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Date	August 29, 2009
Name	John Stevens
Email	cocostar@racsa.co.cr
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Armstrong file possible corrections Dear Virgin Island Families! Mrs. Elizabeth Ferrall identified an Elizabeth Armstrong grand daughter in her 1773 will while also identifying a living daughter Elizabeth Crequi and minor Crequi grandchildren. Thus there was an Elizabeth Markoe married to Crequi and an Elizabeth Markoe married to Armstrong in 1773. . Due to the Armstrongs taking over the Peter Markoe Jr property in Northside Quarter A it is logical to assume the wife of Thomas Jr,. was the Elizabeth Armstrong identified in her grandmother's will and also in the 1765 will of Peter Markoe Jr where an Elizabeth is identified as his daughter. Conclusion: Elizabeth (Markoe) Crequi born ca. 1732 did not marry Thomas Armstrong Jr. Elizabeth (Markoe) Armstrong born ca 1750 was daughter of Peter Markoe Jr born ca 1722 and unknown wife. In the traditional histories the family of Peter Markoe Jr. is never identified (not even mentioned). His will has been found and clearly shows he had at least five children - some of whom

Date	August 30, 2009
Name	Heather Nielsen
Email	hheathernielsen@aol.com
Country	UK

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Fantastic site; what a lot of hard work. Congratulations. Have found the following: The Boysen/Boyle files seem mixed up. When you search for Boyle, Boysen open.

Date	August 30, 2009
Name	Wayne Watkins
Email	wayne10@bigpond.net.au
Country	Australia

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Fantastic site. So hard to find much information on VI. Hope to find information one day on Joseph Fraser and Eliza Norman. Keep up the good work. Wayne, Australia.

Date	August 30, 2009
Name	glenn Webster
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Date	August 30, 2009
Name	glenn Webster
Email	wizardstx156@aol.com
Country	usvi

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I am dismayed that my great=grandfather is not included in this registry...I will make it a point for this to be rectified... Alexander Webster he actually witnessed Transfer Day and everything...

Date	August 31, 2009
Name	shelley
Email	sheldew@hotmail.com
Country	usvi

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TKS!

Date	September 4, 2009
Name	Hester
Email	heseys2000@yahoo.com
Country	USA

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Thank you for putting this on the internet. It's very helpful.

Date	September 7, 2009
Name	Donnamarie Barnes
Email	donnamarie_barnes@peoplemag.com
Country	USA

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Thank you for this wonderful site. The information listed already has been quite helpful and I look forward to additions to the site. Can you tell me if there will be information on St. Thomas families?

Date	September 11, 2009
Name	Cheryl Mason
Email	cheryl_gmason@hotmail.com
Country	St. Croix

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How can I add Vanterpool from the BVI to your site?

Date	September 20, 2009
Name	Allan Thraen
Email	allan@thraen.dk
Country	Denmark / US

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Just found the great document you have written about the Thr�ns of VI. very much appreciated!

Date	September 24, 2009
Name	Myrna Martinez-Gordon
Email	myrnaper@aol.com
Country	United States

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My great grandfather Jorge Gordon Westerband imigrated to Puerto Rico in the mid 1860's. He listed himself as born in St. Thomas or St. Croix. Would appreciate any help in tracing my ancestors.

Date	September 26, 2009
Name	christine a firpo
Email	firpo@nc.rr.com
Country	USA

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My great grandfather Luis Antonio Firpo (1835-1922)from Aquadilla Puerto Rico married Alice Nelthropp; they moved to NYC and later to Paris, France. She died in 1932 and is buried in France. They had five children: Consuela Firpo (1902-1912 died of appendicitis); Antonio Firpo (1890-1934); Evelyn Firpo (1884- ); Maria Firpo Silva (1881); Henry Firpo (1878-1960). Henry Firpo married Eugenia Cox; they divorced but had three children: Henry Nelthropp Firpo (1902-1963); Larry Whitman Firpo (1904-); Walter W. Firpo (1904). Henry Nelthropp Firpo married a woman named Heloise. They had a child: Jacqueline Firpo who married Roger Hope. She lives in California.

Date	November 2, 2009
Name	Monique Eilets
Email	meilets@Yahoo.com
Country	USA

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I am currently searching for relatives with Eilets as surname from my paternal Grandfather's lineage his name is Walter Eilet's Sr., his father name was George Eilets.

Date	November 3, 2009
Name	Lydia Smith
Email	kandl98@yahoo.com
Country	U.S. Virgin Islands

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Date	November 3, 2009
Name	Lydia Smith
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Date	November 13, 2009
Name	John Stevens
Email	cocostar@racsa.co.cr
Country	Costa Rica

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Regarding Flynn file, according to descendants of this line a Robert Flynn had a relationship with Susannah Markoe. I could not confirm the relationship but census records confirm she had several Flynn children, one of which, Louisa, was living household of Isaac and Margaret Markoe [sic Markec] 1860, Frederiksted. Susannah could be sister or other kin of Isaac Markoe. Susannah was born ca 1832.

