The first is supposedly my 2x great grandfather Arthur Angel was on a ship that traveled to the South Seas and brought back a Tasmanian Devil for Smithsonian. I was told there is a newspaper article title "Angel Brings Devil". My grandmother and Dad have both have told me they have seen an actual copy of the article but an internet search on numerous newspaper sites has never produced it. I have asked my grandmother to see if she still has the article in her trunk and have my sister or one of my cousins take a picture of it for me. In the meantime, this is what I know:
- I found documentation for an Arthur Angel working aboard a Naval ship.
- That ship was commissioned to sail to Australia and the surrounding islands for scientific exploration.
- That ship brought back an assortment of specimens of animals and plants for the Smithsonian.
The next story is that we are related to Elbridge Gerry, signer of the Declaration of Independence of the state of Massachusetts. Supposedly my grandfather's cousin paid a genealogist to prove or disprove the story but refused to share the results. Since her passing her son has refused to share it as well. Elbridge Gerry does not have any known children, so we would only be linked as distant cousins. I have not gotten back enough generations yet to find a possible link but I do have a lead that we might be linked through his mother. THE HUNT RESUMES.
The last story is that we descend from a Prussian baron that was exiled from Prussia due to being persecuted and fled to Eastern Europe and changed his name. I have traced the family back to England but without more information, I can't go back any farther. I think DNA may be the key to break through the brick wall.
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