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| 1801 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. According to James Hook as quoted below, the husband surname of "Pertune" comes from an entry for the dead, Barbara Pertune, done by nephew Michael Stoker in the Nauvoo Temple which may have been a misheard "Pennington" by the temple scribe. Hook also mentions that there is no guarantee that Peter Eller's daughter's name was even Barbara except by assumption that Stoker's baptismal work was for an aunt on his mother's name. Many family genealogists show William Pennington as Elizabeth Eller's husband, but that also is unproven. 2. The book "The Howard Leytham Stoker Von Dollen Family Histories," FHL 929.273 H833a, by Doris Lewis, 2017 So. 80th Ave., Omaha, Nebraska, 68124, p. 89: "Peter was the first son of George Michael Eller. Because there were a number of years between Peter's birth and the others, the question arises if he might not be a child of a first marriage. He grew up in North Carolina and married Elizabeth Dick in 1766. His land grant was close to other Ellers, beginning at the spruce pine on the Upper Ford on Rones Creek. In 1797 he bought the 70 acres which had been granted to his father-in-law, Conrad Dick. This land had been surveyed and chain carriers were listed as Michael Stoker and John Eller, neighbors. Peter had 470 acres at his death... There oldest daughter, Catherine, married Michael Stoker and their youngest daughter, Mary, married George Koons and their great granddaughter, Betty Oman married Orson Hyde Stoker. Children: a. John, b. 1767 or 1769; d. 1823; m. Susanna Kerns. b. Catherine, b. 6 Mar 1773 at Rowan Co., NC; d. 1850 at Council Bluffs, Iowa; m. Michael Stoker. c. Elizabeth, b. 1780; m. William Pennington. d. Barbara, b. 1782; m. Pertune. e. Mary, b. 1783, NC; d. 1872; m. George Koons (a Quaker who was disowned for marrying Mary, who was a Dunkard). She was 18 and he 19. f. Jacob, b. 1784; d. 1855; m. Catherine White. g. Henry, b. 1788; d. 1876; m. Elizabeth Johnson. h. George." 3. FHL book 929.273 P684pn: "Graybill/Stoker/Eller/Smith/Koons/Pitt Connections," by Norman E. 'Gene' Pitt, 1996, pp. 119-123: "Barbara Eller, b. 1782; d. bef 1846; md. possibly to ___ Pertune or to William Pennington. The family may have moved to GA." 4. Could Pertune actually be Pennington. The name Pertune comes from Nauvoo temple work of "Barbara Pertune" done by the Stokers in the early 1840s. The following are notes from James Hook concerning Elizabeth, sister of Barbara per FHL Book 929.273EL54h "George Michael Eller and Descendants of His in America," compiled by James W. Hook, 1957, also on FHL film 896571, item 2, pp. 29-30: "Elizabeth Eller. That there was a daughter Elizabeth is proved by the record of sale of the personal estate of Peter Eller as reported to the Nov. 1799 court of Wilkes Co. wherein 'Elizabeth Eller Jr.' is named as the purchaser of such items as two beds and furniture, spinning wheel, smoothing iron, two chairs, bell, bridle, wooden water can and two pigins (water dippers). (Will Book I, pp. 540-41, Wilkes Co., NC.) The fact that she was called 'Elizabeth Eller Jr.' indicates that she was not married and the character of her purchases suggest that she was preparing to be. Certain deeds in Ashe Co., NC (Book M, p. 163 and Book F, pp. 83 and 414) prove that one daughter of Peter Eller married William Pennington and the belief has been that it was Elizabeth, and the same Elizabeth Pennington who witnessed the deed referred to under Peter Eller Jr. [Insert from author's notes on her brother Peter Eller Jr.: 'On 2 Jul 1812 Peter Eller and William Pennington 'administrators of the estate of William Pennington deceased' sold land of the estate that was granted to William Pennington on the north side of a fork of New River 15 Dec 1798. The deed was signed by Peter Eller and William Penington and witnessed by Elizabeth Pennington. {Deed Book C, p. 457, Ashe Co., NC.} Elizabeth Pennington, the witness, could have been the wife of William Pennington, the administrator, and a sister of Peter Eller Jr. or she could have been the widow or daughter of the deceased.] The fact, however, that Michael Stoker, son of Peter Eller's daughter Catherine, had himself baptized for his 'deceased aunt, Barbara Pertune', [see notes for Barbara Eller for more detail] casts some doubt on this, the name Pertune possibly having been meant for Pennington. Of course, Barbara Pertune could have been an aunt on his father's side. If, however, it was true that Barbara Eller was the wife of William Pennington then the question arises who did Elizabeth Eller marry? This writer would guess that it was a Bumgardner and that Simeon Bumgardner, b. 8 Jan 1807 and recroded in the German Bible published at Halle, Germany in 1770, and mentioned [in the notes of Elizabeth's father Peter Eller Sr.], was their son. Michael and Leonard Bumgardner purchased several items of the Peter Eller estate in 1799. (Will Book 1, pp. 540-41, Wilkes Co., NC.) A James Bumgard (sic) (wife Hannah) was granted land on New River that bordered land of Peter Eller, 22 Aug 1795 and other land near by was granted to Michael Bumgarner (sic) 23 Jul 1794. A James Bunyard (sic) is shown in the 1810 census of Ashe Co. as being between 16-26 years of age with wife of same age and with a son and daughter both under 10. A James Beal Bunyard (sic) died in Ashe Co. in 1817. His will, dated 14 Aug 1817 mentioned wife Hannah and Children, (1) Samuel; (2) Nancy; (3) Betsey and also mentioned 'my boys' but named only Samuel." Elsewhere in the book, James Hook notes: "The fact that [Catherine Eller Stoker] did not have herself baptized for her mother as well as her father [who was baptized] at Nauvoo, Ill. in 1841 as shown below, indicates either that she was then living or, as is more likely, that she had embraced the Mormon faith and was baptized in her own lifetime. [KP: This statement now appears in error since it has been found that Catherine Eller Stoker was baptized for Elizabeth White, her mother in 1843, who appeared to have remarried to Luke White, whose baptism was done by Catherine's daughter Mary (Polly) Stoker in 1841.] Proof of many facts concerning Peter Eller and his family was gleaned from the microfilm records of the Index to Nauvoo (Illinois) Baptisms for the Dead of the [LDS Church] that are in the custody of the Gen. Soc. of the Church in Salt Lake City. They show the following [Kerry's note: baptisms are currently not done cross-gender; however, when first introduced in 1841 on the banks of the Mississippi River, there were indeed indiscriminate cross-gender proxies.]: A. That Catherine Stoker, wife of Michael Stoker and daughter of Peter Eller had herself baptized in 1841 for: a. Her deceased grandfather, Kinrod (Conrad) Dick. (Book A, p. 37) b. Her deceased grandmother, Catherine Dick (Book A, p. 37) c. Her deceased father, Peter Eller. (Book A, p. 41) d. Her deceased brother, John Eller. (Book A, p. 42) e. Her deceased daughter Rebecca Stoker. (Book C, p. 338) B. Eller Stoker, son of Catherine Stoker had himself baptized in 1841 for: a. His deceased uncle, George Eller. (Bk. A, p. 41) C. Michael Stoker, son of Catherine Stoker had himself baptized in 1841 for: a. His deceased aunt, Barbara Pertune. It is not clear whether this aunt was a sister of his mother or father. (Book A, p. 94)" 5. In Frederick Co., Maryland, there is birth record: "Phillip Kuntz had Jacob b. 14 Sept. 1754, with sponsors Andreas Berger and dau Christina, widow of Henrici Faurtne." A very wild guess, could Pertune be a variant on Faurtne and was there any Faurtne in proximity to Barbara Eller. | Pertune (I1699)
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| 1802 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. According to James Hook in his book below, Susannah in the 1850 census is with her son Peter Eller in Wilkes Co., NC. 2. FHL Book 929.273EL54h "George Michael Eller and Descendants of His in America," compiled by James W. Hook, 1957, also on FHL film 896571, item 2, pp. 17-31, clarifies early North Carolina counties and land grant practices: "Land grants in North Carolina originated with an entry application which was filed in the county where the land was situated and if not lost are now on file there. This was followed, sometimes soon and sometimes years later by an order from the land office for the tract to be surveyed. Sometimes soon and sometimes years later the survey was made and a surveyor's plat filed with the Secretary of State in Raleigh. Then came the grant which may have been issued reasonably near the date of the survey or sometimes several years later. These grants, orders to survey and the survey itself are on file now in the Secretary of State's office at Raleigh... Many counties were formed from what originally was Rowan County, namely Surry and Guilford in 1770, Burke and Wilkes in 1777, Randolph in 1779, Iridell in 1788, Stokes in 1789, Buncomb in 1791, Ashe in1799, Davidson in 1822, Yancey in 1833, Davie in 1836 and Yadkin in 1850. Some of these counties were grandchildren of Rowan County; for instance Wilkes was taken partly from Burke and partly from Surry, Randolph from Guilford, Buncomb and Yancy form Burke, Ashe from Wilkes and Stokes and Yadkin from Surry. These facts must be kept in mind when tracing early Rowan County families." 3. Censuses: 1800 US: Ashe County, North Carolina. The total population for Ashe County, North Carolina in 1800 was 2785, including slaves. The 1800 Ashe County Census was the first for the northwestern most county in the Tar Heel State. This county was formed in late 1799 and included all of Wilkes County west of the crest of the Blue Ridge Mountain. The 977 square miles that then composed Ashe County has been further divided, first in 1849 to form Watauga County, North Carolina and again 10 years later to form Alleghany County. This record includes families who may have been living in those areas at the time. The original census was in rough alphabetic order, and this does not facilitate the research of particular communities. I include all interrelated families of this time and place to better show relationships. A word of explanation on some of these families: A. Mary and Barbara Burkett who married Peter and David Graybeal, had a father named Christian - unsure as to which is correct of the two. B. Elizabeth Eller appears to be Elizabeth Dick, the wife of Peter Eller who had just died per his probate of 1799.The one daughter is probably Mary; unsure who the two boys are since there should be three: Jacob, Henry, and George. John Eller would be Elizabeth's eldest son and married to Susannah Kerns. C. Henry Graybeal would have recently married Celia Henson and also the eldest son of [John] Peter and Christina [Wampler] Graybill who also appear to be in this same census. Note that Peter evidently had owned slaves at that time - the census does not say how many. D. One of the William Hensons could be somehow related to William Henson who marries Nancy Graybill and to Celia Henson who marries Henry Graybeal. E. The two Koons are probably brothers and are sons of Devault Koon judging from their ages. This would make them uncles to George Koons who eventually marries Mary Eller. F. James Lewis, b. abt. 1790, marries Christena Graybill in 1807 - there may be a connection with these two James Lewis. G. William Pennington marries Barbara (or Elizabeth) Eller and may be the younger of the two here listed. H. Michael Stucker is a misspelling for Michael and Catherine Eller Stoker with their three oldest children: Polly, David, and Elizabeth. Head of Family; Males 0-9, 10-16, 16-26, 26-45, 45+; Females - 0-9, 10-16, 16-26, 26-45, 45+: Burkett, Christian; 1-2-0-1-0; 1-0-2-0-0 Burkett, Christian; 4-1-0-1-0; 1-0-1-0-0 Eller, Elizabeth; 1-0-1-0-0; 0-0-1-0-1 Eller, John; 3-0-0-1-0; 1-0-0-1-0 Graybeal, Henry; 0-0-1-0-0; 2-0-1-0-0 Graybeal, Peter; 2-1-1-0-1; 3-1-0-0-1 Henson, William; 0-1-1-0-0; 2-0-1-0-0 Henson, William; 3-0-0-0-1; 1-1-1-0-0 Koons, George; 0-0-1-0-1; 0-0-0-0-1 Koons, John; 0-0-1-0-1; 0-1-2-0-1 Lewis, James; 2-2-1-0-1; 4-1-0-0-1 Lewis, James, Jr.; 1-0-1-0-0; 1-0-1-0-0 Pennington, William; 0-1-0-1-0; 1-2-1-0-1 Pennington, William; 0-0-1-0-0; 0-0-1-0-0 Stucker, Michael; 1-0-0-1-0; 2-0-0-1-0 1810 US: Ashe County, North Carolina; I include several related families in my database for this time and place. Some notes: A. One of the two William Penningtons is married to an Eller - I assume it is the one with a younger wife. B. One of the two Christian Burketts is probably the parent of Barbara and Mary who married Graybeal brothers. C. James Lewis married Christina Graybill. D. The older Peter Graybill would be John Peter and Christina Wampler Graybill. The other Peter and Henry would be their sons. E. Adam Wilker could be Adam Welker, father of James Welker who later marries Elizabeth Stoker. F. Surprisingly there is no Michael Stoker who should be there unless in adjoining county. G. One of the two George Koons should be the George Koons of this database. H. Not sure why two J. Ellers unless the transcriber inadvertently named the "J." as both Jacob when in fact the older one is John. Peter Eller would be a brother. I. The older Peter Graybill would be John Peter Graybill, father of the other two Graybills: Henry and Peter [Jr.]. Head of Family; Males 0-9, 10-16, 16-26, 26-45, 45+; Females - 0-9, 10-16, 16-26, 26-45, 45+; Slaves: Pennington, W. (William); 1-0-1-0-0; 2-0-1-0-0 Bourket C. (Christian); 2-2-2-0-1; 5-1-1-1-0 Wilker, A. (Adam); 0-1-2-0-1; 0-1-0-0-1 Graybill, H. (Henry); 3-0-0-1-0; 2-0-1-0-0 Lewis, J. (James); 1-0-1-0-0; 1-0-1-0-0 Graybill, P. (Peter); 0-1-0-1-0; 0-1-0-0-1 Graybeal, P. (Peter); 1-0-1-0-0; 1-0-1-0-0 Graybill, H.; 2-0-1-0-0; 3-0-0-1-0 Koons, G. (George); 2-0-0-1-0; 2-0-0-1-0 Pennington, W. (Wm); 2-0-1-0-0; 2-0-0-0-1 Eller, P. (Peter); 3-0-0-1-0; 2-0-0-1-0 Eller, J. (Jacob); 2-3-1-0-0; 2-0-0-1-0 Burket, C. (Christian); 4-1-0-0-1; 0-1-0-0-1 Koontz, G. (George); 1-0-0-1-0; 2-0-1-0-1; 3 Eller, J. (Jacob [John?]); 2-0-0-1-0; 1-0-1-0-0 1810 US (Variant): Carolina, Rowan, North Carolina, p. 14 of 33: John Ellor Sen'r, males: 1-1-1-0-1, females: 2-2-0-0-1. 1820 US: Wilkes Co., NC, p. 29 of 57: John Eller, males: 1@10-16, 1@16-18; 2@16-26, 1@45+; females: 1 under 10, 1@10-16, 1@16-26, 1@45+. 1850 US: Wilkes Co., North Carolina, p. 242 of 261, 13 Oct 1850, 1896/1896, nearby are the families of George Eller (39), Harvey Eller (31), John Eller (52), Absalom Eller (48), and perhaps others: Peter Eller, 45, farmer, $1200, NC. Fanny, 36, NC. Martha, 18, NC. Franklin, 15, NC. Cleavland, 13, NC. Henry, 11, NC. Rufus, 7, NC. John, 5, NC. Susan Eller, 85, NC. 4. FHL book 929.273 D55h "History of Peter and Christina Shutt Dick Family; Frederick Co. Maryland; Wilkes Co. North Carolina; Muhlenberg Co. Kentucky; Sangamon Co. Illinois; Cass Co. Illinois," compiled by Muriel M. Hoffman; Anchor, Illinois; 1970; Chapter II "Ancestry of Peter Dick": "Elizabeth Dick, daughter of Conrad and Catherine Dick married Peter Eller, son of George Michael Eller, who moved to what is now Ashe County, N. Car. from Frederick County, Md. Their land adjoined that of her father and presumed brother, John. They had at least 8 children: 1. John Eller, b. abt 1767 d. 1823, m. 5 Nov. 1792 Susannah Kerns, who died 10 April 1853 age 87 years. 2. Catherine Eller b. Rowan Co. 6 Mar. 1773 d. aft 1850 m. 1791/2 to Michael Stoker b. Frederick Co. Md. 24 Mar. 1762, d. aft. 1836. 3. Peter Eller b. 1777/8 d. Wilkes Co. 1851; m. Mary Pennington, prob. dau of William whose estate he helped to administer on 2 July, 1812 with a William Jr. 4. Elizabeth Eller probably m. William Pennington 5. Jacob Eller b.1784/88 d. 3 Nov. 1855 (census b.1784) m. abt. 1805 to Katherine White b.1789 d. Jan. 3, 1854 6. Mary Eller b. 1784/88 d. 1872 age 84; m. George Koons (Koontz) b. 1785/6 d. 26 Mar. 1848 age 63 years. 7. Henry Eller b.1786/88 d. Ashe Co. abt 1876 m. 1814 Elizabeth Johnson. 8. George Eller b. aft 1790 d. before 1841." BIOGRAPHY: 1. FHL book 929.273 P684pn: "Graybill/Stoker/Eller/Smith/Koons/Pitt Connections," by Norman E. 'Gene' Pitt, 1996, pp. 119-123: "John Eller, b. abt 1767/9, probably in Frederick Co., MD; d. 1823, Wilkes Co., NC; bur. in the Robert Cleveland Burial Ground abt a mile beyond the New Hope Cemetery on the road to Parsonsville (there is no marker on his grave); md. abt 5 Nov 1792, Rowan Co., NC to Susanna(h) Kern(s). She was b. abt 1765/6, possibly in Guilford Co., NC; d. 10 Apr 1853; bur. in New Hope Cemetery, Parlears (northwest of North Wilkesboro), NC. Evidently, they moved from Ashe Co., NC to Wilkes Co., NC in 1816. They appeared to be large landowners. Their children were Simeon, David, John Jr., Rachel, Absolom, Peter, Delilah Gazia and Mary 'Polly'." 2. FHL Book 929.273EL54h ina in 1823. He married, license issued in Rowan Co., NC, 5 Nov 1792, Susannah Kerns (Kern), who was born in 1765/66 and died, according to her gravestone in New Hope Cemetery, N.W. of North Wilkesboro, NC, 10 apr 1853, aged 87. Since her first child was named Simeon, it can be inferred that her father was of the same name and perhaps the Simeon Kern of Rowan Co., NC, mentioned in Vol. 3, No. 3, Nat'l. Gen. Society, pp. 14-22, and he, in turn, could have been related to Simon Kern of Frederick Co., MD found first in the records of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of that county 31 Oct 1746 when, with others, he was called one of the 'Brethren which built the church in the mountains and in the new town, Frederick Town' and his loyalty to the church attested to. (Pp. 489, 490 of the church records at the Maryland Hist. Society in Baltimore, MD.) Simon Kern m. 5 Apr 1749 Christina Hoffin (Hoffner) and recorded in the church records the birth of a son Johan Jacob on 27 Nov 1754 and of a dau. Marie Barbara on 28 Feb 1758. (Evangelical Lutheran Church Record, pp. 368, 38, 52.) Simon Kern died in 1761. His administration Bond shows that the adminstration of his estate was given 25 Aug. 1761 to jacob and Christian Hoover and Michael Romod and joseph Nardman as their sureties. (Admin. Accounts, Vol. 38, 1760-62, Hall of Records, Annapolis, MD.) Simon Kern may have been the Joh. Simon Kern, aged 25, who came from Germany to Pennslvania on the ship 'St. Andrew' and took his oath of allegiance 7 Oct 1743. Later records of the German Reformed Church and the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Frederick County, MD, show other Kern (Karn) family records... [the book details extensively many other Kern records in Frederick Co.; however, he does not specifically link them to North Carolina or to Susannah Kerns.] Family tradition says that Susannah Kerns, wife of John Eller, was born in Guilford County, NC on a farm located near the Guilford Courthouse battlefield, north of Greensboro but this writer could find no support for this in the records. He did find the will of one John Karn (sic) of Rowan County dated 26 Apr 1794 in which the testator mentioned his sisters Susanna, Esther, Mary and Ann and brothers Daniel and Peter. (Rowan Co., NC Wills.) It could be that this John Karn and his brothers and sisters were children of Simeon Kern of Rowan Co., NC, and that the Susanna mentioned in the will was the one who married John Eller but there is no proof. There was one or more Kern (Kerns, Keehn) familes in Rowan County prior to 1800. Leonard Kern and Peter Keehn appear on the Rowan County, NC, list of taxables in 1759. ('The Rowan Story,' by James S. Brawley, p. 354.) A Rowan Co. deed dated 6 Feb 1762 shows Conrad Kern to be the attorney and heir of Conrad Michael. (Deed Book 7, p. 394.) Another deed in Rowan Co., dated 5 Feb 1777 shows Conrad Kern and John Kerns as being 'nephews of Conrad Michael, late of the German Empire.' (Deed Book 8, p. 550.) The first record of John Eller found by this writer was his marriage license, issued in Rowan County, NC, 5 Nov 1792. The fact that it was issued in Rowan Co. indicates that his fiance, Susanna Kerns, was then a resident of that county. According to her gravestone in the New Hope Baptist Church burial ground located about six miles north and west of North Wilkesboro, NC near Rendevous Mountain, she died 10 April 1853, aged 87 years. This would make her birth year 1765 or 1766. Her husband John Eller was buried in the Robert Cleveland burial ground about a mile beyond on the road to Parsonsville. There is no marker at his grave. After the death of his wife plans were laid by his family to place his remains beside hers in the New Hope cemetery but old residents in the vicinity delare that this was never done. John Eller doubtless lived with his father on Reedy Creek in Rowan County until the latter removed to his Rones Creek farm in what was then Wilkes but after 1799, Ashe Co. The surmise is that he was not living with his father when the 1790 census was taken and did not settle in or near his father's farm on Rones Creek until after his marriage. His first son Simeon was born in Wilkes Co. 7 Sep 1794 and on 27 Oct 1795 he witnessed the deed by which his father, Peter Eller, conveyed 200 acres of land on Rones Creek to Gabriel Barn. (Deed Book B-1, p. 466, Wilkes Co., NC) On 13 April 1795 he and Michael Stuckers (Stoker) helped to survey 70 acres of land on Rones Creek for Conrad Dick, his grandfather probably. On 27 Dec 1797 fifty acres of land on the east bank of the south fork of New River at Johnson's Corner and running south up the river 20 poles to said Eller's old corner etc. was granted to John Eller (Grant No. 1528, Secy. of State's office, Raleigh, NC). On 29 July 1799 Betsey and John Eller made application to the Court of Pleas of Wilkes County for Administration on the Estate of Peter Eller, deceased. They gave John Bowers and John Koons for security, these two being bound in the sum of 800 pounds and qualified as the law required. Betsey Eller, doubtless was the deceased's widow and mother of John Eller. Late in 1799 Ashe County was formed out of Wilkes County. The 1800 Federal Census of Ashe County, NC shows John Eller, aged between 26 and 45 with wife of same age and with one female and two male children all under 10. The 1810 census shows John Eller and wife each under 45 indicating that neither was born earlier than 1765 and with one male 16-26, three females 10-16, and two males under10. The 1820 Federal Census of Wilkes County show John Eller and wife both over 45 with two males, aged between 18-26, one femal aged between 16-26, one male 16-18, one male 10-16, one female 10-16 and one female under 10. If the above three censuses are correct then both John Eller and his wife Susannah were born between 1765 and 1774. The land records of Ashe County reveal the following purchases and sales of land by John Eller; probably not a complete list. 29 Jan 1802 John Eller purchased 200 acres on Obids Creek from Joel Gibson paying 185 pounds for same. (Deed Book A, p. 213) 9 Mar 1802, John Eller sold this same land to David Hank receiving 300 pounds for same. (Deed Book B., p. 447.) 7 Aug 1804, John Eller sold to Christian Burkard 290 acres of land in Ashe Conty on Ha's Creek, a branch of the south fork of New River, recieving 500 dollars for same. (Book B, p. 177.) 11 Nov 1806, John Eller purchased from Alexander Smith about 250 acres of land on the 'North side of a ridge that divides the Silarey Branch form the River Branch' paying 200 dollars for same. (Deed Book D, p. 519.) 17 Sep 1816 and 11 Feb 1817 John Eller joined other heirs of Peter Eller, deceased, in selling land that formerly belonged to the said Peter Eller. The home of John Eller in Ashe County, according to the writer's uncle, the late Reverend William H. Eller, was located on the east side of the south branch of New River where the bridge on the main road from North Wilkesboro to Jefferson now crosses. In his time there was no bridge but only a ford. The Eller domicile was about 100 yards east of the ford and for many years after the occupants vacated it, it was marked by an old stone chimney and the remains of an apple orchard that once belonged to the Eller farm. John Eller, seeking relief from rheumatism, removed to the lower altitude of Wilkes County in 1816 when, on March 11 of that year, he purchased from Thomas Fletcher three parcels of land on the north fork of Lewis Fork Creek beginning at Col. Cleveland's old corner and running to a dividing line between Robert Cleveland and John Cleveland, then along several courses of Benjamin Cleveland's old line etc., one of said tracts adjoining the line of Nathaniel Vannoy's land, the three tracts together containing 451 acres. (Deed Book K, p. 267, Wilkes Co., NC) Here he lived until his death in 1823. He was buried in the family cemetery of Robert Cleveland on the road from Parlears to Parsonsville. His five sons also settled near by and this writer in October 1954, was shown their farms all located north west of Parlears, NC on the winding road to Parsonsville. A precious momento of the John Eller household is the family bible in which is recorded the birth dates of all but the youngest child Mary of his family. It also records the birth of Simeon Bumgarner on 8 Jan 1808. It was printed in the German language at Halle, Germany in 1770. It may be the same Bible that George Michael Eller, John's grandfather, willed to his son Jacob because on page 17 is written the words 'Jacob Eller his Bible.' There is also written on page 15 of the Vorrede, or preface, the words 'The holey Bible of Peter Eller.' (See George Michael Eller's Will.) Of course these bits of writing, all in English, could have been placed there by later members of the family. The Bible is now owned by Mr. Wade Eller of Warrensville, Ashe County, NC, son of Jacob Eller (David, Jacob, Peter, George Michael). Regretfully it records nothing about John Eller or his wife. The Simeon Bumgardner whose birth on 8 Jan 1808 is recorded in the old Bible very probably was a son of a sister of John Eller who had married, probably, James Bumgarner. Proof of this however has nor been defintely established. The children of John Eller and his wife Susannah Kerns were: a. Simeon Eller, b. in what is now Ashe Co., NC, 8 Sep 1794; d. in Wilkes Co., NC, 19 Jun 1850. He m., license issued in Wilkes Co. 16 Apr 1817 Fanny McNiel, b. 12 Jan 1799; d. 4 Oct 1856. She was a dau. of James McNiel, ([grandfather] Rev George). Both lie buried in the New Hope Baptist Church yard on the road from Parlears to Parsonville in Wilkes Co. [The book has extensive biographies on the descendants of this couple.] b. David Eller, b. 11 Apr 1796; d. 18 Mar 1870. He was twice married firstly, 18 Oct 1819, to Tabitha Judd, b. 27 Jun 1803; d. 27 Mar 1847; and secondly, 27 Feb 1848, to Mrs. Mary A. Lyons, b. 19 Dec 1822 whose children by her first husband were Alhora (Elvira) and David. He removed first, in 1828, to Wayne County, Indiana and from there, about 1838, or 1839, to Jefferson Co., Iowa where he lived as a farmer until his death. [The book has extensive biographies on the descendants of this couple.] c. John Eller Jr., b. 17 Mar 1798; m., license issued in Wilkes Co., NC, 20 Apr 1820, Elizabeth Ray Vannoy, b. 29 Oct 1804; d. 24 Aug 1868. She was a dau. of Jesse Vannoy and his wife Mrs. Mary Shepherd, born Mary Kilby, dau. of William Kilby and his wife Mary Ann Todds. Family lived on Lewis Fork Creek in Wilkes Co., NC. [The book has extensive biographies on the descendants of this couple.] d. Rachel Eller, b. 12 Apr 1800; d. 26 Dec 1850, (Bible record, gravestone says b. 20 Jan 1801) m. 22 Aug 1820, license dated 19 Aug 1820, in Wilkes Co., John McNiel, b. 30 Jan 1796; d. 21 Jan 1877. [The book has extensive biographies on the descendants of this couple and also of the McNiel family.] e. Absalom Eller, b. 17 Feb 1803, d. 7 Feb 1879; m. 1 Mar 1824, license dated 28 Feb 1824 in Wilkes Co., Sally Reynolds, b. 16 Feb 1805; d. 6 Mar 1875. The farm of Absolom and Sally Eller was located on Parlears Creek, Wilkes Co. NC. [The book has extensive biographies on the descendants of this couple.] f. Peter Eller, b. 17 Mar 1805; d. 7 Nov 1872; m. 1st Fanny Yates. She was a dau. of John Yates and his wife Elizabeth Cleveland, the latter b. 15 Jul 1783, dau. of Robert Cleveland. He m. 2nd, 16 Nov 1863, Louisa Church, b. 1835/6. Peter Eller was a prominent man in early Wilkes County. He served two terms in the NC Legislature and was a member of the NC Constitutional Assembly. He and his brother Simeon established the old Academy in Wilkesboro, one fo the first schools of higher education in Western North Carolina. He was chosen Colonel of the Wilkes Co. Militia and served in that capacity for many years. His brother Simeon was chosen Captain at the same time. He was a member and chairman of the first board of superintendents of free public schools in Wilkes county. He was a brilliant student and interested in all public affairs particularly those pertaining to public schools. Susan (Susanna) Eller, aged 85, his mother doubless, was living with him in 1850, acording to the Federal Census of that year. [The book has extensive biographies on the descendants of this couple.] g. Delilah Gazia Eller, b. 15 Feb 1808; m. 30 Oct 1829, Richard Saunders. [Children follow in the book.] h. Mary (called Polly) Eller, b. 1810; m. Alexander Church, a Baptist Minister. [The book has biographies on the descendants of this couple.]" 3. Ancestry.com's "The Kern Family of Rowan County, NC, Nicholas, KY, Indiana, Iowa," pp. 11-12: "We do not know when John (written Johann on one deed) came to this country. Though ship lists show numerous John Kerns arriving, we cannot peg one as this John. It is assumed John came later than Conrad since his name did not appear in Conrad Michel's will, Sept. 18, 1764, when he turned his affairs over to Conrad Kern. John may have been younger than Conrad, also, since he did not die until 1823. His will shows a wife, Catharine, and these Children: Peter, Daniel, Esther, Mary, Susanna (Book H). A son, John, Jr., died in 1794. The daughter, Susanna Kern, married a John Eller and her tombstone in the New Hope Baptist Cemetery, Parlears, N.C., shows she was born 1765-1766. Records show John as being in Rowan as early as 1767 and as being on jury duty in 1772. We have found no record of his naturalization." MARRIAGE: 1. Ancestry.com's "North Carolina Marriage Collection, 1741-2004" for Rowan Co. shows John Eller and Suzana Kerns, md. 5 Nov 1792, per reel 20, p. 2949. 2. Ancestry.com's "The Kern Family of Rowan County, NC, Nicholas, KY, Indiana, Iowa," p. 13: "Records show a Gabriel Kern as bondsman at the marriage of Susanna Kern (daughter of John Kern) to John Eller, Nov. 5, 1792." BURIAL: 1. From online "Eller Chronicles," website http://freepages.family.rootsweb.com/~adelr/may92/may92p2.htm: "WILKES County CEMETERY Records, Compiled by George F. McNeil and Joyce McNeil, Route 3, Box 27, Wilkesboro, NC 28697. For the past three years, and I have indulged our strange hobby of locating old cemeteries in Wilkes County (NC) and recording information inscribed on the tombstones. So far, we have found 576 cemeteries in Wilkes County, and have data from more than 36,000 tombstones in our automated database. This includes the cemeteries at all the churches in the county, and many family cemeteries, some of which have been abandoned for many years. We have not recorded information from tombstones in Mountlawn Memorial Park, the large commercial cemetery in North Wilkesboro. It was started in the 1930's, so no real old information would be there. Many Eller entries but only these two are in my database: Cleveland-Yates Family Cemetery in Stanton Township: John Eller, b. ca 1765/66, d.1823; Parents: Peter Eller and Elizabeth Dick; wife: Susannah Kern md. 5 Nov 1792 (Sources: public records and word of mouth.) New Hope Baptist Church, Stanton Township: Susannah Eller, row 22, lot 9.0, tombstone: d. 10 Apr 1853 age 87 years, husband: John Eller. 2. Per James Hook as quoted above: "The first record of John Eller found by this writer was his marriage license, issued in Rowan County, NC, 5 Nov 1792. The fact that it was issued in Rowan Co. indicates that his fiance, Susanna Kerns, was then a resident of that county. According to her gravestone in the New Hope Baptist Church burial ground located about six miles north and west of North Wilkesboro, NC near Rendevous Mountain, she died 10 April 1853, aged 87 years. This would make her birth year 1765 or 1766. Her husband John Eller was buried in the Robert Cleveland burial ground about a mile beyond on the road to Parsonsville. There is no marker at his grave. After the death of his wife plans were laid by his family to place his remains beside hers in the New Hope cemetery but old residents in the vicinity delare that this was never done." | Kerns, Susanna (I3617)
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| 1803 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. According to LDS archival family group sheet as part of FHL film 2056025 pt. 5, Daniel Addison Mangum collection, Moses and Eliza Jane Adair may have had one daughter, Margaret Jane Pearson, b. 1839 in AL, m. David Lewis. She is supposedly age 11 in 1850 census (probably the Margaret Price, age 11, shown with John and Eliza Price in Pottawattamie Co., Iowa - see Eliza's notes). 2. Excerpt of letter copy received from Email from Rowland Hinton [hinton12@isp.com] 1 Jan 2006: "30 Jan 1972, Dear Mr. Price... "...For years now I have puzzled at where grandmother, Rebecca Ann Price Chidester was born. Her index card in the archives says Pickens Co., Miss. There is no Pickens Co., Miss. There is in Alabama but the census said she was born in Miss. Mother told me once that she said she was born on "Uncle Billie Mathesons's place". She didn't have an Uncle Billie Matheson. I think mother must have heard wrong or remembered wrong. Grandmother had two Uncle Billie's - Uncle Billie Richey and Uncle William Mangum. I think she was born at Uncle Billie Mangums. I think the Prices were fairly close to the William Mangum family as the 1850 census find them #1165 & #1166 with John Mangum #1190 at Pottawatamie Co., Iowa and the rest of these I could find in Iowa numbered in the 200s and others of them in Utah already. After arriving in Utah, they continued together in their move to Washington, Washington, Utah in 1857. In 1845 when Rebecca Ann Price was born, William Mangum was at Itawamba, Miss. And that is where I believe she was born. I don't know if she met John Price (Eliza Jane Adair, that is) after she went to Miss. or before she left Ala. Margaret Jane Pearson was born about the time they left Alabama. Some censuses say she was born in Alabama and some in Mississippi. The 1870 and 1880 census says Mississippi. I have Margaret Jane Pearson's death certificate. It was reported by her daughter & only surviving member of her family, Eliza Ann Meeks. She stated her mother was born in Tennessee??? I also have the death certificate for Eliza Ann Meeks & for her brother George. George Chidester committed suicide in California in 1932 with a bullet to the brain with a 38-caliber pistol & is buried in a county burial ground at Sacramento. Thomas Moses (oldest son of Margaret Jane Pearson) married a Mazell Jenson & he died on the 3 Oct 1910 at Stockton, Calif. They had a daughter who died young. Incidently, as near as I can find out, Margaret Jane Pearson was married three times. She was sealed to David Lewis on 18 Jan 1855. This man had three wives previously to this marriage, one being Elizabeth Carson whom he was sealed to on 4 Aug 1852. He died later in 1855 & as far as I know she did not have his children. At least none survived to show up in a census. She married her second husband, again with her half sister only at a later date, about 1860 she married Tarlton Lewis, brother to David. Both sisters later divorced him, but Margaret Jane Pearson had two sons by him which show up in the 1870 & 1880 census lumped under Chidester names. She of course married third as a second wife to my grandfather David Chidester who was the husband of another half sister Rebecca Ann Price." 3. Censuses: I can not find any census with our Moses Pearson in it. By 1850, Eliza, Moses' wife, was married to John Price, who we can find in the 1850 census in Iowa. What happened to Moses is unknown. There was a report that he was living in 1850 possibly with his mother in Pottawattamie Co., IA; however, I find no US or Iowa state census showing him whatsoever. | Pearson, Moses (I1383)
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| 1804 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. According to researcher Rea Jenkins, Jan 2011, "No obituary found at the Yolo County Archives, Woodland, CA." BURIAL: 1. Per tombstone list on file prepared by Brett T. Dunham, Manager of the Winters Cemetery District, 415 Cemetery Drive, P.O. Box 402, Winters, CA, 95694, phone 530-795-2475, email wcd415@sbcglobal.net. The following are buried in: Sect. 6, Lot 118, Cooper Plot, all surnamed Cooper: -Anna M., Dec 9, 1820-Dec 16, 1891, wife of H. Cooper. -Baby ?. Broken marker looks like -July 4, 1858? age 2 y 20 da. -Charles C., 1860-June 11, 1943. -Egbert H., -Jan 26, 1875, age 17-10-16, son of H. and A.M. -Eula D., Jan 26, 1875-Feb 7, 1959. -George Day, Oct 11, 1862-Nov 12 1958. -Henry, Mar 4, 1816-Dec 7, 1901. -Ida May, Oct 28, 1888 age 22-1-27, wife G.D. Cooper. -Mary, 1863-Aug 23 1938. -Wealthya, Mar 23, 1865 age 71y. ACTION: 1. See if can determine gender. | Cooper (I3948)
