Thursday, June 20, 2013

2013 Family Reunions in New England

2002 Felton Family Reunion, Peabody, Massachusetts


I’ll be attending the first three reunions listed here, but if you know other family reunions happening this summer, please send me an email at vrojomit@gmail.com or leave a comment below.

Locke Family Association:    The 123rd Locke Family Association Reunion will be in Concord, New Hampshire on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, August 2 – 4, 2013.   Events include visiting the New Hampshire Historical Society Museum to view Captain John Locke’s sickle and sword, and the annual association meeting.  Visit the website http://www.lockefamilyassociation.org/ to download the PDF brochure for the reunion.

Felton Family Association:    The 25th Felton Family Reunion will be held Friday and Saturday. July 26 and 27, 2013 at the Historic Nathaniel Felton Junior and Senior Houses at Brooksby Farm in Peabody, Massachusetts.  See the website http://www.feltonfamily.org/ for more information.   Please email Mary Kay Felton at feltonmk@gmail.com for more information.  Events include touring the houses built circa 1645, the cemetery tour, lunch and annual business meeting of the family association, followed by dinner at the Century House restaurant.  Nearby is the Peabody Historical Society and Museum, Salem.

Kimball Family Association:     September 20 and 21 at the Best Western Hotel in Haverhill, Massachusetts.   Saturday will be filled with fun events like a genealogy seminar, silent auction, annual meeting and the awarding of the 2013-2014 scholarship.  See the website www.kimballfamily.com for more information.    I’ll be the speaker at the genealogy seminar this year.

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Eldred Family Reunion, July 14 at the recreational field at Belvidere Center, Vermont. http://eldredreunion.com/?page_id=15

Rathbun Rathbone Rathburn, July 15 -18, at the Best Western Mainstay Inn, Newport, Rhode Island, for descendants of John and Margaret (Acres) Rathbone of Lancashire, England, one of 16 original settlers of Block Island in the late 1600s.  http://www.therathbunrathbonerathburnintlfamilyassoc.org/pdf/2013%20Reunion%20Registration.pdf

Avery Family Reunion, July 20,  Groton, Connecticut  http://www.averymemorialassociation.com/

Portsmouth, Rhode Island Family Reunion, July 20, at the Seaconnet Sportsman's Club, 145 Seaconnet Avenue, Portsmouth, Rhode Island.  Celebrate the 375th anniversary of the founding of Portsmouth, a reunion fo rthe early families- Hall, Almy, Albro, Brown, Holder, Brayton, Dennis, Brownell, Hutchinson, Tallman, Thurston, Greene, Hazard, Coggeshall, Cook, Cory, Mott, Slocum, Chase, Pearce, Potter, Sanford, Shearman, Lawton, Borden, Tripp, Cornell, Sisson, Briggs, Freeborn, Durfee, Hicks, Westgate, Wilkey, Maxson, Wilcox, Wood to name a few.  Email portsmouthhistorical@yahoo.com for information or see www.portsmouthhistorical.com for registration brochure.

112th Alden Kindred Annual Meeting: August 3, for descendants of John Alden and Priscilla Mullins of the Mayflower, at the Alden House, contact the Alden Kindred via email at aldenhouse@verizon.net or by phone at (781) 934-9092.  http://www.alden.org/default.htm

Kathan Family Ruenion, August 9 - 11, Putney, Vermont at the Putney Inn.  Descendants of Captain John Kathan of Dummerston, now Putney.  The Putney Inn is his original farm. http://www.kathanfamily.com/reunion-2013

Nye Family Of America Association: August 10, at the Benjamin Nye Homestead and Museum East Sandwich, Massachusetts.  See the website for more informatin and to download the registrations brochure https://sites.google.com/site/nyefamilyofamerica/home/family-reunion

Sneed Family Reunion, August 16 -18, Bridgeport Holiday Inn, Bridgeport, Connecticut
http://www.sneedfamilyct.com/3/events.htm

Tracy Reunion, August 16 - 18, Gouldsboro, Maine, for descendants of Jonathan Tracy and Abigail Riggs, see the website https://www.facebook.com/groups/188814311156991/ (a closed Facebook group, click "join")

116th Annual Meeting of the John Howland Society, August 23 and 24, banquet and dinner at Plimoth Plantation,  http://www.pilgrimjohnhowlandsociety.org/society/news/49-115th-annual-meeting-information  for descendants of John Howland of the Mayflower.

Nickerson Family Reunion:  September 6-8, Harwich, Massachusetts (Cape Cod).  Activities include a boat trip, a visit to a cranberry bog, a walk around Harwich with the Historical Society docents, speakers and visiting with cousins! Dinner at the Captain's Golf Course at at the Nickerson House in Chatham on Sunday. http://www.nickersonassoc.org/togethering.shtml

Greenlaw Family Association: September 6 -8, Deer Isle, Maine
http://www.greenlawfamilyassociation.com/

Tenney Family Reunion:  September 13 - 15, Bradford, Massachusetts.  There will be a re-dedication of the Old Bradford Burial Grounds Tenny Memorial Stone, and speaker Marcia Melny will give a presentation at the Haverhill Country Club, meet up at the New England Historic Genealogical Society library, and the TFA business meeting on Sunday, with a tour of Boston via the Bean Town Trolley. http://www.tenneyfamily.org/reunions.html 

Wyman Family Association:    September 21st at the Francis Wyman Homestead, 56 Francis Wyman Road, Burlington, Massachusetts.   Contact Jon Wyman at jonwy@comcast.net for more information, or check out the website www.wymanassociation.org    Events include touring the house and grounds of the Francis Wyman house, the association meeting and a presentation by a costumed interpreter of Pamela Skelton, the last direct descendant of Francis to occupy the house.

some more reunions added by Midge Frazel

Denison Family Reunion:  September 7, Mystic, Connecticut http://denisonhomestead.org/

Gallup Family Association:  August 17, Fort Griswold in Groton, Connecticut
http://www.gallupfamilyassociation.com/news.php

Rice Family Reunion:  September 20-21, Marlboro, Massachusetts (Midge will be a speaker)
http://www.edmund-rice.org/reunion.htm

from Marian Pierre Louis
111th Fairbanks Family Reunion:  August 10, Dedham, Massachusetts
http://www.fairbankshouse.org/

2011 Wyman Family Annual Meeting
Burlington, Massachusetts



There is a good listing of family reunions at the Reunion magazine website: http://www.reunionsmag.com/futurereunions/upcoming_family.htm#other
 

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Copyright 2013, Heather Wilkinson Rojo

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