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Albert Wollaston Smith Jr. / Linda Rookwood Capt.

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Albert Wollaston Smith Jr. / Linda Rookwood Capt.

Husband: Albert Wollaston Smith Jr.
Born:	14 May 1917	at:	Fairfax City, Virginia, USA
Married:	1942	at:
Died:	20 Jan 1995	at:	Farmville, North Carolina
Father:	Albert Wollaston Smith Sr.
Mother:	Leila Bell Claggett
Notes:	[1904]
Wife: Linda Rookwood Capt.
Born:		at:
Died:		at:
Father:
Mother:
Notes:	[1983]
Children

Pedigree Chart for: Albert Wollaston Smith Jr.

      /--
   /--
   |  \--
/--Albert Wollaston  Smith  Sr.
|  |  /--
|  \--
|     \--
|--Albert Wollaston  Smith  Jr.
|     /--Christopher Columbus  Claggett 
|  /--John Hammett  Claggett 
|  |  \--Emily  Kinchloe 
\--Leila Bell  Claggett 
   |  /--Christopher Columbus  Claggett 
   \--Anna Laurie  Milstead 
      \--Sally Fendall  Bell 

Pedigree Chart for: Linda Rookwood Capt.

      /--
   /--
   |  \--
/--
|  |  /--
|  \--
|     \--
|--Linda  Rookwood  Capt.
|     /--
|  /--
|  |  \--
\--
   |  /--
   \--
      \--

[1904]

1 _DEG
2 PLAC DVM, Michigan State University


References:
Smith-Claggett Genealogical Chart

From NC paper:

Dr. Albert W. Smith, 77;
services Monday

Pohick Book

Potomac Book, p. 430, 124-7, B1-114-7, B2-116-14, B2-54-30

FARMVILLE - Dr. Albert Wollaston Smith Jr., 77, died Jan. 20, 1995, inhis home.
Graveside services Sunday [sic] 3:30 p.m., Hollywood Cemetery.
Dr. Smith was born and reared in Fairfax County, Va. He graduatedfrom Alexandria, Va. High School in 1934, and from Hampden SydneyCollege, Va., in 1938, B.A. degree, Cum Laude.
He saw military service as an Army Air Corps Pilot. He piloted P-40s andB-25s in World War II, and was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross,the Air Medal, Distinguished Unit Badge, Asiatic Pacific Service Medal,Presidential Unit Citation with two oak leaf clusters and the Cross ofMilitary Service, United Daughters of the Confederacy through theLunenburg Chapter Kenbridge, Va.
He retired from Air Force Reserves after attaining the rank ofMajor. In June, 1950, he received his doctorate of Veterinary Medicinefrom Michigan State University. He practiced veterinary medicine inFarmville, N.C. from June, 1950 to July 1, 1978. Professional service:Vice president and president of Eastern North Carolina Veterinary MedicalAssociation. Member of Executive Committee, vice president and presidentof North Carolina Association of Professions. Appointed to the NorthCarolina State University Veterinary School Research Foundation. Wascharter member and first president of Farmville Lions Club, serving twoterms as president. Served on Farmville, N.C. Boy Scout Commission,chairman for one year.
Dr. Smith was a member of Farmville United Methodist Church, SundaySchool teacher, Sunday School superintendent for about six years. Servedon Board Of Stewards, chairman for two terms. Member of Farmville UnitedMethodist Church Board of Trustees for three years.
Surviving: his wife, Roxie Chestnutt; daughter, Leila Roxie Smith ofRaleigh; sons, Clarence Sidney Davis, Jr. of Farmville; A. WollastonSmith III of Atlanta, Ga.; sisters, Katherine Saunders of Kenbridge,Va.; Dorothy Ray of Tulsa, Okla.; brothers, Dr. Rodman Smith of Red Oak,Iowa; four grandchildren.
In lieu of flowers, memorials to the Farmville United MethodistChurch, P.O. Box 153, Farmville, N.C., 27828 for Kneeling Cushion Fund.

[1983]

Samuel Rodmond Smith
She was a captain from Australia.

(--?--) / Elizabeth Brewster

Husband: (--?--)
Wife: Elizabeth Brewster
Born:	1 May 1637	at:	Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States
Died:	11 Nov 1713	at:	Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States
Father:	Johnathan Brewster
Mother:	Lucretia Oldham
Sources:	[2239] [2240] [2241]
Children

Pedigree Chart for: Elizabeth Brewster

      /--John William  Brewster 
   /--William  Brewster 
   |  \--Mary Prudence  Smythe 
/--Johnathan  Brewster 
|  |  /--
|  \--Mary   
|     \--
|--Elizabeth  Brewster 
|     /--
|  /--John  Oldham 
|  |  \--
\--Lucretia  Oldham 
   |  /--
   \--Lucretia   
      \--

@1 [2239] [S44]

@1 [2240] [S293]

@1 [2241] [S294]

Asahel Griffin / Anna Phelps

Husband: Asahel Griffin
Born:		at:
Married:		at:
Died:		at:
Father:
Mother:
Wife: Anna Phelps
Born:	8 Dec 1812	at:	Granville, Ohio
Died:	Oct 1852	at:	Granville, Ohio
Father:	John Phelps
Mother:	Statira Graves
Children
Name:	Eunice P. Griffin
Born:	22 Sep 1830	at:	Granville, Licking, Ohio
Married:		at:
Died:		at:
Spouses:	S.M. Thrall

Pedigree Chart for: Asahel Griffin

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|--Asahel  Griffin 
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\--
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   \--
      \--

Pedigree Chart for: Anna Phelps

      /--David  Phelps  Sr.
   /--John  Phelps 
   |  \--Margaret  Colton 
/--John  Phelps 
|  |  /--
|  \--Anna  Baker 
|     \--
|--Anna  Phelps 
|     /--
|  /--Roswell  Graves 
|  |  \--
\--Statira  Graves 
   |  /--
   \--Hannah  Rose 
      \--Keziah  Goss 

(--?--) Laflamme / Elvira Valliere

Husband: (--?--) Laflamme
Born:		at:
Married:		at:
Died:		at:
Father:
Mother:
Sources:	[4183]
Wife: Elvira Valliere
Born:	5 Aug 1877[4171]	at:	Ashland, Grafton Co., New Hampshire, USA
Died:	Dec 1974	at:	Laconia, Belknap, New Hampshire, USA
Father:	Etienne 'Stephen' Valliere
Mother:	Marie-Philomène-Roxanne Phoebe
Children

Pedigree Chart for: (--?--) Laflamme

      /--
   /--
   |  \--
/--
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|  \--
|     \--
|--(--?--)  Laflamme 
|     /--
|  /--
|  |  \--
\--
   |  /--
   \--
      \--

Pedigree Chart for: Elvira Valliere

      /--
   /--
   |  \--
/--Etienne 'Stephen'  Valliere 
|  |  /--
|  \--
|     \--
|--Elvira  Valliere 
|     /--Amos  Phelps 
|  /--Oliver Cromwell  Phelps 
|  |  \--Diadama  Long 
\--Marie-Philomène-Roxanne  Phoebe 
   |  /--Amos  Phelps 
   \--Marie-Josephte  Roi 
      \--Marie-Louise  d'Ercy-dit-Garcie 

@1 [4183] [S359]

• @4Data:
  of Minnie Valliere Lamothe
  [4184]
  Obituary of Minnie Valliere Lamothe.

@1 [4171] [S358]

• @2Page: - Page. 341 -Office of Registrar of Vital Statistics, NH
  

John Copley / Jane Angier

Husband: John Copley
Born:	ABT 1559	at:	of Skelbrook, Yorkshire, England
Married:	30 Nov 1588	at:	Skelbrooke, Yorkshire, Yorkshire, England
Died:	AFT 1603	at:	England
Father:	Philip Copley
Mother:	Mary Hastings
Sources:	[4320]
Wife: Jane Angier
Born:	ABT 1572	at:	of Skelbrook, Yorkshire, England
Died:		at:
Father:	Ralph Angier
Mother:	Jane
Sources:	[4321]
Children
Name:	Godfrey Copley [4322]
Born:	1589	at:
Died:	24 Jun 1648	at:
Spouses:
Name:	Mary Copley [4323]
Born:	1592	at:
Died:		at:
Spouses:
Name:	Elizabeth Copley [4324]
Born:	1594	at:
Died:		at:
Spouses:
Name:	Thomas Copley [4317]
Born:	30 Oct 1597	at:	Skelbrook, Yorkshire, England
Married:		at:
Died:	7 May 1628	at:	England
Spouses:	Elizabeth Griswold

Pedigree Chart for: John Copley

      /--
   /--
   |  \--
/--Philip  Copley 
|  |  /--
|  \--
|     \--
|--John  Copley 
|     /--
|  /--
|  |  \--
\--Mary  Hastings 
   |  /--
   \--
      \--

Pedigree Chart for: Jane Angier

      /--
   /--
   |  \--
/--Ralph  Angier 
|  |  /--
|  \--
|     \--
|--Jane  Angier 
|     /--
|  /--
|  |  \--
\--Jane   
   |  /--
   \--
      \--

@1 [4320] [S44]

@1 [4321] [S44]

@1 [4322] [S44]

@1 [4323] [S44]

