GENEALOGY OF EDWIN JAMES (JIM) DAILEY
INTRODUCTION:
After many years of searching genealogical records, many interesting and previously unknown family stories have emerged from various family names associated with my branch of the Dailey family. According to Ancestry DNA results, approximately 48% of my ancestors are from England and Northwestern Europe. The remaining 55% is spread between Sweden & Denmark (23%), Scotland (21%), Ireland (6%), France (2%) and Germanic Europe (2%). It is surprising that with the Dailey surname, only 6% of my ancestors are Irish. It seems logical, at some point, either one of the other ancestral surnames married into the Dailey family and migrated to Ireland or they married into the Dailey family already in Ireland. It is doubtful we will ever know due to the lack of historical records in the Cork area of Ireland. Most of the prominent family names date back to England and Northern Europe. Although Dailey and Burk are a common Irish name, Robbins, Sampson, Stout, Potter, Butterfield, Beam, Barnhart, Freeman, Aylsworth, Newkirk, Van Vorst and Tibbits are English in origin. Immigration to North America started just after the time the Mayflower landed in 1620. Abraham Sampson came about nine or ten years after the Mayflower landing at Plymouth. Massachusetts. The Bradford’s, Sampson’s, Wildermuth’s, Porter’s, Stout’s, Potter’s, Freeman’s, Aylsworth’s, Newkirk’s, Tibbets’, Van Vorst’s and Butterfield’s also had early origins in the American Colonies. Most of these early settlers came for religious reasons or seeking a better life. Typically, they were looking for land where they could farm and raise a family. These brave people came from large families where the laws and customs gave property and wealth to the first-born son and little to other siblings. Some of these families had titles as well as land and wealth. But, according to tradition and custom, it was not divided equally. Most of the “heirs” were left to seek their own fortune and success. Many saw the American Colonies as the opportunity to become successful. So, with not much opportunity at home, they struck out for a new land of opportunity. Along this journey were difficult times, hard work and danger. Some were pioneers who not only created farms and homes but towns out of a vast wilderness. Some fought Indians, some were soldiers starting with the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, Spanish-American War, WWI, WWII and the Korean Conflict. There are at least two stories about women in the family that were captured and held prisoner by Indians.
THE GREAT MIGRATION:
There were a number of family ancestors that sailed to the English Colonies between 1620 and 1752. The following is a list of who and when these brave adventurers left everything behind to seek out a new life of freedom and opportunities for themselves and their families.
NAME/LOCATION YEAR OF MIGRATION William Bradford (1590-1657) Plymouth, MA 1620 John Aylsworth (1578-1653) Boston, MA 1629 Abraham Sampson (1614-1686) Duxbury, MA 1630 Robert Potter (1610-1655)
Lynn, MA1630 Cornelis Van Vorst (1589-1638)
New Netherlands, NY1630 Edmond Freeman (1596-1682) Saugus, MA 1635 Henricus Tibbetts (1596-1676)
Dover, NH1635 Benjamin Butterfield (1610-1688) Charlestown, MA 1638 John Porter (1594-1646) Windsor, CT 1638 Richard Stout (1615-1705)
New Amsterdam, NY1643 Gerrit C Newkirk (1631-1696) Flatbush, Long Island, NY 1659 Johan David Wildermuth (1717-1788)
Bern, PA1752 To date, from these twelve families and others, such as William Dailey, who came after the British Colonies became the United States, there are over 5,000 people connected to my Dailey Family Tree. It is the purpose of this website to share the information I have discovered with those that are interested.