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My family lived in Fairfield, Idaho
when I was born. The lines in the map (right) converge on Fairfield.
The Brooks' (gold)
arrived in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630 from England. After several
generations, the line migrated into the Hull and Low, Quebec region, where
my grandmother was born. Her family moved to Saskatoon, where she
met and married my grandfather, a Stricker.
The Stricker's (light blue) arrived
from Germany at New York in the
1850's. They moved immediately northward and into southern Ontario, where they settled at Rodney, on the
north shore of Lake Erie. My grandfather was born and raised there, but set out
for Saskatoon, where he met and married my grandmother. They moved
to Vancouver in British Columbia, where my mother was born. There my
mother met and married my father, who was living in Fairfield, Idaho.
The Hopley's (green) arrived from England
in the mid-1850's and settled immediately in Iowa. My
grandmother was born in Cass County, married my grandfather, and moved
west to Camas County in Idaho, where my father (a Muffley) was born.
The first Muffley (dark blue) arrived in
Philadelphia in 1737 from Germany, having originated in Switzerland before
moving into the Palatinate following the Thirty Years War. In the 1840's one of his great grandsons moved into the western counties of
New York, before moving to the northeast of Iowa in the 1850's. My
grandfather was born in Osage, Iowa and moved to Camas County, Idaho from
where he met and married my grandmother. My father was born in Fairfield,
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