Wayne County family index

Families of Wayne County, Michigan, from the County Histories

446 people from the county histories of Wayne County, Michigan: who they were, when and where they were born, their parents and spouses, and which biographies are parent and child. Pick a surname.

From Chronography of notable events in the history of the Northwest territory and Wayne County (1890); Compendium of history and biography of the city of Detroit and Wayne County, Michigan (1909); The history of Detroit and Michigan; or, The metropolis illustrated; a full record of territorial days in Michigan, and the annals of Wayne County (1889). All public domain; each entry links to the original book.

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Everyone in the Wayne County index, A to Z (446)

Abbott

Adair

Adams

Ailes

Alger

Anderson

Antisdel

Arms

Armstrong

  • James Armstrong (b. 1805); child of Orrin M. Armstrong and Beulah (Hine) Armstrong

Atwater

Avery

  • Waldo A. Avery (b. 1850); child of Sewell Avery and Eliza H. (Eddy) Avery

Backus

  • Absalom Backus (b. 1824, Herkimer County); child of Absalom Backus and Mary (Hildreth) Backus

Bagley

Baker

Baldwin

Barker

Beadle

Beardsley

Beck

  • George Beck; child of William B. Beck and Anna (Lee) Beck

Benton

Berry

  • Thomas Berry (b. 1829); child of John Berry and Catharina Berry

Biddle

Bielman

Birchard

Bishop

Blake

  • Patrick Blake; child of Harry Blake; married Elizabeth O'Raflerty

Book

Bordeno

Bourke

Boutell

  • Alexander A. Boutell; child of Samuel J. Boutell and Caroline (Billson) Boutell; married Harriett Jane Carpenter

Boydell

Boyer

  • Joseph Boyer; child of David Boyer and Modlany (Brown) Boyer

Boynton

Bradley

Brady

Brandon

Brearley

Breitmeyer

Brevoort

Bromley

Brush

Buhl

Burgess

Burns

Burt

Burton

  • Clarence M. Burton (Sierra county); child of Charles S. Burton and Annie E. (Monroe) Burton

Butler

Butzel

Caille

Campau

Campbell

Candler

Carstens

Carter

  • David Carter (b. 1870); child of David Carter and Frances J. (Leonard) Carter; married Grace M. Gillis

Chamberlain

Chandler

Chapin

Chipman

Chope

Clark

  • John P. Clark (b. 1808); child of John Clark and Sarah (Person) Clark
  • Emory W. Clark; child of Lorenzo E. Clark and Elizabeth (Sheley) Clark
  • Thomas Clark; child of Thomas Clark and Mary (Mero) Clark

Cleland

Codd

Colburn

Coleman

Coll

Conn

Connor

  • Leartus Connor (b. 1843); child of Hezekiah Connor and Caroline (Corwin) Connor

Conrad

Cotner

  • Jacob Cotner; child of Jacob Cotner and Katherine (Hartman) Cotner

Couch

  • Alfred E. Couch (b. 1876); child of Dr. Walter J. Couch and Harriet J. (Kane) Couch

Craig

Cuddy

Danziger

Davenport

Davies

Davis

Dean

Delano

Denby

  • Edwin Denby; child of Charles Denby and Martha (Fitch) Denby

Dexter

Dickinson

Douglas

Douglass

Downie

Doyle

Ducharme

Dudley

  • Thomas R. Dudley (b. 1833); child of Robert Dudley and Elizabeth (Boughton) Dudley

Duffield

Duncan

Dunlap

Dunn

Dupont

Dwyer

Easter

  • Ephraim B. Easter (Greenfield township); child of Alfred Easter and Susan Cox (Brown) Easter

Eaton

  • Theodore H. Eaton; child of Horatio Woodruff Eaton and Maria S. (Montgomery) Eaton; married Anne Gibbs

Eddy

Edson

Egan

Ekhardt

Elliott

Elwood

Emmons

Farrand

Farrington

Ferguson

Ferry

Fetters

Field

Fisher

Flinn

Foote

Francis

  • John Miller Francis; child of Dr. Miller W. Francis and Julia (Clark) Francis; married Amy Ingraham

Frazer

Frost

Gale

Garrison

Geiger

Giddings

Gillespie

Gillett

Gillis

  • Ransom Gillis (Washington county); child of Alexander Gillis and Jane (Wilson) Gillis

Glover

Goodfellow

Granger

Gray

Griffin

Grummond

Haberkorn

Haigh

Hall

Hammond

Hannan

Harbeck

Harmon

Harrah

Harsha

Hart

  • Gilbert Hart (b. 1828); child of Irad Hart and Lucinda (Wright) Hart

Hastings

Hawks

Hawley

Heavenrich

Heineman

Hendrie

  • George Hendrie; child of John Hendrie and Elizabeth (Strathearn) Hendrie; married Sarah Sibley Trowbridge

Hodges

Hodgkinson

Hoenscheid

Holden

Holliday

Holmes

Hooper

  • Alfred Hooper; child of Cleeve Woodward Hooper and Myra John (Batty) Hooper

Hopkins

Hosmer

Houghton

Howard

Howarth

Howe

Hoyte

  • William C. Hoyte (b. 1816, Montgomery County); married Caroline Frances Jeffords

