Happy 100th Anniversary, Nana and Grampy!

 Today is my grandparents' 100th wedding anniversary.  They were married on Valentine's day in 1925 in Hamilton, Massachusetts.  

There is no wedding photo. Not a single one.  And very few photos of my grandparents alone together.  

My grandparents with me, around 1962

A photo of my grandfather from my grandmother's little photo album.

She wrote his name on the sticker. 

My grandmother's high school photo.  She was supposed to graduate from Beverly high

school, but never did because she moved from Beverly to Hamilton and never finished. 

My Dad took this photo in the 1970s when

he caught Nana and Grampy under the mistletoe! 

In 1975 there was a very big 50th anniversary party for my grandparents,

at the Commodore restaurant in Beverly.  It was attended by all seven of their children

and dozens of cousins and relatives. This photo was in the local newspaper.

Was there a wedding cake 100 years ago?

My grandfather, Stanley Elmer Allen, son of Joseph Elmer Allen and Carrie Maude Batchelder, was born 14 January 1904 in Cambridge, Massachusetts.  He married Gertrude Matilda Hitchings, daughter of Arthur Treadwell Hitchings and Florence Etta Hoogerzeil, on 14 February 1925, in Hamilton, Massachusetts.  She was born 1 August 1905 in Beverly, Massachusetts.  Both young people were neighbors in Hamilton, a case of falling in love with the boy next door?  Why no photos?  Was it a "shot gun" wedding?  My uncle, Stanley Elmer Allen, Jr., was born in June. 

This is a real love story. My grandparents went on to have seven children between 1925 and 1942.  These children were born and grew up in the Great Depression and World War II.  When the oldest child went off to serve his country during WWII, the youngest child was born.  They had 29 grandchildren, mostly born during the baby boom following the war, but some as late as the 1970s.  

My grandparents lived in a tiny house, a former "camp" near Asbury Grove in Hamilton. This was a Methodist campground where both sets of my great grandparents lived. My grandparents house still stands on Roosevelt Avenue, and it is hard to believe seven children (five boys and two girls) all lived there together.  Several relatives all lived nearby.  Most of the extended family worked at the local estates at one time or another.  Hamilton is known for its large estates owned by wealthy Boston families such as the Winthrops, Appletons, Mandells (now the site of the Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary) and General George S. Patton.  

10 Roosevelt Avenue in Hamilton, photographed in 2004

My daughter standing in front of the Patton tank

in Patton Park, Hamilton, Massachusetts

My grandfather worked hard almost all his life since the 8th grade.  He had to drop out of school to support his older sister when her husband died in the 1918 Spanish Influenza epidemic, leaving her a widow with two babies.  He worked in a leather factory, on the Charles Tainter estate, the Palmer estate, and on 7 August 1927 he began to work as a glazier at the United Shoe Manufacturing in Beverly, Massachusetts.  He worked there for 41 years. 

Stanley died on 6 March 1982 at the Beverly Hospital.  Gertrude died 3 November 2001 at a nursing home in Peabody, Massachusetts.  

For the truly curious:

My ALLEN Surname Saturday blog post from 2012:    https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2012/09/surname-saturday-allen-of-manchester.html   

My HITCHINGS Surname Saturday blog post from 2014:    https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2014/10/surname-saturday-hitchings-of-lynn.html   

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To cite/link to this blog post:  Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Happy 100th Anniversary, Nana and Grampy!", Nutfield Genealogy, posted January 14, 2025, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2025/02/happy-100th-anniversary-nana-and-grampy.html

Down the Rabbit Hole with Greenleaf Cilley Batchelder (1805 - 1855)

Exploring Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2012

This relative's name sent me down a rabbit hole, searching for more information on his name "Greenleaf" instead of researching his brother, my 4th great grandfather Jonathan Batchelder. 

Greenleaf Cilley Batchelder, the son of Nathaniel Batchelder and Mary Perkins, was born about 1805 in Chichester, New Hampshire.  He is my 5th great grand uncle, since I descend from his older brother Jonathan Batchelder.  Greenleaf married to Elizabeth Clesby on 20 November 1839 in Boston, Massachusetts.  He had three children, including his eldest, Captain Greenleaf Williams Batchelder, (1841 - 1888) who served in the Civil War.

What struck me as interesting was the name "Greenleaf".  I knew that Nathaniel Batchelder's grandfather (my 7th great grandfather) was Jonathan Longfellow.  But I couldn't find a Greenleaf in Nathaniel's family, nor in Mary Perkins' family.  Where did the name "Greenleaf" come from? 

After looking deeper into the family tree (at the names of the sons-in-law in several lineages) I found my answer.  Jonathan Longfellow had a daughter Mary (my 6th great grandmother), and also a daughter Sarah (AKA Sally) who married Revolutionary War General Joseph Cilley (1735 - 1799) of Nottingham, New Hampshire. Sally's grandmother was Elizabeth Greenleaf (1677 - 1724) who married Henry Clark of Newbury.  Sally and Joseph had a son named Major Greenleaf Cilley (1767 - 1808).  Another Greenleaf! 

According to the complied genealogy Batchelder, Batcheller Genealogy: Descendants of Rev. Stephen Bachiler by Frederick C. Pierce, 1898 "Greenleaf Cilley Batchelder...was the youngest of this family; left his home very early in life and came from New Hampshire to Boston.  He became interested in the lumber business, having contracts with the government to supply ship timber for the Charlestown Navy Yard.  At age 35 he thought he had enough money to retire upon, and invested it in real estate, mostly at the west end of Boston [note: across the Charles River from the Navy Yard in Charlestown].  He wa a man of dignity and strong character; his manners were those natural to good breeding.  He was fond of fine horses, and owned some of the best in the city.  At the age of 45, one of the horses ran away with him.  He was on his way to a farm which he owned in Roxbury (now a part of Boston) with his foreman.  They were both thrown from the carriage, and his skull was fractured, and after lingering several months, he died from the effect of this accident." 

