Happy Mother's Day! My Matrilineal Line

My matrilineal line:

My Mom, she graduated from Beverly, Hospital School of Nursing

My grandmother, Gertrude Matilda Hitchings.

She was born 1 August 1905 in Beverly, Massachusetts and died 3 November 2001 in Peabody, Massachusetts. She married Stanley Elmer Allen on 14 February 1925 in Hamilton. They had seven children. 

My great grandmother, Florence Etta Hoogerzeil.

She was born 20 August 1871 in Beverly, Massachusetts and died 10 February 1941 in Hamilton, Massachusetts. She married Arthur Treadwell Hitchings on 25 December 1890 in Beverly, Massachusetts. They had eight children. 

My great great grandmother, Mary Etta Healey, seated in the front row with the baby on her lap.

She was born 19 May 1852 in Beverly, Massachusetts and died 23 July 1932 in Beverly, Massachusetts.  She married Peter Hoogerzeil on 14 March 1870 in Salem, Massachusetts.  They had six children. 

My 3x great grandmother was Matilda Weston.   

She was born October 1825 in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada, and died 19 August 1909 in Beverly, Massachusetts.  She married Joseph Edwin Healey on 3 February 1848 in Canada.  They had four children.

My 4x great grandmother was Mary Clements.  She married Zadoc Weston in Nova Scotia and had two children. She was his second wife.  My matrilineal line ends here because not much is known about Mary Clements, even though she is part of of my Mayflower application lineage.  I don't know her birth date, death, marriage, or her parents names.  Her husband, Zadoc Weston, is the descendant of ten Mayflower passengers, and he is named in at least two Silver books.  Zadoc was the son of Nathan Weston and Hannah Everson of Plymouth County, Massachusetts.  His first two wives were Sarah MacDuffie and Mary Pratt, and the two Marys are part of the confusion. Altogether, Zadoc was the father of a total of eight children. 

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To cite/link to this blog post: Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Happy Mother's Day! My Matrilineal Line", Nutfield Genealogy, posted May 10, 2020, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2020/05/happy-mothers-day-my-matrilineal-line.html: accessed [access date]). 

Surname Saturday ~ GREEN of Cambridge, Massachusetts

Cambridge City Seal

GREEN / GREENE

Bartholomew Green (about 1590 – 1636) is my 9^th great grandfather.  According to an article in the NEHGS Register, Bartholomew Green and his family arrived in Massachusetts aboard The Griffin on 4 September 1633 with Rev. Thomas Hooker’s company.  The Green family settled in Cambridge, Massachusetts near Fresh Pond, and Bartholomew died there in 1636, just a year after becoming a freeman.

The first printing press in New England, and maybe in all the English colonies, was in Cambridge, brought there in 1638 by the widow of Rev. Josse Glover, who had died at sea on his way to Massachusetts.  T the widow married Henry Dunster, president of Harvard College.  Eventually Samuel Green, son of Bartholomew and a clerk at Harvard, became the printer.  My 8^th great uncle Samuel Green ran the Harvard Press until 1692, when the original press was removed to New London, and then moved around New England until 1781 when it was removed to Vermont to print the newspaper Vermont Gazette. The press is now on display in the Vermont state capital building in Montpelier. 

One of Samuel Green’s sons, Bartholomew (1666 – 1732) was also a printer. He published the Boston Newsletter from 1704 – 1707 and from 1711 – 1732. Another son, Samuel Green, Jr., managed Samuel Sewell’s printing press.  Several other descendants also were printers and publishers, and the granddaughters married printers.  It was a family of printers (see the NEHGS Register article below).

I descend from Samuel’s sister, Phebe Green, who married William Hele/Healy as the fourth of his five wives.  You can read more about William Healy HERE at a previous blog post.  He was a notoriously violent man, and also the Cambridge town jailor.  In 1666 Phebe’s brother Samuel Green (obviously a prominent man in town) and her brother-in-law, Thomas Langhorn, filed a formal complaint with the court for spousal abuse.  Two of Healy’s servants testified against him, as well as Phebe’s mother.  The testimony survives, but I do not know the court’s decision towards Healy.  Phebe died in childbirth in 1671.  Her infant daughter, Hannah, survived and Langhorn became the guardian.  Healy remarried to a fifth wife but was caught sexually abusing one of the female prisoners in his charge.  He was sentenced to serve time in his own jail and died there in 1683.

And so my Green lineage daughters out on a sad note, and my line continues with Phebe’s son, Paul Healy (about 1664 – 1717), my 7^th great grandfather, who removed to Rehoboth, Massachusetts.

