Lisenby/Gainey

Skydancer,

Have you seen any of your Gainie/Gainey on records where that name was written in such a way that the “ey” could have been interpreted as “es” with a long tail on the “s” ?

This is really free association, but I was suddenly struck with the similarity to various spellings of “Goines” / “Goings” that I’m looking for, which were ocassionally spelled “Gaines” and sometimes looked like “Gainey” & “Ganey” on old records.

Bill

Need more information than you’ve posted.

Where and when did these people live?

Bill

I can’t speak for the Georgia location, but I can speak for a couple of the names Courtney listed as moving to GA. Deb and I have found Paynes and Parrs in our families. Both our lines – connected and double connected 3-4 generations back, have the Blackfoot ID and followed the path from PA to OH to IA.

Techteach

Linda:

I will have to email Deb. She has a more direct connection and a much better genealogy of those folks than I do. She will be excited by your news. I do remember Paynes in my school as I was growing up. Dark hair, dark eyes, etc.

Cindy

Okay, I’m searching for the Payne’s. I know there are multiples in the line, but I don’t know where. About a month ago, we got a lighening strike too close to our house and it took out our computer. We have been dealing with the insurance company and have replaced it with a new one, however, all the genealogy that I had in Family Tree Maker and Ancestry are gone. I was in the process of updating my files to send to Cindy when we crashed (and burned!) So my handy, dandy dropdown index is gone…I will be learning how to burn a CD! I have it all in about 20 notebooks that takes me forever to find a name in. BUT…I have located one of them…Stephen Clayton Sinkey m. Roxanna Payne. Okay, let me see if I can make this simple…Daniel Sinkey (b. 1806…d. 1893) m. (1st wife)…..Elizabeth Stimetz

(2nd wife)….Margaret Clayton

(3rd wife)…..Jane Iles

Daniel Sinkey is the son of William and Mary (McCartney) Sinkey.

Stephen Clayton is the son of Daniel and Margaret Clayton.

I do not have a date of birth for Stephen right here, but would be probably about 1830-1840.

The other Payne is Persis Genora Payne, daughter of John S. Payne and Anna M. Harris…. b. 27 May 1859 in Johnstown, Ohio

m. 5 Feb 1882 to Charles Sinkey b. 20 July 1858. Charles is the son of John Sinkey (1831-1881) and Minerva Lin Murphy (1833-1903). John Sinkey is the son of Daniel Sinkey (same as above) and Elizabeth Stimetz (1812 – 1835). I don’t have info on who Roxanna’s parents were. That’s all I can access at the moment.

Deb

Deb:

Yes, but it is the same area of Ohio where the rest were, the DeMoss, the Greens, the Sinkeys, the Hustons, etc. That land, in case you have not read it in The Green Tree yet, was Tarhe the Crane’s (Wyandot chief) town called Raccoontown. Jeanne has said that there are still people out near the Shawnee area who, when you say Johnstown, say, oh, yeah, Raccoontown.

The Green Tree goes on to say that the first “white” settler there, a Green wife, was left there alone for three weeks after they bought the land from Tarhe. Several natives threatened to kill her husband several times when he returned. Then when he did, they said, that no, they could not kill him. Both lines are suspected not to be “white.”

Cindy

PS: For others reading this, this is information about our Green line. There is a genealogy book about the line that relates some of the above information. Jeanne is a distant cousin, also a Green descendent who has written a book on identifying hidden native traits.

Skydancer:

I am looking and so far:

. JOHN6 GREEN I (REGINAL (REGNAL) GREEN5 SR., WILLIAM4 GREEN I, ROBERT3 GREENE, THOMAS2, THOMAS1) was born September 30, 1765 in Berkeley Co, Virginia, and died November 22, 1831 in Fairfield Co, Ohio. He married RUHAMA NICHOLS February 15, 1791 in Ohio Co, Virgina. She was born October 25, 1769 in Jefferson Co, Virginia, and died September 25, 1842 in Fairfield Co, Ohio.

Aha, the Bilderbeck connection. Ruhama married Charles. After his death, a retaliation for Gnaddenhutten, Ruhama returned east and married John Green who accompanied Ebeneezer Zane west as they built the road. Then the Bilderbeck daughter, Martha, who was raised by the Greens, married a Green also.

I also see a marriage between a Nichols and a Streets (related to the Greens) in Iowa in 1925. If you want that information, I can post it.

Also, there is a record of a Mathias Nichols in Berkeley County appearing to enter into a legal agreement with an Archibald Butt who was related to the Greens. The Greens were in Berkeley County before Johnstown, OH.

Techteach