Howdy

My name is Weldon Smith. My home is New Mexico. I am a retired Postmaster. My birthday is Aug 22. Have spent all my life in New Mexico except the short time I served in the armed forces. I am married have two children, five grandchildren and two great grandchildern.

My interest right now is my family tree.
My grandparents came to New Mexico from Tennesse in 1903 and farmed the New Mexico Plains and went here and wonder put a few of us stayed put.

Looking forward to our chats and all the good info.

My ancestors are:
Andrew Smith and Olive Pitt came to America 1677 from Farsley (Yorkshire) ENGLAND
Frances Newble/Newbill came to America in 1645 from Wales
[ENGLAND - error = should be Wales, UK]

Surmanes:
Smith/Smyth/Smythe, Newbill/Newble, Maddox/Mattocks/Moddock/Madog, McMurry/McMurtry/McMurtree, Thomas, Bolin/Bowles/Bolling, Toombs/Tomb/Tome, and Adair/Adare

Weldon:W-]:

6 Sept 2007, Carole wrote:

Howdy again Weldon, Keep us informed how its going with your Yorkshire Smiths & Pitts research, won't you? In view of your Welsh connections, have also put a copy of this on the "Smith & Related Surnames -Other UK Counties"Board, here >SMITHs Yorkshire & NEWBIEs Wales, both to America 17thC>>> So you might want to click on "Watch Topic for replies" at the bottom right underneath each of these two Topics

Hello melba788101

It’s nice to see a new name and a fellow American on the Smith Chat Forums. I look forward to any response you may have to my Beagle Log postings. Please feel free to comment on, add to the topic, provide pictures personal experience, etc.

My "Smiths" and other ancestors are all New Englanders. Most of my ancestral roots migrated from England in the 1600's.

Weldon

I also have a Smith connection in Farsley Yorks.

Sarah Smith b.1811 Calverley cum Farsley. Yorks
Married Jonas Hemingway b.1812.
On the 1841 census they were living @ Providence Row Farsley.
Lyn :

Hi Lyn,
nice to see you, hope all is going Ok for you. Your message here reminded me that Weldon's original posting in May was still on the Introductions Board (with the copy here). I've now swapped them around - so as above is the original, so hopefully Weldon should receive a notification about your reply here. Hope so - cos that's interesting!!

Bye for now,
Carole

Weldon says, "My ancestors are:
Andrew Smith and Olive Pitt came to America 1677 from Farsley (Yorkshire) England".
I greet my new-found cousin Weldon with the comment that I have a great file of genealogy on the couple and their descendants, and co-administer a website on the subject, and regret with others that neither I nor any of the many excellent researchers dealing with our Smith family have found an actual connection between West New Jersey Colony and Yorkshire.
The popular putative line identifies Andrew of New Jersey as the son of another Andrew born 17 Jul 1619 in Farsley, Calverley Parish, [Leeds], West Riding, Yorkshire, England, marrying 17 Apr 1643 a spouse yet unidentified, and dying in Farsley 16 May 1671.
Our Andrew is first noted in West New Jersey Colony with his daughter Elizabeth's birth 9 Feb 1679 at the Burlington Monthly Meeting of Quakers! And, later in a surveyor's diary: on January 20, 1681, Thomas Revel surveyed for Peter Fretwell "above the ffals of Dellaware" (Hopewell), and 200 acres for Andrew SMITH "at the ffalls (Trenton)."
There are a number of intriguing indicators of a Yorkshire connection, but as of yet no 'Golden Spike' uniting the lines of East and West.

Hello,
I am in three or more Smith yDNA Projects, two Regional and one based upon my test-result Q haplogroup assignment. Fellow descendants of American colonial immigrant Andrew Smith's son's and grandson's lines have been tested and are also confirmed to be in yDNA haplogroup Q (proving that I wasn't a gypsy baby switched at birth).
It would be valuable if cousin Weldon tested and proved to be in haplogroup Q, and almost earth-moving if Lyn could find a Yorkie male cousin (yDNA and all that) to help us make a connection to Farsley (although, her ancestor may be of another Smith family, such as I've seen in old Calverley Parish records).
I'm in communication with a male fourth cousin in Missouri and a female seventh cousin in North Carolina, both markers on my line's movement south and west.
Cheers for now, aye,
Gary in Berkeley

Hi, Carole,
I finally found out where Weldon is in my family tree. He descends from a brother of my 3rd great grandfather [another Andrew], who settled in Texas before it gained Independence from the Republic of Mexico in 1835.
I invited him to be a member of my family site based upon our shared immigrant Tyke ancestor, Andrew. He accepted, came aboard and hasn't been heard from since. I believe him to be a quiet sort not given to expressing social excitement.
His email address as given me was: [e-address copied & removed]

Cheers,
and good results with your current project,
Gary Smith, 133-GAR

In recent developments, an immigrant Andrew Smith (c.1650-1704) family link has now been found between the American English Colonies and the West Riding of Yorkshire, as predicted, but a few miles south of the putative link to the area near Leeds, being near Monk Bretton/Burton, Barnsley. My online tree tells the tale so far: http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/8920724/person/218424027 --- Cheers, Gary Smith

Thank you for the update Gary.
Looking forward to going back to your Tree site again soon to catch
up with the new developments.

Keep up the good work!

Carole