Tag: Savannah Georgia

David Dinsmore, Ulster-Scots Loyalist in South Carolina and Nova Scotia Exile: Every Life Worth a Novel (8)

January 28, 2023

Or, Subtitled: New Documents Casting New Light on Old Mysteries And now another addendum to a series of postings from the past — these tracking the life of my ancestor David Dinsmore, who was born in Ulster in 1750, arrived from Belfast with his wife Margaret aboard the Earl of Donegal in Charleston, South Carolina, on 10 … More David Dinsmore, Ulster-Scots Loyalist in South Carolina and Nova Scotia Exile: Every Life Worth a Novel (8)

Alexander Mackey Brooks (1808-1899): Information about His Second Wife Aletha Sorrells

August 12, 2022

Or, Subtitled: “She was born in Georgia and her father moved with her to Mississippi” What I’m sharing with you about the second wife of Alexander Mackey Brooks (1808-1899), Aletha Sorrells (Hope, Freel, Patterson, Pierce) is for the most part not my own research. I’m borrowing shamelessly from George W. Glass, the genealogist who, as I … More Alexander Mackey Brooks (1808-1899): Information about His Second Wife Aletha Sorrells