For more information:

Great Migration Begins, Volume II, pages 809 – 810.

Cambridge Cameos, pages 123 – 128 (Son Samuel and daughter Phebe)

New England Historic Genealogical Register, “The Green Family a Dynasty of Printers”, Volume 104 [1950], pages 81 – 93.

My GREEN genealogy:

Generation 1:  Bartholomew Green, born about 1590 in England and died before 8 February 1636 in Cambridge, Massachusetts; married before 1615 to Elizabeth Unknown.  Four children.

Generation 2:  Phebe Green, born about 1629; married 15 August 1661 in Cambridge to William Hele/Healy as his fourth wife.  He was born about 1613 and died 18 November 1683 in Cambridge.  Four children.

Generation 3: Paul Healy m. Elizabeth Unknown

Generation 4: Ebenezer Healy m. Grace Bullen

Generation 5:  Comfort Haley m. Abigail Allen

Generation 6:  Comfort Haley m. Rebecca Crosby

Generation 7:  Joseph Edwin Healy m. Matilda Weston

Generation 8:  Mary Etta Healy m. Peter Hoogerzeil

Generation 9:  Florence Etta Hoogerzeil m. Arthur Treadwell Hitchings

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

A link to my previous GREEN “Surname Saturday” post, “Green of Malden, Massachusetts”:

https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2013/02/surname-saturday-green-of-malden.html 

A Surname Saturday post about William Healy and his descendants:

https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2018/04/surname-saturday-healey-of-lynn-and.html

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To cite/link to this blog post: Heather Wilkinson Rojo, “Surname Saturday ~ GREEN of Cambridge, Massachusetts”, Nutfield Genealogy, posted April 21, 2018, (  https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2018/04/surname-saturday-green-of-cambridge.html: accessed [access date]). 

Surname Saturday ~ HEALEY of Lynn and Cambridge, Massachusetts

Comfort Healy, d. 1821
Chebogue, Nova Scotia

HEALEY / HELE / HEALY / HALEY / HALY

My 8^th great grandfather, William Hele, first arrived in Massachusetts about 1640 when he joined the church at Lynn.  In 1643 he was dismissed from the church at Lynn to join the church in Cambridge.   He lived near where the Harvard Observatory is located, and there is still a Healey Street nearby off Concord, Avenue.  William Hele was a controversial figure. He had five wives and twelve children. His wives all died young, and he bragged of killing them. He was the Cambridge jailor from 1672 until 29 December 1682, when he was found with a pregnant inmate inflagrante delicto. Hele was arrested, “sentence to be severely whipped 20 stripes”, was imprisoned in his own jail, where he later died.

His fourth wife was my 8^th great grandmother, Phebe Green.  Her brother and father filed a complaint against him in 1666 for abusing his wife.  Two servants gave testimony against William Hele, as well as Elizabeth Green, her mother. Phebe died in childbirth a few years later.  In 1677 he married his last wife.

In the second generation I descend from Paul Healy (about 1664 – 1717), my 7^th great grandfather, who served in the militia with his brother in New Hampshire. Paul eventually removed to Rehoboth, where he married a woman named Elizabeth and had 14 children. 

Next, I descend from Paul Healy’s son, Ebenezer (1708 – 1777) who first lived in the 3^rd parish of Dedham, which is now the town of Norwood, Massachusetts. He was part of the building committee to construct the first Norwood meetinghouse.    He married Grace Bullen and had 8 children.

In the next generation I descend from Comfort Haley (1754 – 1821), my 5^th great grandfather, who removed to Yarmouth, Nova Scotia.  He owned a fleet of ships and is buried at the Old Cemetery in Chebogue, near Yarmouth, behind the Congregational Church. I visited his grave in 2008.  He married Abigail Allen in 1777, near Chebogue.  She was a descendant of William Allen of Manchester, Massachusetts. They had seven children born in Chebogue.

Comfort Haley, Jr. (1787 – 1874), my 4^th great grandfather, was a mariner like his father, and he operated the fleet of ships with his brother, Jeremiah.  He is listed in a census record as a tanner.  He married Rebecca Crosby in Chebogue in 1808.  She was the descendant of Cape Codders.  They had eleven children.

Their son, Joseph Edwin Healy (1823 – 1862) was my 3^rd great grandfather.  He removed back to Massachusetts with his wife, Matilda Weston (another descendant of Cape Codders and Mayflower passengers).  They settled in Beverly, Massachusetts where they had four children.  Joseph Edwin Healey was another mariner and fisherman.  He enlisted in the navy during the American Civil War, where he died aboard the iron clad ship Mound City when it was hit with bombs during the Battle of Saint Charles in Arkansas.  He died, as did most of the men aboard the Mound City, when it exploded and burned or scalded most of the sailors, on 17 June 1862.  He was 40 years old and has a Civil War gravestone in the Central Cemetery in Beverly, next to his wife, Matilda.