@1 [4324] [S44]

@1 [4317] [S44]

Seth Whittaker / Ruhamah B. Robinson

Husband: Seth Whittaker
Born:		at:
Married:		at:
Died:		at:
Father:
Mother:
Sources:	[6353]
Wife: Ruhamah B. Robinson
Born:		at:
Died:		at:
Father:
Mother:
Sources:	[6360]
Children
Name:	Catherine Whittaker [6362]
Born:	7 Nov 1843	at:	Tioga, Pennsylvania, USA
Married:		at:
Died:		at:
Spouses:	Charles Walter Phelps

Pedigree Chart for: Seth Whittaker

      /--
   /--
   |  \--
/--
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|  \--
|     \--
|--Seth  Whittaker 
|     /--
|  /--
|  |  \--
\--
   |  /--
   \--
      \--

Pedigree Chart for: Ruhamah B. Robinson

      /--
   /--
   |  \--
/--
|  |  /--
|  \--
|     \--
|--Ruhamah B.  Robinson 
|     /--
|  /--
|  |  \--
\--
   |  /--
   \--
      \--

@1 [6353] [S44]

@1 [6360] [S44]

@1 [6362] [S44]

Reginald Bignell / Penelope Brandrick

Husband: Reginald Bignell
Born:		at:
Married:		at:
Died:		at:
Father:
Mother:
Wife: Penelope Brandrick
Born:		at:
Died:		at:
Father:		at:
Mother:		at:
Children

Pedigree Chart for: Reginald Bignell

      /--
   /--
   |  \--
/--
|  |  /--
|  \--
|     \--
|--Reginald  Bignell 
|     /--
|  /--
|  |  \--
\--
   |  /--
   \--
      \--

Pedigree Chart for: Penelope Brandrick

      /--
   /--
   |  \--
/--Harry  Brandrick 
|  |  /--
|  \--
|     \--
|--Penelope  Brandrick 
|     /--
|  /--Thomas  Ironmonger 
|  |  \--
\--Barbara Joan  Ironmonger 
   |  /--
   \--Mary Blanche  Thompson 
      \--Mary Ann  Gardner 

[6661]

This person is presumed living.

Harrison Pearce / Henrietta Cromeans

Husband: Harrison Pearce
Born:	17 Dec 1818	at:	Jackson, Butts, Georgia, USA
Married:	5 Jul 1836	at:	St George, Wshngt, Ut
Died:	28 May 1889	at:	Saint George, Washington, Utah, United States
Father:	James Perry Pearce Sr.
Mother:	Elizabeth Mae Humphries
Notes:	[7137]
Sources:	[7138] [7139]
Wife: Henrietta Cromeans
Born:	1815	at:	New River, Scott, Tennessee
Died:	17 Apr 1864	at:	Saint George, Washington, Utah, United States
Father:	Josiah (Joseph) Cromeans
Mother:	Nancy Mears
Sources:	[7136]
Children
Name:	John David Lafayette Pearce [7016]
Born:	5 Apr 1837	at:	Fulton, Atawamba, Mississippi, USA
Died:	7 Feb 1909	at:	Washington, Washington, Utah, USA
Spouses:
Name:	James Pearce [6999]
Born:	6 Mar 1839	at:	Fulton, Itawamba, Mississippi, USA
Married:		at:
Died:	17 Feb 1922	at:	Taylor, Navajo, Arizona, United States
Spouses:	Mary Jane Meeks
Name:	Amelia Pearce [7017]
Born:	15 May 1841	at:	Fulton, Atawamba, Mississippi, USA
Died:	6 Nov 1855	at:
Spouses:
Name:	Nancy Clark Pearce [7018]
Born:	12 Dec 1842	at:	Franklin, Monroe, Alabama, United States
Died:	12 Jun 1852	at:	While Crossing, Plains
Spouses:
Name:	Thomas Jefferson Pearce [7020]
Born:	22 Feb 1845	at:	Fulton, Itawamba, Mississippi, USA
Died:	1 Apr 1881	at:	Saint George, Washington, Utah, United States
Spouses:
Name:	Harrison Pearce Jr. [7019]
Born:	24 Mar 1849	at:	Pisgah, Harrison, Iowa, USA
Died:	12 Dec 1854	at:
Spouses:
Name:	Joseph Harrison Pearce [7021]
Born:	1859	at:	Washington, Washington, Utah, USA
Died:		at:
Spouses:
Name:	Henrietta Pearce [10999]
Born:	15 Jun 1852	at:	Kanesville (later Council Bluffs), Pottowottamy, Iowa, USA
Died:	21 Oct 1941	at:	Winslow, Navajo, Arizona, USA
Spouses:

Pedigree Chart for: Harrison Pearce

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Pedigree Chart for: Henrietta Cromeans

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Harrison Pearce is reported to have assisted in the planning of the Mountain Meadows Massacre, which was reported by The Salt Lake Tribune in this brief summary of the massacre:

"A California-bound wagon train of about 140 Arkansas emigrants led by John Baker and Alexander Fancher camped near the present-day southwestern Utah town of Enterprise in September 1857. Fears that the U.S. Army was preparing to forcefully remove Brigham Young as Utah territorial governor and impose martial law were at their height. Spurred by inflammatory sermons of LDS leaders, a siege mentality focused Mormon resentment on the 'gentile' wagon train.

"Early on Sept. 7, a group of American Indians and local Mormon 'Indian missionaries' attacked the encircled wagon train without warning. ... With their ammunition, food and water almost gone, the emigrants were persuaded by Mormon officials on the afternoon of Sept. 11 to surrender their arms in exchange for a safe escort past the Indians to Cedar City. ... On a pre-arranged command, the rescuers turned upon the emigrants, joined by Indians who had been lying in wait. Estimates of the death toll include 14 Arkansas men shot in the head, 12 women and 35 youngsters clubbed or knifed to death, with 17 children younger than age 8 surviving the double-cross.

"Nine cowhands hired to drive cattle also were murdered, along with at least 35 other unknown victims. In all, 120 people, mostly women and children, were slain." (Salt Lake Tribune, March 14, 2000, p. A-4)

"After leaving the Fancher party, John Hawley arrived at the village of Washington to find Lee and the other leaders had sent their interpreters to incite the Paiutes to attack the emigrant camp. The town's military and religious authorities sought to inflame the passions of their followers. The first counselor in the local bishopric, Nauvoo Legion captain Harrison Pearce impressed Hawley as the most militant authority. In a public meeting, Pearce said he wished to 'see all the Gentyles strippt naked and lashed on their backs and have the Sun scorch them to death by inches.'

"Yet the response of the militia companies to their call was not universally enthusiastic, as men of conscience resisted orders to assault civilian Americans. Two other men gave similar harangues, and then Hawley was called on to report as he had just come down from Salt Lake. He argued against Pearce's warlike position. Before he would take another's life, he would have to be convinced his own life was in danger. As for avenging the blood of the prophets, Hawley asked, who could say for certain these people had any hand in killing the prophets? The oath of vengeance required him to be certain he could justify killing a man, but the local Saints had no assurance that anyone in the Fancher party had participated in the murder of Joseph Smith. 'You only suppose and that will not do for me.' Hawley said.

"In retaliation, Captain Pearce called a secret council to debate Hawley's fate. Some thought Hawley ought to die, but others pleaded his case. The next day a friend warned him to be more guarded and not to oppose authority."

From Blood of the Prophets: Brigham Young and the Massacre at Mountain Meadows, by Will Bagley, University of Oklahoma Press, 2002, p. 119-120

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Stephen Bachiler / Mary Magdalene Beedle

Husband: Stephen Bachiler
Born:	23 Jun 1561	at:	Wherwell, Hampshire, England
Married:	ABT 1648	at:	Kittery, York, England
Died:	31 Oct 1656[7386]	at:	Allhallows, Staining, London, England
Father:	Philip Bachilder
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Wife: Mary Magdalene Beedle
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Pedigree Chart for: Stephen Bachiler

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Pedigree Chart for: Mary Magdalene Beedle

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Steven Batchelder was born June 23, 1561, attended Saint John's College in Oxford, England in November 17, 1581 graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree. On February 1586-7, was vicar at Wherwell, Hants, England. From July 17, 1587 until deposed in 1605, but lived their until 1614. Of Stoneham, Hants in 1631, he was licensed to visit his children in Holland, but having taken up with the company of merchant adventurers called the "Plough Company", he came to New England, arriving at Cambridge in the William and Francis on June 5, 1632, his age reputed to be 71. He preached at Lynn, Mass. the first year and was made a freeman there in 1635, he was found in Ipswich in 1636 and Yarmouth in 1637, failing settlement at both, then to Newbury in 1638. In 1638-39 he was the leader in the settlement of Hampton and is said to have named the town, excommunicated there but restored.

In 1641 he was umpire in an important reference case in Maine. In 1644, he was called to Exeter but was prohibited from preaching there by the General Court on April 20, 1647, he was 'late of Hampton now Strawberry Bank' (Lists 391a, 392b). His first wife may have been a Bate, a relation to Reverend John Bate vicar at Wherwell, who called Stephen Jr. 'Cousin. His second marriage at Abbots-Ann in March 1623-4, Christian Weare, widow; his third at Abbots-Ann on March 26, 1627, Helena Mason, widow Abt 48 in 1631, who died before May 3, 1647, when in Portsmouth, as he wrote, assigned 'an honest neighbor (a widow)' to help care for his family. His fourth, unhappily the widow Mary Beedle (4) of Kittery, with whom in 1650 he was ordered to live.

