Waffle family tree

[vaneramos]

The weekend has been busy and delightful. I won't have a chance to post properly until tomorrow, but for now here is some family tree information I worked on this afternoon. I have many more details on paper, but Marian wanted it for a school project, so I had to condense it into a version that could be scanned sent by email.

One coincidence I had never noticed before: I had ancestors on both my mother's and father's sides associated with the noble Butler family, the Dukes of Ormond, in Ireland. I knew that an ancestor on my father's side, the Lady Sarah Butler, eloped with the family's tutor, Thomas Singleton. But today, browsing through notes my mother's father made years ago, I found that his family, the Tobins, were liegemen and allies of the Butlers since the Norman invasion. Of course this doesn't indicate any marriages or progeny arose from the association, but over a course of centuries it's very likely. The descendants of the Butler family must be multitudinous, so this is hardly suprising, just interesting.

Indeed, it seems I have more numerous remote Irish roots than I had counted before. The rest of my heritage is English and German with a dusting of Scottish. I also attached some biographical notes on some of my ancestors:

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES:

THE WAFFLE FAMILY: The name is derived from a Swiss German name,
Weibel. Severinus Weibel immigrated to New England in the late 1700s
and the family still lives in New York. One of his descendants changed
the name to Waffle and came to Ontario with the United Empire
Loyalists in about 1820.

THE HYDE FAMILY: Descended from Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon, who
served as Chancellor to Charles II of England during the king's
banishment. His biography is here:
http://www.twickenham-museum.org.uk/detail.asp?ContentID=200.

THE TOBIN FAMILY: Among the fighting men who followed William the
Conqueror to England in 1066 was a soldier from Saint Aubin in
Normandy (France). A descendant of this family obtained lands in
Ireland, County Tipperary, after the Norman Invasion, where the family
became liegemen and allies of the Butlers, Dukes of Ormond. The name
De Saint Aubin became Tobin.

HOMER WAFFLE: He had been accused of arson when he died in a mill
accident in 1919. It was possibly a suicide.

JAMES ANDERSON: Born in Inverness, Scotland, he migrated to Ireland
where he married Lady Trotter. They came to Canada in 1840.

SHERMAN HYDE: A United Empire Loyalist, he moved to the Niagara Region
from New Jersey in 1778, later settled in Norfolk, Ontario.

CHARLES EDDY: He was an officer in the American Revolution. In 1778 he
came to Canada and settled in Scotland, Ontario.

THOMAS SINGLETON: He was commissioned on the field at the Battle of
Waterloo, and was tutor to Lord Butler. Back in Ireland he eloped with
the Duke's daughter, Lady Sarah, where she later died. He promised her
to take their children to Canada, and followed through with the
promise, but was drowned in transit.

WILLIAM GEORGE FORD: (Father of Alexander Ford) Born in Kingston in
1836, he was a founder of Queen's University and Ryerson Polytechnic
Institute, now Ryerson University.

WILLIAM KENNETH FORD: He worked as a draftsman in a patent office in
Detroit from 1907. Living in Windsor, Ontario, he walked across the
border every day until his retirement in 1964. He owned a home movie
camera as early as 1914.

FREDERICK FREDERICK: He is believed to have been an illegitimate son
of Kaiser Frederick III. Here is a biography of Frederick.
http://www.answers.com/topic/friedrich-iii-of-germany
Fred's mother was probably a servant of the German royal household. He
emigrated alone to Detroit at the age of 18. He was a rivet and bolt
maker for the construction of the Ambassador Bridge between Detroit
and Windsor in the late 1920s.

EDWARD TOBIN: He was born in 1807 in Gowran Kilkenny County Ireland.
He enlisted in His Majesty's 22nd Regiment and served for 22 years.
1828 to 1837 he was on service in the British West Indies. In 1837
while on home duty he married Mary Malone, who accompanied him to the
East Indies, where he served under Sir Charles Napier. He was at the
destruction of Emanghier in the desert and at the Battle of Meanes,
and Hyderabad in 1843. Mary rendered such distinguished service on the
battlefield that she was honoured by being escorted as the first
European woman to enter the fortress. When leaving the East Indies
service Private Edward Tobin received a certificate and several medals
for distinguished service. He came to Canada as a Pensioner where he
was given 2-3/4 acres of land at Fort Malden in Amherstburg. He and
Mary brought three sons with them, and three more children were born
there. Their youngest, Mary Ann, was the first female child for at
Fort Malden. All five sons became captains on the Detroit River and
Great Lakes.

JOHN EDWARD TOBIN: The third son of Edward Tobin and Mary Malone, John
Edward was born at sea coming around the Cape of Good Hope en route
home to Ireland in 1849. The ship was of American registry, giving
John the benefit of dual citizenship in his adult years. At age 18 he
helped quell the Fenian raid attempting to cross from Detroit to
Windsor in 1866, for which he received from Ottawa a medal in 1900,
and a 200 acre parcel of land in Kenora, which was later sold. From
1866 to 1910 he was captain of the tugboat Onaking out of
Amherstburg.this was where his dual citizenship became handy, because
he could haul on both sides of the border. It was a time of heavy
lumber operations and he worked extensively at hauling lumber from
remote and wild areas to its destinations.

SILVANUS WAFFLE: You have his biographical notes in the booklet my
parents gave you.

Comments

[mattcallow.livejournal.com]

Wonderful. What an amazing and varied heritage...

My wife's mum is an amateur genealogist, and has also traced family back to 18th century British Aristocracy. I wonder if it's more common than we might think?

[grandiva1968.livejournal.com]

*bows bebfore the Kaiser*

[grandiva1968.livejournal.com]

I actually enjoy charting genealogy and peeking at other people's.

I did one for my niece from my mother's side, my father's side, and then just what I have for her.

I'm such a goob.

[vaneramos.livejournal.com]

Here more info about Freddie Fredericks and the Kaiser:

http://www.livejournal.com/users/vaneramos/167856.html

[vaneramos.livejournal.com]

Actually it's quite interesting, but I had trouble interpreting the lineage in the first two charts.

[vaneramos.livejournal.com]

I'm sure they spread their progeny far and wide!

I'm lucky my grandparents recorded so much. It would be harder to make some of the connections now. I had started to lose interest, but now that my daughter's curiosity has sprung up, maybe I'll try to do some more research.

[grandiva1968.livejournal.com]

In the first two charts, Simone, the last generation, is on the outermost ring (on the Hummons chart, for example, she's the dark blue box at the bottomish leftish), and the eldest ancestor is on the innermost ring (Nellie Hummons, who is Simone minus eight or nine generations, is the black box on the innermost left).  Each generation/ring is also assigned its own color.

It confused me at first, too, because I was using a new type of chart generator.

Yikes.  I got a damn lotta cousins, too, in both charts.&nbbsp; All those ancestors with fourteen some-odd kids.

[vaneramos.livejournal.com]

Okay, that makes more sense. I was trying to read it inside-out!