Blackwell Genealogy   

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The Blackwell Family of 1775, and their offspring, made their home in Gloucester, England.  In 1849, two of the children of George Blackwell (10.2) of 1801 left for Canada.  In 1851, just after the 1851 Census, George Sr. (10.2) and his next son, Henry Blackwell (10.2.5)
of 1839, left for New York.  Eventually, in 1854, they all got together in Canada in Huron County. (Ontario)  From there, they all went to Minnesota.  The rest of the family where to arrive from England later.  The family married into the Van Loon Family, Twichell Family,
and the McGannon Family who recently arrived in Minnesota also.  The website really gets moving from this point on.  At present, we are working on going further back in time as well as trying to fill the gaps to present day.  For family members or even people who enjoy accurate history of life in those early days, you will want to read the memoirs of Lois Twichell.  It is printed here on this website for your enjoyment and information.

The website is based around the four sons of George Blackwell and Mary Barradell  John, George, Henry, William.  You will not that George is referred to as George Jr. many times in this website.  This was done so as not to confuse him with his father, also named George.

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    Voices from the Past

Oh, sleepless night
What do you want?
I gave my soul
throughout the day
to the words and utterance
of families away.

I sat at my keyboard
and worked so long
trying to remember
the ones that were gone.

I checked all my emails
and wrote a few more
trying to find
that open door

I know they are out there;
they want me too
I seek my remembrance
of those from before.

Finally I doze
to a silence so deep
A voice is calling
"why do you sleep?"

" I am here
why can't you find me?
I have waited so long
for you to come by me"

"I lived my life
so you could be there
Why do you sleep
in such despair?"

"I know you are trying
I can see you from here.
Do not give up
I will always be there"

"Our time will come
when you find the link
then we both will rejoice
in the pages you ink"

"But you must know
that we know you care
For us that is all
that we can share"

"The pot of gold
is not the quest
It is the shine of the rainbow
that my memories rest"

" I have been gone
for many a year
I will be there for you
when you are here"

"Then we will walk
and talk of those pasts,
that is of memory
and of truth that lasts

"So when you awake
and start again
know that I know
it is not in vain"

.........Ronald Ernest Blackwell (10.2.4.8.5.1)