This is meant to be just a little overview of the Hume Ancestors since arrival in America.

George Hume III was born 30 May 1698 in Wedderburn Castle, Berwickshire, Scotland.  He backed James Stuart's claim to the British thrown and was captured and deported to Virginia in 1721.  George Washington trained in survey work as his assistant.   He married Elizabeth Proctor 16 February 1728.  She was the daughter of immigrants from Lancashire, England.  He died 1760 in Culpeper County, Virginia.  

John Hume was born in 1732 in Spotsylvania County, Virgina.  He married Helinor Manson of Boston on 31 December 1766.  Nothing is known of her ancestry.  He died in 1802 in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania.

John Hume was born in 1770.  He married Nancy Webb of Boston in 1792.  Nothing is known of her ancestry.  He became engaged in fishing.  He died in Waterville, Maine 15 January 1830.

William Hume was born in in 1794 in Waterville, Maine.  He married Harriet Hunter 08 September 1825.  He married Elizabeth F. Webber 20 January 1836 (she is my ancestor).  Nothing is known of her ancestry except that her father's name was Jeremiah Webber.  William Hume died in 1968.

George W. Hume was born 06 January 1837 in Waterville, Maine.  He married Angie Stone, also of Waterville, on 11 September 1862.  He then married Annie Raymond and my ancestor Charles Edwin Hume considered her as his mother.  In 1856 he went to California with two brothers and founded the canning company of Hapgood, Hume & Company on the Sacramento River.  Fishing was disappointing and the next year he opened the first cannery on the Columbia River, which was more successful.  The cannery business continued to be successful and the brothers exported most of their product to Australia.

Charles Edwin Hume was born 28 April 1879 in Maine.  In 1904 he married Eleanor Carlisle Eckart of San Francisco.  Her mother, Harriet Gorham, was a descendant of John Gorham and his wife, Desire Howland whose parents had been on the Mayflower.  Her paternal grandmother, Eleanor Carlisle, was a descendent of John Carlisle, the founding Trustee of Alexandria, Virginia, and of Governor Fairfax of the Bahamas and Chief Justice Walker of the Bahamas.  Charles Edwin Hume died in Alameda County, California on 10 November 1941.

This page last updated 18 JUL 2004.

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