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#	Notes	Linked to
101	Asheshes scattered across White Mountain	TUTTLE, Elizabeth "Betty" Freeman (I366788783)
102	At some point he travelled to the Yukon (two of his brothers were living in Seattle at the time). He disappeared around 1899. Family story was that his clothes were found at the side of a lake but he was never seen again	BATES, Edward Mercer (I366751769)
103	At the residence of Mr & Mrs Darrington & family	IZZARD, John (I366751146)
104	Attending Physician at the birth was Dr W.F.Meikle (Named " Fairlie "for Rev John Fairlie)	HAYDEN, Francis Fairlie (I366747608)
105	Available from https://archive.org/details/ancestorsofdanie00moff	Source (S396)
106	Awarded the 1915 Star for service in France. Birth certificate says 17 The Crescent, Baldock Road, Letchworth but Thelma maintains she always lived at 1 The Crescent. Speculation involves a move from number 17 to number 1, a renumbering or possibly the midwife lived at number 17, but there is no evidence. Swiss Cottage was a large and pleasant flat above the Lewis Falk factory- also known as Garden City Embroidery Works. This was Robert Bonfield's flat, which came with the job of Works Manager. Roger Balsom tree	BONFIELD, Robert John (I366747128)
107	Awarded the MM for bravery in the field at Balikpapain, Borneo, in WWII	GILL, Charles Cecil (I366749146)
108	Awarded the Mons Star medal for his services in WW1	CASTLE, Arthur (I366751938)
109	Baptism paid for by the local poorhouse	DRAKE, Mark (I366748555)
110	Baptism record shows Fred Jos, so recorded by me as Frederick Joseph. 1881 Census shows him as Joseph T, though this could easily be Joseph F. Marriage record shows Frederick Peter. Marriage place and census in 1901 and 1911 confirm the consistency of ages, places and occupation, so assume it is the same individual. No idea where the "name change" came from!	CANHAM, Frederick Joseph (I366752173)
111	Before coming to the US, Eric Reade-Hill owned a green-grocer's shop in London, England and, sometime later, a nightclub. He decided to switch professions entirely and went to school to learn to style hair. He arrived in the US in approximately 1962, living temporarily with his sister, Barbara, her husband, Jimmie, and their children. He became the chief hair stylist (and later the manager) at the Woodner Hotel in Washington, D.C. (At one time, he styled Jayne Mansfield's hair not long before her tragic car accident.) He later owned several salons (at different times) in Maryland, Virginia, Houston and later in Atlanta Georgia.	READE-HILL, Eric (I366747975)
112	Believed to be the first pair of Siamese twins born in Australia Two children shared a single torso See further info in The Northern Star a daily newspaper of Lismore, dated 16/09/1935	GILL, Unnamed (I366748729)
113	Believed to be the first pair of Siamese twins born in Australia Two children shared a single torso See further info in The Northern Star a daily newspaper of Lismore, dated 16/09/1935	GILL, Unnamed (I366748728)
114	Believed to have been a heavy drinker	THORNTON, Rosa Isabella (I290684771)
115	Birth Name is Mary Cunningham Previous married name is Mary Haven	CUNNINGHAM, Mary (I366770492)
116	Birth name was Sibley but surname at time of marriage was Lynch. Presumably married before?	LYNCH, Lilian Martha (I366754980)
117	Block 141 Lot 12	CRAWFORD, Medora (I366765817)
118	BMD Death notice links to Birth notice which confirms mothers maiden name as Arthurs - so assumed same person	THORNTON, Sandra Martha (I366747651)
119	Body donated to medical science	LEEK, Ada Lucille (I366791847)
120	Body donated to medical science	LEEK, Clara M (I366791846)
121	Body donated to medical science	LINTS, Raymond Anthony (I366788618)
122	Body donated to medical science	HODGES, Dorothy J "Dee" (I366788827)
123	Body donated to Vanderbilt Medical School, to further medical science	MERIWETHER, Marion Douglas (I366775344)
124	Born at 12.30 am Elder by 15 minutes	HAYDEN, Eliza (I328678983)
125	Born at 12.45 am Younger by 15 minutes	HAYDEN, Kate (I328762370)
126	Born Ayres (MMN Covill) Married Thomas Vander Woollard Q4 1883 Applied for divorce 1889 TVW remarried Q3 1891 died Q3 1923 Divorce not granted? Hence why not legally married until 192	AYRES, Elizabeth Jane (I366751874)