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| 1805 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. According to the book "Wampler Family History 1500s - 1700s," by Fred B. Wampler, Ph.D., p. 63, no records have been located to identify the name of Christian's wife. DEATH: 1. Not mentioned with the following probate excerpt in the book, "Wampler Family History 1500s - 1700s," by Fred B. Wampler, Ph.D., p. 61 has the following record extract from the Staatsarchiv in Bern, Switzerland from "Wimmis Amtsrechnung, March 1716 - March 1717" giving the 4 heirs (children) of Christian Wampfler who had reached the age of majority (14) and who were receiving part of their deceased father's assets that had not previously been converted to capital and moved out of Switzerland: "The 5th of February 1716 District Treasurer Mani paid in the name of Hans Peter Wampfler, surviving son of a citizen and district subject, living in Sparbach, and for his brother Christian, married and living at Herzheim in the Nassauw Saarbrüggishen territory; additionally, for a single brother Hans, plus their sister Madlen living in Castel, married to Samuel Methauwer in the above county. Together 12 Kronen." According to the book, the following spelling corrections need to be made from that record: Sparbach = Sparsbach. Hertzheim = Herbitzheim. Castel = Keskastel. Madlen is equivalent to Magdalena. Mathauwer = Mettauer. Hans, Johannes, and Johann were often used interchangeably. | Wampfler, Mrs. Christian (I3662)
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| 1806 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. Added due to the Danish system of patronymics. | Jens (I2785)
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| 1807 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. Addition of this person per Family Tree accessed 30 Apr 2013. | Andersdatter, Karen (I57)
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| 1808 | At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld. | Living (I969)
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| 1809 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. Address as of 2009: Brent Dunbar 411 Braidhill Drive, Draper, UT, 84020 DEATH: 1. Died of cancer at home. OBITUARY: 1. From the Salt Lake Tribune, 8 Mar 2009: "Brent Robb Dunbar, 1954-2009. Brent Robb Dunbar passed away peacefully March 4, 2009 at his home surrounded by his loving family. Brent was born October 24, 1954 in Boise, ID to Joseph Robb (Bob) and Shirley Petersen Dunbar. Brent enjoyed being with his family particularly the time he spent with his grandchildren. He loved the family get-togethers at the Ogden Golf and Country Club where he enjoyed playing golf with family and friends. He is survived by his two daughters: Brett (Cody) Christensen, Brooke Gilmore; their mother Jill McCaslin; four grandchildren: Kaden, Brayden, Makenna, Ariya; his father Bob, his mother Shirley, his siblings Scott (Marlene) Dunbar and Diane (Mike) Clark. The family would like to thank all the staff on E8, the Bone Marrow Transplant Unit, at LDS Hospital and Intermountain Hospice who assisted with his care. Specifically we would like to thank Dr. Finn Petersen, Dr. Julie Ash, and Dr. Clyde Ford for their love, care, and support. Thanks also go to Miike Lister of Tri-State Wire Rope for his support during this difficult time. The family will welcome friends at the Ogden Golf and Country Club, 4197 Washington Blvd, on Sunday, March 8,, 2009 from 2-4pm. Onlne condolences at www.larkincares.com. In lieu of flowers the family suggests donations be made to The Bone Marrow Transplant Unit in memory of Brent Dunbar through the Deseret Fooundation, 8th Avenue C Street,Salt Lake City, UT. 84143." | Dunbar, Brent Robb (I65)
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| 1810 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. Age at time of death of 78 years and age at time of marriage would make birthdate abt. 1690 which is not what I have. Problem? BIOGRAPHY: 1. There is no estate since Revs district starts in 1794, and for the manor of Tandrup, after 1728. Occupation: Farmer MARRIAGE: 1. FHL film # 053026; Bedsted Parish Records, 1707-1765, book 1, p 81. 2. Viborg, Denmark Regional Archives; Bedsted Parish Records; microfiche C119.1 plate 3 page ?; witnesses are Peder Pedersen of Broogaard and Christen Pedersen west for the church of Bedsted, notes both spouses ages as 42 with birthdates of about 1690. BURIAL: 1. FHL film # 053026; Bedsted Parish Records, 1766-1814, book 2, p 5. 2. Viborg, Denmark Regional Archives; Bedsted Parish Records; microfiche C119.2 plate 1 page 5. 3. Per Joyce Cupit: "Bedsted kirkebog 1768, 10 Nov. begravet Enevold Pedersen, gl:78 aar." SOURCES_MISC: 1. Parish Register: Firste Going 1707, Film 8093; Copenhagen, Denmark as cited in family group sheet from Archive Record submitted by Fermen J. Westergard 2059 Van Buren Ave. Ogden, Utah 84401. 2. Per gedcom dated 6 Jan 1999 of Wayne Westergard, 785 W 1300 South, Woods Cross, Utah 84087, phone 801-295-2906. 3. Per records of Fred H. Westergard, 1940 Laird Dr., Salt Lake City, Utah 84108-1823, phone 801-583-4405. 4. Microfilm 1394419 submission AF83-108764. 5. Joyce Cupit's website | Pedersen, Enevold (I1632)
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| 1811 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. Alfred legally adopted the name Alfred J. Hermont by 1948 when he was working for the Shell Co. He had "life membership" conferred on him in 1979 with the Society of Exploration Geophysicists. 2. Len Yodaiken notes children of Alfred and Phyllis as Eric and Jennie Hermont per his "The Herzenbergs of Piltene and Liepeja Latvia," 1 Jan 2001, copy in my possession. I find no evidence of an Eric and I wonder if this is an error for Mark Alfred Hermont, whom I can prove. 3. Censuses: 1940 US Paul R. Sprohge, head, 38, Latvia Hedwig Sprohge, wife, 37, Germany Erik Sprohge, son, 8, Latvia Mary Herzenberg, mother-in-law, 59, Latvia Alfred Herzenberg, brother-in-law, 35, Germany Phyllis Herzenberg, sister-in-law, 27, Massachusetts BIOGRAPHY: 1. 28 Jul 2007 Http://www.herzenberg.net/leo/htmlrh/Content.html copyrighted by Leo Herzenberg: "An meinen Sohn (To my son) Leonhard Herzenberg von (from) Robert Herzenberg. Memoirs written during the 1940's." Translated during the 1990's by Leonardo (Leonhard) Herzenberg. The entire memoir is quite lengthy and included in its entirety in my notes with Joseph Herzenberg, the original known ancestor, in this database. The following is only the portion dealing with this part of the family: "...JulIUS HERZENERG, the second son, studied at the Polytechnic in Riga and graduated as a chemical engineer shortly after Uncle Abraham's death. In the following summer he married the daughter of his cousin Louis, Mery Herzenberg from Riga. It was a love marriage. The wedding took place in Karlbad, on the Riga shore, where all Riga's and some of Mitau's families moved every summer, and most of them had established summer residences. That same night the house burned down, and only the naked lives were rescued. The parents bought him a gas light mantle factory in Berlin.[47] There their daughter Hedwig was born. When I was in Berlin in the October 1902, she lay in the cradle. The mantle undertaking soon went bankrupt. Julius never again worked as a chemical engineer. He left Berlin and Germany for ever. For a time he was in Irkutsk (in Russia, near lake Baikal) with representation, then back to Russia. There a son, Alfred (Fredy) was born. I did not hear much from them for a long time, after the revolution they were able to return to Latvia. Fredy went to the United States to study. Hedy married the Latvian architect Sproghe. Julius Herzenberg died soon after in Riga. Fredy came to Schenectady as an engineer at General Electric, then, in 1936 as an exploration engineer for Shell Oil in Houston, Texas, where he still works today (1940). In 1937 he brought his brother in law over, in 1938 Hedwig and Mery also came to Houston. Hedwig has a son Erik. So, the great-grandchild of Uncle Abraham, [48] Eric Sproghe, is the first half Latvian in out family. Fredy Married in Houston, but I do not know his wife's name." 2. Ancestry.com's "New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1957": A. Arriving on the ship "Hamburg" 1 Nov 1930: Alfred Herzenberg, 26 years old, male, single, engineer, can read, english speaking, can write, nationality undetermined, Russian race, b. Berlin, Germany, reentry and immigration visa 641379/645201 issued at Washington DC on 14 Aug 1930, last permanent address was Schenectady, NY. B. Arriving on the ship "Normandie" 21 Oct 1935: Alfred Herzenberg, 31 years old, male, single, naturalized at the District Court of Boston, Mass. 1935 - Pass. 235704, last domicile: General Electric Co. in Pittsfield, Mass. DEATH: 1. Ancestry.com's "Texas Death Index": Alfred Julius Hermont, d. 19 Jul 2000 in Harris Co. 2. Social Security Death Index: Alfred J. Hermont, b. 14 May 1904, d. 19 Jul 2000 in Houston, Harris, Texas. ~ORDINANCES: Verified 4 Aug 2007. BAPTISM: Submission 4-4527-8833-6552-145. ENDOWMENT: Submission 4-4584-7492-1412-420. SEALING TO PARENTS: Submission 4-4584-7492-1412-420. SEALING TO SPOUSE: SOURCES_MISC: 1. Leonardo Herzenberg http://www.herzenberg.net/ 2. Website of Peter Bruce Herzenberg of London, England (since relocated to South Africa). Website is no longer functioning as of 7 Aug 2007. Copies of much of his data from the website in my possession. | Herzenberg or Hermont, Alfred Julius (I4122)
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| 1812 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. All brothers and sisters of Enevold born in Visby. Father's family moved from Visby on 31 Mar 1852 (Visby parish record, book 3, p 184) to Gettrup on 2 Apr 1852 (Gettrup parish record, book 9, p 20). Enevold moved from Gettrup on 11 Mar 1868 (Gettrup Parish Record, book 9, p 83) to Vestervig on 12 Mar 1868 (Vestervig Parish Record, book 11, p. 50). He was a farmer at Ulsted near Vestervig. 2. Census for 1880 for Ulsted, Vestervig Parish notes: a house; Enevold Christensen, man, 41 years old, Luth., born in Visby parish, housefather and worker; Maren Kathrine, 35 years old, Lutheran, born in Helligsø, his wife; Mikkel Kristian Kristensen, 7 years old, born in Vestervig parish, his son. 3. Census for 1890 for Taabel, Vestervig parish, notes: A house; Enevold Christensen, man, 48 years old, Luth., born in Gettrup, carrier, haulage contractor; Maren Kathrine Mikkelsen, woman, 46 years old, Luth., born in Helligsø, his wife; Mikkel Christian Christensen, son, 18 years old, Luth., born in Vestervig parish. BIRTH: 1. FHL film # 053243; Visby Parish Record, 1814 - 1872, book 3, p. 23. 2. Viborg, Denmark Regional Archives; Visby parish records; microfiche C118.3 plate 1 page 23. CHRISTENING: 1. FHL film # 053243; Visby Parish Record, 1814 - 1872, book 3, p 23. Also at Viborg Regional Archives of Denmark; microfiche C118.3 plate 1, p.23. Sponsor: the stepchild of the copyholder Svend Vestergaard (Svend Jensen Kjaer): Maren Enevoldsen (his aunt)from Bedsted; Maid Bodil Christendatter of Kjestrup; Smallholder Johannes Jensen (his uncle)of Visby; Smith Jens Jensen (his uncle)of Heltborg; Smallholder Christen Jensen Moller (husband to Ane Catrine Enevoldsdatter-his aunt)of Grurup. MARRIAGE: 1. Helligsø Parish Records; Notes Poul Pedersen as one of the witnesses. 2. Second marriage per 11 Aug 2003 email from Fred Westergard SOURCES_MISC: 1. Archive Record Family Group Sheet submitted by Fermen J. Westergard, 2059 Van Buren Ave., Ogden Utah 84403. He references: "Film 9025 9024 Census paper 1840, 1845, 1850, 1855, and Fam. Rec." 2. Per gedcom dated 6 Jan 1999 of Wayne Westergard, 785 W 1300 South, Woods Cross, Utah 84087, phone 801-295-2906. | Christensen, Enevold (I1984)
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| 1813 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. All vital except christening and marriage per information from Ancestral File (AFN: 2QRX-KQ). Parents are William Bardsley and Nancy Spittle. Ordinance Index also shows same father but both a Nancy and a Mary Spittle. 2. Reviewed Rootsweb.com Worldconnect 29 Nov 2002. Database ":ag500" notes the "Mississippi Rev. Soldiers," p. 202, printed by DAR, notes Ellen Bardsley as a second wife to John Mangum. 3. Sometimes Ellen's last name incorrectly appears as Bargely or Beardsley. 4. Censuses: 1851 Iowa State: Pottawattamie County. FHL film 1022203. The entire state was counted but only Pottawattamie listed everyone by name in the household and their ages; other counties only listed the head of the household and a numerical count without names of the various ages by sex in the household. No date is given when the census was taken but it was certified in Dec. 1851; however, the other counties show a Sep 1851 date which also appears more likely for Pottawattamie as well in light of ages given some children with known birthdays in October. Census return: Mangum: John 24, Mary A. 27, Frances 7, Martha 5, Joseph E. 0. Also in household is Elen Bardsley 23. [Note next door neighbors are the Thomas/Mary Adair and William/Sarah Mangum families. Note also that John Mangum marries Ellen polygamously in 1853 in Utah. The Samuel Adair {with Samuel's daughter John/Permelia Holden family next door to him} is also listed but half the census away in a different part of the county. No other Adairs, Mangums, nor any Richeys listed in census.] 1860 Census for Washington, Washington, Utah, enumerated 27 Jul 1860, page 1035 indicates house #1288 and family #1112 (Samuel Adair, Thomas Adair, Wesley Adair, James Richey, Geo. W. Adair, James Mangum, John Mangum, Valentine Carson, John Price, William Mangum are all listed as neighbors): Jn'o Mangum, 43, Herdsman, $150 real estate, $275 personal property, AL. Mary A., 36, AL. Ellen, 40, Eng. Joseph, 9, IA. John, 8, Iowa. George, 6, UT. Lucinda, 6, UT. Cyrus, 4, UT. Harny, 4, UT. Mary A., 2, UT. Caroline, 5/12, UT. BIOGRAPHY: 1. "Mangum Newsletter - The George Albert Mangum Family," Issue 10, Aug. 2005, ed. Joann Hoagland-Oldham 2. "Patriarchal Blessing given by John Abuston March 27th 1847 at Newtons Moor, Cheshire England upon the head of Sister Ellen Bardsley, who was born at Royton Lancashire England on the 19th of December 1819. (Age at P. Blessing 35 yrs, 3 months 8 days) My beloved sister, I lay my hands upon they head in the name of Jesus Christ and by the authority of the Holy Priesthood I pronounce upon thy head the blessing of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. In as much as thou hast joined thyself unto the Church of the Lord: and honored the Father in the Son thou art a new creature by baptism and by the righteous law of adoption a joint heiress with thy blessed Redeemer in the blessing of His and His Father's Kingdom. All covenant and gospel blessings are thine through Jesus Christ, who is become thy elder Brother. Be faithful and walk before the Lord in truth, and its beauties shall delight thy soul. A royal diadem (like crown) of glory shall be thine in the day of the Lord. Thou art renewing they covenant to be more faithful unto God. Thou hast chosen the good part with Mary which shall never be taken from thee. Thy prayer shall be heard and answered; and the desires of thy heart be granted unto thee in righteousness. Thou shalt witness signs and wonders in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and have a ministry of angels attend thee. Thou shalt have a blessed inheritance in the land of Zion, abounding with corse and wine, and oil, and flock, and herds be added unto thee. Sit under they own vine, and fig trees none daring to make thee afraid; - be a true worshipper in the temple of the Lord, And behold His glory; join the Millennial Church with thy blessed Redeemer. Thou art of the faithful seed of Abraham. I seal these blessings upon thy head in the name of Jesus Christ even so. Amen and Amen. Registered by George Shipley April 11th 1847." BIRTH: 1. Royton is a township within the parish of Oldham just north of the town of Oldham. 2. FHL film 392669 "LDS Patriarchal Blessings Index", two blessings: A. Ellen Bardsley Mangum, b. 19 Dec 1819 at Royton, Lancashire, England, parents William and Nancy Bardsley. Blessing date 25 Dec 1855 at Nephi, Utah. Lineage: Joseph. Patriarch William Cazier. Vol. 137, p. 111. B. Ellen Bardsley Mangum, b. 19 Dec 1819 at Brighton, Lancashire, England, parents William and Nancy Bardsley. Blessing date 19 Mar 1854 at Nephi City, Utah. Lineage: Joseph. Patriarch Isaac Morley. Vol. 15, p. 97. CHRISTENING: 1. Online Ordinance Index FHL film 215608, printout 0820930; Extracted christening record for Royton, Lancashire, England per batch P014831, dates: 1755-1837. Ancestral File cited above shows christening in 1826; I use of course the extracted record date. MARRIAGE: 1. The book "Pioneer Women of Faith and Fortitude" by Daughters of Utah Pioneers mentions Mary Ann Adair Mangum and gives a biography for her. See her notes for a full citation. Mary Ann and John were among the first settlers in Payson, Nephi, Washington County, and Kanab, Utah. They later were sent to Alpine, Arizona to settle. While in St. George they helped with the growing of cotton. John took a second wife, Ellen Bardsley, while in Payson, and Mary Hamblin, the adopted Indian daughter of Jacob Hamblin, became his third wife. DEATH: 1. No Utah Burial Index online entry as of 13 Apr 2003. BURIAL: 1. Email from Harold Cahoon, Washington City researcher, 6 Jul 2003: Burials listed in the Washington City Cemetery (this can be found on site and includes all of the cemeteries in Washington County) www.lofthouse.com/USA/washington/cemetery/wash1.html My note "nothing" means they were not listed on the lofthouse list nor the list that the Wash. Cemetery has. "No head stone" means they were listed on the lofthouse list and are listed in the City's record as not having a head stone. I do not know if the city has any better records in their office. Ann Chestnut Adair, no head stone. Mary Ann Adair Carson, nothing. Olive Parintha Adair, no head stone. Rufus Columbus Burlison Adair, no head stone. Samuel P. Adair, nothing. Ellen Bardsley Mangum, nothing. Eliza Jane Clark Mangum, no headstone, b. 11 Aug 1827, d. 21 Feb 1859, spouse James Michel Mangum, fa. Samuel Clark, mo. Adair. Eliza Jane Adair Price buried in row 36; I would assume there is a marker for this grave. 2. In an effort to locate and place tombstones in Washington, Utah, I sent the following 6 Jul 2003 email to Barry Blake, city cemetery official wcparks@ci.washingtoncity.state.ut.us [phone is 435-634-9850 ext. 321]: "My friend and fellow researcher Harold Cahoon gave me your name as the contact for the Washington Cemetery. He spoke to you about locating an early pioneer gravesite for Ann Chestnut Adair, wife to George Washington Adair, and daughter-in-law to Samuel Jefferson Adair whose new statue was just dedicated as the founder of Washington. At age 9, her parents had been murdered somewhere on the Mormon Trail to Utah and she and two younger siblings were tied to a cow and left to wander helplessly. Samuel found her and adopted her. She eventually marries Samuel's son George. Harold indicates that you do indeed have a record that she is buried in your older cemetery but that the location has been forgotten over the years. Several people would like to contribute to a memorial stone for her. Ann died at age 19 on 27 Mar 1863. Are there any experts with expertise in regards to those early plots that could pinpoint it more accurately. I have found death records of Ann's closest relations who died around the same time and are supposedly buried in the same cemetery which may help to pinpoint her or at least get as close as we can with what available plot maps you have. They are: Mary Ann Adair Carson, d. 27 Apr 1861, bur. 29 Apr 1861. (Wife of the Valentine Carson who adopts Ann's baby upon her death and cousin to Ann's husband George.) Olive Parintha Adair, d. at birth 28 Nov 1864, oldest child of George and his second wife Emily Tyler who he married after Ann's death. Rufus Columbus Burlison Adair, bur. Aug 1858, George's younger unmarried brother. Samuel P. Adair, d. 30 Jan 1871, another young child of George and Emily Tyler Adair. Ellen Bardsley Mangum, d. 22 Jan 1864, wife of John Mangum who was a cousin of Samuel J. Adair. Eliza Jane Clark Mangum, d. 21 Feb 1859, wife of James Mitchel Mangum who was brother to John Mangum and also a cousin to Samuel J. Adair. Eliza Jane Adair Price, d. 16 Aug 1892, bur. 18 Aug 1892, mother of Valentine Carson noted above, sister of Samuel J. Adair, later wife of John Buren Price. As you research the plots for the above and their proximity to each other and potentially Ann's, could you advise me as to which one are definitely platted with stones, platted without stones, or just plain unplatted. What arrangements are needed by us with your department?" (15 April 2005 follow-up note by Kerry Petersen: I have received no reply to the above. I have now personally visited the city cemetery and the city records office; they cannot verify her gravesite. The city clerk mentioned that they do not excavate graves in the old part of the cemetery because they know there are so many unmarked gravesites. Of the people listed above, I could only find a stone for John and Eliza Jane Adair Price. No further action possible.) ACTION: 1. Alternate death date and location may be 22 Jan 1879 at Nephi, Juab, UT. Verify. | Bardsley, Ellen (I3435)
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| 1814 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. Also known as Anas in some records. 2. Censuses: 1840 US: Hancock Co., Illinois, pg. 1, all occurring together in sequence: John Reed [possible relation of Sophronia Reed?], males 2@5-10, 1@15-20, 1@50-60; females 2@10-15, 1@50-60. Israel Barlow, males 1@10-15, 1@40-50; females 1@20-30. Truman Barlow, males 1@20-30. Edwd. Thomson, males 1@70-80; females 1 @50-60 Joh'than W. Barlow [separate from above names by one family named Albert Rockwood], males 1@30-40. 1850 US: Middle Ward Rock Island City, Dist. 37, Rock Island County, Illinois, 26 Oct 1850: Household 1165: Jonathan W. Barlow, 46, laborer, Mass. Lucinda Barlow, 27, OH. Alvina, 8, Iowa. Hiram, 6, Illinois. Nathan, 4, Illinois. Ellen, 6/12, Illinois. Household 1166: Truman Barlow, 30, laborer, Mass. Annis Barlow, 76, Mass. George Stone, 46, laborer, NY. George Stone, 15, laborer, Ohio. Cecilia Stone, 6, Mich. 1851 Iowa: Checked for Anis Gillette/Lockwood/Barlows without success. 3. Ora Barlow, "The Israel Barlow Story and Mormon Mores": P. 180, references a census taken of the Nauvoo, Illinois wards which show the following in the 3rd ward: Israel and Elizabeth Barlow [Next door:] Edward and Anis Thompson, Truman R. Barlow Pp. 304-306 quotes from a letter written 12 Sep 1853 by Israel while in Rock Island, IL at the home of his sister-in-law, Mrs. Lucinda Beebe Barlow, the widow of Israel's brother Jonathan Watson Barlos who had moved to that city in the 1840's and had died there 20 Jul 1851. Israel was traveling through on his way to his mission to England. Spelling uncorrected: "...befoure I left Kainesvill for good I found where Truman and Mother wure Settled, I traveled Some thirty milds East on to the Nishnebonana River then up the River Some thirty od milds found My Br Truman and my Mother in the wild wilderness 3 or four milds to the nearest neighbor I inquired in an od Tone of voice if I could Stay there Over the Nite The response was yes The nexte word that I spoke Truman Says with a raised a Tone of voice Israel is it you I could but reply in the affermative truly it is he Soon clasped my hand and flung his armes a round my Neck and exclaimed O my Dear Brother I never expected to See you a gain are you and your family well Mother Says she lyes at the point of Death I am glad that you have Come I stayed that Nite and the next day and the day and nite following tho mother was very Sick She appeared to be better the folloing day and I thought probaly that She mite get along again from hur appearance. Saturday the 13 of Aug I Left My Ever Dear kind and Afflicted Brother Truman my Kind old Mother the prospects that I never Should See hur again Returned to Kainsvill prepared for my journey after geting Some necisaries for Mother in hur Sickness Left Kanisvill in Co - with Br Charles R Dana on the Sixteenth of Aug 12 days after our arivle in Kainsvill..." Pp. 310-313 of same letter quotes: "...the Evening I past Montrose I took a Letter out of the office from Br Truman it informe me of Mothers Death on the 18 of aug the Morning that I left Calvin Bushes 30 milds from Trumans place but Did not no it at the time I very mutch regreted that it So hapened if Mother has heur age Correct She is 72 years old She is the 5 out of the Circle of My Farthers Family My Eldest Brother Nathaniel My farther Jonathan Barlow, my Sister Annis Gennet george Stones wife, Jonatha W. Barlow at Rockiland my Brother & Annis gillet my Mother the wife of Jonathan Barlow My father. I have heard nothing from my Sister Margaret Bunnell Since Last Spring one of hur Sons by the Name of Joseph Lives with Truman..." 4. On 15 Sep 2011, I visited the Ontario County Archives and Records Center in Canandaigua, New York. There are no deed or probate records of any Lockwood or Barlow of interest to us. I also visited the Canandaigua Historical Society Library and they also had absolutely no references to the same two families. Vital records in the area were not recorded until the late 1800s. 5. From my visit to Nauvoo, Illinois, May 2007, I found the following information from the "Lands and Records Office" concerning Annis Gillette: A. Annis was a member of the Nauvoo 3rd Ward. Reference: "Nauvoo: Early Mormon... Series 1839-46." Platt, Lyman. 1980. B. "Women of the Nauvoo Relief Society," by. Marine C. Ward, p. 189: "Annis Thompson, 13 May 1842; Annis Gillette; b. 25 Jul 1784, of Sharon, Norfolk, Massachusetts; parents Thomas Gillett and Mary Jones, m. Edward Thompson, d. 13 Aug 1853, Shelby County, Iowa. (AF, IBS, NAU, NDM, NJ2, NTER, SEB.) C. "Record of Baptisms for the Dead, Nauvoo," by Black and Black, Nauvoo Baptismal Records of the Dead, Book A143: a. Vol. 6, p. 3619: Annis was proxy for the deceased Jonathan Barlow, b. 23 Jun 1769 at Granville, Hampden, Massachusetts to father Nathan Barlow and Margaret Purchase. Married Margaret Root, 1800. Married second Annis Gillett, 14 Nov 1804 at Granville. Died 16 Dec 1820 at Granville. Proxy's relationship to deceased: Annis Thompson was the wife of Jonathan Barlow. Date of proxy baptism: 1841 (probably baptism in the Mississippi River). Source: Nauvoo Baptismal Records of the Dead, Book A9, Family Search, Ancestral File. b. Annis Thompson was proxy for Amy Remmington, her sister, and wife to Stephen Remmington. Stephen and Amy were married 27 Nov 1799 and she died 25 Aug 1827. Annis was also proxy for Stephen Remmington, b. 1775 of Granville, Hampden, Massachusetts. Both of the baptisms were 1841 presumably in the Mississippi River since the Nauvoo Temple font was not yet opened. This was also when various genders could be baptized for the other gender. 6. Nauvoo LDS Land and Records Office research file (copy in my possession as of 2 Jun 2007) provides the following information (also partially viewable at www.earlylds.com): Israel Barlow acted as proxy for the following proxy baptisms in 11 Jun 1843 in Nauvoo per "Nauvoo Baptismal Records for the Dead": A. Heman Barlow, proxy was the nephew to Heman, officiators: James Allred, Jonathan H. Hale, Aaron Johnson. Book C31. B. Jonathan Barlow, b. 23 Jun 1769 at Granville, Hampden, Massachusetts, father Nathan Barlow, mother Margaret Purchase, spouse Annis Gillett, m.14 Nov 1804 at Granville. Proxy is son of Jonathan, officiators: James Allred, Jonathan H. Hale, Aaron Johnson. Book C31. C. Margaret Purchase, b. 1739 at Granville, Hampden, Massachusetts, father Jonathan purchase, mother Margaret Worthington, spouse Nathan Barlow, m. 19 Oct 1765 at Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts, proxy was grandson of Margaret, officiators: James Allred, Jonathan H. Hale, Aaron Johnson. Book C31. D. Nathan Barlow, b. 26 Mar 1726 at Granville, Hampden, Massachusetts, father James Barlow, mother Mary Harmon, spouse Margaret Purchase, m. 19 Oct 1765 at Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts, d. Granville, proxy was grandson to Nathan, officiators: James Allred, Jonathan H. Hale, Aaron Johnson. Book C31. 7. It is mentioned in the book "The Town of Mendon 1813-2000 and Village of Honeoye Falls 1838-2000," by Diane Ham and Anne Bullock, Honeoye Falls-Town of Mendon Historical Society, January 2000, p. 75, that Annis Gillett, George Gillett Lockwood, Julia Ann Lockwood, Israel Barlow, Jonathan Barlow, Truman Barlow, Annis Barlow and Rhoda Barlow all went to Kirtland, Ohio with the Mormons in 1832. BIRTH: 1. Nauvoo Temple Endowment Register shows: "Annis B. Thompson, b. 26 Jul 1788, washed and anointed and endowed 23 Dec 1845, in company with Charles H. Hales and Julia Ann Hales." Note that the birth date varies from the commonly accepted 25 Jul 1784 date; however, the 1788 date doesn't seem to fit since Annis' sister Elizabeth was born in 1788. MARRIAGE: 1. Ancestry.com's "Massachusetts's Marriages, 1633-1850": Annis Gillett and Jonathan Barlow, 13 Oct 1804, Granville, Hampden, MA. Source FHL film 0185381. QUESTIONS: 1. Why is she the only child born in Sharon whereas all other siblings are born in Granville? SOURCES_MISC: 1. Family group sheet of Israel Barlow Family Association, 801-298-3687, dated 24 Feb 1999 per Lloyd B. Carr, Genealogist, PO Box 89, Bountiful, Utah, 84011. | Gillett, Annis (I1431)
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| 1815 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. Also known as Anna Jensdatter Mørkes or Mørch. CHRISTENING: 1. FHL film 53030 (Ydby Church Records), p. 149. | Jensdatter, Anna (I1627)
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| 1816 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. Also known as Anna Jensdatter Mørkes or Mørch. CHRISTENING: 1. FHL film 53030 (Ydby Church Records), p. 154. BURIAL: 1. FHL film 53030 (Ydby Church Records). | Jensdatter, Anna (I2892)
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| 1817 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. Also known as Jens Jensen Mørkes or Mørch. CHRISTENING: 1. FHL film 53030 (Ydby Church Records), p. 151. | Jensen, Jens (I1697)
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| 1818 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. Also known as Jensen Kier, Kjaer, Vestergard. Second husband to Frederikke Lovise Pedersdatter. Married one year after death of first husband, he at age 35 and she at age 48. 2. 1840 census, Nr. 18, en gaard, Bedsted: Svend Jensen Westergaard 48 married farm leaseholder, Frederikke Pedersdatter 61 married and his wife, Peder Christian 34 unmarried her child, Maren 25 unmarried her child, Ane Kirstine Christendatter 13 unmarried his child. DEATH: 1. FHL film 53027, Bedsted, Bk. 3, p. 199, show Svend Jensen Kjær, d. 24 Jan 1847, bur. 2 Feb 1847, 55 years old, b. in Sonderhaa. | Jensen Kjær Vestergård, Svend (I1613)
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| 1819 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. Also known as Karen Jensdatter Mørkes or Mørch. CHRISTENING: 1. FHL film 53030 (Ydby Church Records), p. 149. MARRIAGE: 1. FHL film 53030 (Ydby Church Records). | Jensdatter, Karen (I2727)
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| 1820 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. Also known as Magdalena. 2. Book, "Wampler Family History 1500s - 1700s," by Fred B. Wampler, Ph.D., pp. 29-51 provides copies and detailed discussion of various mortgages contracted in the late 1600's by Hans Wampler and his sons with the Diemtigen Church funds which acted as a local bank. Using these mortgages, one can prove that Hans did in fact have three sons: Peter, Hans, and Christian. Several of the mortgages were redeemed in 1720 by Jacob Klossner and his sister Barbara Klossner - there was a Barbara Klossner who married the son Hans Wampfler. The Swiss named every piece of land and these names still survive - using these mortgages one can locate Schuopis, Geisegg, and Meniggrund. Specifically we learn the family home was on the Geisegg in Oeyen which is in Zwischenflüh and can be walked today. (The book contains a photo of this piece of land in a panoramic view of the large alpine valley.) The book has recreated some plot maps and there appears as adjoining neighbors: Christen Knutti, Peter Klossner's hiers, Hans Herren, Peter Knutti, and Niclaus Klossner - all related surnames even though the book does not provide any relationships. 3. Book, "Wampler Family History 1500s - 1700s," by Fred B. Wampler, Ph.D., pp. 54-55 contains an enumeration of the various clans holding citizenship rights in Diemtigen and how many children of each appear in the local christening registers covering the time periods 1659-1712 and 1713-1766 as well as how many appear in the death register 1713-1766. The enumeration was in the back of the local church records book "Diemtigen Taufrodel, 1713-1766. Of the 49 family names, the following have interest: Herren: 32-2-23. Klossner: 61-94-51. Knutti: 58-61-56. Wampfler: 9-16-9. 4. FHL film 1638364, it. 16, newsletter "Wampler Ancestors & Descendants in America," by Barbara S. Wampler, v. 5 (1979), "Bern, Diemtagen, Switzerland Wampflers," copied by Dorothy Hamm and sorted into families by editor: "Hans Wampgler married 1647 Magdalena Knutti, born Nov. 4, 1621, dau. of Michael and Margaretta Knutti. (Their children, not in order): Peter born Feb. 18, 1649. Hans born July 2, 1651. Christian born Dec. 3, 1654. Johannes born Oct. 7, 1660. Anna born July 29, 1666." SOURCES_MISC: 1. Book, "Wampler Family History 1500s - 1700s," by Fred B. Wampler, Ph.D. | Knutti, Madlena or Magdalena (I2006)
