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ABOUT US The Curtis/s Family Society was originally founded in 1939 as the National Society, Descendants of John and Elizabeth Hutchins Curtiss. The organization was renamed The John and Elizabeth Curtis/Curtiss Society in 1989, became a single surname group called The Curtis/Curtiss Society in 1998 and was renamed The Curtis/s Family Society in 2004. The Society is actively researching all the Curtis, Curtiss, Curtice lines. The Society maintains a database of information on all Curtis immigrant families, maintains a Curtis/s DNA project, publishes a quarterly newsletter, holds an annual reunion, provides copies of published and unpublished genealogies of many Curtis families, and is represented through this Curtis/s Family Website and a Facebook Curtis Genealogy group page. Many Curtis – Curtiss – Curtice families have rich histories in many areas of the United States and Canada. Quite a few were original settlers of the Massachusetts and Virginia Colonies and the Curtis Family Society has an extensive genealogical database on the descendants of many of these immigrants. Who were John & Elizabeth Curtiss of Stratford, CT? John Curtis and Elizabeth Hutchins were married 19 April 1610 in the All Saints' Parish Church in Nazeing, Essex County, England and the baptisms of all their children are recorded there. The couple, with their sons Thomas and William, immigrated to the New World between September 1638 and June 1639. (Son John had emigrated in 1635.) The family lived first in Roxbury, Mass. and then in Wethersfield, Conn. where John is believed to have died. In 1639, the remaining family departed for , and were one of the founding families of Stratford, Conn. Elizabeth who did not remarry and was known for the remainder of her life as the "Widow Curtiss (she was the first to use the final "ss"), became an early proprietor of Stratford. (Note: Thomas Curtiss and wife Elizabeth Salmon of Wethersfield, CT are a separate Curtiss family and note related to the Curtiss family of Stratford, CT.) Membership is by calendar year (Jan-Dec) and is open to all interested in supporting the objectives of the Society. There is no lineage requirement. Most known English emigrant lines are represented. Just fill out our Membership Application and send it and your check to:
Cheryl Behrend, Membership Secretary
The Society publishes a quarterly newsletter-journal, the "Curtis/s Chronicle". A typical issue will contain several Curtis-related articles about the past and present, as well as queries, which are printed free, as space allows, member queries take precedence. Individual issues (paper copy) of past Chronicles can be ordered (see the Publications List) and a CD of 35 years of the Chronicle (1976-2015) is available for $30. Curtis/s DNA Project The Curtis/Curtiss Family Society has a Curtis/Curtis DNA Group Administrator, Al Field, who coordinates with Family Tree DNA and manages the database located there. If after viewing the information on the familytreedna.com website you want any further information about what is envisioned for the database, contact Al. We are working to have all major Curtis family lines eventually in the Curtis/Curtiss Data Base to assist future researchers locate their Curtis/Curtiss family roots. Male Curtis family members may order there sample kit directly and get the low group rates cited below at the following link and code: http://www.familytreedna.com/surname_join.asp?code=E32975. Additional information on the Curtis/s DNA Project and DNA results can be found at: http://www.familytreedna.com/public/Curtis%20DNA%20Data%20Base/default.aspx. Contact Al Field at [email protected]. Obituaries The Curtis/Curtiss Family Society collectedCurtis obituaries of all Curtis spelling variations. Those that can associated with Curtis/s immigrant ancestors are annotated with the generational ancestry. They are published in the society Chronicle newsletter as 'Paperclips'. Curtis/s obituaries can be viewed on our public website page.
