Book Titles by Thornton Burgess

·                 1905 The Bride's Primer (contributor)

·                 1910 Old Mother West Wind^[8]

·                 1911 Mother West Wind's Children

·                 1912 Baby Possum Has a Scare

·                 1912 Baby Possum's Queer Voyage

·                 1912 Mother West Wind's Animal Friends

·                 1912 The Boy Scouts of Woodcraft Camp

·                 1913 Little Animal Stories for Little Children

·                 1913 Mother West Wind's Neighbors

·                 1913 The Adventures of Reddy Fox

·                 1913 The Adventures of Johnny Chuck

·                 1913 The Boy Scouts on Swift River

·                 1914 A Glad Time Made a Sad Time

·                 1914 Danny Meadow Mouse Learns Something

·                 1914 Fun with Farmer Brown's Boy

·                 1914 How Unc' Billy Possum Met Buster Bear

·                 1914 Jack Frost Helps Paddy the Beaver

·                 1914 Jerry Muskrat Begins to Build

·                 1914 Jerry Muskrat Is Laughed At

·                 1914 Jerry Muskrat Wins Respect

·                 1914 Jumper the Hare Cannot Sleep

·                 1914 Mr. Toad and Danny Meadow Mouse Take a Walk

·                 1914 Old Mr. Toad Gets His Stomach Full

·                 1914 Peter Rabbit Puts on Airs

·                 1914 Striped Chipmunk's Secret Joke

·                 1914 The Adventures of Jerry Muskrat^[13]

·                 1914 The Adventures of Mr. Mocker

·                 1914 The Adventures of Peter Cottontail^[14]

·                 1914 The Adventures of Unc' Billy Possum

·                 1914 The Boy Scouts on Lost Trail

·                 1914 Unc' Billy Possum Has a Fright

·                 1915 Mother West Wind "Why" Stories

·                 1915 My Own Bedtime Story

·                 1915 Peter Rabbit's Get Acquainted Party

·                 1915 The Adventures of Chatterer the Red Squirrel

·                 1915 The Adventures of Danny Meadow Mouse^[14]

·                 1915 The Adventures of Grandfather Frog

·                 1915 The Adventures of Sammy Jay

·                 1915 The Bedtime Story Calendar

·                 1915 The Boy Scouts in a Trapper's Camp

·                 1915 Tommy and the Wishing Stone

·                 1915 Tommy's Wishes Come True

·                 1916 Little Animal Stories for Children

·                 1916 Mother West Wind "How" Stories

·                 1916 The Adventures of Buster Bear

·                 1916 The Adventures of Old Man Coyote

·                 1916 The Adventures of Old Mr. Toad

·                 1916 The Adventures of Prickly Porky

·                 1917 An Important Meeting at the Smiling Pool

·                 1917 Busy Folks and Sleepy Folks

·                 1917 Four little Mice at School and Play

·                 1917 Johnny Chuck Loses His Temper

·                 1917 Mother West Wind "When" Stories

·                 1917 Paddy the Beaver Gives Warning

·                 1917 Peter Rabbit Introduces His Big Cousin

·                 1917 Peter Rabbit Learns from Striped Chipmunk

·                 1917 Striped Chipmunk Has a Secret

·                 1917 The Adventures of Paddy the Beaver

·                 1917 The Adventures of Poor Mrs. Quack

·                 1918 Happy Jack

·                 1918 Happy Jack Squirrel's Thrift Club

·                 1918 Mother West Wind "Where" Stories

·                 1918 The Adventures of Bobby Coon

·                 1918 The Adventures of Jimmy Skunk^[14]

·                 1919 Mrs. Peter Rabbit

·                 1919 The Adventures Bobby White

·                 1919 The Adventures of Ol' Mistah Buzzard

·                 1919 The Burgess Bird Book for Children^[14]

·                 1920 Bowser the Hound

·                 1920 Old Granny Fox

·                 1920 The Burgess Animal Book for Children^[14]

·                 1921 Lightfoot the Deer

·                 1921 Tommy's Change of Heart

·                 1922 Blacky the Crow

·                 1922 Buster Bear Invites Old Mr. Toad to Dine

·                 1922 Grandfather Frog Stays in the Smiling Pool

·                 1922 Whitefoot the Woodmouse^[13]

