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HELP ANYONE!!!!!
I am looking for the surnames Chisholm and Chism of Bahamiam descent, with
some relatives now living in south Florida and maybe Georgia. My father was
born in Miami, Fl in 1919. The spelling of his family name on his birth
certificate was changed from Chisholm to Chism for some unknow reason. My
father's name is Welton Chism and father's name is Wellington Chisholm. My
grandfather (Wellington) was born on Crooked Island in the Bahamas late
1800's early 1900's.I am just starting this search and I am hoping this
Chisholm list will help.
Thanks,
Deborah Chism Patton
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Hi,
Thanks for responding as quickly as you did. I am just starting this project
of tracing my roots and I am hoping this Chisholm list will help. Let me
tell what I found out so far and maybe others on the list can help me. My
father was born in Miami, Fl in 1919. The spelling of his family name on his
birth ceritificate was changed from Chisholm to Chism for some unknown
reason. My father's name is Welton Chism and his father's name was
Wellington Chisholm. My grandfather (Wellington) was born on Crooked Island
in the Bahamas, I do not have the birthdate and my father is know 80yrs and a
lot of this is "fuzzy" to him.
Any information you have would be greatly appreciated and I as get more info
from my dad I will pass it on.
Thanks
Deborah Chism Patton
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Does anyone on the list know how or why the spelling of Chisholm has
varied so much. I believe my Chisholm ancestors in the United States
once spelled the name Chisum or Chism but about the time of the American
revolution it was changed back to Chisholm. Has anyone done any "book
learning" on this subject?
Horatio Paul McAfee
Hi Fran:
That's OK -- send all the stuff you want -- we are not exactly over run with messages. As long as it has something Chisholm in it.
Paul the Chisholm List Administrator
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Fran Johnston wrote:
> Sorry, I sent a court of Equity NOT a Chisholm Will! Should have read more before getting so excited. However, it DOES list a LOT of Chisholms that were in Montgomery County, NC in 1823!
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Sorry, I sent a court of Equity NOT a Chisholm Will! Should have read more before getting so excited. However, it DOES list a LOT of Chisholms that were in Montgomery County, NC in 1823!
Fram Johnston
Don't know if this is of interest to anyone - but...
State of North Carolina, Montgomery County, Court of Equity held for
the County aforesaid to September term, 1823. His honor Joseph J.
Daniel being present the following bill after being duly filed was.. in
the following words. In chancery Fall Term 1823.
Humbly complaining showeth unto your Honor...orators Angus Chisholm,
Daniel Chisholm and John Chisholm, Daniel Chisholm Junr., and Calvin
J.(?)Chisholm and Mary A. Chisholm, minors by their guardian, Angus
Chisholm, all of the County of Montgomery and John Morrison and Mary
Morrison, his wife of the County of Richmond and James McNeill and
Rachel, his wife of South Carolina.
That Murdock Chisholm, father of your orator departed this life
sometime in the year, leaving Malcolm Chisholm, deceased, the father of
John Chisholm and Daniel Chisholm, Jun., Angus Chisholm, Daniel
Chisholm Sen., John Chisholm, deceased father of Calvin J. Chisholm and
Mary A. Chisholm, minors. Rachel McMillan, wife of James McMillan and
Mary Morrison, wife of John Morrison, his children and heirs at law and
at the time of his death was signed and possessed. of a tract of one
hundred acres of land situated on the waters of Mountain Creek in the
County of Montgomery adjoining the lands of Angus Chisholm, Hiram
Clark, and others and that the said Murdock Chisholm made no
disposition of the said tract of land within during his life or by his
last will and testament, but died intestate as to the same, which said
tract of one hundred acres of land disc... by the laws to your orators
as tenants in common.
Your orators further show unto your honor that the aforesaid tract of
one hundred acres of land situated as aforesaid cannot be divided and
partition made between and among the aforesaid tenants in common
without manifest injury to each and every of them. Your orator,
therefore pray your Honor to order and decree a sale of the aforesaid
tract of one hundred acres of land and a division of the money arising
from the proceeds of such sale according to the provisions of the act
of assembly in such cases made and provided and as the aforesaid
tenants in common or each and every of them by law be entitled.
And your orators as in duty bound will wit pray & C.
George C. Mendenhall
Att. For complainant
State of N. Carolina
Montgomery County
County Court of Equity, March 1825
Angus Chisholm and other petition
In obedience to a decree of the honor of the court at the March term
1824, I proceeded to advertise and sell the land agreeable to said
decree at the court house in the town of Lawrenceville on the 6th of
May last past at which time and place Malcolm C. Clark, agent for Hiram
Clark became the last and highest bidder for the sum of one hundred
dollars which said sum though not yet all due, has been paid into the
office and is now at the disposal of the honorable court. All of which
is humbly submitted together with a equest of the purchaser that the
deed may be executed to the said Hiram Clark.
