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HelpRe: Rachel Shaina's Keep Up Yourself Congrats Round 8 (anyone can join)
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The Grantlands
DH: Julius Sumner b. 1874 d. 1929
DW: Dorothy Ethel b. 1882
Dorothy is coping since the loss of her husband 6 years ago. Her Maurice has been running the families Tabacco farm, which is doing well because people still smoke despite the lack of money going around.
DS: Julius Sumner, Jr. b. 1900
1920 -m- DW: Josepha Susannah nee Parish b. 1902
-- DD: Julia Susannah b. 1921
-- DD: Mary Ethel b. 1923
-- DS: Joseph Parish b.1925
-- DS: Julius Sumner III b. 1927
-- DD: Elizabeth Frances b.1929
-- DS: Jonah William b. 1933
Julius Jr. & his wife Josie are doing alright considering the Depression. Julius is working for a Oil company is Texas as a site manager, while Josie is looking after the children back in Georgia on the old Davies family estate. They had one more son, Jonah William in 1933 and are thinking this might be their last child.
DD: Jane Dorothy b. 1901 (Twin to Ethel)
1919-m- DH: Gilbert Reinhold Clerke b. 1886
--DD Ethel Dorothy b. 1920
--DS: Julius Reinhold b. 1922
--DD: Margaret Jane b. 1923
--DS: Gilbert Domincius b. 1926 d. 1929
The Clerkes are doing it tough. With the world economy in bad shape the Import/Export business that Gilbert's Dutch relatives run is doing very little business. Luckily for the Clerks they had earnt enough money prior to Depression to buy their home in Maine out right.
DD: Ethel Mary b. 1901 d. 1907 (Twin to Jane)
DS: William Davies b. 1903 (Twin to Hubert)
1923-m- Eugenie Charlotte nee Devereux b. 1905
--DS: William Eugene b. 1924
--DS: Arthur Julius b.1925
--DS: Charles Davies b. 1928
--DS: John Theodore b. 1933
--DS: Hugh Maxwell b. 1934
William & Eugenie are doing fairly well. Living on the Davies estate of his namesake grandfather, William has been growing his own food and selling any left overs at the farmers' market on weekends. They have added two more sons to the family; John Theodore & Hugh Maxwell
DS: Hubert Ewing b.1903 (Twin to William)
1921-m- Katherine Louise nee Wainwright b. 1902
--DS: Robert Wainwright b. 1922
--DS: Hubert Ewing Jr. b. 1924
--DD: Louise Dorothy b. 1926
--DD: Annette Katherine b. 1932
Hubert & Katherine have fallen on hard times. While the other Grantlands support them where possible, Hubert is rather stubborn and has taken to a life of wandering trying to find work, leaving Katherine to raise their children back in Georgia, which now includes Annette Katherine.
DS: Theodore MacMillan b.1904 (Twin to Katie)
1924-m- Lucille nee Huntley b. 1905
--DD: Dorothy Lucille b. 1924
--DS: MacMillan Julius b. 1926
--DS: Huntley Theodore b. 1927
--DD: Delana Franklin b. 1934
Theodore is the most successful of all the Grantland men. After the death of his father and father-in-law, the money he was given from their estates was enough to set himself up in the States Democratic Party. Now a member of the state senate he is thinking of running for the Governorship. He has also made a friendship with the president, FDR, whom he named his daugther Delana Franklin after.
DD: Katie Belle b. 1904 (Twin to Theodore)
1921-m- Cal Maurice Rufus b.1899 d. 1931
--DD: Janie Belle b. 1922
--DD: Ellen Katie b. 1923
--DS: Cal Julius b. 1924
--DD Maggie b.1926
--DD Ruthie b. 1928
--DS Maurice Grantland b. 1930
1932-m- Michael Albert Johansen b. 1910
--DS Rufus Michael b. 1933
Katie suffered a severe blow when her husband Cal committed suicide after losing all of his investments and struggling to cope with their reduced situation. Katie married a younger man, Michael Johansen, whom she had met at church. He was helpful with her children and asked for her hand in marriage within weeks of meeting. They together have one son, named Rufus Michael, in honour of Katie's first husband.
