A Genealogy Page celebrating ..................OUR FAMILY

Welcome to our genealogy home page!
I'm Ray Noble from Princeton, New Jersey. (I haven't yet succeeded in persuading my wife Alice or daughters Jennifer, Lisa, Sara, Mara, Jessica and Rachel to let me show their photo above, instead, but I'm still trying). This webpage describes our known family history. We present it as a gift to other family members, as a bridge in finding other relatives we've never met and as a repository that other family members are encouraged to supplement by passing information on to us. When complete, this page will not only trace our direct ancestors but, so far as we know them, other collateral lines of the descendants of those ancestors.
Below are four links to our four main family lines. Just click on the link to the page that describes the listed surname that interests you. NOTE: Only barebones genealogical data is provided here in respect for privacy. Please consult us for other biographical questions.
The Nobles and Their Relatives Eight generations separate our grandchildren, Kayla May Mann and Christopher James Mann, and our earliest known ancestors, James Donahue and his wife, Sarah McGlinn, who were born in Ireland in the late 1700s. This part of our story actually traces two family lines: the McGlinn-Donahue-Hazlett-Rogers (McRory) line and the Noble-Moran line with whom they intermarried. Forty-five surnames appear in this section: Agos, Ashley, Barba, Barnes, Bertholf, Blake, Booth, Bradley, Bridgett, Brooks, Brosnan, Brunner, Burton, Cates, Donahue, Doyle, Ford, Garcia, Griffin, Hagopian, Hanlon, Hardy, Hazlett, Hitzelberger, Joyce, King, Mann, McGlinn, McLaughlin, McCrory, Meehan, Metzdorf, Morrissey, Niland, Noble, Orama, Osborne, Patton, Quickenton, Riley, Schneider, Slattery, Tucholski, Vollero, Williams, Woodside, Zechili.

The Sullivans and Relatives UNDER CONSTRUCTION. This part of our story will cover two more lines: the Sullivan line and the Redding-Spillane line. Seventy-four surnames appear in this section: Beaudreault, Beaulieu, Bender, Boze, Breault, Brown, Burns, Caron, Casella, Cate (two lines), Chaffee, Compton, Conway, Dillon, Driggers, Duperrault, Edwards, Enright, Fappiano, Fernandez, Fitzgerald (two lines), Flak, Floh, Gendreau, Hallisey, Hronis, Kennedy, Land, Leary, Leonard, Lynch, Lyons, Macek, Mahoney, Mascaro, McClain, McColloun, McGowan, Melillo, Michon, Miller, Mongeau, Morin, Myer, Nedeau, O'Connell, O'Connor, O'Neil, Peloquin, Plante, Poulist, Radcliffe, Redding, Regan, (two lines), Rimbold, Rourke, Scufriti, Scuturi, Sheehan, Skop, Smith, Sopet, Spillane (2 lines), Steiner, Sullivan (4 lines), Tauscher, Tyson.

Tucholskis and Relatives UNDER CONSTRUCTION -- TO BE COMPLETED.

Witkowskis and Relatives UNDER CONSTRUCTION -- TO BE COMPLETED.

Can you help solve a mystery? Our name, Noble, in the British Isles is usually a Scottish name -- and most Nobles were devout Protestants. Yet, so far as we know, our Noble ancestors (as distinct from our Hazlett ancestors who were reputed to be descended from Scottish liberator Robert Bruce) were all Irish Catholics and there are many Catholic families in Ireland today with the name of Noble. Were the Irish Catholic Nobles descended from Scots? Or, perhaps, had they anglicized a prior, Gaelic name (as many Irish Catholics did -- voluntarily and otherwise)? We'd like to hear whatever you know about this.
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