Hubbert

Hubel

Hull

Husan

Hutchins

  • Jere C. Hutchins; child of Anthony W. Hutchins and Mary B. (Chamberlin) Hutchins

Hyde

Ingalls

Isham

Jackson

Jacobsen

Jenks

Jennison

Johnson

Johnston

Joy

Kales

Kearsley

Keller

Kellie

Kelsey

  • John Kelsey (b. 1867); child of Frank Kelsey and Jessie (Brobyn) Kelsey

Kiefer

  • Herman Kiefer (b. 1825); child of Dr. Conrad Kiefer and Frederica Schweyckert Kiefer

Kinnear

  • Wilson S. Kinnear (Pickaway county); child of Richard Kinnear and Mary (Crow) Kinnear

Klein

Kling

Knaggs

Kolb

  • Jacob Kolb (b. 1859); child of Jacob Kolb and Isabella (Mitchell) Kolb

Koppitz

Labadie

Land

Langdon

Larned

Lee

  • James L. Lee; child of James B. Lee and Samantha (Chadwick) Lee

Leland

Lesher

Lewis

Lillibridge

Linn

  • Thomas Linn; child of William Linn and Jean (Ralston) Linn

Looker

Lothrop

Lowrie

Lyon

  • Edward Lyon (b. 1805); child of Timothy Lyon and Mary (Hawley) Lyon

Lyons

MacAuley

MacK

Mason

May

Maybury

McGregor

McMillan

  • James McMillan (b. 1838); child of William McMillan and Grace McMillan

Mcbride

Mcclellan

Mcfarlane

Mcgraw

Mcleod

Mcniel

Mcpherson

Mcreynolds

Meginnity

Mellish

Merrill

Miller

Moody

Moore

Moran

Morton

Mulliken

Munger

Munz

Murphy

Neal

  • Thomas Neal; child of Henry Neal and Mary (Proctor) Neal

Nelson

Nester

Newberry

Newcomb

Newland

  • Henry A. Newland (b. 1835); child of Adolphus Thayer Newland and Lucinda (Smith) Newland

Newton

Nicholson

  • Joseph Nicholson (b. 1826); child of Thomas Nicholson and Jane (Small) Nicholson

Noble

Olin

Osborne

Owen

Pagel

Paige

Paine

  • George H. Paine (b. 1858); child of Asa H. Paine and Jane (Hutchinson) Paine

Palmer

Palms

Parker

Paton

Pattison

Patton

Peck

Pfeiffer

Pingree

Pittman

Pitts

  • Samuel Pitts; child of Samuel Pitts and Joanna (Davis) Pitts

Potts

Preston

Pridgeon

Pulford

  • John Pulford (b. 1837); child of Edward Pulford and Sarah Lloyd (Avis) Pulford

Pulling

Putnam

Quinby

Rathbone

Reeder

Reid

Remick

Rente

Robinson

Roehm

Rogers

Roney

Rowley

Russel

Russell

Ryan

Sanger

Schantz

Schimmel

Schmidt

  • Traugott Schmidt; child of Carl C. Schmidt and Susanna (Plarre) Schmidt; married Mary R. Beck

Scott

Scripps

  • James E. Scripps (b. 1835); child of James Moggs Scripps and Ellen Mary (Saunders) Scripps

Seeger

Shaw

Shearer

Shelden

Sheley

Sherrill

  • Abraham P. Sherrill (Wyoming county); child of Abraham Sherrill and Elizabeth (Saxton) Sherrill

Shipman

Sibley

Sickels

Simmons

Singelyn

  • A. James Singelyn; child of Charles Singelyn and Clementine (Posselius) Singelyn; married Edith Fisher

Skinner

Slaymaker

Slocum

Smith

Sprague

Spranger

Standish

Starkey

Stead

  • Robert Stead (b. 1809); child of Robert Stead; married Mary A. Keal

Stearns

Stephens

Stevens

Stewart

Stimson

Stoepel

Stone

Strelinger

Sullivan

Sumner

  • Edward A. Sumner (b. 1874); child of Edward A. Sumner and Florence (Bingham) Sumner

Swain

Swan

Swift

Taylor

Thompson

Throop

Toynton

  • Joseph Toynton (b. 1839); child of William Toynton and Elizabeth (Ketton) Toynton

Trowbridge

Vandyke

Wadsworth

Waldo

Walker

Wallace

  • Hugh Wallace; child of James Wallace and Elizabeth (Wells) Wallace

Ward

Wardell

Warner

Warren

Watkins

Wells

Wesson

Wetherbee

Wheaton

Whitaker

White

  • H. Kirke White; child of Henry Kirke White and Christine A. (Fortier) White

Whitehead

Whiting

Whitney

Widman

Wiedeman

Wight

Wilcox

Wilder

Wilkie

Wilkins

Wilkinson

Willard

Williams

Willis

Winchell

Woodman

Wyman

Young

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