Kin and Konnections: A Family History Blog

Goodfellows Were From Ireland I just received the portions of the Burwell/Tate papers I requested from the University of Missouri at Kansas City. It includes several pictures (most are unidentified); the booklet from the Burwell Family picnic in 1870 at Burwell Farms in Connecticut; Mary Alice Burwell's DAR application; Moses and Isabella's marriage certificate; obituaries for: Moses, Isabella, Nettie, Lydia Wilson (Isabella's sister) and William Wilson (Lydia's husband); and various genealogy notes. Isabella Goodfellow's grandfather was Moore Goodfellow (married to Isabella or Isabel Nichelson) born about 1779 in the County of Tyrone, Ireland. He came to America in about 1804, first settling in Maryland. After a few years he moved to Ohio where he died on September 11, 1860. Mom found on the Internet a Moore Goodfellow in the War of 1812 Muster Rolls. Originally published on my personal MyFamily.com website on September 8, 2000. Edited for clarity.  Categories: Bur...

I found a pair of Burwell sisters in the DAR [Daughters of the American Revolution Lineage Books] that I believe are my great-great-grandfather John W. Burwell's sisters. From Volume 14, p. 122 (for the year 1896): Miss Nettie B. Burwell ID No. 13326 Born in Illinois Descendant of John Burwell, of New Jersey. Daughter of Moses T. Burwell and Isabella Goodfellow, his wife. Granddaughter of John Burwell and Missouri Thorp, his wife. Gr.-granddaughter of Jonathan Burwell and Mary Comer, his wife. Gr.-gr.-granddaughter of John Burwell and ___ Lyons, his wife. John Burwell turned out in Capt. Stephen Baldwin's company, Col. Sylvanus Seely's regiment of Morris county militia, 1780, at Connecticut Farms, N.J. He died 1825. Mrs. Mary Alice Burwell Burns ID No. 13327 Born in Illinois. Wife of Luther Burns. Descendant of John Burwell. Daughter of Moses T. Burwell and Isabella Goodfellow, his wife. See No 13326. I believe that these women are John W.'s sisters for several reasons:...

Today, I am googling my 5 th great grandfather Moore Goodfellow (ancestor of my great-grandmother Alice Burwell) from Ballygawley, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland, progenitor of the Goodfellow line from Clark County, Ohio.      So here goes… Will of John Nicholson, father-in-law of Moore Goodfellow http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ohclark/Probate/John_Nicholson.txt An 1839 marriage announcement for the widow of Moore Goodfellow and daughter of John Beggs in Ballygawley.   Could they be Moore’s parents? http://www.cotyroneireland.com/marriages/aughnacloy.html   1840 U.S. Census for Harmony Township, Clark County, Ohio http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ohclark/1840Census/Clark67.htm A biographical sketch of Roy A Goodfellow whose great-grandfather was Moore Goodfellow. http://archive.org/stream/astandardhistor00socigoog#page/n300/mode/2up Moore Goodfellow’s headstone at Wraggs Cemetery, Clark County, Ohio   ...