Isaac Newell was Dick's eighth great grandfather. We had carefully tracked his mother's maternal line through Hackett, Bailey, Rich, and Conant (and through Wisconsin, New York and Vermont) to the Newell family of Dudley, Massachusetts.
After our son's wedding his wife presented us with a packet containing family research that her mother had collected through the years. This was exciting for me, as her ancestors had lived in many other locations than Wisconsin, where most of my research was focused. We added the information to our database and planned to continue working with the names.
Within the next few years we happened to be visiting the
Allen County Library in Fort Wayne, Indiana. We were using their resources to add
information to our family tree. Imagine my surprise when Dick found a
book called The Early Records of Roxbury, Massachusetts. The book contained
records pertaining to his Newell family line, but he had traced our
daughter-in-law’s Newell line to the same family!
We were amused to be able to tell our son that he and his
wife were distant cousins! Isaac Newell was their common ancestor. They were
able to take this in stride, however, as they named their son Isaac.
52 Ancestors - "Namesake"
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