OUR FAMILY LEGACY

OUR KINDRED FAMILIES The Bridges Family Bridges Family is currently “under construction”.  Check  back soon! Great Grandmother Sarah Bridges came from a large and complex English ancestry, arriving in Virginia.  Sarah’s eighth great grandparents, Joseph Bridger and his wife Hester Pitt sailed from Gloucestershire, England after the death of his father, Samuel Bridger.  Joseph had

Martin Luther McIntire Introduction Martin Luther McIntire, the second son of Alexander and Mariah Lovina is the “Great Grand Father” I know without having ever met.  He was born one hundred years before me, however his legacy was well-known in my immediate family.  My parents, Rod and Elaine McIntire along with brothers Tim and Scott

Joseph Alexander McIntire and Susan Strawn This next portion of the website I like to think of as the “Great Grand Years”  because these are the ancestors that became our beloved Great Grandparents, Great Uncles and Aunts.  Their children went on to become our Grandparents, Grand Uncles and Grand Aunts.  These dear ones are part

Richard McIntire Keeping with the McIntire tradition of producing large families throughout several marriages, Richard comes close to passing up his older brother Andrews’ record!  So bear with me as we highlight his wives and children through this next path of our MacIntyre Journey!   Richard was the seventh child of Alexander and Elizabeth, born on

John McIntire and Henrietta Hedges Before moving forward on this vast McIntyre journey, there were several of Andrew’s siblings that should be remembered.  Abigail has already been discussed in a previous post here https://macintyrejourneys.com/meet-the-family-of-abigail-and-robert-lisle/ however Andrew also had four younger brothers whose stories require telling. All of Alexander and Elizabeth’s children were born in the

Alexander McIntyre and Lovina Mariah Hiatt Alexander was my second Great Grandfather, bearing a closer link to the great aunts and uncles I knew as a child. A few years back, a cousin sent me a narrative from his ancestry work to leave for his kids and grandkids, which ironically is why I am writing

Andrew’s Adult Children Head West In my previous post titled “The Super Researchers of our Family”, credit is given to Edna Luree Hall Miller and her sister Wilna Hall Treichler, daughters of the beloved John Hipe Hall.  John was married to Effie McIntire, daughter of Martin Luther McIntire.  I’ve also mentioned the privately published book

Andrew McIntyre Andrew McIntire, eldest surviving son of Alexander and Elizabeth McIntire, unknown date Andrew was the third child born to Alexander and Elizabeth. Their firstborn child son,  also named Andrew, passed away in early childhood, presumably around 1792 when Abigail was barely three years old.  Andrew, the second was born in 1798, placing him

Meet the Family of Abigail McIntyre and Robert Lisle Alexander and Elizabeth became parents to firstborn Andrew in 1787 while living in the Lancaster, Pennsylvania area.  Unfortunately Andrew passed away in 1792, at the young age of five.  History shows that mortality was high during this time period and children were particularly vulnerable.  In western