·                 1923 Buster Bear's Twins

·                 1923 The Burgess Flower Book for Children

·                 1924 Billy Mink

·                 1925 Animal Pictures

·                 1925 Little Joe Otter

·                 1926 Jerry Muskrat at Home

·                 1926 The Christmas Reindeer

·                 1927 A Frightened Baby

·                 1927 A Great Joke on Jimmy Skunk

·                 1927 A Woe-Begone Little Bear

·                 1927 An Imp of Mischief

·                 1927 Cubby Bear Has a Mind of His Own

·                 1927 Cubby Finds an Open Door

·                 1927 Cubby Gets a Bath

·                 1927 Cubby in Mother Brown's Pantry

·                 1927 Digger the Badger Decides to Stay

·                 1927 Grandfather Frog Gets a Ride

·                 1927 Happy Jack Squirrel Helps Unc' Billy

·                 1927 Longlegs the Heron

·                 1927 Milk and Honey

·                 1927 The Neatness of Bobby Coon

·                 1927 What Farmer Brown's Boy Did

·                 1928 Bobby Coon Has a Good Time

·                 1928 Bowser the Hound Meets His Match

·                 1928 Grandfather Frog Fools Farmer Brown's Boy

·                 1928 Happy Jack Squirrel's Bright Idea

·                 1928 Peter Rabbit Learns to Use His New Coat

·                 1929 Farmer Brown's Boy Becomes Curious

·                 1929 Little Joe Otter's Slide

·                 1929 The Burgess Seashore Book for Children

·                 1929 Wild Flowers We Know

·                 1929 Wild Flowers We Should Know

·                 1930 Betty Bear's Lesson

·                 1930 Whitefoot's Secret

·                 1932 Big Book of Green Meadow Stories

·                 1932 The Burgess Big Book of Green Meadow Stories

·                 1933 Birds You Should Know

·                 1933 Jimmy Skunk's Justice

·                 1933 Peter Rabbit's Carrots

·                 1935 The Wishing-Stone Stories

·                 1937 Big Thornton Burgess Story-book

·                 1937 Tales from the Storyteller's House

·                 1937 The Book of Animal Life

·                 1938 Mother Nature's Song and Story Book

·                 1938 While the Story-Log Burns

·                 1940 A Merry Coasting Party

·                 1940 A Robber Meets His Match

·                 1940 Bobby Coon's Mistake

·                 1940 Paddy's Surprise Visitor

·                 1940 Peter Rabbit Proves a Friend

·                 1940 Reddy Fox's Sudden Engagement

·                 1940 The Three Little Bears

·                 1940 Young Flash the Deer

·                 1941 Little Pete's Adventure

·                 1941 The Little Burgess Animal Book for Children

·                 1941 The Little Burgess Bird Book for Children

·                 1942 Animal Stories (also published as The Animal World of Thornton Burgess)

·                 1942 Little Chuck's Adventure

·                 1942 Little Red's Adventure

·                 1942 Thornton Burgess Animal Stories

·                 1944 On the Green Meadows

·                 1944 The Feast at Big Rock

·                 1944 Why Peter Rabbit's Ears Are Long and Three Other Stories

·                 1945 At the Smiling Pool

·                 1945 The Big Book of Burgess Nature Stories

·                 1946 The Crooked Little Path

·                 1947 The Dear Old Briar-Patch

·                 1949 Along Laughing Brook

·                 1949 Baby Animal Stories

·                 1949 Nature Almanac

·                 1950 A Thornton Burgess Picture Story Book

·                 1950 At Paddy the Beaver's Pond

·                 1953 Everybody Lends Jerry Muskrat a Hand

·                 1953 Peter Rabbit's Prank

·                 1953 Reddy Fox Takes a Bath

·                 1954 Peter Rabbit and Reddy Fox

·                 1954 The Littlest Christmas Tree

·                 1955 Aunt Sally's Friends in Fur

·                 1955 Stories Around the Year

·                 1956 50 Favorite Burgess Stories

·                 1956 Little Peter Cottontail

·                 1957 How Peter Cottontail Got His Name

·                 1958 Read Aloud Peter Rabbit Stories

·                 1959 Bedtime Stories

·                 1959 Nature Stories to Read Aloud

·                 1960 Now I Remember: Autobiography of an Amateur Naturalist

·                 1963 The Million Little Sunbeams

·                 1965 Mother West Wind Stories to Read Aloud

·                 1965 The Burgess Book of Nature Lore^[15]