DD : Clara Margaret b.1905
1926-m- Gregory David Cairns b. 1900
--DD Margaret Clara b.1927
--DD Dulce Jane b.1930
--DS: Gregory David Jr. b. 1931
--DD: Celia Ethel b. 1933
Clara and her husband haven't been hit too badly by the depression. They added two more children to their family, Gregory Jr and Celia.
DS: Maurice Talbot Reeves b.1906
-DGf: Alice Brandam1918
--DS: Buchanan Mauriceson Grantland-Brandam b. 1934
Maurice is working hard to keep the family tobacco farm going. Often with only himself and maybe one of his older nephews working the fields. Maurice's work on the farm has prevented him from having a real social life, however he has fathered a son, Buchanan Mauriceson, with Alice Brandam, the daugther of a local sharecropper.
DS: Albert George b. 1908
1928-m- Cassandra nee Smith b. 1908
--DS: Sumner Smith b. 1929
--AD: Alberta Julianne b, 1931
Albert & Cassandra have not had any more children since Sumner was born in 1929. They did however adopt a girl from a local orphanage, who they named Alberta Julianne.
DD: Mary Ada Ethel b. 1910
1932-m- Alexander James Welles b. 1912
--DD: Ada Alexandra b. 1933
--DD: Sarah Mary b. 1935
Mary married Alexander Welles, son of a local lawyer, and himself a student of the law. They have had two daughters so far; Ada and Sarah.
DD: Willa Rosemarie b. 1912
1931-m- Charles Allen Campbell-Browne b. 1906
DS: William Charles b. 1933
Willa married Charles Campbell-Browne, another member of the local 'gentry'. They have one son, William.
DS: Rutherford b. 1913 (Twin to Harrison)
Rutherford has taken to the life of the hobo. He suffered a breakdown after his father's death and abandoned his family and money for a life of adventure.
DS: Harrison Moore b. 1913 (Twin to Rutherford)
1933-m- Georgina Makepeace b.1913
DS: Rutherford Julius b. 1935
Harrison married Georgina Makepeace, his sweatheart from an early age. They have one son, Rutherford Julius, 'RJ'.
DD: Maude Bess b. 1914
1932 Francis Sherman Wakelyb. 1880
DS: Sherman Sumner b. 1934
Maude shocked the family by announcing that she was engaged to Francis Wakely, who besides being a much older widowed gentlemen with grown children, was also her employer at his estate. They have one son together Sherman Sumner.
DD: Helen Frances b. 1918
The Ewing Children
DS : Hubert Castlebrooke, Jr b. 1895
1914-m- Kathleen Mary nee O'Reilly b.1893 d. 1928
--DS: O'Reilly Grantland b. 1915
---DGf: Heather Miller b. 1916
-----DS: Miller Grantland b. 1935
--DS: Francis Hubert b. 1917
--DS: Joseph Julius b. 1920
--DD: Margaret Mary b. 1922
--DS: Antony b. 1925
--DD: Magdalene Anne b & d 1928
While Hubert has reminded unwed since his wife's death, his eldest son, O'Reilly, has father a boy, Miller, with his longtime girlfriend, Heather Miller.
DD : Margaret Ada b. 1898
1916-m- DH: Jefferson Duvall Somerset b. 1890
--DD Anne Margaret b. 1918 (Twin to Mary)
--DD: Mary Kathleen b. 1918 (Twin to Ane)
--DS: Ewing Jefferson Grantland b. 1923
--DS: John Duvall b. 1925
--DS: Mark Virtue b. 1929
The Somerset family is doing well. Jefferson has taken his preaching on the road and has made many converts.
DD: Anna Belle b.1900
1918 -m- DH: Hans Adolph von Schwarzwald b.1893
--DS: Hubert Adolph b.1919
--DS: Henry Hans b. 1921
--DD: Heidi Anika b. 1922
--DS: Harald Franz (Twin to Hermann)
--DS: Hermann Kaspar b. 1925(Twin to Harald)
--DS: Helmut-Wulf Julius b. 1934
With the rise of National Socialism in Germany, Hans von Schwarzwald has moved his family back to the Fatherland. Anna has mixed feelings about leaving her native America but if Hans thinks it is best fort he family then so be it. They had one more son, who unlike his siblings was born in Germany, Helmut-Wulf Julius.
