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font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman";} </style> <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:shapedefaults v:ext="edit" spidmax="9218"/> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:shapelayout v:ext="edit"> <o:idmap v:ext="edit" data="1"/> </o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFCC" background="Index_files/image001.jpg" lang=EN-US link="#003399" vlink="#660000" style='tab-interval:.5in'> <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <v:background id="_x0000_s1025" o:bwmode="white" fillcolor="#ffc"> <v:fill src="Index_files/image001.jpg" o:title="Parchment" type="tile"/> </v:background></xml><![endif]--> <div class=Section1> <p class=MsoNormal><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p> <h1 align=center style='margin-top:0in;text-align:center'><a name="_top"></a><span style='font-size:48.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:24.0pt'>Our Wandering Kinfolk<o:p></o:p></span></h1> <p class=MsoNormal><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p> <p class=MsoNormal><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p> <h2 align=center style='text-align:center'>Main Lines: Dicken, <st1:place>Graves</st1:place>, <st1:City><st1:place>Gresham</st1:place></st1:City>, Jenkins, <st1:City><st1:place>Redmond</st1:place></st1:City>, Rothenbuehler, <st1:City><st1:place>Wakefield</st1:place></st1:City>, Waite, Welborn, Whitakers, Wrights</h2> <p class=MsoNormal><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p> <p class=MsoNormal><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p> <p class=MsoNormal><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in'><span style='mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;color:windowtext'>Come along with me as I take you on a journey that began in the 1600s as our families wandered first to the colonies and then as they spread out away from each other in this huge country. I am from the south and my husband is from the north, but I have found that our families were living near each other in </span><st1:State><st1:place><span style='mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;color:windowtext'>Virginia</span></st1:place></st1:State><span style='mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;color:windowtext'> over 250 years ago. I do not know if they were friends, but they lived close enough in distance that they must have known of each other. I do know that there were </span><st1:State><st1:place><span style='mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;color:windowtext'>Virginia</span></st1:place></st1:State><span style='mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;color:windowtext'> cousins on the Dicken and the </span><st1:place><span style='mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;color:windowtext'>Graves</span></st1:place><span style='mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;color:windowtext'> sides that were married to each other. So just as many genealogists find out, our family roots do not spread out very far from the tree and now they have intertwined with each other again to make one big root.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;color:windowtext'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in'><span style='mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;color:windowtext'>Our earliest known family line in this new world began at </span><st1:City><st1:place><st1:PersonName><span style='mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;color:windowtext'>James</span></st1:PersonName><span style='mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;color:windowtext'>town</span></st1:place></st1:City><span style='mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;color:windowtext'> almost 400 years ago with Captain </span><st1:PersonName><span style='mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt; color:windowtext'>Thomas Graves</span></st1:PersonName><span style='mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;color:windowtext'> from </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style='mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;color:windowtext'>England</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style='mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;color:windowtext'>. Within the next 50 years, the Dicken, the Gresham, the Welborn, the Redmond, and the Wayte families had their first representatives in this country, all settling in Colonial Virginia and </span><st1:State><st1:place><span style='mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt; color:windowtext'>Maryland</span></st1:place></st1:State><span style='mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;color:windowtext'>. During the early to mid 1700s, the Gresham, the Redmond, and the Welborns moved down into </span><st1:State><st1:place><span style='mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;color:windowtext'>North Carolina</span></st1:place></st1:State><span style='mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;color:windowtext'>.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in'><span style='mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;color:windowtext'>In the early 1700s, the Jenkins and the Wrights immigrated to </span><st1:State><st1:place><span style='mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;color:windowtext'>Virginia</span></st1:place></st1:State><span style='mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;color:windowtext'> while the Whitakers settled in </span><st1:State><st1:place><span style='mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt; color:windowtext'>Pennsylvania</span></st1:place></st1:State><span style='mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;color:windowtext'> near other Quaker families. In the middle part of century, all three of these families joined the </span><st1:City><st1:place><span style='mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;color:windowtext'>Redmond</span></st1:place></st1:City><span style='mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;color:windowtext'> family in the middle settlements of </span><st1:State><st1:place><span style='mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;color:windowtext'>North Carolina</span></st1:place></st1:State><span style='mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;color:windowtext'>. At the end of the 1700s, these families moved to the western regions of </span><st1:State><st1:place><span style='mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;color:windowtext'>North Carolina</span></st1:place></st1:State><span style='mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;color:windowtext'> in </span><st1:place><st1:PlaceName><span style='mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;color:windowtext'>Buncombe</span></st1:PlaceName><span style='mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;color:windowtext'> </span><st1:PlaceType><span style='mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;color:windowtext'>County</span></st1:PlaceType></st1:place><span style='mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;color:windowtext'> where they have lived ever since. The earliest records of that area have many of the families represented by 1800. These families make up the ancestors of my mother.