Carrie Estelle Larkham was
my great-great-grandmother and my first link to the Larkham
family that I have spent most of my time researching since I
first became interested in genealogy three years ago. Carrie
(and probably her mother and a few of the other female
relatives in her immediate family) had the wonderfully good
sense to save and store many old family items -- bibles,
transcriptions from bibles, land deeds, letters -- that
eventually made their way to me today. There is a great deal
that I have learned about the Larkham family from these old
bibles and documents that I would not have found in public
records. Carrie's daughter (and my great-grandmother) Sarah Clark Burdick, copied several pages of notes on Larkham family records,
presumably transcribed from a family bible. Many of the dates
Sarah copied down are not available through public sources,
so she has allowed a glimpse into the history of this family
that might not otherwise be known today.
I was really first “introduced” to
the Larkham family through a stack old, yellowing land deeds
and other papers that my maternal grandmother stored in a
filing cabinet in her Connecticut cellar. She must have
pulled the papers out once or twice during my childhood,
because I remember being told of Carrie and William Larkham.
After my grandmother’s death in 1976, my mother acquired
the papers. She would take them out from time to time, and my
parents and siblings and I would ponder over the 18th century
dates, the old handwriting and the “metes and bounds”
wording of the documents, but none of us took the time to
decipher what the papers said, nor had we any idea of the
significance of the names on the documents or how the parties
were related to us.
In February of 1997, when I became fascinated
with genealogy over the Internet, I began to query my mother
about her ancestry. At this point, I was the only one in my
family interested in delving into our ancestry, and she was
happy to have a family member take over the precious, old
items. When I received the old documents, I felt like I had
come into possession of a treasure chest, and was hopelessly
hooked on solving the puzzle of the people behind the papers,
particularly one Lancelot Larkham, the
presumed son of Thomas Larkham, the progenitor of my line of
the Larkham family. Contained within the pages listed below
is what I have learned about my Larkham ancestry.
| Carrie Estelle Larkham of
Canterbury and Voluntown, Connecticut |
| William
H. Larkham of
Voluntown, North Stonington and Canterbury,
Connecticut |
| Lot Larkham Jr. of Voluntown,
Connecticut and Richmond, Rhode Island |
| The Last Will and Testament
of Lot Larkham of Voluntown, Connecticut |
| Lancelot Larkham of South
Kingstown and Richmond, Rhode Island and Voluntown
Connecticut |
| The Indenture for the
Apprenticeship of Lancelot Larkham |
| The Last Will and
Testament of Lancelot Larkham of Voluntown,
Connecticut |
| Frances Larkham of South
Kingstown, Rhode Island |
| Thomas Larkham of South
Kingstown, Rhode Island |
| Genealogy Report of the
Larkham Family |
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England Ancestry" Page |
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