Savercool and Carpenter Genealogies

Savercool and Carpenter Genealogies

Welcome to the website for the families of Cecile Savercool Carpenter and Mark Carpenter.  These pages of our family history will include following surnames:  Blair, Savercool, Hoagland, Robinson, Lanterman, Carpenter, Hovey and Stevens as well as parts of the other varied branches of each family. Although Mark and I have divorced I will continue to put up information about his family.

I have been doing family research ever since my mother received a copy of the Blair Family Book her father compiled beginning back during the 1890's and continuing until the 1940's.  This was about 1967 when I was about 15 years old.  Ever since I have been working to continue my Grandfather's research and keeping my branch of the family up to date.

After college I expanded my research to my father's family which has been a very daunting task.  One would think SAVERCOOL would be an easy name to find.  I was wrong!  There are many variants of the spelling of the name.  The original emmigrants were illiterate and so people spelled it the way it sounded. The family settled in Sussex County, NJ and the Stillwater Presbyterian Church still has the records of births from approximately 1780 to 1825. The record of Savercool births includes 22 entries with 14 different spellings though with many of the same parents.  Frustrating is the word that comes to mind.

Then when I began to do research in earnest in the early 1980's, I started from the wrong direction.  I didn't realize I was suppose to start with what I knew and work my way back.  I started the other way around and tried to work my way back down to me.  That's when I realized there was a reason it's called "A Family Tree".  Oh, well.  Live and learn.

I then began working on my husband's family.  This was another live and learn situation.  I wish I had talked more with my mother-in-law before she passed away.  I would have liked to learned more about her family in order to make my research easier.  Her mother was a Smith.

Much of this information is based on research compiled by others in our families. Matthew Lewis Blair, Jr., my grandfather, compiled much of the Blair's, the Hoagland's, and the Robinson's,  Though I've since discovered that most of the information on the Hoagland's my grandfather pulled directly out of the book History and Genealogy of the Hoagland Family in America. From their First Settlement at New Amsterdam 1638 to 1891 by Daniel Hoogland Carpenter and was published by Dr. Cornelius N. Hoagland (it shows that there are 3 separate branches of Hoagland Families);  William Carpenter, Mark's cousin, compiled the Carpenter's and the Hovey's, though they, too, have had much of their history published;  Robert S. Lanterman, my cousin, is the compiler of the Lanterman's;  and I compiled the Savercool's as much as possible. I also worked on the links to bring everyone together.

Some of this information was the work of others, including, but not limited to, Laura Hine, Lynne Secrest, and Judith York, who either placed their information on the Family Tree pages of RootsWeb.com and/or Ancestry.com or sent it directly to me.  Wherever possible their work has been cited.  But, as can happen when one is ecstatic over finding that elusive piece of information, many people have not received proper credit.  For that I apologize.  If you find information on these pages that you feels belongs to you and you have not received credit, please feel free to contact me and I will correct the oversight as soon as possible.

If, after reading these pages you discover that you have new information, we would be most grateful if you would send it to me.  Thank you.

As you can probably tell, these pages are currently under construction.  As the rest of the pages are ready they will be added.  Thank you for your patience.

Blair Family Book
Descendants of Christoffel Hooglandt & Katrina Cregier
Robinson Ancesters of Cecile Savercool Carpenter
Savercool Ancestors of Cecile Savercool Carpenter


    

© 2004 Cecile Blair Savercool-Carpenter


These pages have been visited by people as of 10 August 2004.
Updated 27 December 2009