My great great grandmother was Mary Etta Healey (1852 – 1932), who was born and died in Beverly, Massachusetts. She married Peter Hoogerzeil, Jr. and had six children. Peter was the son of a Dutch immigrant and his mother, Eunice Stone, had Colonial roots going back to the 1620s in Massachusetts. Peter Hoogerzeil was another fisherman, and he started an express business (moving merchandise by wagons) with his brother-in-law John E. Healey in 1867 on Bartlett Street in Beverly. Peter was also a prolific inventor and tinkerer.  He held at least seven patents for his inventions.

Some HEALEY resources:

The New England Historic Genealogical Society Register, Volume 27 (1873), pages 138 - 140.

Haley & Healy Family Ancestry of Ebenezer Haley, by Col. James Bayard Haley, 1964

Yarmouth Genealogies, page 131

My HEALEY genealogy:

Generation 1:  William Hele, born about 1613 possibly in Devonshire, England, died on 18 November 1683 in Cambridge, Massachusetts; married on 15 August 1661 in Cambridge to Phebe Green, my 8^th great grandmother, daughter of Bartholomew Green and his wife Elizabeth.  She was born about 1629 and died before 1677.  Phebe was his fourth wife, he was also married to Grace Ives about 1643, Mary Rogers in 1650, Grace Butterice on 14 October 1653, and his fifth wife was Sarah Cutting, widow of James Browne, on 29 November 1677.  He had thirteen children in all.

Generation 2:  Paul Healy, born about 1664 in Cambridge, died 3 December 1717 in Rehoboth, Massachusetts; married about 1695 to Elizabeth Unknown.  Fourteen children.

Generation 3:  Ebenezer Healy, born 21 January 1708 in Rehoboth, died 14 February 1777 in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia; married to Grace Bullen, daughter of John Bullen and Sarah Underwood.  She was born about 1727 in Brimfield, Massachusetts.  Eight children. 

Generation 4:  Comfort Haley, born about 1754 in Brimfield, died 15 May 1821 near Chebogue, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia; married on 21 July 1777 in Chebogue to Abigail Allen, daughter of Jeremiah Allen and Eunice Gardner.  She was born 23 July 1753 in Manchester, Massachusetts, and died 16 June 1799 in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia.  Seven children. 

Generation 5: Comfort Haley, Jr. , born 9 October 1787 in Chebogue, died 3 December 1874 in Chebogue; married on 12 August 1808 in Chebogue to Rebecca Crosby, daughter of Ebenezer Crosby and Elizabeth Robinson.  She was born 19 December 1789 in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia and died in 1889.  Eleven children.

Generation 6:  Joseph Edwin Healy, born 12 August 1823 in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, died 17 June 1862 at the Battle of Saint Charles in Arkansas during the Civil War; married on 3 Feb 1848 in Canada to Matilda Weston, daughter of Zadoc Weston and Mary Clements.  She was born in October 1825 in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, and died 19 August 1909 in Beverly, Massachusetts. Four children.

Generation 7:  Mary Etta Healey, born 19 May 1852 in Beverly, died 23 July 1932 in Beverly; married on 14 March 1870 in Salem, Massachusetts to Peter Hoogerzeil, son of Peter Hoogerzeil and Eunice Stone.  He was born 24 June 1841 in Beverly, and died 10 May 1908 in Beverly.  Six children.

Generation 8:  Florence Etta Hoogerzeil m. Arthur Treadwell Hitchings

Generation 9:  Gertrude Matilda Hitchings m. Stanley Elmer Allen (my grandparents)

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, “Surname Saturday ~ HEALEY of Lynn and Cambridge, Massachusetts”, Nutfield Genealogy, posted April 7, 2018, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2018/04/surname-saturday-healey-of-lynn-and.html: accessed [access date]). 

Surname Saturday ~ HOOGERZEIL of Holland and Beverly, Massachusetts

Grote Kerk "Great Church" in Dordrecht
where Peter Hoogerzeil was baptized

Peter Hoogerzeil, my immigrant 3^rd great grandfather, was born in Dordrecht, in Holland, on 28 October 1803 under the name Pieter Hoogerseijl.  He was the son of a whaling sea captain, Simon Hogerseijl (1776 – 1829) and his wife, Lissa Van Epenhuizen.  Dordrecht is an island on the banks of several rivers that flow into the Rhine delta.  It is near Rotterdam, which was a big whaling seaport where the ships sailed for the rich whaling in Greenland.   