The same year he was charged with marrying without bans. In October 16, 1651, she and George Rogers were convicted; October 14, 1652 she was presented for entertaining idle people on the Sabbath. She asked for divorce on October 18, 1656, alleging Stephen had gone to England many years since and married again, herself and two invalid children destitute on her hands. Lists 282, 284, 298. The date of his return to England is unknown, his P.A. to Christopher Hussey was approved by Hampton court in November 1654. He died at Hackney near London about 1660.

Child by 1st wife Theodate, born 1588, married Christopher Hussey. Nathaniel born 1590, merchant of Southampton, England died 1645. By wife Hester (Mercer) had five children, Stephen, Anna, Francis, Nathaniel, Benjamin. Deborah, born 1592, married Reverand John Wing, Stephen, born 1594, lived with father at Wherwell in 1614, having been expelled from Magdalen College as the author of libelous verses. Samuel, born 1597, a minister, late of Gorcum, Holland in 1640. Ann born 1600, married on Sanborn 2nd before 1640 Henry Atkinson of London. Mary Batchelder, child of his fourth wife who was 21 in 1671, had married by March 26, 1673 William Richards, whom the court on his petition after deliberation approved administration of Stephen Batchelder's estate.

Below from "The Great Migration Begins" Immigrants to New England 1620-33

ORIGIN: South Stoneham, Hampshire

MIGRATION: 1632 on William and Francis [WJ 1:93]

FIRST RESIDENCE: Lynn

REMOVES: Ipswich (supposedly) 1636, Yarmouth 1637/8, Newbury 1638, Hampton 1639, Portsmouth 1644

RETURN TRIPS: To England permanently by late 1650 or early 1651

OCCUPATION: Minister

CHURCH MEMBERSHIP: Member of Lynn, Newbury and Hampton churches during his ministry in those places (but see COMMENTS for further discussion).

FREEMAN: 6 May 1635 [MBCR 1:371].

EDUCATION: Matriculated about 1581 at Oxford from St. John's College, and received his B.A. 3 February 1585/6 [Foster 1:53].

OFFICES: On 28 June 1641 at Saco four men were chosen as arbitrators in a dispute between GEORGE CLEEVE and

JOHN WINTER, and in case those four men could not agree, Stephen Bachiler was to be "an umpire for the final ending of the said controversies" [Trelawny Papers 269-72, 319].

ESTATE: Many secondary sources state that Bachiler was granted fifty acres at Ipswich in February 1636, but evidence of this has not been found in the town or colony records. On 6 July 1638 Bachiler was granted land at Newbury [Newbury Town Records].

"Steven Bachiler sometimes of Hampton" was granted seven parcels of land at Hampton: nine and a half acres of upland for a houselot; five acres of upland added to the houselot; four acres of swampy ground; eleven acres of meadow; four acres of meadow; two hundred acres of upland, meadow & marsh for a farm; and eight acres of upland in the East Field [NEHGR 46:160-61, citing Hampton town records].

On 20 April 1647 "Steven Bachiler late of Hampton in the County of Norfolk in New England & now of Strabery Bank for ... love and affection towards my four grandchildren John, Stephen & William Samborn & Nathaniell Batchiller all now or lately of Hampton" deeded to grandson John Samborne "all of my dwelling house & land or ground whether arable, meadow & pasture or other ground with their appurtenances together with all the buildings, commons, profits, privileges & immunities whatsoever to the same or any part thereof belonging or in any wise appertaining, the greater part thereof being now or lately in the tenure, possession or occupation of the said John Samborn & other part thereof not yet particularly appointed by the town &c. (excepting out of this grant the land with the appurtenances which I formerly sold to William Howard & Thomas Ward)," said John Samborne to pay £20 apiece to each of the other three grandchildren
[NHPLR 13:221].

BIRTH: About 1561 (aged 70, 23 June 1631 [Waters 520]; aged 71, 5 June 1632 [WJ 1:93]; about 76, late March 1636/7 [WJ 1:313]).

DEATH: Buried 31 October 1656 at All Hallows Staining, London [NHGR 8:14-17].

MARRIAGE: (1) By about 1590 [Anne?] _____, who was closely related in some way to Reverend John Bate, Bachiler's successor as vicar of Wherwell [see COMMENTS]; she died sometime between about 1610 and 1624. (Although this first wife's given name is stated to be "Anne" by many authorities, there is no record evidence to support this.)
(2) Abbots Ann, Hampshire, 2 March 1623/4 Christian Weare, widow [GDMNH 81]; she died before 26 March 1627.
(3) Abbots Ann, Hampshire, 26 March 1627 Helena Mason, widow (of Reverend Thomas Mason) [GDMNH 81]; she was aged 48 in 1631, so born about 1583 [Waters 520]; died by 3 May 1647 [WP 5:153].
(4) by 14 February 1648 Mary (_____) Beedle, widow of Robert Beedle [Kittery Hist 95-96]; she soon left her husband, and cohabited with George Rogers at Kittery (see below).
CHILDREN:
With first wife

i NATHANIEL, b. say 1590; m. (1) Hester Mercer or LeMercier [Batchelder Gen 110-15; NEHGR 27:368, 47:510-15]; m. (2) by 1645 Margery _____ (on 9 April 1645 "Margerie Batchellor" the widow of Nathaniel Bacheler of Southampton, Hampshire, was granted administration on his estate [PCC Admon. Act Book 1645, f. 22]); he did not come to New England, but his son Nathaniel did, and resided at Hampton.

ii DEBORAH, b. about 1592 (aged 32, 22 June 1624 [Waters 520]); m. by 1611 John Wing [Waters 519-20]; she and her children came to New England in the late 1630s and resided at Sandwich.

iii STEPHEN, b. about 1594; matriculated at Oxford 18 June 1610 from Magdalen College, aged 16, son of a minister, from Southampton [i.e., Hampshire] [Foster 1:53]; "Stephen Bachiler of Edmund Hall" was ordained deacon at Oxford 19 September 1613 [Bishop's Register, Diocese of Oxford]; with his father, accused in 1614 of circulating slanderous verses [see COMMENTS]; no further record.

iv SAMUEL, b. say 1597; lived at Gorcum in Holland, where he was a minister, and had a wife and children.

v ANN, b. about 1601 (aged 30 in 1631 [Waters 520]); m. (1) by about 1620 _____ Samborne; m. (2) Strood, Kent, 20 January 1631/2 Henry Atkinson.

vi THEODATE, b. say 1610; m. by about 1635 CHRISTOPHER HUSSEY.