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| 1821 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. Also known as Nellie. 2. Censuses: 1880 US: South Cottonwood, Salt Lake, Utah, FHL film 1255337, National Archives Film T9-1337, p. 268B: Frederick Rugg, Farmer, 37, Eng Eng Eng. Jemima Rugg, Keeping House, Wife, 35, IA VA VA. Mary Rugg, Dau., 7, UT. John Rugg, Son, 5, UT. Sarah Rugg, Dau., 3, UT. George Rugg, Son, 2 mo., UT. 1900 US: Murray, Salt Lake, Utah, roll 1685, book 1, p. 124a [I assume "Nellie" is Sarah Ellen Rugg - no separate entry for Sarah or Ellen Rugg was found in the census.]: Fred Rugg, b. July 1843, age 56, married 34 years, b. Eng, fa. b. Eng, mo. b. Eng, emigrated 1856 and was naturalized, farmer. Jemima, wife, b. Apr 1846, age 54, married 34 years, 10 total children of which 5 are living, b. IA, parents b. Alabama. John, son, b. Jan 1875, age 25, S, b. Utah, Eng., Iowa, day laborer. Nellie, dau., b. Jul 1877, age 22, S, b. Utah, Eng., Iowa. George, son, b. Mar 1880, age 20, S, b. Utah, Eng., Iowa, day laborer. Emma, dau., b. Sep 1882, age 17, S, b. Utah, Eng., Iowa. 1920 US: Precinct 11, Murray City, Salt Lake, Utah, p. 138, 9 Jan 1920, 6263, family 83, next door his Ruth's mother and grandmother: Erwin G. Hales, head, rents, 22, UT IA UT, lumberyard truck driver. Ruth L., wife, 19, UT UT UT. Guenavere, dau., 3/12, UT UT UT. Family 84: Jemima C. Rugg, head, owns, 73, widow, IL AL USA. Sarah L. Rugg, dau., 43, widow, UT Eng IL. George D. Rugg, son, 39, single, UT Eng IL, general farming. 1930 US: 5th Ward, Murray City, Salt Lake, Utah, p. 196, 3 Apr 1930, family 29: Erwin Hales, owns, $4,000, 32 md. at age 19, UT IL UT, house carpenter. Ruth L., wife, 29, md. at age 17, UT UT UT. Faye, dau., 5, UT UT UT. Arlene, dau., 2-2/12, UT UT UT. Nellie Rugg, mother-in-law, 50, widow, UT Eng IA. 3. Notes found Oct 2002 on Ancestry.com: a. Ruth Lavon Blundell: I found this lady through genealogical research and found her to be a wonderful lady. My grandfather was a roue [he 'slept around'] and had 2 women pregnant: Aunt Ruth's mother and my grandmother Alice Emily Stinger, whom he married. Aunt Ruth's mother never married. Ruth asked my mother's permission to have her parents and her sealed which permission she gained. b. She was the daughter of Frederick Dickenson Rugg and Jemima Katherine Adair. She was never married but was sealed to Samuel Blundell 13 Apr 1962. They had one daughter Ruth LaVon Blundell who was sealed to them 13 Apr 1962. Ruth LaVon Hales gave her mother's birth as 29 June 1900 but that is obviously mistaken since Ruth's birthday is 9 Jun 1900. She was born the 29 Jul 1877 and died 3 Aug 1958. c. Samuel Blundell, Birth: 5 Aug 1878 in Manchester, Lancashire, England, Death: 20 Jun 1919 in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, Burial: 24 Jun 1919 Inglewood, Los Angeles, California, LDS Baptism: 17 May 1940 LOGAN, Endowment: 19 Jul 1940 LOGAN, Sealing Child: 11 Nov 1941 Temple LOGAN. Have birth certificate application no. 259A - born in the subdistrict of St. George, Manchester, Lancashire, England, 26 Hamilton Street, Manchester. Death per obituary in Los Angeles Times, Wednesday 25 June 1919. Life story written by Eva May Blundell Mander, daughter: "My father Samuel Blundell was born in Manchester, Lancashire, England on 5 August 1878. His father was James Blundell, Jr. His mother was Susanna Bamford Blundell. He lived in England until he was 11 years old, coming to America with his parents in 1889. After moving to Salt Lake City, Utah he won a Bible for selling the most newspapers. Dad was a tobacco salesman and operated a tobacco store across the street from Arbach's department store on 2nd South and State Street. It was on the northwest corner. He served in Company B in Fort Douglas. He married Alice Emily Stinger on the 6th of August 1900 in Farmington, Utah. They lived in Salt Lake City, Utah until after they had 3 children. He then left for Arizona and California in 1908 to find work. Alice heard very little from him and so she divorced him. He was killed in action of his duty as a deputy Marshall. He was shot by Joe Franco, an Italian laborer according to the coroner's verdict. Inquest was held at the Monita Ave. Undertaking Parlor. The shooting occurred on a Sunday morning. (Per obituary in the L.A. Times, Wednesday, 25 June 1919.) He had been sent to settle a family dispute but was shot down in cold blood. He was buried in Glendale, CA. He died 20 June 1919. He was said to have a widow, Laura and a child, surviving him. Father: James Jr. Blundell, b: 17 Jan 1854 in Deritend, Aston, Warwick, England. Mother: Susannah Bamford, b: 7 Nov 1853 in Newton, Manchester, Lancashire, England. Marriage 1: Alice Emily Stinger, b: 19 Oct 1877 in Ogden, Weber, Utah; Married: 6 Aug 1900 in Farmington, Davis, Utah; Divorced; Sealing Spouse: 19 Jul 1940. Children: Blundell, b: Aug 1900 in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah. Blundell, b: Aug 1900 in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah. Eva May Blundell, b: 17 Jul 1901 in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah. Pearl Irene Blundell, b: 20 Mar 1903 in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah. Joseph Henry Blundell, b: 27 Jun 1904 in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah. Arthur Blundell, b: Aug 1907 in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah. Francis Stinger Blundell Blanche Blundell Noreen Blundell 4. Samuel Blundell shows up in the 1900 Census in the fifth precinct/ward of Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, p. 215B, living with his parents James and Susannah Blundell. Samuel was born Aug 1877 in England, age 22, single, and working as a laborer. BIRTH: 1. Per Burial Index cited below. DEATH: 1. Utah State Historical Society Burials Database online: Nellie Rugg, b. 29 Jul 1877, d. 3 Aug 1959 at Salt Lake City, UT, bur. 6 Aug 1959 at Murray City Cemetery 01-069-6. BURIAL: 1. Per Burial Index cited above. | Rugg, Sarah Ellen (I3473)
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| 1822 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. Also known as Oluf or Ole Jensen Mørkes or Mørch. CHRISTENING: 1. FHL film 53030 (Ydby Church Records), p. 150. | Jensen Mørch, Oluf or Ole (I1628)
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| 1823 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. Also known as Rebeckah. 2. Worldconnect 15 Jul 2007 database: 1821208" of David Palmer 3. "New England History and Genealogy Register," v. 101, p. 285, Article: "Jonathan and Nathan Gillett Descendants": "Samuel Gillett (son of John, grandson of Jonathan), of Suffield, Conn., and Granville, Mass., born in Windsor, Conn., 16 Feb 1677/8. He was five years old when his mother married secondly, Captain George Norton of Suffield, the town that became the boy's home for most of his life. In the later years of his life he lived in Granville, across the line in southwest Mass., and died there 'in 1739, aged 60', but was buried in Suffield. (Northampton Probate Records give administration of estate 1934[typo?]) He married in Suffield, 22 Jan 1701/2 (int. 20 Dec 1701), Rebecca Bancroft (dau. of Thomas, g.dau. of John), born in Springfield, Mass. (part later Enfield, Conn.), 23 Feb 1680... [Her mother] Widow Jane Bancroft received 100 acres in Lynn in 1638. Her daughter Anna married 13 May 1647 Sergt. John Griffin, settled in Simsbury, Conn., had ten children and one of them, Sarah Griffin, married Elias Gillett (son of Nathan). Son Thomas Bancroft of Springfield, Mass. region, residence at the 'lower wharf,' now Enfield, Conn., was a selectman of Westfield; 8 Dec 1653 married Margaret Wright (dau. of Samuel) and their daughter Ruth Bancroft married John Stiles and had many children; and daughter Rebecca married Samuel Gillett; and son Nathaniel had descendants in Granville, Mass. (and Ohio) and it was probably this connection that took Samuel Gillett from Suffield to Granville. Rev. Ezra Stiles, president of Yale from 1772 to 1795 was the son of Rev. Isaac and the grandson of John and Ruth (Bancroft) Stiles, and he wrote of his grandmother's family: 'The Family of Bancroft are a brisk, smart, quick, sensible and lively cast. Grandmother communicated her family spirit to all (her) Children', etc. (Stiles Gens. 1892 and 1895). Children, born in Suffield: a. Samuel, b. 13 Sep 1702. b. John, b. 16 Jan 1704/5. Perhaps the 1724 John Gillett of his uncle Thomas Gillett's 1726 probate record? c. Nathaniel, 10 May 1707; m. Phebe ___... d. Hannah, b. 19 Jun 1709; d. in Suffield 2 Nov 1746, age 37; m. there, 26 Feb 1728/9 (int. Jan. 10) Joseph Kent (1898 Kent Gen.). e. Thomas, b. 16 Apr 1711. f. Gardner, b. 23 Jun 1715. g. Rebecca, b. 21 Sep 1718." 4. The publication "Search for the Passengers of the "Mary & John" 1630," by Burton W. Spear (Toledo, OH; The Mary & John Clearing House, 1989-2004), 5:49-64. These pages have a five generation descendency listing of all the descendants of Jonathan Gillet and Mary Dolbair. I only transcribe my own descendency line which is the seventh child: "7 John Gillett- b. 5 Oct. 1644, Windsor. m. Mercy Barber, 8 July 1669, Windsor (1651-1725) dau. of Thomas Barber (emigrant). She m. (2) Capt. George Norton, 1683. John d. 1682. Windsor p. 50 says Mary Barber bpt. 12 Oct. 1651, m. ___ Hale. res: Suffield. (Gillett-19) 7.1 Thomas Gillett- b. 7 Jan. 1671, Windsor. d. by 1676 7.2 John Gillett Jr.- b. 6 Aug. 1673, Windsor. d. 4 July 1699, Windsor, unmarr. 7.3 Thomas Gillett- b. 18 July 1676 (Gillett p. 19 says 31 May 1678), Windsor. m. (1) Martha Mills. She d. without children. m. (2) Hannah Clark, 26 Feb. 1704 (1686-1709) Windsor, dau. of John Clark & Mary Crow (D. Clark-34). He d. 11 June 1708. Children of Thomas Gillett & Hannah Clark (2) (NER 101:285)… 7.4 Samuel Gillett- b. 16 Feb. 1677/8, Windsor. m. Rebecca Bancroft, 22 Jan. 1701/2, Suffield, dau. of Thomas Bancroft. She was b. 1680. He d. 1739, Grnaville, Mass. (Gillett-23) Children of Samuel Gillett & Rebecca Bancroft (NER 101:286). 7.4.1 Samuel Gillett, Jr.- b. 13 Sept. 1702, Suffield. m. Anna Pierce, 13 Apr. 1727. He d. Granville, Mass. 7.4.2 John Gillett- b. 13 Jan. 1704/5, Suffield. 7.4.3 Nathaniel Gillett- b. 10 May 1707, Suffield. m. Phebe ___. Children of Nathaniel Gillett & Phebe ___. (NER 101:286)… 7.4.4 Hannah Gillett- b. 19 June 1709, Suffield. m. Joseph Kent, 26 Feb. 1728/9, Suffield (b. 1710), s. of John Kent & Abigail Winchell of Suffield. He m. (2) Elizabeth Palmer, 1748. Hannah d. 2 Nov. 1746, Suffield. Six children. 7.4.5 Thomas Gillett- b. 16 Apr. 1711, Suffield. m. Elizabeth Barlow, 2 June 1744 (1719-1806). He d. 10 Apr. 1791, Granville, Mass. (Gillett-1955, 23, 34, 48) Children of Thomas Gillett & Elizabeth Barlow. (Gillett-23) [Note: The author lists only one child, which is of course very incomplete.] 7.4.5.1 Zadoc Gillett- b. 12 Aug. 1753, m. wid. Rebecca Tyron (1758-1840). He d. 14 Mar. 1816, Granville, Mass. Two children (1781-1784). She d. Shesequin, Bradford Co., Pa. (Gillett-34) 7.4.6 Gardner Gillett- b. 23 June 1715, Suffield. m. Mary Rowe, 27 Jan. 1740/1. Res: Dutchess Co., N.Y. 7.4.7 Rebecca Gillett- b. 21 Sept. 1718, Suffield. 7.5 Nathaniel Gillett- b. 3 Oct. 1680, Windsor. (Windsor-290) 7.6 Benjamin Gillett- b. 1680, Windsor. m. Elizabeth Austin, 6 Sept. 1705 (1684-1752), dau. of Capt. Anthony & Esther Austin. (Gillett-21) (Benjamin's b. 3 Oct. 1680 in Gillett-22) Children of Benjamin Gillett & Elizabeth Austin (Gillett-21)… 7.7 Mercy Gillett- b. 21 Jan. 1682, m. Jacob Adams, Jr. (1681-1736), s. of Jacob Adams & Anne Allen and gr. s. of Robert & Elinor Adams of Newberry, Mass. Res: Suffield, Conn. Children of Mercy Gillett & Jacob Adams, Jr. (NER 101:47)…" MARRIAGE: 1. LDS Online Ordinance Index extracted marriage record per FHL film 185414-185416 (Vital Records of Springfield Massachusetts, 1638-1887), batch M541431. Josiah Farnum and Rebeckah Gillet, m. 15 May 1752 at Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts. | Gillett, Rebecca (I2264)
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| 1824 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. Also known as Thomas Jensen Mørkes or Mørch. CHRISTENING: 1. FHL film 53030 (Ydby Church Records), p. 155. MARRIAGE: 1. FHL film 53030 (Ydby Church Records). | Jensen, Thomas (I2765)
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| 1825 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. Also the same as Stephen Hales married to Sarah Wells. A grandchild of each marriage later marries (see ID #'s 80 and 81 for grandcildren). 2. The previous identification of the husband was Stephen Hales, chr. 18 Mar 1736/7, son of Stephen and Susan Hales. This has been proven incorrect. Relationships indicated on other archive records derived from this improper identification are also incorrect. 3. Parish map of Kent with origin dates on file. 4. Worldconnect 23 Jun 2007 database ":1773912" of Noel Moss A. CHRISTENING-PARENTS-RESIDENCE; Parish Records; 1729; Information shared by Kenneth G. Hales (for full source details see notes for Jacob Hales RIN 437); NOTE; Stephen Hales christened 1 May 1729 at Boxley, Kent; Father John Hales; Mother Mary Foster. B. Marriages; Parish Records; 1754/1766; Information shared by Ken Hales; NOTE; Stephen Hales married twice: 1) to Ann Clinch on 21 Dec 1754; 2) to Sarah Wells on 6 May 1766. C. Burial; Parish Records; 1783; Information shared by Ken Hales; Note; Stephen Hales buried 25 Apr 1783 at Stockbury, Kent. 5. Mentioned in father-in-law's will per Website http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~mrawson/extr2.html#clinch Extracts from Kent Wills: Source: Archdeaconry Court of Canterbury Vol.98 folio 205 Probate 10 Feb 1769 for William Clinch of Stockbury, yeoman, will dated 9 Jan 1769 Daughter Mary, wife of Thomas Hales Daughter Sarey, wife of Benjamin Bannor Stephen Hales, Joseph Fuller [typo: will reads James Fuller] Sons Thomas (executor), John and William Witnessed by Thomas Wyles, Robert Terry and Ann Terry. MARRIAGE: 1. Bicknor Church Records (FHL film 1736525): "Dec: 21 [1755] Stephen Hales singleman Man & Ann Clinch singleman were married by Banns." Apparently Ann was pregnant since their first son will be born in about six weeks. BURIAL: 1. FHL film 1752235 item #2, Archdeacon's Transcript of Stockbury. Stephen Hales, 25 Apr 1783. No age given. 2. FHL film 1473718 item #2, Parish Records of Stockbury: "Stephen Hales, an husbandman from Hartlip. April 25, 1783. SOURCES_MISC: 1. 18 Dec 2002 website | Hales, Stephen (I1830)
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| 1826 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. Alt. names may possibly include Amy, Ama, Amay, Amey, Anna. 2. Henry R. Stiles, "The History and Genealogies of Ancient Windsor, Connecticut," 1892, v. 2, p. 571: "Charles Phelps (son of Timothy, g.son of Lt. Timothy, gg.son of William) m. 26 Feb 1726, Hepzibah (dau. Robert) Stiles; she was of the Massachusetts Stiles family, and therefore was not, as has been claimed, a cousin of Pres. Stiles of Yale College; she was born Boxford, Mass., 7 Nov 17(prob. '09). Children (b. Hebron, CT.): A. Amay, b. 11 Nov 1726. B. Zuriah, b. 3 Apr 1729. C. Charles, b. 22 Sep 1732. D. Ashbel, b. 28 Apr 1743. E. Timothy, b. 29 May 1745. F. Bethuel, b. 25 Apr 1748." [Book does not have any Stiles biography of this line.] 3. The book "The Phelps Family of America and their English Ancestors," comp. by Oliver Seymour Phelps of Portland, Oregon and Andrew T. Servin of Lenox, Massachusetts, 1899, pp. 138-139: "Charles Phelps, b. Hebron, Ct., 26 July 1702, m. 17 Feb 1726, Hepzibah Stiles, b. Boxford, Mass., 7 Nov 1709, d. Hebron, Ct., dau. or Robert and Ruth (Bridges) Stiles. Mr Phelps settled in Hebron, Ct., where he died. Children b. Hebron, Ct.: I. Amy, b. 11 Nov 1726. II. Zuriah, b. 3 Apr 1729, m. Dorothy. III. Charles, b. 22 Sep 1732, m. Hannah Dennison. IV. Lydia (Lidu), b. 1 Mar 1738, m. Job Stiles Jr. V. Ashbel, b. 28 Apr 1743, m. possibly Jemima Buell. VI. Bethuel, b. 25 Apr 1744, m. Caroline Lord. VII. Timothy, b. 29 May 1745, m. Sarah Skinner. VIII. James, b. 29 May 1745. (Note - This James is given by Dr. C.A. Phelp's tree, and also in Stiles' old, though not in 2nd edition. We think this an error.)" BIRTH: 1. Family Search accessed 18 Nov 2016 shows birth record of 11 Nov 1726 to Charles Phelps. MARRIAGE: 1. Website 24 Sep 2007 www.douglaslibrary.org/barbour. The Douglas Library in Hebron, Connecticut has "Town of Hebron Vital Records: Barbour Collection 1708-1854," shows: "John Jones m. Ama Phelps, Mar. 24, 1747." DEATH: 1. Her age at the time of death was 87 on 15 May 1814. SOURCES_MISC: 1. Per group sheet of Israel Barlow Family Association, 801-298-3687, dated 24 Feb 1999 per Lloyd B. Carr, Genealogist, PO Box 89, Bountiful, Utah, 84011. | Phelps, Amy (I1836)
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| 1827 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. An excellent resource: Warner, Lucien C., "The descendants of Andrew Warner, (New Haven, Conn.: Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor, 1919), available online at https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Thomas_Sanford%2C_the_emigrant_to_New_England%3B_ancestry%2C_life%2Cand_descendants%2C_1632-4. It contains the transcripts of the wills of all the early Warners and Purchases, which name and list children and grandchildren and were instrumental in building this family in this database. Here is a transcript of his will from this source: "WILL OF JOHN PURCHAS 27 March, 1585, I John Purchas of Much Waltham, co. Essex, tanner, being grown in age and trobled with disease, do ordain this to be my testament and last will: -First I commend my body to be buri in the churchyard of Much Waltham with such costs as shalbe thought mete by myne executor and my wief. I give to ten of the poorest householders 5s. on the day of my burial. I give to Margaret my wief one - half of my moveable goods within the houses and £ 13-6-8. To John Purchas my eldest son £ 6-8-4, and to his three children John, William and Alice 6s.8d. each at 21 or marriage. To George Porcas my youngest son £ 40, and if it happen to him to depart the world ere he receive it then John my younger son shall have £ 20 of his portion, Thomas my son £ 10, and the other £ 10 I give to Mary my daughter, wife of John Warnard. I give to either of the two children of the said Mary my daughter, namely, to Thomas Warnar and Mary Warnare, 6s.8d. apiece at the age of 18 or the day of marriage. To the daughter of Thomas my To Mary my daughter, wife of John Warner , £ 5. To my sister's daughter Joan Downham 10s. at 23 or marriage. To my sister Sandford's daughter Mary 5s. All the rest of my goods I give unto John Purchas my youngest son, to do his will and best withal; which said John my youngest son I ordain and make my full and whole executor, and Thomas my son overseer. Witnesses: Thomas Edwards, Richard Pond the writer of the Proved 11 October, 1585, by John Purcas the younger son and executor. (Arch: Essex, Draper, 85.)" | Margaret (I7933)
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| 1828 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. An excellent resource: Warner, Lucien C., "The descendants of Andrew Warner, (New Haven, Conn.: Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor, 1919), available online at https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Thomas_Sanford%2C_the_emigrant_to_New_England%3B_ancestry%2C_life%2Cand_descendants%2C_1632-4. It contains the transcripts of the wills of all the early Warners and Purchases, which name and list children and grandchildren and were instrumental in building this family in this database. | Warner, Emmerston (I7927)
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| 1829 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. An excellent resource: Warner, Lucien C., "The descendants of Andrew Warner, (New Haven, Conn.: Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor, 1919), available online at https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Thomas_Sanford%2C_the_emigrant_to_New_England%3B_ancestry%2C_life%2Cand_descendants%2C_1632-4. It contains the transcripts of the wills of all the early Warners and Purchases, which name and list children and grandchildren and were instrumental in building this family in this database. | Warner, Joann (I7926)
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| 1830 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. An excellent resource: Warner, Lucien C., "The descendants of Andrew Warner, (New Haven, Conn.: Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor, 1919), available online at https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Thomas_Sanford%2C_the_emigrant_to_New_England%3B_ancestry%2C_life%2Cand_descendants%2C_1632-4. It contains the transcripts of the wills of all the early Warners and Purchases, which name and list children and grandchildren and were instrumental in building this family in this database. | Warner, Margaret (I7925)
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| 1831 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. An excellent resource: Warner, Lucien C., "The descendants of Andrew Warner, (New Haven, Conn.: Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor, 1919), available online at https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Thomas_Sanford%2C_the_emigrant_to_New_England%3B_ancestry%2C_life%2Cand_descendants%2C_1632-4. It contains the transcripts of the wills of all the early Warners and Purchases, which name and list children and grandchildren and were instrumental in building this family in this database. | Warner, Elizabeth (I7924)
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| 1832 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. An excellent resource: Warner, Lucien C., "The descendants of Andrew Warner, (New Haven, Conn.: Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor, 1919), available online at https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Thomas_Sanford%2C_the_emigrant_to_New_England%3B_ancestry%2C_life%2Cand_descendants%2C_1632-4. It contains the transcripts of the wills of all the early Warners and Purchases, which name and list children and grandchildren and were instrumental in building this family in this database. MARRIAGE: 1. Per TAG 26:152. | Warner, Margery (I7923)
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| 1833 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. An excellent resource: Warner, Lucien C., "The descendants of Andrew Warner, (New Haven, Conn.: Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor, 1919), available online at https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Thomas_Sanford%2C_the_emigrant_to_New_England%3B_ancestry%2C_life%2Cand_descendants%2C_1632-4. It contains the transcripts of the wills of all the early Warners and Purchases, which name and list children and grandchildren and were instrumental in building this family in this database. Here is the transcript for Thomas Warner's probate: "Memorandum that THOMAS WARNER of Much Waltham, co. Essex, husbandman, deceased, di[e]d on xxvij May, 1613, declare his last will nuncu pative in manner and form following: -Unto his daughter Margerie Warner iijli. To Sarah Warner iijli To Marie Warner iijli. To Elizabeth Belsted, wife of William Belsted, xls. All the rest of his goods he gave to Thomas Warner his son, whom he made sole executor, in presence of John Warner, Nicholas Hutt and Andrew Warner. Proved 1 July, 1613, by the executor named. (Arch: Essex, 1613, Filed Will No. 66.)" | Warner, Thomas (I7922)
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| 1834 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. An excellent resource: Warner, Lucien C., "The descendants of Andrew Warner, (New Haven, Conn.: Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor, 1919), available online at https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Thomas_Sanford%2C_the_emigrant_to_New_England%3B_ancestry%2C_life%2Cand_descendants%2C_1632-4. It contains the transcripts of the wills of all the early Warners and Purchases, which name and list children and grandchildren and were instrumental in building this family in this database. | Warner, Andrew (I7921)
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| 1835 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. An excellent resource: Warner, Lucien C., "The descendants of Andrew Warner, (New Haven, Conn.: Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor, 1919), available online at https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Thomas_Sanford%2C_the_emigrant_to_New_England%3B_ancestry%2C_life%2Cand_descendants%2C_1632-4. It contains the transcripts of the wills of all the early Warners and Purchases, which name and list children and grandchildren and were instrumental in building this family in this database. | Warner, Edward (I7920)
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| 1836 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. An excellent resource: Warner, Lucien C., "The descendants of Andrew Warner, (New Haven, Conn.: Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor, 1919), available online at https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Thomas_Sanford%2C_the_emigrant_to_New_England%3B_ancestry%2C_life%2Cand_descendants%2C_1632-4. It contains the transcripts of the wills of all the early Warners and Purchases, which name and list children and grandchildren and were instrumental in building this family in this database. | Margaret (I7919)
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| 1837 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. An excellent resource: Warner, Lucien C., "The descendants of Andrew Warner, (New Haven, Conn.: Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor, 1919), available online at https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Thomas_Sanford%2C_the_emigrant_to_New_England%3B_ancestry%2C_life%2Cand_descendants%2C_1632-4. It contains the transcripts of the wills of all the early Warners and Purchases, which name and list children and grandchildren and were instrumental in building this family in this database. Here is John Warner's will: "In the Name of God Amen the xxiijth Daye of Maye and in the yeare of our lord god 1584 I JOHN WARNER of Much Waltham in the countye of Essex husbandman being sicke in bodye and troubled with Disease but perfect in remembraunce thanks be to Allmightie god for it and waighinge the vncer tantye of my life doe ordaine and make this my present testament and last will in manner and forme followinge That is to saye firste and moste prin cipallie I humblie recomend and bequeath my Soule into the hands of All mightie god my maker steadfastlye beleving that I shalbe saued by Jhesus Christe my savior and redemer and by the marcye of god and by no other meanes merritts or diserts of myne owne or any others and my bodye to be buried in the Churchyard of Much Waltham aforesaide wth such coste of funeralls as shalbe thought most meete by my executrix Item I giue vnto Margarett my wyfe the lease of my ffarme with the stocke and Cattells as it is nowe and yf it shall happen that Margaret my wyfe do marrye againe before thend and terme of the Indenture or lease of my ffarme as it dothe appeare in the same then I will that the lease of my ffarme remaine vnto my two sonnes Edward and Andrewe payeing the Legacye yf there be any to paye Also I giue vnto them foure of my best horses and the one halfe of my moue able goods to be parted betwixt my fyve daughters and my foure sonnes equallye Deuided Item I giue vnto Thomas my sonne the least shott of Barley in Stonecrofte and two seame of wheate and the ploughinge of half the ground he hathe this year and the next Item I giue and bequeath vnto Edward my sonne fyve pounds to be paide within fyve yeares after my decease Item I giue and bequeath vnto Andrew my sonne fyve poundes to be paide within sixe years after my decease and yf it shall happen either Edward or Andrewe to departe this worlde then the one of them to be thothers heire Item I giue vnto Margerye my daughter Sixe poundes thir teene shillings foure pence to be paid at the Daye of her marriadge or at the age of xxvj yeares wchsoever shall first happen Item I giue vnto my daughter Elizabeth three poundes to be paid at the age of xxvj yeares or at the Daye of her marriadge wchsoever shall first happen Item I giue vnto Margarett my daughter three pounds to be paid at thage of one and twentye yeares or at the daye of her marriadge wch shall firste happen Item I giue vnto Johan my Daughter three poundes and one wennell calfe to be brought vpp vntill it be wth calfe and yf it shall happen the said Elizabeth Margarett and Johan to departe this worlde before the portion be paid then it allwayes prouided thone to be thothers heire I giue vnto Thomas Saward iijs iiijd to be paid imediatlye after my decease Item I giue vnto Xpian Casse jijs iiijd to be paide ymediately after my decease Item I giue vnto Thomas Warner the sonne of John Warner my sonne one quarter of Barley or so much money as shall buye one quarter of Barley to be deliuered vnto him when he shall accom plishe the age of tenne yeares Item I giue to three of the children of my daughter Emmerston xs viz iijs iiijd to Vrsula iijs iiijd to John iijs iiijd to Agnes The residue of all my goode vnbequeathed aswell moveables as vnmoveable in this present will and testament not deuised giuen or be queathed my Debts paid my necessarye funeralls discharged and this my present will performed accordinge to the true meaning thereof I giue and bequeath vnto Margarett my welbeloued wyfe who said Margarett my wyfe I ordaine and make my full and sole Executrix of this my present testament and last will hoping that she will be good vnto her children and myne accord ing to the truste I reposse in her And I clearlye renounce all bequeasts guiftes and Deuises whatsoever heretofore by me made or done and doe ordaine and make this to be my true and last will In witnes whereof I haue putt my hand and seale the daye and yeare aboue written Sealed and Deliuered in the presence of Richard Pond Thomas Blower John Warner junior The marke of John Warner . Probatum fuit hujusmodi testamentum nono die mensis Septembris Anno Domini 1584 jurata relicte et executrice." | Warner, John (I7918)
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| 1838 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. An excellent resource: Warner, Lucien C., "The descendants of Andrew Warner, (New Haven, Conn.: Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor, 1919), available online at https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Thomas_Sanford%2C_the_emigrant_to_New_England%3B_ancestry%2C_life%2Cand_descendants%2C_1632-4. It contains the transcripts of the wills of all the early Warners and Purchases, which name and list children and grandchildren and were instrumental in building this family in this database. Here is a transcript of his will from this source: "WILL OF JOHN PURCHAS 27 March, 1585, I John Purchas of Much Waltham, co. Essex, tanner, being grown in age and trobled with disease, do ordain this to be my testament and last will: -First I commend my body to be buri in the churchyard of Much Waltham with such costs as shalbe thought mete by myne executor and my wief. I give to ten of the poorest householders 5s. on the day of my burial. I give to Margaret my wief one - half of my moveable goods within the houses and £ 13-6-8. To John Purchas my eldest son £ 6-8-4, and to his three children John, William and Alice 6s.8d. each at 21 or marriage. To George Porcas my youngest son £ 40, and if it happen to him to depart the world ere he receive it then John my younger son shall have £ 20 of his portion, Thomas my son £ 10, and the other £ 10 I give to Mary my daughter, wife of John Warnard. I give to either of the two children of the said Mary my daughter, namely, to Thomas Warnar and Mary Warnare, 6s.8d. apiece at the age of 18 or the day of marriage. To the daughter of Thomas my To Mary my daughter, wife of John Warner , £ 5. To my sister's daughter Joan Downham 10s. at 23 or marriage. To my sister Sandford's daughter Mary 5s. All the rest of my goods I give unto John Purchas my youngest son, to do his will and best withal; which said John my youngest son I ordain and make my full and whole executor, and Thomas my son overseer. Witnesses: Thomas Edwards, Richard Pond the writer of the Proved 11 October, 1585, by John Purcas the younger son and executor. (Arch: Essex, Draper, 85.)" | Purchase, John (I7914)
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| 1839 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. An extractions of Sisley marriages in Pembury in chronological order from 1560 to 1700; unfortunately not one of them is for our immediate family: 1597 Oct 2 Richard Syley and Alice Coyfe 1599 Dec 7 Henry Sisley and Noane Coife 1606 Oct 12 Peter Turner and Jane Siseley 1630 Jan 20 John Sissly and Margeret Benge 1634 Jun 22 John Gibbens and Elizabeth Sisly 1660 Feb 5 Peeter Harue and Mary Sissly 1679 Jun 3 Richard Harold and Ellenour Sisley, by banns. 1681 Nov 2 Thomas Dauis and Susanna Sisley, widow 1684 Apr 6 Edward (blotted) Sisley and Elizabeth Clarke 1691 Oct 19 William Cackett and Elisabeth Sisley 2. The following extraction was made from the "Index to the Kent Lay Subsidy Roll of 1334/5," by H.A. Hanley, B.A. and C.W. Chalklin, M.A., B. Litt No mentions were found for family surnames Acock/Alcock, Barret, Chepfield, Dancy, Dennett, Eagles, Gateland, Hadwin, Hales, Mills, Morskin, Shelley, Sisley, Strain, Vande Wall, Worme. 3. Findmypast's Kent Wills & Probate Indexes 1328-1890: Edward Prawle, Husbandman, of Brenchley, will proved 1628 in Kent's Rochester Consistory Court Registered will Document reference: DRb/Pwr/21.320 Document 2 type: Original will Document 2 reference: DRb/Pw/27 FHL Film / Digital 008047543, pp. 372 and 373 of 515. Abstract: Edwardi Prawle, husbandman of Brenchley, Kent. Will dated 21 Feb 1627[/1628] -Gave to the poor of Brenchley -Children Thomas Prawle, Mary (wife of Christophr Gardner), Rebeckca (wife of John Westnoud?), Frances (wife of Francis SoisIey) -Wife Agnis made executor -Witnesses: William Pound, David Pawle?, John Huggett -Probated 22 Apr 1628. | Sisley, Francis (I4982)
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| 1840 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. An extremely valuable reference book on this family is "Thomas Sanford, the emigrant to New England; ancestry, life, and descendants, 1632-4," by Carlton E. Sanford (Tuttle Company: Rutland, Vermont, 1911). It contains a thorough examination and report of the English church records, lay subsidies, and probate for this family. The book is available online at several websites including the following: https://archive.org/details/thomassanfordemi01sanf/page/28/mode/2up. 2. Relationship mentioned in the will of father John Warner filed 16 Jul 1614. 3. An excellent resource: Warner, Lucien C., "The descendants of Andrew Warner, (New Haven, Conn.: Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor, 1919), available online at https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Thomas_Sanford%2C_the_emigrant_to_New_England%3B_ancestry%2C_life%2Cand_descendants%2C_1632-4. It contains the transcripts of the wills of all the early Warners and Purchases, which name and list children and grandchildren and were instrumental in building this family in this database. 4. Named in both his mother's 1627 and in his father's 1614 will. In the later will, she bequeaths to two children of Thomas. BIRTH: 1. Named in grandfather John Warner's 1584 will. He was the only child of John Warner (Jr.) to be so noted. | Warner, Thomas (I7913)
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| 1841 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. An extremely valuable reference book on this family is "Thomas Sanford, the emigrant to New England; ancestry, life, and descendants, 1632-4," by Carlton E. Sanford (Tuttle Company: Rutland, Vermont, 1911). It contains a thorough examination and report of the English church records, lay subsidies, and probate for this family. The book is available online at several websites including the following: https://archive.org/details/thomassanfordemi01sanf/page/28/mode/2up. 2. Relationship mentioned in the will of husband John Warner filed 16 Jul 1614. 3. An excellent resource: Warner, Lucien C., "The descendants of Andrew Warner, (New Haven, Conn.: Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor, 1919), available online at https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Thomas_Sanford%2C_the_emigrant_to_New_England%3B_ancestry%2C_life%2Cand_descendants%2C_1632-4. It contains the transcripts of the wills of all the early Warners and Purchases, which name and list children and grandchildren and were instrumental in building this family in this database. Here is a transcript of Mary (Purchase) Warner's will: WILL OF MARY WARNER Commissary Court of London (Essex and Herts) 1627 No. 148. In the name of God Amen The Tweleth day of may 1627 and in the third yeare of the Raygne of our Soveraygne Lord Charles by the grace of God of England Scotland France and Ireland Kinge defendor of the fayth &c I Mary Warner of Hatfeild Broadoke alias Hatfeild Regis in the Countie of Essex widow do Ordayne and make this my last will and Testament in manner and forme followinge viz. First I bequeath my soule into the handes of God my Savior and my body to be buried in Christian Buriall. Item I give unto Thomas Warner my eldest sonne the somme of Twentie shillinges and also my brewing Leade and unto his wife Joane my best Gowne except one and one band. Item I give unto John Warner my sonne the somme of foure poundes of good and lawfull money of England to be payd unto him within one month after my decease. Item I give unto John my sonne the somme of Twentie shillinges to be payd unto him within one yeare after my decease and also I give unto him one Gowne and one peticoate. Item I give unto Rose my daughter my worst blackgowne and one peticoate one fetherbed one bolster one Covering one pillow wheron I now ly and three payer of sheetes in her Chest. Item I give unto my daughter Elizabeth One Chest with linnen Ready layd up and my best gowne and one peticoate. Item I give unto Rose my daughter the somme of Twentie shillinges to be paid unto her within one yeare after my decease. Item I give unto Elizabeth my daughter the some of Twentie shillinges to be paid unto her within one yeare after my decease. Item I give unto Thomas Warner my Grandchild the somme of Tenn shil linges And also I give unto him One Covering One Chest and one pewter platter to be payd and delivered unto him when he shall Come to the Age of One and Twentie Yeares. Item I give unto Thomas Sanford my Grandchild one Chest one pewter platter one Kettle and one Covering to be delivered unto him when he shall Come to the Age of One and Twentie yeares. Item I give unto the Two children of my daughter Elizabeth the somme of Twentie shillinges to either of them Tenn shillinges to be payd unto them when they shall Come to the Age of One and Twentie yeares. Item I give unto Mary Warner the daughter of my son John the somme of Tenn shillinges and also one box with linnen and other thinges layd up in it. Item I give unto the Two Children of Thomas Warner the somme of Ten shillinges to be equally devyded betweene them and payd unto them when they shall Come to Age of one and Twentie yeares. Item I give unto the other Two Children of my sonne John the somme of Tenn shillinges to be equally devyded and payd unto them when they shall Come to the Age of one and Twentie yeares. Item I give unto Mary Sandford the daughter of my daughter Rose the somme of Tenn shillinges. Item I give unto the other Seven Children of my daughter Rose to every one of them the somme of five shillinges to be payd unto them when they shall severally Come to the Age of One and Twentie yeares. Item I give unto the Two Children of Andrew my sonne the somme of Twentie shillinges to be Equally devided and payd unto them. Item I give unto Andrew Warner my sonne the greatest Chest and greatest Ketle and also all other my moveable goodes or Chattells whatsoever to discharge my Legacies and pay such Charges as shall Arise for my buriall And I do Ordayne and make him the sole Executor of this my present last will and Testament in writeing. In witnesse hereof I have putte my hand and seale the day and yeare first above written. sigum Mary Warner. Sealed and subscribed in the presence of us sigum Peter Linzell & Jonathan Ince. Proved at Stortford 17 July 1627." MARRIAGE: 1. https://www.findmypast.com/transcript?id=GBPRS%2FESSEX-MAR%2F0601310%2F1 accessed 17 Sep 2021: Johannes Warner and Maria Purcas, 10 Sep 1578 at Little Dunmow, Essex, England. Archive Essex Record Office; Archive reference D/P 95/1/1 | Purchase, Mary (I7910)