127	born in Ireland married twice first marriage 20 July 1856 St Nicholas Pro Cath witnesses were William Quinlan and Mary Courtney Second marriage in LIverpool - also known as Sailors Church, in Liverpool. Witnesses were William Quinlan and Mary Courtney 2 fathers were present. died of a fractured skull in suspicious circumstances, Northern Hospital, L3. George Quirk says Lived at 26 Scotland Rd at time of Marriage William Hayden "Father" and Thomas Quirk "Father were witnesses WH was Gentleman and TQ was a Tailor THESE NOTES REFER TO FRANCIS HAYDEN, now changed	HAYDEN, Patrick (I366747597)
128	Born with Downs syndrome	HAMILTON, Harry Graham (I108010550)
129	Brigadier General Abiel Leonard Smith was a United States Army Officer from 1878 to 1918. He was born on on July 14th, 1857, in Fayette, Missouri, the son of Joseph Darnell (1828-1900) and Martha S. Leonard Smith (1836-1927), and was raised in Missouri. He obtained an appointment to the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, from the state of Missouri in 1873 and entered the Military Academy as a Cadet on July 1st, 1874. On June 14th, 1878, he graduated 40th in his class from the Military Academy and was commissioned as an Additional Second Lieutenant with the 19th United States Infantry Regiment. He was promoted to Second Lieutenant with the 19th Infantry Regiment on June 28th, 1878, and served on frontier duty at posts in the Indian Territory, Texas, Kansas, and New Mexico, to 1883, being transferred to the 4th Cavalry Regiment on February 3rd, 1879. He was promoted to First Lieutenant with the 4th Cavalry Regiment on June 30th, 1883, and resumed his duties at posts in New Mexico, Arizona, Missouri, Virginia, and Washington, to May of 1892. On February 27th, 1890, he was brevetted to the rank of Captain for "gallant service in the campaign against Geronimo's Band of Indians in Sonora, Mexico, from July to September of 1886," and was promoted to Captain with the 4th Cavalry Regiment on May 6th, 1892. In June of 1892 he was called to Washington, D.C., and assigned to special duty, and on June 28th, 1892, received his appointment as a Captain & Commissary of Subsistence in the United States Army, in which branch he would remain for the rest of his service. He served as various Commissary Depot's in Illinois, California, and Missouri to 1898, when the Spanish American War occurred. On June 14th, 1890, Abiel L. Smith married Miss Florence Compton, the daughter of Colonel Charles E. Compton, United State Army, the couple would go on to have four children (Abiel Leonard Jr., Dorothy S., Charles Compton, and Margaret). He was assigned to duty as a Lieutenant Colonel & Commissary of Subsistence of United States Volunteers from July 22nd, 1898, to March 2nd, 1899, and served as the Purchasing and Depot Commissaries in Florida, Porto Rico, and Cuba, until 1899 when he was called back to Washington, D.C., to served as an Assistant to the Commissary-General of Subsistence and as the Disbursing Commissary at Washington, D.C., until April 3rd, 1901. He was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel & Deputy Commissary General of Subsistence on April 1st, 1901, and spent the several few years inspecting subsistence supplies for the troops in the Philippine Islands in Kansas, Ohio, and Missouri. In 1904 he was sent to the Philippine Islands where he served as the Chief Commissary of the Philippines Division from November of 1904 to March of 1907, spending time in China, Japan, and Australia, as well as the Philippines seeing to the needs of the troops. On October 13th, 1905, he was promoted to Colonel & Assistant Commissary General, and returned to the United States in April of 1907, assuming the duties as the Purchasing Commissary and the Subsistence Superintendent of the Army Transport Service at New York City, New York, to October of 1912. He then served as the Chief Quartermaster of the Central Department at Chicago, Illinois, to August of 1913, as the Depot Quartermaster and Superintendent of the Army Transport Service at New York City, New York, to October of 1916. On September 21st, 1916, he was promoted to the rank of Brigadier General in the Quartermaster Corps, and was assigned to duty as the Chief of the Supplies Division, including clothing, equipage, fuel, forage, subsistence, at Washington, D.C., to January 3rd, 1918. General Smith retired from active service on January 3rd, 1918, at his own request after over forty-years of service. Following his retirement he resided at Carmel, New York, from 1918 to 1946, it was then that on April 24th, 1946, while visiting New York City, New York, that he passed away at the age of 88.	SMITH, Abiel Leonard (I366765762)
