John Faucett

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Hi, John. I see how your Croninger branch and my Snells intersect. Best wishes with your research! Jane

Hello John,

Thank you for your recent addition of living Holmes members of your genealogy. I have a Holmes One Name study. Please consider joining it and contributing your Holmes line to the project.

Thanks again, Ryan Holmes

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Hi, John. I believe we're half cousins! My great grandmother was Martha Jane Townsend Driscoll Wood from her first husband, Jeremiah Driscoll. I use Ancestry [Anne White - Wright Family Tree public] and have more detailed info in Ancestry than in wiki [I'm slowly trying to get Wiki up to date]. Her mother, Susan Townsend, was one of my brick walls but I think I finally blasted through that a couple of months ago. Interestingly enough, I found a sad but amusing [if you have a "black" sense of humor like my family has] newspaper advertisement in which Jeremiah posted in the paper that he would no longer pay debts incurred by his wife, Martha Jane Driscoll! You know there's a story there somewhere! It's posted in her profile in Ancestry. It's obvious you are a dedicated researcher - thanks for all your hard work! I feel like a newbie still - have been at this for about 18 months. Anne

I am trying to feed a piece of information about the Faucette family in Orange County. Perhaps you can feed it in for me. I am currently in the process of tidying up the Fawcetts of Frederick County Va and the Irish Ballinderry Quaker Faussets. Ballinderry is beside Lisburn

I came across this snippet in the DAR Library in Washington in 2003. I now know that it is essentially accurate apart from the William Penn bit.

My Story by Martha Lou Faucette Nelson This is a fascinating book written in 1930 describing her family life and how her grandfather, Robert Faucette Jr, and his brothers fought for the Confederacy, her grandfather being the only one to survive. She says - “Although the Faucette family from which I descend first came to this country in Chester County, Pennsylvania, by 1836 they were in Madison County, Mississippi where Robert Faucette, Sr first paid his first taxes in that year. She says the Faucette family Cemetery is at Sunrise Hill, Fairhaven.

What I found particularly interesting was when she discussed her ancestry. She wrote; After the Edict of Nantes was revoked…………the best citizens left the country. The Faucettes were also French Protestants so most of them, if not all, left France. The King of England offered these refugees “Homes in my new Dominions”, the House of Orange was very helpful, so was Ireland. The Faucettes first went to a Quaker colony in Yorkshire, England, then some moved to Orange County, Virginia whilst others went to Lizbourne, Ireland. It is believed that I descend from this Irish branch, that later came to America with William Penn. They went first to Chester County, Pennsylvania. (NOTE) I believe the treaty was revoked by Louis XIV in 1685, . I also assume that the House of Orange was Protestant Holland. Yes the king did assist Huguenots move to America

In hope,

Martin Fausset,

Hampshire England

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Shirley

Thanks for changing your privacy level!

John,

Many thanks and agree with your edit on Salem. The "1833" became more clear after converting the color image of the gravestone to grayscale, increasing contrast and reducing brightness.

John

I will have to check my info but I do remember there being a Fawcett in the family line somewhere. I can let you know or you can email me and I can send you the link I have that traces the Valentines back to France!

Vera Beebe Pettit 3338 and Vera Pettit 3310 are the same person. Could someone help to get this merged?

Hi John,

If you decide you want to join the Portugal Project just send me a pm with your email and I'll add you. We'd love to have you on the team!

Mindy Silva

OK John, you must be related to the Kirklands of NC - do you have any "hidden" stuff that links them back to Ayrshire in Scotland?

The 1930 census has him with his parents and brothers.

I realized that after I rechecked...but my question still stands. Why did you delete that part of the bio? Just wondering is all

So um...why did you delete what I put in the biography of Frederic Aldinger? Just...uh, just wondering.