Burgess Family of Cornwall and Sandwich, MA

                                                                 Thornton Burgess

Thomas Burgess (1577-bef 1626) married Elizabeth Pye (1579 – c. 1629) and thus began a family of children that spanned over 23 years. Thomas was a merchant and Mayor of Truro, Cornwall. He must have prospered, as his probated will left 300 £ sterling to his daughter Honor, who was about the age of 7, in addition to bequests to his other children. He mentions 13 of his 21 children in his will: daus. Honor, Anne, Constance, Isabel; sons Robert, John, Henry, Caleb, Josua, Humprhrey, James, Elisha and Thomas.    His will specifically mentions his brothers-in-law, Anthony Pye and George Phippen. Anthony is his wife’s brother and George was married to his wife’s sister, Joan Pye. 

As I got more deeply involved in this family I realized that there were more connections than I had bargained for. I need to start one generation further back, with Thomas’ parents: Thomas and Honor Sidnam Burgess.

They had at least 7 Burgess children as follows:

*Thomas (1577-1626) m. Elizabeth Pye, d/o Anthony and Constance Pound Pye

Anne (1578 – c. 1623) m. Robert Trethewey

          Their daughter Elizabeth Trethewey m. Anthony Pye, s/o Anthony and           Constance Pound Pye

Richard (c. 1589-?) m. Constance Danyell

Humphrey (c. 1591- bef 1635) m. Anne Trenwith

Henry (1594-?) m. Jane Pye, d/o Anthony and Constance Pound Pye

John (bef 1598- ?)
Jane (bef 1599-?)m. Ephraim Poynter

Now to proceed with the family of Thomas and Elizabeth Pye Burgess. Of their 21 children, I have only followed their son, another Thomas. We know he was the immigrant, arriving in Salem, MA about 1630, then moving to Lynn, Duxbury and finally settling at Sandwich.

Thomas and Elizabeth Pye Burgess had 21 children:

Jane (1599-?)

*Thomas (1601-1684) m. Dorothy Unknown

Robert (1602-?)

John (b. & d. bef 1605)

John (1605-?)

Henry (1607-?)

Anne (1606-?)

Christina (1608-?)

Samuel (1609-?)

Ellis (1610-?)

Calip (Caleb) (1611-?)

Joshua (1611-?)

Humphrey (1612-?)

Constance (1614-?)

Frances (1615- bef. 1626)

Jacob (1616- bef. 1626)

Elizabeth (1617- bef. 1620)

Honor (1618-?)

Elisha (1619-?)

Elizabeth (1620-?)

Isabel (1622-?)

It appears that at least four of the children died young. Maybe someday, I’ll attempt to track down some of the other family members, just to see how many of them did survive to adulthood.

The family genealogy does say that Thomas arrived in Salem with a young family, given credence to his being married in England. I persist in using Dorothy Unknown as this man’s wife. There is much controversy over her last name and so far, no proof, no records, nothing whatsoever to validate a last name for her.

*Thomas and Dorothy Unknown Burgess had 5 children:

Thomas (1628-1617)

Elizabeth (1629-1717)

*John (1630-1701)

Jacob

Joseph

From this point, I’ll just mention one member of each generation. I do have the names of the siblings so if anyone is interested in a more expanded description of each generation, email me at ThePyePlate@gmail.com.

*John Burgess married Mary Worden in 1657. They had 10 children. 

Their son, *Samuel (1666-1753) married Elizabeth Hopkins, a gt. granddaughter of Stephen Hopkins, the Pilgrim. 

*Samuel and Elizabeth had 9 children.

Their son *Thomas (1721-1815) married Mary Covill. Thomas and Mary had 7 children.

Their son *Covill married Lydia Crowell in 1780.  Covill and Lydia had 7 children. Their son *Perez married Lydia Swift and they had 5 children.

Their son *Charles married Ann Nye. These two were the grandparents of Thornton Burgess, the author. Charles and Ann named one of their sons Thornton (Sr.).

This Thornton married Caroline Haywood. Their only child, Thornton, Jr., was born Jan 14 1874. Thornton Sr. died that same year at the age of 24, leaving his young wife and son in rather dire straits. They continued to live in a humble state, either with relatives or paying rent. Even as a youngster, Thornton worked at odd jobs to help earn money. Many of those jobs involved trapping, herding cows, working in the woods and other outdoor environments.  This experience provided the backdrop for many of his stories.

