{"id":26941,"date":"2017-11-20T10:55:51","date_gmt":"2017-11-20T15:55:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.genealogybank.com\/?p=26941"},"modified":"2022-07-14T14:06:47","modified_gmt":"2022-07-14T18:06:47","slug":"finding-my-varney-cousins-in-dover-new-hampshire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/finding-my-varney-cousins-in-dover-new-hampshire.html","title":{"rendered":"Finding My Varney Cousins in Dover, New Hampshire"},"content":{"rendered":"

The past several days I\u2019ve been researching the Varney family, a branch of my family tree from Dover, Strafford County, New Hampshire. The patriarch of the Dover Varney line was Humphrey Varney<\/span> (1636-1714), who moved to Dover from his father\u2019s home in Ipswich as a young man, and began the long line of Varney descendants who live across the United States today.<\/p>\n

One of those Dover descendants is Esther C. Varney, whose obituary I discovered while searching for Varney cousins in GenealogyBank\u2019s Recent Obituaries Database<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Source: GenealogyBank, Foster\u2019s Daily Democrat (Dover, New Hampshire), 14 February 2013. Accessed 3 November 2017<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I was able to locate Esther\u2019s FamilySearch page<\/a>, which showed me that she and I are both descendants of Humphrey Varney. Humphrey is Esther\u2019s 7th-great-grandfather and my 8th-great-grandfather.<\/p>\n

The Varney\u2019s have long been a part of Dover\u2019s history. Humphrey\u2019s son Ebenezer Varney<\/span> (1664-1753), my 7th-great-grandfather and Esther\u2019s 6th-great-uncle, was the original builder of the \u201cVarney-Ham House\u201d which sat on the west side of Varney Hill in Dover for nearly 300 years.<\/p>\n

There is an essay about the Ham Varney House, with a photo, on the Dover Public Library website:<\/p>\n

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Source: Ham Varney House, Dover (New Hampshire) Public Library, http:\/\/www.dover.nh.gov\/government\/city-operations\/library\/historical-images\/houses\/houses-t-y\/ham-varney-house.html<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It\u2019s always amazing to find and document our cousins in the family tree.<\/p>\n

Genealogy Tip:<\/em><\/strong> GenealogyBank\u2019s Recent Obituaries Database<\/a> can be a great way to find your own cousins whom you may not be aware of, and to learn interesting stories about your common ancestors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An article by Thomas Jay Kemp about the Varney family, a branch of his family tree from Dover, Strafford County, New Hampshire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26963,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12713],"tags":[12,2719,2020,1084],"class_list":["post-26941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-genealogy-research-tips","tag-genealogy","tag-genealogy-search-tips","tag-newspaper-archives","tag-obituaries"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/photo-1027-2017-featured-graphic-whitchers-falls-new-hampshire-2.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26941"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85811,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26941\/revisions\/85811"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}