Much of this information has been gathered from various family collections and recollections and is still a work in progress. Earlier data was found trips to Trenton, NJ and Doylestown, PA. Of great assistance was the Trentonia section of the Trenton Public Library, the New Jersey State Archives and the Mercer County Library and their wonderful staffs.
I am especially interested in finding out the origins of Martin Nolan and his wife, Ann Connor, in Ireland and their whereabouts from the time they arrived in the U.S.(circa 1849) and appeared in Trenton City Directories in 1857. All of their children were born in New Jersey between 1850 and 1860.
Another enigma is the parentage of both Weaver VanSant and his wife, Ann Ivins. These large familes had many progeny but the ancestors of these two g-g-g-grandparents has eluded us to date.
Other families of interest are those of Louis Wagner (Johan and Catharina) and Anna Beal of Trier, Germany, Robert Bowie (Scotland/Singapore) and his wife Sarah VanSant (PA), William Christie (Handley, England) and his wife Eliza Stonier (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire. England). Other families related in earlier generations include Crawford, Dugan, Conroy, McLeece, West, Murray, Donahoe, Murphy, Jamieson (Ireland), Davies (Scotland), Geller, Knapp, Schindewolf (Germany), Elshove and Umstad (Holland), and countless others.
Thanks for any assistance you can lend and best of luck finding your ancestors.
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- Thomas and Laura (Wagner) Nolan (40 KB)
Great-grandparents taken in younger days.
- William and Eliza (Stonier) Christie (6 KB)
Probably taken approximately 1920
- Mary Murray West and son, Fr. Jack (140 KB)
Taken on Palm Sunday (?) in Hopewell, NJ (late 1920's?)
- Al & Nan (West) Christie on honeymoon in 1919 (5 KB)
Taken at Jersey Shore probably in Atlantic City on the boardwalk.
- Tom and Stella Nolan w/ some grandchildren @12/53 (27 KB)
The Nolan and Shuman clan gathered together nearly every Sunday at Octagon House at the Peddie School. This is one such occasion but only 7 of the 17 grandchildren are pictured. Usually there were more.
- Laura Wagner Nolan and four of her daughters--40's (173 KB)
Taken in the early to mid 1940's. Lf to Rt: Anna Walker, Loretta Schroth, Laura Wagner, Katherine Haggerty & Florence Nolan.
- Ann Connor Nolan (23 KB)
I received this picture from my cousin, Jack Kelliher, It was probably taken in the 1870's.
- Thomas F. Nolan III (56 KB)
This is one of my favorite pictures of my Dad taken during flight training in 1942.
- Tom and Virginia's Wedding-October 21, 1944 (26 KB)
Taken at the Trenton Country Club.
- Tom, Stella and Children-Easter 1938 (34 KB)
Stella, Tom III, Dick, Marty, Bob, Tom, Jr. and Eleanore
- Great-great Grandfather, Louis Wagner (53 KB)
We are about 99% sure this is Louis. It was found with pictures that were passed down from my parents. My cousin, Sr. Laura Nolan, confirmed the identity from other pictures she has seen.
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Nolan/Connor/Wagner/Bowie/Christie/Stonier-New Jersey & PA