DS : Julius Grantland b. 1902
1926 Julia Smith nee Woodruff b.1905
--DS: Lehi Grantland b. 1927
--DS: Nephi Woodruff b. 1928
--DS: Moroni Smith b. 1930
--AD: Emma Anahera b. 1932
--DS: Hyrum Wilson b. 1934
Since his conversion to Mormonism in the mid-1920s Julius has become a very devout and pious man. He and his family have served in missions in Australia and New Zealand. It was while on mission in New Zealand they adopted their daugther, Emma. While in Australia they had another son, Hyrum. They have since decided to settle in Australia.
DD : Louise Kate b. 1904
1924 -m- Michael Gabriel Flattery b. 1900
--DD: Mary Kate b. 1923
--DD: Mary Louise b. 1925
--DS: Michael Francis b. 1927
--DS: Antony Gabriel b. 1928
--DD: Mary Rose b. 1930
With Jacob Goldman
--DS: John James Goldman b. 1934
Louise's marriage to Michael has hit the rocks. Michael has become a drunk and his away from his family months at a time. Louise had an affair in the meantime with a Jacob Goldman, who doesn't accept their child together as his.
DD : Mary Rose b. 1905
1925-m- Richard Barnsley Alberts b.1903
--DD: Mary Ada b. 1926
--DD: Rosanne Kate b. 1927
--DS: Richard Barnsley Jr. b. 1929
--DS: James Stuart 1932
Mary Rose and Richard have had a relatively easy run during the early years of the depression. They have had one more son, James who they named after Mary Rose's brother in-law James Stuart, Bessie's husband. What Mary Rose is unaware of is that their easy has come from the fact that Richard is a bootlegger.
DD : Bessie Maude b. 1907
1925-m- James Napoleon Stuart b. 1895
--DS: Julian James b. 1927
--DS: Napoleon Hubert b. 1929
--DD: Maude Margaret b. 1930
--DS: Richard Alberts b. 1932
Bessie and James have had a settled life. James comes from a rather wealthy family who sold their shared before the crash allowing themselves to live in the lap of luxury. They have had another son, Richard named after Bessie's brother-in-law Richard.
DH: Julius Sumner b. 1874 d. 1929
DW: Dorothy Ethel b. 1882
Dorothy is coping since the loss of her husband 6 years ago. Her Maurice has been running the families Tabacco farm, which is doing well because people still smoke despite the lack of money going around.
DS: Julius Sumner, Jr. b. 1900
1920 -m- DW: Josepha Susannah nee Parish b. 1902
-- DD: Julia Susannah b. 1921
-- DD: Mary Ethel b. 1923
-- DS: Joseph Parish b.1925
-- DS: Julius Sumner III b. 1927
-- DD: Elizabeth Frances b.1929
-- DS: Jonah William b. 1933
Julius Jr. & his wife Josie are doing alright considering the Depression. Julius is working for a Oil company is Texas as a site manager, while Josie is looking after the children back in Georgia on the old Davies family estate. They had one more son, Jonah William in 1933 and are thinking this might be their last child.
DD: Jane Dorothy b. 1901 (Twin to Ethel)
1919-m- DH: Gilbert Reinhold Clerke b. 1886
--DD Ethel Dorothy b. 1920
--DS: Julius Reinhold b. 1922
--DD: Margaret Jane b. 1923
--DS: Gilbert Domincius b. 1926 d. 1929
The Clerkes are doing it tough. With the world economy in bad shape the Import/Export business that Gilbert's Dutch relatives run is doing very little business. Luckily for the Clerks they had earnt enough money prior to Depression to buy their home in Maine out right.