Date	December 11, 2009
Name	Barbara Kathleen Armstrong Jamieson
Email	jamiesonba@aol.com
Country	St.. Croix, U.S.A.

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I am the first-born daughter of Douglas Skeoch Armstrong, born Feb. 20, 1893 at home, Bulowsminde, St. Croix; married August 26, 1933 in the Bethlehem Chapel of the Washington DC Cathedral to Rachel Edith Holst (b. 12-31-1911 in Victor, Montana, died 12-27-1988 in Coupeville, Washington). Douglas died October 26, 1958 at Roosevelt Hospital in New York City, is buried at Bulowsminde in the Armstrong Family private cemetery. I was born at home, Estate Beeston Hill, August 3, 1934; married to John Anthony Jamieson (b. 16 March 1929 in Barnet, London, England, died 2 October 1999 in Bellingham, Washington)July 7, 1956. We have three children by adoption. My brother Robert Douglas Armstrong was born at home, Estate Beeston Hill, St. Croix, Nov. 22, 1935, died 21 May 2005 in Asheville North Carolina and is buried in the family plot at Bulowminde. He married Patricia Layland and had three children. My sister, Judith Evelyn Armstrong was born at Christiansted Hospital, ST. Croix, 2 February 1942, married Frederick W. M. Bear by who

Date	January 11, 2010
Name	John Stevens
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Country	Costa Rica

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Hi, Svend - Just a note to let you know how much your monumental work on the VI Families has helped me - and many others I presume! �Muchisimas gracias! John Stevens

Date	March 15, 2010
Name	Stefan de Fine Licht
Email	stefan.define.licht@vgregion.se
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With my wife I visited St Croix January 24-26 this year in the hope of finding anything related to ancestors who were known to have lived there. With the aid of Mrs Rickie Marshall at the library in Christiansted I found interesting new information, most of it compiled by Svend E Holsoe in Virgin Island Families. (Maybe you are reading this, mr Holsoe?) For instance the name and location of the Heitmanns�plantation Frederikshaab, which we also visited. I am interested in the history of the families Heitmann, Zimmermann and de Fine Olivarius, and I may also be able to make a few contributions.

Date	March 17, 2010
Name	Donnamarie Barnes
Email	donnamarie_barnes@peoplemag.com
Country	USA

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I love coming back to this site for updates because there is always new info added. Today I found the mother of John Lavington Usher, Bett Harris and with her I may have found my key to an ancestor born in Africa. Extremely exciting! Thank you for all the hard wor. This is an invaluable source.

Date	April 9, 2010
Name	Lesley Meyer
Email	lesleyduff@hotmail.com
Country	UK

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HELP- I am trying to trace my Great grandfather-Thomas Meyer born St Thomas about 1838. He sites his father as Rudolph Meyer Captain in the army. I see you have a Rudolph meyer married to a Maria Elisabeth Brucker (widow). Is there anywher I can obtain a birth certificate for Thomas (to prove his parentage and country of their origin)

Date	May 21, 2010
Name	L. Heskey
Email	heskeyrdluis@yahoo.com
Country	Dominican Republic

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Thanks so much for excellent work.

Date	May 28, 2010
Name	William Phelan
Email	wrpjr51@msn.com
Country	USA

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This is a great project; thanks for your efforts. I just learned about three more levels on my family tree. I have some specific information, derived from baptismal certificates from St. Patrick's Church in Fredericksted, concerning three children of Anthony and Louisa Phelan. Margret Phelan - baptismal certificate names her as Mary (but US Census of 1900 lists her as Margaret); born, Sept. 14, 1848; baptized, Jan. 7, 1849; sponsors: Miss H. Carden and C. McEvoy. Mary L. Phelan - baptismal certificate names her as Marie Louisa; born, Apr. 7, 1850; baptized, Jun. 9, 1850; sponsors not listed. Charles Anthony Phelan (my great-grandfather) - born, Feb. 26, 1852; baptized, April 14, 1852; sponsors, Peter McEvoy and Mary Louise Doute. If you would like me to e-mail you copies of the documents, please let me know.

Date	June 4, 2010
Name	Joanna (Jody) Rasmussen James
Email	guinnandjody@gmail.com
Country	United States

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I was so excited to find this site, but Adobe Reader won't let me see anything but the names. I don't know what that means. I sure hope I can find out what to do. My relatives were Teales, Lavicounts and Krauses. They were sugar plantation owners and managers in the late 1700's and early 1800's. I wonder if any of the French families on those islands were related to the Teales. My triple great grandmother Marie Antoinette Lacroixsade (similar spelling)was married to Martin Goble Teale somewhere on those islands and I believe she was even born on one of them---St. Martin Fr Ot--- Jody

Date	June 22, 2010
Name	Hayden Wills
Email	hayden.wills@verizonwireless.com
Country	USA

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I was born on STX. I know that there is a Wills family memeber from 1761 and I would like more information on her. I am currently working on linking the Wills family across the caribbean.