Family stories say that Peter Hoogerzeil, the youngest son, stowed away on a ship loaded with hemp, which was headed for the ropeworks in Salem, Massachusetts.  He married Eunice Stone, the daughter of the ship captain, Josiah Stone.  I don’t think a sea captain would have been happy if his daughter married a stowaway, but perhaps the captain knew Peter as a mariner before taking him to Massachusetts?  There are family letters which repeat the stowaway tale, dating back to the 1800s. Perhaps there is a grain of truth to the story?

There are records of Peter Hoogerzeil in ship’s registers out of Salem and Beverly in 1826, 1827, and 1828.  He married Eunice Stone on 30 December 1828 in Beverly.  I found Peter listed in other ships registries until 1835,  when he was listed as a carpenter.  In the 1850 census in Beverly his occupation is listed as a caulker, and in the 1860 census he is listed as a day laborer born in “Ireland?”  By the 1870 census Peter was working as an expressman, which was the family business until the 1930s. 

Peter and Eunice had six children, all named in his will.  He died on 12 May 1889 in Beverly. I descend from his son, Peter Hoogerzeil, Jr. (1841 – 1908).   Over the years Peter, Jr. worked as a fisherman, a quartermaster and then as a teamster.  He began the Hoogerzeil Express Company in 1867 and employed his father and brothers.  After his death he passed the Express business on to his brother-in-law, John Healey.  Peter was also an inventor and world traveler.  He had patents for many inventions, which he sold out of his home on 43 Bartlett Street in Beverly.  As a sailor he sailed the South China Sea several times, and one of his last voyages was to Holland to visit his relatives.

I descend from Peter’s daughter Florence Etta (1871 – 1941), my great grandmother, who married Arthur Treadwell Hitchings.  She had eight children, including my grandmother, Gertrude Matilda (1905 – 2001).   Florence was known by her middle name “Etta”, and she was not well. She had “consumption” or tuberculosis, and spent a lot of time in a sanitorium during my grandmother’s growing up years.  My mother remembers visiting her “Nana” at 43 Bartlett Street, which was later occupied by “Aunt Belle” (my great grandmother’s sister Isabelle Hoogerzeil Sorenson (1888 – 1960).  Aunt Belle continued to correspond with the cousins in Holland all her life, and my uncle visited with some Hogerzeil relatives in occupied Holland during World War II.

 My HOOGERZEIL genealogy:

(see the blog post link below for Peter’s ancestors in Holland)

Generation 1:  Peter Hoogerzeil, son of Simon Hogerseijl and Lissa Van Epenhuizen, born 28 October 1803 in Dordrecht, South Holland and died 12 May 1889 in Beverly, Massachusetts; married on 30 December 1828 in Beverly to Eunice Stone, daughter of Josiah Stone and Susanna Hix.  She was baptized in Beverly on 15 May 1807 and died in Beverly on 21 October 1886. Six children.

Generation 2:  Peter Hoogerzeil, born 24 June 1841 in Beverly and died 10 May 1908 in Beverly; married on 14 March 1870 in Salem to Mary Etta Healey, daughter of Joseph Edwin Healey and Matilda Weston.  She was born 19 May 1852 in Beverly and died 23 July 1932 in Beverly.  Six children.

Generation 3:  Florence Etta Hoogerzeil, born 20 August 1871 in Beverly and died 10 February 1941 in Hamilton, Massachusetts; married on 25 December 1890 in Beverly to Arthur Treadwell Hitchings, son of Abijah Franklin Hitchings and Hannah Eliza Lewis. He was born 10 May 1868 in Salem and died 7 March 1937 in Hamilton.  Eight children.

Generation 4:  Gertrude Matilda Hitchings m. Stanley Elmer Allen (my grandparents)

For the truly curious:

A blog post about Krimpen aan de Lek, with my Hoogerzeil/Hogerzeil lineage back to 1631

https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2018/02/in-footsteps-of-ancestors-touring.html 

A blog post about Dordrecht, where Peter Hoogerzeil was born:

https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2018/02/in-footsteps-of-ancestors-visit-to.html  

A blog post about my Uncle visiting the Hogerzeil family in occupied Holland after World War II:

https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2009/09/value-of-posting-brick-walls-on.html  

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, “Surname Saturday ~ HOOGERZEIL of Holland and Beverly, Massachusetts”, Nutfield Genealogy, posted March 31, 2018, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2018/03/surname-saturday-hoogerzeil-of-holland.html: accessed [access date]).   

