getting started
This website is my attempt to pull together a genealogy for our daughter by assembling all the bits and pieces (documents, photos, stories) for her four lines as represented by her grandparents: (in England) Green and Clarke; (in Italy) Lippi; (in the U.S.) Ennis. Right now everything is on this page, but eventually there will be front pages for each of those branches.
The photo to the above is my father, Arturo Lippi (here is his page) with his sister, Kate Lippi Vincent, about 1980 (her page), in Florida.
If you just want to paddle around and see what's here, please go ahead; however, you will not be able to access information about any living person. For those with a verifiable connection to the family who want to have a closer look, make suggestions, add stories or information, or generally tell me how to do things better, you'll need to email me: rosinalippi@pobox.com and I'll set up an account for you.
Where to find information
Bless the internet, because hundreds and hundreds of books that were inaccessible just twenty years ago can now be read, searched, and annotated online. One excellent repository is at archive.org, which advertises itself "universal access to all knowledge."
history v. story: a word about sources
For those who haven't really looked into the finer points of genealogy, this important note: If you do not see a source cited for a piece of information, then you must consider it to be conjecture. If you happen to know an undocumented fact is true (for example, you find your great grandfather here, and you've got a copy of his death certificate) then please email me about that. Otherwise please think of what you read as possibility waiting for documentation. It might be fun or shocking or just plain absurd. It might be true. It might not be. You are welcome to use what you find here if you do so for your own, non-profit purposes.
the quick, the dead, the scandals
Alexander Ennis and his wife, Katherine
went before the court at Plymouth on charges of adultery (about 1655): [and] were found guilty of "unclean and laciuiouse behavior" and for "speaking blasphemos words". She was publicly whipped and required to wear a red letter B on her upper garment. Alexander was required to sit in the stocks and witness the punishment. Katherine's lover, William Paule, was also publicly whipped. Following this humiliation, they left the Plymouth Colony and eventually ended on Block Island in Rhode Island.most mysterious and sought after
Thomas Partridge
This is a photo of Thomas and Rose Partridge. Thomas's father Richard (not pictured here) is one of the dead ends. Richard Partridge was born in 1824, and that's about all we know -- except, of course, that he and his wife Eliza (we know even less about her, not even her maiden name) had a lot of children, one of whom was Thomas, who married Rose Whitman, who had a daughter, Dorothy Sarah Rose PARTRIDGE, 1895-1967, who married Frank Green. Dorothy and Frank Green are our Elisabeth's great grandparents.