DD: Ethel Mary b. 1901 d. 1907 (Twin to Jane)
DS: William Davies b. 1903 (Twin to Hubert)
1923-m- Eugenie Charlotte nee Devereux b. 1905
--DS: William Eugene b. 1924
--DS: Arthur Julius b.1925
--DS: Charles Davies b. 1928
--DS: John Theodore b. 1933
--DS: Hugh Maxwell b. 1934
William & Eugenie are doing fairly well. Living on the Davies estate of his namesake grandfather, William has been growing his own food and selling any left overs at the farmers' market on weekends. They have added two more sons to the family; John Theodore & Hugh Maxwell
DS: Hubert Ewing b.1903 (Twin to William)
1921-m- Katherine Louise nee Wainwright b. 1902
--DS: Robert Wainwright b. 1922
--DS: Hubert Ewing Jr. b. 1924
--DD: Louise Dorothy b. 1926
--DD: Annette Katherine b. 1932
Hubert & Katherine have fallen on hard times. While the other Grantlands support them where possible, Hubert is rather stubborn and has taken to a life of wandering trying to find work, leaving Katherine to raise their children back in Georgia, which now includes Annette Katherine.
DS: Theodore MacMillan b.1904 (Twin to Katie)
1924-m- Lucille nee Huntley b. 1905
--DD: Dorothy Lucille b. 1924
--DS: MacMillan Julius b. 1926
--DS: Huntley Theodore b. 1927
--DD: Delana Franklin b. 1934
Theodore is the most successful of all the Grantland men. After the death of his father and father-in-law, the money he was given from their estates was enough to set himself up in the States Democratic Party. Now a member of the state senate he is thinking of running for the Governorship. He has also made a friendship with the president, FDR, whom he named his daugther Delana Franklin after.
DD: Katie Belle b. 1904 (Twin to Theodore)
1921-m- Cal Maurice Rufus b.1899 d. 1931
--DD: Janie Belle b. 1922
--DD: Ellen Katie b. 1923
--DS: Cal Julius b. 1924
--DD Maggie b.1926
--DD Ruthie b. 1928
--DS Maurice Grantland b. 1930
1932-m- Michael Albert Johansen b. 1910
--DS Rufus Michael b. 1933
Katie suffered a severe blow when her husband Cal committed suicide after losing all of his investments and struggling to cope with their reduced situation. Katie married a younger man, Michael Johansen, whom she had met at church. He was helpful with her children and asked for her hand in marriage within weeks of meeting. They together have one son, named Rufus Michael, in honour of Katie's first husband.
DD : Clara Margaret b.1905
1926-m- Gregory David Cairns b. 1900
--DD Margaret Clara b.1927
--DD Dulce Jane b.1930
--DS: Gregory David Jr. b. 1931
--DD: Celia Ethel b. 1933
Clara and her husband haven't been hit too badly by the depression. They added two more children to their family, Gregory Jr and Celia.
DS: Maurice Talbot Reeves b.1906
-DGf: Alice Brandam1918
--DS: Buchanan Mauriceson Grantland-Brandam b. 1934
Maurice is working hard to keep the family tobacco farm going. Often with only himself and maybe one of his older nephews working the fields. Maurice's work on the farm has prevented him from having a real social life, however he has fathered a son, Buchanan Mauriceson, with Alice Brandam, the daugther of a local sharecropper.
DS: Albert George b. 1908
1928-m- Cassandra nee Smith b. 1908
--DS: Sumner Smith b. 1929
--AD: Alberta Julianne b, 1931
Albert & Cassandra have not had any more children since Sumner was born in 1929. They did however adopt a girl from a local orphanage, who they named Alberta Julianne.
DD: Mary Ada Ethel b. 1910
1932-m- Alexander James Welles b. 1912
--DD: Ada Alexandra b. 1933
--DD: Sarah Mary b. 1935
Mary married Alexander Welles, son of a local lawyer, and himself a student of the law. They have had two daughters so far; Ada and Sarah.
DD: Willa Rosemarie b. 1912
1931-m- Charles Allen Campbell-Browne b. 1906
DS: William Charles b. 1933
Willa married Charles Campbell-Browne, another member of the local 'gentry'. They have one son, William.
DS: Rutherford b. 1913 (Twin to Harrison)
Rutherford has taken to the life of the hobo. He suffered a breakdown after his father's death and abandoned his family and money for a life of adventure.
DS: Harrison Moore b. 1913 (Twin to Rutherford)
1933-m- Georgina Makepeace b.1913
DS: Rutherford Julius b. 1935
Harrison married Georgina Makepeace, his sweatheart from an early age. They have one son, Rutherford Julius, 'RJ'.