Greenleaf Cilley Batchelder was buried in the very fine Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, contiguous to Boston.  He must have been a wealthy man.  I have requested a photograph of this tombstone through Find A Grave.  Let's see if that happens soon, or I will have to take a road trip to Cambridge! 

While I was searching the internet for more information about Greenleaf, I found an interesting newsclipping from the newspaper American Traveller, Boston, Massachusetts, Friday, Dec. 6, 1839, page 3 "Marriages... By Rev. Mr. Lothrup, Mr. Greenleaf C. Batchelder to Mrs. Elizabeth W. Davis". What?  Her death record lists her father as Bartholomew Clesby.  Where does the DAVIS come from?  Hmmmm...  another rabbit hole!  

For the truly curious:

Frederick C. Pierce, Batchelder, Batcheller Genealogy: Descendants of Rev. Stephen Bachiler, of England, A Leading Non-Conformist Who Settled in teh Town of Hampton, N.H., and Joseph, Henry, Joshua, and John Batcheller of Essex Co., Massachusetts.  Chicago, Illinois, 1898. 

My Surname Saturday blog post for BATCHELDER:   https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2018/09/surname-saturday-new-batchelder-lineage.html  

My Surname Saturday blog post for LONGFELLOW:   https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2018/11/surname-saturday-longfellow-of-newbury.html

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To cite/link to this blog post: Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Greenleaf Cilley Batchelder (1805 - 1855)", Nutfield Genealogy, posted March 28, 2023, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2023/03/down-rabbit-hole-with-greenleaf-cilley.html: accessed [access date].

The Wing Fort House, Sandwich, Massachusetts

While we were exploring Cape Cod a few months ago we had a serendipitous discovery.  We were lost on a back road, searching for the Quaker cemetery, when we stumbled across this historic home.  It was the Wing Fort House on Spring Hill Road in Sandwich, Massachusetts.  Of course, we stopped to take a few photos before continuing our search. This house was built by an a relative who became a Quaker, so we knew we were very close to our destination!

This garrison home was built in 1641 by Stephen Wing.  (I descend from his grandfather, the Reverend Stephen Batchelder (1561 – 1656) through his two children Nathaniel (1590 – 1630) and Ann (b. about 1603) who married John Sanborn).  It is puzzling why this was built as a garrison, since the native Wampanoags were friendly to the English settlers on Cape Cod.  Stephen Wing lived here with his family and his mother, Deborah Batchelder (my 10^th great aunt) who was the wife of the Reverend John Wing.

Stephen Wing was one of the first Quakers in Sandwich, Massachusetts.  The Plymouth Court records have some of the first legal proceedings against the early Quakers in Sandwich.  On March 2, 1657/8 “Lieut. Ellis, Stephen Winge and Thomas Butler, being summoned to answer for tumultuous carriage as aforesaid, [at a Quaker meeting] being examined, and not found so faulty as was supposed, were admonished and cleared.”  He was fined many times for refusal to take the oath of Fidelity because Quakers believed it a sin to take any oath. 

Descendants of the Wing family have lived in this house until 1942 when it was sold to the Wing Family of America (the family association) as a museum house.  Unfortunately, the tours run from June through September, so we missed seeing the inside of the house.  During the rest of the year the house is available by appointment to members of the Wing association.

 There have been several archaeological digs at the site of the Wing Fort House.  Most recently was an archaeological dig at this house in 2010 that revealed a small addition to the north side (a possible milk house?) and many 17^th, 18^th and 19^th century artifacts.  See the link below for a report on what was found. 

WING FORT HOUSE

HAS BEEN PLACED ON THE

NATIONAL REGISTER OF

HISTORIC PLACES IN 1976

BY THE UNITED STATES

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

WILLIAM G. POMEROY FOUNDATION 2019     239

STEPHEN WING

SON OF THE REV. JOHN AND DEBORAH

WING, CAME TO BOSTON IN 1632

WITH HIS MOTHER AND BROTHERS

JOHN, DANIEL, AND MATHEW, WITH

WHOM HE SETTLED IN SANDWICH IN 1637.

HE LIVED UPON THIS LAND AND BUILT

THIS HOUSE IN 1641.  HE WAS AN ORGINAL

MEMBER OF THE FIRST FRIENDS MEETING

IN AMERICA, ESTABLISHED AT SPRING

HILL IN 1658, AND SUFFERED GREAT

PERSECUTION AT THE HANDS OF THE

PLYMOUTH GOVERNMENT IN THE CAUSE

OF RELIGIOUS LIBERTY.  HE DIED IN

1710 AND LIES BURIED AT SPRING

HILL.

ERECTED IN 1910 BY THE WING

FAMILY OF AMERICA INCORPORATED.

For the truly curious:

The Wing Family of America website:    https://www.wingfamily.org/ 

“Tour the Wing Fort House from Your Own Home with Caretaker, Dave Wheelock”  (two parts)  via YouTube  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zp8afIPBFk 

Click here to see the reports on the 2010 archaeological dig (report and artifacts)  http://www.plymoutharch.com/wing-fort-house-excavations/  

“Mystery of Missing Family Members Still Unsolved After Archaeological Dig”, The Sandwich Enterprise, July 28, 2017,  https://www.capenews.net/sandwich/news/mystery-of-missing-family-members-still-unsolved-after-archaeological-dig/article_4a4bd723-40c8-5427-ae4e-a539e03fdab6.html 

A slide show of a visit to the Wing Fort House (no narration or captions):  https://vimeo.com/28244835 

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To Cite/Link to this post: Heather Wilkinson Rojo, “The Wing Fort House, East Sandwich, Massachusetts”, Nutfield Genealogy, posted September 7, 2021, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2021/07/the-wing-fort-house-sandwich.html: accessed [access date]). 

