Richard Arthur Norton (1958- )/Family facts

The top 10 family history treasures

 * Richard Arthur Norton (1958- )/2013 top 10
 * 2012 top 10 new genealogical finds
 * 2007 top 10 genealogical finds

Twins

 * Johanna Maria Winblad (1853) and Antonette Kristina Winblad I (1853) in Sweden.
 * Elsa Maria Elisabeth Näslund (1829-1907) and Olof Emanuel Näslund (1829-1906) in Sweden.

Passports found

 * Charles Edward Ensko I (1880-1952)
 * Jarvis Andrew Lattin (1853-1941)
 * Lena Elaine Olson (1860-1938)
 * Catherine Marie Harney (1878-1966)

Sweden

 * Bitte Kempe Björkman
 * Bertil Alexander Hilding (1927- )
 * Jenny Lena Ingemarsdotter Wahlberg (1941- )‎, she moved to US then Canada

Norway

 * Grandchildren of Bernhart Andreas Baerentssen (1899-1950)

Germany

 * no known Freudenbergs

Alsace

 * no known Lindauers

Ireland

 * Hogans in Hollygrove, Ireland. There is one of the Hogans that now lives in New York City. He has the family home in Ireland as a place you can rent.

Germany

 * Clara Horwitz (1835-?) from Germany
 * Siegmund Freudenberg (1828-1908) from Germany
 * Maximilian S. Freudenberg I (1858-1921) from Berlin, Germany

Holland

 * Abraham Kershaw (1815-?), may have been born in USA, but had an ancestor from Holland

England

 * William Oldrin (1772-1858) from England

Strasbourg, Alsance

 * Oscar Arthur Moritz Lindauer (1815-1866), parents unknown, locate his death certificate

Ireland

 * Bridget Conboy (c1840-aft1901) and her brother James Conboy I (1837-1902) of Hollygrove and Coalpits
 * Thomas Carr I (c1840-bef1901) of Hollygrove and Coalpits
 * Daniel Finn (1818-1887) and his parents
 * Catherine Creedon (1834-1914) from Millstreet, County Cork, Ireland
 * William Burke (1845-1919) and his parents
 * Margaret Kane (1846-1912) and her parents
 * Patrick J. Norton (1856-1905) and his parents

Norway

 * Hans Hansen I of Log (1729-1767)

Sweden

 * Lars Magnus Winblad


 * Hans Christoffer von Rohr (1626-1700)
 * Anders Örbom (1675-1740)
 * Hans Detterman Cronman (1590-aft1645)

Top 5 farthest back in any line
All are from Swedish lines where the records go back the farthest
 * Gillean of the Battle Axe of Scotland He was the first recorded head of Clan Maclean
 * Hans von Rohr (1484-1569)
 * Hector MacLean, Fifth Lord of Dowart (1572-1630) of Scotland, His son moved to Sweden. He was a descendant of Gillean of the Battle Axe.
 * Gotthard Gotthardinpoika Wellingk II (1576-1656)
 * Hans Detterman (1590-c1645)
 * John Hans Makeléer (1604-1666)
 * Anders Örbom (1675-1740)

Scotland

 * Hector Og Maclean, 15th Clan Chief was the tenth great grandfather to Richard Arthur Norton (1958- )
 * John Hans Makeléer (1604-1666), Iain Dubh Baronet was the ninth great grandfather to Richard Arthur Norton (1958- )

Sweden

 * Magnus Bengtson Måneskiöld
 * Ramborg Knutsdatter (c1353-?)
 * Cronman
 * Von Rohr

Wikipedia

 * Alfred E. Woodward (1913-2007) related by marriage
 * Alfred Naess (1877-1955) related by marriage
 * Anders Örbom (1675-1740) ancestor
 * Axel Gustaf Torbjörn Enström (1894-1977) related by marriage
 * Carl Frederick Tandberg (1910-1988) related by marriage ^
 * Carl Jean Johnson (1929-1988) related by marriage ^


