Day Family Origins

The Day Family lineage is best viewed in these charts: Day Tree; and Day Tree II. More pages could be added here with information from Wikitree. Start with Great⁷ Grandfather John Day Jr that shows several earlier generations back to England. At that same link, follow his wife Anna (Hussey) Day's tree to find interesting ancestors like Christopher Hussey, an early famous New England whaler. 

His father-in-law was our Great¹² Grandfather Stephen Bachiler, a famous New England preacher. The Congregational Church of Hampton (pictured) was founded in 1638 by Rev. Bachiler and his followers, and remains in use today in Hampton, New Hampshire. Some think his marital dilemma late in life was the inspiration for the famous tale "The Scarlet Letter". Follow John Hussey Jr. mother's link through the Catholic Perkins family line, who were Lords of Ufton in Berkshire, England.

Wikitree's Ballinger branch goes back a thousand years. Start with Great⁷ Grandfather Josiah Ballinger from West Jersey (now New Jersey) and read about his father, Henry Ballinger Sr, who was a Quaker. He is noted at the Nailemith Monthly Meeting in Gloucestershire, England. From there sailed in 1678 for America on the second voyage of the ship "Kent" out of Bristol. He settled on the Northampton River near Burlington where he became active in the organization of the colony. He was a member of the West Jersey Assembly in 1697 and an Assessor of Evesham Township in 1701.

Follow his wife Mary Wright's ancestors back to Wales to come across Welsh royalty and a lady ancestor named Gwenllian gwraig Hywel ap Hywel Fychan. Along the way you find famous ancestor Samuel Jordan, who was born in England and came to America on the Sea Venture in 1609. It wrecked on an island in the Bermudas during a storm. In the same ship were John Rolfe and many wealthy noblemen and London merchants. They spent a year on the island until it was rebuilt and continued on Jamestown. He was granted 450 acres of land in his own right by the Governor and Captain General of Virginia.

If you follow Josiah's mother's ancestors up the Harding branch you find Thomas Harding, who was a 16th century English religious dissident who, while waiting to be burnt at the stake as a Lollard in 1532, was struck on the head by a spectator with one of the pieces of firewood, which killed him instantly. Further back you find Roger Del Outhe De Ardene born in 1410, County Durham, England, died 1430. His half-brother Robert Arden was executed in 1452 for supporting the uprising of Richard, Duke of York. The Arden family is one of only three families in England that can trace lineage in the male line before Anglo-Saxon immigration to England. 

This means documented parentage back before the Angles and Saxons immigrated across the continent to England in the 5th century! (Most Americans do not realize that the English are mostly descendants of German immigrants.) The Day family is descended from another of those three families; the Berkeley family, through Thomas (Berkeley) de Berkeley who descended from a Danish king, Svend II (Estridsson) Ulfsson (abt. 1019 - 1074) and all the way back through a line of Swedish kings to Erik Emundson (0849 - 0880); meaning born in 0849! I have not attempted to validate the authenticity of any Wikitree claims, and some people overlook things when attempting to link themselves to royal blood.

Great² Grandmother Jennie (Day) McIntosh is a descendant of Lord Baltimore (aka George Calvert, pictured), who was granted most of present-day Maryland by the King of England during the 1600s. Calvert took an interest in the British colonization of the Americas, at first for commercial reasons and later to create a refuge for English Catholics. Several generations of Lord Baltimore ruled Maryland until the sixth one died without a royal heir, so his rights went to his common natural son Henry Harford.

In 1781 the new State of Maryland confiscated all of Henry Harford's estates and used their income to help finance the cash-strapped revolutionary government and its militia. Henry Harford’s claim to Maryland was pursued for years after his death by heirs. Attempts were made to collect rents that went unpaid during the Revolutionary War before the land was seized. Heirs had built houses on Harford property they were to inherit and argued their homes should not be seized. The last major case was the United States Supreme Court case Morris v. United States in 1899, in which Harford descendants claimed the riverbed of the Potomac River from the District of Columbia, which had grown by draining parts of the shoreline. Maryland’s seizure only mentioned land, and riverbeds are considered property that was not specifically included. 

Harford heirs did inherit "ground rent" to Maryland properties, which is an odd deed provision that was overlooked. This is a right to a small property fee collected each year and remains in effect today, and can be sold. It is unclear if Jennie got a settlement from an old court case or sold her share of ground rent rights. Caldwell family tales are that Jennie got $5000 from an old property inheritance lawsuit as a descendent of Lord Baltimore, which was a lot of money in the early 1900s. I have been unable to find a direct link between Jennie Day’s ancestors and Henry Harford, but the family story is strong. If someone wishes to pursue a link, Jennie had lots of ancestors from Maryland who owned land: the Ballinger, Wright, and Pippen families.

The Day Family Moves West

Great⁴ Grandfather Bryan Day was the son of John & Sarah (Ballinger) Day from Wayne County, Kentucky where he was born on Oct 8, 1808. In 1828, he married Susannah (Jay) Day and they had one son, Great³ Grandfather John Phillip Day, who was born in Ohio in Sept 1829. For unknown reasons, Bryan married again in 1828 and moved to Indiana where he had six children. In 1838 he moved to Iowa and married again, having 13 more children! Farm families often had many children since they quickly became child farm workers.

There is considerable information at Findagrave about the family of his son Thomas Wesley Day, who served with the 18th Iowa Infantry for three years during the Civil War. (pictured) Bryan died in Iowa on May 12, 1885 and is buried in the Union Cemetery in Murray, Iowa.