ASSOCIATIONS: RICHARD DUMMER of Roxbury and Newbury married first Jane Mason, a daughter of Reverend Thomas Mason, and resided late in his life at North Stoneham, Hampshire; Stephen Bachiler married as his third wife Helena Mason, widow of Reverend Thomas Mason, and resided just before his departure for New England at South Stoneham, Hampshire. These marriages made Bachiler the step-father-in-law of Dummer, and explains their close connection in the activities of the Plough Company.
COMMENTS: Stephen Bachiler led a most interesting life, filled with unusual twists and turns far beyond the norm. In the ensuing paragraphs we take a chronological tour of his nine decades, attempting along the way to resolve certain problems of interpretation.
As noted above, Stephen Bachiler entered college about 1581, and received his B.A. in 1586. On 17 July 1587 he was presented as vicar of Wherwell, Hampshire, and remained at that parish until he was ejected in 1605 [NEHGR 46:60-61, citing Winchester diocesan records]. Bachiler began his long career of contrariety as early as 1593, when he was cited in Star Chamber for having "uttered in a sermon at Newbury very lewd speeches tending seditiously to the derogation of her Majesty's government" [NEHGR 74:319-20]. Upon the accession of James I as King of England, nearly a hundred ministers were deprived of their benefices between the years 1604 and 1609, and among these, as noted above, was Stephen Bachiler [Kenneth Fincham, Prelate as Pastor: The Episcopate of James I (Oxford 1990), p. 326].
Bachiler was living at Wherwell late in 1606 when he was a legatee in the will of Henry Shipton [NEHGR 74:320]. A case in Star Chamber in 1614 still refers to Bachiler as of Wherwell, and adds much other useful information about the family. George Wighley, a minster and Oxford graduate, accused Stephen Bachiler of Wherwell, clerk, Stephen Bachiler, his son, John Bate of Wherwell, clerk, and others of libelling him, by means of verses ridiculing him. In the course of the complaint Wighley quotes John Bate as saying he would keep a copy of the poem "as a monument of his cousin's the said Stephen Bacheler the younger his wit, who is in truth his cousin" [Star Chamber Proc. James I 297/25, 1614].
Another suit, this time in the Court of Requests, although not entered until 1639, bears directly on many points in Stephen Bachiler's life in England, and will be treated here, out of chronological order. In 1639 Henry Atkinson of London, gent., complained that five or six years before John Bate, gent., living in Holland, had borrowed £4 from "Samuel Bachiler late of Gorcem [i.e., Gorcum] in Holland aforesaid Minister," after which Bate instructed Bachiler to collect the debt from Dorcas Bate, mother of John, and widow of Reverend John Bate, minister, deceased. Bachiler assigned the debt to Atkinson, who had married Bachiler's sister, and Atkinson was unable to collect the debt from Dorcas Bate. John Bate had also borrowed money from "Nathaniell Bachiler of Southampton Merchant (one other of the brothers of your subject's wife)" and this debt had also been assigned to Atkinson to collect from Dorcas Bate. The latter was abetted in avoiding payment of the debt by her son Gabriel Bate, and her son-in-law and daughter Robert and Anne Southwood. Atkinson noted that his wife's father [i.e., Reverend Stephen Bachiler] had obtained the living of Wherwell for John Bate the father, and that the latter had refused to pay to the former twenty marks a year out of the living or benefice, as had been agreed [PRO REQ2/678/64].
On 28 April 1614 Stephen Bachiler was a free suitor of Newton Stacey at the view of frankpledge of the Barton Stacey Manorial Court, and was a free suitor of Barton Stacey at the court of 2 October 1615.
On 19 February 1615[/6?] Edmund Alleyn of Hatfield Peverell, Essex, bequeathed £5 to "Mr. Bachelour," and Stephen Bachiler was one of the witnesses [Waters 518-19]. On 11 June 1621 Adam Winthrop, father of Governor JOHN WINTHROP, reported that "Mr. Bachelour the preacher dined with us" at Groton, Suffolk [WP 1:235]. Although this might conceivably be the younger Stephen Bachiler, who had been ordained as a deacon late in 1613, the man referred to in these records is more likely the elder Stephen. Since he is well recorded as a resident of Newton Stacey both before and after this time, he must have made occasional visits to East Anglia.
The Hampshire feet of fines show that "Stephen Bachiler, clerk," acquired land in Newton Stacey in 1622 and 1629, and sold it in 1630 and 1631 [Batchelder Gen 76-77]. While at Newton Stacey (a village within the parish of Barton Stacey) Bachiler had managed to incite the parishioners of Barton Stacey to acts that came to the attention of the sheriff, who petitioned for redress to the King in Council; the complaint described Bachiler as "a notorious inconformist" [NEHGR 46:62, citing Domestic Calendar of State Papers, 1635]. In summary, while there are gaps in the English career of Bachiler, it would appear that he lived at Wherwell for most of the years from his induction there in 1587 until 1614, and that he then resided in Newton Stacey from 1614 until 1631, shortly before his departure for New England.
Bachiler apparently lived briefly at South Stoneham, Hampshire, after disposing of his land at Newton Stacey, for that is the residence he gave for himself and wife on 23 June 1631 when he was applying for permission to travel to Flushing in Holland "to visit their sons and daughters" [Waters 520].
At about this same time Stephen Bachiler allied himself with a group of London merchants to form the Plough Company, which had obtained a grant of land in the neighborhood of Saco. The Plough Company managed to send two groups of settlers to New England, in the Plough in 1631 and the William & Francis in 1632, but they were never able to occupy their patent, and the company soon failed. (For a full account of this ill-starred enterprise, see V.C. Sanborn, "Stephen Bachiler and the Plough Company of 1630," The Genealogist, New Series, 19 [1903]:270-84, and the sources cited there.)
Shortly after his arrival in New England in 1632, Stephen Bachiler settled at Saugus (later to be called Lynn), where he immediately began to organize a church. Over the next four years Bachiler and a portion of his congregation were repeatedly at odds with the rest of the congregation and with the colony authorities, and by early 1636 Bachiler had ceased to minister at Lynn [GMN 1:20].
In addition to this ongoing conflict (which became a recurring feature of Bachiler's career in New England), two stories of dubious validity are associated with his stay at Lynn. First, a fictional diary describes at length Bachiler's physical appearance, to the extent of informing us that he had "an unseemly wen on the side of his nose which presses that member in an unshapely way"; this is just part of the imaginative invention of Obadiah Redpath (a pseudonym of James R. Newhall, whose non-fictional writings were not much more reliable) [Lin: or, Notable People and Notable Things in the Early History of Lynn ... (Lynn 1890, earlier editions of which carried the title Lin: or, Jewels of the Third Plantation), p. 65].
Second, this same source, and others, relate the following story: "On the first Sunday at Lynn, four children were baptized. Thomas Newhall, the first white child born in Lynn, was first presented. Mr. Bachiler put him aside, saying `I will baptize my own child first,' meaning Stephen Hussey, his daughter's child, born the same week as Thomas Newhall" [NEHGR 46:158]. There is, in the first place, no contemporary evidence for this event. Then, in the brief list of baptisms apparently performed by Bachiler at Lynn, Newbury, and in his early days at Hampton, the earliest entry is for John Hussey, son of Christopher and Theodate (Bachiler) Hussey, whereas if the above story were true we would expect Stephen Hussey to be at the head of this list. This story would seem to be a typical nineteenth-century creation.
After his departure from Lynn, Bachiler is supposed to have resided in Ipswich, and to have received a grant of land there in 1636 or 1637, but no contemporary evidence for this has been found. Bachiler's next adventure occurred in the winter of 1637/8, for Winthrop tells us in his journal, in an entry made in late March of that year, that "Another plantation was now in hand at Mattakeese [Yarmouth], six miles beyond Sandwich. The undertaker of this was one Mr. Batchellor, late pastor of Sagus, (since called Lynn), being about seventy-six years of age; yet he walked thither on foot in a very hard season. He and his company, being all poor men, finding the difficulty, gave it over, and others undertook it" [WJ 1:313].
Bachiler then resided for about a year at Newbury, where he received a grant of land on 6 July 1638. Bachiler also seems to have been able to organize a church at Newbury (or to keep in existence the church that he had earlier organized at Lynn). In a letter dated 26 February 1643/4 the minister, recounting his various experiences in New England, told how "the Lord shoved me thence [i.e., after his arrival in 1632, and the failure of the Plough Company] by another calling to Sagust, then, from Sagust to Newbury, then from Newbury to Hampton" [WP 4:447]. Later in 1644 Winthrop pointed out that "Mr. Batchellor had been in three places before, and through his means, as was supposed, the churches fell to such divisions, as no peace could be till he was removed" [WJ 2:216-17]. These records indicate that Bachiler headed churches in three towns (Lynn, Newbury and Hampton), or possibly that the church organized in Lynn had a continuous existence as it moved to Newbury and then to Hampton [see GMN 4:20-21 for a more detailed discussion of these possibilities].
In the summer of 1639 Stephen Bachiler and some other families, many of them from Newbury, began the settlement of Hampton, and Bachiler was soon joined there by Reverend Timothy Dalton, who shared the pulpit with him. As had happened throughout his life, controversy soon arose. In 1641 Winthrop reported that Bachiler "being about 80 years of age, and having a lusty comely woman to his wife, did solicit the chastity of his neighbor's wife" [WJ 2:53], and this led to an attack on him by Dalton and a large portion of the Hampton congregation. These charges were apparently not resolved at the time, but in 1643-4, when the town of Exeter invited Bachiler to be their minister, the affair was raised again, and this was sufficient to prevent his removal to that church [GMN 4:21-22].
At about this time Bachiler's ministry at Hampton ceased, and he soon moved to Strawberry Bank [Portsmouth], where he remained until his return to England.
On 9 April 1650 at a Quarterly Court held at Salisbury, "Mr. Steven Bacheller [was] fined for not publishing his marriage according to law." At the same court it was ordered "that Mr. Bacherler and Mary his wife shall live together, as they publicly agreed to do, and if either desert the other, the marshal to take them to Boston to be kept until next quarter Court of Assistants, to consider a divorce.... In case Mary Bacheller live out of this jurisdiction without mutual consent for a time, notice of her absence to be given the magistrates at Boston" [EQC 1:191].
On 15 October 1650 at a court at York "George Rodgers & Mrs. Batcheller [were] presented upon vehement suspicion of incontinency for living in one house together & lying in one room" [MPCR 1:146]. At a court at Piscataqua [i.e., Kittery] on 16 October 1651 the grand jury presented "George Rogers for, & Mary Batcheller the wife of Mr. Steven Bacheller minister for adultery"; George Rogers was to have forty strokes, and Mary Bachiler "for her adultery shall receive 40 strokes save one at the first town meeting held at Kittery six weeks after the delivery & be branded with the letter A" [MPCR 1:164]. This child born late in 1651 or early in 1652 was apparently the Mary Bachiler who later married William Richards, and even though the Dover Court on 26 March 1673 awarded him administration of the estate of Stephen Bachiler [NHPP 40:287], she would not have been his daughter. (See MA Arch 9:28 and NHGR 8:14 for more on Bachiler's fourth wife.)
Stephen Bachiler returned to England after these events, and most secondary sources claim that he made that trip in 1654 when his grandson Stephen Samborne returned to England. On 2 October 1650 "Steven Bachiler" witnessed a deed between Christopher Hussey (grantor) and Steven Sanborn and Samuel Fogg (grantees) [NLR 1:19]; this is the last certain record of Bachiler in New England (unless the "Mr. Batchelder" who was presented at court on 28 June 1652 for being illegally at the house of John Webster is our man [NHPP 40:87-88]).
Although a number of records in New England between 1651 and 1654 mentioned Stephen Bachiler, none of them necessarily implies that Bachiler was still in New England, and a few indicate that he was not in close proximity to the courts in question. In a court held at Hampton on 7 October 1651, Francis Pebodie sued Tho[mas] Bradbury for "issuing an illegal execution, for or in behalf of Mr. Batcheller, against the town of Hampton" [EQC 1:236]. On 14 October 1651 the Massachusetts Bay General Court ordered that "in answer to a petition preferred by several of the inhabitants of Hampton, for relief in respect of unjust molestation from some persons there pretending power for what they do from Mr. Batchelor, it is ordered, that whatsoever goods or lands have been taken away from any of the inhabitants of Hampton, aforesaid, by Edward Calcord or Joh[n] Sanbourne, upon pretence of being authorized by Mr. Batchelor, either with or without execution, shall be returned to them from whom it was taken, & the execution to be called in, & no more to be granted until there appear sufficient power from Mr. Batchelor to recover the same, to the County Courts, either of Salsbury or Hampton" [MBCR 3:253]. Apparently John Sanborn and others were pursuing the interests of Stephen Bachiler in his absence, but without a proper power of attorney. It might be argued that he was in Strawberry Bank [Portsmouth], but unable to come to Hampton, but there is no indication that he was ill or unable to travel at any time in his long life, and the more likely explanation is that he was already in England by October of 1651. At a court held at Hampton on 3 October 1654 "Mr. Batcheller's letter of attorney to Mr. Christopher Hussie [was] approved" [EQC 1:372].
Most secondary sources state that Bachiler died at Hackney in England in 1660, but more recent research has shown that Stephen Bachiler died in London and was buried on 31 October 1656 [NHGR 8:14-17].
Among many remarkable lives lived by early New Englanders, Bachiler's is the most remarkable. From 1593, when he was cited before Star Chamber, until 1654, when he last makes a mark on New England records, this man lived a completely independent and vigorous life, never acceding to any authority when he thought he was correct. Along with Nathaniel Ward of Ipswich, Stephen Bachiler was one of the few Puritan ministers active in Elizabethan times to survive to come to New England. As such he was a man out of his times, for Puritanism in Elizabethan times was different from what it became in the following century, and this disjunction may in part account for Bachiler's stormy career in New England [Simon P. Newman, "Nathaniel Ward, 1580-1652: An Elizabethan Puritan in a Jacobean World," EIHC 127:313-26]. But Nathaniel Ward did not have anything like as much trouble, and most of Bachiler's conflicts may be ascribed to his own unique character.

