Schmidtistics · reference

Early Settlers of New England

The families behind the stories — starting at the bottom with Kenneth Oswald Schmidt, whose father William Edward Schmidt was born at Kittery in 1871, and going up only through the lines these pages are about.

How to read it. The starting person is at the bottom; each row above is one generation further back. The coloured bars across the top show where each surname sits in the tree; every box carries a matching stripe. The list beside a person is their brothers and sisters. A solid line is a link this project has a document for; a red dashed line is one it does not — a reasonable inference never proved. There are three such places, and everything above each one depends on it.

1 · Where it starts

Four generations, and the point at which one half of this family arrives from London.

SCHMIDTOSWALDJOURDANDUDLEYbrothers & sisters• Caroline 1830–1909• Adelaide O. 1831–1905• Eleanor 1836–1898• Julia Sophia 1837–1903• Otto John 1839–?brothers & sisters• John W. 1843–?• Ann S. 1845–?• Florence 1851–?• Edward K. 1859–?• George W. 1861–?brothers & sisters• Adelaide 1863–1954• Otto D. 1865–1866• Lottie 1868–?• Jennie 1870–1937brothers & sisters• Lionel O. 1894–1904• Malcolm R. 1909–2007• Rosella 1910–?• Wilber D. 1911–2003• Mancil D. 1914–1932• Donald D. 1923–1984Otto Schmidtc.1801–unknownPrussian · teacher of languagesHenrietta Adonis Jourdanc.1811–1842died at Parsons GreenEdward Alfred Henry Schmidt1833–1881London · U.S. Navy · KitteryMary Catherine Dudley1840–1920born Boston · buried KitteryWilliam Edward Schmidt1871–1959born Kittery · died San DiegoMargaret Oswald1883–1956Kenneth Oswald Schmidt1905–1996Open the full chart — zoom and pan there  →

2 · Mary Catherine Dudley’s side

Six generations of Dudley, Voudy, Varrell, Sadler, Booker, Moore and Adams, topping out at a man who was already dead when his widow sold his land in 1694.

DUDLEYSADLERBOOKERELLINGWOODVOUDYPARKERMOORECURRIERVARRELLSAMPSONADAMSHILTONbrothers & sisters• Solomon 1757–?brothers & sisters• Polly 1761–?• Rachel 1766–?• Lydia unknown• John ?–1799×1803brothers & sisters• William eldest• Joshua • Samuel • Mary Hilton • Mercy Rea • Martha • Deliverance brothers & sisters• Dorcas 1741• Abigail 1742• William 1744• Mercy 1745• Mary 1747• Lois 1750• Olive 1752• Nehemiah 1755brothers & sisters• William Jr 1808–1892• Rachael 1826–1916• Paulina ?–1853brothers & sisters• John W. 1843–?• Ann S. 1845–?• Florence 1851–?• Edward K. 1859–?• George W. 1861–?William Dudley?unknowna candidate father — not provedJohn H. Dudley1806–1881the sealing voyage to South GeorgiaMathew Voudy1705–unknownthe first Voudy on the IslesLydiac.1720–unknownhis second wifeEdward Voudy1738–1819selectman of GosportJohn Varrellc.1715–1763Gosport selectmanEdward Sadler1694–1718Mary Sampson1678–1723Rachel Sadler1718–1806“my grandmother Rachel Varrill”Sarah Varrell1740–1811baptised at the Isles of ShoalsWilliam Voudyc.1778–unknownmariner · living 1868John Bookerunknown–1762grantee of the ProprietorsPhilip Adamsunknown–bef 1694⭐ the earliest we can reachThomas AdamsunknownHannah Parker1658–aft 1732Hester “Esther” Adamsc.1686–1758William Booker1717–1763fisherman · died intestateJohn Moore1654–1713the Moore line walls hereSamuel Moore1695–1774“to my daughter Dorcas Booker”Dorcas Hilton1698–1788Dorcas Moore1720–unknowntook the administration herselfAaron Booker1758–1845Revolutionary soldierAnne Ellingwood1760–unknownmarried Aaron in 1779Dorcas Bookerc.1786–unknownborn York · living 1868Lydia Jane Voudy1819–1894died at Lynn · buried KitteryMary Catherine Dudley1840–1920born Boston · buried KitteryOpen the full chart — zoom and pan there  →

⚠ Siblings (the bulleted lists) come from this family's working record rather than from documents — with one exception. Aaron Booker's eight brothers and sisters are from the York town register itself, which lists all nine children of William Booker and Dorcas Moore with the weekday of every birth.

The three dashed lines

Lydia Jane Voudy to William Voudy and Dorcas Booker. No document yet found says she was their daughter. Everything above her — Voudy, Varrell, Sadler and the Isles of Shoals — rests on this one link.

Dorcas Booker to Aaron Booker. Also unstated. The strongest evidence is a deed of 1868 naming Aaron’s former farm and Dorcas’s life estate in one sentence — and it still stops short of saying she was his daughter. The Booker, Moore and Adams lines hang from it.

John H. Dudley’s father. William Dudley married Caty Amee at Kittery in 1803 and is the only Dudley household in the town in 1820 and 1830. Circumstantial, not a record.

Why the Schmidt line stops after two rows

Not for want of looking. Otto Schmidt described himself in 1842 as “not a native of this country, but a Prussian”, and after a letter of 9 June that year he leaves the record entirely. His own father is named once — Charles Louis Schmidt, barrister — and no Inn of Court in London has heard of him. That search belongs on the continent.

A note on the dates

Years only, and “unknown” means unknown rather than guessed. Three differ from the working pedigree because a document says otherwise: Otto Schmidt born about 1801 (two hands record him as forty-one in 1842); John H. Dudley born 1806 (the schooner Pacific’s own watch list, not his gravestone, which says 1804 and was cut at least thirteen years after he died); and Aaron Booker born 1758 (the York town register, not the ages he swore to, which run four to seven years old).

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