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| 1842 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. An extremely valuable reference book on this family is "Thomas Sanford, the emigrant to New England; ancestry, life, and descendants, 1632-4," by Carlton E. Sanford (Tuttle Company: Rutland, Vermont, 1911). It contains a thorough examination and report of the English church records, lay subsidies, and probate for this family. The book is available online at several websites including the following: https://archive.org/details/thomassanfordemi01sanf/page/28/mode/2up. 2. Son Thomas was named in grandfather John Warner's 1584 will. He was the only child of John Warner (Jr.) to be so noted. This supposes he is the eldest and only child born before 1584. It also helps set a marriage date for John and Mary. 3. An excellent resource: Warner, Lucien C., "The descendants of Andrew Warner, (New Haven, Conn.: Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor, 1919), available online at https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Thomas_Sanford%2C_the_emigrant_to_New_England%3B_ancestry%2C_life%2Cand_descendants%2C_1632-4. It contains the transcripts of the wills of all the early Warners and Purchases, which name and list children and grandchildren and were instrumental in building this family in this database. Here is a transcript of his will from this source: "WILL OF JOHN WARNER Commissary Court of London (Essex and Herts). Will filed July, 1614. In the name of God amen The Sixtenth daie of July in the yeares of the Reigne of our soueraigne Lord James by the grace of god of England Scot land Fraunce and Ireland Kinge Defender of the faith that is to say of England Fraunce and Ireland the twelvth & of Scotland the seaven and forteth I John Warner of Hatfield Broadoke alias Hatfeild Kinges in the county of Essex yeoman not sicke in bodie but whole and sound of mynde and memory, thankes be geven to almightie god doe make and ordeyne this my last will and testament in mannor and forme followinge First I comitt and comend my soule into the handes of Almightie god my maker and to Jesus christ his only sonne my saviour and redemer hoping thorowe his merittes death and passion to be made partaker of lief euerlastinge and my bodie to be buried at the discretion of my executor Item I geve and bequeath unto Mary my wief during her lief all those my freehould landes and tene ments with their appurtenances scituate and beinge in Hatfield aforesaid conteyninge by estimacion five and thirty acres be it more or lesse upon Condicion that the said Mary my wief shall well and truly paie or cause to be paid unto Elizabeth Warner my daughter tenne poundes a yeare duringe the terme of Sixe yeares next and imediately ensuinge after my decease yf the said Mary shall soe longe live at the two feastes or termes of the yeare that is to say the feast of the birth of our lord and saviour christ and St. John the baptist by even and equall porcions, The first payment thereof to begin and be made at the first of the said two feastes that shall first happen after my decease & to Thomas John and Ezechiell thre of the sonnes of Ezechiell Sandford my sonne in lawe the some of thre poundes sixe shillinges and eight pence a peece as they shall come to be of the age of xxi yeares the same to be paid by my said wief to some honest man whom my wief shall thinke well of to the use of the said thre Children that shall pay them the same at the time of their said seuerall ages of xxi yeares and after the said time & terme of Sixe yeares my will & mynde is that the said Mary my wief or hir assignes shall duringe hir lief paie or cause to be paide to Andrewe Warner and Edward Warner my tw sonnes the some of Fyftie shillinges a peece yearly at the two feasts or termes of the yeare aforesaid And after the decease of the said said Mary my wief I geve and bequeath all those my frehould landes and tenements in Hatfeild aforesaid with their appurtenances unto the said Andrewe Warner and Edward Warner and to their heires and assignes for euer upon Condicion that they the said Andrewe and Edward their heires or assignes shall pay or cause to be paid to Thomas Warner my grandchild the some of twentie poundes of lawfull englishe money within one month after he shalbe of the age of xxi yeeres Prouided alwaies that yf Mary my wief shall dye and departe this lief within the said time and terme of Sixe yeares next after my decease wherby the said Elizabeth my daughter shalbe unpaid the porcion that I have geven hir by this my will then my will & mynde is that the said Andrewe & Edward my said sonnes their heires or assignes shall pay the same yearly to the said Elizabeth at the feasts aforsaid for & duringe such time of the said sixe yeares as the same shall be unpaid at the time of the death of the said Mary & alsoe yf the said Mary doe dye before said sixe yeares be expired then the said Andrewe & Edward or their heires shall pay the said sum of iijli vjs viijd a peece to the three sonnes of my said sonne in lawe at the time aforesaid And further if my said wief shall die before the said sixe yeares shalbe expired then my will and mynde is that the overseers of this my will herafter named shall have the disposinge & lettinge of my said frehould landes to the use of the said Andrewe & Edward untill the said sixe yeers be accomplished & then John my sonne to have one yeares Rent or profitt thereof Item I geve to said Mary my wief the lease of a meade called the further mead next Hatfeild duringe the time I have in the same & thre Milch bease the best she can choose two gelt horse a cart sadle & harnes fitt for them a load cart a dongue cart & thre load of wheat strawe yearly to be brought to hir & deliuered by Thomas my sonne duringe the time of Sixe yeares after my decease yf she liue soe longe alsoe I geve to the said Mary my wief the one halfe of all my Lynnen thre of my best beddes with all that belonge to them halfe my brasse half my pewter the Coubert in the hall the longe table in the hall the Table in the parlour thre of the best Chestes save one and fower small wooden vessells as tubbes and keelers & such thinges two hogges of the biggest sort excepting sowes thre store pigges tenne ewes my executor to choose one and she another ; thre seame of wheat to be paid hir by Thomas my sonne betwene Bartholmewetide and midsomer next as she shall need the same Item I geve to John my sonne the some of one hundred and fortie poundes of lawfull money of England to be paid him by Thomas my sonne in manner and forme followinge that is to say fower score poundes therof within one yeare after my decease & thre score poundes beinge the residue therof within thre yeares after my decease Item I geve to the said John my sonne one bed in the chamber wher the folkes lye called Thomas his bedd with all thinges belonginge to it Item I geve to Thomas my sonne my lead as it now standes my great brassepot Item I geve to Rose my daughter the best chest save one Item I geve to th said Thomas my sonne thre bedds in the folkes chamber with all that belonge unto them & my will & mynde is that all other my goodes within my house not geven nor bequeathed shall be equally devided betwene John Andrewe & Edward my sonnes & Elizabeth my daughter parte & parte alike The residue of all my goodes and chattells not geven nor bequeathed (my debts paid & funerall discharged I geve and bequeath it wholly to Thomas my sonne whom I make my executor charginge him as he shall answere before god to per forme it accordinge to the true meaninge therof And I desire Christofer Wilkyn & Abraham Purcas to be my ouerseers therof & I geve them for their paines xx s. In witnes wherof I the said John Warner have herunto sett my hand and seale the day & yeare abousaid mark John Warner his (No entry of probate act.) Sealed and delivered in the presence of marks Ezeakell Sanford, Christofor Wilkin, Roberd Howe." MARRIAGE: 1. https://www.findmypast.com/transcript?id=GBPRS%2FESSEX-MAR%2F0601310%2F1 accessed 17 Sep 2021: Johannes Warner and Maria Purcas, 10 Sep 1578 at Little Dunmow, Essex, England. Archive Essex Record Office; Archive reference D/P 95/1/1 | Warner, John (I7908)
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| 1843 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. An extremely valuable reference book on this family is "Thomas Sanford, the emigrant to New England; ancestry, life, and descendants, 1632-4," by Carlton E. Sanford (Tuttle Company: Rutland, Vermont, 1911). It contains a thorough examination and report of the English church records, lay subsidies, and probate for this family. The book is available online at several websites including the following: https://archive.org/details/thomassanfordemi01sanf/page/28/mode/2up. | Hadsley, John (I7902)
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| 1844 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. An extremely valuable reference book on this family is "Thomas Sanford, the emigrant to New England; ancestry, life, and descendants, 1632-4," by Carlton E. Sanford (Tuttle Company: Rutland, Vermont, 1911). It contains a thorough examination and report of the English church records, lay subsidies, and probate for this family. The book is available online at several websites including the following: https://archive.org/details/thomassanfordemi01sanf/page/28/mode/2up. DEATH: 1. Commissary Court of London, Essex and Hertford (filed will) "In the name of God Amen.The XXIX day of March 1597 and in the XXXIXth yeere of the raygne of o'r Soveraygne Lady Elizabeth by the grace of God of England Fraunce & Ireland Queene Defender of the fayth &c. I Thomas Sanford of Much Hadham in the Countie of Hertf., Glover, being sick in bodye but yett of p'fect mynd & memorye thancks be to my good God & merciful & loving heavenly father doe ordayne & make this my last will and testam't in manner & forme following. First & principally I com'itt and com'end my sinfull soule to the merciful dispocon of him that gave it & most deerely bought it & my body to the earth from whence it was taken, to be buryed in the churchyarde of Much Hadham aforesayd on the south syde of the churche over agaynst the seat wher usually I satt in the tyme of Divine Service. Item.I geve to the pore of Much Hadha aforesayd such as have most neede twentye bushell of good barlye, sweet & well-dressed corne, to be distributed and delyvered amongest them by my executor hereafter named by the peck at the rate of tenn grotes a busshell. Item.I geve and bequeath to Prissilla and Sara my daughters to each of them tenn pounds of lawfull money of England & to Damaris my daughter twelve pounds of lyke lawfull money to be payd by my executor within three m[onths] next after my decease into the hands of my brother in Lawe John Lewes to the use of my sayd da[ughters] by him or by his direcon to be employed to their benefitt & futher advantage w'ch sayd severall l[egacies] w'th the p'ffitt & encrease th't shalbe raysed thereby I will shalbe payd by the sayd John Lewes or h[is heirs] to my sayd Daughters as they shall severally come & attayne the full age of twentye yeares or at [marriage] & yf it please God th't any of my sayd daughters dep't this liffe before her or their sayd porcion shalbe to her or them due then I w[ill that] the porcon or porcions of her or them so dep'ting this liffe together w'th the p'ffitt & encrease thereby shalbe equally devyded [between such] of my sayd daughters as shalbe then living, yf all be dead then to and amongst my sonnes or the longer liver of them. Item.I further geve and bequeath to my sayd dau[ghter] Prissella one cowe of colour black and to my sayd daughter Sara one cowe called a bullock th't hath had one calf & is now greate w'th another & to my daughter Damaris one cowe of colour pyed with whight & red w'ch I bought of John Rawline or in lewe & recompense for each cowe iii li. xs. [= 3 pounds 10 shillings] of lawfull english money my sayd daughters to be at their choice therein to be delyvered or payd by my executor to my sayd Daughters as they shall severally come to the age of twelve yeeres or before my wyffe be maryed or contract herself to any other w'ch first shall happen. Item.I geve and bequeath to Zachary my sonne my browne gellding or xlvis viiid [46 shillings 8 pence] of lawfull english money to be delyvered or payd by my executor to his use into the hands of John Lewes aforenamed and by him to be imployed to my sonnes benefitt & to be payd by the sayd John Lewes his executors or assigns together with encrease thereof to my sayd sonne Zachary at his full age of XXti yeeres or yf my sayd sonne Zachary dye before he attayne his sayd age of XXti yeeres th't then his sayd porcon shalbe payd and devyded among my daughters or so many of them th't shalbe then lyving. Item.I geve to John Richardson of Standon in the foresayd countye of Hertf. Glover, the tenn shillings w'ch he oweth me uppo condicion th't he worke at the wares that are in the Lymes when he shalbe thereunto reasonably requyred by my executor. Item.I geve and bequeath to Rychard Sanford my brother one p'cell of land contayning by estimacon half an acre lying and being on Stansted Mon fittechett in the countie Essex in a comon field there and comenly called Stonyfield.To have & to hold the sayd p'cell of land to the use of the sayd Rychard Sanford and his heiers forever. Item.I geve and bequeath to Ezechiell my sonne all my other free lands in Stansteed aforesayd lying in three p'cells and contayne by estimacon three acres.To have & to hold all of those three p'cells of land to the use of the sayd Ezechiell & his heiers forever uppon condicon following (th't is to say) th't the sayd Ezechiell my sonn or his heirs shall pay or cause to be payd to Robert Sanford my brother L12 & to Rych' Sanford my brother L12 & to Elizabeth my sister now the wyffe of Wyllyam Woodley L12 within fyve m[onths] after the decease of Elizabeth Sanford, widow, my mother.The w'ch yf my sayd sonn Ezechiell shall refuse or not p'forme then I geve & bequeath the sayd three p'cells of land to the sayd Robart Sanford, Richard Sanford, my brothers and Elizabeth, my sister, & to their heiers forever. Item.I geve and bequeath all that my p'te or purp'te & procon of w'ch I ought to have out of the goods and implemts of howshold w'ch were Rychard Sanford my late father deceased to the sayd Robert and Rychard Sanford my brothers & Elizabeth my sister to be devyded amongst them and my brother Henry to have some p'te with them. Item.I ordayne and appoynt my brother Rychard Sanford & my brothersinlaw John Mellett & John Lewes overseers of this my p'sent last will desyring them to take the chardge uppo them and towards their payns therein to be taken I geve to each of them three shillings fower pence apece. Item.I geve to each of my servants th't shalbe ___ [indecipherable word] towards me iiis. iiid. [= 3 shillings and 3 pence]. The residue of my goods and chattels not before geven or bequeathed my debts being payd my funeralls discharged & this my p'rsent last will all things p'formed I geve and bequeath to Mary my wyffe (whome I ordayne & appoynt my onely and sole executrix) of this will and testam't uppon theise condicons following notwithstanding (th't is to say) th't yf Mary my sayd wyffe (within) tenn days next after my decease seale & delyver as her deed to the forenamed Rychard Sanford John Mellett & John Lewes one such ___ [word torn out] sum of money as to the sayd Rychard Sanford John Mellett and John Lewes shalbe thought meete for the good ___ [word torn out] educacon and bringing up of my said children during all the tyme of their minorytie and allso th't the sayd wyffe shall be p'cure & cause my sayd children & every of them to be enstructed & taught to wright read and cast acompt [= accounts] w'ch yf she endevor not to doe th't then she shal pay or cause to be payd to so many of my sayd sonnes & daughters not so enstructed & taught twentye marks apeece over and above the legacies to them or eyther of them before geven. And allso th't she the sayd Mary my wyffe shall p'forme & fullfill this my prsent last will & testam't in all things. And further that yf she my sayd wyffe shall at any tyme before this my last will be fully p'formed and fullfilled be mynded to bestowe herself in maryage with any man th't she shall take therein the advise of my overseers therein but especially of John Lewes aforesayd. And that before Solemnigaco [= solemnization] of the matrymonye between them she shall p'cure him w'th whom she shall be so mynded to bestow herself in maryage & one other such sufficient Suertye with him as shallbe lyked of by the sayd Rychard Sanford John Mellett & John Lewes or so many of them as shalbe then lyving to seale and delyvre as his & their deed one such good and sufficient wryting obligacon in due forme of lawe to be made sealed & delyvered wherein they shall stand Joyntly and Severally bound to the sayd Rychard Sanford John Millett & John Lewes or so many of them as shalbe then lyving in such a convenyent some [= sum] of money as to them shalbe thought meete as well for the educacon & instruction of my sayd children as for p'formance of this my last will & testamt in all things at th't tyme not p'formed & done & th't w'thin the sayd tenn dayes she my sayd wiffe shall remyse release & quitte clayme to my said brother Rychard Sanford all her estate tytle of dower & demand w'ch she hath may should or ought to have in & to the said half acre of land lying in Stonyfeild aforesayd. And allso th't within tenn days next ensuing the decease of me the sayd Thomas Sanford she my said wyffe shall remyse release & quitt clayme to Ezechiell my sonne all her estate tytle of dower & demand w'ch she hath may might should or ought to have of in & to the sayd three p'cells of land in Monfittchett aforesayd before to him bequeathed conditionally in this my p'sent last will he p'forming the legacies by him to be payd or else to my brothers Robart and Rychard & my sister Elizabeth and their heiers; yf he refuse to p'forme the same That then she shall be executor and take benefitt of the devyse to her before made of all the resydue of my goods & chattles All w'ch sayd things w'ch concerne my sayd wyffe yf she shall not p'forme and fullfill in manner & forme Then my will and mynde is th't she shall not be my executor nor have any benefitt by the gifte of her before made of the resydue of my goods & chattles But insteed thereof I geve & bequeath to her my sayd wyffe tenn pounds & no more & in her place I ordayne & appoynt my brother Rychard Sanford to be my sole executor & to him I geve & bequeath all the resydue of my goods and chattles to the extent & purpose th't he shall bring up my children in [four words torn out] pay my debts & p'forme this my p'sent last will in all things & th't he shall be bound by such lyke bond to [torn] John Millett & John Lewes as my wyffe should have bine & w'th such lyke condicon for the educacon and bringing up of my children & p'formance of this my last will in all things.And further my will and mynd is th't at such tyme as the [torn word], gyftes before mentioned shalbe payd & delyvered to John Lewes before named he the sayd John Lewes shall seale and delyver as his deed to my sayd wyffe John Millett & Rychard Sanford aforesayd the wryting obligatory to be in due forme of same made sealed and delyvred wherein he shall stand bound to my sayd wyffe John Millett & Rychard Sanford aforesayd in a sufficient some of money with condicon thereupon that for the suer [= sure] pay't of the said legacies delyvered to him together with the p'ffitt & encrease th't shall cleerely grow & aryse thereby at th tymes before lymetted in this p'sent last will.And th't once every yeere he shall render an accompt to my brother Rychard Sanford of the p'ffitt & encrease th't shalbe raysed of & by the sayd legacies to him delyvered being reasonably demaunded thereunto by the sayd Rychard Sanford All w'ch sayd wrytinge obligatory being made sealed & delyvered in forme aforesayd I will shalbe com'itted to the custodye & keeping of my sayd brother Rychard Sanford. This will was read and acknowledged by the sayd testator to be his very last will revoking all others by him before this tyme made John Lewes(Signed) John BayfordThomas Sanford John Crowche Lennett Wall Probated at Brantrye, Essex, 9 April 1597. | Sanford, Thomas (I7874)
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| 1845 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. Ancestral File and Ordinance Index reports name of Mary, Hannah, Mary Hannah, and Mary Smith Sexton. Correct is Mary. 2. Censuses: 1850 US: District 21, Pottawattamie, Iowa, p. 97b, household 532, living next door to father: George Grabill, 29, farmer, OH. Mary, 27, OH. Hannah, 8, IL. Brigham, 7, IL. George, 4, IA. Polly, 1, IA. 1856 Iowa: (From Ancestry.com) Kane, Pottawattamie, Iowa, p. 10 of 63, 59/60: George W. Graybill, 35, 9 years in Iowa, OH, farmer. Mary, 32, 9, IN. Hannah, 13, 9, IL. Brigham, 11, 9, IL. Geo., 9, IA. Polly, 7, IA. John, 5, IA. Isaiah, 3, IA. Massey, 1, IA. Mary C., 0, IA. [Same person as Sarah A.] 3. A partial quote from the book "Our Stoker Family Histories 1731-1881," Vol. II, comp. and ed. by Elayne Stoker, 2004, printed by Stevenson's Genealogy Center, Provo, UT, from an article entitled: "Polly Stoker": "Vivian Graybill, of Independence, Missouri, has worked on the Graybill genealogy for many years and since he plans to publish a book with a great amount of detailed information I will not list the names of their complete families. I will note the names of Michael and Polly's children and how they relate to other families in this book. I do have most family names if anyone wants to check it. [Kerry's note: the author lists each child and grandchild of Polly. See her file for the complete listing. I include only the immediate family in this individual's note.] "George Washington Graybill, b. 6/25/1821, Jackson Co., Ohio. m. Mary Smith. Mary died Feb. 16, 1860, when 35 years of age. 1. Brigham Graybill, b. 5/10/1840 2. Hannah Graybill, b. 8/5/1842 3. George Graybill, b. 1847 4. Polly Graybill, b. 1849 5. John Graybill, b. 5/12/50 6. Isaiah Graybill, b. 1/30/54 7. Mattie Graybill, b. 2/3/55 8. Sarah Graybill, b. 4/ /56 9. Catherine Graybill, b. 12/25/58 10. Lydia Graybill, b. 1/31/60 m. (2) Hannah Smith Oman Sexton, the twice widowed sister to Mary. Hannah had two children by Perry Oman, one my great grandmother, and four children by James Sexton. These families are listed in the Smith section. She had three children after this marriage. Cooking for such a large family presented its problems. Over a dozen loaves of bread were made at one time, and a half dozen pies. Hannah commented later in life, she never wanted to make another pie. Hannah and George lived by Underwood and they are both buried in the cemetery west of town. 11. Julia Ann Graybill, b. Jan. 24, 1864 12. Samuel Graybill, b. Oct. 24, 1865 13. Zenis Graybill, b. Mar. 14, 1867" BIOGRAPHY: 1. See notes of father John Smith for extensive biography on entire family including this individual and their spouses. 2. The book "Mormon Redress Petitions, Documents of the 1833-1838 Missouri Conflict," edited by Clark V. Johnson, contains a copy of the "Scroll Petition" dated 28 Nov 1843 at Nauvoo, IL addressed to the U.S. Congress by members of the LDS Church who had property destroyed by Missouri mobs in the 1830's. Included with over a couple thousand signatures is Mary Graybill. 3. The following partial quote is included in the biography of Stephen Smith, brother of this individual, per FHL film 934962, items 3 and 4, "History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa," by Field and Reed, 1907, pp. 1066-1067 [see notes for Stephen Smith in this database for full quotation]: "Stephen Smith, now living retired but still residing on his farm on section 27, Grove township, came to Pottawattamie county about the 1st of November, 1847. On this day he arrived in Council Bluffs, where he spent the winter. In the following April his father arrived in Macedonia township, bringing his family with him, and there he built the first house within what is now the borders of the township. John Smith, the father, resided there for eight years or more, and in the fall of 1853 or 1854 became a resident of Grove township, settling on section 8, where he continued to reside until his death occurred, in 1870, when he was 72 years of age... His birth had occurred in North Carolina and he had resided for some time in Indiana prior to coming to Iowa. The wife, who bore the maiden name of Elizabeth Martha Koonts, was born in Indiana, and from that state they removed to Adams county, Illinois, where the death of Mrs. Smith occurred, in 1840. Stephen Smith was born in Henry county, Indiana, January 28, 1836. His father wedded a second time, having wedded Miss Sarah Winegar in Adams county, Illinois, after losing his first wife. She accompanied her husband to Pottawattamie county and died here in 1882 [error; should be 1880]. By the two marriages there were seven sons and six daughters. Those of the family who came to Pottawattamie county were: Mary, Patience, Hannah, Elizabeth, Lydia, Rhoda [error: Lydia Rhoda is one individual and not two], Anna, Stephen, Joseph, Hiram, Carlos and Abraham. [Note: I believe Anna being included in this list to be an error in that it appears she died in Indiana as an infant.] Two brothers of the family died in early Childhood. Of the children Stephen, Lydia, and Abraham are still living, the sister being a resident of Cheyenne county, Kansas, while the brother makes his home in northwestern Nebraska. Stephen Smith was eleven years of age when he came with his father to Pottawattamie county..." 4. Mentioned in the book "The Howard Leytham Stoker Von Dollen Family Histories," FHL 929.273 H833a, by Doris Lewis, 2017 So. 80th Ave., Omaha, Nebraska, 68124, pp. 90-91: "Joseph Levi Graybill, b. 12 Mar 1818, Jackson Co., OH; m. 3rd cousin Patience Smith. Levi and Patience settled Wheeler's Grove with George Graybill and his wife Mary Smith, sister to Patience." 5. FHL book 929.273 P684pn: "Graybill/Stoker/Eller/Smith/Koons/Pitt Connections," by Norman E. 'Gene' Pitt, 1996, pp. 72-75, extensive downline of this family is in the book: "George Washington Graybill, b. 25/26 Jun 1821, Bloomfield Twp., Jackson Co., OH; d. 5 Mar 1900, Pottawattamie Co., IA; md. (1) 1841, Bloomfield Twp., Jackson Co., IN to Mary Smith; md. (2) 1862 to Hannah Smith... Mary Smith was b. 16 Sep 1823, Henry Co., IN; d. Feb 1860, Pottawattamie Co., IA. Mary and Hannah were sisters. Mary died just 3 weeks after Lydia was born. Hannah was b. 1828, Wayne co., IN; d. 16 Feb 1903, Underwood, Potta. Co., IA; bur. Potta. Co., IA. Mary's sisters and various other relatives were living in the same county. George was 16 when his family left Ohio for Missouri. He was living in Kane Twp., Potta. Co., IA in 1870. George's and Mary's children were Hannah, Brigham Young, George Henry, Polly Purley, John 'Jack', Isaiah, Mattie 'Massie', Sarah, Catherine and Lydia. George's and Hannah's children were Julia Ann, Samuel and Zenis." [Note there are many mistakes with this author's report including both marriage dates and places as well as birth and death dates for Hannah. BIRTH: 1. Per "History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa," 1883, O.L. Baskin and Co., Historical Publishers, Chicago, p. 200, entry for Henry G. Fisher: "September 25, 1862, six miles east of the Bluffs, he was married to Hannah Graybill, who was born in Hancock County, Ill., August 3, 1842. She is the daughter of George and Mary (Smith) Graybill. Her father was a native of Ohio and her mother was born near Indianapolis, Ind. They were among the first settlers in Pottawattamie County, coming here when Mrs. Fisher was only three years old." 2. A review of various censuses of Mary's children generally confirm her birth in Indiana. There are a couple that show Ohio in one census year; however, these same individuals later show Indiana in subsequent censuses. Her son John does show South Carolina on his death registration; however, the same record shows obvious errors in John's birthdate and John's father's name - which could make South Carolina also erroneous. 3. The book "The Howard Leytham Stoker Von Dollen Family Histories," FHL 929.273 H833a, by Doris Lewis, 2017 So. 80th Ave., Omaha, Nebraska, 68124, pp. 110-111: "Mary Smith, b. 16 Sep 1823 at Henry Co, IN and d. 16 Feb 1860 at Pottawattamie Co., IA, m. George Washington Graybill. The Graybill boys and the Smith girls were third cousins - the Graybills' grandmother was Catherine Eller and the Smiths' grandmother was Mary Eller." MARRIAGE: 1. Ordinance index reports both 25 Sep 1841 at Bloomfield, Jackson, Ohio and 21 Jun 1841 in Quincy, Adams, Illinois. The FHL book 977.344-V2m "Marriages of Adams County, IL," vol. 1, compiled by the Great River Genealogical Society, 1979, p. 45: "George Graybill and Mary Smith, 21 Jun 1841. Marriages extracted from Adams County Courthouse in Quincy, IL. DEATH: 1. The book "The Howard Leytham Stoker Von Dollen Family Histories," FHL 929.273 H833a, by Doris Lewis, 2017 So. 80th Ave., Omaha, Nebraska, 68124, pp. 110-111: "Mary Smith, b. 16 Sep 1823 at Henry Co, IN and d. 16 Feb 1860 at Pottawattamie Co., IA." BURIAL: 1. The following name is found on a new memorial stone with 33 other related family members at Graybill/Stoker Cemetery: "Mary Graybill 1823-1860." It is 3 miles east of Council Bluffs, Iowa in Garner Township on old Highway 6 (also known as McPherson Highway - not to be confused with the new Highway 6), then a right (south) on State Orchard Road for 9/10ths of a mile, then left (east) on Cedar Lane to the first driveway on the left (north). The address is 21090 Cedar Lane and the cemetery is in their backyard. Get permission from the homeowner first. These directions were corrected from previous directions after my visit May 8, 2007. 2. Tombstone at Graybill Cemetery, Garner Township, Pottawattamie, Iowa: "Mary Graybill wife of Geo. W. Graybill, daughter of John and Mattie Smith died 16 Feb 1860, 35 years, 5 months." SOURCES_MISC: 1. Per Ancestral File 4.19 (28 May 2001). 2. The book "The Howard Leytham Stoker Von Dollen Family Histories," FHL 929.273 H833a, by Doris Lewis, 2017 So. 80th Ave., Omaha, Nebraska, 68124, pp. 90-91. 3. Mentioned in the FHL book 929.273 P684pn: "Graybill/Stoker/Eller/Smith/Koons/Pitt Connections," by Norman E. 'Gene' Pitt, 1996, pp. 125-140. 4. FHL Book 929.273EL54h "George Michael Eller and Descendants of His in America," compiled by James W. Hook, 1957, also on FHL film 896571, item 2, pp. 98, 149. He also mentions as part of his sources: (1) "History and Directory of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, 1880-81," and (2) "Biographical History of Pottawattamie Co., Iowa" by Lewis Pub. Co., 1891. | Smith, Mary (I279)
