Prologue
The First Edition was released in 1979, followed by the Second Edition in 1987. Dates and clues were gathered from local cemeteries. The Clermont County Probate Court records revealed birth and death certificates, marriage licenses, and estate documents. Unfortunately, many old records from the Hamilton County Probate Courts were lost in a fire many years ago.
Access to Census records from 1840, 1850, 1860, 1870, and 1880 was provided by the National Archives in Washington, D.C. Additionally, it was here that the record of the Iuen family's arrival in New York was discovered. The final source of information was the municipal archives of Belfort, France, which Carol visited in January 1979. She experienced great excitement upon discovering Christian's marriage licenses and the birth records of his children.
My dear sister, Donna Sue Juniet, longed to read the book—the family history she believed must surely hold our story. Yet within its fragile, spiral‑bound pages, only five pages touched the Tyrrell family genealogy.
The book itself was old, delicate, and irreplaceable. I couldn’t risk sending it through the mail, so instead I created a website named The Christian Iuen Family History, and began the long, careful work of filling in the stories the book only hinted at while researching the Ferree, Craver, and Brown families.
Six years later, after countless hours of research, writing, and design, I completed The Tyrrell Kids’ Family History. This volume is the second edition of that work, a genealogy that begins with John Ferree, born in America in 1761, seventy-seven years before Christopher Iuen's arrival in New York.
This work comes too late for my beautiful sister Donna Sue to hold in her hands, yet it was her longing to read our family history that set this entire project in motion. Her hope became my purpose, and her memory—along with the memory of my beloved brother, Jim—lives in every page, offered with the wish that future generations will find meaning and connection here.
The genealogy developed for The Christian Iuen Family History employs a coding system created to distinctly identify each family member and provide their ancestry. Every female descendant is recorded under her maiden name. I applied the format and coding system from the book consistently across this website but also abreviating the identifying numbers as the codes became excessively long.
4.2.7.2.
Margaret Ellen (Peggy) Brown
b. (birth date)
d. (date of death)
m. (marriage information)
Issue: (children)
Code 4.2.7.2. identifies Peggy's geneology as follows:
4. Ursala Iuen was the fourth child** of Christian Iuen
2. Joseph Fetter was the second child of Ursala Iuen
7. Edith Fetter was the seventh child of Joseph Fetter
2. Peggy Brown was the second child of Edith Fetter
** Ursala is listed as the 4th child because the children who died in infancy were not discovered until after the first publication of the book and renumbering was not feasable.