 * David Makeléer (1646-1708) ancestor
 * David Emanuel Wahlberg (1882-1949) cousin
 * Eddie August Schneider (1911-1940) second cousin twice removed
 * Eden Brekke (1893-1978) related by marriage
 * Edwin Joseph O'Malley (1881-1955) related by marriage ^
 * Frideborg Winblad (1869-1964) great-grandaunt
 * James Gerard Kennedy II (1907-1997) related by marriage
 * Janice Ann Winblad (1935-1996) cousin
 * Joseph Gelchion (1960- ) related by marriage, or a cousin
 * Joachim Von Rohr (1677-1757) ancestor
 * John Hans Makeléer (1604-1666) ancestor
 * John Howard Lindauer II (1937- ) cousin
 * Joseph Nathaniel French I (1888-1975) related by marriage
 * Lynn Kohlman (1946- ) related by marriage


 * Osborne Theomun Olsen (1883-1971) related by marriage

^ find a quote for Wikipedia
 * Robert F. Ensko I (1855-1934) related by marriage
 * Stephen Guernsey Cook Ensko (1896-1969) related by marriage ^
 * Susan Lindauer (1963- ) cousin
 * Susannah Lattin (1848-1868) related by marriage ^
 * Victor Sjöström (1879-1960) related by marriage
 * Walter Francis O'Malley (1903-1979) related by marriage
 * Sigvart Høgh-Nilsen (1880-?), cousin

Murders

 * Possibly the wife of Norman Otto Olson I (1895-1977). Her death certificate says she was murdered by her husband but there is no news account of her death.
 * Dale Leigh Patterson (1956-2010) was murdered by her ex-husband
 * Raymond Frederick Winblad (1940-1984) was murdered in a drug deal gone wrong

Death by alcohol

 * Anthony LeRoy Winblad (1912-1970)
 * Inga Karoline Eldora Pedersen (1882-1927)
 * Klara Helene Shultz (1895-1973), she died of a heart attack, but had cirrhosis

Car accidents

 * Henry Antone Dahl II (1937-1976)
 * Yolanda Erlenia French (1935-1976) related by marriage
 * Janice Ann Winblad (1935-1996)
 * Robyn Snow Griffiths (1984-1996)
 * Anthony Falletta, Jr. (1965-2010) related by marriage

Suicides

 * Carl Johan Ruut (1812-1832)
 * Mabel O'Malley (1890-1926)
 * Marion Webb (1884-1931)
 * Estelle O'Malley (1895-1953)
 * George Dewey Sanford II (1925-1994)
 * Andrew Kevin Freudenberg I (1957-2011)

Alzheimers

 * William Burke (1845-1919)
 * Anton Julius Winblad II (1886-1975)
 * Naida Muriel Freudenberg (1915-1998)

Institutionalized

 * Katherine Mary Norton (1894-1942) died at the insane asylum after a bout of depression shortly after the marriage of her nephew
 * John Edwin Lindauer (1874-?)
 * Joseph Eidelman (1871-?)
 * Skinner
 * McManus
 * Kershaw
 * Herbert Gray, the wife of Gretchen Francis Hahnen (1902-1986)

Natural disasters

 * Peter Matthias Olsen (1849-1896) of Farsund, Norway who died during the 1896 Eastern North America heat wave in Chicago, Illinois.
 * Birgitta Ingemarsdotter Wahlberg (1959-2004) of Sweden who died in the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami

World War I deaths

 * Louis Julius Freudenberg I (1894-1918)
 * William E. Ensko (c1900-1918)
 * Gilbert Wintrone (1888-1918)

World War II deaths

 * Eugene Freudenberg II (1924-1945) in Luzon in the Philipines
 * Donald A. Abel II (1923-1945) submarine sank off coast of Japan
 * George William Rankin (1919-1942) Oran Harbor, Algeria
 * Harold Skinner (1920-1945) in Corregidor, Philippines

Influenza pandemic

 * Tille Olson (1885-1918)
 * Norval Wintrone (1890-1918)

AIDS

 * Joseph Lawrence Reilly II (1948-1993)

Tragic lives

 * Ralph Kohlman Freudenberg (1937-1995) fell out a window and landed on a spike from a wrought iron fence. Later neighborhood kids set him on fire and he was disfigured and in a wheel chair the rest if his life. He was declared an incompetent when he needed medical attention and no one in the family would take responsibility, so he died in the hospital and was buried in an unmarked paupers grave.
 * Marion Webb (1894-1931) was placed in an orphanage with her sister Lillie when her father abandoned the family. She later took her own life when she discovered her husband didn't have a valid divorce from his previous wife.
 * Ruth Staderman (1915-1934) died in the Leake and Watt's Children's Home after finally reaching age 18 and being able to leave.