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| 1846 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. Ancestral File gives birth 10 Dec 1842 at Jonesboro, Union, Illinois to Jacob John Waggle and Mary Vance (Vancel). She dies 1 Apr 1929 and is buried 3 Apr 1929 both at Parowan, Iron, Utah. She married Valentine in 1862 at Nephi, Juab, Utah. She appears to have previously been married to William Lewis Penrod 28 Apr 1857 at the Endowment House. Hannah is somewhat related to the other wife Mary Ann; Mary Ann's father was Thomas Jefferson Adair, Jr. who had two wives: Francis Rogers and Mary Vance. Mary Ann's mother is Francis and Hannah's mother is Mary Vance but her father is Jacob Waggle to whom Mary Vance was married before Thomas Adair. Jacob died at Mt. Pisgah, Iowa in 1845. Utah State Historical Society's online Burials Database shows: Hannah Carson, birth unknown, death 1 Apr 1929 due to cerebral hemorhage, bur. Parowan cemetery plot 04-15-02 with parents noted as Jacob Waggle and Mary Vancil. 2. Censuses: 1850 US: Madison Co., Iowa, 7 Oct 1850, family 881: Thomas Adiar, 34, farmer, OH. (Misspelled Adair) Mary, wife, 28, IL. (Mary Vancel his second wife.) Cyntha, 12, AL. (Dau. of Mary Vancel and Jacob Waggle; birthplace most likely in error.) Maryann, 12, AL. (Dau. of first marriage to Frances Rogers.) Thomas, 2, IA. (Son of Thomas and Mary Vancel) James, 8, Mississippi. (Son of first marriage to Frances Rogers.) John, 7, IL. (Son of Mary Vancel and Jacob Waggle.) Hannah, 6, IL. (Dau. of Mary Vancel and Jacob Waggle.) Emma, 5, Mississippi. (Dau. of first marriage to Frances Rogers.) Jonathan Davis, 22, laborer, Upper Canada. Alexander Davis, 20, laborer, Upper Canada. 1851 Iowa State: Pottawattamie County. FHL film 1022203. The entire state was counted but only Pottawattamie listed everyone by name in the household and their ages; other counties only listed the head of the household and a numerical count without names of the various ages by sex in the household. No date is given when the census was taken but it was certified in Dec. 1851; however, the other counties show a Sep 1851 date which also appears more likely for Pottawattamie as well in light of ages given some children with known birthdays in October. Cynthia, John and Hannah are all children of the first marriage of Mary Vancel to Jacob Waggle. Mary A., James, and Emma are children of Thomas' first marriage with Frances Rogers. Thomas and Aaron are children of Thomas and Mary Vancel. Census return: Adair: Thomas 36, Mary 37, Mary A. 14, Cynthia 14, John 11, James 10, Hannah 9, Emma 6, Thomas 2, Aaron L. 0. [Note next door neighbors are the William/Sarah Mangum and John/Mary A. Mangum families. The Samuel Adair {with Samuel's daughter John/Permelia Holden family next door to him} is also listed but half the census away in a different part of the county. No other Adairs, Mangums, nor any Richeys listed in census.] The 1856 Utah Territorial Census was taken because Utah was trying to get statehood to avoid some of the problems that later came. As a result they wanted as many people as possible and frequently included names of everyone in a family without regard to whether they were living or dead. As a result, some of the people listed with the family may not actually have been in the household in 1856. The Adair and Mangums listed included the following heads of households in the Provo and Payson City area: George W. Adair, James Mangum, Joseph Adair (wife Rebecca), Samuel Adair, and Thomas Adair. Source for the following entry is FHL film # 505,913 (index in FHL book 979.2X22u); Ms d 2929 fd. 33, Payson City, p. 8: Payson City, p. 9: Thomas Adair Maria " Mary Ann " James " Hannah " (Kerry's note: this would be Hannah Waggle.) Emma " Thomas " Aaron Adair Frances " Moroni " Samuel J. " Alma " Sarah " Adam " Frances " John " 1870 US: Washington, Washington, Utah, enum. 6 Jul 1870, Roll 1613 Book 1, p. 411a, household 19, family 29 (related neighbors out of a total of 108 homes include the following heads of households: John Wesley Adair, Charles Searles, John Milton Adair, Valentine Carson, William Mangum, Jeremiah Stayner, and Samuel J. Adair): Valentine Carson, 38, farmer, $700 real estate, $300 personal property, AL. Hannah, 24 (or 29?), keeping house, IL. Samuel, 13, UT. Jeremiah 7, UT. Mary E., 4, UT. Elizabeth, 2, UT. William F., 6/12, UT. 1880 US: Parowan, Iron, Utah, FHL film 1255336, NA film T9-1336, p. 361A (appears four older children possibly are not from Hannah): Voluntine Carson, 49, farmer, AL SC SC. Hannah, wife, 35, keeping house, IL - - . E. Mary, dau., 15, UT AL SC. J. Elizabeth, dau., 12, UT AL SC. F. William, son, 10, UT AL SC. A. Alty, dau., 8, UT AL SC. A. Rebecca, dau., 6, UT AL IL. J. Eliza, dau., 4, UT AL IL. E. Rachel, dau., 2, UT AL IL. 1900 US: Parowan, Iron, Utah, enum. 8 Jun 1900, p. 278B, household 101, family 102: Hannah Carson, b. Dec 1841, 58, widow, 11 total children with 9 alive, housewife, USA USA USA. Rebecca, dau., Apr 1874, 26, S, Utah, MS, USA. John, son, Mar? 1880, 19, S, Utah, MS, USA. 1910 US: Parowan, Iron, Utah, enum. 18 Apr 1910, roll 1603 book 2, p. 173b, household 25, family 28, listed as part of family 27: John H. Miller, 35, married 9 years, farmer, UT SCO US. Rebecca A., wife, 32, married 9 years, UT AL IL. Horace C., son, 8, Parowan, Parowan, UT. Bernice, dau., 6, Parowan, Parowan, UT. Betran, son, 6, Parowan, Parowan, UT. Mable, dau., 4, Parowan, Parowan, UT. Clair C., son, 2, Parowan, Parowan, UT. Hannah Carson, 66, married 44 years, IL US US. 3. See husband's notes for quote of daughter Mary Ellen Carson Tait's biography. The surname of Wygle is used [perhaps erroneously] as well as Waggle. 4. From the booklet "Thomas Jefferson Adair (1814-1890)," FHL 921.73 Ad11r, 2004, by Rose Ann Ritchie: Mary Vance was born 27 Sep 1820 in St. Clair, Illinois to Adam Vance (1790) and Catherine Penrod (1794). Mary was the 3rd of 6 children born to her parents. Her brothers and sisters were Nancy (1814), Young John (1817), Aaron (1822), Moriah (1826), and Cynthia (1828). Mary's first husband, Jacob Waggle, was born 1814 of Jonesboro, Union, Illinois. He died 3 Jan 1845 at Mt. Pisgah, Iowa at the age of 31. Mary and Jacob had 5 children: Cynthia Waggle was born 19 Aug 1837 at Jonesboro, Union, Illinois. She was 8 years old when her father died. She was 15 years old in 1852 when she married George Washington Bradley. They were later divorced. She was 24 years old when she married Reuben John Dove, in Salt Lake, Utah. She died at the age of 67 on 16 Jan 1904. Alma Waggle was born 15 April 1839 at Jonesboro, Union, Illinois. John Waggle was born 18 Apr 1841 at Jonesboro, Union, Illinois. Hannah Waggle was born 10 Dec 1842 at Pike Co., Illinois. Hannah was 3 years old when her father died. She married William Lewis Penrod. I think he died and she the married Valentine Carson in 1862 at Nephi, Juab, Utah at the age of 20. She was 87 when she died at Parowan, Iron, Utah on 1 Mar 1929. Sarah Waggle was born 17 Dec 1844 at Jonesboro, Union, Illinois." PHOTOS: 1. I have photos of Valentine Carson and his wife Hannah Waggle together and also a separate photo of Mary Ann Adair. BIOGRAPHY: 1. See husband's notes for quote of daughter of Mary Ellen Carson Tait's biography with several mentions of Valentine's and Hannah's life in Washington, Kanarra, and Parowan. 2. The book "Pioneer Women of Faith and Fortitude," Daughters of Utah Pioneers, p. 510, photo in article: "Hannah Waggle Carson, b. 10 Dec 1842 at Hancock Co., IL; d. 1 Apr 1929 at Parowan, Iron, UT; parents are Jacob Waggle and Mary Vancil; pioneer of 1851/1852 in the Harrison Wagon Train; m. Valentine Carson in 1862 at Nephi, Juab, UT; Valentine died 25 Sep 1898 at Parowan, Iron, UT. Children: Mariah, 1 Nov 1862 (stillborn) Hannah Marie, 14 May 1863 (died in infancy) Mary Ellen, 29 Jan 1865 Elizabeth Jane, 28 Dec 1868 William Franklin, 18 Dec 1870 Alta Armedia, 9 Jun 1872 Rebecca Ann, 26 Apr 1874 Eliza Jane, 16 Mar 1876 Rachel Emma, 11 Dec 1877 John Thomas, 15 Nov 1880 Senetha Chelia, 5 Mar 1882 (died at age 1) Sintha Cathia, 9 Mar 1883 (died in infancy) Hannah's father died when she was two years old. Her mother married Thomas Adair. In the year of 1852, Hannah was nine years old when she came with her family across the Plains. They were in Captain Harrison's Wagon Company and passed through many hardships on the journey westward. When they reached the Salt Lake Valley, they settled at Salt Creek which is now Nephi. Then her family was called to Washington County to settle the country and this was where she met Valentine Carson. They went back to Nephi to be married and she became his second wife. Hannah's husband made his second trip across the Plains to bring Saints to the Valley which took him seven months, returning to Washington County where they lived through many hardships together. Later, when the St. George Temple was being built, Valentine and Hannah moved to St. George. Valentine did a great deal to help in building the temple. Hannah helped by cooking for the men who worked in the temple. When the temple was completed, they did work for their dead. In the year 1877, they moved with their family to Kanarra. In 1879, the moved to Parowan where they lived for several years, then they moved onto a homestead in the west part of Parowan Valley. When the World War was on, the younger women were sewing for the Red Cross and the older ladies were knitting socks. Hannah knit 36 pair of socks for the soldiers. Besides raising eleven children of her own, she helped to raise her husband's son by a first wife and also a little girl of George Adair's which she nursed and cared for as her own." 3. From the book "History of Piute County" by Linda King Newell, pp. 208-213, has the following sad story about Emma Carson, daughter of Valentine Carson. Valentine was the son of Samuel Carson and Eliza Jane Adair (daughter of Thomas Adair and Rebecca Brown). Ann Hales in the story is Jemima Ann Adair, daughter of George Washington Adair and his first wife Ann Chestnut who was adopted by Valentine and his wife when Ann Chestnut Adair died in childbirth. Jemima Ann Adair had married Charles Henry Hales. Valentine Carson first married Mary Ann Adair who died in 1861 and who George's first cousin from his uncle Thomas. Valentine's second wife was then Hannah Waggle who is mentioned in the story: "Tragedy at Blue Springs. In 1908 the Utah Dept. of Fish and Game hired John 'Jack' D. Morrill of Junction to operate the fish hatchery at Blue Springs in Garfield County. The hatchery would help restock the fished-out waters in Piute and Garfield Counties with rainbow and eastern brook trout... One contemporary described him as 'a very intelligent man and a very religious man (who) was kind to everyone... same with his wife, Emma.' Born in Kanarraville and raised in Parowan, Emma Carson met Jack Morrill in Junction, where she had gone as a teenager to work for her adopted sister, Ann Hales, who ran a hotel. She was 18 and he 22 when they married in 1893... In 1908 Jack and Emma Morrill moved their four children to the Blue Springs fish hatchery... Although the family was often isolated by deep snows throughout much of the winter, they did have a phone that hooked them to Parowan and also to the Sevy Ranch on the Panguitch side of the mountain... Emma's widowed mother, Hannah Waggle Carson, spent seven summers at Blue Springs with the family, helping her daughter with children and meals. In those beautiful summer months they entertained visitors with a crank freezer full of homemade ice cream and 'lots of fresh fish.' The two women fed 'people by the dozen.' Emma would remember her eight years there as some of her happiest... The winter of 1915-16 turned particularly nasty and the Morrill family was snowed in at Blue Springs for most of December and January. According to one account, 14' snowdrifts piled 'almost to the eves of their porch.' By 26 Jan. the weather lifted. Eager to have news from family and friends, Jack called his brother Jim in Panguitch and asked him to bring their mail up to the Sevy Ranch the next day and he would meet him there. That night Emma wrote several letters for him to give to Jim to post, including one to her sister Rebecca, in which she expressed her uneasiness with her husband's venture. Emma watched Jack leave on horseback in a light snow at 4:00 a.m. on Tuesday morning. It was eleven miles to the Sevy Ranch, so he agreed to call her from the William Prince ranch house - vacant during the winter - at the south end of Panguitch Lake where there was a telephone. The call came at around 6:00 a.m. - it had taken him two hours to go three miles. The horse was exhausted from fighting the deep snow, so he told Emma he would leave it in the barn there. He proceeded on snowshoes down the mountain, leaving his warm outer coats strapped to his saddle. At about noon Jack reached the Sevy Ranch tired and hungry. Jim and the Sevy family greeted him warmly. They had been worried when the storm began to intensify and he had not arrived. He called Emma to tell her he had arrived safely and he would be starting back soon. At Blue Springs the storm had turned to a raging blizzard with high winds. Emma begged him to stay there until it passed. He assured her he would be alright after he had eaten and rested and that the storm wouldn't last long. He said he would call her again when he got to the Prince ranch where his horse was. As he shouldered 25 pounds of Christmas mail and packages in two packs the Sevys tried to persuade him to wait it out. Worried about his own family, and certain he would be alright, he disappeared into the tempest. This storm proved so furious that it blew out a number of large windows in Panguitch. In the mountains, four feet of new snow fell on drifts already ten to twelve feet high. An anxious Emma fought the snow and wind to the barn where she did evening chores, milking their two cows, feeding the horses and bringing in more firewood. For two days and two nights they watched and waited as the storm raged, plunging temperatures 23 degrees below zero. Emma and twelve-year-old Belle took turns around the clock cranking the telephone to try to get a message over the storm-damaged lines to someone in Parowan or at Sevy's Ranch to tell them Jack had not returned. At one point Emma turned to Belle and said, 'If you will stay with the children I believe I can put on those snowshoes and go out and find Daddy.' The youngsters 'cried and begged her not to go,' so she didn't. Finally, at Parowan, on 27 January Clara Matheson Benson at the telephone switchboard noticed a faint signal and received the news from Emma Morrill. Clara's husband, Philip Benson, began organizing a search party. At a mass meeting that evening the opinion was expressed that the storm was too dangerous to send anyone out into it; however, Fred Bruhn, John Dalton, and John C. Gould volunteered to join Benson. The searchers left at five o'clock the next morning. With the telephone lines to Panguitch down, Clara Benson and her father decided to send a telegram there for help. It had to go from Parowan to Cedar City, then through a number of other stations to San Francisco and back through Salt Lake City to Panguitch. It cost $14.75 - a hefty sum in those days. The telegram read: 'Regardless of cost of distance and rush, John Morrill missing from Blue Springs Hatchery. Must have help. 4 Parowan men already gone. - Simon A. Matheson, Clara M. Benson.' When the message arrived in Panguitch, men there also organized a search party. Finally the blizzard abated. Emma ventured outside again. Snow had drifted over the house. She and Melvin cleared a path to the barn and with an ax chopped the ice from the door. She fed the animals and milked the cows. Returning to the house, she again talked on the phone with Clara. By late afternoon the men from Parowan reached the ridge above Panguitch Lake. They could see two men carrying something toward William Prince's cabin on the west side of the lake. Frank Worthen and Ruby Syrett had found John Morrill's frozen body. He had fallen face first into the snow, just 75 feet from the Prince ranch house. The Parowan men reached the cabin a short time later as did John Gould from Panguitch. They loaded the body onto a makeshift toboggan made from a 'cheese board.' Worthen and several men from both groups took the body to Sevy's Ranch. Benson, Syrett, and another Panguitch man went on to Blue Springs, reaching the Morrill family at about 11:00 p.m. The grieving Emma welcomed them with great relief. The men prepared their supper that night an insisted that Emma and the children eat as well. When they told her they wanted to take the family out to Panguitch, she asked them to leave them there, 'she couldn't stand to think of the suffering they would have to go through to take her out,' Clara Benson wrote. The men fixed breakfast the next morning while Emma packed a few things and got the children ready to go. They found the large metal vat that had been used to prepare fish food and used it as a sleigh. It was about five-by-eight feet, with eight-inch sides. The men piled hay in the bottom, helped the grief-stricken widow and the five children climb in, and placed heated rocks in the blankets tucked around them. At first they pulled the sleigh themselves until Panguitch men with horses met them. Quantities of food sent by the people of Panguitch awaited them at the Sevy Ranch. They stayed the night, and the next morning a bobsled took them on to Panguitch, where they spent the next night. The following day, someone with an automobile, one of the few in the country, took the family on to Junction. John L. Morrill's funeral was the largest anyone could remember. People came from all over the county and from Panguitch and Parowan as well. He was buried In Junction, where Emma and the children continued to live. Morrill had sold their house and land the year before, but his father persuaded the buyers to sell it back to Emma. By the time she had regained the property and taken care of debts and bills, there was little left. Emma's mother came from Parowan to help with household chores and the children so Emma could take a job. She became the janitor for the courthouse, the school, and the church. The job included starting the fires each morning and carrying out the ashes... Belle Morrill went to work for the telephone company as an operator when she turned 15. A year later, in 1918, the telephone company rented Emma Morrill's front room for the switchboard office. Belle became head operator, and Emma and Melvin assisted her when she needed help... On 21 Jan. 1920 Emma Morrill married a widower 20 years her senior, George Davies... Davies helped raise Emma's five children, and the marriage produced two more Children... In the 1930's the couple sold their home and bought the Junction hotel on Main Street [presumably the Hales' Junction Hotel of Charles Henry and Jemima Ann Adair Hales?]... Emma ran the hotel until George died in June 1951 - just four days before his ninetieth birthday. Emma's sons took the hotel sign down after George's funeral and told their seventy-year-old mother it was time for her to stop working so hard. Emma Carson Morrill Davies lived 20 more years. She died in a Richfield rest home on 19 Feb. 1967 at age 90 and is buried in the Junction cemetery beside John Morrill and their sons LaBaron and Joe Elwood." 4. This was recently found in Aug. 2003 by Sherril Clegg who was given the following typed story from a volunteer at the Kanab, Utah City Museum who is related to Valentine Carson. It is anonymous yet clearly knowledgeable as to two related events that were not known to most of us until only very recently. It appears to have been written by a grandchild of Eliza Jane Adair (Grandmother Price) who first married Samuel Carson in Alabama then later John Price after Samuel died. Eliza was the daughter of Thomas Adair and Rebecca Brown. She had a son from a first marriage, Valentine, who lost in 1861 his first wife, Mary Ann Adair, who was his first cousin by being a daughter of Thomas Jefferson Adair, Jr., a brother to Eliza Jane Adair. Valentine remarried Hannah Waggle, a step-sister, to his first wife. Valentine and Hannah's first child was stillborn and this tells of the May 1863 birth of their evidently premature baby who died at birth. Valentine had another first cousin, George Washington Adair, who was the son of Samuel Jefferson Adair, brother to both Eliza and Thomas J. Adair, Jr. During childbirth of the second child of George and his first wife Ann Chestnut, Ann died but evidently his Aunt Eliza, the midwife was able to save the baby who was named Jemima Ann. Apparently Eliza was able to arrange for Valentine's family to raise Jemima Ann. It should be noted that even though the essence of the story is correct, the timing is off a bit since George loses his wife late March 1863 whereas Hannah loses her child in mid-May of the same year. Both lived near Washington, Utah. Apparently "Grandmother Price" had a guiding influence in both family's lives.[Kerry's note: Jemima became my ancestor thru her later marriage to Charles Henry Hales. If it had been differently, I wouldn't be here to keep sending your pesky emails.] The story: "A Joy Realized. The scent of simmering greens floated out to Valentine Carson as he completed his evening's chores after a long hard day's labor on the new canal. As he neared the house, he was sure that something unusual was astir, as he could see his mother, Grandmother Price, bustling about. In those days of early pioneering in Dixie land, a good faithful soul like Grandmother Price was a godsend to expectant mothers. She was throughout all the Dixie County and as far out as Pioche, Nevada for her helpfulness to those in need of medical assistance. And, so now as Valentine greeted her, his worries began afresh for he knew his child to be should not arrive for at least two more months. 'Step quietly, my son,' said his mother as he came into the crudely built house. 'Hannah must rest as much as possible or she may have to meet the same disappointment as she did a year ago. I do hope she will not lose this baby as you know how she has planned for and yearns for one.' Their scant meal was eaten in silence with a prayer in their humble hearts for the little mother to be. No word was spoken, yet each knew the other's thoughts. Both knew that the angels of life and death were near. Hannah awakened suddenly calling first for her husband, then for her mother-in-law, Grandmother Price. All night they watched while the brave little woman went down into the valley of the shadows, coming back with no reward for her suffering. Death had scored another victory. Disappointed and grief stricken, she lay at times dozing to dream of the little form cuddled in her arms, awakening to find them empty, dozing again to see myriads of baby angels reaching out their tiny arms to greet yearning mothers, awakening to grasp the empty space. Oh! The longing of that mother's heart, the yearning during her waking hours for that tiny bundle nestling on her breast made hot and painful by its absence. Days dragged by and Grandmother Price received another summons. George Adair, cousin of Valentine Carson, rode over saying that his wife was very critically ill and needed the faithful mid-wife. Grandmother Price hurried away to keep watch while another little mother went down into the same valley to find another little child. But alas! This dear mother, while on her journey, battled with death who was the victor. Grandmother Price, though saddened by the death of her nephew's wife, had a song in her heart as she wrapped a tiny infant for a short journey to a new home. The ride To Washington was not far from the Adair's place, especially when she thought of the joy Hannah Carson would feel to nurse a hungry little child. The next morning a new strange light shown in Hannah's eyes as the dear old nurse made her comfortable for a new day. The longing for the joy of motherhood was partially realized at last." BIRTH: 1. More research is needed to resolve birth information. See research note above concerning Ancestral File's report of birth 10 Dec 1842 at Jonesboro, Union, Illinois. The various censuses confirm Illinois as state of birth but calculates birth years from 1841 to 1845. 1900 census gives date as Dec 1841 with no location. 1910 calculates as 1844 but does give Illinois. DUP biography quoted above gives 10 Dec 1842 in Hancock Co., IL. Union Co. in southern Illinois is a long distance from Hancock Co. Currently I use the Dec 1841 date of the 1900 census combining a day of 10 from the tradtional birth date. Other dates Hannah reports in 1843 per her temple ordinance work cited below seem to indicate that Hannah may not have been entirely consistent in her own mind. MARRIAGE: 1. She appears to have previously been married to William Lewis Penrod 28 Apr 1857 POFFI at the per Online Ordinance Index; however, the record states her birth as 10 Jan 1843 at Pike Co., IL, which does not match her correct birth date and place. It would have made her ate 14 if 1843 is correct. Perhaps there is a different Hannah Waggle in Utah at that time? 2. DUP biography quoted above gives 1862 in Nephi for Valentine and Hannah. Birth of first child was 1 Nov 1862, but the child was stillborn. 3. 1910 census notes 44 years married in present marriage. I don't know if she calculates as when Valentine dies in 1898 making date 1854 or from census making date 1866. Considering her sealing date of 11 Oct 1868 and that the 1910 census was taken April 1910, a date of 1867/68 seems likely in which case the sealing came slightly after the marriage. DEATH: 1. Utah State Historical Society's online Burials Database shows: Hannah Carson, birth unknown, death 1 Apr 1929 due to cerebral hemorhage, bur. Parowan cemetery plot 04-15-02 with parents noted as Jacob Waggle and Mary Vancil. Appears by plot number to be next to her husband Valentine Carson. BURIAL: 1. See death citation. | Waggle or Wiggle, Hannah (I3521)
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| 1847 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. Ancestral File indicates another child: Disbrow Knapp, b. 1649 Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut. I don't believe this is correct and he does not show up in any other sources. Disbrow is shortened for Disbrough which is the name of the spouse of Sarah Knapp. I did not find this name or any variation thereof in the book "Stamford Town Records, Vol. 1, 1641-1723," transcribed and annotated by Paul R. Finch, NEHGS (Boston, 2011). I also did not find the name in the "Great Migration" entry below which is one of the best sources on this family. The name probably came from a bad reading of Nicholas' will wherein the married name of his daughter, "Sarah Disbrow," is listed -- someone may have thought these were two people rather than one. I have not included this individual as part of the family. 2. "The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Volumes I-III, pp. 1135-37 (Online database: NewEnglandAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2002), by Robert Charles Anderson, 1995. Note that the entry was later edited and republished in 2014 by the same author; see "The Winthrop Fleet; Massachusetts Bay Company Immigrants to New England 1629-1630" (NEHGS; Boston, 2014). The version below is the most current version: "NICHOLAS KNAPP ORIGIN: Unknown MIGRATION: 1630 (based on appearance at court on 1 March 1630/1 [MBCR 1:83]) FIRST RESIDENCE: Watertown. REMOVES: Stamford 1646. EDUCATON: Signed by mark as a witness to the will of Nicholas Thele [Stamford TR 1:62-63]. Signed his will by mark. His inventory included "books" valued at 6s. 6d. and an "old Bible," value not stated [Fairfield PR 2:56]. OFFICES: His inventory included "1 gun & hanger" valued at 14s. [Fairfield PR 2:56]. ESTATE: On 25 July 1636, "Nicholas Knap" was granted a Great Dividend of thirty acres in Watertown [WaBOP 4 ["Lands, Grants, Divisions, Allotments, Possessions, and Proprietor's Book" in "Watertown Records Comprising the 1st and 2nd Books of Town Proceedings")]. On 28 February 1636/7, "Nicholas Knap" was granted six acres in Beaverbrook Plowlands [WaBOP 6]. On 26 Jun 1637, Nicholas Knap was granted seven acres in Remote Meadows [WaBOP 9]. On 10 May 1642, "Nicholas Knap" was granted a Farm of one hundred seventeen acres [WaBOP 12]. In the Watertown Inventory of Grants, "Nicholas Knap" held seven parcels of land: "an homestall of sixteen acres"; "two acres in Pine Marsh"; "one acre of meadow"; "thirty acres of upland ... being a Great Dividend in the second division & the seventeen lot": "six acres of plowland ... in the Hither Plain"; "seven acres in Remote Meadows ... & the thirty-nine lot"; and "thjirteen acres of upland ... beyond the Farther Plain & the fifty-nine lot" [WaBOP 86]. In the Watertown Composite Inventory, "Nicholas Knap" held eight parcels of land: "an homestall of sixteen acres"; "two acres in Pine marsh"; "one acre in Pond Meadow"; "thirty acres of upland being a Great Dividend in the 2 division & the 17 lot"; "six acres of plowland in the Hither Plain & the 35 lot"; "seven acres of meadow in the Remote Meadows & the 39 lot"; "thirteen acres of upland beyond the Further Plain & the 59 lot"; and "A Farm of one hundred & seventeen acres of upland" [WaBOP 29]. On the 29 September 1645, "Nicholas Knap of Watertowne" sold to "Edward Garfield of the same town one acre of meadow lying in the same town" [SLR 1:71]. On 6 May 1646, "Nicholas Knapp of Watertowne" sold to "Bryan Pendletown ... all his land in Watertowne granted by the town as by the transcript may appear with all the housing thereupon (only one acre in Pond Meadow formerly being sold excepted) with all the privileges thereunto belonging" [SLR 1:71]. On 26 September 1651, "Elyas Bayly" sold to Nickles Knape ... his house and homelot, bought of Jo[hn] Coe ..., the said land containing an acre & half" [Stamford TR 1:51]. (This is the only direct reference to land at Stamford held by Nicholas Knapp. There are, however, many references to him as an abutter to the land of other Stamford inhabitants [Stamford TR 1:26, 27, 29, 31-37, 41, 46].) In his will, dated 15 Apr 1670 and proved on an unknown date, "Nicholas Knap of Standford" bequeathed to "my son Moses Knap my house and land in Standford with all the meadows and upland belonging unto me," with same moveables; to "my son Timothy the monies remaining due to me upon the bill for the house of John Bats lives in"; to "my son Calep the loom and half the gears and the other half of the gears I give to my son Josuah"; to "my daughter Sarah Disbrowe the money due to me from her husband, about 37s. concerning the horse"; to "my daughter Hanna one mare"; to my daughter Lidea the mare that was Mr. Bishop's with the increase she hath"; to "my daughter Ruth twenty shillings"; to "my two daughters-in-law, viz: Sarah & Uneca Buxton all their mother's clothes as a free gift, except one hat and one new petticoat which my will is they have onward of their portions"; to "Uneca Buxton the new Bible as a free gift"; the portions due to my two daughters-in-law, viz: Sarah Buxton & Uneca Buxton out of the estate of their father Clement Buxton, I say that their part and portions be currently paid according to their proportion of that inventory"; "my son Josuah Knap [to be] sole executor" [Fairfield PR 2:55]. The inventory of the estate of "Nicolas Knap deceased," taken 27 April 1670, totalled ₤166 13s. 11-1/2d., of which ₤50 was real estate: "house and lands," ₤50 [Fairfield PR 2:56]. BIRTH: By about 1606 (based on estimated date of marriage). DEATH: Stamford between 15 April 1670 (date of will) and 27 April 1670 (date of inventory). MARRIAGE: (1) By 1631 Elinor ____. She died at Stamford 16 August 1658 [Stamford TR 1:24]. (2) Stamford 9 March 1659 Unica (____) (Buxton) Brown [Stamford TR 1:77]. She was the widow of Clement Buxton and Peter Brown [Gillespie Anc 61-63], and had apparently died by 15 April 1670, as she is not mentioned in Nicholas Knapp's will. CHILDREN: With first wife i. JONATHAN KNAPP, b. Watertown early November 1631 (calc.); bur. Watertown 27 December 1631 "aged 7 weeks" [WaVR 1:3; NEHGR 6:380]. ii. TIMOTHY KNAPP, b. Watertown 14 December 1632 [WaVR 1:3; NEHGR 6:380]; m. by about 1658 Bethia ___ (possibly Bethia Brundish [GM 2:1:447-48]). iii. JOSHUA KNAPP, b. Watertown 5 January 1634[/5] [WaVR 1:3; NEHGR 6:380]; m. Stamford 9 June 1657 Hannah Close ("The American Genealogist" 10:45). iv. CALEB KNAPP, b. Watertown 20 January 1636[/7] [WaVR 1:4; NEHGR 7:159]; m. by 1661 Hannah Smith (eldest child b. Stamford 24 November 1661 ["The American Genealogist" 10:174); in his will of 4 July 1687 Henry Smith of Stamford bequeathed to grandson John Knapp [FOOF 1:575]). v. SARAH KNAPP, b. Watertown 5 January 1638[/9] [WaVR 1:5; NEHGR 7:160]; m. Stamford 6 April 1657 Peter Disborough ["The American Genealogist" 10:112]. vi. RUTH KNAPP, b. Watertown 6 January 1640[/1] [WaVR 1:8; NEHGR 7:162]; m. Stamford 20 November 1657 Joseph Ferris ["The American Genealogist" 10:112], son of JEFFREY FERRIS {1634, Watertown} [GM 2:2:517-21] vii. HANNAH KNAPP, b. Watertown 6 March 1643[/4?] [WaVR 1:11; NEHGR 7:283]; named in father's will, 15 April 1670; no further record. viii. MOSES KNAPP, b. say 1645; m. by 1669 Abigail Westcott (on 4 January 1669[/70], Moses Knapp receipted, in the right of his wife, for his share of the estate of Richard Westcott [FOOF1:660]). ix. LYDIA KNAPP, b. say 1647; m. Fairfield 16 Jan 1666/7 Isaac Hall [FOOF 1:250]. ASSOCIATIONS: See WILLIAM KNOPP {1630, Watertown} for a discussion of suggestions of a relationship between William and Nicholas. [Note: In the "Great Migration Newsletter," v. 4, p. 31, 1993, Mr. Anderson reviews Clifford Stott's article in NEHGR 147:313-28 concerning William Knapp/Knopp and states: "Stott found nothing to support the oft-stated claim of close kinship between William Knopp and Nicholas Knapp of Watertown."] COMMENTS: On 1 March 1630/1, "Nich[olas] Knopp is fined £5 for taking upon him to cure the scurvy by a water of no worth nor value, which he sold at a very dear rate, to be imprisoned till he pay his fine, or give security for it, or else to be whipped, & shall be liable to any man's action of whom he hath received money for the said water" [MBCR 1:83]; at the same court, "Mr. Will[ia]m Pelham & Mr. Edmond Lockewood hath promised to pay to the court the sum of ₤5, for Nich[olas] Knopp, before the last court of May next" [MBCR 1:83]. On 7 August 1632, "£3 of Knop's fine of £5 remitted" [MBCR 1:99]. At the general amnesty of 6 September 1638, it was noted that part of this fine "was paid, & the rest was remitted" [MBCR 1:243]. In the Beaverbrook Plowlands Nicholas Knapp received six acres, and in the Remote Meadows seven acres. Since these lands were granted in part on household size, this would suggest a birth in the interval between the two grants; the birth of Caleb fell exactly one month before the Beaverbrook Plowlands grant, and it may be that this was not taken into account for the Beaverbrook Plowlands grant, but was for the Remote Meadows grant. At the date of the Remote Meadows grant of seven acres, the Nicholas Knapp family was known to have five members: Nicholas, wife Elinor, and sons Timothy, Joshua and Caleb. This permits the possibility that there were one or two more persons in the household, not necessarily children; but the difference might also be explained if Nicholas had sufficient wealth in cattle, the other criterion for the size of these grants." 3. From "The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633," Volumes I-III, for notes concerning "William Knopp": "Many researchers have claimed that William Knopp and Nicholas Knapp of Watertown were brothers, but there is no evidence for this connection, and much against. The most recent investigation of William Knopp shows no evidence of Nicholas Knapp in the family, or even in Bures St. Mary, Suffolk [NEHGR 147:327-28]. The two differ in age by about twenty-five years, a full generation. William and Nicholas, despite residing in the same town for fifteen years, are never seen interacting in any way. Finally, although this would not normally be an important consideration, the town clerks at Watertown were consistent in spelling William's surname as Knopp and Nicholas's as Knapp, suggesting that in Watertown the surnames were seen as distinct." 4. From "The Knapp Family" at website: "http://members.tripod.com/~Silvie/Knapp.html": a. Notes of Fred Knapp: Nicholas Knapp (immigrant 1630 Wintrop Fleet)-Ship: Arbella, Peter Milbourne, Capt. and Master. He resided in England; Massachusetts; Connecticut-a weaver and farmer by trade-was a member of the Puritan Congregational Church. b. Notes of Hal Young: Much has been written about Nicholas Knapp and yet to this day we are still searching for proof of his ancestors. Was he related to William Kna(o)pp that sailed with Nicholas and did he have a first wife that he married in England? If we had proof that Nicholas and William Knapp were related, we would be able to establish ancestors as William's line is found highly probable. We find that a Nicholas Knapp has been associated with Susan Mitterson, of Wells-By-The-Sea and were married in 1617, Co Norfolk, Eng and that she died in Eng prior to 1630, which would make Nicholas not from Co Suffolk. Again, we must await until better data is available to confirm this theory. We do know that Nicholas and his wife, Elinor were passengers with the Winthrop Fleet and set sail 8 Apr 1630 at six in the morning bound for New England. Also aboard was William Knapp and his wife with seven children. The Knapps settled in Watertown, Middlesex, Mass., which was settled mainly by immigrants from Counties Suffolk, Essex, and Norfolk, Eng. The pastor of the church at Watertown was Reverend George Phillips, from Boxted, Co. Essex. The church was organized on 30 Jul 1630, with some forty men, headed by Sir Richard Saltonstall, signing the membership list. The church remained the only church for 66 years. Only church members could become Freeman and vote. On 1 Mar 1630/31, Nicholas was fined five pounds for selling "water" which he claimed would cure scurvey knowing that it had no worth. William Pelham and Edmond Lockwood promised they would pay the fine. Children were by Nicholas and Elinor. On 9 Mar 1659 Nicholas married Unica (Unity) Brown, widow of Peter Brown, who married Unity 22 Jul 1658 and he died soon after. Unity's first marriage was to Clemont Buston who died 2 Aug 1657 in Stamford, CT of which three children, Sarah, Unity, and Clement Buxton were born. Nicholas wrote his will in Fairfield, Fairfield Co., CT on 15 Apr 1670 and where he died the next day on 16 Apr 1670. Notes form Gordon Hamilton (PA): Re: Elinor Lockwood - Some have indicated the Elinor's maiden name was Disbrow (Disbrough). Evidence that it was Lockwood comes from the manuscript compiled by Alfred Averill Knapp on Nicholas Knapp Genealogy (1953). On page 3 of that book is the following quote from the Hartford Times, Oct. 23, 1943, genealogical page, Query A-2695: "The late Judge H. Stanley Finch, long Surrogate Judge at Stamford and a keen student of Lockwood, Finch, and allied families, gave his opinion that Elinor, wife of Nicholas Knapp, was daughter of Edmund Lockwood of Combs, Suffolk, England and sister of Edmund Lockwood (1594-1635) of Cambridge, Mass. and of Robert Lockwood (1600-1658) of Watertown, Mass. and Fairfield, Conn. This seems probable though documentary proof is lacking." 5. Per the book "The Story of the Early Settlers of Stamford, Connecticut, 1641 - 1700," by Jeanne Majdalany (including genealogies comp. with Edith M. Wicks), page 173-175: "Knap, Knapp, Nicholas - bc1600, d1670, m1 c1630 Elinor (prob Lockwood) (d 1658, sis/o Robert and Edmund), m2 1659 Unica Brown (d by 1670, wd/o Clement Buxton. wd/o Peter). Nicolas Knap, his wife Elinor, and seven children [this seems incorrect] came to America on the 'Arbella' in 1630. They came from Burys St. Mary in Suffolk, probably. In 1631 Nicolas was fined in Watertown, MA for selling water for scurvy at too high a price. He was in Stamford by 1649, having been previously in Rye, NY, and Greenwich. After the death of his wife, he married Unica Brown, the recent widow of Clement Buxton, and moved in the Buxton home on the east side of West Street. Descendants...[All the children are listed - see notes with each individual child for citation from this quote; there is one unusual addition: a child by the name of 'Josiah?' with no further information.]" 6."Nicholas Knapp Genealogy," compiled by Alfred Averill Knapp, M.D. "This Genealogy of the Descendants of Nicholas Knapp, first found mentioned at Watertown, Massachusetts in 1630, is the result of the work and research of many individuals. The four principal collectors of data were Charles Ruggles Knapp, Henry Eno Knapp, Ezra Fred Knapp and the author, Alfred Averill Knapp, but they were assisted through correspondence by a large number of individuals who furnished much valuable family and local information..." First Generation: "A-1. Nicholas Knapp, our immigrant ancestor. Parentage unknown. B. In England. Exact place unknown. D. 4-16-1670, Fairfield, Conn. M. 1st Elinor . She d. 6 or 8-16-1658, Fairfield, Conn. 2nd Unica (Unity) Brown, widow of Peter Brown, 3-9-1659. She had been previously widow of Clement Buxton. Clement Buxton was in Stamford, Conn. in 1650 and d. there 8-2-1657. He had daus. Sarah and Unity and a son, Clement. His widow, Unity, m. 7-22-1658, Peter Brown, of Stamford, Conn. who d. soon after. His widow m. for the 3rd time, Nicholas Knapp as his 2nd wife. All children b. at Watertown, Mass. except Lydia. B-1. Jonathan, b. 11-8-1631, Watertown, Mass. Buried 12-27-1631, age 7 weeks. B-2. Timothy, b. 10 or 12-14-1632. d before 1685. m. Bethia Brandish. B-3. Joshua, b. 11-5-1634 or 1-5-1635. d. 10-27-1684. m. Hannah Close. B-4. Caleb, b. 11-20-1636 or 1-20-1637. d. before 3-4-1675. m. Hannah Smith. B-5. Sarah, b. 1-5-1638/9. m. 1st John Disbrow 6-12-1657. 