Bob -
Here's an e-mail I recently posted on another Website:
Hi -
The Way family history I published last year was so well received that it
quickly sold out, but the publisher is unwilling to publish any less that 50
more copies and I'm unwilling to assume that financial risk. The file was
too long to fit on a single CD-ROM disk. I tried dividing it into two files
and found it messed up the some 900 footnotes and the approximately 6,000
entries in the index. Experimenting, however, I discovered that by deleting
some photographs of my immediate Way family in West Texas, which take up a
lot of room, and some marginal maps pertaining to that branch of the family,
I could just squeeze the book onto a single CD-ROM disk.
The book: Henry Way (1583-1667) and Descendants: Pioneering Four Centuries
Across America, by A. Dane Bowen, Jr., Ph.D.[Ivy League in history],
Baltimore, Md., 2001, 488 pp. Page size is 8 1\2 x 11 inches. I made a
special trip to England just to research the Way family and the two families
they immediately married into in America, the Sumners and the Mavericks.
Several times I drove a motor home up and down the East Coast from Georgia to
Salem, Mass., researching this family, and out to Salt Lake City. Days were
spent in the Charles Granville Way Collection and the Mary Elizabeth Way
Collection of the New England Historic Genealogical Society in Boston. These
two collections take up about 15 linear ft. of shelf space. The frontispiece
facing the title page is a photo of the English church where Henry Way
remarried in 1615 and the church his son was baptized in at birth in 1613. I
include in the book reproductions of the handwritten recordings of these
events. There are photographs of the baptismal font not only for Aaron Way's
baptism but also of our Maverick ancestors, the Rev. Peter Maverick and the
Rev. John Maverick. Also the Cathedral where these two were ordained, the
churches where they served, as well as a 400-year old thatched roof parsonage
with earth floors they built and lived in. The book has many reproductions of
old documents and maps, as well as photographs of places and items associated
with the family.
Our Maverick ancestors have been traced back two ways to several royal houses
of Europe and to what Winston Churchill termed in his History of the English
Speaking People the oldest royal house of Europe, that of Alfred the Great. I
cite the sources for both ways but only give the names of all the individuals
for one line. Both lines go back to English King Henry III and to William the
Conqueror and Alfred. The lines through royal intermarriages including the
royal houses of England, Scotland, France, Hungary, and Castile and various
duchies such as those of Anjou and Aquitaine. All this is laid out in the
book. (President George Bush is also descended from Henry III.)
Besides the larger list below of index entries for families of 15 or more
individual entries, some of the first families of SC also appearing in the
index are: Avinger (Avenger), Awalt, Chamberlain, Cleckley (Kleckley),
Dantzler, Dowse, Gott, Hartzog, Helderman, Muckenfuss, Rickenbaker
(Rickenbacher), Smoak, Warner, and Warnock.
The following families have 15 or more individuals entered in the index,
followed by the number of such individuals, not the number of times they are
entered:
Alexander 28
All 19
Bacon 19
Baker 52
Barnard 17
Beaudrot 17
Bell 15
Brown 19
Brownlee 19
Bull 15
Campbell 29
Canaday 17
Chaudoin 26
Clark 34
Clayton 26
Cummings 100
Elliott 22
Fulton 20
Graves 15
Griffith 17
Gunkel 22
Heuermann 15
Hilton 15
Hines 15
Hodges 22
Hughes 29
Hutto 26
Johnson 25
Jones 31
Maverick 16
Maxwell 16
McCullough 42
McNish 19
Mims 31
Martin 15
Morgan 21
Murray 29
Newton 35
Norman 40
Osgood 31
Parler 17
Pendarvis 40
Pennington 15
Quarterman 32
Rhode 20
Russell 28
Sanders 87
Shingler 36
Shuler 17
Slade 28
Smith 27
Spencer 18
Stanley 38
Stephens 16
Stevens 22
Stroman 20
Sumner 20
Taylor 15
Thomas 15
Thrower 15
Tucker 17
Varnedoe 24
Walter 15
Williams 62
Estimating by column, the number of individuals named Way in the index is a
little over 1,450. Of course, there are many more Ways than that. My name is
not included in that number because my mother was a Way. I am selling the
CD-ROM disk for $36 plus $3.95 for mailing first class in a padded envelope.
It may be ordered by sending a check to:
Dane Bowen
6330 Hillcrest Place
Alexandria, Va. 22312
Thank you
Dane Bowen in Alexandria, Va., researching Bowen, Bacon, Carlton (Carleton),
Luker, Sanders (Saunders), Chaudoin (Chaudoins), Maverick, Richey (Ritchie,
Richie
Dane Bowen in Alexandria, Va., researching Bowen, Bacon, Carlton (Carleton),
Luker, Sanders (Saunders), Chaudoin (Chaudoins), Maverick, Richey (Ritchie,
Richie, Ritchey), Spence, Sumner, Way, and Wells families.
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