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thanks to David Roberts and the CONKLIN-L mailing list
for their help extending and correcting this database.
NOW AVAILABLE Online - The Genealogy
of Joseph Inglis Conklin, Jr. of Brooklyn, NY, as compiled in
the years 1875-1908, the time of his death. As presented to the
National Society of the daughters of the American Revolution by Tarrytown
Chapter D.A.R., Tattytown, N.Y. copied from the original by Violet Odell
Lewis, #332574 Daughter of Harriet Sophia Conklin Odell and niece of Joseph
Inglis Conklin, Jr., February 1947.
Conklin
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We hope you find this text useful in your family research.
NOTE: Just made available by Chris Miasnik A compiled list
of all Conklin/Concklin/Conkling heads of households that appear in NYC
Directories between the years 1814-1822. The list includes:
Head of household, Address, Occupation and some workplaces, Some relationships,
Some spouses/widows, Some children, Some death years. LINK For
Viewing
The Descendants of Ananias & John Conklin(g)
& Conklin of Flushing and Rye, NY
An excellent and well documented 1st generation report by Honor
Conklin is now available as part of this file through the following
links:
There are three prominent Conklin lines of descent on
Long Island and Westchester. Name variants are numerous but Conklin
is the most commonly agreed upon version. The original English spelling
did not possess a "g".
John (1) and Ananias (1) Conklin(g) of
Staffordshire, Worcestershire, Nottinghamshire, England and Salem,
Massachusetts are the progenitors of two separate LI Lines.
There is no documentation known for the parents of John and Ananias
Conklin. It is not known if they were brothers or cousins but DNA
testing in 2001 confirms they were related. Most of John's descendants
trace their roots to the Huntington, Northport, Southold, Shelter Island
and Riverhead areas of Long Island while the descendants of Ananias
come from further east on the Island, the East Hampton area.
Both were glass makers by trade.
The third major
Conklin branch is a group of seven, possibly eight, siblings previously
known in literature as being the children of "John Concklin of
Flushing and Rye" and "Helena." The parents of these siblings are
not known, at this time, and the term "Pre-1700 Westchester Conklins"
is more accurate. DNA testing has shown they do not share the same
paternal ancestry as the Long Island Conklins. There is no documentation
that shows a definite connection between the Westchester and the Long
Island Conklins but ongoing research indicates several possibilities.
The Conkling Families of the First Aquebogue Division
Three charts as provided in the reference publication
(S.C.H.S. Register , Vol. XXII No. 1, Summer 1996, "The Conkling Families
of the First Aquebogue Division" by Leigh Mark Young) are now available
to be seen online.
Conklin(g)
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A consistant spelling for the Conklin(g) surname is often
a cause of confusion for researchers.
The following is an attempt at explanation.
The writer (Joseph Inglis Conklin, Jr., 1908) has made a long and exhaustive
study of the origin, family and name of Conklin. After many years
of almost constant labor, he is now able to submit to those bearing
the name, what seems to him to be a reasonable and doubtless approximately
true account as to how and when the name originated. And what circumstances
or causes led to the name being adopted by your earliest ancestors and
handed down for centuries without any change other than the spelling of
the same. We frequently find in the same family some use more
or less letters.
Still the sound is the same. Therefore the spelling is of no
material consequence other than what it was probably intended for, to
distinguish one family from another, where the same were numerous settled
in the same locality and could be in this way only separated. It is
probably for this reason that we find the name spelled in the following
various ways: Conklin, Conclin, Conklin, Conkling, Concking, Conklyn,
Conkline, Conklyne, Conkland and many other combinations that have
not apparent meaning other than that above stated. In every case we
find in tracing back, all originated from the same source, and in many
cases we find in the same family, parents and their children, spelling
the name differently, particularly so in Wills, Transfers of real estate
and other records. In several instances we find the same person spelling
his or her name differently in the same document.
Another reason assigned for this is that most all of the wills,
deeds and other documents of the times were written by the pastor
of the church when a lawyer was obtainable. The legal fraternity
were not as numerous then as now and it usually fell to the lot
of the minister of the church, and so long as the proper idea was
conveyed, the spelling was of no consequence.
At the present time when Christian names are more freely distributed,
and with a greater variety to select from than in the early times
of the family, the name has gradually been brought somewhat nearer to
its original manner of spelling.
During the first 100 years of their residence in the colonies,
their names were, except in a few cases, transmitted from father to
son. Thus we find among the first settlers, John, Ananias, Cornelius,
Benjamin, Joseph, etc. John had a son, John, Ananias had a son, Ananias.
And all these sons in turn named their first sons after them, thus creating
for their posterity to unravel, a confusion of Johns, Ananiases and
many others of a similar character that only a familiarity borne of constant
application to the solution of the subject, and a careful separation
of dates found in the records of the family, has enabled us to bring order
out of chaos, and place before our "brethren of the kin", and our posterity
in general, the result of our labors. (Source: The Conklin Genealogy
compiled 1875-1908 by Joseph Inglis Conklin, Jr.)
Conklin Mann, in "The Family of Conckelyne, Conklin and
Conkling in America," and "The Line of John Conckelyne of Southold and Huntington,"
published in The American Genealogist, Volume 21 (1944): pages 48-51 and
pages 210-215 states . .
"After considerable reading on the story of the Italian, Lorraine and
Norman glass-makers who came in a steady stream to England for several years
following 1560, I venture a few opinions, which at best are mere guesses.
My guess is that Conckelyne or Concklyne [or Concklayne and Conculyn] is
an English corruption of a Continental name; that Ananias and John Conckelyne
were of the second generation in England; that their forebears came from
Italy, Lorraine or Normandy, perhaps by way of Antwerp. The ending 'elyne'
or 'lyne' does not establish the name as Norman, Flemish or Scotch, as has
been said. If, for instance, the great Venetian glassmaker Verzelini, could
quickly become Verselyne in English parish records, there is no reason why
a Florentine-Norman family such as Concini should not become Concelyne, Conckelyne
or Concklyne."
Just a FEW of the variant spellings of the Conklin(g)
surname: Conckelyne, Conkelyne, Concklyne, Conckelen, Concelyne, Conckline,
Conckloyne, Kancklyne, Cakylinen, Concklin, Conklyn, Conclin, Concline,
Konklyn, Conculyn, Conkelin, Concklaine, Conckelaine, Conkline, Conklen,
Conculin, Conclen, Conclan, Conklon, Coklan, Concklayne and, of course,
Conkling.