130	British Stained Glass Artist born in Germany of a German father and an English mother. They moved to London when he was four years old. He discovered his talent of drawing soon after leaving school. Attending evening classes led to a job as a draughtsman with a freelance glass designer and it turned out to be the beginning of a distinguished career. He worked in Chipping Camden in Gloucestershire, where many followers of William Morris had their workplaces. At that time the enthusiasm for church building and restoration had led to the rise of a small number of large firms who made quantities of mass produced stained glass windows. Mass produced production methods meant that the work of the designers and the craftsmen was carried out separately and neither had much feeling for the work of the others. He was introduced to a group of talented glass artists who, influenced by the thinking of William Morris, set up workshops in Fulham where designers, painters, cutters and glaziers worked closely together to create authentic works of art. After teaching stained glass work at the Royal College of Art, he moved with his family to Piggotts Hill in the Chilterns and opened his own studio. Piggotts Hill was the home of a community of Roman Catholic artists and craftsmen which included his neighbour and friend Eric Gill, the stone carver, wood engraver, essayist and typographer. Their mutual support, shared Catholicism and philosophy of community, family life and practical craftsmanship were important influenced all of them. He worked for over sixty years filling many British and a few overseas churches with beautiful windows, including the East Window in St. Ethlereda's Church in London, windows in St. John's Cathedral, Hong Kong, Bedington Parish Church, England and Addis Ababa Cathedral, Ethiopia. He married twice, first to Kathleen Clarke and then to Daphne Reid, a fellow artist.	NUTTGENS, Joseph (Josef) Edward (I366780523)
131	Burial of Ashes	TOYNBEE, Arnold Joseph (I366771733)
132	Burial record may refer to father	JACOB, Richard (I366752279)
133	Buried in Highland Road Cemetery	CLEEVE, Esther Caroline (I107936298)
134	Burton-Walker Lumber Co	CAZIER, Blaine (I366756369)
135	By 1861 he had apparently left home, but the census search provides no results - it must be possible he died some time after 1851.	HARVEY, Thomas (I366748035)
136	Caught in ammunition dump explosion	REYNOLDS, Walter (I366751560)
137	Census entry shows age in different handwriting and different coloured ink!. Clearly a later entry, and wrong!	SCOOTE, William John Bygrave (I366750794)
138	census notes "infirm"	REYNOLDS, Mary (I366751488)
139	CEO of Flying J Inc	CALL, Osborne Jay (I366756435)
140	Certainly died before Nora and/or Anne left Ireland for England Almost certainly died after Delia "It's a good job the baby died or Nora would have ended up looking after it" Attributed to Catherine Shannon Mum 28/03;2017 === Marie O'Driscoll previously advised died in 1927 - appears to be untrue	SHANNON, Catherine "Kate" (I107936347)
141	At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld.	Living (I366758214)
142	Changed name from Ponsonby to Ponsonby-Fane	PONSONBY, Spencer Cecil Brabazon (I366764701)
143	Characrer described as VG Ability described as Good	HAMILTON, William Graham (I107936297)
144	Character described as Good	HAMILTON, William Graham (I107936297)
145	Character described as Good	HAMILTON, William Graham (I107936297)
146	Character described as Good	HAMILTON, William Graham (I107936297)
147	Character described as Good/VG	HAMILTON, William Graham (I107936297)
148	Character described as VG Ability described as Good/VG	HAMILTON, William Graham (I107936297)
149	Character described as VG Ability described as VG	HAMILTON, William Graham (I107936297)
150	Character described as VG Ability described as VG	HAMILTON, William Graham (I107936297)