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in'><span style='mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;color:windowtext'>By the beginning of 1700, the Wayte, the Dicken, and the </span><st1:place><span style='mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;color:windowtext'>Graves</span></st1:place><span style='mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;color:windowtext'> families were living in the Middlesex area of </span><st1:State><st1:place><span style='mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;color:windowtext'>Virginia</span></st1:place></st1:State><span style='mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;color:windowtext'>. Before 1760, they moved inland to the Culpeper area of </span><st1:State><st1:place><span style='mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;color:windowtext'>Virginia</span></st1:place></st1:State><span style='mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;color:windowtext'>. Then, after the Revolutionary War, a few of the </span><st1:City><st1:place><span style='mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;color:windowtext'>Greshams</span></st1:place></st1:City><span style='mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;color:windowtext'>, Wakefields, and the Welborns families in North </span><st1:City><st1:place><span style='mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;color:windowtext'>Carolina</span></st1:place></st1:City><span style='mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;color:windowtext'> moved down to the Piedmont area of </span><st1:State><st1:place><span style='mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt; color:windowtext'>South Carolina</span></st1:place></st1:State><span style='mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;color:windowtext'>, as did some of the </span><st1:place><span style='mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;color:windowtext'>Graves</span></st1:place><span style='mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;color:windowtext'> and the Wayte families from </span><st1:place><st1:City><span style='mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;color:windowtext'>Culpeper</span></st1:City><span style='mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;color:windowtext'>, </span><st1:State><span style='mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;color:windowtext'>Virginia</span></st1:State></st1:place><span style='mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;color:windowtext'>. These families make up the ancestors of my father.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in'><span style='mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;color:windowtext'>The Dicken family moved northward from </span><st1:place><st1:City><span style='mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;color:windowtext'>Culpeper</span></st1:City><span style='mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;color:windowtext'>, </span><st1:State><span style='mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;color:windowtext'>Virginia</span></st1:State></st1:place><span style='mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;color:windowtext'> into the western part of </span><st1:State><st1:place><span style='mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;color:windowtext'>Pennsylvania</span></st1:place></st1:State><span style='mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;color:windowtext'> during the mid to late 1700s. Then they moved on to </span><st1:place><st1:City><span style='mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;color:windowtext'>Wood County</span></st1:City><span style='mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;color:windowtext'>, </span><st1:State><span style='mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;color:windowtext'>Ohio</span></st1:State></st1:place><span style='mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;color:windowtext'> in the early 1800s. The Dicken family married with the Feasel, Graham and Stahl families in the 1800s. These families make up the ancestors for line from my father in law. The Swiss immigrant families of Clauser (Glauser), the Jacobs, the Martens, and the Rothenbuehlers moved to </span><st1:State><st1:place><span style='mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;color:windowtext'>Ohio</span></st1:place></st1:State><span style='mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;color:windowtext'> from </span><st1:place><span style='mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;color:windowtext'>Europe</span></st1:place><span style='mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;color:windowtext'> around 1850. These families make up the ancestors for my mother in law.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;color:windowtext'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in'><span style='mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;color:windowtext'>For over a century, the family groups remained apart living in two different areas of this country.<a name="_Work_Information"></a> </span>These families would never have come back together if the wandering spirit had died, but that innate sense was always there biding time and when the time was right a chance meeting brought the families together in 1979. I hope that you find your wandering spirit in our families and if you do, then please let me know so that I can add your journeys to our history.