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Olive family history pages on the Internet

[Created 5/22/1998, last update 4/26/8/2001]

This page is a maintained as a service by Fred Olive in order to help keep the Olive family history researchers up-to-date on some of the web pages that contain material on Olive family history. If you want your Olive family page added to this page, send me your email address and the address to your own existing web page. Whether you have a little information about your immediate family or a lot of research material on several Olive families is not important. Your participation is the important thing.

Try the Olive Forum at - http://www.genforum.com/olive/

VICKI Lynn Olive - phalene@alaska.net - Vickie is a descendant of William Olive and his son "Old" James Olive, and has just started an Olive surname e-mail list. She invites all to subscribe to the list, by sending a message to the following address: OLIVE-L@rootsweb.com In the body of the message type the word "subscribe" (without the quotes)

Daniel C. Olive - dolive@getaway.net - a majorOlive family history resource. 1999 Olive Family reunion information.

Linda McClellan - collecters@centuryinter.net - Olive Family Branches genealogy page.
Olive Family Association. The descendants of William Olive and son "Old" James Olive.

Dr. Fred Olive - folive@uab.edu - Olives on the Internet, Olive family history, Olive coat of arms, Les Olives (Quarter in France), Olive family reunions, "A Short History of My Life" by Wilson Mercer Olive (1871-1955).

Teresa Martin Klaiber - tklaiber@wwd.net - I am looking for Susan W. Olive married James Martin 1813 Spotsylvania Co., VA. My direct line is posted at www.wwd.net/user/tklaiber
FLI Antiques & Genealogy c/o Deliverance Farm 22937 Long Branch Rd. Rush, KY 41168

Danny C. Champion - dchampion@zianet.com- A new Olive genealogy page. Danny is from Las Cruces, NM .

Dr. Gilles Olive - gilles.olive@mailexcite.com - Olive coat of arms from France.

Colin Olliffe - colin@colliffe.freeserve.co.uk - Olive/Olliffe coats of arm from the UK. Colin has created a One Name Study page dedicated to the study of Olive/Olliffe and all variants. His page gives his family history, maps, statististics about Olives in UK and USA. On his has page about the Olive name he mentions a Richard Olive in the Hundred Rolls - 1279. Now that is the earliest mention of the Olive (by that spelling) that I have found.

Carolyn Fix Blount - cdblount@uswest.net and Carole Confar - confar@silcom.com - are genealogists that are searching of Olives from Canada and England. Carolyn is a community college professor, loves to read, sew, hike, travel, garden, enjoy the grandkids and "do genealogy" in spare time. My maternal grandmother was Harriott Scammell OLIVE, traced back to William b 1753/54 of Chatham, Kent, ENG, the loyalist immigrant who married 26 Apr 1780 the widow Catherine Beers Schmidt at Trinity Church, Wall Street NY, and went to St. John NB Canada where the family were ship builders for several generations. William is son of John Olive, b 1714 and Mary Dadd b 1730 of Chatham. The family is supposedly Huguenot from France, but that's as far back as I've proved it! Carolyn Fix Blount, 2026 Tenth Avenue East, Seattle, WA, 98102. Carole Confar has less to say but is not less interested in finding her Olives. Let them know if you have Olives that might have come their way.

Patricia M. Crooks - calvin1@sunline.net - Patricia's line begins with "Old" James Olive, Sr. was father of Jesse Olive (number 6 in James Olive Book) Jesse Olive married Monicah Massey Their son John Olive married Holland Bowden They had twin sons, Leonidas Taylor Olive and Leroy Wester Olive born in 1832 Leonidas was known as "Randy", he married Victoria Melton in 1861. Their first child was also named Leonidas Taylor Olive, born in 1862. He married Elizabeth Viola Maynard in 1894. They had 4 sons (one named Fred, by the way) and a daughter, my mother, Ollie Mae Olive. She married Orven Darwin Hillman and had 2 daughters.

Michael L. Rankin - mikerankin@pdq.net - Michael says that his family believes Robert James OLIVE immigrated from England about 1731. He was thought to be the son of Robert Oliviere who fled from France (Huguenot) to England. A family history was developed in the early 1960's by Michael's my great grandmother (Hattie OLIVE) and a great aunt. As you can see he is interested in his family history.