Jno. Christian ...&
Angus Chisholm and others.
March term 1825
The master having filed his report in this case it is ordered adjudged
and decreed that the report of the master be confirmed and it is
further ordered that the Clerk and master execute a deed of conveyance
to the purchaser for the lands that the Clerk and master after
deducting the costs of this suit from the purchase money that he
distribute the balance of the purchase money agreeable to the prayer of
the petition and it is further ordered that the Clerk and receive the
sum of five dollars for service in selling the land and make title.
Angus Chisholm & other petition: The proceeds of the sale of land to be
distributed in the following way:
Amount of sale:
$100.00
Deducted bill of cost: $7.85
$ 92.15 or $12.02 ½ each
John Chisholm
Children and wife of Malcolm C. $12.02 ½
Daniel Chisholm and Mary Chisholm
Angus Chisholm's part $12.02 ½
Daniel Chisholm's at law $12.02 ½
Calvin J. Chisholm
Mary A. Chisholm
Children of Jno Chisholm $12.02 ½
James McMillan and wife
Rachel McMillan $12.02 ½
John Morrison and wife
Mary Morrison $12.02 ½
$92.15
Dear Horatio,
Thanks for the welcome. I really don't know what I'm looking for. I've
always
been told our family was some how connected to the Chisholms (Jesse). It
might be by marriage. My great-aunts always told me we were related to the
Spartas of Tennessee and one was married to a Chisholms. One of my gr-
aunts even went to a Sparta family reunion in Tennessee.
My gr-grandfather was Arthur Willis and his wife was Della Blanks, one of
them was connected somehow. They were born about 1860-70. I was
also told through this line was Choctaw or Cherokee and both of my aunts
looked it. I hope someone will recognize these names.
Thanks,
Linda
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My "CHISHOLM" line is as follows:
1. ANGUS CHISHOLM & _______ McDONALD
2. JOHN CHISHOLM & ELIZABETH McCULLOUGH
b. abt 1834 in Scotland/Nova Scotia b. 1 Jan 1838
Stewiacke, NS
m. 1 Oct 1860 Truro, NS d. 12 Mar 1910
Bemidji, MN
d. 4 Feb 1917 Bemidji, MN Religion;
Presbyterian
Occup: Seaman & Farmer
3. CHILDREN OF JOHN & ELIZABETH:
ANGUS, b. Nova Scotia, died 1917 Bemidji, MN
MARY ELLEN, died Bemidji, MN, married ED BRINKMAN
MARTHA RACHEL, b. abt 1872, died Elk River, MN, married ALVOR LEIGHTON
ANNABELLE, died Brainerd, MN, married PATRICK O'CONNER
GARFIELD, died from being scalped by Indians
WILLIAM, b. abt 1884, died 12 Apr 1906 Bemidji, MN
ALEXANDER,b. abt 1875, died Oct 1891 Fargo, ND (struck by lightening)
EDWARD,
JOHN EDWARD, b. 17 Mar 1869 in Nova Scotia, married (1) EDNA KEER,
(2) SARAH ELIZABETH DONAHUE. He died 6 Aug 1934 of stomach cancer at
Brainerd, MN . Occup: Farmer.
If any connection are made, I'll send a GEDCOM of my entire branch of the
"CHISHOLM".
Les Chisholm
Lacey, WA
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Among the Scots-Irish in early America, there was kith and kin
relationships that were very common. Kin, of course, refers to blood
relations. Kith refers to relations that are not based a blood
connection, but on friendship between two (or more ) families.
Sometimes kith turned into kin when the offspring of families married.
That happened among my Chisholms.
In the early 1800's, for example, Enoch P. Chisholm and Amanda McMahon
got married in Texas. Something told me kith and kin was at work. So,
searching in Alabama, I found a Chisholm family in the same locality
where a McMahon family had lived for a time. Sure enough, these were
the fathers of Enoch and Amanda.
Then, knowing one of the families had come from Tennessee, I found the
grandfathers of Enoch and Amanda had been officers in local government
in Washington Co. in Eastern Tennessee. It turns out the fathers of
Enoch and Amanda had served in closely related militia units in the War
of 1812 and in the (tragic) campaigns against the Creek Indians.
One of the daughters of Enoch and Amanda married a man named DeGuire.
By some turn of circumstance the Chisholm name was replaced in the kith
and kin scheme of things by the DeGuire name. I have a letter written
by a McMahon nephew of Amanda to a DeGuire counsin in the 1880's. What I
found next completed the circle. When one of the DeGuire descendents
died in California in 1922 the person who wrote a funeral poem for him
was a Mary McMahon.
So, if you have followed my tortured tale here, you will see that a kith
and kin relationship that began at least around the time of the American
revolution in Eastern Tennessee continued among succeeding generations
into the 20th Century.
I doubt if the people in 1922 were aware that their family friendship
actually began nearly a 150 years before.
Something to keep in mind ...
Paul