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By Will Hopkins
Collection Overview
Scope and Contents of the Materials
This collection contains genealogy records of various families and individuals relating to Joan Byrnes Wright. Most of the collection is made up of photocopied materials drawn from various sources as well as handwritten research notes.
Biographical Note
Norfolk native Joan Byrnes Wright attended Holy Trinity Catholic School and graduated from Catholic High School in 1952. She earned an Associate of Arts Degree from the Norfolk Division of The College of William and Mary/Virginia Polytechnic Institute in 1954, and went on to earn her BS in Secondary Education in 1971, and then her MS in Education with a concentration in Botany in 1981, both from Old Dominion University. From 1979 to 1999 she taught in the Virginia Beach Public School System, first at Brandon Junior High School and later at Tallwood High School. She was an interpreter and naturalist at Seashore State Park for 20 years and served as a botanical researcher for Back Bay National Wildlife Refuge. She also co-authored three articles in the Back Bay Symposium and published in the Rhodora: Journal of the New England Botanical Society. After retiring, she was active in the Virginia Beach Genealogical Society where she taught and served as President and held various board positions. She was a member of The Virginia Historical Society, National Genealogical Society, Tidewater Genealogical Society, Virginia Genealogical Society, Family Research Society of Northeastern North Carolina, Mid-Atlantic Germanic Society, and the International Society for British Genealogy and Family History.
Subject/Index Terms
Administrative Information
Repository:
Sargeant Memorial Collection
Access Restrictions:
This collection is open to all researchers.
Use Restrictions:
The status of copyright for these materials is governed by Copyright Law of the United States (Title 17, U. S. C.). Copyright restrictions may apply.
Acquisition Source:
Barbara A. and John J. Murray by donation
Preferred Citation:
Joan Byrnes Wright Genealogy Collection, MSS 2016-087, Sargeant Memorial Collection, Norfolk Public Library, Norfolk, Virginia.
Processing Information:
Processed in 2019 by Pauline Niedholdt and entered into Archon in February 2020 by Will Hopkins.
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- Box 1
- Folder 1: Alderman, Thomas Jr. family, miscellaneous dates
- Folder 2: Bettin family, miscellaneous dates
- Folder 3: Bland, Mills, and Lee families, miscellaneous dates
- Folder 4: Bland, Mills, and Lee families, miscellaneous dates
- Folder 5: Byrnes, David J., miscellaneous dates
- Folder 6: Byrnes, Edward and Ann Maloney, miscellaneous dates
- Also includes Carl Byrnes, Shirley Seibert Black, James Byrnes, and Byrnes census records.
- Folder 7: Byrnes, Edwin, miscellaneous dates
- Folder 8: Byrnes, James F., miscellaneous dates
- Box 2
- Folder 1: Byrnes, Thomas Patrick, miscellaneous dates
- Folder 2: Byrnes census records, miscellaneous dates
- Folder 3: Byrnes land deeds, Virginia Beach, 1936-1956
- Folder 4: Byrnes in New York, miscellaneous dates
- Folder 5: Byrnes, Reverend William Paul, miscellaneous dates
- Folder 6: Casey, George Emmett family, miscellaneous dates
- Folder 7: Coerver family, miscellaneous dates
- Folder 8: Cotron family, miscellaneous dates
- Folder 9: Coutour, Guillaume, miscellaneous dates
- Folder 10: Dietz family, miscellaneous dates
- Box 3
- Folder 1: Dodson family, miscellaneous dates
- Folder 2: Eckel family, miscellaneous dates
- Folder 3: Edwards family in Maine, miscellaneous dates
- Folder 4: Edwards family in Maine, articles, miscellaneous dates
- Folder 5: Edwards family in Maine, miscellaneous dates
- Box 4
- Folder 1: Eschmann family in Louisiana, miscellaneous dates
- Folder 2: Eschmann and related families, miscellaneous dates
- Folder 3: Eschmann family in Bayern, miscellaneous dates
- Folder 4: Etter, Henry, miscellaneous dates
- Indicted in 1844 for murder of William Finn.
