In Dec 1991 June Rayfield Welch wrote this piece on Prigmore Origins.

“Probably the first evidence of the oirgins of the Prigmores that came into my hands was a version of Miles Prigmore’s History. I don’t know how I got it, perhaps from Elsie Smith Costells. The folliwng is perhaps the first version of that valuable item.

One day, about a century ago, the beloved teacher Sarah Prigmore told nephew Miles Prigmore the family history as she understood it. (She is to be trusted on matters within her personal knowledge, but some events prior to about 1800 are myth.)

Miles spelling is sometimes poor and he made a least one mistake: Joseph Jr. married Kesiah Murray, not Moore, but his is what he wrote on letterhead that read David Shanks, phone 122, Den T. Prigmore, Shanks and Prigmore, Real Estate Loans and Insurance, Sweet Spring, MO: Read More

I believe that we can trace three former slave families, now Prigmores, to John Prigmore III born in 1820 in McMinn County, Tennessee. These are the families of Thomas Prigmore, born 1817, John Prigmore, born 1819 and Julia Prigmore (maiden name and spouse unknown), born 1845.

A the end of the American Civil War, 9 Apr 1865, slaves were freed and it was often the case that the families adopted the surnames of their owners, having no record of their own family names.

Joseph Prigmore [1750-1818], great grandson of John Pridmore [1661-1745] moved to Tennessee from Pensylvania in about 1793 and settled in Knox County. Joseph Prigmore is listed with two slaves on the 1806 tax roles. In his will in 1818, he bequests ‘one Negro woman, one Negro boy’ to his wife Kizziah. He also notes ‘four Negros and some money due from William and Isham Cox.’ The property of his estate went to his eldest son Joseph Prigmore, Jr., [1795-1830] who had no heirs. His other sons were Ephraim Prigmore 1783 and Thomas Prigmore 1787.

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I have been corresponding with Steve Skye about the Huguenot connection. By way of  connection he sent me the following note:

“I’m president and historian at a history museum here in the Hudson Valley, NY. The museum is in Cuddebackville and around 1909 D. W. Griffith made some films here. He perfected some of his filming technique right here. When he was up from New York City he stayed at the Caudebec Inn owned by C. V. Predmore. (Lestor Predmore was his son.) This line of Predmores came from New Jersey. Mr. Predmore was fond of showing Griffith great locations for the scenes Griffith would film. So, the Predmores (and Prigmores) played an important part in the creation of the American film industry.”

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The information shown for most of the individuals in the family tree is pretty basic. It has been my practice to fill in an approximate birth date for everyone…some could well be off by a decade, but my experience is an estimate is better than nothing. When it comes to maiden names, if unknown I have used the spouses surname, again on the theory it better than nothing.

For my line of Prigmore’s, I have studied a lot of sources and have included deed references, will references, stories and where available pictures. If you look at the Profile of William Hail Prigmore, 1908 you will see and example.

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The search engine on this website is different than the search engine on www.ancestry.com or the likes of google. It is was specifically designed to search GEDCOM files, the standard for ancestry work. It can search many fields in addition to peoples names, such as dates and places of birth, using specifiers like includes, starts with, before, after, etc.

In addition to the Pr-more Family Tree, a number of other Family trees can be searched using this search engine or a search can include all of the sources. Read More

The Church of the Latter-day Saints (LDS) commonly known as the Mormon Church has been a pioneer in the collection of source materials and developing standards and software for genealogical research. My first questions was why would the church make this huge commitment.

One of the tenants of the LDS beliefs is that only those who have been baptized and live by the tenants of the church will enjoy eternal salvation. Well lots of people did not know about the church, as it was only founded in the 1800’s in America; are they all to be denied salvation? For the Morman Church the answer is no, we can baptize the dead. For more on this see http://www.jefflindsay.com/LDSFAQ/FQ_BaptDead.shtml#why.

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Daniel Van Cleaf Predmore, 1883-1964, was one the primary researchers of the Pr-more Family. After two years of dedicated research he published his findings 3 Oct 1947. This is truly an amazing piece of work in the days before computers or even Xerox machines. It is about 300 pages pounded out on a manual typewriter. A copy of the document is in the microfilm collection of the LDS Family Research Center in Salt Lake City.

His research uncovered an image of a Pridmore Coat of Arms, together with a descrip-tion, as follows:

Predmore Coat of Arms, seated in Dorsetshire, England. Colors: Azure and Gold  Arms – Per fess nebuly azure and/or three suns counterchanged.

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Social networking is a term that refers to the way people communicate on the web, paricularly in a broadcast mode. This is posting material for others to see, with out without restrictions on who can see the infomation.

I thought it would be interesting to see how the different branches of the family use these media, the numbers are based on Oct 2009.

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John Pridmore is the first of our family known to be in America. It is reported, but has not been verified; that

he was born in England is 1660 or 1661. The suspicion is that he came from the Dorset area along the English channel. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorset. See also John Pridmore in England.

How and why he came to be in New Jersey is unknown. The first record of his presence is based on his marriage to Anne Higgins in 1683 in Piscataway, New Jersey. This information comes from U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 database. The original source documents are unknown and no record on the marriage license has been located.It is reported Anne came from Eastham, MA and was the daughter of Richard Higgins. A Richard Higgins from Eastham was an earlier setter in Piscataway, but there is much evidence he did not have a daughter Anne. Read More