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CURTICE-CURTIS-CURTISS IMMIGRANT ANCESTORS (Note: We will be adding short, early family descriptions for each family over the coming year. We invite descendants of these families to participate by sending the history via "CONTACT US' ) PRE-REVOLUTIONARY WAR 1621 John & Thomas Curtis (England to York County, Virginia) These two brothers arrived in the Virginia Colony at Elizabeth City from England on the ship Flying Harte in 1621. John returned to England in about 1625. Thomas stayed in the colony and married Averilla (last name unknown). The name Averilla was prominent in the Curtis family for several generations, and is considered a way to distinguish this Thomas Curtis from many others. 1632 William Curtis & Sarah Eliot (Nazeing, Essex, England to Roxbury, Massachusetts) William Curtis (baptized Nov 12, 1592 in Nazeing, Essex, England), the son of Thomas Curtis (bapt. Aug 25, 1560 in Nazeing, Essex, England) and Mary Camp. William married first Mary Rawlyns on Dec 3, 1615 in London, England (The Great Migration Begins, by Robert Charles Anderson) and had one son William2 Curtis. William2 came to America a year before his father. "He was a hopeful scholar, but God took him in the end of the year 1634" (Roxbury, Mass. church records). This William2 was the nephew of John Curtis of Stratford, CT William1 married second Sarah Eliot, the sister of the "Rev. John Eliot" aka "Apostle to the Indians" on Aug 6, 1618 in Nazeing, England. On June 22, 1632 William with his wife, Sarah and four children (Thomas, Mary, John & Phillip) sailed from London on the ship "Lyon" and arrived at Boston, Massachusetts on Sunday, September 16, 1632. He died on Dec 8, 1672, age 80, and his widow Sarah died March 1673, age 73.
Henry Curtis (England to Watertown & Sudbury, Massachusetts) 1635 Zaccheus Curtis (Downton, Wiltshire, England to Topsfield, Massachusetts) Zaccheus Curtis came on the ship "James" from Southampton in 1635.
1636 Thomas Curtis (England to Wethersfield, Connecticut)
1637 Mary Curtis & Thomas Ruggles (Nazeing, Essex, England to Roxbury, Massachusetts)
1637 Richard Curtis (England to Dorchester, Massachusetts and Wallingford, Connecticut)
1638 John Curtiss & Elizabeth Hutchins (Nazeing, Essex, England to Roxbury, MA, Wethersfield & Stratford, CT)
1638 Widow Richardene Curtis, Thomas Curtis*, Richard Curtis, Elizabeth Curtis*, William Curtis (Ash, Kent, England to Scituate, Massachusetts and *York, Maine) Siblings Thomas, Richard, Elizabeth,William and John where the children of Thomas Curtis and Richardene (last name unknown) of Kent County, England. They lived in Ewell, Worth and Ash where father Thomas died on December 11, 1631 and buried there at St. Nicholas. Richardene married Thomas Chambers in June 1632 and brought the family to Scituate, MA in 1638. Thomas Curtis and his sister Elizabeth, who married Richard Bankes, both died in the Candlemas Day Massacre of 1692 in York, Maine. There are many descendants of Thomas, Richard and William but none of John who died never married. Many descendants of this family inhabited Maine and Massachusetts.