2nd 4 or 9-6-1667, Peter Disbrow, of Rye, Conn. Peter lived in Rye in 1660, was one of the purchasers of Rye from the Indians. Was said to be 50 years old. He was Representative from Rye in 1665. Also from Greenbush. Sarah d. in 1681. Had dau. Martha who m. Peter Brown. B-6. Ruth, b. 1-6-1640/41. m. 9 or 11-20-1657, Joseph Ferris, son of Jeffrey Ferris. Joseph b. 1638. d. 1699. They moved to Stamford, Conn. in 1646. He was made Proprietor at Greenwich, Conn. 2-5-1664. Jeffrey Ferris was made Freeman at Watertown, Mass. 5-6-1635. Moved to Stamford in 1640. d. 5-31-1666. (See Ferris Genealogy.) The children of Ruth and Joseph Ferris were: (1) John, oldest son, m. 2-13-1695, Abigail Hait of Norwalk. (2) Peter, b. 11-8-1660. d. 1-23-1690. Perhaps m. 12-12-1686, Mary ___. No heirs. (3) James, m. ca. 1705, Rachel, widow of Nathaniel Mead. (4) Ruth, m. 11-27-1685, Samuel Peck and d. 9-17-1745. (5) Moses, m. Eunice ___ and d. in 1748. (6) Joshua, d. 2-2-1746, single, estate distributed to brothers and sisters or their heirs. After his father's death, he purchased from his mother all her rights in her late husband's estate. She probably lived with her son Joshua or dau. Lydia. (7) Benjamin, d. 7-10-1710. m. Sarah (perhaps Weed). (8) Hannah b. ca. 1673. d. 4-14-1711, m. Jonathan Austin. He b. 1685. d. 1769. (9) Lydia, m. John Runnolds. (10) Caleb, m. Elizabeth ___. (11) Joseph, m. Abigail ___ and d. 4-7-1735. The executors of Joseph Ferris's estate were his brother Peter and son-in-law, Samuel Peck, in 1699. He left his lands in Horseneck to sons John and James. His lands on Cos Cob Neck to Moses, Benjamin and Caleb. Sons Joseph and Joshua and dau. Ruth Peck, "Lidia Runolds" and Hannah were mentioned. Probably Hannah was not yet m. Jeffrey Ferris came to the part of Stamford that later became Greenwich. He m. 1st (name unknown). She was mother of all his children. m. 2nd Susannah, widow of Robert Lockwood. d. 1666. m. 3rd Judith (Judy) Feake Palmer, who m. after Jeffrey's death, ___ Bowers, erroneously sometimes called Burns. Jeffrey's only dau. m. Jonathan Lockwood, son of Robert and Susannah. There were 4 Ferris sons- John of Westchester, Peter of Stamford, Joseph and James of Greenwich. Both Peter and Joseph left widows named Ruth, and it was Peter's widow who m. John Clapp, not Joseph's. B-7. Hannah, b. 3-6-1643. d. 12-11-1674 or 6-4-1696. m. 1673, Zerubebel Hoyt, of Norwalk, Conn., son of Walter Hoyt. He was b. ca. 1650. d. ca. 1727/8. Had dau. Hannah who m. Joseph Whitney. Lived at Stamford, Conn. B-8. Moses, b. ca. 1643 or 1646 or 1656. d. at Peekskill, N.Y. in 1756, "a very old man." m. 1669 Abigail Westcoat. B-9. Lydia, b. 6-8-1647/48, Stamford, Conn. d. Dec. 1716. Her will made 12-1-1716. Probated 12-19-1716. She m. Dr. Isaac Hall, Stratford, Conn., son of Francis Hall, as his 2nd wife. Dr. Hall was a prominent physician in his day, b. in England in 1629. d. 5-17-1714, Stratford, Conn. He took the Oath of Fidelity at New Haven, Conn. 4-7-1657. Lydia and Dr. Hall had: (1) Dr. Isaac, b. 11-8-1667. (2) Sarah, b. 5-3-1668. (3) Lydia, b. 9-21-1670. (4) Elizabeth, b. 11-11-1672. (5) Samuel, b. 9-14-1674. (6) Francis, b. 9-16-1676. (7) John, b. 2-8-1678. (8) Mary, b. 8-7-1681. (9) Abigail, b. 4-1-1683. (10) John, b. 1-3-1679. (11) Jonathan, b. 12-2-1684. (12) Hannah. Francis Hall, the father of Dr. Isaac Hall, was in New Haven, Conn. in 1639 and in Stratford after 1648. He was made Freeman in the Conn. Jurisdiction in 1657. He left a large estate in Fairfield, Conn., dying in 1690 at Stratford. He brought his 1st wife, Elizabeth, from England. He m. 2nd 10-31-1665, Dorothy, widow of John Blakeman and dau. of Dr. Henry Smith. Dorothy m. 3rd Mark Sension, of Norwalk, Conn. who d. in 1693. She m. 4th Deacon Isaac Moore, of Farmington, Conn. Francis Hall had the following children, all by his 1st wife:-Isaac-Samuel-Mary-Elizabeth-Rebecca and Hannah who m. Joseph Blakeman. A-1. Nicholas Knapp came to New England from England in 1630 with the Winthrop and Saltonstall Expedition and settled in Watertown, Mass. Possibly he was a brother of William Knapp who came at the same time but that relationship has never proved or disproved, though it has been repeatedly affirmed without proof. There is no record that they ever had any dealing with each other after their arrival but whenever one of them got into trouble it was always another who came to their aid. That fact may not prove anything. Bond's History of Watertown, Mass. says: "1636, July 25, lands, grants and possessions. Nicholas Knapp- 30 acres. Second division, Feb. 28, 1636, Nicholas Knapp was granted 6 acres. 1642, 3rd month 10th day Division of more land. Nicholas Knapp received one hundred seventeen acres. In 1639 Nicholas Knapp was owner of: 1. A Homestall of sixteen acres, more or less bounded on the southwest with William Barsham, on the northeast with Howard Browns, on the northwest with Robert Lockwood and the southeast with bank lane. 2. Two acres in Pine Marsh, bounded on the south with the river and the north with John Barnard. 3. An acre in Pond Meadow, bounded on the east and north with John Page and the west with Isaac Stern. 4. Thirty acres of upland being a great dividend in the 2 Division of the 17 Lot. 5. Six acres of Plowland in the Hither Plaine and the 35 Lott. 6. Seven acres of Meddow in Remote Meddows and the 39 Lott. 7. Thirteen acres of upland beyond the further Plaine and the 59 Lott. 8. A Farm of One Hundred and seventeen acres of upland in the 2 Division." In 1644 item 8 of the above list was omitted from the new list. Records of the Massachusetts Bay Company in New England say: "Mch. 1, 1630/1. Nich. Knapp is fyned five pounds for taking upon him to cure the scurvy by a water of noe worth nor value which he solde att a very deare rate, to be imprisoned till hee pay his ffine or give securitye for it, or else be whipped and shall be liable to any mans ac'cn of whome hee hath receaved money for the s'd water. Mr. Wil'm Pelham and Mr. Edward Lockewood both promised to pay the court the sum of five pounds for Nich. Knapp before the last court of May next. Aug. 7, 1632. there is 3 pounds of Knapp's fine of five pounds remitted. 6th day of 7th month, 1638. General Court. Nicho Knop, being fined five pounds, pt was paid and the rest remitted." The water had been found beneficial and suit dropped upon payment of costs. Nicholas Knapp sold land and privileges in Watertown, Mass. Mch. 6, 1646 and moved to Greenwich or Rye, perhaps stopping at Wethersfield, and two years later moved to Stamford, Conn. but d. at Fairfield. He owned a mill at Stamford as he gave to his son Caleb "land by the mill." On May 6, 1646 he sold to Byron Pendleton all his land, 8 lots, 16 acres granted to him by the Towne except one acre, called the "Pond Meadow" which he sold the year before to Ed Garfield under the date of Sept. 29, 1645, all at Watertown, Mass. His will can be found in Fairfield, Conn. Probate Records, Vol. 1665-1675, page 55, as follows: (Many of the "ss" are written "f".) "In Stamford, ye 15th 2 mo. Anno 1670. The last will and Testament of Nicholas Knap of Stamford concerning the disposal of his worldly estate. 1. I give to my son Moses Knap my house and land in Stamford with all the meadows and upland belonginge to me. Also, I give to my said sonn Moses, my cart and plowe or plowes, with all the furniture of Irons, yokes and Chaynes belonging and a small gun in the house and a Sword. 2. I give to my son Timothy the monies remayning due to me upon the bill for the house of John Bats lives in. 3. I give unto my Sonn John Caleb the Loom and half the gears and the other half of the gears I give to my Sonn Joshua. 4. I give to my dau. Sarah Disbrowe, the monies due me from her husband, about 37 pounds concerning the horses. 5. I give to my dau. Hanna, one mare. 6. I give to my dau. Lidia the mare that was Mr. Bishops with the increase shee hath. 7. I give to my dau. Ruth Twenty Shillings. 8. I give to my two daughters-in-law, viz: Sarah and Unica Buxton, all their Mother's Clothes as a free gift, except one hat and one new petticoat, which my will is they should have onward of their portion. Also, I will and bequeath unto Uneca Buxton the new bible as a free gift. 9. My will is that the portions due to my two daughters-in-law, viz: Sarah Buxton and Uneca Buxton, out of the estate of their father, Clement Buxton. I say that ther and portions be currently payd, according to their proportion of that Inventorie. 10. Lastly, my Will is that my son Jushua Knap be sole executor of this my Will to receive all and pay dues according to this my last will as also all debts to or from me. If in case that mare be not found that I have given to Lydia, that then shee to have a nother mare in the Lue of that. This being my Last Will, renouncing all other former Will as wills made by me. Witness my hand. Witness John Weed. Eleazur Slawson. Nicholas (Y-type symbol) Knap his mark." Huntington's History of Stamford, Conn. speaking of the Governor of Conn. says: "Side by side ready to the utmost of their means to sustain any measure which might aid them in asserting the rights of the Colonies against the unjust demands of the Crown, stood the substantial citizens of the town- the Hoyts- the Holly's- the Lockwoods- the Knaps- the Scofields- the Smiths- the Seelys- the Warings- the Waterburys- the Webbs and the Weeds." American Ancestry, Vol. 8, p. 166, says: "Nicholas Knap was probably b. at Bury St. Mary's, England." No proof. Originally the family perhaps came from Saxony, Germany. The first Census of Mass. taken in 1790 gives 39 names spelled "Knap" and 10 names spelled "Knapp." Savage's Genealogical Dictionary of New England Families says that in the first century in America, a single "p" was used in spelling the name Knap. Two other books state that before the Revolution, the name was usually spelled with one "p." In this book "Knapp" is uniformly used. In 1939, Oswald Greenewaye Knapp, of England, author of "A History of the Chief English Families Bearing the Name of Knapp" was asked to give us his latest conclusions concerning the English origin of our New England Knapp ancestors. He has this to say of Nicholas: "The Christian name of Nicholas was popular in the group of families found in Oxfordshire, Berkshire and Whitshire, from about 1520 onwards & to this group belong 16 of the 22 known instances of the name. But none of these can be fairly identified with the emigrant, Nicholas, all those of his period being otherwise accounted for. In the East Anglian group there is a Nicholas Knapp, of Wells next to the Sea, Co. Norfolk, who m. there in 1618, Susan Mitterson and had issue- Robert, baptised 1619. -Richard, baptized 1621. Nicholas, baptised 1626 and two other children baptised in 1623 and 1628. I mention him because the late Henry Eno Knapp was strongly inclined to identify him with the immigrant. But if he was Nicholas of Watertown, it must be assumed that his wife d. between 1628 and 1630, that he left behind him in England a family of 5 children, all under 12 years of age, m. again in 1630, and began to raise a new family, whose names, instead of being English like those of his first family, were all drawn from the Bible. This to me seems most improbable. But a few years ago I found in the Suffolk Subsidy Roll of 1524, a Nicholas Knap of Newton, the earliest known member of the family to which William Knap belonged, who paid 1s.6d. tax on an assessment of three pounds in goods. This, of course, is not the emigrant but a great grandson or other descendant of the same name could fill the bill very well. There is no documentary evidence that such a person has ever been found, but this is by no means a fatal objection to his existence, for the reason previously stated. Wills and other documents show that five generations of these Knopps flourished at Newton, Cornard, Parva and Middletown between 1524 and 1660. Yet, when I searched the Register of Newton in 1902 from its commencement in 1558 to 1660, I found 1 baptism, 1 marriage and two burials. So it is evident that this family was one of those which did not often darken the Church doors, and many of its members must have escaped registration. But the name of the emigrant, Nicholas, may yet be found in some other local document relating to a law suit, a Court Roll or a Quarter Session Record." Copied from the Hartford Times, Oct. 23, 1943, genealogical page, Query, A-2695: "Nicholas Knapp, Emigrant, d. Stamford, Conn. Sept 16, 1670: his wife Elinor, d. there Aug 16, 1658. The late Judge H. Stanley Finch, long Surrogate Judge at Stamford and a keen student of Lockwood, Finch and allied families, gave his opinion that Elinor, wife of Nicholas Knapp, was dau. of Edmund Lockwood of Combs, Suffolk, England and sister of Edmund Lockwood, (1594-1635) of Cambridge, Mass. and of Robert Lockwood (1600-1658) of Watertown, Mass. and Fairfield, Conn. This seems probable, though documentary proof is lacking." Clement Buxton d. at Stamford, Conn. Aug. 2, 1657. He owned land there as appears from the boundaries of other lands on record as early as 1650. The inventory of his estate was taken Sept. 3, 1657, and appraised by Richard Law and John Holly. It was given in upon the oath of the widow, Unica Buxton, May 13, 1658 (or 1668). Clement Buxton, Jr. gave bond in Stamford Apr. 19, 1686 of 20 pounds in action against Daniel Scofield. This name is still found among the citizens of the town. Unica d. Apr. 1670. Peter Brown's wife, Elizabeth, d. Sept. 21, 1657 and a child, Ebenezer, d. Aug. 21, 1658, both at Stamford. His will was presented in Court, Aug. 19, 1658, and his inventory in Nov. of the same year and testified upon oath by the widow Brown and a Thomas Brown, Feb. 10, 1658. He had come from New Haven where he had a dau. baptized Mercy, Apr. 6, 1645 and a dau. Elizabeth, baptized Aug. 1, 1647. He m. at Stamford, July 22 or 27, 1658, Unity, widow of Clement Buxton. He d. Aug. 22, 1658 less than a month after his marriage. His widow m. March 9, 1659, Nicholas Knap. Peter Brown was one of the Eaton and Davenport Co., which settled in New Haven in 1638. They came from London in the "Hector" arriving in Boston June 26, 1637. He removed to Stamford in 1647. He was a baker. Jeffry Ferris was b. in Leicestershire, England about 1610 and came to America about 1634. His widow, Susannah, had a dau. Mary by first marriage perhaps- perhaps by second. Additional information concerning the children of B-9, Lydia and Dr. Isaac Hall: 1. Isaac, b. 11-8-1667. A physician, m. Jane Burgess, dau. of Richard Burgess. 2. Sarah, b. 3-3-1668/9. m. 1695 or 1700, Joseph Hall, b. ca. 1670/75. 3. Lydia, b. 9-21-1670. 4. Elizabeth, b. 11-11-1672. m. Samuel Lane, Rye, N.Y. 5. Samuel, b. 9-14-1674. 6. Francis, b. 9-16-1676. d. ca. 1758. 7. John, b. 2-8-1677/8. d. same day. 8. John, b. 1-3-1679/80. m. Abigail Summers. 9. Abigail, b. 4-1-1683, m. Thomas Jecox or Jacocks. 10. Jonathan, b. 12-2-1684. Res. Stratford, Conn. 11. Hannah, m. Ezekiel Baldwin. 12. Mary, b. 8-7-1681. All above children b. at Stratford, Conn. Isaac-Francis-John and Abigail all baptized 4-28-1700 at Stratford. There has been much confusion over the different Lydias. But Lydia, dau. of Nicholas, m. Dr. Isaac Hall, son of Francis Hall, 1-16-1666. (or 1-16-1661?) Recorded at Fairfield, Conn. Lydia, dau. of Moses and Abigail (Westcoast) Knapp, m. Thomas Pennoyer. Lydia, dau. of Roger Knapp of New Haven m. Richard Mills. Dr. Isaac Hall, Sr. was granted 30 pounds, Oct. 1690 as "chirurgeon" to the Army. He was granted 150 acres of land, May, 1697, having served as Surgeon and lost one son." 7. "Abstracts of Stamford Probate records," compiled by Spencer P. Mead: "Knapp, Nicholas, late of Stamford, will dated Feb. 15, 1670, probated Oct. 31, 1670, mentioned his children Moses, Timothy, Caleb, Joshua, Sarah Disbrow, Hannah, Lidea, and Ruth; Sarah Buxton and Unice Buxton are called daughters-in-law, and are left property out of the effects of their father Clement Buxton. Executor son Joshua. Witnesses John Weed and Eleazer Slawson, page 56. Inventory taken Feb. 27, 1670, by John Holly and Clement Buxton, and filed Oct. 31, 1670, page 56. F1-19." 8. FHL book 929.273-K727kf: "Knapp's N' Kin, The Ancestral Lines of Frederick H Knapp and Others," compiled by: Frederick H Knapp, Rt. #2, Box 438C, AB Hwy, Richland, Missouri, 65556; 1987; Revised/Updated 1991: "Background: Early research in the early days, found Nicholas Knapp, the immigrant, came to America, in 1630, with the Winthrop/Saltonstall Fleet. Fortunately, for the purpose of our list of immigrant ancestors (Nicholas Knapp, et al), there exists a list of 70 names of those who came with the Winthrop/Saltonstall Fleet; a rough list prepared by John Winthrop, and found entered in a flyleaf in the original Winthrop Journal disconnected from the main text. It was from this list that Nicholas Knapp and wife, Elinor, was identified. Although it does not depict the name of the ship that our ancestors were on, we can rest fairly assured that they were passengers on the "ARBELLA," the Winthrop Flagship. The Master of the Arbella who successfully led the great flotilla to its destination was- Captain Peter MILBURNE- a resident of London, England. It is thought that Captain Milburne came from the parish of St Katherine by the Tower, but beyond this, little information about him or his family is known. We do not know whether he or his vessel ever returned to America, nor do we have any knowledge of his later career. We know from the Winthrop Journals that the Winthrop Fleet departed Southampton, England on 22 Mar 1630; sailed to Yarmouth for an approximate 2 week delay; finally setting sail for America on 6 April 1630. The Winthrop Fleet of 1630, consisted of the following ships: "ARBELLA"- Admiral (Winthrop Flagship); Talbot- Vice Admiral; Ambrose- Rear Admiral; Jewel- Captain. Charles Mayflower II Hopewell Trial Whale William and Francis Success The Flagships carried passengers, as did the Mayflower, Whale and Success; the rest carried freight and livestock. The fleet arrived in America on the 12th of June 1630, landing at Salem, Massachusetts Bay Colony. Not caring for the lay of the land, the immigrants pushed on to Watertown, Massachusetts; arriving on 14 Jun 1630. WATERTOWN, was settled by our ancestors in 1630. It once included the towns of Weston, Waltham and parts of Belmon and Cambridge, Massachusetts. Located on the Charles River and settled by members of the Winthrop Fleet; these settlers initially spent time in Charleston where two church covenants were signed and more than 100 families left with Rev Phillips to form the first inland settlement. These pioneers sailed up the Charles River to "Gerry's Landing" (now in Cambridge) and built a town. The area being so well watered, they named it Watertown. The wealth and power provided by the natural waters led to the first industrial development. John Olham (exile from the Plymouth Colony), Sir Richard Saltonstall and Reverend George Phillips initiated a democratic form of government. The first Board of Selectmen of New England was at Watertown, elected in August 1634. The Watertown Church was just as democratic, to the ire of neighboring communities. The Old Town Cemetery that is found yet today, dates back to 1642. Many writings found today pertaining to the wife of Nicholas Knapp, Elinor, make many claims that are probable conjecture. Some say the marriage of Nicholas and Elinor, took place at Watertown, while Charles E Banks, in his book "THE WINTHROP FLEET of 1630," an account of the Vessels, the Voyage, the Passengers and their English Homes from Original Authorities, reflects Nicholas and wife Elinor, as husband and wife; Elinor, being so identified from the Boston Town Record. While this does not identify specifically that they were married prior to the voyage, it does not identify the marriage as having taken place after arrival in America. My personal opinion is that the marriage took place in England, based on the theory that a condition for joining the movement to America was for a man to have a wife, as well as a trade of necessity for the well being and establishment of the Colony. Many researchers of this line of Knapp's seem to place Elinor, as having been a "Lockwood" and also as a "DISBROW," the first being the most predominate. This has been proven to be conjectural in nature, as recent research as late as 1985/1986, by both researchers of the Lockwood and Disbrow Lines, fail to identify an Elinor Lockwood or Disbrow. For those that claim either as a maiden name; none have been forthcoming with any documentary evidence to support the idea, either way. In view of this and for our purposes, the records of this compilation will reflect her maiden name as "unknown." As far as is known, mention is made of Elinor, wife of Nicholass Knapp, in two places- 1. Boston Town Records; 2. Stamford Probate Records, where her death is recorded, as having died intestate. We find in Bond's "History of Watertown, Massachusetts," that Nicholas Knapp, is found under the entry dated 25 Jul 1636 (Lands, Grants and Possessions) as follows: Nicholas Knapp- 30 acres. Second Division, 28 Feb 1636, Nicholas Knapp granted 6 acres. 1642, 3rd month 10th Day Division of more land. Nicholas received 117 acres and in 1639, he was owner of: 1. A Homestall of 16 acres, more or less bounded on the southwest with William Barsham, on the northeast with Howard Brown's, on the northwest with Robert Lockwood and the southeast with bank lane. 2. 2 acres in Pine Marsh, bounded on the south with the river and the north with John Barnard. 3. An acre in Pond Meadow, bounded on the east and north with John Page and the west with Isaac Stern. 4. 30 acres of upland being a great dividend in 2 Division of the 17 lot. 5. 6 acres of Plowland in the Hither Plaine and the 35 lott. 6. 7 acres of Meddow in Remote Meddows and the 39 Lott. 7. 13 ares of upland beyond the further Plaine and the 59 Lott. 8. A farm of 117 acres of upland in the 2 Division. Note: In 1644, item #8, of the above list was omitted from the new list of possessions. Records of the Massachusetts Bay Company in New England, show a reference to Nicholas Knapp and his required appearance before a Court. An extract of that appearance appears as an inclosure to this writing. On the 6th of March 1646, we find the next reference to Nicholas Knapp, where he sold land and privileges, in his preparation for migration and movement with his family to Connecticut. We have no definite date as to his arrival in Connecticut, we know that he removed from Massachusetts to Greenwich or Rye, Connecticut, perhaps stopping at Wethersfield, Connecticut for about two years, and later removing to Stamford, Connecticut. As Nicholas is known to have died at Stamford, Connecticut, we can only assume that he was possibly residing with one of his children at the time. At Watertown, he sold to Byron Pendleton, under date of 6 May 1646, all his land, 8 lots, 16 acres granted to him by the Towne, except 1 acre called the "Pond Meadow," which he sold the year before to Ed Garfield under the date of 29 September 1645. At Stamford, Nicholas owned a mill, as he gave his son (John) Caleb "land by the mill." His known primary trade or occupation however was that of Weaver of Cloth. The will of our ancestor, can be found in the Fairfield, Connecticut Probate Records, Volume 1665-1675, page 55. A typewritten copy of his will as is found and translated from the original, is found enclosed herein. The contributions made by our immigrant ancestor and others bearing the surname of "Knapp," toward the settlement and independence of this country is evidenced by the comment (speaking of the Governor of Connecticut) which says: "Side by side ready to the utmost of their means to sustain any measure which might aid them in asserting the rights of the Colonies against the unjust demands of the Crown, stood the substantial citizens of the town- the Hoyts- the Holly's- the Lockwoods- the Knaps- the Schofields- the Smiths- the Seeleys- the Warings- the Waterburys- the Webbs and the Weeds." Many documents relating to the early Knapp ancestors are found extant in the annals of the various state and other agencies in Massachusetts, Connecticut and New York." 9. "Great Migration Newsletter," Vols. 1-15, by Robert Charles Anderson, 2007, p. 8, (1990 issue) in commenting on 1646 migration patterns from Watertown: "An important goal of the Great Migration Study Project is to identify groups of families of individuals who migration... Specifically, if we see several families moving together, we can reasonably hypothesize that they may have been associated at some time in the past. The early migration from Watertown to Wethersfield on the Connecticut river in 1635 and 1636 is well known, and the later migration of some of these same families form Wethersfeild to the new town of Stamford, around 1640 and 1641, is also documented. Some years later several families moved directly form Watertown to Stamford, as evidenced principally by their sale of Watertown lands in late 1645 and early 1646 [Ancestors in my database are capitalized]: Nicholas Theale... William Potter... Nicholas Knapp - Sold to Brian Pendleton on 7 May 1646 (Suffolk Deeds 1:71). Robert Lockwood - Sold to Brian Pendleton on 7 May 1646 (Suffolk Deeds 1:71). John Ellet - Sold to Thomas Wincoll on 29 June 1646 (Suffolk Deeds 1:74). John Waterbury... Richard Ambler... Gregory Taylor... We should not be surprised that, once Stamford was founed by migrants from Wethersfield who had even earlier lived in Watertown, a few Watertown families would also move to Stamford. One would not predict, however, that they would wait for several years after Stambord was founded, and that then eight families would all move within the space of a year, or two at most. The conclusion that some of these families might share a common origin in England, although certainly not proven, does become a sound working hypothesis, ad will direct research in English sources. as the Project proceeds, it should uncover many more clusters of families such as this, which are seen to move togeter in a concerted way." 10. FHL book 929.273-K727kf: "Knapp's N' Kin, The Ancestral Lines of Frederick H Knapp and Others," compiled by: Frederick H Knapp, Rt. #2, Box 438C, AB Hwy, Richland, Missouri, 65556; 1987; Revised/Updated 1991, provides the following wording of "The Oath of a Free-Man" that Nicholas Knapp would have sworn: "I (A B) being by God's Providence, an Inhabitant, and Freeman, within Jurisdiction of this Commonwealth; do freely acknowledge myself to be subject to the Government thereof; and therefore do here swear by the great and dreadful Name of the Ever-living God, that I will be true and faithful to the same, and will accordingly yield assistance and support thereunto, with my person and estate, as in equity I am bound; and will also truly endeavor to maintain and preserve all the liberties and priviledges thereof, submitting myself to the wholesome Laws & Orders made and established by the same. And further, that I will not plot or practice any evil against it, or consent to any that shall do; but will timely discover and reveal the same to lawfull Authority now here established, for the speedy prevention thereof. Moreover, I do solemnly bind myself in the Sight of God, that when I shall be called to give my voice touching any such matter of this State, in which Freeman are to deal, I will give my vote and suffrage as I shall judge in my own conscience may best conduce and tend to the public weal of the body, without respect of persons, or favor of any man. So help me God in the Lord Jesus Christ." The above Oath of a Free-Man was the first printed piece produced in Colonial America by Stephen Daye. 1637, and was given by our ancestors of those early days as well as others who were so admitted. As far as can be determined, no signature of Nicholas Knapp exists within the records extant today. In 1927, a member of the New England Genealogical and Historical Society was able to find a land document and others which were authenticated by a Seal, only. Later, in further research and the finding of Nicholas Knapp's will, the only known mark of Nicholas Knapp was found. On his will he made his mark much like a small "y" or looking much like this facsimile- "(symbol)"..." 11. FHL book 929.273-K727kf: "Knapp's N' Kin, The Ancestral Lines of Frederick H Knapp and Others," compiled by: Frederick H Knapp, Rt. #2, Box 438C, AB Hwy, Richland, Missouri, 65556; 1987; Revised/Updated 1991, p. 83, has the following two quotes extracted from the 1 Mar 1630/1 Court Records of the Massachusetts Bay Colony: A. This is probably the first medical malpractice suit on record in America: "Nich: Knopp is fyned v3/6 fro takeing upon him to cure the scurvey by a water of noe worth nor value, which hee solde att a very deare rate, to be impresoned till hee pay his ffine, or give securitye for it, or els to be whipped, & shalbe lyable to any mans accon of whome hee hath receaved mony for the sd. water." B. "Mr. Willm Pelham & Mr. Edmond Lockewood hath pmised to pay to the Court the some of v3/6, for Nich: Knopp, before the last Court of May nexte." 12. The book "Stamford Town Records, Vol. 1, 1641-1723," transcribed and annotated by Paul R. Finch, NEHGS (Boston, 2011), has many references to Nicholas Knapp including the following which includes both the page number of the book and of the town records: p. 26, p. 28 [1:22], "Nickles Knape" is mentioned with land bounding the land of Obadiah Seely. Date by context seems to be ca. 1649/50. p. 27, p. 29 [1:23], "Nickles Knapp" is mentioned with land bounding the land of Thomas Morhous, dated 31 Feb 1649/50. p. 29, p. 31 [1:26], "Nickles Knapp" is mentioned with land bounding the land of John Elette, dated 7 Mar 1650. p. 31, p. 36 [1:30], "Nicklese Knap" is mentioned with land bounding the land of William Potter which was bought from John Finch, dated 26 Nov 1652. p. 32, p. 37 [1:31], "Nickles Knap" is mentioned with land bounding the land of Thomas Hiout which was bought by William Newman, dated 3 Apr 1650. p. 33, p. 39 [1:32], "Nickolud Knappe" is mentioned with land bounding the land of Joseph Alsope which was bought by Richard Mills, dated 6 Mar 1662. p. 34, p. 37 [1:31], "Nickles Knape" is mentioned with land bounding the land of Richard Hardy, dated 1 Mar 1650. p. 34, p. 40 [1:33], "Nickles Knap" is mentioned with land bounding the land of Thomas Hiout which was bought by William Newman, dated 3 Apr 1650. p. 35, p. 41 [1:34], "Nickles Knap" is mentioned with land bounding the land of Henery Smith, dated 26 Mar 1650. p. 35, p. 42 [1:35], "Nickles Knap" is mentioned with land bounding the land of William Newman, dated 1 Mar 1650. p. 36, p. 43 [1:36], "Nickles Knape" is mentioned with land bounding the land of John Finch, dated 1 Mar 1650. p. 37, p. 45 [1:37], "Nickles Knap" is mentioned with land bounding the land of Clement Buckston, dated 15 Mar 1650. p. 41, p. 50 [1:42] and 51 [1:42], "Nickles Knap" is mentioned with land bounding the land of John Waterbury, dated Sep 1650. p. 46, p. 57 [1:47], "Nickles Knap" is mentioned with land bounding the land of David Mitchell, dated Aug 1650. p. 51, p. 64 [1:53], "Nickles Knap" is mentioned with land bounding the land of John Coe, dated 13 May 1651. p. 51, p. 65 [1:53], "Nickles Knap" is mentioned with purchasing land from Elyas Bayly, dated 26 Sep 1651. p. 59, p. 72 [1:60], "Nickolas Knap" is mentioned as a small creditor in the inventor of the estate of John Whitmore, dated 8 Dec 1648. pp. 62-63, p. 76 [1:65}, "Nicholas Knap(e)" witnesses the will of Nicholus Thele dated 20 May 1659. 13. The book "History of Stamford, Connecticut, 1641-1868…," by Rev. E. B. Huntington (A Corrected Reprint of the 1868 Edition, 1979), pp. 50-51, 55-56: "PETER BROWN lost his wife Elizabeth here, Sept. 21, 1657; and a child Ebenezer Aug. 21, 1658. His will was presented in the court, Aug. 19, 1658, and his inventory in Nov. of the same year, and testified to, upon oath, by widow Brown and Thomas Brown, Feb. 10, 1658. He had come from New Haven, where he had a, daughter baptised Mercy, April 6, 1645, and Elizabeth Aug. 1, 1647. He married here, July 27, 1658, Unity, widow of Clement Buxton, and died Aug. 22, of the same year. His widow married Mar. 9, 1659, Nicholas Knapp. BUXTON, CLEMENT, died here in 1657. He owned land here, as appears from the boundaries of other lands on record still .earlier. The inventory of his estate was taken Sept. 3, 1657, and apprized by Richard Law and John Holly. It was given in upon oath of the widow Unica Buxton, May 13, 1668. Clement Buxton, 2d, gave bonds here, April 19, 1686, of twenty pounds, in an action against Daniel Scofield. This name is still represented among the citizens of the town. KNAPP, NICHOLAS, had land here in 1649, as appears from the land records. His wife, Eleanor, died August 16, 1658. Savage thinks he may have come in the fleet with Winthrop and Saltonstall in 1630., His children were Jonathan, born Dee. 27, 1631; Timothy, Dec. 14, 1632; Joshua, Jan. 5, 1635; Caleb Jan. 20, 1637. Sarah, Jan. 5, 1639; Ruth, Jan. 6, 16A1; and Hannah, March 6, 1643. After coming to Stamford he had probably Moses and Lydia. After the death of his wife, Eleanor, he married, March 9, 1659, Unity, widow of Peter Brown, who had also been the widow of Clement Buxton. He died in April 1670, and his will, now in the probate records of Fairfield, dated the 15th of that month, names the children in the following order: Moses, Timothy, Caleb, Sarah Disbrow, Hannah, Lidea, Ruth, and Sarah and Unica Buxton, daughters of Clement." 14. The periodical "Connecticut Ancestry," vol. 50, no. 4 (May 2008), " Ancestry of William Weed of Stamford and Darien, Connecticut (Continued), by Frederick C. Hart, Jr., CG, FASG, pp. 146-48: "NICHOLAS1 KNAPP was in Watertown, Massachusetts by 1 March 1630/31, when he was fined for selling some "water of noe worth nor value" as a cure for scurvy.[1] Since this was wintertime when no ships made the Atlantic voyage, it is likely that he had arrived well before this time, perhaps during the summer of 1630.[2] Anderson estimates that he was born by about 1606, based on the estimated date of his marriage.[3] He died at Stamford between 15 and 27 April 1669/70, the dates of his will and his inventory.[4] The family name was generally spelled Knap until about 1800, but the current spelling of Knapp will be used herein, except when in a direct quotation. His first wife and mother of his children, who died in Stamford on the 16th day, 6th month (16 August) 1658, was named ELEANOR ___.[5] He married (2) at Stamford on 9 March 1658/59 UNICA (___) (BUXTON) BROWN, widow of Clement Buxton and Peter Brown.[6] Since she was not mentioned in his will, she is presumed to have died before 1670. The standard "Knapp Genealogy" is full of error and must be used with caution.[7] It does, however, contain some interesting historical and biographical information, including a list of the lands of Nicholas Knapp in Watertown, and a complete transcription of his will.[8] He appears to have left Watertown about May 1646, since he sold all the land he had received from the town there to Bryan Pendleton on the 6th day 3rd month 1646, and another acre of meadow (purchased separately in 1645) to Edward Garfield on the same date.[9] According to one Stamford historian, he was briefly in Rye, New York, and nearby Greenwich, before arriving in Stamford about 1649.[10] For some unknown reason, the Stamford Town Records do not contain a complete listing of the lands of Nicholas Knapp as they do for many other early residents. He is, however, mentioned regularly as an adjoining landholder in many of the other residents' summaries. The Town Records do contain an interesting purchase on 26 September 1651 by "Nickels Knape" of Elias Bailey's house and home lot of 1 -1/2 acre, purchased earlier by Bailey from John Coe, and adjacent to land already in Knapp's possession.[11] Both Bailey and Coe left Stamford for Long Island, along with many other Stamford people. Nicholas Knapp and his stepson Clement2 Buxton, son of his second wife Eunice, "the [a]foresayd Nicholas Knap haveing by and wth the mariage of ye Widdow Buxston administred upon ye estate of Clement Buxton, deceased" made an agreement on 8 March 1666/67 and recorded 31 January 1667/68, the young man having reached his majority, that he (Buxton) would receive title to his father's house and property in return for granting Knapp and his wife the life use of the house and 1/2 of the barn and home lot.