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101

Asheshes scattered across White Mountain

TUTTLE, Elizabeth "Betty" Freeman (I366788783)

102

At some point he travelled to the Yukon (two of his brothers were living in Seattle at the time). He disappeared around 1899. Family story was that his clothes were found at the side of a lake but he was never seen again

BATES, Edward Mercer (I366751769)

103

At the residence of Mr & Mrs Darrington & family

IZZARD, John (I366751146)

104

Attending Physician at the birth was Dr W.F.Meikle

(Named " Fairlie "for Rev John Fairlie)

HAYDEN, Francis Fairlie (I366747608)

105

Available from https://archive.org/details/ancestorsofdanie00moff

Source (S396)

106

Awarded the 1915 Star for service in France. Birth certificate says 17 The Crescent, Baldock Road, Letchworth but Thelma maintains she always lived at 1 The Crescent. Speculation involves a move from number 17 to number 1, a renumbering or possibly the midwife lived at number 17, but there is no evidence. Swiss Cottage was a large and pleasant flat above the Lewis Falk factory- also known as Garden City Embroidery Works. This was Robert Bonfield's flat, which came with the job of Works Manager.

Roger Balsom tree

BONFIELD, Robert John (I366747128)

107

Awarded the MM for bravery in the field at Balikpapain, Borneo, in WWII

GILL, Charles Cecil (I366749146)

108

Awarded the Mons Star medal for his services in WW1

CASTLE, Arthur (I366751938)

109

Baptism paid for by the local poorhouse

DRAKE, Mark (I366748555)

110

Baptism record shows Fred Jos, so recorded by me as Frederick Joseph.

1881 Census shows him as Joseph T, though this could easily be Joseph F.

Marriage record shows Frederick Peter. Marriage place and census in 1901 and 1911 confirm the consistency of ages, places and occupation, so assume it is the same individual.

No idea where the "name change" came from!

CANHAM, Frederick Joseph (I366752173)

111

Before coming to the US, Eric Reade-Hill owned a green-grocer's shop in London, England and, sometime later, a nightclub. He decided to switch professions entirely and went to school to learn to style hair. He arrived in the US in approximately 1962, living temporarily with his sister, Barbara, her husband, Jimmie, and their children. He became the chief hair stylist (and later the manager) at the Woodner Hotel in Washington, D.C. (At one time, he styled Jayne Mansfield's hair not long before her tragic car accident.) He later owned several salons (at different times) in Maryland, Virginia, Houston and later in Atlanta Georgia.

READE-HILL, Eric (I366747975)

112

Believed to be the first pair of Siamese twins born in Australia

Two children shared a single torso

See further info in The Northern Star a daily newspaper of Lismore, dated 16/09/1935

GILL, Unnamed (I366748729)

113

Believed to be the first pair of Siamese twins born in Australia

Two children shared a single torso

See further info in The Northern Star a daily newspaper of Lismore, dated 16/09/1935

GILL, Unnamed (I366748728)

114

Believed to have been a heavy drinker

THORNTON, Rosa Isabella (I290684771)

115

Birth Name is Mary Cunningham

Previous married name is Mary Haven

CUNNINGHAM, Mary (I366770492)

116

Birth name was Sibley but surname at time of marriage was Lynch.

Presumably married before?

LYNCH, Lilian Martha (I366754980)

117

Block 141 Lot 12

CRAWFORD, Medora (I366765817)

118

BMD Death notice links to Birth notice which confirms mothers maiden name as Arthurs - so assumed same person

THORNTON, Sandra Martha (I366747651)

119

Body donated to medical science

LEEK, Ada Lucille (I366791847)

120

Body donated to medical science

LEEK, Clara M (I366791846)

121

Body donated to medical science

LINTS, Raymond Anthony (I366788618)

122

Body donated to medical science

HODGES, Dorothy J "Dee" (I366788827)

123

Body donated to Vanderbilt Medical School, to further medical science

MERIWETHER, Marion Douglas (I366775344)

124

Born at 12.30 am

Elder by 15 minutes

HAYDEN, Eliza (I328678983)

125

Born at 12.45 am

Younger by 15 minutes

HAYDEN, Kate (I328762370)

126

Born Ayres (MMN Covill)

Married Thomas Vander Woollard Q4 1883

Applied for divorce 1889

TVW remarried Q3 1891 died Q3 1923

Divorce not granted? Hence why not legally married until 192

AYRES, Elizabeth Jane (I366751874)

127

born in Ireland married twice first marriage 20 July 1856 St Nicholas Pro Cath witnesses were William Quinlan and Mary Courtney Second marriage in LIverpool - also known as Sailors Church, in Liverpool. Witnesses were William Quinlan and Mary Courtney 2 fathers were present. died of a fractured skull in suspicious circumstances, Northern Hospital, L3.

