User:Wcressey

My Whitney Line ThomasA Whitney, m. Mary Bray John1 Whitney, m. Elinor (-----) John2 Whitney, m Ruth Reynolds Benjamin3 Whitney, m. Abigail Hager David4 Whitney, m. Rebecca Fillebrown Nathan5 Whitney, m. Tabitha Merriam John6 Whitney, m. Elizabeth Stearns John7 Whitney, m. Lydia Allen Edward8 Whitney, m. Emma Louisa Rice Harry Sumner9 Whitney, m. Alice Gibson Beatrice10 Whitney, m. Wolcott Cressey William Cressey, m. Virginia Mullen

William W. Cressey. Earliest Whitney ancester that I'm confident of is John of London who moved to Watertown. My line is John, John, Benjamin, David, Nathan, John, John, Edward, Harry, Beatrice, William Cressey (me). I have done some research, including at the Genealogy Society in London and at the British Library, but I've never dioscovered anything not documented in the existing sources. Mt uncle Alfred (John, John, .... Harry, Alfred) used to believe the Melville stuff, but I've read the articules that cast doubt on that lineage.

I also have an intersting Whitney on my Cressey side: Martha Ella Cressey, the older sister of my paternal grandfather married Charles Frederick Whitney of Pittston, Maine. I've found some of his artwork on the web, but I can't definitively link him in to any of the established Whitney lines, which would be fun to do even though he's not my ancester.

I get to london from time to time and plan another visit to the Gen Society Library, mostly to do Cressey stuff, but I could take something on if anyone has an intersting query.