Jay Family Origins

The are great records from the Day and Jay families since they were Quakers, who held monthly meetings. This large gathering addressed member concerns, conducted marriages, and recorded births and deaths. These two families migrated from the Carolinas to Miami County Ohio. The Jay Family established a genealogical society that compiled a detailed family history. Bryan Day and his wife Susannah (Jay) Day are noted there as Jay descendent 86.

Long Family Origins

Great² Grandmother Jennie’s Grandmother was Elizabeth (Burney) Long (b. Oct 31, 1828 in Virginia), whose parents lived in Russell County, Virginia. Her father was William Burney Sr. of Guilford County, North Carolina. A Wikilink shows he was born in 1745 to immigrants Charles Burney and Mary (Lackey) Burney who had several children. 

Jennie's Grandfather was Richard Barton Long whose family lived in Virginia for generations and he is buried there. Her father John S. Long married Sarah "Sally" Reynolds (1806 – 1887) whose parents were Henry H. Reynolds and Sarah Sophia (Pippin) Reynolds (~1780 - 1860). An excellent article about Sarah's Great, Great Grandfather shows he was brought to Maryland in chains to serve a seven year sentence as a laborer for a theft conviction in England. Her Grandfather Robert Pippen Jr. served with the Maryland militia during the Revolutionary War and fought in the biggest battle of the conflict, the Battle of Brandywine. 

John & Sarah Long had children: Henry, James Dee, Elizabeth, Elvira, Nancy, Polly, Sally, John W, Harvey, and William as they moved westward, living in Indiana, Iowa, and finally Kansas. Great³ grandparents John and Sarah are buried somewhere near Section 15, Little Valley, McPherson County, Kansas. Details found on the Internet may shed more light on the Long family if someone researches each name listed here:

Terry Straub Thu Feb 6 07:37:45 1997

Researching LONG / BURNEY / REYNOLDS/ Looking for info on Richard LONG b 1760/1770 hwo m Elizabeth BRUNEY ca 1790 in Russell Co, Va. Elizabeth is the daughter of William BURNEY Sr. of Gulilford County, N.C. All of the following children of Elizabeth and Richard were born in Russell Co, VA 1. James D. Long b 1792 m Elvira NEELEY 2. Henry Dickson Long b 1797 m Margaret COUNTS 3. Nancy Long b 4 March 1796 m John KISER 4. Sarah Long b 1799 m Joseph COUNTS 5. Andrew Long b 1810 m Mary "Polly" Ann PORTER 6. John Long b 1802 m Sarah REYNOLDS (my Line) 7. Mary (Polly) Long m ?? SMITH 8. Richard Burney Long b 2 Jan 1807 m Priscilla DICKINSON 9. Thomas Long b 1805 m Catherine JESSEE 10 William Long died young due to a snake bite Children of John LONG and Sarah REYNOLDS 1. Henry Long b 20 Jan 1825 m Eliza ded 31 Aug 1904 Butler Co, Missouri 2. James Long b 1827 3. Elizabeth Long b 31 Oct 1828 died 31 Jul 1903 Little River, Kansas m Thomas Foster DOWNING 4. Elviana Long b 1830 5. Polly Long b 1835 6. John Long b 1839 7. Harvey Long b 1841 8. William Long b 1843 9. Nancy c. Long b 29 May 1832 died 21 Apr 1916 m William BLAKE

The John and Elizabeth Day Family

Both of Great² Grandmother Jennie McIntosh’s (pictured) parents had children from a previous marriage. Her father John P. Day married Elizabeth Conway and had one daughter in Iowa before she died at age 28. Her mother Elizabeth Long married Thomas Foster Downing in 1842, who died in 1857. The 1860 census shows Elizabeth living in the town of Walnut, Madison County, Iowa with her parents John and Sarah Long and her four young Downing children. By the 1870 census, Elizabeth is living with her new husband John Day in the town of Miller, Gentry County, Missouri, with ten children listed:

John Day, age 41
Elizabeth Day, age 42
Mary Alice Day, age 17
Joseph O Day, age 15
Bryan N Day, age 13
Peter O Day, age 11
Frances Day, age 9
Corilla Jane Day, age 5

James Wesley Day, age 3
Eloisa Downing, age 18
John Downing, age 15
Alice Downing, age 12

The 5-year old Corilla Jane “Jennie” was my Great² Grandmother, born on Oct. 17, 1864 in rural Clark County, Iowa. In 1870, the Day family settled in Rice County Kansas near Elizabeth’s parents. This remote area rapidly developed since it was along one of two main routes to the West. The Santa Fe Trail was a major migration route that led to the southwestern USA and turned south into Mexico. Starting in 1860s, railroads began expanding across Kansas to haul coal from Colorado, but there was no money made operating rail lines in a state that was sparsely populated. Congress had granted the railroads wide swaths of free land as an incentive to build tracks, so the railroads offered this land free to new settlers who easily moved westward on the new railroads. This led to rapid population growth throughout Kansas, drawing farmers from the Midwest like the Day and Long families. 

Great³ Grandparents John and Elizabeth Day lived out their long lives with their son William and his family in the town of Little River, Rice County, in central Kansas. Elizabeth died in 1903 and John in 1909, leaving behind a pair of impressive headstones at the Forest Home cemetery. The Long family lived near Little River while Jennie's future husband, Charles C. McIntosh, lived in nearby Emporia. They married on Dec 27, 1882, lived in Lyndon for a while (just south of Topeka), then moved to Oklahoma.

The Caldwell Family of Oklahoma