Happy Mother's Day! My Mystery Matrilineal Line

My maternal line

My mother-  

Little Sister, Yours Truly and Mother

My grandmother – Gertrude Matilda Hitchings     

                b. 1 August 1905, Beverly, Massachusetts

                d. 3 November 2001, Peabody, Massachusetts

                m. 14 February 1925 to Stanley Elmer Allen in Hamilton, Massachusetts

My great grandmother -  Florence Etta Hoogerzeil

                b. 20 August 1871, Beverly, Massachusetts

                d. 10 February 1941, Hamilton, Massachusetts

                m. 25 December 1890 to Arthur Treadwell Hitchings in Beverly, Massachusetts

3x great grandmother – Mary Etta Healey

Mary Etta is seated, with the baby on her lap
Florence Etta is standing with a baby

                b. 19 May 1852, Beverly, Massachusetts

                d. 23 July 1932, Beverly, Massachusetts

                m. 14 March 1870 to Peter Hoogerzeil in Salem, Massachusetts

4x great grandmother – Matilda Weston

                b. October 1825,  Yarmouth, Nova Scotia

                d. 19 August 1909, Beverly, Massachusetts

                m.  3 February 1848 to Edward Joseph Healey

5x great grandmother – Mary CLEMENTS (or PRATT?)

               m. to Zadoc Weston

Mary, my 5^th great grandmother, is a mystery to me.  I can travel back thirteen or fourteen generations on many of the branches in my family tree, but my maternal line ends after six generations with a solid brick wall.  I've tried to smash this wall for nearly 30 years.

The Mayflower Society’s Five Generations Project Book (Silver Book, Volume XIV, Myles Standish, 2007, page 121) lists the wife of Zadoc Weston as Mary Pratt of Chester, Nova Scotia.  However, my 3x great grandmother’s death record in Beverly, Massachusetts lists her parents as Zadoc Weston and Mary Clement.  Did Mary Pratt remarry someone name Clement? Was there a completely different wife named Mary Clement?  Was the informant wrong?

Another possible clue:  Zadoc Weston, her husband was born 1761 probably in Plympton, Massachusetts, son of Nathan Weston and Hannah Everson.  Nathan is a descendant of the following Mayflower passengers:  Edward Doty, George Soule, and Myles Standish

My mtDNA maternal haplogroup is H.  Is that a clue?

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http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2015/05/happy-mothers-day-my-mystery.html

Copyright © 2015, Heather Wilkinson Rojo

Tombstone Tuesday ~ Sometimes you just can't find your ancestors, unless you ask for help

The HEALEY family plot, Central Cemetery, Beverly, Massachusetts

Last year Vincent and I drove Mom around and around the Central Cemetery in Beverly, Massachusetts looking for the graves of ancestors.  I had many family members buried there in the 1800s and 1900s with names like HOOGERZEIL, HITCHINGS, HEALEY, ROBERTS and BLADES.  These are names that should have been easy to find, not like Smith or Jones.

My first mistake was in not realizing how huge this cemetery was, and how many tombstones we would have to examine.  After the fact I checked the Find A Grave website and saw that there were almost 17,000 interments at Central Cemetery.   Even though I was born in Beverly, and I knew it was a large city, I had been living in Cow Hampshire much too long! My usual method of showing up at a rural cemetery and poking around doesn't work in large urban cemeteries, so I decided to do some pre-planning for our next trip.  This is good advice for anyone searching in a city cemetery, and you can read below how it helped.

Since Central Cemetery is a municipal cemetery, I called the city hall and asked for the cemetery department.  I was lucky enough to reach a sympathetic young woman named Kerin Cotter.  Her advice to was to email her the list of names, and she would find out where they were buried.  I didn't hear from her for a while because I sent her quite a long list of about 20 names.  But it was worth the wait.

paperwork from Beverly, Massachusetts with maps of Central Cemetery

Ms. Cotter sent me a large manila envelope which included a map of the entire cemetery, plot cards for each family (seven family groups) or individual plot and section maps with the graves highlighted.  With all this paperwork and maps we set out again to Beverly and searched the cemetery.  We found all but one plot.  It wasn't simple, but it was easier with all the maps.

The Healey Family Plot

Here is the first plot we found.  As you can see, one stone is sunk, one is missing, and the large one is facing away from the paved lane.  No wonder we couldn't find this one on our own.

Plot #4 is the Healey Family Plot on this large scale map

Above is a closer view of where to look for the Healey family.

