Paul Shipman Andrews (unitrelig@igc.com) is the founder and former director of the Slavyanka Men's Slavic Chorus, in which Deane Merrill has sung since 1980.
Deane has put on the Web, as GENDEX database dwmerrill6, the genealogy information compiled by Paul's aunt Marjorie Wolff (user100173@aol.com).
Deane and Paul are related by two separate paths.
path #1: 9th cousins once removed, as follows:
Caleb Church (abt.1642-1722)aiblo m. Joanna Sprague (1645-1678)aibo Rebecca Church (1678-1757)ai Hannah Church (1668- )bo Prudence Warren (1709-1764)ahi Mercy Boomer (1694-1772)bo Constantine Hardy (1736/37-1777)ag Matthew Luther (b.1721)bo Constantine Hardy (1767-1842)ag Mehitable Luther (1750-1839)bo Sarah Flagg Hardy (1799-1889)ag Olive Wood (1773-1808)bop Almina M. Barnard (1822-1924)ad Gardner W. Bullock (1802-1882)bo Helen Maude Howard (1840-1893)adf Emily Sanders Bullock (1827-1921)bons Charles Arthur Merrill (1875-1968)acd Rosalba Everett Child (1849-1918)bs Deane Whitney Merrill (1908-1987)acde Ellen Spooner Gladding (1882-1962)bjks Deane Whitney Merrill Jr. (1938- )ac anonymous (living)bjs Paul Shipman Andrews (1947- )bjs
path #2: 10th cousins, as follows:
Richard Church (1608-1668)aiblor m. Eliz.Warren (abt.1612-1669/70)aiblo Caleb Church (1642-1722)aiblo Nathaniel Church (d.1688/9)aiblo Rebecca Church (1678-1757)ai Charles Church (1683/4-1725/6)bl Prudence Warren (1709-1764)ahi Deborah Church (1707-aft.1774)bl Constantine Hardy (1736/37-1777)ag Wing Spooner (1749-1802)blu Constantine Hardy (1767-1842)ag John W. Spooner (1770-1810)blt Sarah Flagg Hardy (1799-1889)ag Mary Spooner (1792-1887)blt Almina M. Barnard (1822-1924)ad Abby Boss Munro (1822-1897)bls Helen Maude Howard (1840-1893)adf Daniel Wardwell Gladding (1850-1909)bms Charles Arthur Merrill (1875-1968)acd Ellen Spooner Gladding (1882-1962)bjks Deane Whitney Merrill (1908-1987)acde anonymous (living)bjs Deane Whitney Merrill Jr. (1938- )ac Paul Shipman Andrews (1947- )bjs
sources:
a.GENDEX database dwmerrill or GENSERV database mern6na. Host: Deane Merrill, merrill@crocker.com. Author: Jonathan Merrill, jonmerrill@aol.com.
b.GENDEX database dwmerrill6. Host: Deane Merrill, merrill@crocker.com. Source: unpublished document "Yclept Young," owned by Paul Andrews, unitrelig@igc.org. Author: Marjorie Y.B.Wolff, user100173@aol.com.
c.Personal recollection, Jonathan Merrill, jonmerrill@aol.com.
d."Memoranda on My Family and Their Relatives" by Charles A. Merrill, c. 1955 (included in "The Ancestors and Descendants of Deane Whitney Merrill and Harriet Mary Ray" by Deane Whitney Merrill, 1975, 1976, 1977).
e.handwritten account of wedding by DWM.
f.Marriage Certificate, dated June 25, 1859 at Deerfield, Massachusetts (given to Jonathan A. Merrill by second cousin Mary Gay Talcott in 1995).
g.Barnard Family research by David Evans, New Canaan, Connecticut, 1975.
h."The Ancestors and Descendants of Deane Whitney Merrill and Harriet Mary Ray" compiled by Deane W. Merrill, 1975, 1976, 1977 (data attributed to Robert L. Ward).
i."Mayflower Families in Progress - Richard Warren of the Mayflower" compiled by Robert S. Wakefield, 4th Edition, 1991, published by the General Society of Mayflower Descendants.
j."Yclept Young" summary volume, page entitled "John Albion Young" about 4/10 of the way into the volume.
k.(Ellen Spooner Gladding) "Yclept Young" summary volume, three pages about 4/10 of the way into the volume.
l."Yclept Young" volume "G", "The Line of Abby Boss Munro."
m.(Daniel Wardwell Gladding) "Yclept Young" summary volume, two pages about 6/10 of the way into the volume; "Representative Men and Old Families of Rhode Island" p.2126.
n.(Emily Sanders Bullock) Newspaper clipping at time of death; personal recollection of Marjorie Wolff.
o."Yclept Young" volume "G", "The Line of Emily Sanders Bullock."
p.(Olive Wood) Family Bible records printed in Boston Transcript of Jan 5, 1914.
r.(Richard Church) Leon Clark Hills, "History and Gelealogy of the Mayflower Planters;" Banks, "Planters of the Commonwealth". Richard Church's will is recorded in Suffolk County at Boston, V.5, p.26, and his inventory V.5, p.116.
s.Personal recollection, Marjorie Y.B.Wolff, user100173@aol.com.
t.Personal recollections of Abby Boss Munro, transcribed by Ellen Spooner Gladding.
u.(Wing Spooner) Ellen Spooner Gladding's lineage in the DAR book.
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last updated 3/7/98
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