You may post your free query at our website http://www.merrill.wwh.net/TMN/TMNhome.html. Just scroll down to the Guestbook link and click on Sign Guestbook. We check the Guestbook frequently for new queries, and answer them by e-mail, before publication in this column. Please remember to include all known names, dates and locations to help us pinpoint your Merrill family.
New Queries Query: Rose Adams of CA wanted us to confirm a proposed lineage found in her mothers papers.
"Here is my mother's line, I just found her book."Nathaniel Merrill & Susannah Wilterton
Dean Abraham Merrill & Abigail Webster
Jonathan Merrill & Mary Brown
Abraham Merrill & Mehitable Stevens
Abraham Merrill & Elizabeth Russ
Thomas Merrill & Susannah Pell
Gilman Merrill & Rebecca Sevier
Hyrum Merrill & Sarah Helen Brim
Claude Merrill & Constance Eva Brown
Lorraine Junella Merrill & Lester Chacey 2nd Brandon E. Kent (my father)Query: Lil Follett-Hall asked: Who is Deborah Merrill, 65, with Truman, 32, schoolteacher, and Catharine, 29, in 1850 Census, Industry, Franklin, ME?
Query: Don W Merrill wrote: I am a twelfth generation New England Merrill. Some of
the information I have differs slightly from the short blurb I got off the internet,. I have five sons
(Nathaniel, John, Abraham, Daniel, and Abel). I have seen the material of another New Hampshire person who has a sixth son, Thomas.? There are discrepancies here and there. Does anyone have information on the ancestral line in England. I have four generations beginning with John born in 1475. A careful look at the dates through the generations suggests that there is a missing generation.
I look forward to hearing from you or someone with definitive answersQuery: Celia Schultz wrote asking who Mary Merrill's parents were." I have record of a Mary A. Merrill, b. Nov. 30, 1811, possibly in N. Yarmouth, ME; m. George Everett on March 11, 1830, probably in New Brunswick, Canada; date of burial 2/20/1885 in Manchester, NH."
From an "Everett" genealogy book: "George Everett is a 7th generation Descendant of Richard E of Dedham, MA. His wife, Mary A Merrill was of St. Andrews, NB, he was a farmer and shipwright, lived at Montville, Calais and Camden, ME. In 1869 he was living at Boston, MA."
Query: Liz Tattersall wrote "I am looking for information on Hattie G. Merrill. She married George E. Tattersall & had at least 2 sons, Ivan Leroy & Ernest. George was born in 1877, Orford, NH.
Ivan's birth certificate lists Hattie as being born in Lyme, NH. Hattie is my gg grandmother.Query: Beverly Merrill wrote:"I am still searching for my husband’s father’s line prior to 1794,
Joseph(?) Merrill was born on August 21, 1794. He married Catharine Berry September 30, 1823, and can be found in census records for about thirty years living in Denmark, Maine; then Lovell, Maine; and in Sebago, Maine, with a daughter, Cynthia Holt, about 1860. Joseph and Catherine had one son who lived to adulthood Stephen(?) who was died in 1865 from wounds suffered in the Battle of Hatcher’s Run, Virginia, in the Civil War. Stephen married Rebecca R. Blake and one of their children was Henry Wilson Merrill of Hiram, Maine, my husband’s grandfather. Anyone have any knowledge of this line, particularly the parentage of Joseph [1794]?"Answers to the above New Queries will be published in the next issue of The Merrill Newsletter. Jean and Howard's answers to the Queries published in the last issue, 6:1, are on the next page. Please click the Next Button to read them.