Below is the plot card

Interments

Month Day Year                   Name                 Age

                                                                        Yrs    Months

8 -22-1909      1       Matilda W. Healey   83    10

                                              2       J. Edwin Healey                        Lost at sea

Mar. 28 1947    3      L. Gertrude Healey   72  6      

Aug.  15 1951     4     John E. Healey           94   5      

Oct. 26 2001      5    Ruth Moroni               89           

My 3x great grandparents were Joseph Edwin Healey and Matilda Weston.  Joseph Edwin Healey was born 12 August 1823 in either Belfast, Maine or Yarmouth, Nova Scotia (some records list one place, other records list the other place) and he died on 17 June 1862, during the Civil War, at the Battle of Saint Charles in Arkansas.  He was in the navy, and his ship, the USS Mound City, an iron clad, was hit with bullets and the steam engine exploded, either scalding to death or drowning the men on board.  The plot card only says "lost at sea", not that he died in action during the Civil War even though he has a military or government issued headstone.

EDWARD HEALEY

U.S. NAVY

You can see that the military headstone lists "Edward Healey" and it is in nice shape.  Matilda's headstone has sunk so much that her inscription is underground. She died in 1909, having lived as a widow for 47 years.

The other people on the card are John Edwin Healey, my 2nd great uncle, and his wife Lizzie Gertrude Woodbury.  Their daughter, Ruth, who was born about 1913 is also listed as a cremation and her remains must be interred here in the spot indicated, but there was no stone.  The large stone is in nice shape, and the inscription faces away from the road, not in the same direction as the military stone.

HEALEY

1857  JOHN HEALEY 1954

HIS WIFE

1874   L. GERTRUDE 1947

Click here to read more about John Healey:
http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2009/11/abig-appetite-he-must-have-loved.html

Click here to read about my Civil War ancestor, Joseph Edwin Healey (3 part series, including a boo boo of epic proportions by the City of Beverly, Massachusetts)
 http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2011/07/serendipity-week-2-civil-war-hero.html

http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2011/11/healey-square-beverly-massachusetts.html

http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2011/11/healy-square-beverly-revisited.html

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Copyright (c) 2014, Heather Wilkinson Rojo

Tombstone Tuesday ~ Abigail (Allen) Haley, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia

This tombstone was photographed at the Chebogue Cemetery, at Town Point, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia

In memory

Of

Abigaile Heley

Wife Of

Mr. Comfort Heley

Died June 16, 1799

Aged 39 years

My daughter trying to decipher this very worn tombstone

Abigail Allen was the daughter of Jeremiah Allen (b. 1728) and Eunice Gardner (b. 1724), born 23 July 1753 in Manchester, Massachusetts, died 16 June 1799 in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia.  She married Comfort Haley on 21 July 1777 in Chebogue, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia.  He was the son of Ebenezer Healey and Grace Bullen, born 1754 in Brimfield, Massachusetts, died 15 May 1821 in Chebogue.  Their parents were planters, resettled in Nova Scotia from New England after the expulsion of the Acadians.

Abigail Allen is my 5th great grandmother. She is a direct descendant of William Allen (1602 - 1678) an early settler at Manchester, Massachusetts and my 9th great grandfather.  My mother's maiden name is Allen, a direct descendant of this same William.  Although Abigail Allen is also in my mother's lineage, it is from a different line, through the Healey's who left Nova Scotia and came back to Massachusetts, and settled in Beverly, Massachusetts. A double Allen line. 

Abigail died at age 41 (although the gravestone says she was 39 years old), and had seven children.  After Abigail's death, her husband Comfort Haley remarried to Hannah Ellis (1765 - 1862) in December 1795 and had seven more children.  Hannah was 30 years old, the widow of Stephen Tinkham, and Comfort was 41 years old. 

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Copyright (c) 2014, Heather Wilkinson Rojo

Peter Hoogerzeil's Wheelbarrow

Found at GenealogyBank.com

Saturday Morning Citizen, Beverly, Mass.  1 October 1892, page 2

"Four Awards at the Fair

Mr. Peter Hoogerzeil may well feel proud of the success of his exhibits at the Essex Agricultural Fair this week, he recieving four awards, as follows:  First premium, $2, on coop of Perkin bantams; second permium $1, on one coop of Perkin bantams; gratuity $1, on patent rolling oven grate for a stove.  Those who saw the wheelbarrow were highly pleased with Mr. Hoogerzeil's invention and several flattering offers were received from parties who wished to put it on the market.  It is on exhibition at Whitcomb & Carter's store."