Do you know the roots of Margaret (Welch) Locke (about 1796 – 1860)?

 

MARGARET
wife of
RICHARD LOCKE
DIED
March 1, 1860
Age 64
[poem illegible]

Most of my “Brick Wall Ancestors” are females, usually unknown wives of ancestors.  Some of these mystery grandmothers are missing their maiden names (surnames), which makes it even more difficult to trace them.  Finding a maiden name is usually the key to smashing down the brick wall.  But for some of these mysterious ancestresses I know their maiden name, but nothing else about their background stories.

One of these mystery ancestresses is my 4^th great grandmother Margaret Welch Batchelder.  She was born Margaret Welch about 1796 according to her gravestone record.  Her death record in Chichester, New Hampshire lists her birthplace as Kittery, Maine.  Her son William F. Locke was the town clerk of Chichester at the time, so this is probably accurate.  Kittery has excellent records, but no record of my Margaret.

There were many Welch families in Kittery and York County, Maine at the time Margaret was supposedly born there.  They are descendants of Phillip Welch (born about 1638 and died 1700) of Ipswich, Massachusetts.  His son Moses Welch removed to York, Maine. 

On 21 October 1823 Margaret Welch married Captain Richard Locke in Chichester, New Hampshire.  He was a sea captain, and the son of Simon Locke and Abigail Mace of Rye, New Hampshire on the seacoast.  According to the Locke Genealogy compiled by the Locke Family Association, he went to Boston around 1811 to learn to be a blacksmith, was a sea captain, and removed to Chichester as a farmer. 

Richard Locke was enumerated in the Federal Census as living in Chichester in 1850 and 1860 as a farmer.  In the 1860 census Margaret is missing, and Richard Locke was living with his widowed daughter Abigail (Locke) Batchelder and her 11-year-old grandson, George, (my 2^nd great grandfather).  He was also enumerated with another widowed daughter, Mehitable (Locke) Brown and her 3-year-old daughter.  Poor Margaret had died about a month before this 1860 census, one son-in-law had died in 1848 (My 3^rd great grandfather George E Batchelder) and another (Elihu Brown) in 1859.  At least he had two daughters to care for him before his death in 1864.

I have been researching this family for over 40 years and looking for Margaret (Welch) Locke’s roots just as long.  I searching for any researchers of the Welch family in York County, Maine to assist me with this family history.  

My WELCH lineage:

Generation 1:  Margaret WELCH, born about 1796, maybe in Kittery, Maine, and died 1 March 1860 in Chichester, New Hampshire; married on 21 October 1823 in Chichester to Captain Richard Locke.  Three children.

Generation 2:  Abigail M. Locke born 10 September 1825 in South Boston, Massachusetts, and died 15 January 1888 in Chichester, New Hampshire, married on 7 September 1845 in South Boston to George E. Batchelder, son of Jonathan Batchelder and Nancy Thompson.  He was born 13 August 1822 in Chichester and died 3 April 1848 in Chichester. Two children.

Generation 3:  George E. Batchelder, Jr., born 8 October 1848 in Chichester, and died 28 July 1914 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, married on 28 October 1869 in Chichester to Mary Katharine Emerson, daughter of George Emerson and Mary Ester Younger.  She was born 25 December 1847 in South Boston, and died 23 April 1932 in Roxbury, Massachusetts.  Nine children.

Generation 4:  Carrie Maude Batchelder was born 22 September 1872 in Chichester and died 21 January 1963 at the Sea View Convalescent and Nursing home in Rowley, Massachusetts, married on 1 November 1892 in Essex, Massachusetts to Joseph Elmer Allen, son of Joseph Gilman Allen and Sarah Burnham Mears.  He was born 24 September 1870 in Essex and died 12 March 1932 at the Masonic Home in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts.  Five children.

Generation 5:  Stanley Elmer Allen, born 14 January 1904 and died 6 March 1982 in Beverly, Massachusetts, married on 14 February 1925 in Hamilton, Massachusetts to Gertrude Matilda Hitchings (my grandparents) daughter of Arthur Treadwell Hitchings and Florence Etta Hoogerzeil.  She was born 1 August 1905 in Beverly and died 3 November 2001 at the Pilgrim Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, Peabody, Massachusetts.  Seven children.

A blog post about finding the tombstones of Richard and Margaret Locke:

https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2009/11/tombstone-tuesday-bumping-into-great.html 

My LOCKE “Surname Saturday” blog post:

https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2016/05/surname-saturday-locke-of-rye-new.html 

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To Cite/Link to this post:  Heather Wilkinson Rojo, “Do you know the roots of Margaret (Welch) Locke (about 1796 – 1860)?”, Nutfield Genealogy, posted March 15, 2021, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2021/03/do-you-know-roots-of-margaret-welch.html: accessed [access date]). 

Ernest Allan Batchelder, Tilemaker (1875 – 1957) – A Cautionary Genealogy Tale!

My husband is hooked on the home remodeling TV shows on the HGTV, DIY, and PBS channels.  Even if he isn’t really watching TV, it is on in the background of our activities at home.  Lately he has been hooked on a show called “Restored” where the contractor Brett Waterman renovates classic 100 year old California houses back to their original architecture.  Many times I heard the words “Batchelder Tiles” on the TV show, and ran over to see what this was all about.  You see, I have ancestors named BATCHELDER, all descended from the Reverend Stephen Batchelder (1561 – 1656), an early New England settler and founder of the town of Hampton, New Hampshire. 

