Book Of The Week: Genealogy of the Dutton Family of Pennsylvania

Genealogy of the Dutton Family of Pennsylvania, 

Preceded by a History of the Family 

in England from the Time of 

William the Conqueror to the Year 1669: 

with an Appendix Containing a Short Account 

of the Duttons of Conn

Gilbert Cope, 1871 - Digital images - 112 pages

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Book Of The Week: Genealogical and Family History of the Wyoming & Lackawanna Valleys, PA

Genealogical and Family History

 of the Wyoming and Lackawanna Valleys,

Pennsylvania,Volume 2

Horace Edwin Hayden, Alfred Hand, John Woolf Jordan

Lewis publishing Company, 1906 

Lackawanna County (Pa.)

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Finding Faulkner: The Progeny | Bertha M Wells {Gen 4}

It started, as good quests always do, with a family tale.

Bertha M Wells (Catherine Jane, Joseph, James, William) was born in Pennsylvania in May 1864, to parents Catherine Jane Faulkner and John W Wells.

Bertha married John F Wheeler (1858-1939) in 1886, most likely in Pennsylvania.

The couple had at least three children:

• Catherine Wheeler b. 12 Nov 1893 d. 1968 never married
• Paul Wheeler b. 18 May 1896 d. 2 Apr 1954 never married 
• Malcolm Wells Wheeler b. 7 Apr 1904 d. 1990 m. Beatrice Pearce

John Wheeler was a banker in Carbondale, PA. Bertha was a housewife. 

John Wheeler died April 2nd 1939 and is buried in the Canaan Corners Cemetery in Wayne Co, PA. 

Bertha M Wells Wheeler died February 18th 1949 and is buried alongside her husband. 

Anyone with further information is encouraged to contact me.

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Book Of The Week: The History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania

The History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania: 

From the Discovery of the Delaware to the Present Time

William Watts Hart Davis

Democrat Book and Job Office Print, 1876 - Bucks County (Pa.) - 929 pages

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Finding Faulkner: The Progeny | Catherine Jane Faulkner {Gen 3}

It started, as good quests always do, with a family tale.

Catherine Jane Faulkner (Joseph, James, William OR Priscilla, William, William) was born about 1826 in Orange Co, New York to parents (and first cousins) Joseph Faulkner and his wife Priscilla Faulkner.

Catherine Jane married John W Wells (born about 1825) about 1846 in Pennsylvania.

The couple had at least four children: (all born Pennsylvania)

• Ada L Wells b. 23 Sep 1847 d. 13 Jan 1928 never married
• Edith Wells b. 20 Aug 1853 d. 7 Aug 1936 m. Edward Wheeler no issue
• Andrew Wells b. abt 1854 d. UNK
• Bertha M Wells b. May 1864 d. 18 Feb 1949 m. John F Wheeler

John died sometime before 1870 I suspect, he is not listed on the census with Catherine and the children. The last census Catherine appears on is 1880, listed as widowed. 

The death dates and burial locations for Catherine and John are not known.

~This particular family line is proving to be very challenging, as you will see in the coming weeks. The family of Joseph and Priscilla Faulkner are showing to be elusive and vague. I intend to supply what I know, maybe something will ring a bell with someone.~

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Finding Faulkner: The Progeny | James Bull Faulkner {Gen 3}

It started, as good quests always do, with a family tale.

James Bull Faulkner (Joseph, James, William OR Priscilla, William, William) born June 28th 1824 in Orange Co, New York to parents (and first cousins) Joseph Faulkner and his wife Priscilla Faulkner.

James Bull married Susan Murdock (born in Ireland Nov 13th 1827) about 1850 in Pennsylvania.

