some other way to
differentiate. They
could be 28 "CHILDERS", with no Childresses, and are misspelled by the
clerk.
Ill have to get some other documents and try to sort it out. What a
fricken
mess".
The ultimate error is when a researcher switches back and forth and back
and
forth claiming that first the ANCHESTORS WERE USING one name then the
other
then back and forth and so on. That kind of conclusion is lacking in
evidence.
The researcher is tracking the misspellings, and rightly so, OF THE
CLERKS which vary
widely, but it is an overreach to declare that the ancestors where
vacillating in the use of
the name without other evidence.
Gary Childress
List Owner
Rootsweb Childress Surname Mail List
CH225(a)aol.com wrote:
> CAN someone STRAIGHTEN ME OUT ON THIS CHILDERS THING, I, AM LOOKING
FOR INFORMATION ON CHILDRESS BUT AT THIS LOCATION I SEEM TO GET ALMOST
EXCLUSIVELY PEOPLE WITH INFORMATION ON CHILDERS OR LOOKING FOR
INFORMATION ON CHILDERS. WE ARE MOST LIKELY RELATED WITH JUST A
CHANGE SOME WHERE IN THE SPELLING, BUT I CAN'T USE MUCH IF ANY OF THE
INFORMATION I RECEIVE.
APPRECIATE ANY HELP I CAN GET ON GETTING ROUTED TO THE PROPER LOCATION.
> THANK. LARRY CHILDRESS
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My Childers line has ties in Lamar County, Texas also. I attend our Childers
family reunion every year in Clarksville, Texas, which is in Red River County,
just next door to Lamar County. I have stayed over night in Paris and prowled
through the phone book there and found a lot of Childers that I could not
connect to my direct line. I think part of that mystery lies in a 1860 Lamar
County census.
I find my Alfred Maloy Childers living in Paris, Lamar County, Texas along
with his first wife, Mary C. Hulen. Also on this same census in Red River
County is listed a L.G. Childers age 47 born in SC, married to Mary A. age 42,
and the following children...Julia age 17, Binford age 14, Martha age 12,
Winford age 9, Joseph age 7. Also in that household is listed a John Childers
age 39, and a Jefferson E. Childers age 23. In the next household is listed
Sarah Childers age 68 born in Georgia, Martha Childers age 37, Sarah Childers
age 26 and Jas. R. Childers age 42.
In Bell County Texas on a 1860 census we find A Childers age 9, J.D. Childers
age 7 and Martha Childers age 6 living in the household of Jesse Royalls age
44,and his wife Elvira age 26 and children Mary age 14, William age 11.
There was another Childers living in Lamar County at the same time as my
Alfred Maloy Childers and L.G. Childers, but I have lost that census that
shows that.
What I am getting at is here we find three separate Childers families living
right next door to each other in 1860 in Lamar County, Texas. From the ages
it could very well be that my Alfred was a nephew to the other two, who lived
in either side of him. The two who lived on either side of my Alfred were
born in Georgia and South Carolina, and my Alfred was born in North Carolina,
but I don't give that much importance. Three Childers living three in a row
of each other ? And they weren't related ? I doubt it. I feel sure they
were all from the same family, but have been lost to the ages because no one
kept up the family contact.
In the fall 1998 issue of The Childers/Childress Clearing house Bulletin there
are listed many James Childers in SC.
Jack Childers in OKC
The art of spelling is a science in and of itself. It tends to be very
precise and have very firm rules. Family history/genealogy, on the other hand
is the opposite. Searching spelling of names does not lead one to the
research of the history of a family. If one is into spelling that is fine and
good, however if one is into family history one must, at all times, check all
spellings possible. For example if one is looking for people with the family
name of Luck one must search for Luck and Lucke. After missing a whole
generation of my family I did locate them in the index under Suck!
The search for family must include each and every possible clue, spelling or
otherwise. Many of our ancestors never wrote their own names for hundreds of
years. Their names, if written, were written by priests, ministers, civil
clerks, etc. With those really great moments in our "hunt" when we find a
document written by an ancestor, many times the family name is spelled two or
three different ways within this one document. Therefore to say that one
family has a "real" name, meaning one spelling, is like saying, "Ok, search
only this one spelling because any other spellings are NOT OUR FAMILY". This
is not genealogy!
The science of spelling is interesting and it is good that some would discuss
it. I am sure that there are good sites, other than rootsweb.com, on the Net
for this art. Good family history is finding who married who, where they
lived, what their lives were like, why they suddenly moved half way across a
continent or went into the wilds. It is to understand our family's past so we
might understand ourselves better, and find guidance for the future.
Norman Peters
WOW!!! I have not see this much activity in a long time. I got to put my two
cents as well.I have had my name spelled Childers ,Childress, Childres, etc
etc. My gggrandfathers tombstone says Childress, his son's Childers.
London99 had good points but so did jchild8629. All I can said is that
county clerks aint required to have no English degrees. Also at one time
there where no hard rules of spelling nor dictionaries! Any education pass
grade school was considered higher education. Just being able to read and
write was quite impressive.
