New Hanover County, NC

Surname Registry, Queries and Index, August 2007

I am trying to find information on my grandmother.  Family lore says her name was Nellie Cola 
Carnegie and that she married William Henry Mintz in 1889 at the First Baptist Church of 
Wilmington.  Supposedly, her mother died when she was two and she was raised with Alice and 
Maybelle Pigford who were the daughters of the attending physician.  I have since learned that Dr. 
Scott Pigford never married but he had nieces with those names.  Nellie was born around 1873 
but the first record of her was the news article about her marriage and she was called Nellie Jones 
in that article.  I have looked through newspaper articles in 1875 in an attempt to locate information 
about the death of Nellie’s mother but have not been successful.  If anyone has any suggestions 
where I can look for information, please let me know.

Email direct at: 

Susan Johnson


Posted August 7, 2007


 AM DOING MY GENEALOGY RESEARCH ON A EDWARD SIKES, BORN 1774 IN BLADEN 
COUNTY NC. (AS I UNDERSTAND IS/WAS INCLUDED WITH NEW HANOVER COUNTY) AND 
DIED SEPT 13, 1823 IN BRYAN COUNTY, GA.--WIFE CATHERINE MCGEE.
 
I AM TRYING TO CONFIRM OR FIND ANY INFO POSSIBLE ON HIS "ALLEGED" FATHER---
JOHN SIKES-SYKES BORN 1738, PROBABLY IN VIRGINIA..  THERE WAS A JOHN SIKES IN 
BLADEN COUNTY IN 1763 WITH A JOHN AND JOSHUA LISTED ON THE TAX ROLL.   A JOHN 
SIKES PATENED LAND IN BLADEN NC IN 1784.
BASICALLY, I AM TRYING TO CONFIRM THAT JOHN SIKES WAS PRESENT IN BLADEN 
COUNTY( OR A "RENAMED" COUNTY THAT INCLUDES BLADEN) AT THE TIME OF AND 
AFTER THE BIRTH OF EDWARD (1774). 


Email direct at: 

BOB SIKES


Posted August 7, 2007










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