I will be changing the way the website displays certain information (obituaries, BBW vol information etc) so that it will no longer appear in the “notes” section. This will be a bit of a long process and will require going through each person with an entry in the notes and moving it. I am setting it up in TNG now, and the prep will including running reports to identify who has notes entries and going from there. It will be an excellent winter project……..

All the Best
Bill

Came across this old (1993) story about a Byberry Walton reunion in Byberry from the Philly Inquirer

From Philadelphia Inquirer 08.13.1993
Walton Clan Looks Back On Byberry The Four Brothers Are Credited With Founding Byberry In 1683.
August 13, 1993|By Lea Sitton, INQUIRER STAFF WRITER

The Byberry Waltons drank too much and played around. They quarreled with one another. Some killed themselves – in 1759 Joshua Walton strung himself
from a tree in his front yard – but many more lived past 90 and several saw 100.
Sometimes they stayed single. Usually they got married. They started
families, farms and mills. Samuel (d. 1857) built the first bridge across the Allegheny. Boaz (d. 1853) and Jeremiah (d. 1854) made cabinets. Hannah (d. 1817) wrote poems. (She also gave birth to two daughters and never had a husband.) William (d. 1807) loved to hunt raccoons and pigeons, and may have shot the last bear killed in Byberry Township
The Byberry Waltons were not signers of the Declaration.
They did not invent anything like the light bulb.
They were regular people.
But they worked hard, and the first ones here – four brothers – are credited with breaking ground in 1683 for a settlement along Poquessing Creek that is now the Byberry section of Northeast Philadelphia. A lot of people would say, “So what?” The brothers are history, dead and dusty, paved over and built on.
But the Waltons of today would say the past holds good stories and is reason enough for a get-together. Tomorrow and Sunday, a couple hundred descendants of Nathaniel, Thomas, Daniel and William are expected to gather at the Best Western on Roosevelt Boulevard for their 11th annual reunion. Most of them will come from the Philadelphia area, but some will travel farther, including one expected from Hawaii.
Beatrice Walton, who married into the family, is the museum curator for the Byberry Friends Meeting, which the Waltons helped found.
She is passionate about the past.
“I can’t tell you why. I don’t know why. . . . It’s just something I took to,” said Bea Walton, 75. She and students who doze through history agree on one thing: It’s not the bare facts that get their attention.
“I hate that, just seeing a name and a date,” she said. “What were they? What did they do?”
Since 1960, Bea Walton has worked on the second floor of the schoolhouse at the Byberry Friends Meeting, which is on Byberry Road at Thornton Road, its original location.

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There, the library collection, started by the Friends in 1794, is surrounded by a natural history collection, initiated around 1830. Animals stuffed and mounted for posterity, dead insects in bottles, a Revolutionary War scabbard, Civil War saddlebags, a 15-pound granite ball that William P. Bonner carried back from Massachusetts in a suitcase in 1897. That and more can be found in the museum.
Maybe the reason for her passion is also there, where it is clear that dead does not mean dull. Really, what kind of a guy would accept a granite ball in a suitcase? And who would pickle a large piece of asparagus and donate it for display? Somebody who attended the Byberry Meeting in the 1940s or ’50s, that’s who.
For Bea Walton, none of them is dead and dusty.
According to the family history, the four Walton brothers walked about 50 miles north along the Delaware River after arriving from England. For months, they lived in the dirt, in a 3-foot cave covered with bark, because they lacked building supplies. Besides, they had to concentrate on growing food.
Their settlement grew into Byberry Township, which became part of Philadelphia in 1853. It was named for Bibury parish near Gloucestershire, England, the brothers’ home.
Most of Byberry’s early settlers were Quakers and things were peaceful until around 1690 when preacher George Keith showed up and started arguments over religion. Soon, the Byberry Meeting split and Nathaniel stood with the Keithians – opposite his brothers. The split was bitter. Once, Nathaniel went back to the other meeting when one of his brothers was preaching. Nathaniel rose angrily and shouted, “Brother, thou lyest.”
The Keithians soon moved onto other denominations. Because Nathaniel did not stay with the Quakers, who kept detailed records, his line is more faint than his brothers’.
Richard W. Walton, 77, who descends from both Daniel and Thomas, said 15,000 to 16,000 descendants have been documented, including Ginny Thornburgh, former first lady of Pennsylvania. More than 1,200 people are on the mailing list for the Byberry Walton newsletter, which Pat Worthington Stopper sends out twice a year.
Stopper, 65, is descended from William and is as enthusiastic as Bea Walton.
“I have sleepless nights, and I come out here and I take that Book 1 and I read it, word for word,” Stopper said at her home recently.
The book is weighty, a bound history of Waltons that is nearly 2 inches thick. It is full of good stories – in small type.
FOR MORE INFORMATION
* Pat Stopper, 215-677-4041, can answer questions on the newsletter, the reunion and the Waltons.

Added 41 digital scans of original Marriage Certificates provided by the
Province of New Brunswick archives, its great the way the province provides
this info to family researches online and for free. They can be found attached
to each persons individual page under Marriage Certificate.

All the Best
Bill

Its been a haul, but summer is winding down, Nathaniel will soon be back to school and I am now working from home which gives me extra time to work on the genealogy stuff !!!!!!

- I am currently patching all the upstairs server stuff into the basement office computer so I can work on things from the basement office when I have time.

All for now – lots more coming soon

I have been working away at things and there are 2 new things

1) Thanks to the spammers I have had to remove the message area, I don’t think many were using it anyway and until I find a more bulletproof one it will be inactive. The spammers were dumping thousands of message a day through it and it upset my provider.

2) Thanks again to the spammers and bots I have had to install reCAPTCHA software to the front end, this is the add on that when you try to register it will ask you to input a random character string. I was getting 10 to 20 new registrations a day of phony users, and it got to be a pain to have to go in every day and delete them all…

Note: this will only affect NEW registrations !!!!!!

All the best
Bill

Its been busy

- Got some great new information from Daniel Buchanan including photo’s !!! for John Teare and Marcella Walton I have updated the photo’s I can in the database and will add the rest once I add the people and data to the offline database and do the next online database update. Thanks Daniel !!!!

- Heard from a few new Walton’s hope they will add there information as well

All for now
Bill

Happy Birthday

Today your 10

The online database has been updated with all new information as of yesterday !!!!

If I missed something please let me know

Thanks to everyone who sent in new info to be added !!!!!

All the Best
Bill

Long time no notes, sorry busy time for me

The TNG Software(the engine that runs the genealogy database)
has been upgraded to version 8.1.1

All the Best
Bill

- Sorry nothing new really, I finished downloading all the marriage certificates but it been a rough month, I have had 2 colds in a row, amazing how a nine year old can capture and bring home virus at the drop of a hat…… Plus Nathaniel is just getting over a double ear infection…….plus my impossible work schedule…..what a month ………..Anyway hopefully in January after the holidays I will be able to get back at it…..

Hope Everyone has a

Merry Christmas

Bill