FAMILY TIES 1

 

It’s often difficult to determine familial relationships this is especially true at family reunions. Everyone wants to know how they are related within their family and with other families. This is my first attempt at identifying some family ties. I have made multiple blog posts about the Caston, Downs, Gatlin, Brumfield and Andrews families.  I will have future blog posts on other branches. An extensive detailed genealogy of the Barnes family has been done by Rosie M. Polk which I will not try to duplicate on my blog. https://www.genealogy.com/ftm/p/o/l/Rosie-M-Polk/GENE4-0007.html

Every individual has 2  parents and 4 grandparents. An uncle is the brother of a person’s father or mother OR the husband of your aunt (aka uncle-in-law). An aunt is the sister of a person’s father or mother OR the wife of your uncle (aka aunt-in-law). First cousins share the same grandparents.

I would like to dissect a portion of the chart using the following illustrations:

Mattie and Charlie Barnes were brother and sister. They had 7 siblings, 25 aunts and uncles the siblings of their parents. If each aunt and uncle married a possible 25 uncle-in-laws and aunt-in-laws for a total of 50. The actual number is slightly less because of early deaths and unmarried individuals. I provided a more detailed genealogy of Charlie Barnes and Bertha Brumfield in the post "Tombstone Tuesday" September 20, 2022. 

Edward “Ned” Barnes and Jerry Barnes were brothers. They each had 14 siblings. Harry Barnes, their father had 4 siblings and their mother Mahalia Johnson 3 siblings. They had 7 aunts and uncles. If each aunt and uncle married a possible 7 uncles-in-law and aunts-in-law for a total of 14.  I have  made an incomplete review of the names and number of the siblings' children and wives siblings children of Edward "Ned" Barnes and Jerry Barnes. From my review these two men  were uncles  and uncle in-law to a over 100 nieces and nephews.

Liddie Brumfield Caston and Louis Brumfield had 4 sons:

Richard Brumfield

Irving Brumfield

Thomas Brumfield

Frank Brumfield 

 Richard Brumfield and Thomas Brumfield are brothers.  They had 3 siblings each. There aunts and uncles are unknown.  The number of siblings of Liddie Brumfield Caston, Louis Brumfield, Ellen Walker, Catherine Love, Celia, and Louisa McEwen wife of Irving Brumfield are presently unknown from my research.  I have been unable to find the genealogy of Frank Brumfield. 

 

From available information Thomas Brumfield had 25 nieces and nephews and Richard had 12 nieces and nephews.

This genealogy research presented is incomplete because names may have been omitted and all kinship relationships of these families have not been identified. Though oral history from descendants, research of historical records and DNA analysis more information my be obtained in the future. The goal was to show some selected families relationships.   

---- The Tree Gardener