Savage includes among the children of Stephen Bachiler sons Francis and Henry, for whom there is no evidence. These phantom sons derive in part from a misinterpretation of a 1685 letter from Stephen Bachiler to Nathaniel Bachiler [Batchelder Gen 110-11], which refers to "our brother Francis Bachlir." As the two correspondents are grandsons of the Reverend Stephen (sons of his son Nathaniel) and not sons, it follows that Francis Bachiler was also a grandson.
Of the known children of Stephen Bachiler, only Theodate and Deborah came to New England. CHRISTOPHER HUSSEY is supposed to have married Theodate Bachiler in England and to have sailed to New England in 1632 with his father-in-law, but, as will be analyzed in more detail in the treatment of Hussey himself, there is no evidence that he was in New England before 1633, and it may be that his marriage to Theodate did not occur until 1635. Deborah Bachiler married John Wing, and after his death came to New England with her children, in the late 1630s. Ann Bachiler married a Samborne, and eventually her three Samborne sons joined their grandfather at Hampton, although the date of their arrival is not known. Stephen's son Nathaniel did not come to New England, but Nathaniel's son Nathaniel did. The Reverend Stephen's two other sons, Stephen and Samuel, did not come to New England, nor, apparently, did any of their children.
BIBLIOGRAPHIC NOTE: In 1892 Charles E. Batchelder published a four-part study of Reverend Stephen Bachiler [NEHGR 46:58-64, 157-61, 246-51, 345-50]. For the most part this is a simple chronological presentation of the evidence available at that date. In the third installment, however, the author devotes much space to a spirited but unconvincing defense of Bachiler against the claim made by Winthrop that one of the grounds of the Hampton church's dispute with Bachiler was an attempt "to solicit the chastity of his neighbor's wife."
In 1898 Frederick Clifton Pierce published Batchelder, Batcheller Genealogy. Descendants of Rev. Stephen Bachiler, of England, a Leading Non-conformist, Who Settled the Town of New Hampton, N.H. and Joseph, Henry, Joshua and John Batcheller of Essex Co., Massachusetts (Chicago 1898), cited in this sketch as Batchelder Gen. This volume includes a long sketch of Stephen Bachiler (pp. 75-115 [including the accounts of his children]), which, as is typical with this author, contains much information of dubious validity, very poorly organized. Embedded in the list of the immigrant's children, between the daughter Deborah and the son Stephen, are several accounts of Reverend Stephen Bachiler prepared by other authors, mostly published in various town histories [Batchelder Gen 95-109].
Since the three Samborne brothers of Hampton and all their descendants are also descendants of Reverend Stephen Bachiler, V.C. Sanborn, when he compiled the Sanborn genealogy, included an account of Bachiler's life [Genealogy of the Family of Samborne or Sanborn in England and America. 1194-1898 (n.p. 1899), pp. 59-66]. Like all of his work, Sanborn's writing on Bachiler is careful and accurate.
A curious book published in London in 1661 included a supposed coat of arms for Stephen Bachiler, which included a punning reference to the Plough Company (Sylvanus Morgan, The Sphere of Gentry: Deduced from the Principles of Nature, An Historical and Genealogical Work, of Arms and Blazon ..., pp.102-03). This was certainly not a properly granted coat of arms, but something invented by the author for his own literary purposes.

From "The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-33"

ORIGIN: South Stoneham, Hampshire

MIGRATION: 1632 on William and Francis [WJ 1:93]

FIRST RESIDENCE: Lynn

REMOVES: Ipswich (supposedly) 1636, Yarmouth 1637/8, Newbury 1638, Hampton 1639, Portsmouth 1644

RETURN TRIPS: To England permanently by late 1650 or early 1651

OCCUPATION: Minister

CHURCH MEMBERSHIP: Member of Lynn, Newbury and Hampton churches during his ministry in those places (but see COMMENTS for further discussion).

FREEMAN: 6 May 1635 [MBCR 1:371].

EDUCATION: Matriculated about 1581 at Oxford from St. John's College, and received his B.A. 3 February 1585/6 [Foster 1:53].

OFFICES: On 28 June 1641 at Saco four men were chosen as arbitrators in a dispute between GEORGE CLEEVE and JOHN WINTER, and in case those four men could not agree, Stephen Bachiler was to be "an umpire for the final ending of the said controversies" [Trelawny Papers 269-72, 319].

ESTATE: Many secondary sources state that Bachiler was granted fifty acres at Ipswich in February 1636, but evidence of this has not been found in the town or colony records. On 6 July 1638 Bachiler was granted land at Newbury [Newbury Town Records].

"Steven Bachiler sometimes of Hampton" was granted seven parcels of land at Hampton: nine and a half acres of upland for a houselot; five acres of upland added to the houselot; four acres of swampy ground; eleven acres of meadow; four acres of meadow; two hundred acres of upland, meadow & marsh for a farm; and eight acres of upland in the East Field [NEHGR 46:160-61, citing Hampton town records].

On 20 April 1647 "Steven Bachiler late of Hampton in the County of Norfolk in New England & now of Strabery Bank for ... love and affection towards my four grandchildren John, Stephen & William Samborn & Nathaniell Batchiller all now or lately of Hampton" deeded to grandson John Samborne "all of my dwelling house & land or ground whether arable, meadow & pasture or other ground with their appurtenances together with all the buildings, commons, profits, privileges & immunities whatsoever to the same or any part thereof belonging or in any wise appertaining, the greater part thereof being now or lately in the tenure, possession or occupation of the said John Samborn & other part thereof not yet particularly appointed by the town &c. (excepting out of this grant the land with the appurtenances which I formerly sold to William Howard & Thomas Ward)," said John Samborne to pay £20 apiece to each of the other three grandchildren [NHPLR 13:221].

BIRTH: About 1561 (aged 70, 23 June 1631 [Waters 520]; aged 71, 5 June 1632 [WJ 1:93]; about 76, late March 1636/7 [WJ 1:313]).

DEATH: Buried 31 October 1656 at All Hallows Staining, London [NHGR 8:14-17].

MARRIAGE: (1) By about 1590 [Anne?] _____, who was closely related in some way to Reverend John Bate, Bachiler's successor as vicar of Wherwell [see COMMENTS]; she died sometime between about 1610 and 1624. (Although this first wife's given name is stated to be "Anne" by many authorities, there is no record evidence to support this.)

(2) Abbots Ann, Hampshire, 2 March 1623/4 Christian Weare, widow [GDMNH 81]; she died before 26 March 1627.

(3) Abbots Ann, Hampshire, 26 March 1627 Helena Mason, widow (of Reverend Thomas Mason) [GDMNH 81]; she was aged 48 in 1631, so born about 1583 [Waters 520]; died by 3 May 1647 [WP 5:153].

