St. Rose Catholic Church, from the adjoining cemetery. Good morning! Today’s database is St. Rose Catholic Church Baptisms. This is an Excel file of 4,840 baptisms from St. Rose Catholic Church, located on Hwy 152, Loretto Road, just outside the city of Springfield in Washington County, Kentucky. The […]
Know all men by these presents that we, Andrew Powell and Abraham Hogeland, are held and firmly bound unto his Excellency, the Governor of Kentucky, in the sum of fifty pounds current money, to the payment of which well and truly to be made to the said governor […]
Kentucky – A History of the State, Perrin, Battle, Kniffin, 1887 Benjamin C. Allin was born May 6, 1808. His father, Thomas Allin, was born in Hanover County, Virginia, May 14, 1757. In the beginning of the Revolution, soon after the Battle of Camden, he entered Gen. Greene’s […]
Today I came across another gem saved by my great-grandmother, Frances Barber Linton Montgomery. It is an original bill of Moses Lewis Linton from Washington County, Kentucky, 1842. It seems to be from a court case, but there is such little information I can not be certain. In […]
Pike County is the furthest east of all Kentucky counties. It was formed in 1821 from Floyd County, so any records before that date would be located in that county. The first will in Pike County Will Book 1 is for William Johnson. Ritchey and I have not […]
Today we celebrate the wedding of a very handsome couple! This photo was taken about 1910, give or take a few years. The veil gives us our biggest clue – the way it fits around the head, and flows from the back is a strong clue. The simple […]
Henry A. Miles and Ann Eliza Read, natives of Nelson County, procured their marriage bond June 4, 1855, and were married the next day. My next sentence was going to be, ‘I have not found much about their early life’, when I came upon a list of marriages […]
St. Charles Catholic Church, St. Mary, Marion County, Kentucky. It’s database day! Today I share with you a cemetery list from St. Charles Catholic Cemetery in Marion County. This was my family parish from sixth grade until I married. I spent many years playing organ for church, weddings […]
Simeon Walton’s will is the first in Bracken County Will Book A. It is a lengthy will, giving explicit instructions on how his property is to be divided among his eleven children. Married names of daughters is given. And there is notation that daughter Barbara Harvey is deceased, […]
Last week I posted a 1903 wedding photograph. Mention was made about how many grooms in the 1800’s were 15 to 20 years older than their brides. And Nicki, one of my readers, made a comment that many young women in the 1890’s and beyond married older Civil […]
Isaiah and Lydia Ross Hill
1929 Wedding
Revolutionary War heroes and families.
Ritchey's Paternal Grandmother
George and Caroline's Wedding Day
Klein Sod House
Kentucky Kindred Genealogy 