Hopkin
Thomas Family Ties
The
Family Tree Index – a graphical
link to the Hopkin Thomas family tree and
138 other families tied to the Hopkin Thomas family
through blood or marriage. There are approximately 49,000 persons
currently represented on the family trees.
Biographical Sketches - the link to
biographical data for those appearing in the trees and for whom such data has
been compiled.
Methods
and Sources
The
genealogical data has been compiled using Reunion, Ver 9, published for
Macintosh, by
Leister Productions. Sources
including publications, web sites and personal communications are listed here.
A
Request for Information
If your roots
are in the Lehigh Valley, chances are your family name is included - and
hopefully even you.
If your family
name is there, but you are not, and you have some inkling that your family is
related to the one listed, send me an e-mail and perhaps we can establish a
link.
If you are in
the data base, then a biographical sketch and a picture would be appreciated.
Both should be something in which you take a certain amount of pride. That is,
this is your chance to pad your resume. You could say that you were an
elementary school teacher, but it would be better to say that you taught fourth
graders in Catasauqua, many of whom grew up to run for the Presidency. I have
spent hours going over the genealogical histories written in the early 20th
century and it is apparent to me that those whose bios appeared (probably by
virtue of their subscribing to an issue of the book being prepared) took the
opportunity to exaggerate their importance (not in our family, of course). So
go for it. This is your legacy. A hundred years from now you don't want your
great grandchildren to say, "Uncle Don really didn't do much, did
he". As far as the picture goes, the pose can be casual as long as the
face is well lighted - I will crop the rest of the image. Digital images are
preferred.
Contact jb.mcvey@roadrunner.com
Acknowledgements
Thanks to Newt
and Monica Bugbee for initiating my interest in the activities of Hopkin Thomas
and for many of the leads that are being pursued.
Molly Taylor
supplied much of the information on the Shannahan, Taylors, Myers and Newan
families and a good deal of the information on the McKee family.
Ian Zaenger
provided extensive information on the McKees of Pennsylvania.
Frederic W.
(Fritz) and William R. (Dick) Thomas provided data on the current and recent
descendants of Hopkin’s son, William Richards Thomas.
Meriam Schmeig,
a descendant of David Thomas supplied much of the data on the younger
generations of the David Thomas family.
David Thomas
III and David Thomas IV have supplied information on their branch of the David
Thomas family.
Daphne
Holmquist has worked on the Milson and Stillman families.
Barbara H.
Eckbreth provided all of the information on the Eckbreth, Hocking, Pelletier,
Hayes, Charette (Chout), Dufour, and Cortelyou families and much of the data on
the Merrick, Easland and Reid families.
Jane L. Green
provided extensive information on the Heffelfinger and Weber (Weaver) families.
Jim Weaver is
keeping us abreast of his branch within the Jacob Mickley family.
Nancy Kee
Conlin Wyatt has provided information on the Butler line within the Thomas
McKee line.
Michael J. Cox
has provided much data on the Sayre, Cox, Dodson and Hazard families.
Hal Buckingham
supplied information on current and past generation of the Butler, Carr and
Slocum branches of the Sayre family.
Gladys and Reid
Hanford have supplied data on the Reid and Oakes branches of the Merrick
family. Marie Trawinska supplied data on the Trawinska family in the Merrick
family.
Carol Jesse has
provided extensive information on the David Williams family.
Diane Kelly
Weintraub, a descendant of Nehemiah Newan, has provided much data on that
family and on the Taylors.
Paul C.
Nascimbene has provided input on the George H. Daugherty and James Laird
families.
Jenny Hawran has
provided information on the family of Oliver Earnest Hawkins, spouse of Irene
Thomas of the Hopkin Thomas Tree.
Gareth Davies,
of the UK, has provided information on the Morgan Emanuel family who lived in
the Lehigh Valley – see the David Williams Tree.
Dave Finnigan
has provided information on the Weston D. Dodson family which led to expansion
of the Samuel Dodson family, and the families attached thereto.
David
Barrington, of England, a descendant of David Thomas,
has provided extensive information on his family.
He is descended from Joan Thomas of Glamorgan, Wales
and has traveled to Wales to search various records.
Return to The Hopkin Thomas Project page.
Rev.April
2020