1640 Deodatus Curtis (England to Braintree, Massachusetts)
1645 Henry Curtis & Elizabeth Abell (England to Windsor, Connecticut)
1645 Richard Curtice (England to Salem, Massachusetts and Southold, Long Island, New York)
1652 Henry Curtis (England to Marblehead, Massachusetts and Pemaquid/Boothbay, Maine)
1655 William Curtis (England to Salem, Massachusetts)
1670 Francis Curtis (England to Plymouth, Massachusetts)
1675 Jonathan Curtis (England to Burlington County, New Jersey) 1679 John Curtis (Appledore, Kent, England to Kent County, Delaware and Pennsylvania) 1681 Thomas Curtis (Bugbrooke, Northamptonshire, England to Burlington Co., New Jersey) This family includes the better known son Rev. Thomas Curtis (1685-1749) of Hunterdon Co., NJ. and grandson Job Curtis (1717-1804). 1684 John Curtis and Ann Revell (Quakers from North Wingfield, Derbyshire, England to Burlington County, NJ)
1712 John Curtis (Shadwell, London, England to York, Maine) Circa 1770 John Curtis (England to New York)
POST REVOLUTIONARY IMMIGRANT ANCESTORS Circa 1785 Francis Sylvester Curtis (1760-1839) (England to Charleston, SC) 1802 Henry Curtis & Alice Braughton (Melbourne, Leicestershire, England to Gilberville, Ostego County, New York) 1815 William Dawson Curtis (Liverpool, Lancashire, England to New Brunswick, Canada) 1833 Thomas Curtis (Wisbeck, England to Maine and to South Carolina) Founded Limestone College in South Carolina 1835 Matthew Curtis (Yorkshire, England to Illinois) Joseph Curtis 1853 Moses Curtis (Chislet, Kent, England to Michigan) 1854 Patrick Curtis (1837-1902) (Dundalk, County Louth, Ireland to New York City) c. 1855 John Curtis (1830-1913) (Wrawby, Lincolnshire, England to Canada (c. 1855) to Michigan) 1858 1871 Henry Harper Curtis (1830-1911) 1887 Bernard Curtis (1865-1941) (Ireland -England - Philadlephia, PA) 1896 1906 & 1911 Brothers Thomas Henry Curtis (b.c.1882) & George John Curtis (1892-1968) (Crowan & Camborne, Cornwall, England to Wisconsin & California) 1912 Florence Matilda Curtis (East Wellow, Hampshire, England to New York)
Curtis/s lines for Whom the Immigrant Ancestor Have Yet To Be Identified (*=DNA Link) Alexander Curtis (b. 1791) CT/ME Joshua Curtis, Sr. (1740-1810) NC Alfred Curtis (b. 1828) PA Joshua Curtis* VA-NC Allen Curtis (b. c 1793-1797) VT Levi Curtis (b. c. 1811) CT Allen Curtis (1767-1829) MA Lyman Curtis (b.1806 VT, d.1891 OH) Ann Elizabeth Curtis (b. 1817, d. 1871)NY Mason Robert Curtis b. 1836 NC, d. TX Benjamin Curtis (b. 1793) NY Naaman Curtis, Sr.* (b. 1778) SC VA NC Benjamin Kingman Curtis* (b. 1828)NY Nathan Curtis (b. 1764) Canada or CT Bolling Curtis (VA) & Albert Curtis MO Orvil Curtis (1840) NY
Daniel Curtis (b. ca. 1755) ME Reuben Curtis* (b. 1786 CT, d. 1851 WI) David Curtis (ca. 1786-1868) MA Samuel Curtis (b. ca. 1760-70) MA Daniel Curtis (to Canada from NE abt. 1824) Samuel Curtis (ca. 1760-1825) MA Edward Curtis* (1803-1864) TN Joseph Curtis (b. c1817) OH Fielding W. Curtis* 1757 VA Russell Curtis* (1795-1869) NC-TN-MS Henry Curtis MA (DNA shows Russell Curtis related to Fielding W. Curtis) Henry Curtis (ca. 1805-ca. 1870) ME Nathaniel Curtis (d. 1758) Queen Anne's Co., MD (Nathaniel's son Samuel Curtis (1751-1846) moved to Anson Co, NC & onto Marengo Co, AL) James W. Curtis (m. 1794) SC Sarah Melissa Curtis(b. 1863, d. 1925 OH) James Curtis (b. 1796) VT Stephen Curtis (1774-1834) Clarenceville, Que., Canada Joel Curtis (b. c1794-96) CT Thomas Curtis & Eleanor Bryant (m. 1770 NC) John Curtis (c1750) Philadelphia, PA William B. Curtis (ca. 1817-ca.1899) ME John Curtis (b. ca 1790) MA William Henry Curtis (1799-1870) VA John Curtis (1823-1870) ME James Curtis (ca. 1795-ca. 1835) MA John M. Curtis (1845-1929) TN William Curtis (b. 1811, d. 1879) NY John Madison Curtis (1813) TN William & Richard Curtis VA |