Military in Sweden

 * Anders Örbom (1675-1740)
 * Joakim Cronman (1638-1703)

Great Northern War deaths

 * Hans Christoffer von Rohr (1626-1700), killed in action

World War I deaths

 * Louis Julius Freudenberg I (1894-1918)
 * William E. Ensko (c1900-1918)
 * Gilbert Wintrone (1888-1918)

World War II deaths

 * Eugene Freudenberg II (1924-1945) in Luzon in the Philipines
 * Donald A. Abel II (1923-1945) submarine sank off coast of Japan
 * George William Rankin (1919-1942) Oran Harbor, Algeria
 * Harold Skinner (1920-1945) in Corregidor, Philippines

Immigrant ancestors

 * Ancestors of Anna Augusta Kershaw (1841-1931) from Holland circa 1600-1700
 * William Oldren (1772-?) from England in 1794
 * Oscar Arthur Moritz Lindauer (1815-1866) from Alsace-Lorraine in 1834


 * William Burke (1845-1919) from Ireland on February 15, 1863
 * Margaret Kane (1846-1912) from Ireland circa 1865
 * Daniel Finn (1818-1887) from Millstreet, County Cork, Ireland in 1873
 * Catherine Creedon (1834-1914) from Millstreet, County Cork, Ireland in 1873
 * Siegmund Freudenberg (1828-1908) from Berlin, Germany on March 16, 1867 aboard the SS Hammonia leaving from Hamburg
 * Max S. Freudenberg I (1858-1921) from Berlin, Germany on May 11, 1869 aboard the SS Westphalia leaving from Hamburg
 * Patrick J. Norton (1856-1905) from Ireland in 1880
 * John Edward Winblad I (1856-1914) from Sweden circa 1882-1884
 * Salmine Sophia Severine Pedersen (1862-1914) from Farsund, Norway circa 1882-1884
 * Sarah Jane Carr (1863-1950) from Coalpit, County Roscommon, Ireland circa 1882-1884

Free and Accepted Masons

 * Charles Frederick Lindauer I (1835-1921)
 * Ralph Kohlman (1884-1957)
 * Theodore Roosevelt Lattin (1901-1980)
 * Otto Perry Winblad (1902-1977)
 * William Oldrin (1772-1858)

Holiday births, marriages, and deaths

 * William Thomas Rankin I (1890-1970) died on New Year's Eve
 * Valentine Charles Outwater I (1884-1960) born on Valentine's day
 * Grover Cleveland Lindauer (1885-1968) born on Christmas Day
 * James Gerard Kennedy I (1907-1997) died on Christmas Eve
 * Winifred Agnes Morrissey (1890-1985) died on Christmas Day

Ordained

 * Johan Christopher Örbom (1768-1822) Minister of Hede, Sweden
 * Israel Israelsson Näslund III (1796-1858) Minister of Ytterlännäs, Sweden
 * Johan Olov Ruut (1817-1853) Minister in Multrå, Sweden
 * Johan Israel Näslund (1822-1906) 26th Minister of Härnösand, Sweden from 1859 to 1866
 * Johan Christopher Ruut II (1823-1899) Minister in Stöde, Sweden
 * Carl Gustaf Näslund (1825-1899) Minister of Arnäs, Sweden from 1872 to 1889
 * David Emanuel Wahlberg (1882-1949) Minister of Långsele, Sweden

Teachers

 * Anton Julius Winblad I (1828-1901) Sweden
 * Per Olof Bernhard Wahlberg (1852-1927) Sweden, related by marriage
 * Frideborg Winblad (1869-1964) Sweden
 * Mary Margaret Burke (1890-1949) in Jersey City, New Jersey
 * Katherine Mary Norton (1894-1942) in Jersey City, New Jersey
 * Helen Marie Maher (1895-1974) in Jersey City, New Jersey
 * Catherine Veronica Langan (1892-1950) in Jersey City, New Jersey
 * James Joseph Norton II (1929- ) in Jersey City, New Jersey

