Hello. I've been searching my roots since I've got a very special surname in my country, Colombia.
After a research, I found out that every Mayeston in Colombia is directly from my family, and there's nobody else out there with my last name.
I found my grandparents, my great parents and my great parents dad, who's name was Electo Mayeston. He's the las record that my city had about the Mayeston's. He married Natividad and had two kids, one of them died at the age of 19 and the other one survived, being my great parent. But after Electo, there's nothing else in the local records, only stories from my family saying he was a sea captain who used to visit Cartagena, Bolivar, Colombia, and (apparently) he met his wife there, but there's no proof of it, than a paper of baptism in 1895 with his name and his wife about one of the two kids I told you.
I want to find where was Electo Mayeston from, where are my real roots if he wasn't Colombian. I've doing researchs in different webpages who showed me only five Mayestons.
The first one I saw was F. Mayeston, who was an inmigrant from Germany, born on 1839 and emigrated in 1864 in a ship called "Wisconsin" to New York, USA. (Attached picture)
Then I found Wm. E. Mayeston, apparently from Bridgeport, Fairfield, Connecticut with Lilian Mayeston. They had a kid who's name isn't registered, it just appears as Mayeston, born on 1868 in Bridgeport, Fairfield, Connecticut. Electo's first kid was at 1895's so the idea of him being Electo isn't crazy since he could be 27 when he went to Cartagena, Colombia. Married Natividad, and had a son, my grandparent. I can't validate that since it does not show anything about Wm. and Lilian's kid but Mayeston but it's a theory.
I also found a couple of farmers in Norfolk, England. Hannah and Rich.. (Richard) Mayeston. who had a child called Eliza Mayeston, (supposedly born on 1825). (Attached picture)
While looking, I found a Rosa Mary Mayeston, buried in 1873. (Another Mayeston).
I've been looking for Eliza Mayeston, instead of it I find a lot of Eliza Mayston, (maybe the name got a horrible misspell history?), finding out that Mayston is one of the most common surnames in england.
Also I keep digging and I find another Eliza, Eliza Maston. Born on 1743 who's dad name was "W'M. Maston". (familiar, W.M Mayeston from Connectitut!).
I have no ways to relacionate it all and it messes up my head since I can't find where is it all related or if there's anything else I could search, or where was Electo, the sea captain from or why did he come here. I want to find my real roots.
(Could'nt attach the images for some reason, sorry!