He married Nina Osborne and they had one son in 1906. Nina died soon after and Thornton was left to raise his son alone. It’s believed that many of his stories were written as bedtime tales for his son. Thornton eventually remarried, but had no further children of his own.

I grew up hearing the stories he wrote and then eventually, reading them on my own. Sometimes as a bedtime story my father would weave a tale with many of  Burgess’ characters in it and I was the heroine, of course. I attribute this to my life long love of all animals and my sense of awe of all things in nature.

When I discovered I shared a common ancestor with Thornton Burgess, I felt a satisfying sense of connection and I thought – ‘Now I get it.”

A second post follows this with a list of the book titles that Thornton Burgess wrote.

Burgess Genealogy, Memorial of the Family of Thomas and Dorothy Burgess,

          Who were Settled at Sandwich in the Plymouth Colony in 1637

          Boston, 1865.

The Visitation of Cornwall, 1530. 1573 & 1620, Vivian

http://www.thorntonburgess.org/ThorntonW.Burgess.htm

Genealogical Gleanings in England vol. 2

John Briggs 1595

The information on John Briggs is based on the research done by Douglas Richardson and published in The American Genealogist Vol. 59 in 1983. It was hoped that updated information was available, by now, but apparently that doesn’t seem to be the case. I have not been able to find any documentation in the Gloucestershire, England records, found on-line. There may, in fact, be non-digitized information, but a trip to England was not going to happen any time soon. 

A general research of the name Briggs shows that the name may well have originally been a Yorkshire name, before the Battle of Hastings. It was spelled Brugges, which in its original form meant ‘Bridges.’ This could have meant they lived near a bridge or were keepers of a bridge, collecting tolls for the magistrate of the area. Whatever the case, there are families of Bridges and families of Briggs and there may be other spellings as well. They could all be connected back in the mists of time, but I only went back as far as 1595.

According to the information in TAG, John Briggs was b. 1595 in Thornbury, Gloucestershire, England. He is my 10^th great grandfather.  He was the son of Richard Briggs and Agnes Wingod. John married Agnes Thayer and they had 6 children, all born in England:

John - bp. Sep 27 1634 in Thornbury

Katherine - bp. Jan 6 1636/7

Richard - bp. Mar 17 1638/9

Samuel - b. 1641

*William - b. c. 1645

Hugh - b. unknown

One of the biggest issues in researching this family was untangling some of the previous research from another John Briggs (b. 1609) family. This John Briggs was married to Hannah Fisher and does not seem to have any connection to this line of Briggs.  What made it confusing was they both ended up in the same general geographical location. Fortunately, there are some records that show John (1609) was one of the purchasers of Aquidneck Island, RI, while the John Briggs I was following settled in Taunton, MA. Still they used so many of the same names for their children and the families did move around, that it was a hair puller, for sure.

So to continue, William Briggs, b. c. 1645, in England, came here with his parents and siblings sometime around 1657. They spent a few years in the Marshfield, MA (remember this was actually Plymouth Colony) before moving to Taunton. In Marshfield, William married Sarah MacCumber, whose family came from Dorchester, Devonshire, England. Sarah had a twin brother, William McCumber.  By Jan. 1667, they were in Taunton where their first child was born. Their family:

*William - 1667-1731, m. Mehitable Blake

Thomas - 1669-1740, m. Abigail Thayer

Elizabeth - 1671-1735, m. Elkanah Babbitt

Hannah - b. 1672, m. Samuel Woodward

Mary - b. 1674, m. Jacob Staple

Matthew - 1676-1765, m. Abigail Burt

Amos - b. 1678-1770, m. Sarah Payne

John - b. 1680, Hannah Rockett

The first five were born in Taunton and the rest may have been too, I just haven’t found verification for them. Also, I have seen other lists of children for this family and Amos was not included in all of them. I am leaving him in this list because I can not prove one way or another, if he belongs to this William and Sarah Briggs.

Their oldest son, another William, married twice. He first married Elizabeth Lincoln in 1693. They had a daughter, Sarah, b. Jul 5 1894 in Taunton, MA.

He then married Mehitable Blake in Milton, MA on Jun 16 1696.