George Quirk says

Lived at 26 Scotland Rd at time of Marriage
William Hayden "Father" and Thomas Quirk "Father were witnesses WH was Gentleman and TQ was a Tailor

THESE NOTES REFER TO FRANCIS HAYDEN, now changed

HAYDEN, Patrick (I366747597)

128

Born with Downs syndrome

HAMILTON, Harry Graham (I108010550)

129

Brigadier General Abiel Leonard Smith was a United States Army Officer from 1878 to 1918.

He was born on on July 14th, 1857, in Fayette, Missouri, the son of Joseph Darnell (1828-1900) and Martha S. Leonard Smith (1836-1927), and was raised in Missouri.

He obtained an appointment to the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, from the state of Missouri in 1873 and entered the Military Academy as a Cadet on July 1st, 1874. On June 14th, 1878, he graduated 40th in his class from the Military Academy and was commissioned as an Additional Second Lieutenant with the 19th United States Infantry Regiment.

He was promoted to Second Lieutenant with the 19th Infantry Regiment on June 28th, 1878, and served on frontier duty at posts in the Indian Territory, Texas, Kansas, and New Mexico, to 1883, being transferred to the 4th Cavalry Regiment on February 3rd, 1879.

He was promoted to First Lieutenant with the 4th Cavalry Regiment on June 30th, 1883, and resumed his duties at posts in New Mexico, Arizona, Missouri, Virginia, and Washington, to May of 1892. On February 27th, 1890, he was brevetted to the rank of Captain for "gallant service in the campaign against Geronimo's Band of Indians in Sonora, Mexico, from July to September of 1886," and was promoted to Captain with the 4th Cavalry Regiment on May 6th, 1892.

In June of 1892 he was called to Washington, D.C., and assigned to special duty, and on June 28th, 1892, received his appointment as a Captain & Commissary of Subsistence in the United States Army, in which branch he would remain for the rest of his service. He served as various Commissary Depot's in Illinois, California, and Missouri to 1898, when the Spanish American War occurred.

On June 14th, 1890, Abiel L. Smith married Miss Florence Compton, the daughter of Colonel Charles E. Compton, United State Army, the couple would go on to have four children (Abiel Leonard Jr., Dorothy S., Charles Compton, and Margaret).

He was assigned to duty as a Lieutenant Colonel & Commissary of Subsistence of United States Volunteers from July 22nd, 1898, to March 2nd, 1899, and served as the Purchasing and Depot Commissaries in Florida, Porto Rico, and Cuba, until 1899 when he was called back to Washington, D.C., to served as an Assistant to the Commissary-General of Subsistence and as the Disbursing Commissary at Washington, D.C., until April 3rd, 1901. He was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel & Deputy Commissary General of Subsistence on April 1st, 1901, and spent the several few years inspecting subsistence supplies for the troops in the Philippine Islands in Kansas, Ohio, and Missouri. In 1904 he was sent to the Philippine Islands where he served as the Chief Commissary of the Philippines Division from November of 1904 to March of 1907, spending time in China, Japan, and Australia, as well as the Philippines seeing to the needs of the troops. On October 13th, 1905, he was promoted to Colonel & Assistant Commissary General, and returned to the United States in April of 1907, assuming the duties as the Purchasing Commissary and the Subsistence Superintendent of the Army Transport Service at New York City, New York, to October of 1912.