(4) by 14 February 1648 Mary (_____) Beedle, widow of Robert Beedle [Kittery Hist 95-96]; she soon left her husband, and cohabited with George Rogers at Kittery (see below).

CHILDREN:

With first wife



i NATHANIEL, b. say 1590; m. (1) Hester Mercer or LeMercier [Batchelder Gen 110-15; NEHGR 27:368, 47:510-15]; m. (2) by 1645 Margery _____ (on 9 April 1645 "Margerie Batchellor" the widow of Nathaniel Bacheler of Southampton, Hampshire, was granted administration on his estate [PCC Admon. Act Book 1645, f. 22]); he did not come to New England, but his son Nathaniel did, and resided at Hampton.



ii DEBORAH, b. about 1592 (aged 32, 22 June 1624 [Waters 520]); m. by 1611 John Wing [Waters 519-20]; she and her children came to New England in the late 1630s and resided at Sandwich.



iii STEPHEN, b. about 1594; matriculated at Oxford 18 June 1610 from Magdalen College, aged 16, son of a minister, from Southampton [i.e., Hampshire] [Foster 1:53]; "Stephen Bachiler of Edmund Hall" was ordained deacon at Oxford 19 September 1613 [Bishop's Register, Diocese of Oxford]; with his father, accused in 1614 of circulating slanderous verses [see COMMENTS]; no further record.



iv SAMUEL, b. say 1597; lived at Gorcum in Holland, where he was a minister, and had a wife and children.



v ANN, b. about 1601 (aged 30 in 1631 [Waters 520]); m. (1) by about 1620 _____ Samborne; m. (2) Strood, Kent, 20 January 1631/2 Henry Atkinson.



vi THEODATE, b. say 1610; m. by about 1635 CHRISTOPHER HUSSEY.



ASSOCIATIONS: RICHARD DUMMER of Roxbury and Newbury married first Jane Mason, a daughter of Reverend Thomas Mason, and resided late in his life at North Stoneham, Hampshire; Stephen Bachiler married as his third wife Helena Mason, widow of Reverend Thomas Mason, and resided just before his departure for New England at South Stoneham, Hampshire. These marriages made Bachiler the step-father-in-law of Dummer, and explains their close connection in the activities of the Plough Company.

COMMENTS: Stephen Bachiler led a most interesting life, filled with unusual twists and turns far beyond the norm. In the ensuing paragraphs we take a chronological tour of his nine decades, attempting along the way to resolve certain problems of interpretation.

As noted above, Stephen Bachiler entered college about 1581, and received his B.A. in 1586. On 17 July 1587 he was presented as vicar of Wherwell, Hampshire, and remained at that parish until he was ejected in 1605 [NEHGR 46:60-61, citing Winchester diocesan records]. Bachiler began his long career of contrariety as early as 1593, when he was cited in Star Chamber for having "uttered in a sermon at Newbury very lewd speeches tending seditiously to the derogation of her Majesty's government" [NEHGR 74:319-20]. Upon the accession of James I as King of England, nearly a hundred ministers were deprived of their benefices between the years 1604 and 1609, and among these, as noted above, was Stephen Bachiler [Kenneth Fincham, Prelate as Pastor: The Episcopate of James I (Oxford 1990), p. 326].

Bachiler was living at Wherwell late in 1606 when he was a legatee in the will of Henry Shipton [NEHGR 74:320]. A case in Star Chamber in 1614 still refers to Bachiler as of Wherwell, and adds much other useful information about the family. George Wighley, a minster and Oxford graduate, accused Stephen Bachiler of Wherwell, clerk, Stephen Bachiler, his son, John Bate of Wherwell, clerk, and others of libelling him, by means of verses ridiculing him. In the course of the complaint Wighley quotes John Bate as saying he would keep a copy of the poem "as a monument of his cousin's the said Stephen Bacheler the younger his wit, who is in truth his cousin" [Star Chamber Proc. James I 297/25, 1614].

Another suit, this time in the Court of Requests, although not entered until 1639, bears directly on many points in Stephen Bachiler's life in England, and will be treated here, out of chronological order. In 1639 Henry Atkinson of London, gent., complained that five or six years before John Bate, gent., living in Holland, had borrowed £4 from "Samuel Bachiler late of Gorcem [i.e., Gorcum] in Holland aforesaid Minister," after which Bate instructed Bachiler to collect the debt from Dorcas Bate, mother of John, and widow of Reverend John Bate, minister, deceased. Bachiler assigned the debt to Atkinson, who had married Bachiler's sister, and Atkinson was unable to collect the debt from Dorcas Bate. John Bate had also borrowed money from "Nathaniell Bachiler of Southampton Merchant (one other of the brothers of your subject's wife)" and this debt had also been assigned to Atkinson to collect from Dorcas Bate. The latter was abetted in avoiding payment of the debt by her son Gabriel Bate, and her son-in-law and daughter Robert and Anne Southwood. Atkinson noted that his wife's father [i.e., Reverend Stephen Bachiler] had obtained the living of Wherwell for John Bate the father, and that the latter had refused to pay to the former twenty marks a year out of the living or benefice, as had been agreed [PRO REQ2/678/64].

On 28 April 1614 Stephen Bachiler was a free suitor of Newton Stacey at the view of frankpledge of the Barton Stacey Manorial Court, and was a free suitor of Barton Stacey at the court of 2 October 1615.

On 19 February 1615[/6?] Edmund Alleyn of Hatfield Peverell, Essex, bequeathed £5 to "Mr. Bachelour," and Stephen Bachiler was one of the witnesses [Waters 518-19]. On 11 June 1621 Adam Winthrop, father of Governor JOHN WINTHROP, reported that "Mr. Bachelour the preacher dined with us" at Groton, Suffolk [WP 1:235]. Although this might conceivably be the younger Stephen Bachiler, who had been ordained as a deacon late in 1613, the man referred to in these records is more likely the elder Stephen. Since he is well recorded as a resident of Newton Stacey both before and after this time, he must have made occasional visits to East Anglia.

The Hampshire feet of fines show that "Stephen Bachiler, clerk," acquired land in Newton Stacey in 1622 and 1629, and sold it in 1630 and 1631 [Batchelder Gen 76-77]. While at Newton Stacey (a village within the parish of Barton Stacey) Bachiler had managed to incite the parishioners of Barton Stacey to acts that came to the attention of the sheriff, who petitioned for redress to the King in Council; the complaint described Bachiler as "a notorious inconformist" [NEHGR 46:62, citing Domestic Calendar of State Papers, 1635]. In summary, while there are gaps in the English career of Bachiler, it would appear that he lived at Wherwell for most of the years from his induction there in 1587 until 1614, and that he then resided in Newton Stacey from 1614 until 1631, shortly before his departure for New England.

Bachiler apparently lived briefly at South Stoneham, Hampshire, after disposing of his land at Newton Stacey, for that is the residence he gave for himself and wife on 23 June 1631 when he was applying for permission to travel to Flushing in Holland "to visit their sons and daughters" [Waters 520].

At about this same time Stephen Bachiler allied himself with a group of London merchants to form the Plough Company, which had obtained a grant of land in the neighborhood of Saco. The Plough Company managed to send two groups of settlers to New England, in the Plough in 1631 and the William & Francis in 1632, but they were never able to occupy their patent, and the company soon failed. (For a full account of this ill-starred enterprise, see V.C. Sanborn, "Stephen Bachiler and the Plough Company of 1630," The Genealogist, New Series, 19 [1903]:270-84, and the sources cited there.)

Shortly after his arrival in New England in 1632, Stephen Bachiler settled at Saugus (later to be called Lynn), where he immediately began to organize a church. Over the next four years Bachiler and a portion of his congregation were repeatedly at odds with the rest of the congregation and with the colony authorities, and by early 1636 Bachiler had ceased to minister at Lynn [GMN 1:20].

In addition to this ongoing conflict (which became a recurring feature of Bachiler's career in New England), two stories of dubious validity are associated with his stay at Lynn. First, a fictional diary describes at length Bachiler's physical appearance, to the extent of informing us that he had "an unseemly wen on the side of his nose which presses that member in an unshapely way"; this is just part of the imaginative invention of Obadiah Redpath (a pseudonym of James R. Newhall, whose non-fictional writings were not much more reliable) [Lin: or, Notable People and Notable Things in the Early History of Lynn ... (Lynn 1890, earlier editions of which carried the title Lin: or, Jewels of the Third Plantation), p. 65].

Second, this same source, and others, relate the following story: "On the first Sunday at Lynn, four children were baptized. Thomas Newhall, the first white child born in Lynn, was first presented. Mr. Bachiler put him aside, saying `I will baptize my own child first,' meaning Stephen Hussey, his daughter's child, born the same week as Thomas Newhall" [NEHGR 46:158]. There is, in the first place, no contemporary evidence for this event. Then, in the brief list of baptisms apparently performed by Bachiler at Lynn, Newbury, and in his early days at Hampton, the earliest entry is for John Hussey, son of Christopher and Theodate (Bachiler) Hussey, whereas if the above story were true we would expect Stephen Hussey to be at the head of this list. This story would seem to be a typical nineteenth-century creation.