The couple had at least 10 children: (all born Pennsylvania)

• Mary Evaline Faulkner b. 1851 d. 1854
• Franklin Wellington Faulkner b. Jan 1852 d. after 1920 never married
• Louise Susan Faulkner b. Jan 1853 d. 4 Dec 1936 never married
• Elizabeth Priscilla Faulkner b. 10 Mar 1854 d. 10 Mar 1892 m. Wm H Moyles
• Martha Ann Faulkner b. May 1855 d. after 1930 never married
• Evaline Faulkner b. 1858 d. before 1870
• Clara J Faulkner b. 29 Jun 1860 d. 29 Feb 1892 never married
• George Washington Faulkner b. 28 Nov 1862/3 d. 22 Mar 1906 never married
• Charles Anderson Faulkner b. 26 Jul 1864 d. 31 Dec 1932 m. Beatrice Frances Silverstone
• Sarah Margaret Faulkner b. 1867 d. after 1930 m. Clement H Beeson no issue 

James Bull Faulkner worked for the D & H Canal Company for 30 years. Perhaps this is what bought him to Pennsylvania.

James Bull Faulkner died November 18th 1901 in Carbondale, Pennsylvania. His wife Susan died Nov 13th 1893 also in Pennsylvania. They are buried in the Maplewood Cemetery in Carbondale with many of their children.

~This particular family line is proving to be very challenging, as you will see in the coming weeks. The family of Joseph and Priscilla Faulkner are showing to be elusive and vague. I intend to supply what I know, maybe something will ring a bell with someone.~

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Notes From My Grandmother | Twining Lineage and Genealogy, Part Three

Somehow, much of my grandmother's hand written and (badly) typed notes and research wound up in my possession. Traveling from Chicago to Los Angeles and back to Chicago again. It sat, in the dark of my mother's closet, until my dad passed and my mom decided to begin her great purge. Knowing I had picked up the torch, the next generation to pursue the Greatest Hobby on Earth, the papers came to live with me. Unsure for many years on just what to do with them, I have decided to bring them out and share them with you - transcribed, of course - no one can read my grandmother's handwriting! But in her own words; mistakes, rambling sentences, and all. I think she will be pleased her work and her writing are once again out in the light!

the Twining papers

The Twinings held a special fascination for my Grandmother. Her middle name was Twining. Her mother was a Twining. She drank Twining's tea, as did the rest of our family. I'm unclear as to the link between our family and the Twining's Tea Company, however. Our Twining ancestor came to the 'New World' c.1640 and has been recorded in the small book Genealogy of the Twining family : descendants of William Twining, Sr, who came from Wales or England.   

Of all the research I inherited, the Twining collection is by far the most expansive. My grandmother wrote 'stories' and typed up other little sketches on them. I will present them to you here, as written by her.

Twining Story, cont.

William Jr, son of the first American ancestor, was the first to break away from 'barren waste'. On June 3, 1652 he was admitted and sworn in first as one of the Grand Jury. In again 1667-68 and also 1671. William was deacon at the Eastham Church as early as 1677 and as late as 1681. Mr Twining was granted a parcel of land in May 1693. He was proprietor of land at 'Easton Harbor' and held interest in Drift Wales at end of Cape. ("History of Massachusetts Bay" tells us that first settlers of these colonies were very careful that no title or appellations be given where not due. Not more than half a dozen of principal gentlemen of the Massachusetts Colony took title as Esquire; in a list of a hundred freemen not more than four or five were distinguished by 'Mr', although they were generally men of substance. Goodman and Goodwife were the common appellation.)

In 1695 his religious views underwent a radical change. He bid adieu to the land of the Pilgrims; this is an important epoch in family history.  The name had borne honor to the Congregational Church alone nearly six decades on historical Cape Cod; but now the 'house' is about equally divided religiously and geographically. William Jr with wife, son and daughter moved to newly settled Province of Pennsylvania. The tenets of Quakerism were maintained in their purity and freed from the intolerance of New England theology. Henceforth family blood flowered in parallel lines - one Quaker - other Congregational, generation to generation.

Mentioned in his father's will but 'was beyond the sea' at the reading - 26th - 4th month - 1697. Also mentioned in the will: Johanna, Mehitable, Anne (Bills) and her two daughters, Elizabeth (Rogers) and youngest son, Stephen's son.