Lived over 90

 * Thomas Patrick Norton II (1920-2011), who died at 91
 * William Joseph Burke I (1905-1996), my granduncle, who lived to be 91
 * Ole Mathias Pedersen (1822-1914), my second great grandfather, who lived to be 91
 * Maria Elizabeth Winblad II (1895-1987), my grandmother who lived to be 92
 * Richard F. Freudenberg (1896-1988), my granduncle, who lived to be 91
 * Blanche Lowe (1897-1998), my second cousin twice removed, who lived to be 100
 * Chester Arthur Wintrone (1905- ) related by marriage, who lived to be around 100
 * Ruth Lattin Poole (1906-2004), related by marriage, who lived to be 99

Printers by trade

 * Ralph Kohlman (1884-1957)
 * Ralph Freudenberg (1903-1980) was a typesetter for the New York Times
 * Charles Frederick Freudenberg (1887-1942)
 * James Patrick Langan I (1889-1975)
 * Otto Perry Winblad (1902-1977). Otto offered Thomas Patrick Norton II (1920-2011) his apprenticeship but he turned it down because it would have been a pay cut until he reached a full printer. I think that Richard Freudenberg took the job instead and he worked for the New York Times.
 * Bernard Francis Langan I (1903-1982)
 * Richard Charles Freudenberg I (1918-1994) was a typesetter for the New York Times
 * George Dewey Sanford II (1925-1994)
 * Paul John Schwendel II (1941-1996)

Seaman

 * Matthew H. Betts (1796-1853) was a maritime pilot who was lost at sea.
 * John Edward Winblad I (1856-1914)
 * Captain William Oldrin (1772-1858)

Genographic
Haplogroup R1b (M343)
 * 393 13
 * 19 14
 * 391 10
 * 439 11
 * 389-1 13
 * 389-2 17
 * 388 12
 * 390 24
 * 426 12
 * 385a 11
 * 385b 14
 * 392 13

Genetree via Sorensen sample circa 2003-2005
Your test results for the range 15950 to 16569 and 1 to 617 are: location 16223 16292 16519 73 189 194 195 204 207 215 263 309.1 315.1

your sequence T T C G G T C C A G G C C

reference C C T A A C T T G A A -- --

I just had my mitochondrial DNA tested and this is the sequence they found: 16223T 16292T 16519C 73G 189G 194T 195C 204C 207A 215G 263G 309.1C 315.1C I know my maternal line is from Farsund, Norway.

Descent from Macleans of Scotland

 * John Hans Makeléer
 * Lunetta Makeléer (1639-1693) who married Joakim Cronman (c1630-1703). He was a Colonel and Commandant of the Neumünde fortress who died in the Battle of Neumünde during the Great Northern War.
 * Anna Catharina Cronman (c1662-c1685) who married Hans Christoffer von Rohr I (1626–1700). He was killed in action in the Battle of Narva, and their son was Joachim von Rohr who became the Commandant of the Dalarö fortress.
 * Joachim von Rohr (1678-1757) was a Lieutenant Colonel in the Swedish Army and Commandant of the Dalarö fortress. He participated in the Battle of Poltava and was captured and held as a prisoner in Siberia.
 * Anna Elisabeth von Rohr (1700-1744) who married Anders Örbom (1675-1740) who was a Captain in the Swedish Army
 * Erik Johan Örbom (1723-1802) who was a Major in the Jämtland Regiment who married Helena Ruuth (1729-1802)
 * Johan Christopher Örbom (1767-1822) who changed his family name to his mother's maiden name when he was ordained and was known as Johan Christopher Ruuth (1767-1822)
 * Johanna Gustafva Ruuth (1800-1860) who married Israel Israelsson Näslund III (1796-1858), the minister of Ytterlännäs
 * Elsa Maria Elisabeth Näslund (1829-1907) who married Anton Julius Winblad I (1828-1901) who was the church organist and schoolteacher of Ytterlännäs. They married on August 07, 1855. Anton was previously married to Margareta Kristina Höglund I (1819-1853)
 * John Edward Winblad I (1856-1914) who married Salmine Sophia Severine Pedersen (1862-1914) on January 14, 1883 in Oslo, Norway