My great-grandparents Paul & Elizabeth Whitfield resided in Raleigh, North Carolina. Great-grandpa Paul is my brickwall ancestor – with a mystery surrounding his “surname.” One tale is that he took the name from another passenger aboard the ship upon which he immigrated from Marseilles, France.
Great-grandparents Paul Alexandria Whitfield & Elizabeth (born Lola Elizabeth Brown)
[…] as Elizabeth, but her name was Lola. Lola E. Brown was born in 1903 in Guilford, North Carolina. Lola married to Paul Alexander Whitfield in 1923. She passed away in Wake County, Raleigh, North Carolina in […]
We knew her as Elizabeth, but her name was Lola. Lola E. Brown was born in 1903 in Guilford, North Carolina. Lola married to Paul Alexander Whitfield in 1923. She passed away in Wake County, Raleigh, North Carolina in 1994. She was a nurse, a homemaker and mother of two Dorothy Whitfield Dyson and Billy […]
My ancestor 3xgreatgrandfather Kanohokai was a Mahiʻai who tended a loʻi at Kapena near Judd. I recently found his marriage record to Momona 3xgreatgrandmother and it listed their residence as Waikahalulu. Because of the proximity to his work, I assumed it was in the wailele area in Queen Liliʻuokalani Botanical Gardens near Nuʻuanu Stream. But […]
It’s been an exciting few months recently for ShakinTrees. As a Christmas present to herself, my mother ordered an AncestryDNA kit and we’ve been excited exploring new connections for her over the last month since her results came in. We’ve identified several of her matches that raises our confidence level that Naluahine Kaopua is her […]
What should have been a simple Facebook video upload that didn’t work – forced me to finally take the leap into YouTube to share this my first public video – Kauhimaka Ohana Family Tour: Visiting Kupuna. I’ll be adding future creations to my new ShakinTrees playlists. I’ll be collaborating with other cousins who also captured […]
Phillipa Kanani Kauhimaka Fernandez my paternal great-grandmother she was the youngest child born to Joseph and Sarah Kauhimaka. She was born February 11, 1893 and died in April 1938. Phillipa married Lino Fernandez II in 1916. In 1930 — Phillipa and her 11 children were living with her brother-in-law Henry Lino Fernandez and his wife […]
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Love working on the mystery ancestors 🙂
sometimes “solving” one only opens up an even bigger mystery.. for example — we always knew my Gr-Grandma as Elizabeth and only recently discovered her first name is Lola…as she had listed her name on her husband Paul’s death certificate.. she also reported the names of his parents…which “supports” the Whitfield lineage..??? But know marriage or birth record can be substantiated with those “parents.” We’re thinking she was in on his “secret.”