GENEALOGY

William Twining Jr. b. 10/25/1619 Gloucester, England
                                 d. 11/4/1703 Bucks Co, Pennsylvania
                                 m. 10/25/1703 to Elizabeth Deane
                                                              b. 1629
                                                              d. 12/28/1708

children:

Elizabeth b. 1649 d. 3/10/1725 m. 9/19/1669 to John Rogers
Anne b. 1650 d. 9/1/1675 m. 1672 to Thomas Bills
Susannah b. 1653 d. 2/28/1654
William III b. 2/28/1654 d. 1/23/1734 m. 3/26/1688 to Ruth Cole
Johanna b. 1657 d. 6/4/1703 m. brother-in-law Thomas Bills (widow)
Stephen b. 1659 d. 4/18/1720 m. to Abigail Young
Mehitable b. 1661 d. 1743 m. to Daniel Doane

.......................to be continued....................

***editor's note: this is a transcript of research completed in 1982 based on information available at that time. I have not yet researched this family further, but suspect there is more information/clarification available to us today. I will follow up at a future date with fresh data. *** 

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©1980-82 Elizabeth Twining Potwin Thomas - private collection

Finding Faulkner: The Progeny | Priscilla Faulkner {Gen 2}

It started, as good quests always do, with a family tale.

Priscilla Faulkner (William, William) was covered in the post on her husband Dr. Joseph Faulkner (James, William). However in doing a bit more research I can share some additional information here.

Priscilla Faulkner (William, William) was born to Colonel William Faulkner Jr and Jane Rogers, his wife. Born about 1790 in Wallkill, then Ulster Co, New York, she was the seventh child and fifth daughter born to the family.

Information is sketchy, from what I could find in the census records paired with the information from the Bull Book and the occasional will or death certificate, here's what I know:

Priscilla Faulkner married her first cousin Dr. Joseph Faulkner, most likely in Wallkill, Orange Co, New York. Most likely about 1808 or 1809. No records have been found to prove this date.

Children of this marriage include:

• Thomas Faulkner b. UNK m. 9 Apr 1828 to Susan Van Voorhis (per Bull Book). Thomas was said to be a Colonel in the Civil War.
• William S Faulkner b. about 1811 d. 5 Nov 1876 (per Bull Book). William was said to be a professor at the Academy at Dundaff, PA
• Mary Ann Faulkner b. UNK m. 7 Feb 1828 to Hiram Walsh (per Bull Book)
• Cassandra Faulkner b. about 1812 taught school near Dundaff, PA as an adult (per Bull Book)
• Clarissa Faulkner b. 1812 per census records. d. Apr 1903 per her will.
• James Bull Faulkner b. 28 Jun 1824 d. 18 Nov 1901 m. 4 Mar 1851 to Susan Murdock
• Catherine Jane Faulkner b. about 1826 m. John W Wells
• Martha Faulkner b. 4 Jul 1827 d. 9 Mar 1906 m. Franklyn Coleman (per Bull Book)
• Phinney Faulkner b. 1829 d. 18 Apr 1857 of Yellow Fever (per Bull Book) Presbyterian minister.
• John Faulkner b. about 1835 per census records

Priscilla was listed as a widow on the 1860 U S census, that is the final census on which she appears.

Priscilla died 10 Sep 1868 per the Bull Book. 

Additional information on Joseph Faulkner: "He was a partner with his brother-in-law and cousin in a flour mill in Orange Co. [New York] Having signed a bond, said to be $22,000, for his partner who subsequently disappeared, he had to pay the amount which ruined him financially. As his son William and two daughters were already teaching in Dundaff, PA, 6 miles from Carbondale, Dr Faulkner moved there and practiced as a physician from 1829 to 1843. His wife [Priscilla] was residing in Dundaff, PA in 1847 according to her father's pension record." - per Bull Book

Anyone with additional information on this family is encouraged to contact me - I'd love to collaborate with anyone related to or researching them.