DD: Maude Bess b. 1914
1932 Francis Sherman Wakelyb. 1880
DS: Sherman Sumner b. 1934
Maude shocked the family by announcing that she was engaged to Francis Wakely, who besides being a much older widowed gentlemen with grown children, was also her employer at his estate. They have one son together Sherman Sumner.
DD: Helen Frances b. 1918
The Ewing Children
DS : Hubert Castlebrooke, Jr b. 1895
1914-m- Kathleen Mary nee O'Reilly b.1893 d. 1928
--DS: O'Reilly Grantland b. 1915
---DGf: Heather Miller b. 1916
-----DS: Miller Grantland b. 1935
--DS: Francis Hubert b. 1917
--DS: Joseph Julius b. 1920
--DD: Margaret Mary b. 1922
--DS: Antony b. 1925
--DD: Magdalene Anne b & d 1928
While Hubert has reminded unwed since his wife's death, his eldest son, O'Reilly, has father a boy, Miller, with his longtime girlfriend, Heather Miller.
DD : Margaret Ada b. 1898
1916-m- DH: Jefferson Duvall Somerset b. 1890
--DD Anne Margaret b. 1918 (Twin to Mary)
--DD: Mary Kathleen b. 1918 (Twin to Ane)
--DS: Ewing Jefferson Grantland b. 1923
--DS: John Duvall b. 1925
--DS: Mark Virtue b. 1929
The Somerset family is doing well. Jefferson has taken his preaching on the road and has made many converts.
DD: Anna Belle b.1900
1918 -m- DH: Hans Adolph von Schwarzwald b.1893
--DS: Hubert Adolph b.1919
--DS: Henry Hans b. 1921
--DD: Heidi Anika b. 1922
--DS: Harald Franz (Twin to Hermann)
--DS: Hermann Kaspar b. 1925(Twin to Harald)
--DS: Helmut-Wulf Julius b. 1934
With the rise of National Socialism in Germany, Hans von Schwarzwald has moved his family back to the Fatherland. Anna has mixed feelings about leaving her native America but if Hans thinks it is best fort he family then so be it. They had one more son, who unlike his siblings was born in Germany, Helmut-Wulf Julius.
DS : Julius Grantland b. 1902
1926 Julia Smith nee Woodruff b.1905
--DS: Lehi Grantland b. 1927
--DS: Nephi Woodruff b. 1928
--DS: Moroni Smith b. 1930
--AD: Emma Anahera b. 1932
--DS: Hyrum Wilson b. 1934
Since his conversion to Mormonism in the mid-1920s Julius has become a very devout and pious man. He and his family have served in missions in Australia and New Zealand. It was while on mission in New Zealand they adopted their daugther, Emma. While in Australia they had another son, Hyrum. They have since decided to settle in Australia.
DD : Louise Kate b. 1904
1924 -m- Michael Gabriel Flattery b. 1900
--DD: Mary Kate b. 1923
--DD: Mary Louise b. 1925
--DS: Michael Francis b. 1927
--DS: Antony Gabriel b. 1928
--DD: Mary Rose b. 1930
With Jacob Goldman
--DS: John James Goldman b. 1934
Louise's marriage to Michael has hit the rocks. Michael has become a drunk and his away from his family months at a time. Louise had an affair in the meantime with a Jacob Goldman, who doesn't accept their child together as his.
DD : Mary Rose b. 1905
1925-m- Richard Barnsley Alberts b.1903
--DD: Mary Ada b. 1926
--DD: Rosanne Kate b. 1927
--DS: Richard Barnsley Jr. b. 1929
--DS: James Stuart 1932
Mary Rose and Richard have had a relatively easy run during the early years of the depression. They have had one more son, James who they named after Mary Rose's brother in-law James Stuart, Bessie's husband. What Mary Rose is unaware of is that their easy has come from the fact that Richard is a bootlegger.
DD : Bessie Maude b. 1907
1925-m- James Napoleon Stuart b. 1895
--DS: Julian James b. 1927
--DS: Napoleon Hubert b. 1929
--DD: Maude Margaret b. 1930
--DS: Richard Alberts b. 1932
Bessie and James have had a settled life. James comes from a rather wealthy family who sold their shared before the crash allowing themselves to live in the lap of luxury. They have had another son, Richard named after Bessie's brother-in-law Richard.
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