Kate Stout
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My love of history has led to my love of genealogy. This site captures family histories for me , Kate Stout, and my partner Geoff Arnold. These documents are mostly my own research, and the trees to support these summaries are available on ancestry.com. Contact me if you'd like more information. I enjoy helping others find more about their family trees.
Kate Stout Ancestors
Kate Stout Ancestors
Kate's parents are Leo Ray Stout and Anne Shields.
The Stout family are primarily English settlers who first came to New Amsterdam in the 1640 and are among the first colonial settlers of New Jersey. Some of them moved to what is now West Virginia in the 1770s, living there for almost 200 years, mostly as farmers. Leo's mother was a Woodson, whose family emigrated to Jamestown in 1619.
The Shields family are Irish, part of the Irish immigration in the 1850s. Anne's mother was a Fenwick. The Fenwicks migrated to the US from Newcastle Upon Tyne, England in the early 1830s . Anne's great-grandfather married a Lupien, a women with a rich French-Canadian ancestry going back to immigration to Canada in before 1645.
Stouts & Woodsons - Paternal Line
Stouts & Woodsons - Paternal Line
Summary of the ancestors of Jesse Stout (1899-1971) of Lewis County, WV. He is my grandfather. His wife was Mary Woodson, and they raised 9 children. Goes back to an early Stout immigrant in the 1640s, Richard Stout.
Brief summary of Calvin Stout and his children. He is Jesse Stout's father.
Job Stout is the first Stout in my line to be born (~1796) in West Virginia. This document lists 4 generations of his descendants, which might help in sorting out all the similarly named cousins.
Summary of the ancestors of Mary Woodson of Lewis County, WV. She is my grandmother. Her husband was Jesse Stout. Goes back to an early immigrant, James Woodson, who arrived in Jamestown VA in 1619.
Joseph Woodson – Soldier of the American Revolution
My 5 times great-grandfather, who served in the American Revolution.
Shields & Fenwicks - Maternal Line
Shields & Fenwicks - Maternal Line
Summary of the Shields and Sullivan family lines. Edward Shields is my mother's father, and his mother was a Sullivan. Both lines are primarily Irish.
The Fenwicks of Lenox and Pittsfield MA
The ancestors of Mary Fenwick's, wife of Edward Shields. She was my grandmother. Some of the family was Irish. The Fenwicks came from the north of England to the US in the 1830s. Mary's grandfather married a French Canadian woman, whose Lupien line runs back to the 1600s in French Canada.
Ancestors of Emily Baumgartner Fenwick. She was married to Frances Earl Fenwick, my great-uncle.
Geoff Arnold Ancestors
Geoff Arnold Ancestors
Geoff's parents are Robert Arnold and Lorna Rainbow.
The Arnold family has a mixture of origins. His paternal grandfather has Scottish ancestry through immigrants who came to the US in the 1820-1840s, and also likely had English ancestry.
Frank's mother was a Denig, whose origins include Quaker settlers in Pennsylvania who emigrated in the 1680e and German settlers who came to the US in the 1740s and also settled in Pennsylvania. Yet another wave of ancestors came from Ireland in the 1840s.
The Rainbow family is English. Geoff's maternal grandfather was from a line of Rainbows who lived in the greater London area since the 1740s. His maternal grandmother was a Dawson, who was also English.
Lorna Rainbow Arnold
Lorna Rainbow Arnold
Geoff’s mother, Lorna Arnold (born Rainbow), wrote about her fascinating life, including serving as a British Nuclear Historian. Her memoir, My Short Century is available on Amazon.
John Steele
John Steele
Professor John Steele one of Geoff’s ancestors, was an early educator in the Mechanics’ Institute movement. He helped establish schools for men working in mills and factories in Glasgow, Aberdeen, and New York City in the 1820s and 30s. A book about him and his family, Professor John Steele & Family is available at Amazon.
Edward Rainbow (1745-1827)
Edward Rainbow is Geoff's maternal four-times great-grandfather. He was a silk dyer who lived in the City of London. His life is much better documented than most tradesmen of the period, because of his bankruptcy and an accusation of receiving stolen goods. This document puts what is known about his life and family in the context of a family living close to the Thames in the second half of the 1700s.
Kate and Dorothy Denig Ancestors
Kate Denig is Geoff's paternal grandmother. Her family has roots in the founding Quakers in Pennsylvania, and Irish immigrants with origins in Germany.
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