Now that the dull roar of the holidays is behind us, I need
to get back into the swing of things and start posting again in a regular way. I see the formatting is still skewed. All I
know is that it doesn’t look like that when I hit the ‘publish’ button. I will
keep trying to figure it out!!
This family is known by several different spellings, i.e.
Lounsbury, Lownsbury, Lonsbury, Lonsberry, Landsberry, Lownesborough, etc. The
variant spellings may represent different branches of the same family and quite
possibly do. Since spelling didn’t become standardized until the 1890’s, it was
perfectly acceptable to spell a name several different ways within any given
document, even legal ones. Many times the families were illiterate, not having
much chance for schooling and didn’t know how to spell their names. So when a
birth, marriage or death was reported to an authority, it was spelled the way
the recording clerk thought it should be spelled. In the pursuit of tracing
family lines back two or three centuries, it’s very important to include all
variant spellings.
Richard Lounsbury, b. 1634. East Riding, York , England White Plains , NY Stamford CT ,
where he received an extensive grant of land. He then moved to Penn’s Neck,
Westchester Co., NY where he lived till his death in 1694. His will was
probated there. (Family Files – Genealogical Society of Bergen Co.)
He married, in 1679, Elizabeth Pennoyer, b. 1653, d/o
Robert, b 1614 Bristol England , and Elsis Marshall Pennoyer, in
Mamaroneck, Long Island , NY Wales , England . (Pennoyer Brothers, Colonization, Commerce,
Charity in the Seventeenth Century)
One of their
sons, John, was b. 1674 in Rye ,
NY Rye , NY Elizabeth , b. 1715, who married Oliver
Roosevelt, c. 1740.
The Guion family were French Huguenots
who had lived in La Rochelle ,
France La
Rochelle , France La Rochelle , France La Rochelle was a
stronghold and one of the chief cities of the Huguenots.
In the 3rd
generation, John and Anne’s son, Henry, b. 1722 in Rye , NY
They had at
least 6 children, one of whom was:
James, b. c.
1750, married Elizabeth Hall in St. George’s
Episcopal Church in Hempstead ,
NY Oyster Bay , NY
In the next generation,
another James was b. 1790 in Yorktown, Westchester Co., NY. He married c. 1813,
Rosannah (last name unknown), b. 1794 in Westchester Co., NY. They had 8
children all born in Westchester Co., NY. James d. 1836 in Victory, Cayuga Co.,
NY and Rosannah d. 1860 in Red Creek, Wayne Co., NY.
One of their
younger children was Susan Lounsbury, b. 1828. She married George Wood in 1849
in Pittsford, Monroe Co., NY.
They had 6
children, two of whom play a part in the descent of the Wood family and the
Wing family.
Susan
Lounsbury, b 1828, Yorktown, Westchester
Co., NY, d. 1910, Marengo IA, married in 1849, George Wood, b. 1828, East
Grinstead, Sussex , England ,
d. 1883, Monroe Co., NY. George was the s/o William and Sarah Elliss Wood.
William and Sarah emigrated c. 1840 and settled in Mendon NY
They had 6
children.
The oldest
child of Susan and George was Mary Frances Wood, b. 1850, Pittsford
NY , d. 1933 Cedar Rapids IA. Frances . She
married, in 1866 Mendon NY, John Wing, b. 1845 Stow
England , d. 1907 Mendon NY Mendon NY
John and Mary
Frances Wood Wing were the parents of George Wing, b. 1867 in MI (See Wing
Family for continuation)
The second
oldest child of George and Susan Lounsbury Wood was William James Wood, b. 1853
and d. 1926 Rochester , NY Churchville ,
NY
William James
and Hattie Cronk Wood had 5 children. The middle child was Ida Belle Wood, b.
1879 Pittsford NY ,
d. 1970 Brockport NY
Sources: US
Federal Census: 1850, 1870, 1880,1900,
State Census: NY
1865, 1875, 1892; IA 1885, 1895
Find a Grave –
Gravestones
Pennoyer
Brothers, Colonization, Commerce, Charity in the Seventeenth Century
Family Files – Genealogical Society of Bergen Co.
http://www.geni.com/people/Louis-Guion
- Managed by: Karen Dorothy Plummer
