In my previous blog I used an account written by Florence Reid Willis who is one of my contemporary relations – a 2nd cousin. DNA analysis suggested that we were 5th to 8th cousins. But on closer examination we found that we were 2nd cousins. We share the same grandmother – May Belle Willis.
May Belle Willis Friend – as a young mother with 2 of her daughters in Minneapolis Minnesota, May 1912May Belle Willis Friend (on the right) as a grandmother, I am on her right along with my cousin Betsy, Winchester, Massachusetts, 1939 or 1940
Florence Reid Willis is the daughter of one of my grandmother’s brothers.
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My mother was a Willis but the family lived in Wiltshire, England.
Yes Willis Nisan Englishname. I am a descendant of the willis men who came to Boston and Salem in the 1600’s. I think they lived in Wiltshire in England but I will have to chicken that.
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My mother was a Willis but the family lived in Wiltshire, England.
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Yes Willis Nisan Englishname. I am a descendant of the willis men who came to Boston and Salem in the 1600’s. I think they lived in Wiltshire in England but I will have to chicken that.
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Please excuse my spelling. The computer is at fault.
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