Their children were:

Agnes - 1697- c. 1735

*Nathaniel - 1698-1773 m. Judith Guild

Mehitable - c. 1703-1782 m. John Ware

Eliphalet  - b. c. 1706

Seth – b. c. 1798

Nathaniel Briggs (1698-1773) is recorded as Lt. in most of the records found, possibly serving in the French and Indian War. He married Judith Guild (1697-1774), the daughter of Deacon John Guild and Sarah Fisher, of Dedham and Wrentham, MA. Judith was the 7^th of eight children, born in Wrentham, Norfolk Co., MA. Nathaniel and Judith had eight children as well. They were:

Nathaniel, b. c. 1721

Margaret, b. c. 1723 m. Nehemiah Willis

Jemima (c. 1724-1789) m. John Harvey – They lived in NH

*Judith (c.1725-c.1773) m. Joseph Tower

Marcy, b. c. 1730

William, b 1736

John (?-c.1773)

Mehitable

Information found on the Find-a-Grave site says that Nathaniel and Judith were the 3x great grandparents of five men with the surname Ball, the founders of the Ball Corporation. They were also instrumental in the creation of the Ball State University in Muncie, IN. It also states they were 5x great grandparents of Senator John Goodwin Tower, former US Senator from Texas.  Senator Tower and his daughter were killed in a plane crash in 1991.

The next generation will be following Judith Briggs. She was also recorded as Judah, but it proved difficult to find much information about her. Fortunately, I had some information which helped. I needed to jump forward several generations and work back which is how I found her in New Brunswick. She fell into that time period before the American Revolution when many colonists were heading north to take up free land offered by King George. A host of people left Cape Cod, SW Massachusetts and RI, for Nova Scotia. To make matters more difficult for researchers, part of Nova Scotia was divided and renamed New Brunswick sometime in the 1780’s. This means that any research for that time frame needs to include both Provinces. A great deal has been written about the families that remained in the colonies, but not much has been written about the ones who headed to Canada. Possibly there was no way to know where certain missing family members had gone or perhaps it was assumed they died young.

Here follows what is known about Judith Briggs, daughter of Nathaniel and Judith Guild Briggs.

Judith Briggs and Joseph Tower were married in 1743 in Attleborough, MA. Soon after, they removed to Cumberland Hill, RI.  They had a family of 7 children, all born in Cumberland Hill, with the possible exception of they very youngest child.  Joseph’s name was listed as a grantee of Sackville, c. 1760, but it was noted that he never took possession of his grant. Joseph was lost at sea around 1761.  One research report claims that Joseph died enroute to Canada, which is entirely possible. Judith was now a widow with a new baby or soon to be new baby. Her older children were also heading north for the free lands as part of the Planter Migration to occupy the vacated Arcadian homes and farms.  There is no telling if Nancy, the youngest was born in RI, on the way to Sackville, or was born after their arrival.

Judith and Joseph’s children were:

*Benjamin – 1744-1804 m. Ann Finney

Joseph – 1746-1822 m. Ellen Mason,  relocated to Ira, VT

Nathaniel – 1748 – 1836 m. Lucy Tingley, relocated to Lennox, PA

Joshua – 1750-1753

Lucy – 1752-1822 m. Gideon Smith

William – 1755-1783 lost at sea

Nancy – c. 1761 – 1828 m. Gershom Maxwell

Benjamin was the progenitor of the Towers in New Brunswick. In 1770, the return of the Township of Sackville showed:

Benjamin Tower (1 man, 1 woman, 3 boys)
500 acres of land, 2 oxen, 2 cows, 7 young neat cattle, 8 sheep, 1 swine.

Benjamin and Ann Finney Tower had 10 children, all born in NS/NB:

Joshua – b.1768

Benjamin – b.1770

George – b.1772

Nathaniel – b. 1774

William – (c.1776 - c.1804)

*Phebe Elizabeth – 1777 – 1822 m.  Edward Buck

Ann -  b. c. 1780 m. Charles Delesdernier

Joseph – (b. c. 1784 – 1857) m. Sarah Maxwell

Gideon – b. c. 1786 m. Catherine McFarlane

Ruth -  b. 1787 m. Israel Thornton

Phebe Elizabeth Tower m. Edward Buck in c. 1792. It is believed that Edward arrived in Canada as part of the Yorkshire immigration, which began in the 1780’s. However, no factual information has been found to support this. It is on record that he came from England, just not where in England. He settled on land that became part of the gypsum mining industry. There were many such mines in New Brunswick, most on private lands. Phebe and Edward had 7 children.