Every time I heard the phrase “Batchelder Tiles” I was sure that these Arts and Crafts era decorative tiles were made by a distant cousin. I know the name Batchelder is fairly uncommon, but in New Hampshire there are a huge number of Batchelder descendants from the Reverend Stephen Batchelder.  He had ten children, and dozens and dozens of grandchildren born in New England who left even more descendants. The 1898 Batchelder genealogy book written by Frederick Clifton Pierce is enormous, with over 600 pages. 

I started off by using Google, and was delighted to learn that these famous tiles were designed and manufactured by Ernest Allan Batchelder (1876 - 1957) born in Nashua, New Hampshire!  I was so happy to find a cousin! As I traced his family back to nearby Francestown, I was sure I found a descendant of Rev. Stephen Batchelder.  Or so I thought until I continued to follow his line in the Pierce book and on Ancestry, and checked the clues against vital records and other primary sources.  Can you believe that his lineage did NOT come from Rev. Stephen, but from Joseph Batcheller (1604 – 1647), an early settler at Wenham, in Essex County, Massachusetts. 

I should have not been so cocky.  I’ve owned Pierce’s book about the Batchelder genealogy, and it covers not only Rev. Stephen’s descendants, but also the brothers Joseph, Henry, Joshua and John Batchelder of Essex County, Massachusetts.  I’ve run into marriages from both lineages in my own family history research, and know many people who descend from the Massachusetts Batcheller/Batchelders. 

So this is a cautionary tale!  Never take for granted that someone is a cousin, no matter how unusual the surname, and always check the primary sources against lineages you see online.  

I also learned a lot about the Batchelder tiles while researching Ernest Allan Batchelder’s family.  These beautiful tiles are very common out west, especially in California, and are collectible treasures for restoring Arts and Crafts style homes.  Entire rooms were designed around these tiles, especially the fireplaces.  They feature neutral colors, often with animals, flowers and birds.  Some of the tiles are geometric and others have Mayan motifs. Their designs have stood the test of time, and have remained popular for generations.  (Scroll down to the bottom of this blog post for a peek at some Batchelder tiles)

Batchelder went to the Massachusetts Normal Art School, and removed to Pasadena, California to teach at the Throop Polytechnic Institute (now the California Institute of Technology).  As a hobby, Batchelder built a kiln in his Pasadena backyard in 1909 to hand craft tiles. 

Over time Ernest Batchelder wrote two books on architecture and design.  His tile making business went bankrupt during the depression when the house building market dried up.  He closed his business in 1932, but continued to dabble in pottery as a hobby until the 1950s. His house in Pasadena is on the National Register of Historic Places, and is decorated with Batchelder tiles inside and out on the chimney and the front walkway.  The house is privately owned, and not open to the public.


Although I was not related to Ernest Batchelder's paternal line, I am related through his Sleeper, Kimball and Whipple maternal ancestors.  Here are some of the resources I used to puzzle out the genealogy for Ernest Allan Batchelder’s genealogy:

MA-Vitalrecords.org   http://ma-vitalrecords.org/ 

Ancestry.com and FamilySearch.org for the NH vital records and records from other states

Batchelder Bachellor Genealogy: Descendants of Rev. Stephen Bachiler, of England, a leading non-conformist, who settled the town of New Hampton, N.H., and Joseph, Henry, Joshua, and John Batcheller of Essex Co., Massachusetts, by Frederick Clifton Pierce, 1898.  Available online at the HathiTrust website and by subscription at the Ancestry.com website.

The Genealogy of the Batchelder Family of Hampton, New Hampshire by Charles Hull Batchelder, edited and prepared by Carl W. Brage in 1985, at the Lane Memorial Library of Hampton, New Hampshire website:  http://www.hampton.lib.nh.us/genealog/batchelder/index.htm  

Find A Grave:  https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/150035305/ernest-allan-batchelder 

Wikipedia:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_A._Batchelder 

Batchelder Tile Registry at the Pasadena Museum of History:  https://pasadenahistory.org/research-and-collections/batchelder-registry/ 

A book about Ernest Allan Batchelder Batchelder Tilemaker, was written by Robert Winter in 1999.  There is no preview on Google Books or Amazon of this book.  You can read more about this book at Amazon https://www.amazon.com/Batchelder-Tilemaker-Robert-Winter/dp/1890449032 or at AbeBooks.com https://www.abebooks.com/book-search/title/batchelder-tilemaker/author/robert-winter/ 

To see the original Batchelder Tile Catalog, look at the “Tile Nut” website: http://www.tilenut.com/Batchelder/index2.html

Genealogy:

Generation 1:  Joseph Batcheller, was born 1604 in Canterbury, Kent, England, and died March 1647 in Wenham, Massachusetts; married in 1628 in Thangington, Kent, England to Elizabeth Dickenson. 

Generation 2: John Batchelder, was born 20 January 1638 in Salem, Massachusetts; died 17 December 1698 in Wenham, Massachusetts; married first on 12 July 1661 to Mary Dennis who died in 1665; married second on 4 May 1666 in Salem to Sarah Goodale, daughter of Richard Goodale and Dorothy Whiterent, mother of fourteen children.  She was born 31 May 1640 in Salem and died 22 March 1729. John Batcheller/Batchelder was involved in the 1692 witch trials as a juror.  He signed a statement asking for forgiveness for their judgement “we have been instrumental, with others, through ignorantly and unwittingly, to bring upon ourselves and this people of the Lord the guilt of innocent blood”.

Generation 3: David Batchelder, was born April 1673 in Wenham, Massachusetts; died 29 January 1766 in Wenham; married first on 7 May 1709 in Wenham to Susannah Whipple, daughter of Colonel Joseph Whipple and Alice Smith.  She was born 3 April 1676, Ipswich, Massachusetts and died 13 June 1764 in Wenham, Massachusetts (mother of nine children including Amos Batchelder).  Married second to Thankful Perham (nine more children!)