He then served as the Chief Quartermaster of the Central Department at Chicago, Illinois, to August of 1913, as the Depot Quartermaster and Superintendent of the Army Transport Service at New York City, New York, to October of 1916. On September 21st, 1916, he was promoted to the rank of Brigadier General in the Quartermaster Corps, and was assigned to duty as the Chief of the Supplies Division, including clothing, equipage, fuel, forage, subsistence, at Washington, D.C., to January 3rd, 1918.

General Smith retired from active service on January 3rd, 1918, at his own request after over forty-years of service. Following his retirement he resided at Carmel, New York, from 1918 to 1946, it was then that on April 24th, 1946, while visiting New York City, New York, that he passed away at the age of 88.

SMITH, Abiel Leonard (I366765762)

130

British Stained Glass Artist born in Germany of a German father and an English mother. They moved to London when he was four years old. He discovered his talent of drawing soon after leaving school. Attending evening classes led to a job as a draughtsman with a freelance glass designer and it turned out to be the beginning of a distinguished career. He worked in Chipping Camden in Gloucestershire, where many followers of William Morris had their workplaces. At that time the enthusiasm for church building and restoration had led to the rise of a small number of large firms who made quantities of mass produced stained glass windows. Mass produced production methods meant that the work of the designers and the craftsmen was carried out separately and neither had much feeling for the work of the others. He was introduced to a group of talented glass artists who, influenced by the thinking of William Morris, set up workshops in Fulham where designers, painters, cutters and glaziers worked closely together to create authentic works of art. After teaching stained glass work at the Royal College of Art, he moved with his family to Piggotts Hill in the Chilterns and opened his own studio. Piggotts Hill was the home of a community of Roman Catholic artists and craftsmen which included his neighbour and friend Eric Gill, the stone carver, wood engraver, essayist and typographer. Their mutual support, shared Catholicism and philosophy of community, family life and practical craftsmanship were important influenced all of them. He worked for over sixty years filling many British and a few overseas churches with beautiful windows, including the East Window in St. Ethlereda's Church in London, windows in St. John's Cathedral, Hong Kong, Bedington Parish Church, England and Addis Ababa Cathedral, Ethiopia. He married twice, first to Kathleen Clarke and then to Daphne Reid, a fellow artist.

NUTTGENS, Joseph (Josef) Edward (I366780523)

131

Burial of Ashes

TOYNBEE, Arnold Joseph (I366771733)

132

Burial record may refer to father

JACOB, Richard (I366752279)

133

Buried in Highland Road Cemetery

CLEEVE, Esther Caroline (I107936298)

134

Burton-Walker Lumber Co

CAZIER, Blaine (I366756369)

135

By 1861 he had apparently left home, but the census search provides no results - it must be possible he died some time after 1851.

HARVEY, Thomas (I366748035)

136

Caught in ammunition dump explosion

REYNOLDS, Walter (I366751560)

137

Census entry shows age in different handwriting and different coloured ink!. Clearly a later entry, and wrong!

SCOOTE, William John Bygrave (I366750794)

138

census notes "infirm"

REYNOLDS, Mary (I366751488)

139

CEO of Flying J Inc

CALL, Osborne Jay (I366756435)

140

Certainly died before Nora and/or Anne left Ireland for England
Almost certainly died after Delia

"It's a good job the baby died or Nora would have ended up looking after it" Attributed to Catherine Shannon

Mum 28/03;2017

===

Marie O'Driscoll previously advised died in 1927 - appears to be untrue

SHANNON, Catherine "Kate" (I107936347)

141

At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld.

Living (I366758214)

142

Changed name from Ponsonby to Ponsonby-Fane

PONSONBY, Spencer Cecil Brabazon (I366764701)

143

Characrer described as VG
Ability described as Good

HAMILTON, William Graham (I107936297)

144

Character described as Good

HAMILTON, William Graham (I107936297)

145

Character described as Good

HAMILTON, William Graham (I107936297)

146

Character described as Good

HAMILTON, William Graham (I107936297)

147

Character described as Good/VG

HAMILTON, William Graham (I107936297)

148

Character described as VG
Ability described as Good/VG

HAMILTON, William Graham (I107936297)

149

Character described as VG
Ability described as VG

HAMILTON, William Graham (I107936297)

150

Character described as VG
Ability described as VG

HAMILTON, William Graham (I107936297)

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