1   Robert James OLIVE b: Bef. 1731 in England   d: Aft. 1767 in Louden Co., VA
2   Mary OLIVE b: February 17, 1751/52
2   John OLIVE b: September 13, 1753
2   Sarah OLIVE b: March 03, 1757
2   Joseph OLIVE b: October 17, 1758
2   Johanna OLIVE b: February 02, 1760
2   Robert OLIVE b: December 15, 1762
2   David OLIVE b: May 03, 1767 in VA d: 1804 in Muskingum Co., OH
.... +Celia STARRETT b: 1769 in VA m: September 16, 1792 in Frederick Co., VA d: August 11, 1855 in Perry Co., OH .
3   James OLIVE b: 1794 in VA d: Bet. 1870 - 1880 in Perry Co., OH
.....+Rachel PLUMMER b: 1798 m: April 04, 1820 in Perry Co., OH d: April 17, 1870 in Perry Co., OH Father: Moses Plummer (?)
... 4   David Plummer OLIVE b:January 19, 1821 in Perry Co., OH d: 1893 in Lebanon, MO ... 4   Aaron OLIVE b: May 23, 1822 in Perry Co., OH d: July 31, 1897 in Perry Co., OH
....... +Elizabeth AUKER b: August 22, 1823 in Perry Co., OH m: May 04, 1851 in Perry Co., OH d: September 10, 1899 in Keokuk Co., IA Father: George Auker Mother: Sarah Strait
..... 5   James Marion OLIVE b: January 30, 1852 in OH d: June 11, 1928 in Oskaloosa, IA
..... 5   Manerva OLIVE b: 1853
..... 5   Melissa OLIVE b: February 09, 1855 d: February 03, 1907
..... 5   Rachael OLIVE b: 1856 d: February 11, 1928
..... 5   Martha OLIVE b: January 15, 1860 in OH
..... 5   Oliver William OLIVE b: April 01, 1862 in Ottaway, Putnam County, OH d: October 11, 1939 in Frederick Hosp., Omaha, NE
......... +Hattie Corinthia KENSLER b: March 09, 1864 in Delta, IA m: May 16, 1885 in Sigourney, IA d: January 28, 1964 in Hemet, CA Father: Jacob Kensler, Jr Mother: Harriet Beals
....... 6   Archibald William OLIVE b: June 30, 1886 d: January 31, 1953
....... 6 Charles Olney OLIVE b: June 19, 1888 in Keokuk Co., IA d: July 19, 1944 in Delta, IA
....... 6 Hazel Marie OLIVE b: July 16, 1896 d: March 02,1968 in Escondido, CA
....... 6   Rollo Gehale OLIVE b: December 11, 1905 d: March 23, 1907
..... 5   David Charles OLIVE b: November 07, 1864in Cincinnati, OH d: March 1941 in Richland, IA
... 4   Robert OLIVE b: May 02, 1823
... 4 William OLIVE b: April 05, 1827 in Perry Co., OH d: April 11, 1906 in Perry Co., OH
... 4 Cathrine OLIVE b: October 02, 1828 in Perry Co.,OH d: January 21, 1905 in Perry Co., OH
... 4 James OLIVE b: October 02, 1828 in Perry Co., OH d: April 23, 1908 in Hocking Co., OH
... 4 Joseph OLIVE b: May 02, 1829 d: October 01, 1859
... 4   Joshua OLIVE b: September 01, 1830 in OH
... 4   Martha OLIVE b: August 10, 1833 in Perry Co., OH d: March 13, 1912 in Perry Co., OH
... 4 Jesse OLIVE b: May 09, 1835 in Perry Co., OH d:in Perry Co., OH
... 4   Cecelia Frances OLIVE b: December 25, 1838 in Perry Co., OH d: January 21, 1905 in Perry Co., OH
. 3   Henry OLIVE
. 3 Robert OLIVE
. 3   David OLIVE b: April 08, 1803 in VA d: August 01, 1887 in Muskingum Co., OH
. 3 Joseph OLIVE

The family story of death from a rattlesnake bite happened to David OLIVE in 1804 in Muskingum Co., OH. This per Muskingum Co. annals. Ancestry updated 9/28/00

Gail A. Röthlin (McAdam) - mgroth@active.ch writes that we might find this interesting.
(BTW his email subject line was "The Olive Tree in South Africa")

Caroline Louisa Olive (b.5.4.1863, d. 25.2.1942 in SA) married William
Robert Hobden in 1888. They settled in South Africa in 1905. My maternal
grandfather William Charles Vernon Hobden, b.12.12.1892 in Maresfield, UK
married Sarah Currie McNeil.

Caroline Louisa was one of 7 children to Edward (b. 1838, d. 12.4.1866)
and Elizabeth Winter. Edward was the second Edward born to John (bap.
10.2.1764, d. 27.2.1845) and Eliza Watson of Greenhurst farm. The had 4
children, John, Edward (bap. 17.4.1835, buried 22.1.1836, Elizabeth (bapt.
24.1.1830 and married Henry Duvall). John and his sister Sukie were born
to Edward (b ca. 1732, d. 25.6.1797) and Jane (d. 21.7.1819).

If you are interested in anymore information, my great-aunt Mrs. Renee
McFarlane at Box 1746, Edenvale 1610, South Africa will be able to help
you.

John Scott - jscott@viconet.com - Olives in Bristol, England

I have evidence that a certain Wm. H. Olive made a presentation to a George Smith in Bristol, 1888. This was to honour Smith for his services to Olive--presumably professional services of some sort. We think that Smith is a relative of my wife's (she and I are both English), but his name does not lend itself to genealogical research. We thought it would be more productive to look first for his employer, Olive.

Does anyone know of a Wm. H. Olive, active in Bristol around 1888? Please e-mail me if you have any information.
Thanks, all....

Because first names do not always help us determine the men from the women (especially if the name is from another language), I will use the following symbols help in the identification:

female

male

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