This image was found at the Google Patent Search

No Model No 486,469 P HOOGERZEIL WHEELBARROW Patented Nov 22 1892

 THE NORRIS PETERS CO PHOTO LITHO WASHINGTON D C 

http://www.google.com/patents?id=-zZ2AAAAEBAJ&pg=PA1&img=1&zoom=4&hl=en&sig=ACfU3U3DeLj9X7xz2921ophP2YyAQLqVmA&ci=18%2C14%2C966%2C1349&edge=0

Peter Hoogerzeil is my 2nd great grandfather.  He was a prolific inventor and I've written about him at this blog previously (see the links below).   His father, also named Peter Hoogerzeil,  came from Holland to Salem, Massachusetts in the 1820s. Peter, Jr. was a fisherman, quartermaster and then began his own express business in Beverly, Massachusetts, near the Salem bridge on Bartlett Street.  During his lifetime he patented over a dozen inventions.  

Peter Hoogerzeil, son of Peter Hoogerzeil and Eunice Stone, born in Beverly, Massachusetts on 24 June 1841, died on 10 May 1908 in Beverly; married on 14 March 1870 in Salem to Mary Etta Healey, the daughter of Joseph Edwin Healey and Matilda Weston.  She was born in Beverly on 19 May 1852 and died  on 23 July 1932 in Beverly.  They had six children, all born in Beverly:

1.  Florence Etta, my great grandmother, born 20 August 1871, died 10 February 1941 in Hamilton, Massachusetts; married Arthur Treadwell Hitchings.

2.  Lillie May, born 29 September 1873, died 17 May 1874

3.  Alonzo, born 29 May 1875, died 23 January 1946; married Mabel Thurston Cressey

4. Edward Peter, born 27 July 1877, died 11 October 1807; died unmarried

5. Lucy May, born 18 June 1882, died 3 September 1931, died unmarried

6. Isabel, born 3 August 1888, died 29 February 1960; married George Sorenson

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Previous blog posts about Peter Hoogerzeil's inventions and patents:

Perusing Google Patents http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2011/01/perusing-google-patents.html 

Peter Hoogerzeil's House

 http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2010/08/not-so-wordless-wednesday-peter.html

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Copyright 2013, Heather Wilkinson Rojo

A Peculiar Accident

Found at GenealogyBank.com


Saturday Morning Citizen, Beverly, MA, 18 June 1892, page 2

"A Peculiar Accident
Alonzo Hoogerzeil, clerk for Mr. Joseph A. Wilson, met with a peculiar accident Wednesday noon.  He was leaning into a window to obtain some article, and as he did so he kicked a bottle of "pop."  The bottle exploded and a pice of flying glass struck him on the third finger of the right hand, cutting it to the bone at the knuckle.  He could not leave the store for he was alone.  Mr. Charles H. Woodbury was passing and he came in and bound up the finger, which was bleeding profusely.  As soon as Mr. Wilson returned the young man went to Dr. Stickney and had the wound dressed.  It is painful, but will heal all right and he will not lose the use of the finger."

Alonzo Hoogerzeil, son of Peter Hoogerzeil and Mary Etta Healey, was born 29 May 1875 in Beverly, Massachusetts, died 23 January 1946 in Beverly; married on 30 May 1895 in Danvers, Massachusetts to Mabel Thurston Cressey, daughter of Eben Flint Cressey and Elizabeth A. Whittier.  She was born 25 July 1874 in Danvers and died 27 September 1951 in Salem, Massachusetts.  Four children born in Beverly:

1.  Roland Gale, born 22 August 1895, died 14 March 1972 in Norfolk; married Helen Josephine Sullivan.

2.  Marion Cressey, born 15 January 1904, died 1953; married Charles Francis Howard

3.  Norman Peter, 10 October 1905, died 24 December 1992 in Danvers; married Helen Preble

4. Hilda Lucy, born 10 December 1915, died 13 May 2000; married Harold Kingston

Alonzo was my 2nd great grand uncle, brother to my great grandmother, Florence Etta Hoogerzeil (1871 - 1941).    Over the years he went from being a clerk to owning his own shop.  He sold books, stationary and periodicals in Beverly, and then was a clothing salesman.   Among the ordinary things I found about his life was this odd tidbit:

"Catalog of Copyright entries"  by Library of Congress Copyright Office, 1920, Part 4, page 319
"Alonzo Hoogerzeil of Beverly, Massachusetts held a copyright for a "Hinduphone" on July 16, 1920, 2nd c. August 19, 1920. K 14807"


Does anyone know what a "Hinduphone" might have been in 1920?