Generation 4: Amos Batchelder,was  born 6 April 1727 in Wenham, Massachusetts, died 4 May 1809 in Wenham; married on 18 December 1752 to Lydia Lord Kimball.  She was born 3 June 1734 in Wenham, and died 26 November 1813.

Generation 5: Amos Batchelder, was born 17 December 1761 in Wenham, Massachusetts; died 20 September 1843 in Francestown, New Hampshire; married on 9 June 1786 in Wenham to Hudah Kimball.  She was born 25 January 1764 in Wenham, and died 14 February 1846 in Francestown.

Generation 7: Levi Batchelder, was born 20 December 1798 in Francestown, New Hampshire, died 14 June 1875; married on 7 March 1826 in Francestown to Parmelia Batch. 

Generation 8: Elbridge Kimball Batchelder, was born 13  May 1826 in Francestown,New Hampshire; died 2 April 1900 in New Hampshire; married on 13 December 1849 in Francestown, New Hampshire to Cornelia Ann Vose.  Three sons.

Generation 9: Charles Levi Batchelder, was born 24 June 1851 in Francestown, New Hampshire, died 30 May 1906; married first on 26 November 1873 in Boston to Mary A. Sleeper; married second on 15 December 1882 to Etta Mary (Perkins) Spurling (mother of Ernest Allan Batchelder). 

Generation 10:  Ernest Allan Batchelder, was born 22 January 1876 in Nashua, New Hampshire, died 6 August 1957 in Los Angeles County, California.  He married on 30 July 1912 in Pasadena, California to Alice Emma Coleman, born 27 July 1873 in Beatrice, Gage County Nebraska, died 17 June 1948 in Los Angeles.  They had a son, Alan Coleman Batchelder born 4 August 1914 in Pasadena. 

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Ernest Allan Batchelder, Tilemaker (1875 – 1957) – A Cautionary Genealogy Tale!", Nutfield Genealogy, posted February 6, 2020, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2020/02/ernest-allan-batchelder-tilemaker-1875.html: accessed [access date]).

Hazen Saltmarsh and Sally Batchelder of Hooksett, New Hampshire - Tombstone Tuesday

This tombstone was photographed at the Davis-Cate Cemetery in Hooksett, New Hampshire

both stones read "Rest in Peace" on the front

with "Father" and "Mother" on the top

SARAH S. BATCHELDER

Wife of

Hazen Saltmarsh

DIED

Jan. 17, 1855

AE. 46 yrs. 6 mo.

HAZEN SALTMARSH

DIED

Nov. 10, 1890

AE. 84 yrs. 4 mos.

Hazen Saltmarsh, son of Edward Abbott Saltmarsh and Sally Story, was born about 1806 in Goffstown, New Hampshire and died 10 November 1890 in Bow, New Hampshire.  He was first married to Sarah (Sally) Sargent Batchelder about 1829 in Goffstown, New Hampshire. He married second to Mary Matthews on 29 October 1856.

Hazen and Sally had nine children:  John Linden Saltmarsh, Hazen Wilbur Saltmarsh, Elizabeth Blaisdell Saltmarsh, Rebecca Wentworth Saltmarsh, Abigail Burnham Saltmarsh, Gilman Saltmarsh, Sarah Saltmarsh, Sarah Ann Saltmarsh, Alonzo Putnam Saltmarsh, Mary Jane Saltmarsh, and Luella Idora Saltmarsh.

Hazen's father, Edward Abbott Saltmarsh was born about 1768 in Goffstown, and died 11 March 1854.  He married Sally Story, daughter of Nehemiah Story and Sarah Gould, born 19 May 1768 in Essex, Massachusetts.  Nehemiah Story is my 7th great uncle, brother of Deborah Story (1723 - 1821), my 6th great grandmother.  I descend from two of her children, Westley Burnham (1747 - 1835) and from Sarah Burnham (about 1759 - 1846).  Our common ancestor is Nehemiah and Deborah's father, Zachariah Story (1684 - 1774) who married Rachel Andrews.

Hazen Saltmarsh buried above is my 2nd cousin, six generations removed.


For more information:

The Saltmarsh genealogy:  http://www.saltygen.com/files/thomasdesc.pdf    (see #128 for Hazen Saltmarsh)

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Hazen Saltmarsh and Sally Batchelder of Hooksett, New Hampshire - Tombstone Tuesday", Nutfield Genealogy, posted December 31, 2019, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2019/12/hazen-saltmarsh-and-sally-batchelder-of.html: accessed [access date]).

Simeon Batchelder and Eliza Colby of Hooksett, New Hampshire - Tombstone Tuesday

This tombstone was photographed at the Davis-Cate Cemetery in Hooksett, New Hampshire

SIMEON BATCHELDER

SEPT. 10, 1820 - APR. 3, 1907

ELIZA H. BATCHELDER

FEB. 8, 1831 - FEB. 19, 1914

Simeon Batchelder, son of Benjamin Batchelder and Mary Spaulding, was born 8 September, 1820 in Bridgewater, New Hampshire and died 3 April 1907 in Hooksett, New Hampshire.  He married twice, first to Adeline Brown in 1834, and second to Eliza. H. Colby, buried here with him.  His only child was from his first wife, Samuel Batchelder, born 1 January 1839, a Civil War Veteran of Company B of the 5th NH Regiment,  who died 8 February 1896 in Hampton Fall, New Hampshire and buried at the West View Cemetery.

