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From: Marianne Pyeatt <>
Subject: [PIATT] Re: Catherine Canby
Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2001 08:46:22 -0800 (PST)


Hello Elise,
Could you give me the names of Catherine parents? Thanks, Marianne

On Sat, 20 Oct 2001 09:27:56 -0400, wrote:

> Hi, Ed, The world was pretty small in the early days and there wasn't a
> large pool of possible spouses to choose from. In my line I have some
> cousins marrying:
> Robert Piatt (1830-1883) s/o John of Daniel of John of Jacob of Regnier
m.
> his cousin Catherine Canby (1828-1888) d/o of Robert of Daniel of John of
> Jacob of Regnier; they were the parents of my great-grandfather Dr. Louis
H.
> Piatt of Boone Co., KY. Elise Greenup Jourdan
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "ed pyeatt" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Saturday, October 20, 2001 2:55 AM
> Subject: Re: [PIATT] Elizabeth Hannah Piatt, brn 1828
>
>
> > Anita -
> > Brothers marrying sisters, etc. may
> > not be so far fetched, after all. In the
> > Pyeatt (Piatt) lineage we find, about
> > 1700, the brothers, Jacob and Thomas
> > Pyatt marrying the Hull sisters, Mary and
> > Mercy, respectively. Then, in about 1790,
> > the Pyeatt brothers (Maj.) Jacob and
> > James married the Finley sisters,
> > Margaret and Catherine, and emigrating
> > as a group to (what is now) Arkansas
> > in 1810. Then we find the son and daughter of (Maj.) Jacob and
Margaret,
> > John and Mary marrying Martha (Patsy)
> > Carnahan and her brother, Samuel.
> > The grandsons of (Maj.) Jacob and
> > Margaret, John, Andrew (my ggf), and
> > their nephew, Peter, marrying the
> > daughters of Thos. H. Tennant,
> > Margaret, Miranda (my ggm), and
> > Nettie Tennant. These marriages
> > span the family history from New England
> > to North Carolina to Arkansas.
> > On my mother's side, we have my
> > gf, C.H.Roberts wed to Alice Hay,
> > who bore him the first four of his eight
> > children. She died in 1910, following
> > the birth of my uncle, Chas. Roberts.
> > C.H. Roberts then married Alice Hay's
> > sister, Ninnie Lou Hay. I suppose that,
> > should Ninnie Lou (Hay) Roberts have
> > died, Clyde H. could have married the
> > remaining Hay, Flora.
> > I doubt seriously that these were
> > all that isolated, as marriages went,
> > and may still happen. There was strength
> > in numbers in the past, and the group
> > loyalty would be enhanced by sibling
> > marriages. In fact, that is probably
> > still the case. Don't discount it as a possibility, the evidence is
> > right there, in the family history.
> > Keep searching, and be prepared for
> > pleasant and interesting surprises.
> > Ed
> >
> >
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