Edward – (1797 – 1875) m. Mary Ann Finney

George – (1798 – 1878) m. Phebe Palmer

Ann Buck – (1800 – 1833) m. Benjamin Simonton, relocated to Cass Co., IA

William – (1801 – 1819)

Thomas – (1803 – 1819

James Richard – (1812 – 1874) m. Sarah Mitton

Phebe – (1814 – 1881) m. Leighton Card

Phebe and Edward are my 4^th great grandparents and both are buried in the Pioneer Cemetery, Dorchester, NB. Since I have already completed other blogs on the Buck family, I will end this line with this couple.

As a note of interest, for a few years I worked with a Mr. Simonton. I asked him if he knew anything about his ancestry and it seems that someone in his family had done some research. As it turned out, his family was related to the Benjamin Simonton who married Ann Buck. What turned out to be even more remarkable was that he grew up in the town right next to my home town. As a teenager, he had worked at a drugstore where my mother did business. I love small world stories!!

Town and City Clerks of Massachusetts, Massachusetts Vital and Town Records.

New England Historical and Genealogical Register

http://www.genealogy.com/forum/surnames/topics/tower/365/

Lounsbury Family Line

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, emigrated c. 1651. Between 1673 and 1682 he lived at White Plains, NY. In 1684, he removed to 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. They had at least 6 children.  The Pennoyer family is believed to have originated in Wales, England. (Pennoyer Brothers, Colonization, Commerce, Charity in the Seventeenth Century) 

One of their sons, John, was b. 1674 in Rye, NY. He married in 1701, Anne Guion, b. 1678 in Rye, NY. They both d. in 1731. They had at least 8 children. One note of interest was their daughter, Elizabeth, b. 1715, who married Oliver Roosevelt, c. 1740.

          The Guion family were French Huguenots who had lived in La Rochelle,           France. Lewis Guion, born 1652/54 near La Rochelle, Charente      Maritime, France; d. c. 23 Nov 1732 in New Rochelle, Westchester      Co,     NY. He married Thomasse Anne (FORESTIERE) Guion, born 1656 in           La Rochelle, France; d. bef 1732.  A Huguenot refugee, he fled from    La Rochelle, France to escape religious persecution, c. 1674.  La          Rochelle was a stronghold and one of the chief cities of the Huguenots.

In the 3^rd generation, John and Anne’s son, Henry, b. 1722 in Rye, NY, married a woman named Syntie, (no last name has been discovered).

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, in 1777. They were both from Oyster Bay, NY. They had at least 4 children.

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 in 1858.

They had 6 children.

The oldest child of Susan and George was Mary Frances Wood, b. 1850, Pittsford NY, d. 1933 Cedar Rapids IA. In all the records found for her she was known by her middle name Frances. She married, in 1866 Mendon NY, John Wing, b. 1845 Stow England, d. 1907 Mendon NY (pic: gravestone). He was the s/o William and Elizabeth Lenton Wing. William and his entire family emigrated in 1859, settling in 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. He married, in 1871, Harriet (Hattie) Cronk b. 1855 and d. 1933, 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. She married, in 1903, George Wing, her first cousin. (See Wood family for continuation)

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

Wood Family Timeline

I will try once more to post this without the format getting jumbled. Not sure what is happening as I' doing the same old, same old.  

This continues the research I have been doing on the paternal lines of my children.

1819 - William Wood baptized Jun 20, East Grinstead, Sussex, England.                                 Parents were William Wood and Sarah Elless Wood.                                                                    Reference:

                        ENGLAND MARRIAGES, 1538–1973

                    Indexing Project Batch #             l03098-8          

                        System Order                           England -EASy                        

                        GS Film #                                 1044580

                        Reference ID                            Item 2 p. 45

1850 – William Wood, Blacksmith, age 55. his wife Sarah, his children Martha,                         Mary, William, Charles, George, Sarah, John, Elizabeth, and                                                   Thomas were recorded living in the Town of Pittsford, Monroe Co.,                                         NY (1850 Fed. Census)

1860 - George {Word (sic)} Wood, his wife Susan Lounsbury, his daughters Mary                     Frances and Sarah, his sons William J. and George L. are recorded                     as living in the Town of Pittsford, Monroe Co., NY (1860 Fed. census)