Eliza Colby was the daughter of Alvah Colby and Lucinda Hackett, born 8 February 1831 in Hooksett, and died 19 February 1914.  The Davis-Cate Cemetery in Hooksett is located on Hackett Hill Road, so Eliza probably grew up nearby.  Her parents are buried in the same cemetery.   Lucinda was born 22 November 1809 in Hooksett,

Simeon's father, Benjamin Batchelder, was born 2 June 1787 and married Mary Spaulding in 1815.  She was born in Merrimack on 24 January 1790.  They lived in Bridgewater where they had seven children.

Simeon's grandfather, also named Simeon Batchelder, was born in 1765 and married twice, first to Mary (Polly) Marston and second to a Miss Powell.  He had ten children.  His great grandfather was Benjamin Batchelder, born about 1744, who settled in Deerfield, and then Meredith. He had ten children also, with his wife Martha (maiden name unknown). His 2nd great grandfather was John Batchelder, born 9 November 1729 in Hampton, who married Apphia Philbrick on 7 October 1753.  His 3rd great grandparents were John Batchelder and Elizabeth Moulton, who were married on 18 March 1724/5.  This John Batchelder was my 8th great uncle, son of Stephen Batchelder (1675- 1748) and Mary Dearborn.  I descend from John's brother, Stephen Batchelder (1701 - 1748/49) who married Jane Lamprey.

This would make Simeon Batchelder, buried above, my 5th cousin, 4 generations removed.


For the truly curious:

History of the Town of Bristol, Grafton County, New Hampshire, by Richard Watson Musgrove, 1904

Batchelder, Bachellor Genealogy, by Frederick Clifton Pierce, 1898

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Simeon Batchelder and Eliza Colby of Hooksett, New Hampshire - Tombstone Tuesday", Nutfield Genealogy, posted December 3, 2019, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2019/11/simeon-batchelder-and-eliza-colby-of.html: accessed [access date]).

Surname Saturday – Updated DEARBORN of Exeter and Hampton, New Hampshire

I previously blogged about my DEARBORN ancestors here:  https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2016/01/surname-saturday-dearborn-of-exeter-and.html  

This lineage has changed due to new findings. I didn’t lose my DEARBORN connections when I found the correct parents of Jonathan Batchelder (about 1800 – 1847), since my new research has found a new lineage back to Godfrey Dearborn.  (See my blog post “A New BATCHELDER lineage” at this link: https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2018/09/surname-saturday-new-batchelder-lineage.html 

Godfrey Dearborn, a weaver from Hannah, Lincolnshire, signed Reverend Wheelwright’s Combination at Exeter, New Hampshire in 1639.  Around 1648 he removed from Exeter to Hampton and settled in the West End. His house was built on 73 Exeter Road in North Hampton.   His wife, “Goody Dearbarn”, was a member of the Hampton meetinghouse in 1650 and given a pew.  He had six children, mentioning “three daughters” in his will, and his sons Thomas, Henry and John by name.

The will of Godfrey Dearborn of Hampton, 1680

I Godfreey Dearbarne of Hampton in the provenc of New Hampshier in New England Being aged and Inferme of Body * * *

I give and Bequeath Unto Dorothy Dearbarn my loveing wife for the term of her life my Dwellinng House & Barne & orchyard and the Use and Improvementt of all my land both Areable land pastuer & marsh land for her Comfortable subsistenc Duering the terme of Her life, and the use and Improvementt of all my moveables within Dores and withoutt Duering the terme of her life

Itt I doe Give and bequeath Unto my Grand Child Ann Shatredg that now liveth with mee one two year old Heffer which she is to Receive att the End of Her time yt she is to live with mee

Itt I Doe Give Unto my sone Thomas Deararne my Dark Browne horse which I Use to Rid on

Itt I Doe Give Unto my son Thomas and Henry Dearbarn all the Rest of my Cattle thatt shall Remaine att the Decease of the longest liver of mee or my wife Excepting Sheep and swine which are other wayes Disposed of

Itt my will and pleasure is thatt all the Sheepe and swine that shall Remaine att my wives Decease shall be Equally Divided betwixt all my Grand Children yt shall be then living: and the Division to be made by my Executors & over seers

Itt I Doe Give and Bequeath Unto my Son John Dearbarn my House barne and house lott and all my land both Areable land pastuers medows & marshes and all Towne Rights and priveledges thereunto belonging and all my tooles and Carts & other Implements of Husbandry: and I Doe appointt my son John Dearbarne to bee my Exectuer to this my will and the Estate the which he is to Enter Upon and possesse att my wives Decease and to bee and Remaine to him and his Heires for Ever

Itt I Doe ordaine and Appointt my two Eldest sons Thomas Dearbarne and henry Dearbarne to bee my over seers to this my last will and testamentt whom I appointt to see to the managmentt of my Estate thatt my wife may have a Comfortable living outt of itt Duering the terme of her life

And for whatt Houshold stuff I shall leave thatt my wife shall have the use and Improvement thereof Duering the terme of her life, and then to bee Equally Devided Between my three Daughters only leaving itt to my wives liberty to Dispose of whatt was her owne before I maried Her viz one fether Bed & boulster & Rug & Coverlett and her Greatt Bible & her Red flannell petticoate to ye wife of John morse

And this my last will and testamentt I Conferme with my Hand & Seale Affixed therto this fourteenth Day of December in the year of our lord one thousand Six hundred & Eighty

His

Godfrey Dearbarn X [seale]

Mark & Seale

Signed Sealed & Declared

to bee ye last will of Godfrey

Dearbarn in pr of

Samuell Dalton senr Mehetable Dalton

This was sworn to ye 26 of agust: 86 by mehetable Dalton alice [alias] Simins befor mee

Henry green Justis Peace

Godfrey Dearborn had several famous descendants including General Henry Dearborn (1751 – 1829) of the Revolutionary War who also served as Secretary of War under President Thomas Jefferson.    The city of Dearborn, Michigan was named for General Dearborn, as well as Fort Dearborn (1803) in Chicago. During World War II another Fort Dearborn was established in what is now Odiorne Point State Park in New Hampshire.   

