Personal Migration

            Cole Bauer

October 17, 2010

Human Geography

My parents were both born in Maryland: my father in Baltimore City and my mother in Bel Air. My mother’s parents were born in different states, but moved to Harford County, Maryland after they married. My maternal grandfather was born in Winchester, Virginia with my maternal grandmother being born in Williamsburg, Pennsylvania. From that point, my maternal great grandmother and great grandfather were born in very small, rural towns near Williamsburg, Pennsylvania in or near Blair Four, Pennsylvania. Their families were farmers as they had been for generations. My great grandmother was one of fifteen children and my great grandfather was one of seventeen children. Their parents had migrated from Europe in the late eighteen hundreds. My maternal great-great grandmother, Elizabeth Gasper nee Budnar, and great-great grandfather migrated from small farming villages outside of what was known as Budapest, Hungary. Their families were farmers in Hungary and continued to be farmers once they settled in America.  I do not know much about my maternal great grandfather’s family. The history which has been passed down through my mother’s generation is that his family was Croatian and Slovakian. As to my maternal grandfather’s family, their family history in the United States goes back to the late 1600’s to early 1700’s. The Affleck family migrated to the United States from England, and more specifically from Scotland and the Isle of Man of the coast of England. Some genealogical records discovered to date have located at least one ancestor who was an Admiral in the Royal Navy in the 1730’s to 1750’s. My paternal grandparents were both born in Maryland. My paternal grandmother was born in Ellicott City, Maryland and my paternal grandfather was born in Baltimore, Maryland. My paternal grandmother’s family is originally from San d’notte, Italy in the Northern part of Italy near the Swiss border. I still have family there and hope to visit within the next four years. My great grandmother was born in Little Italy, in Baltimore, Maryland. Both of her parents had migrated from Italy in the late 1890’s to early 1900’s where her father had been in the stone cutting business. He continued to work as a stone cutter in the United States and owned a stone quarry on Bel Air Road near the Route 43 interchange.