[12] On the following day (9 March 1666/67) Nicholas Knapp added an additional detail to the agreement in which he gave "unto Clement Buxton a beding in ye house wch I now am resedent in and what conveniancy I can conveniantly acommodate him wth all for stoedge [storage] of what necisary things he have to put in so that it may be understood I grant him this priveledge as long as I shall live in the house. This my agreement made 9th March [16]66.[13] Then, within a year on 19 October 1668, Nicholas Knap purchased the house and 1-1/2 acre homelot of Daniel Simpkins of Stamford for the price of "two oxen and on[e] cow in hand resived & for full satisfaction."[14] This homelot was between the homelots of Richard Scofield on the south and Thomas Lawrence on the north and bounded by the highway on the east and the mill lot on the west. His will was dated at Stamford on 15 April (2nd Month) 1670, probated 21 October 1670, and named his children Moses, Timothy, Caleb, Joshua, Sarah Disbrowe, Hanna, Lidea, and Ruth. Sarah Buxton and Eunice Buxton are called daughters in law, and are left property out of the effects of their father Clement Buxton.[15] His son Joshua Knapp was named executor and the will was witnessed by John Weed and Eleazer Slason. The inventory was taken 27 April 1669/70 by John Holly and Clement Buxton, and filed 31 October 1670. [16] Children of Nicholas and Eleanor (___) Knapp, first seven born and recorded at Watertown[17] and last two born probably at Stamford: i. JONATHAN2 KNAPP, b. Nov 1631, bur. Watertown 27 Dec 1631 "aged 7 weeks." ii. TIMOTHY KNAPP, b. 14 Dec 1632, m. BETHIA ___, said to have been the daughter of John Brundish or Brundage.[19] He moved to the town of Rye, (then in Connecticut but now in New York) about 1667 when he purchased a house and homelot there. He was active in community affairs and was constable of Rye in 1681 and 1682. He apparently moved to Greenwich by 1697.[20] iii. JOSHUA KNAPP, b. 5 Jan 1634/35, m. at Stamford 9 Jun 1657 HANNAH CLOSE.[21] iv. CALEB KNAPP, b. 20 Jan 1636/37, m. HANNAH SMITH. v. SARAH KNAPP, b. 5 Jan 1638/39, m. at Stamford 6 Apr 1657 PETER DISBOROUGH / DISBROW.[22] vi. RUTH KNAPP, b. 6 Jan 1640/41, m. (1) at Stamford 20 Nov 1657 JOSEPH FERRIS,[23] and (2) 19 Jan 1707/08 JOHN CLAPP.[24] vii. HANNAH KNAPP, b. 6 Mar 1642/43,[25] living at the time of her father's will in 1670.[26] viii. MOSES KNAPP, b. say 1645, perhaps at Stamford, m. by 1669 ABIGAIL WESTCOTT. ix. LYDIA KNAPP, b. say 1647, probably at Stamford, m. at Fairfield 16 Jan 1666/67 ISAAC HALL.[27] Footnotes: 1. Nathaniel B. Shurtleff, ed., "Records of the Governor and Company of the Massachusetts Bay in New England, 1628-1686," 5 volumes in 6 (Boston: the Press of William White, 1853-1854), 1: 83, 99, 243. This fine was partially paid and partially forgiven, and it may be that the cure was somewhat successful after all. 2. Although there is no specific record of the fact, he may very well have come with the Winthrop fleet that arrived in Massachusetts Bay in June and July of 1630 (Charles Edward Banks, "The Winthrop Fleet of 1630" (1930, repr: Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1983), 78. 3. Robert C. Anderson, "The Great Migration Begins - Immigrants to New England 1620-1633," 3 volumes (Boston: The New.England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995), 2: 1136. 4. The Great Migration Begins (note 3), 2: 1136. 5. Stamford Town Records, 1: 20, transcription copy, 26, Connecticut Ancestry Society microfilm #1. Her name is spelled "Eliner" in the record, which was written two different times on the same page. She was called Eleanor "Disbrow" by Capt. James S. Ferris in his, "A Ferris Genealogy" (Coronado, CA: the author, 1980), vol. 2, ID No. 12. She has also been called Eleanor "Lockwood" by several authors but this is very unlikely (see Harriet Woodbury Hodge, "Some Descendants of Edmund Lockwood [1594-16351 of Cambridge, Massachusetts and his son Edmund Lockwood [ca. 1625-1693] of Stamford Connecticut" [New York: Philip V. Lockwood, 1978], 82.) Other surnames have also been proposed but all of these identities for her are considered speculative at this time. 6. The Great Migration Begins (note 3), 2: 1136, citing Paul W. Prindle's analysis in his Gillespie Genealogy. 7. Alfred Averill Knapp, Nicholas Knapp Genealogy (Winter Park, FL: the author, 1953). 8. Knapp Genealogy (note 7), 2. 9. Suffolk Deeds Liber I (Boston: Rockwell and Churchill, 1880), 1: 71. 10. Jeanne Majdalany, "The Early Settlement of Stamford Connecticut 1641-1700" (Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, Inc., 1990), 173. 11. Stamford Town Records, 1: 53, transcription copy, 65. 12. Stamford Land Records, A: 18-9. 13. Stamford Land Records, A: 19. 14. Stamford Land Records, A: 143. 15. Fairfield Probate Records, 2: 55. The month was given as 2nd month on both the will and the inventory, which was April old style. Mead and others have incorrectly called it February. 16. Fairfield Probate Records, 2: 56. 17. Henry Bond, "Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of the Early Settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts, Including Waltham and Weston ..." (Boston: The New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1860), 327. 18. All data are as given in The Great Migration Begins (note 3), 2: 1136-7 except where noted. Lists of spouses given in the Knapp Genealogy (note 7) and other secondary sources are similar, but have additional marriages for many of the children that have not yet been verified. This list follows Anderson who discounted many of these additional marriages for lack of proof. Also note his discussion and rejection of the claims that William Knopp of Watertown was a close relative of Nicholas Knapp. 19. Although Bethia's identity is given as fact by Norman Davis in his "Westchester Patriarchs" (Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, Inc., 1988), 36-7, 140, it is not confirmed by Anderson, or by Donald L. Jacobus in his, "History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield," 2 volumes in 3 (Fairfield: Eunice Dennie Bun Chapter, DAR, 1930-1932), 1: 108. 20. All from Charles W. Baird, "Chronicle of a Border Town: History of Rye Westchester County, New York 1660-1870" (Camden, ME: Picton Press [reprint], 1994), 416. 21. Stamford Town Records, 1: 20, transcription copy, 26. 22. Stamford Town Records 1: 19, 74, transcription copy, 74, 87. Some authors have claimed that she had an additional first marriage to John Disbrow, but this is unlikely since she was called Sarah Knapp in 1657. 23. Stamford Town Records, 1: 74, transcription copy, 87. 24. Stamford Town Records, 1: 128, transcription copy, 164. See also Ferris Genealogy (note 5), vol. 2, ID no. 12. 25. Mr. Bond gave the year as "1643-4" in his Watertown Genealogies (note 17) but Anderson gives it as 1642/43 based on the original (The Great Migration Begins [note 3], 2: 1137.) 26. Early Settlement (note 10), 174, lists a marriage for her to Zerubbabbel Hoyt in 1673, but there is no such marriage in the generally reliable David W. Hoyt, "A Genealogical History of the Hoyt, Haight, and Hight Families with Some Account of the Earlier Hyatt Families..." (Providence and Boston: the author, 1871, repr. Somersworth, NH: New England History Press, 1984), 311-2. 27. Old Fairfield (note 19), 1: 250. It is sometimes claimed that she married Richard Mills but Jacobus explained that this Mills marriage instead belonged to Lydia the daughter of Roger Knapp of New Haven and Fairfield (Old Fairfield [note 19], 1: 365, 411.)" 15. The book "The Early Settlement of Stamford, Connecticut 1641-1700…," by Jeanne Majdalany, pp. 173-75: "KNAP, KNAPP, Nicholas - bc 1600, d1670, m1 c1630 Elinor (prob Lockwood) (d1658, sis/o Robert and Edmund), m2 1659 Unica Brown (d by 1670, wd/o Clement Buxton. wd/o Peter). Nicolas Knap, his wife Elinor, and seven children came to America on the "Arbella" in 1630. They came from Burys St. Mary in Suffolk, probably. In 1631 Nicolas was fined in Watertown, MA for selling water for scurvy at too high a price. He was in Stamford by 1649, having been previously in Rye, NY, and Greenwich. After the death of his wife, he married Unica Brown, the recent widow of Clement Buxton, and moved into the Buxton home on the east side of West Street. His grandson Moses was a blacksmith in the 1680s. Descendants of KNAP, Nicolas: A. Jonathan - b&d1631. B. Timothy - b1632, d by 1685, mc1665 Bethia Brundage (d/o John). Rye, NY. C. Joshua - b1634, d1684, m1657 Hannah Close (bc1632, d1696, she m2 John Bowers). Greenwich. D. Caleb - b1637, dc1674, mc1660 Hannah Smith (d1685?, d/o Henry, she m2 167- Thomas Lawrence. 1. Caleb - b1661, d bef 1717, m1694 Hannah Clements (d/o William), of Norwalk and Goshen, CT. a. Caleb - b1695, d1761. b. William - b1697, d1770. c. Sarah - b1700. d. Abigail - b1702. e. Joshua - b1704. f. Joseph - b1706. g. Hannah - b1710. h. Jonathan - b1713. i. Benjamin - b1717. j. Reuben - b1717. 2. Capt John - b1664, d1749, m1 1692 Hannah Ferris (b1666, d1724, d/o Peter), m2 1727 Mrs Martha Weed. a. Lt Samuel - b1695, d1751, m1 1720 Martha Slason (b1699, d1747, d/o John Jr), m2 1749 Mrs Marcy Bouton. b. Lt John - b1697, d1763, m1 1723 Deborah Cross (b1702, d/o Nathaniel), m2 1736 Abigail Hoyt (d/o Samuel). c. Hannah - b1699, d1724, m1 1716 Isaac Quintard, m2 Jessup. d. Peter - b1701. e. Charles - b1703, d1773. f. Deborah - b1705. g. Moses - b1709, d1787. 3. Moses - b1666, d1753, m1688 Elizabeth Crissy (d/o William). Reading, CT. a. Elizabeth - b1690. 4. Samuel - b1668, d1739, mc1696 Hannah Bushnell. Greenwich and Danbury, CT. 5. Sarah - b1670, m1691 Ebenezer Mead. 6. Hannah - b1672. E. Sarah - b1639, d1681, m1 John Disbrow, m2 1657 Peter Disbrow. F. Ruth - b1641, m1 1657 Joseph Ferris, m2 1708 John Clapp. G. Hannah - b1643, d1674, m1673 Zarubbabel Hoyt. H. Moses - b1646, d aft 1713, m1669 Abigail Westcott (bc 1642, d aft 1713, d/o Richard). 1. Lydia - bc1670, d1710, m1685 Thomas Penoyer. 2. Abigail - b1672, d1706, m1692 John Crissy. 3. Sarah - b1674, d1717, m Samuel Husted. 4. Hannah - bc1676, m1 1696 Nathaniel Cross, m2 1715 Samuel Palmer. I. Lydia - b1648, d1716, in Richard Mills. J. Josiah? -. References: Alfred Averill Knapp, The Nicolas Knapp Genealogy." 16. RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. The periodical “New England Historical and Genealogical Register,” 147[1993]:327-28, “Family of William and Elizabeth (Reade) Knopp of Watertown,” partial quote from the article as it applies to my specific family: “… Family of William and Elizabeth (Reade) Knopp. 1. WILLIAMA KNOPP, of Bures St. Mary, Suffolk, born say 1555, possible brother of Thomas Knopp, above, died before 4 October 1640 when his widow was buried there. He married at Bures St. Mary, 27 September 1584, ELIZABETH READE, daughter of John and Margaret (__) Reade of Bures St. Mary. William Knopp and his wife Elizabeth received legacies by the will of her father, John Reade, dated 8 July 1597, proved 15 November 1597 (SRO, E2/43/322, W1/55/87). Either William, or more likely his son William, was buried at Bures St. Mary 21 April 1627. Child | Knapp, Nicholas (I856)
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| 1848 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. Ancestral File reports parents as William Henry Joseph and Jane Griffiths and that Henrietta was married twice: Amos Ebbe Stevens, 22 Jun 1910, with four children with two living with no information provided and two as follows: Elmer Joseph Stevens, b. 27 Feb 1925, Fallon, Churchill, NV, d. 6 Apr 1944. Amos Jack Stevens, b. 21 Sep 1920, Fallon, Churchill, NV, d. 10 Jan 1921. Harold Minton, 1969. 2. Censuses: 1900 US: Adamsville, Beaver, Utah, p. 6B: Joseph H. Joseph, Nov 1830, 69, m. 48 years, Wales Wales Wales, emigrated 1860. Mary A., wife, Oct 1837, 62, m. 48 years, 10 children total all living, Wales Wales Wales, emigrated 1860. Reese M., son, Dec 1870, 29, S, UT Wales Wales, farm laborer. Lucy, dau., Mar 1878, 22, UT Wales Wales. Henrietta, g.dau., Jan 1890, 10, UT OH Wales. BIRTH: 1. Per Hanks book. Book mentions parents as William Henry Joseph and Catherine Jane Griffith. Live endowment confirms same parents and birth of 11 Jan 1890 at Adamsville, Beaver, Utah. Grandfather, Joseph Henry Joseph, was bishop of Adamsville. MARRIAGE: 1. Place from Hanks book. Date per Ancestral File. DEATH: 1. Death date may be 21 Dec 1973 per Ebenezer Hanks book. SOURCES_MISC: 1. The book: "The Ebenezer Hanks Story," author Kerry William Bate; 1982; Address: Kerry Bate, 543 East 600 South, SLC, UT, 84 102. 2. Jim Joseph, Joseph Family researcher, 17 Dec 2002, | Joseph, Henrietta (I949)
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| 1849 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. Ancestry.com 18 Oct 2002 database: ":2189391" of Steve Primm 2. Censuses: 1800 SC: Laurens Co., South Carolina: Nathaniel Ashley, Males 0-10:1; 26-45:1/females 0-10:2; 16-26:2. 1810 US: No twp. listed, Laurens Co., South Carolina, Series: M252 Roll: 61 Page: 45: Nathaniel Ashley, 4-1-0-1-0-1-2-1-0-1-0-0 1820 US: No Township, Davidson Co., Tennessee, p. 63, image 73, note Nathaniel deceased by 1828. Nathaniel Ashley, 0-2-1-2-0-1-1-1-0-0-1 1830 US: Davidson Co., Tennessee, p. 199, both brothers are listed next to each other on an alphabetical basis: Jesse Ashley, 0-0-0-0-0-0-1-0-0-0-0/0-0-0-0-0-1-0-0-0-0 Martin Ashley, 1-0-0-0-0-1-0-0-0-0-0/0-0-0-0-1-0-0-1-0-0 (the oldest female is 50-60 and could be Lydia Ashley) 1840 US: Civil Dist. No. 10, Davidson Co., Tennessee, p. 337: Jesse Ashley, 0-0-0-0-0-1-0-0-0-0/0-0-0-0-0-1-0-0-0 MARRIAGE: 1. Online AncestryPlus "Tennessee Marriages to 1825:" Jesse Ashley and Lucinda Holder, md. 9 Aug 1821 in Davidson Co., TN. | Ashley, Jesse (I229)
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| 1850 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. Ancestry.com's "Border Crossing: From Canada to U.S., 1895-1956" which lists both Victor and Catherine. The "Empress of Japan" sailed from Hong Kong Jan. 10, Shanghai Jan. 13, Kobe Jan. 17, and Yokohama Jan. 19 for a destination of Vancouver, Canada. It was most likely in Japan from where they took passage: A. Arrival 15 Jan 1917 at Vancouver, British Columbia, departing Hong Kong 10 Jul 1917 on the "Empress of Japan": Victor Boudzkoy, 30, Catherine, 24, married, both b. in Russia, Russian, both read and write, diplomat and diplomat's wife, last permanent address was Moscow, nearest relative is father/father-in-law P. Boudzkoy, no. 9 Mochovaja St. Petrograd, religion for both is "Orthodox." B. Victor Boudzkoy; arrival date: 31 Jan 1917; port of arrival: St. Albans, Vermont, United States; ship name: Empress of Japan; Port of Departure: Hong Kong, China; age 30; birth date: abt 1887; birth country: Russia; race/nationality: Russian." 2. Ancestry.com's "World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918: "Victor P. Boutzkoy; 26, 213 W. 54, New York, NY, b. 24 May 1890 in St. Petersburg, Russia; alien; citizen of Russia; employment: "Assistant Imp[erial] Russian Military Attache" for the Russian Government employed in New York; dependents: wife and Child; married; Caucasian; previous military experience with First Russian Hussars; no exemptions; description: 6 ft., Med build, gray eyes, brown hair, not bald, no disabilities. Signed as "Lieut. Vic. P. Boutzkoy" in New York City, June 5, 1917. 3. Also known as BOUTZKOY, BOUTSCO, BOUTSCOI. Butsko is a Ukranian name and may be the area of estates belonging to the Butsko family. 4. Notes made by Irene Petersen, May 1976, from various documents while visiting her half-brother Arik Butzkoy in England: Certified Copy of an Entry of Marriage. D416 27 (Romsey District): Victor Peter de Butzkoy, 37 years old, hereditary nobleman, father: Peter de Butzkoy (deceased), Retired Army Officer – Russian Army, and Valerie Horsman Soames, 19 years old, spinster, father: Gilbert Horsman Soames (deceased), Retired Army Officer, were married 15 Dec 1927. Surname: Boutzkoy (or Butzkoy, Boutsco, Boutscoi) Christian name: Victor Date of Birth: 24 May 1890 Place of Birth: Petrograd, Russia Surname of Father: Boutzkoy Surname of Mother: Nekrassof At age 36: 6 ft. ½"; hair: dark; eyes: grey; face: round; nose: straight; no peculiarities. Valerie Horsman born 30 Oct 1908 in London; 5 ft. 10"; hair: fair; eyes: blue; face: round; nose: straight. Certificate Newmarket 14 May 1920 Cap. Victor Butzkoy employed for past 12 months as interpreter and intermediary. Lived at 19 Rue Berlioz, Nice, as of 4 Sep 1934. Letter: Sir, In view of my foreign descent, I have been advised by my friends to accompany my application form by this explanatory letter. I am of Russian nationality, and though it is not of real importance, my family belonged to the old hereditary nobility, (of the Cossack Province of the Ukraine) – though for various reasons I have not been using my title for a certain number of years in the past. In 1911, I joined as a Military Cadet, the late Czar of Russia's Horse Guards. A year after I was commissioned as a Cornet in His Majesty's Hussars. I took part in the First World War with my regiment, in fact went through the invasion of East Prussia by the Russian Cavalry, and having been twice wounded, was appointed on the General Staff in 1916, and very soon sent as Assistant Military Attaché in Tokyo, and subsequently held the same position at our embassy in Washington, D.C. In May 1918, I found myself in Stockholm, attached to the Russian Legation there, where I met many members of the British Embassy who had left Petrograd owing to the Bolshevik regime and whom I used to know in Russia socially, and in the course of my General Staff duties, including the Ambassador, Sir George Buchanan, and General Sir Alfred Knox, M.P., etc. Some of them suggested that I should continue fighting against the Germans by joining the British Army as a Volunteer, to which I readily agreed. I was given written instructions, and an introduction by the British Military Attaché, Colonel Scales, and told to report to Brig. General the Hon.—Yarde Buller in Christiania, who, instead of sending me to the front in France, told me to travel unofficially round the coast of Norway to Murmansk, and to report there to General Sir Frederick Poole, who was in command of the Allied Expeditionary Corps about to land in North Russia any day. When I reported to General Poole, which was about the beginning of July 1918, he welcomed my desire to join the British Army, but said that in spite of my Russian Regimental rank as Major, and Staff rank as Colonel, I must start my service with the British Army in the ranks. After a short attachment to the 3rd Bn. Royal Scots, I was transferred to a special fighting unit, the Slavo-British Legion, and a few weeks after, I was gazetted as a Commissioned Officer in the British Army, and appointed as Staff Captain and later Brigade Major, to General Sir Reginald Gordon Finlayson, who was G.O.C. all Allied troops at the Front. Just before Christmas 1918, the new Allied G.O.C. (General Ironside) chose me for carrying military dispatches from Archangel to H.B.M. Minister in Stockholm, (Sir Msme Howard), who a few weeks afterwards, re-directed me with an additional lot of dispatches to the Foreign Office and War Office. At the War Office I received orders to remain in England and in May 1919 I was appointed as Intermediary and Liaison Officer to the very large camp outside of Newmarket, which was started on Mr. Winston Churchill's initiative for the reception of hundreds of Russian P.O.W. Officers from Germany; the object of this scheme was to send them, after some rest and training, to fight on the various Fronts in Russia, where the struggle between the White Russian Forces against the Bolsheviks was then in full force. The Commandant of the Camp was a splendid English gentleman and officer, Colonel Thompson, D.S.O. M.C. (K.O.Y.L.I,). After the dispersal of the Camp in April 1920, I had the honour of being offered an appointment to a certain Department of the War Office; (the service etiquette does not allow me to mention the Department in writing). Early in 1921 I wished to be relieved of my duties in the above mentioned Department as I could not resist the desire to try to get through into Russia for giving help to, and even saving my poor parents in Russia. Ever since, I have been living in England, receiving a moderate income from one of my Estates which fortunately was in Polish-Ukrainian Territory, which income was of the greatest importance to me in view of a permanently weak state of health due to war wounds. Unfortunately this income stopped completely in the very beginning of the last war, when the German and Red Armies invaded Poland, and the whole position became permanent, owing to the existence of the Iron Curtain across Europe. This with my physical inability to do any regular work has left me entirely destitute. I should consider it a great honour and privilege to have a personal interview with a local member of your Association, Colonel Foster, who lives not far from here, if only you will deem it possible to arrange this. Yours faithfully. To the President, Officer's Association, 24 Belgrave Square, S.W. 1. P.S. Though my home is London (near the Bottom Kensington) was completely destroyed by the blitz in 1940, with all its contents, I still have a lot of old documents and papers, which could officially prove all my statements of this letter and of my application form. "Certificate dated Feb. 22 1918. Captain Victor P. Butskoy, Officer of the Russian Army, and is Assistant Military Attaché to the Russian Embassy, Washington, D.C." "Nov. 21, 1922. Victor P. Butzkoy. Former Major of the Russian Imperial Cavalry, ex-Major of the British Expeditionary Forces in North Russia, has finished with distinction the complete course of the Imperial Alexander Lyceum in Petrograd with its University classes." "Passport issued 12 December 1916 by Governor of Petrograd to Victor Petrovitch Butzkoy. The holder hereof, the Heriditary Nobleman Victor Petrovitch Butzkoy of the Orthodox Religion, thirty years of age, exempt from military service, Russian subject from the day of birth, is proceeding to Japan, Canada and the United States of North America on commercial business, in testimony whereof and for free passage is issued to him this passport with the affixing of the seal of the Governor of Petrograd, Deputy Governor, Chamberlain of the Imperial Court, signed (Lisogorsky)." 5. May 2008 email correspondence between Irene Petersen, the step sister to Artemy (Arik) Butzkoy and Geraldine Bridgewater geraldine.bridgewater@ntlworld.com Irene: "I am… daughter of Catherine Werblovsky who was married to Victor de Butzkoy and half sister to Artemy V, de Butzkoy deceased Nov. 26th 1993 in St. Helier, Jersey in the Channel Islands. I have met Rose Soames Gow in 1949 in London, Valerie's mother. Weren't they related to Churchill somehow? I do have pictures and would be glad to email some to you. By the way Victor Petrovich de Butzkoy was a Nobleman himself and had a very impressive Military career as an officer in the Csar's Army. He was an Assistant Military Attache in Washington D.C. for over a year and half, 1916-1917. His father also raised Borzoi (sp) dogs. Please tell us more about your relationship to Valerie and any other recollections and where do you live at the present time?? Who did Valerie remarry (maybe a Russian Colonel?) with and when did she pass away. I think V. Butzkoy died in the 50's." Geraldine: "I would love to know more about Victor while he was married to Valerie and in particular I am trying to find out how the Grand Duchess Xenia became Valerie's Godmother when she entered the Russian Orthodox Church. Do you have any information on that by any chance? I wonder how close Victor Butzkoy was with the Imperial family. For your information Valerie married Kornelius/Cornelius Pechovsky, another Cossack who she met in the church in 1946, after she divorced Victor. I presume Victor did not marry again? Kornelius Pechovsky died in 1981 and Valerie in 1985. Both were buried at the Russian Orthodox Cemetery which is I believe in Chiswick. I went to Valerie's Funeral - a very moving affair. I would love to see any photos that you have of Victor and Valerie. Do you have any of Victor in uniform? Victor - so family records show - apparently met Rosie, Valerie's mother on the battlefields when Rosie was driving an ambulance in 1914-1918 in France. He was injured and she helped nurse him back during which time they fell in love and he moved into a house in Gloucester Rd., London, with Rosie who had recently been widowed from Gilbert Soames. (I am not sure about the connection to Winston Churchill.) Victor, I believe, continued to live with Rosie through the divorce with Catherine. Their relationship became very strained and they argued a lot. In 1925/6 Victor and [Rosie's daughter] Valerie eloped! and married in December. They went to live in Nice I believe with Valerie's Uncle Harry who had a villa there. Family records say that Uncle Harry asked Victor to pay for their board and lodgings by working in the gardens, which Victor was most reluctant to do because he preferred to go to the casino and mix with other Russian Nobility. Anyway, as you may be aware, after twenty years of marriage they divorced." Irene: "I know that my grandfather used to write from Germany to V.P. Butzkoy and also V.P. Butzkoy was trying to apply for a pension as he was in ill health and was in need of money for survival. I have sent you several pictures on several emails. I see that your email says Brighton, this is where Arik Butzkoy's son lives at the present time - Peter was born Dec. 2nd 1954 and his sister Susan born July 1959 might be in London; she has lived in Kentucky and owned many racing horses. Both are not married. Peter was once and had a son Richard. My brother used to live in Rottingdean." Geraldine: "I was looking through the papers downloaded from Chris and Julie's website and one paragraph about Victor really stood out and apparently you were also quite astonished. I am referring to the transcription in the book - I wonder what that was that was so incredulous? Also there is a letter from your grandfather to Victor before or just after your mother divorced him and there is the mention of £1800 pounds. I cannot read Russian but it seems to me he was angry in the letter. I was wondering whether you knew what that was about. Also just one last question if I may be so bold to ask you. In the notes I have there is an entry for Nov. 21, 1922: ' Victor P. Butzkoy Former Major of the Russian Imperial ..... has finished with distinction the complete course of the Imperial Alexander Lyceum in Petrograd with its University classes.' I wonder if you can you tell me what that means? Any light you can throw on all of this would be very helpful and in return I wll send you my completed manuscript when it is written if you would like?" Geraldine: "Thank you for the pictures. I presume they are all of Victor Butzkoy some with Catherine and I believe that there is also a photo of Valerie. I will have to get my magnifying glass out. Isn't it amazing that we are sharing all this information? I am 55 have recently published a book about my time as the first woman dealer on the London Metal Exchange. It is called "Ring of Truth" and is available on Amazon. I am now retired after also having worked in Local Government for the last twenty years. I paint, write, and swim; and I do gardening. Valerie is my father's cousin - her mother was my grandmother's sister. I used to visit her often and we were close. Just to let you know that I have passed on some information to the rest of the family and they are very impressed with Victor and his career, etc., and also now able to understand more clearly why he was always so short of money. I intend to write him up and do him justice for the family records. The truth is always so much better than family gossip! My cousin Julian Allason is looking into the name of Horstman or Horsman to find out its proper origins when he next visits his father James Allason who is now in his 90's. He was the originator of some of the stories about Victor. I shall let you all know the outcome as soon as he tells me something new. Did you ever hear any stories about Victor knowing the Grand Duchess Xenia or her husband Sandro?" 6. Email from Geraldine Bridgewater of Brighton, England "I am researching the relationship between Count Butzkoy and my Great Aunt Valerie who was his second wife for twenty years. It particular I am trying to find out how Grand Duchess Xenia became Godmother to my Great Aunt. Valerie became a member of the Russian Orthodox church whilst she was married to Victor. It must have been a great honour to have the Grand Duchess Xenia, sister of the Tsar as your Godmother. A favour not often given, which makes me think that perhaps Victor had done some very special service to the Imperial family! Perhaps helping Xenia or her sister Olga to escape after the revolution, and that being a Godmother to his wife was one way of showing her gratitude. So I am interested in his early career and the information you have sent is very helpful indeed. And do you have any more? I am particularly interested in two items you have sent. The first was about a transcription in a book that your mother I believe was incredulous at! I wonder what that was. Also Victor went back to St. Petersburg in 1922 which must have been quite dangerous and completed a course at the Imperial Lyceum! I was wondering whether in 1922 they would still be calling it Imperial. It would be so helpful if you could throw some light on all of this for me. I promise to share with you all my information once I have got it all into perspective. Do you have any information as to any of Victor's Russian friends do we have any names of friends in France who he used to go to the Casino with. Also do we know who his boss was when he was working in Washington? Perhaps Victor was a good friend of Grand Duchess Xenias husband Sandro?" 7. Website Footnote.com 20 Aug 2008 has the following image (no. 1975989) concerning Victor Butzkoy. It is from the National Archives, "Old German Files, 1909-21," case number: 8000-152954, publication #M1085, entitled: "Investigative Case, Files of the Bureau of Investigation 1908-1922." The case occurred in Washington, D.C., and was investigated by Warren W. Grimes on March 4, 1918. The report reads as follows: "Re: Victor Butskoy, (Suspicious Character.) At Washington. Received an anonymous letter addressed from the Sheridan, 1523 22nd St., N.W., February 27, 1918, reporting Victor Butskoy as making representations that he was a secretary of the Imperial Russian Embassy and had furnished an apartment in the Sheridan. I proceeded to the Imperial Russian Embassy and interviewed one of the secretaries, who advised me that Butskoy was attached to the staff of the military attache of the Russian Embassy, that he is an accredited agent of the Russian government and registered with the United States Department of State, as provided by the espionage act. (In explanation, the reason the matter was taken up with the Russian Imperial Embassy direct was that there was no record in this department showing the name of Butskoy on the lists received from the State Department.) Nothing further will be done in connection with this case." 8. Website Footnote.com 20 Aug 2008 has the following image (no. 84949743), which is the City Directory for Washington DC-1918, published by the R.L. Polk and Company. The following entry is on page 266: "Butzkly Victor h8 1523 22d nw." 9. Received the following July 25, 2008 attachment to an email from Geraldine Bridgewater through my mother Irene Petersen. Geraldine provided Irene with her research supported by all the information Irene had sent her. Geraldine would like to use this research "in a book that may or may not get published about how to find a Russian-masterpiece!" Irene indicates that she is not necessarily in agreement with all of the "facts" that Geraldine purports and that she would like to better check the following: Irene does not believe that Victor returned to school in St. Petersburg after arriving in London. Geraldine's research with minor spelling and punctuation corrections made by myself: "Count Butzkoy Victor Petrovich Butzkoy (sometimes spelt Boutzkoy, Boutsco or Boutscoi) was born on 24th May 1890 in St Petersburg. His father, Count Peter De Boutzkoy, was a hereditary nobleman of the Cossack province of the Ukraine. Peter de Boutzkoy was an Officer in the Imperial Army, probably a Major General. Victor's mother's maiden name was Nekrassof. At the age of twenty one Victor joined the Horse Guards of Czar Nicholas II. In 1912 he was commissioned as a Cornet in his majesty's Hussars, took part in the First World War with his regiment, went through the invasion of East Prussia by the Russian Cavalry and was twice wounded. On the 24th December 1915 Victor married Catherine Verblovski/Weblovsky in Chorchow, Russia. The following year on the 16th June 1916 his wife Catherine gave birth to a son in Petrograd called Artemy Victor Boutzkoy (Arik). Victor Butzkoy was twenty six and Catherine was twenty three. Having been wounded Victor was appointed to the General Staff and in 1916 went via Vladivostok to Tokyo with his wife Catherine. (photos) Their son Arik was left with his grandparents in Petrograd. Victor was Assistant Military Attaché. A Passport issued 12 December 1916 by the Governor of Petrograd shows Victor as a Russian subject from the date of birth, aged 30 years old, of the Orthodox Religion. He is exempt from military service and will be preceding to Japan, Canada and the United States on commercial business, in testimony whereof and for free passage is issued to him this passport with the affixing of the seal of the Governor of Petrograd, Deputy Governor, Chamberlain of the Imperial Court signed Lisogorsky.(copy of passport) As Assistant Military Attache, Victor would have been involved, with the negotiations taking place on trade agreements, for the purchase of weaponry for the Russian Army. Russian forces were in urgent need of supplies and required at least a million rifles and a thirty percent increase in cannons. At the outbreak of the World War I neither the Russian Army or the Russian Economy were prepared for war, despite the fact that the Russian Government had assigned more then 22% of the state budget to the army and navy between 1898 and 1913. The situation had been made worse by the losses of the Russian army during the Russo-Japanese war (1904-1905) which had still not been restored by 1914! This is because the Russian Government was largely concerned with financing the construction of large warships. However troops in the field required weapons much more than warships and so the Russian government had to re-orientate state naval factories to the production of land arms. This required significant investment. The British Ambassador to Russia, Sir George Buchanan, reported to the British Prime-minister, Sir Edward Grey, that Sazanov, the Japanese Minister, would accept rights over the Changchun-Harbin Railway in return for supplying one million rifles to the Russians and that the Russians had given their consent to this agreement. But the Japanese would require the raw material to make the weapons. Russia was unable to supply all the raw materials required and so the remainder would have to come from the U.S and England. The reason why Russia needed Japan to make the weapons according to Sir George Buchanan, the British Ambassador, was that Japan had both the factories and the skilled workforce. Negotiations were awkward because Russia and Japan had only recently reached agreement on disputed territories of Mongolia and Manchuria and Japanese interest in Korea was still a delicate matter. When Japan won the 1905 war the Japanese Empire enjoyed a newly found status amongst the super-powers as a leader of north east Asia and Russia had its international prestige seriously damaged. So negotiations lacked any real trust between the Japanese and Russians despite the fact that they were now allies fighting a common enemy and there were regular accusations of spying made from both sides. (pp. 22, 23, 24, Dangerous Rapprochement Russia and Japan in the First World War 1914-1916 Igor. R.Savelieve, Yuri S. Pestushko, Acta Slavica, Japonica, 2001 Nr 18. copyright Slavic Research Centre, Hokkaida University, Sapporo Japan) . On March 17th 1917, Czar Nicholas abdicated in favour of his brother Michael (Misha). There was still an Imperial Russia but its power was being gradually eroded. Russia's economy was severely weakened by its role in World War One despite the support given by the Allies. The war had jeopardized further the already weak institution of the Czarist Regime and as a result it's very existence was threatened. During November 1917, Victor and his Wife left Tokyo and traveled to the United States. As Assistant Military Attaché he would work with colleagues to ensure the supply of raw materials from the U.S. to Japan for the making of weapons for the Russian Army. Their arrival in Washington was announced in the newspapers society pages on December 9th 1917. 