General Dearborn had a son, Henry Alexander Scammell Dearborn (1783 – 1851) who was an Adjutant General of Massachusetts and a Massachusetts statesman.  He wrote many books on botany and was the first president of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society.

Some DEARBORN genealogy resources:

Provincial Papers, Documents and Records Relating to the Province of New Hampshire from 1686 to 1722, edited by Nathaniel Boulton,  Volume 1, page 133

The New England Historic Genealogical Register, “Lincolnshire Origin of Exeter Settlers”, Volume 68, pages 68 – 72

History of the Town of Hampton, New Hamphire: From Its Settlement in 1638, to the Autumn of 1892, by Joseph Dow, 1893, pages 659 – 672

The Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire, by Sybil Noyes, Charles Thornton Libby and Walter Goodwin Davis, reprint 1972, pages 189 – 190.

An old book with some mistakes:

The Dearborns of Hampton, New Hampshire: Descendants of Godffrey Dearborn of Exeter and Hampton, by Joseph Dow, 1893  [available to view online at Archive.org, Ancestry.com  and the Hathi Trust website]

There is also a manuscript at the NEHGS library for a Dearborn family genealogy by Edmund Batchelder Dearborn on microfilm and in the manuscript department.  See CS71 .D285 for the microfilm and Mss C 2993 for the manuscript.  

NEHGS also has a compiled genealogy of the Dearborn family by Henry Alexander Scammell Deaborn (see above) Mss C 4653  as well as his personal papers and letters Mss 859

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My DEARBORN Genealogy:

Generation 1:  Godfrey Dearborn,  son of William Dearborn of Willoughby, Lincolnshire and his wife, Agnes Hay, was baptized  on 24 September 1603 in Willoughby and died 4 February 1686 in Hampton, New Hampshire; married first before 1632 to Unknown;  married second 25 November 1662 in Hampton to Dorothy Unknown, widow of Philemon Dalton.  Six children, and I descend from two.

Lineage A:

Generation 2:  Henry Dearborn, baptized on 22 March 1634, died 18 January 1725 in Hampton;  married on 10 January 1666 in Hampton to Elizabeth Marrian, daughter of John Marrian and Sarah Unknown.  She died 6 July 1716 in Hampton.  Seven children, and I descend from two.

Generation 3: John Dearborn, born 10 October 1666 in Hampton, died 22 November 1750 in Hampton;  married on 4 November 1689 in Hampton to Abigail Batchelder, daughter of Nathaniel Batchelder and Deborah Smith.  She was born 28 December 1667 in Hampton and died 14 November 1736 in North Hampton.  Eight children.

Generation 4:  Elizabeth Dearborn, born 31 August 1692 in Hampton, died 10 March 1770 in Rye, New Hampshire; married on 12 January 1716 in Hampton to  John Garland, son of Peter Garland and Sarah Taylor.  He was born 13 April 1692 in Hampton and died about 1741.  Two children.

Generation 5: Elizabeth Garland m. Richard Locke

Generation 6:  Simon Locke m. Abigail Mace

Generation 7: Richard Locke m. Margaret Welch

Generation 8: Abigail M. Locke m. George E. Batchelder 

Generation 9: George E. Batchelder m. Mary Katharine Emerson

Generation 10: Carrie Maude Batchelder m. Joseph Elmer Allen 

Generation 11: Stanley Elmer Allen m. Gertrude Matilda Hitchings (my grandparents)

Lineage B:

Generation 2: John Dearborn, born about 1641 in Hampton, and died 14 November 1731 in Hampton; married Mary Ward, daughter of Thomas Ward and Margaret Shaw. They had three children. 

Generation 3: Mary Dearborn, born 6 May 1678 in Hampton, married Stephen Batchelder on 25 August 1698 in Hampton. He was the son of Nathaniel Batchelder and Deborah Smith, born 8 March 1675/6 in Hampton and died 19 September 1748 in Hampton. They had seven children.

Generation 4:  Stephen Batchelder m. Jane Lamprey

Generation 5:  Nathaniel Batchelder m. Mary Longfellow

Generation 6:  Nathaniel Batchelder m. Mary Perkins

Generation 7: Jonathan Batchelder m. Nancy Thomson

Generation 8: George E. Batchelder m. Abigail M. Locke (see above) 

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Surname Saturday – Updated DEARBORN of Exeter and Hampton, New Hampshire", Nutfield Genealogy, posted August 17, 2019, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2019/08/surname-saturday-updated-dearborn-of.html

LAMPREY of Hampton, New Hampshire

The Lamprey River Forest in Epping, New Hampshire

LAMBREL / LAMPRAILL / LAMPRILL / LAMPRELL / LAMPRY / LAMPREE / LAMPY

There are many family stories about my 9^th great grandfather, Henry Lamprey (about 1616 – 1700), and some of these have been disproved by Alicia Crane Williams in her Early New England Families Study Project for NEHGS.  These stories claim that Henry Lamprey and his wife came from London in 1653. They claim that Henry, a lower class cooper, married an heiress.

According to Joseph Dow’s History of the Town of Hampton, New Hampshire, there was “a pretty story (of the truth of which there is little doubt) has been handed down from generation to generation that this little wife received for her marriage dowry a scale, containing her weight (one hundred twelve pounds) in gold. The chest which held the treasure is still preserved, being now [1893] owned by the children of the late Morris Lamprey, Esq. of St. Paull, Minn.”  No proof has been found for this pretty story.