</p> <p class=MsoNormal><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p> <p class=MsoNormal><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p> <h2><a name="_Favorite_Links"></a>Genealogy Lines</h2> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.25in;tab-stops:list .5in'><span style='mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;color:windowtext'>Dicken Family of Virginia, Pennsylvania, and </span><st1:State><st1:place><span style='mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;color:windowtext'>Ohio</span></st1:place></st1:State><span style='mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;color:windowtext'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.25in;tab-stops:list .5in'><span style='mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;color:windowtext'><a href="Graves/Graves%20Family%20of%20Virginia%20&amp;%20South%20Carolina.htm">Graves Family of Virginia and South Carolina</a><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.25in;tab-stops:list .5in'><span style='mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;color:windowtext'><a href="Gresham/Gresham%20Family%20of%20Virginia%20&amp;%20South%20Carolina.htm" target="_top">Gresham Family of Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina</a></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:windowtext'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.25in;tab-stops:list .5in'><st1:City><st1:place><span style='mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;color:windowtext'>Redmond</span></st1:place></st1:City><span style='mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;color:windowtext'> Family of </span><st1:State><st1:place><span style='mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;color:windowtext'>Virginia</span></st1:place></st1:State><span style='mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;color:windowtext'> and </span><st1:State><st1:place><span style='mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;color:windowtext'>North Carolina</span></st1:place></st1:State><span style='mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;color:windowtext'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.25in;tab-stops:list .5in'><span style='mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;color:windowtext'><a href="Waite/Waite%20Family%20of%20Virginia.htm">Wayte/Waite Family of Virginia and South Carolina</a><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.25in;tab-stops:list .5in'><span style='mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;color:windowtext'>Welborn Family of Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina, and </span><st1:State><st1:place><span style='mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;color:windowtext'>South Carolina</span></st1:place></st1:State></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.25in;tab-stops:list .5in'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p> <p class=MsoNormal><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p> <p class=MsoNormal><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p> <p class=MsoNormal>Other connecting families in South Carolina with the Graves and Wayte lines include Anderson, Cox, Crocker, Golding, Niswanger, Sims, Watson.</p> <p class=MsoNormal><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p> <p class=MsoNormal><a href="Individuals%20Index.htm">Individuals Index</a></p> <p class=MsoNormal><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p> <h2><a name="_Contact_Information"></a>Contact Information</h2> <p class=MsoNormal><st1:PersonName>Amanda</st1:PersonName> Dicken <span style='mso-tab-count:1'>       </span><a href="mailto:tdicken@cswnet.com">tdicken@cswnet.com</a></p> <p class=MsoNormal><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.25in'><span style='mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;color:windowtext'>This site is a work in progress so bear in mind that not all families are listed yet. I am beginning with just one family line this year and I hope to have the other major lines by next spring. I am also not listing information later than the 1860s for privacy reasons. If you wish to know more about a particular line, please contact me. Please feel free to use the information given to confirm your own research but I hope that you do not reprint this research without permission. There are many different family researchers with each line and they have the right to be recognized for the hard work that they have done. I do not have the resources to have verified every detail, however it is noted where I have not personally checked the research and on those pages, I have put the name of the researcher. I have indicated where the information is still not confirmed so please do not copy the information to your own files without making sure that your family does indeed tie into it. The group of researchers that helped with this site are more than willing to share, so contact me if you think that you can add to the information. Please let me know when you find a connection so we can continue this journey together.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.25in'><span style='mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;color:windowtext'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.25in'><span style='mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;color:windowtext'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.25in'><span style='mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;color:windowtext'>If you would like to have professional help with your family research, please contact our firm Ancestral Research Bureau at <a href="http://www.ancestralresearchbureau.com/">www.ancestralresearchbureau.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.25in'><span style='mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;color:windowtext'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <h2><a name="_Current_Projects"></a><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></h2> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.25in;tab-stops:list .5in'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.25in;tab-stops:list .5in'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.25in;tab-stops:list .5in'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p> <p class=MsoNormal><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p> <p class=MsoNormal><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p> <p class=MsoNormal><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p> <p class=MsoNormal>Updated on March 25, 2008</p> <p class=MsoNormal><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p> </div> </body> </html>