After his departure from Lynn, Bachiler is supposed to have resided in Ipswich, and to have received a grant of land there in 1636 or 1637, but no contemporary evidence for this has been found. Bachiler's next adventure occurred in the winter of 1637/8, for Winthrop tells us in his journal, in an entry made in late March of that year, that "Another plantation was now in hand at Mattakeese [Yarmouth], six miles beyond Sandwich. The undertaker of this was one Mr. Batchellor, late pastor of Sagus, (since called Lynn), being about seventy-six years of age; yet he walked thither on foot in a very hard season. He and his company, being all poor men, finding the difficulty, gave it over, and others undertook it" [WJ 1:313].

Bachiler then resided for about a year at Newbury, where he received a grant of land on 6 July 1638. Bachiler also seems to have been able to organize a church at Newbury (or to keep in existence the church that he had earlier organized at Lynn). In a letter dated 26 February 1643/4 the minister, recounting his various experiences in New England, told how "the Lord shoved me thence [i.e., after his arrival in 1632, and the failure of the Plough Company] by another calling to Sagust, then, from Sagust to Newbury, then from Newbury to Hampton" [WP 4:447]. Later in 1644 Winthrop pointed out that "Mr. Batchellor had been in three places before, and through his means, as was supposed, the churches fell to such divisions, as no peace could be till he was removed" [WJ 2:216-17]. These records indicate that Bachiler headed churches in three towns (Lynn, Newbury and Hampton), or possibly that the church organized in Lynn had a continuous existence as it moved to Newbury and then to Hampton [see GMN 4:20-21 for a more detailed discussion of these possibilities].

In the summer of 1639 Stephen Bachiler and some other families, many of them from Newbury, began the settlement of Hampton, and Bachiler was soon joined there by Reverend Timothy Dalton, who shared the pulpit with him. As had happened throughout his life, controversy soon arose. In 1641 Winthrop reported that Bachiler "being about 80 years of age, and having a lusty comely woman to his wife, did solicit the chastity of his neighbor's wife" [WJ 2:53], and this led to an attack on him by Dalton and a large portion of the Hampton congregation. These charges were apparently not resolved at the time, but in 1643-4, when the town of Exeter invited Bachiler to be their minister, the affair was raised again, and this was sufficient to prevent his removal to that church [GMN 4:21-22].

At about this time Bachiler's ministry at Hampton ceased, and he soon moved to Strawberry Bank [Portsmouth], where he remained until his return to England.

On 9 April 1650 at a Quarterly Court held at Salisbury, "Mr. Steven Bacheller [was] fined for not publishing his marriage according to law." At the same court it was ordered "that Mr. Bacherler and Mary his wife shall live together, as they publicly agreed to do, and if either desert the other, the marshal to take them to Boston to be kept until next quarter Court of Assistants, to consider a divorce.... In case Mary Bacheller live out of this jurisdiction without mutual consent for a time, notice of her absence to be given the magistrates at Boston" [EQC 1:191].

On 15 October 1650 at a court at York "George Rodgers & Mrs. Batcheller [were] presented upon vehement suspicion of incontinency for living in one house together & lying in one room" [MPCR 1:146]. At a court at Piscataqua [i.e., Kittery] on 16 October 1651 the grand jury presented "George Rogers for, & Mary Batcheller the wife of Mr. Steven Bacheller minister for adultery"; George Rogers was to have forty strokes, and Mary Bachiler "for her adultery shall receive 40 strokes save one at the first town meeting held at Kittery six weeks after the delivery & be branded with the letter A" [MPCR 1:164]. This child born late in 1651 or early in 1652 was apparently the Mary Bachiler who later married William Richards, and even though the Dover Court on 26 March 1673 awarded him administration of the estate of Stephen Bachiler [NHPP 40:287], she would not have been his daughter. (See MA Arch 9:28 and NHGR 8:14 for more on Bachiler's fourth wife.)

Stephen Bachiler returned to England after these events, and most secondary sources claim that he made that trip in 1654 when his grandson Stephen Samborne returned to England. On 2 October 1650 "Steven Bachiler" witnessed a deed between Christopher Hussey (grantor) and Steven Sanborn and Samuel Fogg (grantees) [NLR 1:19]; this is the last certain record of Bachiler in New England (unless the "Mr. Batchelder" who was presented at court on 28 June 1652 for being illegally at the house of John Webster is our man [NHPP 40:87-88]).

Although a number of records in New England between 1651 and 1654 mentioned Stephen Bachiler, none of them necessarily implies that Bachiler was still in New England, and a few indicate that he was not in close proximity to the courts in question. In a court held at Hampton on 7 October 1651, Francis Pebodie sued Tho[mas] Bradbury for "issuing an illegal execution, for or in behalf of Mr. Batcheller, against the town of Hampton" [EQC 1:236]. On 14 October 1651 the Massachusetts Bay General Court ordered that "in answer to a petition preferred by several of the inhabitants of Hampton, for relief in respect of unjust molestation from some persons there pretending power for what they do from Mr. Batchelor, it is ordered, that whatsoever goods or lands have been taken away from any of the inhabitants of Hampton, aforesaid, by Edward Calcord or Joh[n] Sanbourne, upon pretence of being authorized by Mr. Batchelor, either with or without execution, shall be returned to them from whom it was taken, & the execution to be called in, & no more to be granted until there appear sufficient power from Mr. Batchelor to recover the same, to the County Courts, either of Salsbury or Hampton" [MBCR 3:253]. Apparently John Sanborn and others were pursuing the interests of Stephen Bachiler in his absence, but without a proper power of attorney. It might be argued that he was in Strawberry Bank [Portsmouth], but unable to come to Hampton, but there is no indication that he was ill or unable to travel at any time in his long life, and the more likely explanation is that he was already in England by October of 1651. At a court held at Hampton on 3 October 1654 "Mr. Batcheller's letter of attorney to Mr. Christopher Hussie [was] approved" [EQC 1:372].

Most secondary sources state that Bachiler died at Hackney in England in 1660, but more recent research has shown that Stephen Bachiler died in London and was buried on 31 October 1656 [NHGR 8:14-17].

Among many remarkable lives lived by early New Englanders, Bachiler's is the most remarkable. From 1593, when he was cited before Star Chamber, until 1654, when he last makes a mark on New England records, this man lived a completely independent and vigorous life, never acceding to any authority when he thought he was correct. Along with Nathaniel Ward of Ipswich, Stephen Bachiler was one of the few Puritan ministers active in Elizabethan times to survive to come to New England. As such he was a man out of his times, for Puritanism in Elizabethan times was different from what it became in the following century, and this disjunction may in part account for Bachiler's stormy career in New England [Simon P. Newman, "Nathaniel Ward, 1580-1652: An Elizabethan Puritan in a Jacobean World," EIHC 127:313-26]. But Nathaniel Ward did not have anything like as much trouble, and most of Bachiler's conflicts may be ascribed to his own unique character.



Savage includes among the children of Stephen Bachiler sons Francis and Henry, for whom there is no evidence. These phantom sons derive in part from a misinterpretation of a 1685 letter from Stephen Bachiler to Nathaniel Bachiler [Batchelder Gen 110-11], which refers to "our brother Francis Bachlir." As the two correspondents are grandsons of the Reverend Stephen (sons of his son Nathaniel) and not sons, it follows that Francis Bachiler was also a grandson.

Of the known children of Stephen Bachiler, only Theodate and Deborah came to New England. CHRISTOPHER HUSSEY is supposed to have married Theodate Bachiler in England and to have sailed to New England in 1632 with his father-in-law, but, as will be analyzed in more detail in the treatment of Hussey himself, there is no evidence that he was in New England before 1633, and it may be that his marriage to Theodate did not occur until 1635. Deborah Bachiler married John Wing, and after his death came to New England with her children, in the late 1630s. Ann Bachiler married a Samborne, and eventually her three Samborne sons joined their grandfather at Hampton, although the date of their arrival is not known. Stephen's son Nathaniel did not come to New England, but Nathaniel's son Nathaniel did. The Reverend Stephen's two other sons, Stephen and Samuel, did not come to New England, nor, apparently, did any of their children.

BIBLIOGRAPHIC NOTE: In 1892 Charles E. Batchelder published a four-part study of Reverend Stephen Bachiler [NEHGR 46:58-64, 157-61, 246-51, 345-50]. For the most part this is a simple chronological presentation of the evidence available at that date. In the third installment, however, the author devotes much space to a spirited but unconvincing defense of Bachiler against the claim made by Winthrop that one of the grounds of the Hampton church's dispute with Bachiler was an attempt "to solicit the chastity of his neighbor's wife."

In 1898 Frederick Clifton Pierce published Batchelder, Batcheller Genealogy. Descendants of Rev. Stephen Bachiler, of England, a Leading Non-conformist, Who Settled the Town of New Hampton, N.H. and Joseph, Henry, Joshua and John Batcheller of Essex Co., Massachusetts (Chicago 1898), cited in this sketch as Batchelder Gen. This volume includes a long sketch of Stephen Bachiler (pp. 75-115 [including the accounts of his children]), which, as is typical with this author, contains much information of dubious validity, very poorly organized. Embedded in the list of the immigrant's children, between the daughter Deborah and the son Stephen, are several accounts of Reverend Stephen Bachiler prepared by other authors, mostly published in various town histories [Batchelder Gen 95-109].