1865 -  George Wood, his wife Susan, his sons, William and George and                                 daughter Elizabeth (Sarah E.) are recorded as living in the Town of                                         Pittsford, Monroe Co., NY (1865 NY State Census)

1875 – George Wood, his wife Susan, his sons, George and Burton and his daughter Sarah                     E. are recorded as living in the Town of Pittsford, Monroe Co., NY (1875 NY                           State Census)

1880 – George Wood, his wife Susan, his sons George and Burton are recorded as living                        with John and Mary France Wood Wing in ED 200, Washington Township, Iowa                     County, in the State of Iowa. (1880 Fed. Census)

1880 – William J. Wood, his wife Ada (name crossed out), his sons Willie, Raymond and his                    daughter Ida B. are recorded living in ED 62, Town of Pittsford, Monroe Co., NY                    (1880 Fed. Census)

1892 – William Wood, his wife Hattie, (Harriet Cronk) his sons William Jr., Raymond and                          Arthur, his daughters Ida and Alice are recorded as living in ED 1, the Town of                      Gates, Monroe Co., NY (1892 NY State Census)

1900 – William Wood, his wife Hattie, his daughters Ida and Alice, his son Arthur were                              recorded as living at 104 Cottage St., ED 118, the 19^th ward  the city of                                  Rochester, Monroe Co., NY  (1900 Fed. Census)

1910 – William Wood, his wife Hattie and son Arthur are recorded as living at 70 Elba St.,                        ED 187, (part of) 19^th Ward, city of Rochester, Monroe Co., NY (1910 Fed.                            Census)

1910 -  Ida (Wood) Wing, her husband George, daughters Mildred and Thelma are recorded                    at 64 Elba St., ED 187, (part of) 19^th Ward, city of  Rochester, Monroe Co., NY                      (1910 Fed. Census)

1917 – Arthur Wood – WWI draft registration – lived at 112 Enterprise St. with his parents.                      He was age 29 and a laborer at an oil co. (1917 Draft Card)

1920 – William Wood, his wife Hattie and son Arthur were recorded as living at 112                                  Enterprise St., Rochester, Monroe Co., NY. In addition, George Wing, his wife                        Belle, their son Duane and George’s daughter  Mildred were recorded living at                     43 Enterprise St., Rochester, Monroe Co., NY (1920 Fed. Census)

1930 – Hattie Wood and her son Arthur (p. 6B &7A) were recorded living at 16 East Buffalo                     St., Churchville, NY, Monroe Co., NY, in the same home as Wilson and Sarah                       Hill. (Sarah Hill is Hattie’s sister. (1930 Fed. Census)

1938 – Duane Wing married Dorothy Judd, my children’s paternal grandparents.

No recorded burial sites for either William J. Wood. Sr.  (1926) or for his wife                           Harriet Cronk Wood (1933) have yet been found.

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In keeping with the work I've been doing for my children's paternal lines, I'm posting another segment.  I apologize for the formatting of the last post. I thought I had it all lined up nicely. Not sure what happened there. Will try again with this one.

1843 – William Wing – The birth of two Williams recorded for this year, one in                           Woodstock, England and the other in Worsley, England. No parent                                         names are given.

1845 – John Wing Baptism Record

1849 – William Wing and family emigrated to the USA

1864 – William Wing, s/o William Wing and his wife Elizabeth – b. 1843 in                                England d. Jan 27 1864 from wounds suffered in Sep 1862. He                                               enlisted on Jul 25 1862 in Rochester, NY for 3 years. He was                                                  mustered in on Aug 18 1862 as a Pvt. in Company D, Regiment                                              108 Infantry.  He died while a prisoner of war held in Richmond VA.                     (Civil War Death Record)

1865 – William Wing, his wife Elizabeth, his sons, John, James, Robert, Alfred                         and Benjamin and his daughter Sarah are recorded living in the                                               Town of Mendon, Monroe Co., NY (1865 NY State Census)

1868 – Elizabeth Wing died, buried in Mendon Cem., Mendon, NY. No                                                       headstone found.