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Book Of The Week: Welsh Settlement of Pennsylvania

Welsh Settlement of Pennsylvania

By Charles Henry Browning

"The author follows hundreds of Welsh pioneers into Pennsylvania via the records of the various land companies who re-settled William Penn's famous grant of land along the Schuylkill River. For sources, he utilizes lists of settlers, land patents, plat maps, and biographical sketches to flesh out the process of settlement in Merion and the adjacent towns of Haverford and Radnor.Still other important features are a study of the sometimes strained affairs between Welsh Tract settlers and William Penn, various personal accounts by the settlers, and a history of the Quaker meetings founded within the Welsh Tract."

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Jesse Thomas Sr.: Might As Well Be John Doe (52 Ancestors #21)

Jesse Thomas Sr.

An infuriating Quaker.

Might as well be John Smith or Doe. Seems Thomas was a very common surname among the Quakers in Chester County, Pennsylvania. Very common. Hair pulling frustration common. And (of course) there are (at least) two Jesses.......

Now, I'm sure my 3rd great grandfather didn't mean to be so difficult, and buried somewhere deep in the tomes of Quaker history lie the answers. Alas, a trip to Swarthmore is not in my future any time soon.

So today, as I write this short sketch, the answers I seek remain buried.

I admit I do have ulterior motives for this post. A little fishing expedition. The more we all can get out onto the world wide web, the more chance there is for someone; anyone, anywhere; to stumble across it and perhaps supply a missing piece of the puzzle. Genealogy appears to be a solitary pursuit, you know, with the Cave and all, but it is only successful with collaboration.

Also I might add, that I have avoided this for a while.  Quaker genealogy really is a study unto itself and I must admit that it boggles my mind and makes me cranky.

So here is what I know.

• Jesse Thomas Sr. was born about 1786* in Chester Co., PA. His parents UNK to date.  FYI there are 41 heads of household in Chester County in the 1790 Federal Census with the Last name of Thomas. Forty One! Thirty two of those households report male children under 16. (Jesse would have been 4 at the time) By 1800 there are 30 heads of household, by 1810 (eureka!) there is but one Jesse listed in Chester County with 2 young adults and one child. (The 1786 Pennsylvania Census of Taxpayers lists 52 Thomas'.... but let's not go there)

• He married Rebecca (or Rebecah) Hampton in 1808* in Chester Co., PA They were members of the Fallowfield Monthly Meeting in Chester Co., PA. 

• Rebecca (Rebecah) was born May 12, 1790 in Bucks County, PA, the daughter of Jonathan Hampton and Elizabeth Phillips. This is one case where there is actually more recorded info on the woman than the man!

• The couple had at least 11 children, according Quaker records. You'd think with 11 descendants there would be numerous people looking for Jesse, wouldn't you?

• In 1820 the family requested removal from the Fallowfield Monthly Meeting in Chester Co., PA. in preparation to move to Ohio. They requested admittance to the Stillwater Monthly Meeting in Belmont Co., OH.

• In 1839 the family is listed in the Deerfield Monthly Meeting records in Morgan Co., OH.

• In 1842 Jesse is listed in the Chesterfield Monthly Meeting in Athens Co., OH, having died in February. He is recorded as being buried at Plymouth. Could that be Plymouth, Washington Co, OH?  There is a Jesse Thomas listed in the 1840 census residing in Westley Twp, Washington Co, OH - Plymouth is in Westley Twp. Plus my grandmother (the Genealogy Queen) has in her notes that the family was from Westley Twp.

*Dates are from other family trees. I usually don't use this type of information as I have not been able to source it, but I am including it this post as a stepping off point.

As I mentioned above, there are a few records for a Jesse Thomas born in 1791 to a Phillip and Hannah Thomas. He was born in Chester but the family attended the Goshen Monthly Meeting - probably not our guy.

There is a record of a Jesse Thomas "accomplishing" his marriage in 1806, but it was recorded in the Philadelphia Northern District Monthly Meeting - probably not our guy.

And that is it. That is all I know.  If only my Genealogy Cave was equipped with a time machine .......

Well, a girl can dream.


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