Mystery Ancestors 2015

• • Bannon, Wendy: John Bannon Sr. 1777 - 1854

  • Evans, Carol: Martin Van Buren - 8th President of the United States of America and catalyst for the expression "okay"

  • Holden, Tom: The Brothers Robertson – in Blood and Arms – my Grand Uncles & The Great War

  • Makepeace, Bernice: DNA Discovers Grandpa John McCubbin's Other Descendants

  • Smith, Beverly: Charles Houghton - a Brave Man

  • Smith, Ron: Philip Embury - Builder of the First Methodist Church in the Americas

  • Sterling, Peter: My Smith ancestors, three generations at the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich

  • Tryon, Anne: Who were the parents of Mary Brown/Browne? Who was the father of her children? Is there a Jewish connection?

Several of our presentations were covered in a series of articles by local newspaper columnist Cecelia Nasmith in Northumberland Today but her articles are not accessible online.