FYIs by Todd Bergeron
[GAP] If you are a Hull relative, a trip to the site GENI.COM would probably turn out to be interesting.
You can post your tree up until it connects with others and then click on the "world tree"
thing-a-ma-jig at the very bottom of the page.
At that point, "master profiles" of tons of important and famous people throughout history's profiles
are displayed, and a simple "click" [shows?] search for a path to the person
and will tell you your relation, if any.
The Hulls happen to be a connection to just about everyone important in our past!
I have only been told "no path" a couple of times so far-didn't mind as one was Adolf Hitler,
and the other was a little confusing-someone has some explaining to do because it could not
find a path to "Adam".........yes, that Adam ! ( laughing )
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http://www.myrelative.com
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For some reason, if you land on a profile and "follow" it, someone else can click on you to see if you are
related or not...if you outright do a search, it wants you to sign up and pay the yearly membership.
I played around with it for hours one night and was able to do quite a few things for free
( I'm cheap, sorry ! )
so if you click on anyone in the "relationship path" and then click on anyone "following" them,
it will give you the path to them.
So if you want to check each other, just "follow" some of the profiles so everyone else can click on them
I forgot about that, because I just tried to search a couple of your names, and it wanted me to pay,
then I had to remember how i had done it.
You will get some off-the-wall answers like this:
"Noah Gregory Tutak is your 10th cousin 9 times removed's husband's fifth cousin 9 times removed"
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His daughter [Elizabeth Hull] married John Heard, and they are responsible for the Dover, NH area.
There's a park in Dover named "Garrison Park" / used to be the family homestead.
It was Heards Garrison, then became Garrison Hill and now is a park.
My mothers maiden name is Hurd.
The Garrison was the only "safe" place from Indians when people traveled to Canada, etc, and there are some
neat stories about the Indians ... apparently Elizabeth was a tough woman.
John died years before her, and she kept the Garrison up herself.
There is a story that she hid an Indian boy from the colonists when they were killing the Indians.
It turned out to be a good move when years later, the Indians were were slaughtering colonists and
when she hid, it was the same Indian boy ( grown up ) that found her hiding and he stayed silent...
she stayed hidden until they left!
If you google their names, you should be able to find the stories, they were in a few books.
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Their grandkids, or kids ( I forget which ) have a grave and memorial to them for settling another part of NH,
I forget the name.
After John and Elizabeth and starting with their kids, everyone was named Tristram for about 4 generations,
it made the research very tough as you really had to pay attention to the dates!
[hmmm] they needed to learn that there were more names to use then Tristram, Joseph and John !!!!!!!
and the women had more names then Elizabeth, Hannah and Josephine !!
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Oops, it was Maine that they settled the town of Burlington-penobscot but it was originally Hurds Landing,
then it became Hurds Ridge before it was Burlington / their headstone is still there.
They were definitely a "warring" family.
Everything I read and what my mother has told me, they were often soldiers.
My grandfather fought in WWI and WWII
his grandfather, Manoah Hurd, fought in the civil war
tristram was also a captain along with just about every other one of them I read about.
My grandfather was one of 9 boys ( 14 total siblings ) and all of them were in the Navy,
my grandfather joined up in 1917 and retired in 1948.
If you get to the Lakes Region area of New Hampshire and bump into anyone named "Hurd",
they are probably a relative.
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The other set of grandparents are credited with settling Kittery, Maine.
So, anyone related through this tree has quite an influential family tree as far as settling New England.
Christian Remick is my 8th great grandfather on the other side, and a lot has been written about him,
but hardly a word before he landed in Maine. They think he was Norwegian and he married ...........Hannah !
I got to hate that name while I was doing this !!!!
Tristram's wife was also Hannah, their daughter, their aunt......aaaahhhhhh !!!!!
But anyway, on the "HULL" tree, between Joseph and Thomas, you will find that your tree goes back to being
related to the royal family, a lot of important knights, even a few from the knights templar and
going back further -believe it or not- Maximus is like a 27th great grandfather,
it is really interesting on that Geni site.
> Another about Hull
http://www.greatmigration.org/pdf/index_names.pdf