The Muncy Side of the Family
Todd's maternal grandparents both emigrated
from England. The story is that Todd's grandfather worked his way across
as a "needle boy" on a grain ship. After establishing himself in
America and earning some money, he arranged passage for his fiancée to
join him. They are supposed to have come from the Isle of Wight in
England, but not much is known beyond that. Todd's mother was born
in Queens Village on Long Island.
The Muncy family tree has been extremely
well documented over the years, which made it much easier to put this
information together. Virtually every Muncy and Muncey in America
descends from Todd's great (x9) grandfather Francis
Muncy, who was born in England in 1631, and later crossed the Atlantic
to Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts with his parents in 1653. On
December 6, 1659 he married Hannah Adams who
was born in 1639 at Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts. She gave
birth to a son
John Muncey on October 24, 1660. The
family then moved to Brookhaven, Suffolk County, Long Island, New York and
produced another son Samuel Muncey in 1661.
Todd's line, which descended from Samuel,
settled in the Amityville/Babylon Township area of Suffolk County, Long
Island and never left. Todd was born in Amityville in 1953.
Since John had four (known) sons and Samuel had only one, it is not
surprising that most Muncys who have contacted us about genealogy, are
connected to John's side of the family. Several larger lines of the
family left Long Island and scattered throughout the country many
generations ago. There seem to be large clusters in West Virginia,
Kentucky, Texas and California.
This section of our site contains a
complete gedcom tree of over 700 cross-linked web pages representing the
bulk of the descendants of Francis and Hannah.
The lowest branch on Todd's tree are his paternal grandparents
Donald E. Muncy (1900-1990) and Freda Bartholet
(1895-1988). To explore this tree, use any hyperlink on this
page as a starting point and then click from one connected person to
another. To follow our branch all the way up, start with
Donald and Freda and click on each husband's father nine times to get
all the way back to Francis.
To search for a specific individual, go to the
surname index, which will in turn link you to
an alphabetical index of all included people with that surname. Todd
is very interested in forming a task force to reconcile the hundreds of
different Francis Muncy I gedcom files that are available on the web.
The end result would be the creation a master file that would include all
descendants shown on all versions of the tree. Please send an email
to: familytree<at>MuncyFamily.com if you would be interested in working on
this project. Obviously you must change <at> to @. This notation
trick is necessary to prevent spammers from harvesting the email address.
