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| Hello! (7th Oct 10 at 6:50am UTC)
I am so glad I found this site! | | Hello My name is Tyler Vanstone I was I am a descendant from the vanstones that came from devon and I have been dying to find information on my family there seems to be so few of us out of my family I am the last and only son of the new jersery branch we lost contact with every one else a long time ago and its nice to see there are still some Vanstones around it seems we are a dying breed my fathers name was Steven his Fathers Name was charles His fathers name was John thats as far back as I can go,
please if any one is active on this forum post any information you can on the family I would be most thankful I am so glad I found this site I was starting to get kind of hopeless  | |
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| | Re: Hello! (7th Oct 10 at 7:05am UTC) | | Welcome!
You will need to be a bit more specific about your father, grandfather and great-grandfather. Do you have any dates of birth and/or death?
The reason I ask is that on this site you can find:
Charles 22 times
John 113 times
Steven 4 times
Stephen 21 times!
Take a look at the family trees - especially Tree 11 (USA Vanstones) and see if you can recognise any of your family there.
Cheers,
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| | Re: Hello! (7th Oct 10 at 7:54am UTC) | | | I I checked the tree and from what I can see my family isnt there you have new york listed we live in new jersey and have for a long long time I know my family came from devon as we share the same last name but I have a suitcase bag full of records and old black and white pictures that are very very old I have to find the it john vanstone my fathers grandfather died I in the late 50's charles is still alive my father was born in 1955 in newton NJ I was born in the same town in 1988 I think we might be another branch because we have lived in newjersey for atleast 90 years. no one before me in my family that I know of has ever looked online for posted online for done anything to branch out to other Vanstones we have been isotlated for a long long time. | |
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| | Re: Hello! (7th Oct 10 at 8:02am UTC) | | You really need to sit down with Charles and get as much information as you can from him regarding brothers, sisters, aunts, uncles, grandparents, cousins, etc., etc.
You need names, places, dates.
This was something I always meant to do with my mother, but she passed away before I ever got around to it.
Don't dismiss the NY tree - New Jersey isn't that far away!
I can't help with research in USA - it's something I know nothing about - but if you can find place-names, dates and names in Devon I will try to help.
Kevin
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| | Re: Hello! (7th Oct 10 at 9:08pm UTC) | | I wish I could problem is I hate to say is I dont know where he is he left when my father was a child took all our money and left with another women leaveing my grandmother and my father and his sister beverly to fend for themselfs I know he is alive my aunt talked to him a few times, My family has fallen apart my fathers love of money { he started his own company and is very wealthy now} has trumped family he no longer cares about family just money parrents split up, I had to leave New jersey because of personal reasons
I am the only one in the whole family who cares about family, I have no one to talk to about it because no one I can talk to knows anything.
The people who would know are eather out of reach or dead all I have is a bag full of family info that I have to dig up, I now live in atlanta,georgia far from my home state, now that I've told my sad story, I will post all the info I have as soon as I find that suitcase. | |
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| | Re: Hello! (22nd Oct 10 at 5:30pm UTC) | | There is another Vanstone searching for family in NJ. Maybe you two could get together.
http://boards.ancestry.com/surnames.vanstone/18/mb.ashx
Also, it appears some Vanstones came to NJ in 1872. Might check the shipping records. John CHAMMINGS m. Louisa VANSTONE in 1869 and emigrated to the US in 1872. There might have been some male Vanstones with her as people typically came in groups.
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| | Re: Hello! (9th Nov 10 at 7:40pm UTC) | | My uncle Gordon R Vanstone emigrated to New Jersey from Devon in 1976 and hasnt any family there at all, he still lives in Alpha.
Another Vanstone in New Jersey from Devon though.
Do you have any other info as to where in Devon your family orignated from? | |
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