Surname List: Mayon, Wickersham, Rhoads, Bechtold, Leonhardt, Goss

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The families of Patrick and Flora Mayon, mostly central Pennsylvania

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Every surname in my file, with where each family lived and the years I have them there. The last column is how many people of that name are in the file, counting only those who have passed on. Living people are not in my Web pages and never will be. Other spellings I've found in the records are in parentheses, because the census taker spelled what he heard.

Counted Sunday, September 19, 1999. 2,300 people in all.

My side

Surname	Where	Years	People
Mayon	Blair Co., PA	1847-1984	64
Phelan (Whelan)	Co. Kilkenny, Ireland; Blair Co., PA	1822-1932	41
Leonhardt (Leonard)	Baden, Germany; Blair Co., PA	1819-1971	88
Bechtold (Bechtel)	Huntingdon Co., PA	1764-1990	132
Englert	Blair Co., PA	1803-1931	57
Rhoads (Rhoades, Roads)	Bedford Co., PA	1771-1946	146
Cornman (Kornmann)	Cumberland Co., PA	1758-1902	39
Mosier (Moser)	Huntingdon and Blair Cos., PA	1790-1958	77
Godley	Centre Co., PA	1806-1937	23
Constantino	Abruzzi, Italy; Blair Co., PA	1858-1966	18
My side, these ten names			685

Flora's side

Surname	Where	Years	People
Wickersham	Chester Co., then Centre and Cambria Cos., PA	1712-1977	214
Matus (Matusz)	Saros Co., Hungary (now Slovakia); Cambria Co., PA	1849-1969	52
Osmond	Clearfield Co., PA	1798-1940	66
Mulford	Cumberland Co., NJ; Centre Co., PA	1740-1911	48
Helms (Helm)	Westmoreland Co., PA	1785-1949	71
Goss	Somerset Co., PA	1776-1938	94
Barbieri	Calabria, Italy; Cambria Co., PA	1861-1972	21
Eliason	Centre Co., PA	1802-1913	35
Gresham	Fayette Co., PA	1793-1924	29
Flora's side, these nine names			630

The whole file

My side, ten names above	685
Flora's side, nine names above	630
About 260 other surnames, mostly wives and husbands who married in, with fewer than 15 people each	985
Total	2,300

The other 260 names are all on the surname index of my family pages, and they'll be back on the line when the new pages have been checked. If yours isn't above, write and ask anyway. There's a fair chance it's in there.

Writing to me with a query

If you see a name and a place that match your people, please write. A query is like a train order: the more exact it is, the less can go wrong. Tell me:

1. The person's full name, and any other spellings you've seen.
2. When and where they were born, married and died, as near as you know.
3. Their parents, husband or wife, and children, if you know them.
4. Where you got what you have. A census, a Bible, Aunt somebody's memory: all of it is welcome, as long as you say which.
5. What you're hoping to find out.

I'll answer within the week and send what I have, with my sources, so you can check them for yourself. I don't send anything about living people, mine or yours, and I'll ask you not to post what I send without the sources attached. If we turn out to be kin, I'll say so in the first line, and you'll hear Flora cheer from here to wherever you are.

Some of my best finds came from people who wrote "probably not related, but..." So write.

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Put the surname in the subject line, please.
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Last updated Monday, September 20, 1999