'A lonely couple. Strangers in a strange land. But I prophesy that they won't be lonely long, After society once discovers them, for they are charming and awfully good-looking . They are Captain and Mme Butzkoy of Russia. He is here in connection with some special work for the Embassy. Both are young, both a very good looking, speak English perfectly and are quite sociable. He has been decorated twice for valor, has been wounded several times and has done a lot of interesting things. I am told he likes riding and is a marvelous horseman. They have an apartment at the Marlborough just now but will move next week to the Sheridan. They expect to be in Washington all winter'. In April 1918 Victor and Catherine left the U.S to Sweden. They would have been concerned at events taking place in Russia. Both had family in Petrograd including their son Arik who was still living with his grandparents. By May 1918 Victor is in Stockholm attached to the Russian Legation where he again meets up with members of the British Embassy who have left Petrograd owing to the Bolshevik uprising. During the course of his general staff duties he works with Sir George Buchanan, the British Ambassador to Russia, and General Sir Alfred Knox M.P. (With grateful acknowledgment to Irene Petersen, who made these notes in May 1976 from various documents while visiting her half -brother Arik Butzkoy in England.) On July 16th 1918 the Russian Revolution entered its final stage when the Czar and his family were murdered by the Bolsheviks at Ekaterinburg. But at the time the deaths were not announced and there were only rumours and counter rumours. It was not at all clear what had happened. On July 2Oth, Grand Duchess Xenia's records in her diary;- 'In the newspapers there is a small exert from Nickys letter (Czar Nicholas II) to some General in Stockholm, that they are all alive now thanks to Commissar (Chkognevich?) and that it a better life over there... and that maybe Alix will be going into the convent! But where are they?' (Once a Grand Duchess page 136 para 1, para 4, page 137, para 2, John Van Der Kiste & Coryne Hall Sutton Publishing Limited 2002) By the 25th July the advancing White Army had taken Ekaterinburg and found the house where the Czar and his family had been imprisoned empty. Rumours that the Czar and his family were now dead circulated openly but the Dowager Empress refused to believe it. By December 1918 it was becoming clear to many that the Czar and his family had been murdered. But the surviving Romonovs were still hopeful that the White Army would prevail against the Bolsheviks and that Russia would recover it's former imperial status! However Grand Duchess Xenia and the Dowager Empress did not want to leave Russia while there was still a chance that the White Army would be victorious. (Once a Grand Duchess, John Van Der Kiste & Coryne Hall Sutton Publishing Limited 2002) Victor would have known that the nearer the White Army got to being victorious the more danger the Romanovs would be in. He expected the Bolsheviks would kill the remaining Romanovs. Complicating the matter further had been the Brest-Litovsk Treaty, which the Bolshevik Regime had signed with the Germans. This meant that the Bolshevik Government of Russia was no longer an enemy of Germany and so the Bolsheviks withdrew Russian Troops from the Allied forces. The signing of the Treaty prompted an all out Civil War in Russia because the Russian Army split into two opposing forces;- The Bolshevik Red Army and the Imperialist White Army. The Whites volunteered to fight on with the Allied Forces. But with the Bolsheviks now withdrawn the strategic northern ports of Murmansk and Archangel had become vulnerable to an invasion by Germany. So a multi-national force made up of U.S, British and French personnel was dispatched to protect supplies and equipment and to keep the ports open. A huge amount of fighting took place in and around Archangel. Xenia wrote in her Diary, 'In Murmansk there are about 30,000 French and Czechoslovaks, Judging by some newspapers there is a battle going on in Yaroslvl between the Bolsheviks and the White Guards and nearly all the towns are burned to the ground.' (Once a Grand Duchess page 136 para 1, para 4, page 137, para2, John Van Der Kiste & Coryne Hall Sutton Publishing Limited 2002) The Allied Expeditionary Force, including White Russians, were intent on beating back the Bolsheviks and were sent to Siberia to protect the rear. Grand Duke Michael, the Czar's brother (Misha) was living in Perm at this time. Misha's life was in danger not only because he was the Czar's brother but also because when Nicholas II had abdicated he had nominated Misha as his successor. The Czar did this in order to protect his son Alexei, who had been very ill. Knowing the offer was something of a poisonous chalice Misha had wisely turned it down. Although he later agreed that if the Russian people so requested it he would accept. Victor was aware of the deteriorating circumstances and would have been concerned for the safety of his family and friends and the remaining members of the Romanov family who were still in Russia. It is also quite likely that he was a friend of the Grand Duke Michael (Misha) and would have been planning to get him out of Russia too. As a Diplomat for the Russian Imperial Court, he would have been immediately compromised and his life endangered if he had gone back into Russia. As a White Russian and an Honorary Nobleman his allegiance would have been with the Czar. Being part of the Intelligence Services he would have been well informed about the events taking place around the Imperial family in 1918. Some letters to and from the Royal family in England to the Romanovs at Ay-Todor were still getting through. Although in most cases it was simply too dangerous for them to receive correspondence. Queen Alexandra, sister to the Dowager Empress, feared greatly for their lives, wanting them all to escape Russia and come to England. But there was some reticence on behalf of the British Government and King George V because they feared reprisal from the Bolshevik Government who might try to instigate a revolution in Great Britain. Carrying dispatches from Murmansk to Archangel Victor would have been in a unique position to know what was happening on the front-line as well as inside Russia. His allegiance would have been with anyone fighting the Bolsheviks and he would have been in touch with the hundreds of Russians fighting in the White Army. Many of whom would have been of the landed gentry hoping to get back their lands which had been confiscated by the Bolsheviks. All would have been concerned about their families safety, even more so after receiving reports that people were being murdered quite openly in the streets of Russia. . Although it cannot be verified that Victor was in touch with the Grand Duchess Xenia and her family at this time, he was working with Sir George Buchanan, the British Ambassador to Russia, who was at this time negotiating between the Russian Cabinet and the British Foreign Office, for the release of the Grand Duchess Xenia and her family. (Once a Grand Duchess, page 120, para 4, John Van Der Kiste & Coryne Hall Sutton Publishing Limited 2002) Victor would have known the danger the Imperial Family faced and would have been doing everything possible including encouraging those who were in the right positions to discuss how to get the Czar's family safely back in control of Russia again and if not, then at the very least to arrange their safe escape. But calamitous events moved more rapidly than the opportunities to put them right arose. The Czar's sister's Xenia and Olga were with their children at Ay-Todor in the Crimea along with the Dowager Empress whilst many of the Grand Dukes had been imprisoned in Alapayevsk. Grand Duke Michael (Misha) and his secretary Johnson had been living in comparative freedom in the Korolev Rooms in Perm since March. Shortly before dusk on the 12th June they were taken away by a group of men. Nothing had been heard of them since. For months rumours circulated that Misha had been rescued by monarchists and was in hiding. Many believe that his disappearance from Perm was a deliberate move by the White Army to spirit him out of Bolshevik hands and thwart Germany's plans to set him up as a puppet Czar, while other reports said he was living in Omsk. Plans for his restoration continued during the Autumn of 1918. Lt. Col Anatoly Pepelyev and 16,000 men of the 5th Polish Rifle Division seized Perm in December 1918. But as was later found out Michael and his secretary had been executed by the Bolsheviks and Xenia and her family never heard from him again. (Once a Grand Duchess, page 134, John Van Der Kiste &Coryne Hall Sutton Publishing U.K. 2002) Xenia's Husband, Grand Duke Alexander (Sandro) was planning to leave to speak at a conference in Paris with the Allies and explain how bad things were in Russia. He begged Xenia and the family to leave Russia but failed to convince them despite the fact that across Europe monarchies were being overthrown. Victor explains in his own words what he was doing at this time. 'It was suggested to me that I should continue fighting against the Germans by joining the British Army as a volunteer, to which I readily agreed. I was given written instructions and an introduction by the British Military Attaché, Colonel Scales and told to report to Brigadier General the Honorable Yarde Buller in Christiania, who instead of sending me to the front in France told me to travel unofficially round the coast of Norway to Murmansk and to report there to General Sir Frederick Poole, who was in command of the Allied Expeditionary Corps about to land in North Russia any day. When I reported to General Poole, which was about the beginning of July 1918. He welcomed my desire to join the British Army, but said that in spite of my Russian Regimental rank as Major, and Staff rank as Colonel. I must start my service with the British Army in the ranks. After a short attachment to the 3rd Bn. Royal Scots, I was transferred to a special fighting unit, The Slavo -British Legion, and a few weeks after, I was gazetted as a commissioned officer in the British Army, and appointed as Staff Captain and later Brigade Major, to General Sir Reginald Gordon Finlayson, who was G.O.C. (Group Overall Commander) Allied troops at the Front. Just before Christmas 1918, the new Allied G.O.C. General Ironside, chose me for carrying military dispatches from Archangel to H.B.M Minister in Stockholm. (Sir Msme Howard) who a few weeks afterwards redirected me with an additional lot of dispatches to the Foreign Office and the War Office'. (from Victor Butzkoy letter to President of the Officer Association 1940) Victor's wife Catherine was staying at the Dawson Mansion Hotel Pembridge Square in London when Victor took up his new appointment as an Interpreter and Intermediary at the Newmarket Camp. 'At the War Office I received orders to remain in England and in May 1919 I was appointed Intermediary and Liaison Officer to the very large camp outside of Newmarket, which was started on Mr. Winston Churchill's initiative for the reception of hundreds of Russian P.O.W. officers from Germany; the object of this scheme was to send them after some rest and training to fight on the various fronts in Russia, where the struggle between the White Russian forces and Bolsheviks was then in full force. The Commandant of the Camp was a splendid English gentleman and officer, Colonel Thompson, D.S.O.M.C (K.OY.L.I)'. (Victor Butzkoy Letter written sometime after 1940.) By the Autumn of 1919 the Red army had gained superiority and General Ironside was forced to abandon the White Army to its fate. It was too late to save Misha but not too late to save the remaining Romanovs. 'After the dispersal of the camp in 1920 I had the honor of being offered an appointment with a certain department of the War Office; The service etiquette does not allow me to mention the department in writing. (Extract letter written by Victor Buzkoy to the Presidents Association, 24 Belgrave Square S.W.1. with grateful acknowledgment to Irene Petersen, who made these notes in May 1976 from various documents while visiting her half -brother Arik Butzkoy in England.) Rosie Soames It was probably about this time that Victor met Rosie Soames. Rosie was the daughter of Alfred Allason. She was a red headed beauty who married Gilbert Soames, an Army Officer with the Lancashire Fussiliers. Gilbert's father was the Liberal M.P. Arthur Wellesley Soames. He was born in 1852 and in 1876 married Eveline the daughter of T. Horsman Coles Esq of Ore, Sussex. He unsuccessfully contested Ipswich in 1892 and 1895, but was elected for S. Norfolk in 1898 and sat in the Commons until he retired in 1918. He died in 1934. He was in favour of Home Rule and other items in the advanced Liberal programme. They lived at 18 Park Crescent London. Aurthur Soames had a famous father too. He was William Aldwin Soames of Tramore Lodge Brighton. He was a wealthy Russian merchant, meaning he dealt in Russian goods, and the founder of Brighton College. William and his brother were both first class cricket players and played for Sussex. Rosie and Gilbert had one son Robert Horsman Soames born in 1906 and a daughter Valerie Soames born in 1908. Gilbert was killed in France by a sniper's bullet in January 1917. After her husband's death Rosie joined the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry and was initially attached to the Australian forces. Family history says her ambulance driving led to a meeting with Major Victor Petrovich Butzkoy who had been injured in the field. (A Record of The Allason Family 1790 -1987, James Allason) Despite the fact he was married Major Butzkoy embarked on an affair with Rosie which led to him moving in with her and the family at Gloucester Road in Kensington. [?] although very beautiful [?]got up to some strange and exciting adventures. She bought a large noisy Harley-Davidson motor bike which suprised the top-hatted churchgoers when she rode it in Queens Gate on Sundays. Then she took her children to visit the battlefields of Flanders, (where her husband and his uncle had died, and where her brothers had commanded Battalions) with her daughter Valerie riding pillion and her son Bob in the side-car, because he was recovering from pneumonia, they bumped around Ypres and Neueve Chappelle until the side car collapsed. The french blacksmith called on to repair it found a dozen live hand-grenades stowed in it by Bob, who was very indignant when they were put in the pond, since he was planning to take them back to Charterhouse! (James Allason, A record of the Allason Family 1987) The Grand Duchess Xenia was now living in London, first at 18 Lennox Gardens and then at 2 Princes Gate, Kensington. Count Butzkoy knew the Grand Duchess Xenia and her family and it is likely that he introduced Rosie to her. The Grand Duchess Xenia was living in the same neighbourhood as Rosie and family memoirs recall them often together. On July 27th 1922, Victor divorced his wife Catherine. (The divorce papers give his profession as 'Attaché in London.) Catherine then moved to Paris and on the 9th October 1923 was married for the second time to Nicholas Olimpieff in St Cloud, Paris France. She would marry a third time, in 1933, to a Nicholas Filanov or Filonoff and move to Nice, Alpes Martimes, France where she would continue to live until her death on the 8th October 1972. Interestingly enough all three husbands had been Cossacks! Having worked at the 'certain department at the War Office' Victor tells us that: ' Early in 1921 I wished to be relieved of my duties in the above mentioned department as I could not resist the desire to try to get through into Russia for giving help to and even saving my poor parents in Russia'. Family records show the following. 'I had mentioned to my 'incredulous mother that I had a copy of the Butzkoy transcription from the book you lent me last week. I did in fact have it and on it you also had the following. November 21st 1922, Victor P. Butzkoy. Former Major of the Russian Imperial Cavalry, Ex Major of the British Expeditionary Forces in North Russia, has finished with distinction the complete course of the Imperial Alexander Lyceum in Petrograd with it's University Classes' (Taken from the notes of Irene Petersen). How long Victor stayed in Russia is not known. This rather cryptic statement about finishing with distinction the complete course of the Imperial Alexander Lyceum in Petrograd with it's University Classes begs more questions than it answers. It is unlikely that in 1922 the Academy at which he had been studying would have still been called 'Imperial' given the Bolshevik regime. Newspaper articles of the day reveal in grotesque detail the tumultuous events taking place in that great city in 1922. In 'Tombs of Rulers Robbed By Soviet', news from Russia of the sacking of churches and the arrest of clergy is followed today by dispatches reporting the violation of the tombs of all Russian Saints and Rulers by the Bolsheviki in a frantic search for treasure with which to keep up their tottering regime.'' (New York Times June 1922) Tombs of the Czars were being opened and systematically robbed of jewelry and other valuables. Only the tomb of Peter the Great survived untouched. The article very distressing to read and too appalling for me to repeat in detail mentions that in one case a whole silver coffin of Anna Ivanova was dragged from the church and shipped to Moscow for melting down. The Sarcophagus of Catherine The Great was broken open and necklaces and rings torn from the body of the Empress.' Seeking to reinforce their pecuniary interests it is by no means sure that the proceeds of this confiscation would serve to aid the starving.' (New York Times June 1922). The Russian Orthodox Church was under attack with artifacts of gold and silver and holy icons being stolen and or vandalized. (Lenin's 'Black Hundreds' Anti-Clerical Campaign) 'Seeking the destruction of the church the Soviets try now to produce scission in the Russian clergy. Using several unworthy priests, they are trying by the habitual process of falsification of elections to summon a new council docile to their wishes to elect in the place of Tikhon, a Patriarch willing to destroy the interior strength of the Church. The Russian people, terrorized by the Soviets, are in no condition to fight against their oppressors. Russians who have found asylum in civilized countries are equally powerless'. (New York Times June 1922). According to the Liberte Correspondent in Paris, the desecration of the tombs of the saints was ordered by Lenin in an effort to increase his power by playing on the superstitions of the ignorant. All this while the Soviet power had proclaimed in communist Russia that liberty of conscience of religion, was guaranteed to all and the Government would not intervene in Church affairs. On June 9th 1922, The New York Times published an appeal from exiled Russians living in Paris. 'The Bolesheviki have decapitated the Orthodox Russian Church in taking away the Head, Tikhon, Patriarch of All The Russias, a Patriarch freely elected according to ecclesiastical rules, elected after the fall of the old regime has been arrested and forced to abandon the direction of the church. Russian organizations having their centre in Paris, meeting without distinction of religious faith and political convictions, address this appeal to the whole world'. 'To all peoples, their governments, to Christian churches and to all religious communities; Innumerable are the misfortunes of the Russian people and deep its distress. Stricken by World War, followed by Civil War, reduced to blackest misery by the Communist regime, decimated by terror, succumbing on mass to deadly epidemics, exterminated by famine, the Russian people possess one consolation- close union with the church. 'It was about the church that rallied the mass of the people. It is only within its walls that it felt the supreme liberty of the spirit which constitutes the most precious possession of the human beings. The church, in the person, or its clergy and its faithful had not been spared. Twenty eight Bishops and thousands of priests and monks were martyrized and put to death. Christians and all of you who possess the sacred fire which animates humanity, answer our appeal and each one, in the limits of your power act against the sacriligious acts of the Bolsheviki.'' (New York Times June 1922) The Russian famine of 1921 which began in the early spring lasted through 1922 and killed an estimated 5 million people. The famine resulted from the combined effect of the disruption of the agricultural production started during World War I and continued through the Russian Revolution and proceeding Civil War. A drought in 1921 added to the misery. Hunger was so severe that instead of seed grain being planted it was eaten. The first 'Pomgol', meaning relief for the starving, was created by Patriarch Tikhon and included, scientists, artists, church leaders and public activitsts, many of whom were of non-Bolshevik persuasion. The Patriach Tikhon appealed to the international religious community and soon aid began arriving. The Soviet government disiked this course of affairs, disbanded Tikhon's Pomgol on August 27th 1921 and instigated their own Pomgol! Among their fund raising activities was the first state run lottery with all proceeds directed for famine relief. The state Pomgol took an active part in the requisition of Russian Orthodox Church valuables by force. This action was justified by Lenin because Patriarch Tikhon had refused to sell holy church artifacts. International aid was eventually secured through The International Committee for Russian Relief, The International Committee of the Red Cross, Hoovers American Relief Association, The League of Red Cross Societies and the International Save the children Union, which had the British Save the Children's Fund as a major contributor. England sent 600 tons of grain and the first feeding centre was opened in October in Saratov. Victor would have born witness to these terrible events. We know that he left for Russia during 1921 and probably did not arrive back in England until sometime after November 1922. We cannot know exactly what he was doing in Petrograd but concern for his family and friends would have been uppermost in his mind. As a faithful follower of the Orthodox Religion he would have been horrified at the events taking place. One can only assume that he would have been doing everything he could to help any survivors of the massacres that were taking place in the streets of Petrograd. There would be no doubt that he would also be putting his own life at risk in doing so. Perhaps he had relatives who were priests or monks. During the time Victor was in Petrograd, Lenin was busy giving speeches and writing his 'Testiment' and he was on the rostrum at various committees speaking against the appointment of Stalin. Lenin had already survived an assassination attempt in 1918 but with bullets still lodged in his neck because it had been too dangerous to remove them, he was getting weaker by the day. In 1922 he suffered the first of three strokes that would eventually kill him. To those monitoring the political situation 1922 was as good a year for opportunity as any other. The atmosphere, even in public places must have been charged with the ambitions of many as thoughts of who might replace the leader took hold. To outsiders, with their lives in danger the end of Lenin might if handled with care, provide an opportunity to restore Russia to its former glory, and if not, then it was probably going to be the very last opportunity to save any remnants of Czarist Russia. Victor, clearly a man of action, was not going to sit back and watch the motherland burn without having one more last attempt to salvage whatever it was he went there for. Writing some eighty years later it is impossible to know what he was doing or what was going through his mind. We can only imagine what it must have felt like to see the world you know and love utterly destroyed. This latest outrage and act of indecency against the church must have been the very last straw for so many Russians both at home and abroad. In some it would have provoked a greater compulsion to do something about the Red Terror than in others. Victor was still young enough but was he willing? We shall never know and all of this is supposition. So what we must accept is that he went for the reasons he gave, to save his family. Whether he was successful or not, he was back in London by 1923. Now divorced, Victor continues to have contact with his wife Catherine who although living in France brings Arik their son, over for a visit and they spend time in Torquay together. (photos) But by 1924 the relationship between Rosie and Victor had become strained and there were frequent quarrels. Victor appears to have enjoyed a number of relationships with women and had an affair with Isadora Duncan. In photos of them together, Victor appears to be around 33 years old and it is not clear whether they are taken in Paris or a Russian city. Both Victor and Isadora traveled extensively. (Photos.) [Note from Irene Petersen who provided the photos to the author - the photos were taken in the Nice, France area.] After several years together Victor and Rosie parted company and in 1928 Victor eloped with Rosie's daughter Valerie who was now nineteen years old. They were married on the fifteenth December 1928 in Romsey District. Victor was 36. He is described on the wedding certificate as, 6ft. 1/2'', hair dark, eyes grey, face round, nose straight no peculiarities. Valerie born 30th October 1908 in London 5ft 10'' hair fair, eyes blue, face round, nose straight. Valerie was now the Countess Butzkoy although Victor didn't use his hereditary title and always referred to himself as Majoy V Butzkoy. After the marriage they moved to Nice. Valerie had a small allowance from her father's estate. From 1926 to 1933 Valerie and Victor stayed with Uncle Harry who had served in the 1914-1918 war and been awarded the Military Cross. Afterward he had retired to his Villa in Nice. Harry had been at school with Winston Churchill. Harry took pity on them and offered them board and lodgings on condition that Victor worked in the garden. This he was most reluctant to do and preferred to gamble at the Casino with his fellow Russian Aristocrats. Apart from his gambling habit Major Butzkoy was also well known for breeding Borzoi hunting dogs! His father was also a famous breeder in Russia. In September 1934 their address was given as 19 Rue Berlioz, Nice. Catherine, Victor's first wife had recently moved to Nice from Paris presumably with the young Arik. Valerie could now speak fluent French and Russian and had adopted the Russian way of life. In Nice the couple would have socialized with a large fraternity of exiled Russian nobility. In 1935, Uncle Harry died. When Valerie became ill with measles they returned to England. Rosie, provided them with less than comfortable lodgings over a shop in Hampstead. Valerie had joined the Russian Orthodox Church and the Grand Duchess Xenia, sister of the late Czar Nicholas II became her Godmother. How this happened family records do not say. But it would have been a great honour to have the Grand Duchess Xenia as your Godmother. Could it be that this honour was given to Valerie as a way of saying thank you for some singular service done for the Imperial Family by her husband Count Victor Butzkoy? Again we cannot know for sure but I think it is a reasonable conclusion to arrive at given the circumstances that I have outlined in this story. Valerie received a number of gifts from the Grand Duchess Xenia. The Grand Duchess did not have much money and needed financial support from the British Royal Family who housed her at their own expense first at Frogmore and then at Wilderness House. However she did have jewelry, paintings, silver and other family items that she brought with her when she left Russia. Later more items concealed in boxes, apparently only full of rubbish, were shipped to her from Russia. Many of these items she sold or auctioned to friends for much needed cash for the Russian charities and groups of immigrants that she helped support all around the world. Items that she couldn't sell she often gave away to her friends who were themselves doing a lot to support the Grand Duchesses charities. For many years Valerie helped, on behalf of the Russian Orthodox Church in London, at fundraising events for The Russian Refugees Benevolent Fund. (photos) The paintings of Two Young Women in a Grotto by Neff and the watercolour portraits by August Bouvier were given to Valerie along with the jewelry, some of which appears in the paintings and which prompted me to to investigate the paintings further. I remember seeing them in Valerie's bedroom in 1965. The picture and the portraits are of the Grand Duchess Xenia's Great Aunts, who were sisters, Grand Duchess Maria Nicholaievna Romonov, who married the Duke of Leuchtenberg and then Count Grigori Strogonov and Olga Nicholaievna Romonov, Queen of Wurttermberg, daughters of Czar Nicholas I. Because Grand Duchess Xenia's husband, The Grand Duke Alexander (Sandro) was also her cousin it means that The Grand Duchess Maria and Olga were his Aunts as well. Valerie became increasingly unhappy in her relationship with with Victor and after nearly twenty years of marriage obtained a divorce in 1945. Major Victor Petrovitch Buzkoy continued to live in London and during the second world war applied for work. One of the letters he wrote has been used to tell this story . It was a letter to The President of the Officers Association requesting an introduction to a Colonel Foster. (Provided by Irene Petersen, a daughter of Catherine Werblovsky and half-sister to Arik Butzkoy. The Petersens who live in Alaska and Hawaii have done an enormous amount of work on their family tree and most of the photos and documents come from their website and family archive) . We dont know whether Victor was successful in his endeavor to obtain work. But he continued to live in London until about 1948, when he moved to Oxford were he died on the 18th October 1952 aged sixty two years. His son Artemy Victor Butzkoy, Arik, as he was known and who also inherited the title Count, married on 28th August 1951 to Barbara Dorothy Julia Mathias in Esher Surrey England. Arik published a book on making Rugs and was very wealthy indeed. He apparently invented a rug making or knitting machine and had a number of business interests in London including a toy manufacturer. He lived next door to George Harrison of the Beatles in a large mansion with butlers and other household staff. He had a number of classic cars on the forecourt and he collected armour! He had two children Susan and Peter. Susan is a successful racehorse owner in California and Peter lives in Brighton, England. (Arik) Artemy Victor Butzkoy died on the 26th November 1993 in Brighton East Sussex England. In 1946 Valerie met Cornelius Pechovsky, A Cossack at the Russian Cathedral in London. He was a very religious man who although his father had been a Czarist officer, had been taken prisoner by the Germans as a Red Air Force Officer! He later escaped and more or less walked to England all the while avoiding enemy lines. Valerie and Cornelius married in 1947 and had a long and affectionate marriage until he died in 1981. Their time together was spent helping Russian Refugees from all around the world and they had many friends who often called on them and stayed. The interior of their many houses resembled that of a dacha in pre-revolutionary times - every surface adorned with Russian Icons and silver-bound likeness of the last Czar, Grand Duchess Xenia and other members of the Romanov Family. Valerie died in 1985. G. Bridgewater. @June 2008 MARRIAGE: 1. Catherine divorced Victor de Butzkoy 27 Jul 1922. A paper in the possession of Catherine's daughter Irene Petersen from "Administration Diocesaine des Egls. Orthodoxes Russe en Europe" (French for Diocese Administration of the Russian Orthodox Church in Europe) dated 9 Oct 1922 with no address says in Russian that Catherine and Victor Butskoy were married at the Mironocitkoy Church [Russian orthodox] in Kharkov, Ukraine, on September 24, 1915 with divorce July 27, 1922, at the fault of the husband. 2. By Kerry Petersen: copy of email dated August 06, 2007. Subject: The scandalous tale that connects Kerry personally with Ina Coolbrith - Who would have thought such a thing possible? I recently shared my passion for the history of Ina Coolbrith with my mother. She was not familiar with Ina being California's Poet Laureate and the inspiration of many early writers and poets. As many of you are aware, I have been contributing research to Greg Whitman who is penning the revisionist history on Ina and her "mormoness." I had my mom read the Rhodehamel/Woods book for background. She than shocked me with a family story I had never heard (and I am the family historian!). My mother came over from France as a young 16-year-old girl after WWII. Her side of the family is Latvian Jew and her mother had left Russia around the Bolshevik Revolution for Nice France. My mother was able to survive the horrors of the war, especially being Jewish with her single mother living in the same building as the Gestapo. After the war, Mormon missionaries sent her to Utah where she met my father. Then along came me. My grandmother was Catherine Werblowsky and she had married Victor de Butzkoy in St. Petersburg before the Revolution. He worked for the military and was posted overseas prior to the Revolution. Long and short they ended up in Nice. Meanwhile in Oakland per the webpage http://www.sfmuseum.org/bio/isadora.html (very good if you haven't yet read it) which I sent you last week, there was a local poet named Joseph Duncan who divorced his wife for the great love of his life – Ina Coolbrith. Joseph was the father of Isadora Duncan, the great dancer. Isadora as a young girl, was inspired by the local Oakland librarian, Ina Coolbrith, in her reading much as Jack London would later be inspired by the same Ina. Ina could bring out the creative talents of all she met and Isadora was no exception. Through classical literature and poetry, Isadora was inspired on the worldwide greatness. Later in life in her memoirs, she recalled in her memoirs "the beauty and fire of the poet's eyes" in talking about Ina Coolbrith. Isadora (perhaps like Ina) was disillusioned with marriage perhaps because of her father's divorce to her mother. She vowed that she would never marry. Later in Europe, she was a free spirit and always with lovers. Turns out that one of the lovers was Victor de Butzkoy, the husband to my grandmother. My grandmother confirmed the relationship of Victor and Isadora to her daughter Irene. Victor was a ladie's man and eventually after seven years of marriage and one child, Catherine would divorce him in Nice. Catherine later remarried and my mother came from the later marriage. She was always in touch with her half-brother, Arik. As a boy, I lived with Arik one summer in England in 1965. (He was very wealthy and his next door neighbor was George Harrison of the Beatles – which made me quite famous when I returned to the States at the end of the summer.) Sounds like an odd story, but my mother has the pictures to prove it. The second photo attached is Victor and Catherine in Russia. The first photo is Victor with Isadora presumably in Nice. Victor is the one in the white suit as well as the one in the uniforms. Victor and Catherine were part of the large Russian community in Nice from after the Revolution and Isadora loved Russia. Ina Coolbrith, as the niece to the Mormon prophet Joseph Smith, probably knew my early San Francisco Mormon ancestors, the Winners since he was the local Branch President. And through Ina to Isadora and her father Joseph, the other part of my family in Europe connects in three degrees or so. Because of Ina inadvertently breaking up the Duncan family, was Isadora and her free loving spirit (also perhaps a bit from Ina) responsible for breaking up my grandmother's marriage? On the other hand if the marriage hadn't broken up, my mother would not have been born of the later marriage and I certainly would not be typing this. Truth is stranger than fiction. What more can I say since I am overwhelmed after having spend countless hundreds of hours on Ina over the last few years!" | Butzkoy, Victor Petrovitch (I1787)
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