185 years ago today, William Tagg and Elizabeth Weeks were married at St. James Church in Bristol, England. Later that same day, William, Elizabeth and 18 steerage passengers boarded Capt. […]
Ye Olden Tavern, known as the Fountain House, was built in Flushing, Queens, New York about 1756. According to old newspaper reports, it was, as the name suggests, a traditional […]
In 1907, my great-grandfather and Poggio Rusco, Italy native arrived at Ellis Island. Tomaso Venturini, along with a brother and sister, joined their mother and older brothers, who had arrived earlier […]
From the first European settlers in Virginia to the “huddled masses yearning to breathe free” at Ellis Island, our family tree is vast thicket of immigrants. In this year, 2013, when […]
James Henry Tagg and Sarah Lepine Chichester were married 130 years ago today, 27 December 1883 in Brooklyn. James, a compositor and typesetter, and Sadie, were both from families that […]
Earlier this year was the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Craney Island. It was this battle during the War of 1812 that repelled the British advance toward Norfolk, Virginia […]
James Tagg was born in 1833 on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, middle son to immigrant parents William and Elizabeth Tagg. As a young boy, James, and his brothers Frederick and Henry […]
October 14, 1888: 125 years ago today, Conrad Miltenberger and Minnie Mead were married at the Miltenberger’s family-owned Germania Hotel in Hempstead, New York. According to the newspapers, the ceremony […]
Jane and Her Siblings, Elizabeth Martling Prindle and Ralph Thompson Martling Ironically, it would be a Google search that turned up the most fortunate conglomeration of names: Ralph Thompson Martling. […]
The wife of James Tagg, my great-great-great grandfather, was a family mystery. We knew nothing of her origins. We basically knew nothing about her. Little did I know that it […]
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