The truth is that we barely know Lamprey’s wife, whose name appears as Julianne or Gillian in various records. We know that Lamprey lived in a house in Boston because of a deposition from 1697 where he stated he lived in a house during Bezaliel Payton’s lifetime (Payton died before 21 November 1651 when an inventory was taken on his estate). Lamprey was a co-signer on a mortgage in Boston on 20 December 1651.

Henry Lamprey was poor and in debt from the time he lived in Boston until his death in New Hampshire. There were court records for debts in Boston in 1652, and 1654, and 1660. There were court records for more debt in Hampton in 1662, 1668 and 1677.  In 1659 “Mr. Lampree & wife warned out of town” [Portsmouth]. By 1660 he removed to Hampton, New Hampshire, and he received a grant of 60 acres of land there in 1670.  He took the oath of allegiance at Hampton with Danll Lamprey and Benjamin Lamprey. 

Henry and Gillian Lamprey had eight children The first four born in England, the next two in Boston, and the rest in Hampton, New Hampshire:

     1.      Henry, born about 1641, died 1721 in Stratham, NH m. Elizabeth Mitchell

     2.      Unknown, born about 1644, died after 1668

     3.      Elizabeth, born about 1646, m. Daniel Dow

     4.      Daniel, born about 1649, died 1732 in Hampton

     5.      Mary, born 8 March 1653/4 in Boston, died before March 1657

     6.      Mary, born 19 March 1657/8 in Boston, died 7 June 1663 in Hampton

     7.      Benjamin, born 29 November, died about 1660

     8.      Benjamin, (see below)

I descend from the youngest child, Benjamin (1661 – 1751/2) who married first Jane Batchelder, mother of his twelve children. He married a second woman, Mary Unknown. He lived all his life in Hampton.

Children all born in Hampton: 

     1.       Benjamin, born 9 October 1688 in Hampton, m. Sarah Dow

     2.      Deborah, born 1690 in Hampton, m. Samuel Palmer

     3.      Daniel, born 23 February 1691/2, died 2 April 1718, unmarried

     4.      Sarah, born July 1695, m. Robert Moulton

     5.      Nathaniel, born before 26 June 1698, m. Ruth Palmer

     6.      Jane Lamprey (see below)

     7.      Henry Lamprey, born 25 February 1700/1, m. Esther Palmer

     8.      Elizabeth, born 18 February 1703, m. Jonathan Moulton

     9.      Abigail, born 3 May 1705, m. Josiah Batchelder  

    10.  John, born 17 August 1707, m. Mary Johnson

    11.  Hannah, born 13 November 1709, m. John Moulton

    12.  Morris, born 20 December 1711, m. Elizabeth Batchelder

I descend next from Jane Lamprey, baptized on 30 April 1699 and who married her first cousin Stephen Batchelder (1701 – 1748/9), son of Stephen Batchelder and Mary Dearborn.  They lived in North Hampton at North Hill. They had nine Batchelder children born in Hampton.

I have lived in New Hampshire for 37 years and have driven past the Lamprey River many times. I always thought it was named for the fish that inhabit these waters near the Great Bay.  However, I recently discovered it was named for a John Lamprey that lived nearby.  The Lamprey River runs through Epping, Lee, and Durham.  I'm not sure which John Lamprey this river was named after, but I'm sure he was a distant cousin! 

For more information on the LAMPREY family:

Early New England Families Study Project, 1641 - 1700 (Original Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2013. (By Alicia Crane Williams, Lead Genealogist.)   https://www.americanancestors.org 

Sybil Noyes, Charles T. Libby, and Walter Goodwin Davis, Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire (Portland, Me: 1928 - 29, 1972) , page 409

George Freeman Sanborn, Jr. and Melinde Lutz Sanborn, Vital Records of Hampton, New Hampshire to the End of the Year 1900, 2 Vols. (Boston: NEHGS, 1992)

Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of Boston and Eastern Massachusetts, Volume 2, edited by William Richard Cutter, page 663

References to Henry Lamprey and Edmund Johnson and their descendants, prepared by Henry Cadle (Bethany, Missouri, 1893?)

Lamprey River Advisory Committee  https://www.lampreyriver.org/   

My LAMPREY genealogy:

Generation 1:  Henry Lamprey, born about 1616 in England, died 7 August 1700 in Hampton, New Hampshire; married about 1641 in England to Julianne (sp?) Unknown.  She died May 1670 in Hampton. Eight children.

Generation 2: Benjamin Lamprey, born 28 September 1661 in Hampton, died 23 January 1751/2 in Hampton; married on first 10 November 1687 in Hampton to Jane Batchelder, daughter of Nathaniel Batchelder and Deborah Smith. She was born 8 January 1669 in Hampton, and died 17 September 1735 in Hampton, and was the mother of twelve children. He married second to Mary Unknown.

Generation 3:  Jane Lamprey, baptized on 30 April 1699 in Hampton; married on 1 August 1721 in Hampton to Stephen Batchelder, her first cousin, son of Stephen Batchelder and Mary Dearborn. He was born 19 July 1701 in North Hampton, and died 6 March 1748/9 in North Hampton. Nine children.

Generation 4: Nathaniel Batchelder m. Mary Longfellow

Generation 5: Nathaniel Batchelder m. Mary Perkins

Generation 6: Jonathan Batchelder m. Nancy Thompson

Generation 7: George E. Batchelder m. Abigail M. Locke

Generation 8: George E. Batchelder m. Mary Katharine Emerson

Generation 9:  Carrie Maude Batchelder m. Joseph Elmer Allen

Generation 10:  Stanley Elmer Allen m. Gertrude Matilda Hitchings (my grandparents)

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To cite/link to this blog post:  Heather Wilkinson Rojo,” LAMPREY of Hampton, New Hampshire”, Nutfield Genealogy, posted August 10, 2019, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2019/08/lamprey-of-hampton-new-hampshire.html: accessed [access date]).