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Copyright 2013, Heather Wilkinson Rojo

Founder's Park ~ Some Family Names to Share

Yesterday in my post about Founder's Park in Hampton, New Hampshire, I offered to post photos of the surname stones that ring the park.  There are 43 stones, and I didn't have room for them all, so I asked readers to let me know the names of their ancestors.  Here are some requests from readers:

CHASE, requested by Pam Reid Chainey and Polly Kimmett, author of the "Polly Blog" at
http://pk-pollyblog.blogspot.com/.  Aquila Chase arrived in Hampton in 1639 with the second band of settlers with Timothy Dalton, who became the associate pastor of the Hampton church.

GOVE, my friend Dick McKenney's ancestors.  The first Gove in New Hampshire was Edward, who arrived in 1665 from Salisbury, Massachusetts. Edward Gove was arrested and sentenced to be executed, but Governor Cranefield was afraid to sentence him to death and sent him to the Tower of London.  He was eventually pardoned and returned to New Hampshire.

HEALEY, relatives of mine, and also ancestors of Randy Seaver, author of the blog "GeneaMusings" at
http://www.geneamusings.com/    Samuel Healey was a son of William Healey of Cambridge, Massachusetts.

PERKINS, requested by Midge Frazel, author of the blog "Granite in my Blood"
 http://granite-in-my-blood.blogspot.com/   Abraham Perkins was admitted as a freeman in Hampton in 1640.

If you have an ancestor from Hampton, especially one from the list of 43 surnames at my post http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2012/05/founders-park-hampton-new-hampshire.html  contact me by leaving a comment below or an email and I will try to do another post with a photograph of your ancestor's stone at Founder's Park.

If your ancestor's name is not on the list, and you can show they arrived in Hampton prior to 1695, please contact the Hampton Historical Society about having your family's surname stone erected at Founder's Park http://www.hamptonhistoricalsociety.org

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Copyright 2012, Heather Wilkinson Rojo

Founder's Park, Hampton, New Hampshire

Do you have colonial roots in Hampton, New Hampshire?  If you have roots in Hampton, I have photos of all the surname stones in "Founder's Park".  Contact me and I will publish your ancestral surname stone photo in another post.

The central stone in the park commemorates
Rev. Stephen Bachiler, who founded Hampton, NH
(click here to enlarge, and you'll see some of the
surname stones on the circumference of Founder's Park)

In Hampton, New Hampshire there is a little park on Old Landing Road called “Founder’s Park”.   It was built in 1925 to honor the earliest settlers in Hampton with stones marked with the surnames.  If you can prove your family settled in this area before 1695 you can apply to the Historical Society for a stone memorial.  The last stone to be placed here was the Elkins family stone in 2004. 

In the corners of the park there are stones for each of the “daughter towns” of Hampton (Danville, Sandown, East Kingston, Kingston, Kensington, Hampton Falls, North Hampton, and Seabrook).  At the center of the park is a memorial to Reverend Stephen Bachilder, who led his flock to settle here in 1638. 

This is a list of the names at Founder’s Park:

Batchelder	Blake
Brown	Chase
Cole	Dalton
Dearborn	Dow
Drake	Elkins
Fogg	Garland
Godfrey	Gookin
Gove	Green
Healey	Hobbs
Hussey	James
Knowles	Lamprey
Lane	Leavitt
Locke	Mason
Marston	Nudd
Page	Palmer
Perkins	Philbrick
Prescott	Redman
Sanborn	Shaw
Sleeper	Taylor
Tilton	Toppan
Towle	Weare
Johnson	Moulton
Tuck

I have photographed all the surname stones at Founder’s Park.  If you would like me to post a photograph of your family memorial stone please leave me a comment below or email me at vrojomit@gmail.com   The Hampton Historical Society has files and books on most of these families, so if you are researching your family tree you might want to contact them.  I'm descended of twelve of these families, including those highlighted in yellow. 

The Batchelder family is represented by this stone.
My 11x great grandfather Stephen Bachilder lived from 1561 to 1656. 

My 9x great grandfather John Locke
lived in Hampton (abt 1627 - 1696)

For more information on Founder’s Park:

From the Hampton Historical Society website, the Founder’s Park link: http://www.hamptonhistoricalsociety.org/foundpk.htm

This link is from the Hampton Public Library, showing an article in the 21 August 1990 Atlantic News about Founder’s Park, with photos from the 1925 dedication of Founder’s Park: http://www.hampton.lib.nh.us/hampton/history/parks/founderspark.htm

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Copyright 2012, Heather Wilkinson Rojo