For the most part, this web site will be about Clyde & Violet Budd and their descendants. However, info regarding their ANCESTORS (Pre-Clyde & Violet Budd) will also be posted, along with interesting old time photos. Our CLYDE BUDD is actually the 12th Generation of Budd's in the United States. For info on the 1st Budd in America, go to John Budd / Generation 1.

MANY thanks to Dot (Dortha Budd Tucker Ramsey, oldest child of Clyde & Violet Budd) who took on the family tree project for over 20 years, from 1975 to 1996. Without her in-depth research and records, this info would not be readily available for the rest of us. The majority of information posted is public record and can be found in your state's Record's Division at the City Administration Building.

In the meantime, for some initial history on Clyde Budd....the following words were written personally by Clyde Paul Budd in 1974 regarding his childhood memories & life at that point.

CLYDE BUDD'S OWN WORDS ABOUT HIS LIFE
"As I remember, I was about 3 years old when my mother died. My father's sister, my Aunt Zoda Mae Fitton, took me with her to Indiana to live with her and her husband, Willard John Fitton in Silver Lake, Indiana. Uncle Willard was the cashier of the Farmer's Bank of Silver Lake at that time. Read More
 

JOHN BUDD COMES TO AMERICA
In doing some current background research, it looks like the first BUDD in America was John Budd(e), (born in 1599) who was a wealthy shipping merchant from Sussex, England. It appears that the King of England donated a portion of the State of New Jersey to John and Thomas Budd, called "The Budd Valley". The two brothers came to America leaving their eldest brother, William, in or near London. John Budd settled in New Jersey and Thomas Budd came to South Carolina. In short, John Budd was a founder of the New Haven Colony which was an English colonial venture from 1637 to 1662. Present-day, it is called the state of Connecticut. John Budd also signed a treaty with the Indians on Nov. 8 1661 when he bought a tract of land called "Apawamis" by the Indians, and by the white men "Budd's Neck" (now Rye Neck).

A home John Budd built in 1649, called "The Old House or Cutchogue House" still stands and has been declared a National Landmark, being the oldest English home in New York.  He died in 1669 in Rye, Westchester Co., Connecticut now New York.

John Budd(e) is considered the "1st Generation of Budd's" in American Budd Ancestry. There were 6 generations of John Budds before names started changing, this is because it was typical in those days to name the first borne son after the father. Because of this tradition, there is some confusion as to which John Budd is which and which John Budd is married to who. Early on during the colony days, family members from one family  married sisters from another single family, such as the Budds & the Hortons in the 1600-1700s.