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zorathenne) wrote2003-12-10 11:10 pm
zorathenne) wrote2003-12-10 11:10 pm
Interesting Recipie
So I was in my bedroom doing some last bits of tidying up and reminiscing and everything before I leave Thursday (or Friday depending on the weather we're hearing about), and I come upon 3 large folders. I open them and see they have pictures ~ more like reprints of very old pictures.. So I todder over to Mom and ask her who the 2 people in the pictures were (one did look somewhat family resemblance~type familiar).
I learned they were my great~grandfather and his wife. My mom's grandparents. I had heard a bit about them but not too much, and the only way I could recognize them as family is that my grandfather looked very much like the man in the picture (his father of course). Anyway.. I got to review an interesting history lesson. My great~grandfather was Dutch. My great~grandmother was either Dutch and Seminole Indian or pure Seminole Indian (Mom can't remember but one of her sisters ~ who seems to be the family chronicler ~ may know). They came over from Europe to Florida a bit before my grandfather was born. How did *that* mix come about (my great~grandmother)? Well (and Mom and I *think* we've got the right King), if anyone remembers their history, I do believe it was During King George's reign when a handful of Native Americans (Seminole Indians) were brought over to Europe (if any historian~type people can help me out with/correct me on this, please do *grin*). It may be that one of them (I guess) married a Dutch (not sure which gender was which parent) to give birth to my great~grandmother, or that she was just full Seminole. But we think she was the mix. Anyway, their names were Christian and Floyd Stridiron.
The Seminole Indian heritage doesn't stop there, because my mom's mother was African and Seminole..
I like learning family heritage/history.. I do know that my mom and her sisters were working on our family tree and we found that in England (through the help of a friend of mine who lives there) there's a small village or town that's full of Stridirons. *chuckles* They don't look much like us though.. Our line of Stridirons ~ well Tuckers through an adoption concerning my grandfather and some cousins when his parents died ~ is of a more darker hue *grin*. Unfortunately, because of the mentioned adoption, the Stridiron name ended up 'dying out'. My grandfather decided to keep the last name Tucker. He *could* have given his son the last name Stridiron, but that didn't happen. Ah well.. =)
I learned they were my great~grandfather and his wife. My mom's grandparents. I had heard a bit about them but not too much, and the only way I could recognize them as family is that my grandfather looked very much like the man in the picture (his father of course). Anyway.. I got to review an interesting history lesson. My great~grandfather was Dutch. My great~grandmother was either Dutch and Seminole Indian or pure Seminole Indian (Mom can't remember but one of her sisters ~ who seems to be the family chronicler ~ may know). They came over from Europe to Florida a bit before my grandfather was born. How did *that* mix come about (my great~grandmother)? Well (and Mom and I *think* we've got the right King), if anyone remembers their history, I do believe it was During King George's reign when a handful of Native Americans (Seminole Indians) were brought over to Europe (if any historian~type people can help me out with/correct me on this, please do *grin*). It may be that one of them (I guess) married a Dutch (not sure which gender was which parent) to give birth to my great~grandmother, or that she was just full Seminole. But we think she was the mix. Anyway, their names were Christian and Floyd Stridiron.
The Seminole Indian heritage doesn't stop there, because my mom's mother was African and Seminole..
I like learning family heritage/history.. I do know that my mom and her sisters were working on our family tree and we found that in England (through the help of a friend of mine who lives there) there's a small village or town that's full of Stridirons. *chuckles* They don't look much like us though.. Our line of Stridirons ~ well Tuckers through an adoption concerning my grandfather and some cousins when his parents died ~ is of a more darker hue *grin*. Unfortunately, because of the mentioned adoption, the Stridiron name ended up 'dying out'. My grandfather decided to keep the last name Tucker. He *could* have given his son the last name Stridiron, but that didn't happen. Ah well.. =)
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