History: Peter Horr Ancestry

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Making the Case for Peter Horr's Parents


This page is about the discovery process to find Peter Horr's ancestry, which we knew nothing about when we started. To see a better description of his story after marrying Elizabeth Mckee, see the Horr McKee page. It can especially be useful to use the Page History feature to see how our knowledge came about incrementally.

Early effort

Since discovering Peter as Jesse's grandfather, pretty quickly after finding Jesse with his parents in a census, we spent many years searching for Peter's ancestry. Like with Jesse, Roz Edson has had the best inclination and ideas of where to search but, in general, at a roadblock of finding online knowledge to help. Early, general background search info was captured on the Hoar Surname page.

Y-DNA (surname line) Testing

The first big break came after performing a Y-DNA test and almost immediately getting a strong match with Gordon Hoard. Gordon had done extensive work and linked himself into the Hezekiah Hoar (puritan) line from Taunton, MA. The same one Norton Horr had published about in his treatise of 1907.

History

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Wed 10 of Nov, 2021 14:21 EST Randy Had not updated for 3 years; have solved it since 21
Mon 25 of Jun, 2018 19:47 EDT Randy Fix img link to use gallery 20
Mon 25 of Jun, 2018 16:41 EDT Randy 19
Sun 21 of Jan, 2018 17:49 EST Randy Fix UTF8 conversion issues 18
Sat 06 of Sep, 2014 11:05 EDT Randy Filled in more kids names; details; one additional family of possible 17
Wed 05 of Feb, 2014 11:19 EST Randy Added Jacob and Hannah's children to table 16
Mon 18 of Nov, 2013 17:16 EST Randy added more crosslinks at start 15
Sun 20 of Oct, 2013 09:53 EDT Randy 14
Sun 20 of Oct, 2013 09:27 EDT Randy Added note about Hor name use 13
Sun 20 of Oct, 2013 09:06 EDT Randy more construction and refinement; also fact verifying initial recalled entries 12
Sat 19 of Oct, 2013 09:12 EDT Randy Scrub of data for Peter starting point 11
Sun 13 of Oct, 2013 14:46 EDT Randy Cleanup; added Peter Horr and Matilda Graves as possibility also 10
Fri 13 of Sep, 2013 21:54 EDT Randy 1821 Columbus article mentioning Robet Horr 9
Fri 13 of Sep, 2013 12:54 EDT Randy More detail and image upload 8
Thu 12 of Sep, 2013 23:34 EDT Randy Formatting cleanup 7
Thu 12 of Sep, 2013 23:33 EDT Randy More cleanup; added facts newly being pulled together 6
Thu 12 of Sep, 2013 23:17 EDT Randy Cleanup and verify 5
Thu 12 of Sep, 2013 21:06 EDT Randy Added theory from Summer 2011 4
Thu 12 of Sep, 2013 17:59 EDT Randy Another round of editing; still lots more to go 3
Thu 12 of Sep, 2013 11:07 EDT Randy Starting to capture the building theory 2
Tue 10 of Sep, 2013 22:46 EDT Randy Initial template; much more to add as pull together info into story and timeline 1