Having gone down the rabbit hole that is ancestry.com over the last year I have accumulated a mountain of information about those that came before me. This is where all that information will be shared.
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Ancestral Settlers Hamm and Keim
I previously wrote about my 6th great grandfather, Peter Hendricks, immigrating to America in 1754 from Germany in the origins of our Hendricks ancestors. Another 7th great grandfather who immigrated to America from Germany, or what was Bavaria, is Johan Jacob Hamm, born in Rhine Valley, Miesbach, Bayern, Bavaria, Germany on 1721 to Thomas Ham and Sarah Ann Berry. Johan Jacob Ham married Barbara……
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Rachel Hatton Estes
This is Rachel Hatton Estes, born in 1803. Her brother Thomas Hatton is our 4th great grandfather, Irvin “Junie” Hatton’s father. Junie is the father of Grandma Hendricks, Grandma Carroll’s grandmother. Rachel was born in Clark County Kentucky and lived in Estil County where much of the Hendricks family settled. In a transcribed letter shared……
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Origins of our Hendricks ancestors
The Hendricks branch of our family came to America on the Phoenix in 1754. Our 6th great grandfather, Peter Hendricks was born in 1733 in Franconia, Palatinate or what is now Zweibruken Germany. Zwiebruken is near the border of France and has been at different times French (1680) , Swedish (until 1718) and Bavarian (1799).……