Jennings/Janning Family about 1897

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• If you came here looking for Jennings people, you're probably out of luck. Rather than being of English or Irish origin, this branch of Jennings came from Germany (more accurately, the Prussian Kingdom of Hannover) and were originally named Janning. The name was changed during the mid 1880s after they emigrated to Milton, Wisconsin. For an accounting of the family in America and a description of their origins in Augustendorf, Germany, please read this paper written in 1928 by my great-great-uncle, Frederick C. Jennings, after his visit to the home-land.
• The database (also on RootsWeb WorldConnect) contains over 10,100 people (updated 10/28/17). Birthdates of living people have been intentionally removed. There are at least 40 people with each of the following surnames:
• Taylor - Hertfordshire England, MA (over 330 people of this surname)
• Two families both headed by emigrants named Richard Taylor
• Porter - Dorchester England, MA, OH, WI (over 290 people of this surname)
• Two emigrant families; one headed by John Porter and the other by Richard Porter (who were perhaps brothers)
• More (Moir/Moor/Mour/Moar) - Stirlingshire Scotland, WI (over 190 people of this surname)
• Staebell - Alsace-France, IL, IA, SD, WI (over 170 people of this surname)
• Stebbins - Essex England, MA (over 150 people of this surname)
• Dyer - England, MA, RI, NY, MN, WI, WA (over 140 people of this surname)
• Parker - Essex England, MA(over 120 people of this surname)
• Hitchcock - Wiltshire England, CT, MA(over 110 people of this surname)
• Jones - Montgomeryshire Wales, WI (over 100 people of this surname)
• Wells - Worcester England, MA(over 100 people of this surname)
• Rice - Suffolk and Hertfordshire England, MA(over 100 people of this surname)
• Mawhinney (McWhinnie) - Scotland, County Antrim Ireland, WI
• Gillies - Fifeshire Scotland, WI
• Hobart - Norfolk England, MA
• Graves - Kent England, CT, MA
• Tucker - MA, VT, MN
• Jennings/Janning - Hannover (Germany), WI
• Hanchett - Essex England, CT, MA, NY, OH, WI
• Livermore - England, CT, MA
• Brown - Ireland, England, MA, etc.
• Smith - England, MA, CT, etc.
• Farnsworth - Lancashire England, MA
• Eells - Devonshire England, MA, CT, NY
• Hawks - Norfolk England, CT, MA
• Cobb - Kent England, MA
• Clark (Clarke) - England, MA (Other families in MN, WI)
• Gross - Germany, WI
• Wright - England, MA
• Pangborn - England, NY, CT, NJ
• Vance - CT, VT, IL, MN
• Abbot - England, MA
• Addie - Kinross-shire Scotland, WI
• Alvord (Alford) - Dorset England, MA
• Peabody - WI
• Barlass - Kinross-shire Scotland, WI
• Chandler - England, MA
• Allen - England, CT, MA
• Warriner - England, MA
• Chipman - Dorset England, MA
• Lutjen - Bremervorde Hanover
• Casper - Alsace-France
• Allis - England, MA
• Scott - England, MA
• If you find any inaccuracies or have additional information, please notify me.
• My father, Harold Jennings, has written his memoirs. I think you'll find When I was a Boy... very interesting.
• My great grandmother, Clara Rhoda (Taylor) Porter, wrote a notebook of family history which she left for my mother. It was reading A Grandmother's Rememberances that got me started doing genealogy.
• More Family Tree was written by my grandmother, Catherine (Jones) Porter, in about 1938. It shows descendents of William and Helen (Buchanan) More of Buchlyvie, Stirlingshire, Scotland. (While the name is given as Helen Buchanan in this document, the Scottish Old Parochial Register shows Elizabeth Buchanan.)
• Jones - Gillies family history presented at a family reunion in 1956.
• My mother's great uncle, Charles Guthrie Stevenson, wrote her several letters when he was a very old man telling about singing for President Lincoln during the Civil War. He later sang at Lincoln's funeral.

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