Well what ever how about everyone prying open those notebooks and
passing on a little bit of info! Childers Childress whatever names you have?
If everyone put this much effort everyday or so maybe we all would get some
where ------INDIANA JACK
Do not make the same mistake I made in my foolish youth. I was so sure that
the correct name was CHILDERS that I ignored all over varient spellings. I
totally ignored them for over 20 years !!!
About 20 years into my research it dawned on me that I ought to start saving
information on these other names, but I started to do so only out of
curiosity.
But I kept running into CHILDRES and CHILDRESS that seemed to brush my own
CHILDERS family too closely. Finally I found relatives who I could definitely
connect to my CHILDERS line, and they spelled their names CHILDRESS and
CHILDRES.
In one line alone there are brothers who spell it all three ways !!! And
other relatives were born CHILDERS, later on changed it to CHILDRES, then died
as CHILDRESS.
Go figure.
The moral is to not leave any stone unturned. How many connections did I lose
during those 20 years when I thought it could only be CHILDERS.
And that doesn't take into account the family I found named CHILDREY !!!!!
Jack Childers in OKC
In a message dated 1/29/99 12:30:13 PM Pacific Standard Time, CHILDERS-D-
request(a)rootsweb.com writes:
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CAN someone STRAIGHTEN ME OUT ON THIS CHILDERS THING, I, AM LOOKING FOR
INFORMATION ON CHILDRESS BUT AT THIS LOCATION I SEEM TO GET ALMOST
EXCLUSIVELY
PEOPLE WITH INFORMATION ON CHILDERS
OR LOOKING FOR INFORMATION ON CHILDERS. WE ARE MOST LIKELY RELATED WITH
JUST
A CHANGE SOME WHERE IN THE SPELLING, BUT I CAN'T USE MUCH IF ANY OF THE
INFORMATION I RECEIVE.
APPRECIATE ANY HELP I CAN GET ON GETTING ROUTED TO THE PROPER LOCATION.
THANK. LARRY CHILDRESS
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Larry,
I know you will hear from one other person to the contrary, but a person would
be foolish to not follow every lead no matter how the name is spelled. There
may have been a difference over in England or where ever, but it has been so
mixed up here by clerks, census takers, etc. that who knows what it originally
was.
I don't care what my Childers / Childress turns out to be as long as I can
find the parents.
My Frances Childers married Thomas Sidney McDuffie in Cherokee Co., AL about
1851.
On the 1850 census she was CHILDERS; in some family papers she was Childers,
however, I believe she had a brother named William CHILDRESS.
Who knows.
Good luck,
Wynell
It is not easy to figure this Childers/Childress business. I have decided that
it is just how ever the census takers decided to put it. My grandfather was
born in ala. His father and all children spelled the name Childress, then in
1860, my grandfather was in Tenn., Hardeman Co. With wife and family, and the
spelling was Childers, that was his first marriage, then in 1864, he married
my grandmother, Sarah Jane Anderson, and the spelling seems to have gone back
to Childress. Now my father was their youngest son, and we always spelled our
name Childress. But on the marriage record in FRanklin Co. Ark., Both of my
dad's marriages had the name spelled Childers. So I know for a fact, that you
take the spelling with agrain of salt, and don't worry too much about it.
Which Childresses are you researching.
Bonnie Childress LeBlanc
Hey all,
Hunting for the ancestors of Dorothy Childers of Doddridge Co? (Central)
WV. She would have been born around 1880, and the info I know on her
family is listed below. Thanks for the help!
Dave Powell
Descendants of Dorothy Childers
1 Dorothy Childers b: d:
.+James Wesley Snider b: 08 August 1880 in Doddridge County, West
Virginia m: d: 13 June 1924 in Doddridge County, West Virginia
2 Helen Gertrude Snider b: 21 March 1915 in West Union, Doddridge Co.,
WV d: 17 January 1970 in Parkersburg, Wood Co., WV
...+Dale Douglas Powell b: 13 July 1913 in Sistersville, WV d: 17
October 1956 in Vienna, Wood Co, WV
*2nd Husband of Helen Gertrude Snider:
...+Julian Lee Powell b: 13 July 1915 in Parkersburg, Wood Co., WV d: 09
March 1997 in Vienna, Wood, WV
2 Durward Snider
...+Nina ________
2 Vella Snider
...+Edward Boggs
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CAN someone STRAIGHTEN ME OUT ON THIS CHILDERS THING, I, AM LOOKING FOR
INFORMATION ON CHILDRESS BUT AT THIS LOCATION I SEEM TO GET ALMOST EXCLUSIVELY
PEOPLE WITH INFORMATION ON CHILDERS
OR LOOKING FOR INFORMATION ON CHILDERS. WE ARE MOST LIKELY RELATED WITH JUST
A CHANGE SOME WHERE IN THE SPELLING, BUT I CAN'T USE MUCH IF ANY OF THE
INFORMATION I RECEIVE.
APPRECIATE ANY HELP I CAN GET ON GETTING ROUTED TO THE PROPER LOCATION.
THANK. LARRY CHILDRESS