From prior to the Revolutionary War both sides of my family have resided in Maryland, most notably in Frederick, Baltimore and Carroll Counties as well as Baltimore City.  While some branches of the family wandered to West Virginia, Ohio, Indiana, the majority of the family remained in Maryland, giving us a continuous presence here dating back to the late 1600's when the very first John Buckingham  appears in Maryland State Records with the recording of his marriage to Francis Hooper at St. Margaret's Parish in Anne Arundel County in January of 1696.   I count among my ancestors, three Revolutionary War soldiers, two veterans of the War of 1812, a number of Civil War veterans as well as some deserters, from both sides of the conflict and at least one WWI vet who set off to fight for his country and never came home.

Some of the information found on this site would not have been possible without the help and assistance of family that have contributed and willingly shared the information that they have gathered.  That includes several of my distant cousins that I have run across during my research and I thank them for their generosity.  The rest of it is a result of several years worth of research on my own.  And most of all, I thank you, Grammy for your unfailing memory that allowed me to span nearly 2 centuries of stories that I am now the sole guardian of.  How very very much I miss you.

Happily, since February 14, 2005, I have added an entirely new family group to my research, that of my husband, Donald Bruce Winstanley.  The Winstanleys originally arrived from England at the turn of the last century and settled in Pennsylvania.  A family of mining background, they went on to work for the Pennsylvania Railroad, to become doctors, computer engineers and join with various well established Cambria County Pennsylvania families such as the Sterlings, the Shattos, the Millers, etc until one branch of the Winstanley family found it's way from Pennsylvania to Texas and Florida and back again before heading to Maryland where 34 years ago this past January, across a battered old library table, two hearts met and to this day, beat as one.

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All the genealogy information on this site has been reproduced with either the permission of the contributor or is from public domain records available through Family Tree Maker, Genealogy.com, Ancestry.com, rootsweb.com  and the LDS Family Centers and other public domain sites.  All family trees shown do not list persons born after 1940 for privacy reasons.