I am proud to assist my brother Louis in creating a family website after his hard work and years of diligence in researching our family history. I am also the Webmistresss for this site and one of four children born to our parents Louis and Ruthie Mae Brown (pictured above). For many years I only knew a few of our relatives on the west coast. But, over the past years have found through my brother that our family consist of many more relatives than I ever dreamed of.
The beginning of our family started more than one hundred fifty years ago like many families, and has a long history which has been documented as starting on Dr. Levin Luckett's Plantation in Bayou Rapides Station in Alexandria Louisiana. About 1860 Dr. Levin owned twenty- eight slave dwellings and one hundred and three slaves. My brother Louis Brown Junior has also created a family tree which can be accesses through Ancestry.Com. To make it simple I am only including pictures and information about the past four generations which include our mother Ruthie Mae Dorty who married our father Louis Brown both from the small city of Alexandria Louisiana and their offsprings.
As this information is being transferred I am enlightened because much of it is knowledge I was unaware of, and my hopes along with my brother is that our generation and those to come appreciate having it available. Much of the information collected showed it common practice to repeat the first names of both male and female family members generation to generation, which made It necessary to look at birthdates and names when referring to them.
Since many of our family members in the earlier years lived on plantations and were not schooled it is apparent they did not write diaries; so much has to be surmised. This also included the enunciation and spelling of first and last names, which in most cases were written by others such as officials when marriage were performed. In the case of births it is common knowledge that most families wrote the births of new borns inside the covers of bibles.
According to US census reports many of the family members lived next door to each other and within extended families with as many as twelve in one household. It was also apparent that many of the women in our family had an average of seven children and many more times more than ten. Records also showed in most cases elder members lived with their children and grandchildren.
The earlier family births were predominantly in Louisiana on several Plantations including Archinard Place, Sousand and the Levin Luckett Plantations where twins ran consistently in the family. According to death records a number of the older family members were shown to have been previous residents of Virginia where the Luckett’s had at least one other plantation.
The men in our family seemed to live longer that the woman who died years earlier than their husband many times after giving births to multiple children at a time. Also many of our family members were married on the plantations where one of the plantations was shown to have more than one hundred slaves.
For more information on various family members click the above links, and thank you for visiting our site.
We will continue to work on this site to make it one you are proud of as a family. If you are related to a Brown, Dorty, Young or Williams in this family and wish to add your information, corrections, pictures or events please e-mail me or click my brother's name to e-mail him Louis.
This page was last updated: December 26, 2009
Louis Brown Jr. (son) of Louis & Ruth Brown and researcher of family history.
DORTY- WILLIAMS FAMILY SITE
of Alexandria LouisianaWelcome to the Dorty- Williams Family Website which has been created in memory of our family descendants, and to empower our present and future generations by knowing their history. Creating this website is just a small portion of what it took to get this far.
Many years of commitment went into researching the information contained in this website and the accompanying Young Thomas Dorty Site.
For my brother Louis Brown Junior of Alexandria Louisiana, who researched and collected this information "Hats off to you". Louis would like to acknowledgement and give thanks for his now deceased friend Mrs. Alice Faye Belmen, also of Alexandria who assisted him in researching information about our family. Mrs. Belmen passed June 26, 2007 and we are thankful for her assistance, and pray she is resting in peace.
Click the newly added pictures below to see individual family ancestors
Kay Brown Durden, daughter of Louis and Ruthie, and webmistress.
Edward Dorty.
Joseph Dorty
Murray Dorty
Albert Dorty
AAron Dorty
David Dorty
Henry Dorty
Roosevelt Dorty
Louis Dorty
Virginia Dorty
Willie Dorty
Ruthie Dorty
The names and pictures of the persons listed below are the twelve children of LillyYoung of Alexandria Louisiana. Lilly Young married Louis Dorty in 1903, and had twelve children. Our mother Ruthie Mae Dorty, was one of the twelve and married Louis Brown our father in 1941. For more about our family, click on our mother Ruthie Dorty's picture below.
Our grandmother Lilly Young Dorty
Above is reserved for a picture of our grandfather.
