June 18, 2011

9 am till dark

Maumee Bay State Park,

1400 State Park Road
Oregon, Ohio Take Our Poll

Map of park and area: http://www.dnr.state.oh.us/Portals/2/parkmaps/maumeebayparkmap.pdf

We’ll be at Sun shelter #3

Barrett Genealogy Update

I have been working diligently on our family genealogy.  Two males of the Barrett line (direct linage from Cyrus) have submitted their DNA for the Barrett DNA research.  The results are in… pretty much.  Our DNA closely matches those who have documented their ancestry from Thomas Barrett, b in 1591 or 1602 (the date is unknown positively) in Norwich, Essex County, England.  He came to America in the late 1630s.  It is believed he came with 2 brothers, John and Humphrey.  They all settled in Massachusetts, as many of the emigrants did in those days. In the “Encyclopedia of Massachusetts” by Henry L. Dawes, the first record of Barretts was Robert Barrett who settled in Maine.  He was a fisherman in Maine. Some of the Barretts from his family were living in Winter Harbor and Cape Porpoise areas.  There is no proof of them being related to Thomas or not.

There are stories about the Barretts who were part of this family who went to PA and NY. This is important since Cyrus and Elias were both born in PA.  Unfortunately I have not found our Cyrus and his brother Elias among those stories.  However, Humphrey has descendants with the name of Cyrus, as well as a number of Samuels and Daniels. Another descendant of Thomas, Lysander, also has a Cyrus, and his father was named Daniel. Now, you may not think that is important, but if our Barretts continued with the habits of naming their children after the older family members this holds importance as we have a number of Daniels and Samuels in our family.  Cyrus named his first two sons Daniel and Samuel.  There was also a Lysander living a county over from Cyrus and Elias in Ohio… a coincidence perhaps?

Because we are only one or two markers off from those who descend from Thomas it is my belief (not documented or proven) that we “could” be descended from one of his brothers or cousins, possibly one who was in Ireland before coming to America. Since our family lore has been that we were from Ireland, I still am looking for matches there.

An interesting fact is that my cousin is only one marker off from some who are descendants of Thomas where my brother is two markers off.  It is possible that the marker that Rolland has that is different from the others is related to the Cystic Fibrosis gene.  I am still investigating this.  I do know that some other branches of Barretts have had Cystic Fibrosis in their lines, so it is worth looking into.

As always I am looking for any family info that people want to submit to me to go in the database I have of Barretts. I also still have CDs of The Barrett Saga that I wrote in 2008.  I can also print it out as a book for anyone who wants that.  It is approx 280 pages long and it includes all of our genealogy from all of the different trees that make up our Barrett clan. For privacy issues, you’ll be happy to know that I do not have the most recent generations in the book, but I really would like to have it in my database for future generations.  Since I do not have all of the info on children of some of my own nieces and nephews you can see that I am missing important info.  So, anyone who wants to send me info, pictures, etc I will gladly add it to my electronic database.

Vicki and Ruth

Here are more candid shots of the reunion.  If you have any photos of the reunion you want published here, please email them to me at aunt_sande@yahoo.com. Actually if you have some that are much better than mine, please send them to me so I can post them instead!

Sue and Lana

Getting the brats ready for consumption

Scott and Steven

Andy, Falin, Gene and Bev playing Ladder Ball

Andy, Falin, Gene and Bev playing around

A number of clanfolk enjoying the sun and company

Doug 'Gene' and Bev Barrett

Spanning 4 generations with 2 people, Uncle Dick Barrett and Cassie Bruner

Uncle Dick Barrett

Falin Barrett, and Donald Lovejoy

                                          

Kaye Barrett enjoying the sunshine and conversation with Falin and Don

Andy Barrett

Without further adieu, here are the photos:

the 2008 Barrett Family Reunion

Uncle Dick Barrett

Ruth

Roy Stearns and family: Carol, Heather and Casey

Sharon and Lois 'Weber' and Sharon's daughter Stephanie

Lyn and Sue 'Korecki' Bruner, daughters Gwen and Cassie

Lana 'Barrett' and Ev Harris

Martin and Evelyn Bischoff. Judy Robbins, Nicole Rollins and friend Tiffany

John and Kaye Barrett, and granddaughter Beth

Doug and Bev Barrett

Donald Lovejoy

Vicki Leu, son Steven, Beth and Scott Jaegly and John Bender

Sande 'Barrett' son Andy and daughter-in-law Falin Barrett

On another page there are more candid shots of the reunion.

If you missed this reunion and want to keep updated on when the next one will be make sure you bookmark this site.

The first three are of the Barrett House and Barn in Kunkle, OH 

The tombstone of Cyrus and Susannah [Zettelmeyer] Barrett

These are photos of Cyrus III and Mary [Brewer] Barrett and family:

LaVern, William, Nora and Charles

Thomas and Florence [Barrett] Carpenter and son 

After the reunion, I will be posting details and photos from the event so be sure to check back here for those.

SEE YOU AT THE REUNION JULY 5!

JULY 5 , 2008

Opdyke Park

Williams County, OH

all day

Bring a dish to pass, your own meat for the grill and drinks and your own plates and eating utensils.

Directions:

From the north – Hwy 20A (Airport Hwy in Toledo) west about 40 miles to County Road 16, turn south to County Road J.  The park is at this intersection.

OR — also from the north, Turnpike to Montpelier Exit, go south on County Road 14 to County Road J, go west about 2 miles to park on the corner of CR-J and CR-16.

From the east (Toledo) — Take Airport Hwy west for about 40 miles, turn south on County Road 16, go to County Road J, park is at that corner.

From the south (Bryan) — Take County Road 15 (also called State Route 15) to County Road J, turn right, go about 1 mile to County Road 16.