DR. RENALD RENE DE LA FORCE #FamilyHistoryFriday

FOUND a new blog, to me at least, about my newly found bloodline the De La Force line from LaForce, France...
and the father or grandfather of my seventh great grandmother Sarah LaForce,,,,

Dr. Rene LaForce was apparently a Hugeonot who lead a group from France to Virginia and settled his family in America. His daughter or granddaughter married Booth Napier and had a daughter named Mary who married Sgt. William Vaughan, a revolutionary soldier and my sixth great grandfather.  

Perhaps the force is with me after all.  



LINKS

https://www.geni.com/people/Dr-Rene-de-la-Force/6000000011187511675
https://thelaforces.wordpress.com/2010/07/24/dr-renald-rene-la-force-i/ 
https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=42636033 
http://catorfamily.com/genealogy/leforcemeadors.html 
http://www.genealogy.com/ftm/r/i/d/Norman-Ridgley/WEBSITE-0001/UHP-0563.html 
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/LaForce-176 

UPDATE FOR ALL MY BOURNE COUSINS

Looks like we have a shared LEGACY.... 

So if you click on the BOURNE tag in the post you get all the Bourne posts in the blog. But you knew that. So you probably know that I finally broke through that wall and found James Emmett Bournes parents parents... 

JAMES senior was born about 1800 and is called the late bloomer as he was about 77 when he married a much younger Matilda Stephenson and started a family. James was the son of Stephen Bourne and Rosamond Mallory and Stephen Jr was the son of Stephen Bourne and Hannah. Think she was a MINITREE but not sure. 

Stephen jr was a Sgt in the Revolution, promoted by General Washington... 

Stephen Sr was the son of William and his second wife, do not know her name... but Williams first wife was NANCY VAUGHAN.... who was not the mother of STEPHEN SR.... some confusion in the research on that... 

WILLIAM JR. was the son of WILLIAM SR. and his first wife... name unknown... but was raised by William and his second wife MARY POLLY VAUGHAN who was not Juniors mother... They married in 1711 long after William and his brother Stephen's births... 

Stay tuned...

#BrickWallWednesday - James Emmett Bourne and Amelia Vaughan

Brick Wall Broken... Film at 11. Wait a minute... I dont have a film...

Anyway... Remember the brick wall I told you about a long time ago? The parents of Milly Vaughan? Well, thanks to a couple Ancestry trees, I found them. Now, don't tell me that the trees are not totally reliable... I know that. I always just rely on them for leads only. However, there it was.

Let me start at 1. My info was somewhat sketchy on Milly Vaughan and Emmett Bourne, and it was nothing but dead ends at first. While the first censuses I found on them said his name was William E. Bourne, and more reliable sources said his name was Emmett, I considered the possibility that his name may be wrong on some documents, so I changed his name on Ancestry to Emmett and then it happened. I got a leaf, er, hint. and suddenly, the walls fell down and I found some trees that listed their parents at last....

James Emmett Bourne was born on June 13, 1881, in Grayson County, Virginia, the child of JAMES BOURNE and M. STEVENSON. He married Amelia Ann Vaughan on June 19, 1901, in Wythe County, Virginia. They had 11 children during their marriage. He died on March 24, 1964, in Virginia, at the age of 82, and was buried in Cripple Creek, Virginia.  

James was about 35 when World War One started and he registered for the Old Man's Draft for World War Two in 1942.  

When Amelia Ann Vaughan was born on September 11, 1881, in Wythe County, Virginia, her father, WILLIAM VAUGHAN, was 60 and her mother, ELIZABETH F. PINION, was 30. She married James Emmett Bourne on June 19, 1901, in Wythe County, Virginia. They had 11 children during their marriage. She died on February 25, 1924, at the age of 42.   

1910 CENSUS  

Name:	William E Baurne [William E Bourne]
Age in 1910:	28
Birth Year:	abt 1882
Birthplace:	Virginia
Home in 1910:	Honley, Wythe, Virginia
Race:	[White]
Gender:	Male
Relation to Head of House:	Head
Marital Status:	Married
Spouse's Name:	Melia A Bourne
Father's Birthplace:	Virginia
Mother's Birthplace:	Virginia
Neighbors:	View others on page
Household Members:	Name Age William E Baurne 28 Melia A Bourne 26 Minnie L Bourne 8 Willie M Bourne 7 Eller E Bourne 4 Ruth M Bourne 3 William J R Bourne 1

AMELIA was called Melia in the 1910 census and my great grandma Vennie was called Minnie. Censuses are often a little wrong, but this census led me to believe his name was William and searches for William and Melia were fruitless. An Ancestry tree listed Milly as Amelia, a name I had suspected to be her real name all along. 

Amelia Vaughan married J. E. Bourne in 1901. 

Name:	J. E. Bourne
Gender:	Male
Marital Status:	Single
Age:	21
Birth Date:	1880
Birth Place:	Grayson Co., VA
Marriage Date:	19 Jun 1901
Marriage Place:	Wythe County, Virginia
Father:	Jas. Bourne
Mother:	M. Stevenson
Spouse:	Amelia Vaughn
FHL Film Number:	34255
Reference ID:	p71 L20

James Emmett Bourne was the son of Jas. Bourne and M. Stevenson and Amelia was the d/o Wm. Vaughan and Elizabeth Pinion.   

Funny how one little leaf can bust through a brick wall, isnt it? 

Bourne Heritage: 30. William Bourne and 31. Melia Vaughan #52ancestors

Number 30 on my ancestor list is William Emmett Bourne and number 31 is his wife Melia Vaughan Bourne. I cannot tell you who their parents are as they are two of my walls and have been for months, but I can tell you a little about them. William Emmett Bourne and Millie Vaughan are the parents of my great grandmother Vennie Lee Bourne who married William Akers. William and Millie are my 2nd great grandparents; that is generation 5 on the old pedigree and sadly they are the end of the lines of those branches. Maybe someday...


http://www.newrivernotes.com/grayson_cemeteries_fries_cemetery.htm

Mildred Vaughan Bourne #WednesdaysWall

This week's wall is Mildred Vaughan Bourne. Who were her parents? Where did she come from? #idk.
Millie is the wife of William Emmett Bourne and the mother Vennie Lee Bourne Akers. She is my great great grandmother and that is about all I know about her...  

LINKS
http://www.geni.com/people/MILLIE-BOURNE/6000000022275970076