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Greetings from Chicago on this Christmas Eve...
My branch of the family comes from the Mayfield/Brighton corridor. We consider the patriarch to be one Eldridge Packham, born 1784. He married Elizabeth Russell and they proceeded to begat and begat and begat. Obviously, it was before television.
His son, Richard came to the US and settled in the Milwaukee, Wisconsin area. He later served in the Union Army during our Civil War (1861-1856). Eldridge followed when Elizabeth kicked him out of the house for carousing too much. (He was a true Packham.) When the Civil War broke out, he and his significant other took off for Canada where, I presume, he died and is buried.
My wife and I visited England in 1998 and traveled to Mayfield and even tracked down the Mill Farm where they lived for a while.
As the eldest son of the eldest son, etc., I am in possession of a good portion of the family papers. There is a Thomas in there somewhere. My guess is that you just might have a blood relative living near Chicago.
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