Michael Faraday was the scientist.
(He demonstrated and documented the pricipals of electromagnetic energy.)
Michael's first cousin had a son named Martin Faraday. Martin and Michael were second-cousins. (And back then, they spelled it with two r's) Martin lived from 1757 - 1793; he was born at Kirby Malham in Yorkshire and he died in Giggleswick.
Martin's son William lived between 1790 and 1814. He lived in Burnley (1818), and then in Leigh (1820's-30's). Around 1832-35, he sailed from Liverpool with his 6 children. His 7th child, Hannah, was born in Delaware in 1835. In 1840, the census shows William and his son Martin living next door to one another, in Christiana, DE. They likely worked in the mills. The 1842 tax list also makes note of his son, Miles. Around 1843-46, William and Martin moved to Philadelphia - around 2nd & Oxford. (which is less than one mile from where I now sit typing this.....)
William's daughter, Hannah,
married Henry Cullis and they produced John F. Cullis
John F. Cullis produced Milton Francis Cullis (with a little help from Mattie Kemp)
and Milton Francis Cullis produced Jeanne Cullis Reynolds (with a little help from Ivy Jocelyn Frampton)
and Jeanne is my mother.
That is the path of the DNA......