- Folder 5: Etter family, miscellaneous dates
- Box 5
- Folder 1: Fals family, miscellaneous dates
- Folder 2: Fowler family in Richmond, miscellaneous dates
- Folder 3: Fronapfel family, miscellaneous dates
- Folder 4: Frost family, miscellaneous dates
- Folder 5: Godwin family, miscellaneous dates
- Folder 6: Gaines family of Norfolk, miscellaneous dates
- Folder 7: Guerin family, miscellaneous dates
- Folder 8: Gwynn (Hocaday) family, miscellaneous dates
- Folder 9: Hagen family, miscellaneous dates
- Folder 10: Harris family of Sussex County, Virginia, miscellaneous dates
- Folder 11: Harris and Reitelbach families of Virginia, miscellaneous dates
- Box 6
- Folder 1: Heterich family, miscellaneous dates
- Folder 2: Hockaday and allied families, miscellaneous dates
- Folder 3: Hockaday family in England, miscellaneous dates
- Folder 4: Hockaday family in Illinois, miscellaneous dates
- Folder 5: Hockaday family in Kentucky, miscellaneous dates
- Folder 6: Hockaday family, military information, miscellaneous dates
- Folder 7: Hockaday family in Indiana, miscellaneous dates
- Folder 8: Hockaday family in Kentucky, miscellaneous dates
- Box 7
- Folder 1: Hockaday family in Missouri, miscellaneous dates
- Folder 2: Hockaday family in North Carolina, miscellaneous dates
- Folder 3: Hockaday family in Ohio, miscellaneous dates
- Folder 4: Hockaday family descendants and Philmer family charts, miscellaneous dates
- Folder 5: Hockaday and Philmer families, miscellaneous dates
- Folder 6: Hockaday - Tashapiathacho marriage question, miscellaneous dates
- Box 8
- Folder 1: Hockaday family in Tennessee, miscellaneous dates
- Folder 2: Hockaday family in Texas, miscellaneous dates
- Folder 3: Hockaday family in Virginia, miscellaneous dates
- Folder 4: Hockaday family in Spotsylvania, Virginia, miscellaneous dates
- Folder 5: Hockaday family in Virginia, printed material, miscellaneous dates
- Box 9
- Folder 1: Hockaday family in Virginia, printed material, miscellaneous dates
- Folder 2: Hockaday, William I. in York County, Virginia, miscellaneous dates
- Folder 3: Kennison family, miscellaneous dates
- Folder 4: Hudson, Jerri, miscellaneous dates
- Also includes information on the Anderson family of Tanner's Creek.
- Folder 5: Kirchmier, Agustin C. and Annie E. Carter, miscellaneous dates
- Folder 6: Kirchmier, Frederick Marcellus and Bertha Griswold, miscellaneous dates
- Folder 7: Kirchmier, Godfrey C. and Florence McWilliams, miscellaneous dates
- Folder 8: Kirchmier, John, miscellaneous dates
- Folder 9: Kirchmier, Johannes and Mary C. Etter, miscellaneous dates
- Box 10
- Folder 1: Kirchmier, Marcellus, miscellaneous dates
- Folder 2: Kirchmier, William Henry, miscellaneous dates
- Folder 3: Kirchmier in America, miscellaneous dates
- Folder 4: Kirchmier correspondence, miscellaneous dates
- Folder 5: Kirchmier records in French and German, miscellaneous dates
- Folder 6: Kirchmier family, miscellaneous dates
- Folder 7: Kirchmayer Ehrenberg Church records in Germany, miscellaneous dates
- Box 11
- Folder 1: Kirchmeier family, miscellaneous dates
- Folder 2: Kirchmeier family in Switzerland, miscellaneous dates
- Folder 3: Kumm family, miscellaneous dates
- Folder 4: Lipscomb, Mary Ann White, miscellaneous dates
- Folder 5: Lindenmuth family, miscellaneous dates
- Folder 6: Meredith family, miscellaneous dates
- Folder 7: Mills and Pitman families, miscellaneous dates
- Folder 8: Moore, Franklin Raleigh and Katherine Mae Cobean, miscellaneous dates
- Folder 9: Mutlow family, miscellaneous dates
- Folder 10: Neville family, miscellaneous dates
- Folder 11: Otey family, miscellaneous dates
- Folder 12: Parrish family of Virginia and Clark County, Kentucky, miscellaneous dates
- Folder 13: Rathbone family, miscellaneous dates
- Box 12
- Folder 1: Reitelbach family, miscellaneous dates
- Folder 2: Reidelbach family, miscellaneous dates
- Folder 3: Reitelbach, John Joseph "Buddy", miscellaneous dates
- Folder 4: Reitelbach, William E. and Alice Norris, miscellaneous dates
- Folder 5: Reitelbach, William Henry, Sr., miscellaneous dates
- Folder 6: Richards, Charles and Julia Eschman, miscellaneous dates
- Folder 7: Reidelbach family pictures, miscellaneous dates
- Folder 8: Reidelbach sources, miscellaneous dates
- Box 13
- Folder 1: Richardson family in Virginia, York River area, miscellaneous dates
- Folder 2: Reuther family, Deideshiem, Germany, miscellaneous dates
- Folder 3: Shaffer family, Bavaria Germany, miscellaneous dates
- Folder 4: Schneider family, Germany, miscellaneous dates
- Folder 5: Schwab family, Germany, miscellaneous dates
- Folder 6: Shea family, miscellaneous dates
- Folder 7: Wardell family of Maine, miscellaneous dates
- Folder 8: West, John, miscellaneous dates
- Folder 9: Williams, James and Martha Meredith, miscellaneous dates
- Folder 10: Williams, John of England, miscellaneous dates
- Includes descendants charts.
- Folder 11: Williams, Larry and Gloria Harper Grimes, miscellaneous dates
- Folder 12: Williams family, miscellaneous dates
- Folder 13: Williams family in Virginia, miscellaneous dates
- Folder 14: Wright family in Ohio, miscellaneous dates
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