1870 – William Wing (b. in England), his (2^nd) wife Julia J. (later called Jane), his                     sons James and Alfred, were recorded living in the Town of                                                    Mendon, Monroe Co., NY (1870 Fed. Census)

1870 – John Wing (b. in England), his wife Frances, his son George (b. in MI)                         and his daughter Ida were recorded living in the Town of Pittsford,                                           Monroe Co., NY (1870 Fed. Census)

1875 – William Wing, his wife Jane, his son Alfred were recorded living in the                           Town of Mendon, Monroe Co., NY (1875 NY State Census)

1880 – John and Mary France Wood Wing and, living in the same household with                     them were, George Wood, his wife Susan, his sons George and                                             Burton, all recorded as living in ED 200, Washington Township,                                               Iowa County, in the State of Iowa. (1880 Fed. Census)

1880 -  William Wing, his wife Jane and son Alfred recorded as living in the Town                     of Mendon, Monroe Co., NY  (1880 Fed. Census)

1885 – John Wing, his wife Frances, his sons George, James and Emmerson,                        his daughters Ida, Elizabeth and Harriet recorded living in                                                       Washington Township, Iowa Co., Iowa (1885 Iowa State Census)

1892 – William Wing and his wife Jane recorded living with his son Alfred and his                     wife Sarah, in the Town of Mendon, Monroe Co., NY (1892 NY                                               State Census)

1894 - William Wing, aged 73 years, a well-known resident of Honeoye Falls,                           died on Wednesday.  (Friday, May 18 1894 Batavia Daily News)

1895 – George Wing, his wife Minnie, his daughters Emilie (sic.) {Mildred} and                         Iva recorded living in LeRoy Twnshp., Benton Co., IA (1895 IA                                                State Census)

1900 – George Wing, his wife Minnie, his daughters Mildred, Ivy, Florence and                        Thelma recorded living at Mendon, Monroe Co., NY (1900 Fed.                                               Census)

1900 – John Wing, his wife Mary F., his son Emerson, his daughters Ida, and                          Elizabeth (Wing) Lindsay (Wid.), and grandchildren Charles and                                              Bertha Lindsay, recorded living in the Town of Mendon, Monroe                                              Co., NY (1900 Fed. Census)

1900 – Alfred Wing, his wife Sara, his daughters Sarah, Blanch and Violet                                                recorded living in the Town of Mendon, Monroe Co., NY (1900 Fed.                                        Census)  [Same page as John but separate households]

1900 -  Minnie Wing, Nov 10, died.

1903 – George Wing marries his first cousin, Ida Belle Wood.

1905 – George Wing, his wife Belle and his daughter Thelma recorded at 838                          Exchange St. in the City of Rochester, Monroe Co., NY (1905 NY                                           State Census)

1907 – John Wing, Feb. 25 died. Buried Mendon Cem., Mendon, NY  [Pic.]

1910 – George Wing, his wife Belle, his daughters, Mildred and Thelma recorded                     living at 64 Elba St. in the City of Rochester, Monroe Co., NY.                                                 William Wood, his wife Hattie and his son Arthur recorded at 70                                              Elba St., which is next door to #64. (1910 Fed. Census)

1910 – Mary Frances Wood Wing, widow of John Wing, mother of George Wing, was living                      with her daughter Ida Isabelle Wing Gibson in Portland OR (family record)

 1915 – George Wing recorded living in the 19^th Ward, ED 05, the City of                                  Rochester, Monroe Co., NY (1915 NY State Census)

1918 – Thelma Wing marries Charles Carey, Dec. 30., in Rochester NY                                         (Marriage Record)

1920 - George Wing, his wife Belle, their son Duane and George’s daughter                            Mildred were recorded living at 43 Enterprise St., Rochester,                                                   Monroe Co., NY. Ida’s parents William J. Wood, her mother Hattie                                         and her brother Arthur are recorded living at 112 Enterprise St.                                               (1920 Fed. Census)

1930 – George, his wife Belle, his son Duane are recorded living on the Davis                          Rd. in the Town of Chili, Monroe Co., NY (1930 Fed. Census)

1940 – George and his wife Belle recorded living 96 East Buffalo St, Churchville,                     NY. Also, recorded at 97 East Buffalo St, Churchville, NY is Sarah                       Hill and Arthur Wood. Sarah is Belle’s mother’s sister (Sarah                                                   Cronk) and Arthur is her brother. (1940 Fed. Census)

1940 – Duane Wing, his wife Dorothy (Judd) were recorded at 639 Thurston Rd.,                                       the City of Rochester, Monroe Co., NY (1940 Fed. Census)

1956 – George Wing died

1970 – Belle Wood Wing died

 George and Belle are the paternal great grandparents of my children.