Since the three Samborne brothers of Hampton and all their descendants are also descendants of Reverend Stephen Bachiler, V.C. Sanborn, when he compiled the Sanborn genealogy, included an account of Bachiler's life [Genealogy of the Family of Samborne or Sanborn in England and America. 1194-1898 (n.p. 1899), pp. 59-66]. Like all of his work, Sanborn's writing on Bachiler is careful and accurate.

A curious book published in London in 1661 included a supposed coat of arms for Stephen Bachiler, which included a punning reference to the Plough Company (Sylvanus Morgan, The Sphere of Gentry: Deduced from the Principles of Nature, An Historical and Genealogical Work, of Arms and Blazon ..., pp.102-03). This was certainly not a properly granted coat of arms, but something invented by the author for his own literary purposes.

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Johann Adam Brömser / Catharina Elisabeth Feilbach

Husband: Johann Adam Brömser
Born:	10 Mar 1742[8562] [8563]	at:	Niedertiefenbach Unterlahnkreis, Hesse-Nassau, Prussia, Germany
Married:	24 May 1765	at:	Niedertiefenbach Unterlahnkreis, Hesse-Nassau, Prussia, Germany
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Father:	Johann Daniel Brömser
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Wife: Catharina Elisabeth Feilbach
Born:	ABT 1745[8647] [8648]	at:	Niedertiefenbach Unterlahnkreis, Hesse-Nassau, Prussia, Germany
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Name:	Tochter Brömser [9167] [9168]
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Karl Bremser / Renate Thiele

Husband: Karl Bremser
Born:	9 May 1897[8816]	at:	Heidenrod-Grebenroth, Hessen-Nassau, Preußen, Germany
Married:		at:
Died:		at:
Father:	Philipp Nikolaus Karl Bremser
Mother:	Katharine Johannette Schuhmacher
Wife: Renate Thiele
Born:	10 Apr 1925	at:	Panig/Sa.
Died:		at:
Father:
Mother:
Children
Name:	Harald Bremser [8839]
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Pedigree Chart for: Karl Bremser

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   /--Johann Adam  Bremser 
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Bruce Edward Phelps / Sharon Menees

Husband: Bruce Edward Phelps
Born:		at:
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Wife: Sharon Menees
Born:		at:
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Name:	David Phelps [9148]
Born:		at:
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Name:	Thomas Phelps [9054]
Born:		at:
Died:		at:
Spouses:

Pedigree Chart for: Bruce Edward Phelps

      /--Alfred Aaron  Phelps 
   /--Leonard Aaron  Phelps 
   |  \--Addie Mary  Cable 
/--Donald Gardinere  Phelps 
|  |  /--Charles A.  Gardinere 
|  \--Lela Margaret  Gardinere 
|     \--Harriet  Haight 
|--Bruce Edward  Phelps 
|     /--
|  /--Virgil Argo  Leach 
|  |  \--
\--Mary Caroline  Leach 
   |  /--
   \--Allie Josephine  Feree 
      \--

Pedigree Chart for: Sharon Menees

      /--
   /--
   |  \--
/--
|  |  /--
|  \--
|     \--
|--Sharon  Menees 
|     /--
|  /--
|  |  \--
\--
   |  /--
   \--
      \--

[9224]

This person is presumed living.

[9214]

~

[9148]

~

[9054]

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Roger Fowke / Anne Stone

Husband: Roger Fowke
Born:	ABT 1686	at:	Virginia, United States
Married:		at:
Died:		at:
Father:	Gerard (Gerrard) Fowke
Mother:	Sarah Burdette
Sources:	[9315]
Wife: Anne Stone
Born:		at:
Died:		at:
Father:
Mother:
Children

Pedigree Chart for: Roger Fowke

      /--Roger  Fowke 
   /--Gerard  Fowke 
   |  \--Mary  Bayley 
/--Gerard (Gerrard)  Fowke 
|  |  /--Adam  Thoroughgood 
|  \--Anne  Thoroughgood 
|     \--Sarah (or Susan)  Offley 
|--Roger  Fowke 
|     /--William  Burdett 
|  /--Thomas  Burdett 
|  |  \--Frances  Saunders 
\--Sarah  Burdette 
   |  /--William  Burdett 
   \--Verlinda  Cotton 
      \--Ann Cotton Eaton  Graves 

Pedigree Chart for: Anne Stone

      /--
   /--
   |  \--
/--
|  |  /--
|  \--
|     \--
|--Anne  Stone 
|     /--
|  /--
|  |  \--
\--
   |  /--
   \--
      \--

@1 [9315] [S44]

Timothy Richard Langshied / Debra Whitman

Husband: Timothy Richard Langshied
Born:		at:
Died:		at:
Father:		at:
Mother:		at:
Wife: Debra Whitman
Born:		at:
Died:		at:
Father:		at:
Mother:		at:
Children
Name:	Amy Jo Langshied [9536]
Born:		at:
Died:		at:
Spouses:
Name:	Jason Richard Langshied [9537]
Born:		at:
Died:		at:
Spouses:

Pedigree Chart for: Timothy Richard Langshied

      /--
   /--
   |  \--
/--Richard  Langshied 
|  |  /--
|  \--
|     \--
|--Timothy Richard  Langshied 
|     /--
|  /--Floyd Laverne  Burnor 
|  |  \--
\--Ruth Roberta  Burnor 
   |  /--
   \--Edna Elizabeth  Opel 
      \--Marie Henrietta  Klein 

Pedigree Chart for: Debra Whitman

      /--
   /--
   |  \--
/--
|  |  /--
|  \--
|     \--
|--Debra  Whitman 
|     /--
|  /--
|  |  \--
\--
   |  /--
   \--
      \--

[9534]

This person is presumed living.

[9535]

This person is presumed living.

[9536]

This person is presumed living.

[9537]

This person is presumed living.

Larkin Chew / Hannah Roy

Husband: Larkin Chew
Born:	1675	at:	Annapolis, Anne Arundle. Maryland
Married:	ABT 1695	at:	Port Royal, Virginia, USA
Died:	11 May 1728	at:	Fredericksburg, Spotsylvania, Virginia, United States
Father:	Joseph Chewe
Mother:	Ruth Larkin
Wife: Hannah Roy
Born:	1680	at:	Caroline Co., Virginia, USA
Died:	1734	at:	Spotsylvania, Virginia, United States
Father:
Mother:
Children
Name:	Joseph Chew
Born:	ABT 1695	at:	Virginia, United States
Died:	ABT 1696	at:
Spouses:
Name:	Thomas Chew Sr.
Born:	1700	at:	New Kent Co., Virginia, USA
Married:		at:
Died:	1782	at:	Orange, Virginia, United States
Spouses:	Martha Taylor
Name:	Ann (Nan) Mary Chew
Born:	1703	at:	Caroline, Caroline Co., Virginia, USA
Married:		at:
Died:	2 Nov 1742	at:	Port Royal, Caroline, Virginia, USA
Spouses:	William Johnston
Name:	John Chew
Born:	ABT 1705	at:	Spotsylvania, Virginia, United States
Married:		at:
Died:	1756	at:
Spouses:	Margaret Beverley
Name:	Larkin Chew
Born:	ABT 1710	at:	Spotsylvania, Virginia, United States
Married:		at:
Died:	1770	at:	Spotsylvania, Virginia, United States
Spouses:	Mary Beverley
Name:	Anne Chew
Born:	ABT 1724	at:
Died:		at:
Spouses:
Name:	John Chew
Born:	ABT 1726	at:
Died:		at:
Spouses:

Pedigree Chart for: Larkin Chew

      /--John (or Joseph)  Chewe 
   /--John  Chew 
   |  \--Elizabeth  Gott 
/--Joseph  Chewe 
|  |  /--
|  \--Sarah  Gale 
|     \--
|--Larkin  Chew 
|     /--
|  /--
|  |  \--
\--Ruth  Larkin 
   |  /--
   \--
      \--

Pedigree Chart for: Hannah Roy

      /--
   /--
   |  \--
/--
|  |  /--
|  \--
|     \--
|--Hannah  Roy 
|     /--
|  /--
|  |  \--
\--
   |  /--
   \--
      \--

Roman Henry Backhaus / Hedwig Linda Bartelt

Husband: Roman Henry Backhaus
Born:	2 Apr 1886	at:	Kewaskum, Washington, Wisconsin, United States
Married:	18 Nov 1910	at:	Elmore, Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, United States
Died:	25 Jan 1958	at:	West Bend, Washington, Wisconsin, United States
Father:	Carl F. Christian Backhaus
Mother:	Wilhelmina Albertine Schultz
Notes:	[11310]
Wife: Hedwig Linda Bartelt
Born:	3 Jan 1891	at:	Ashford, Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, United States
Died:	24 Feb 1963	at:	West Bend, Washington, Wisconsin, United States
Father:
Mother:
Children

Pedigree Chart for: Roman Henry Backhaus

      /--Peter  Backhaus 
   /--Christian Friedrich  Backhaus 
   |  \--Louise  Manteufel 
/--Carl F. Christian  Backhaus 
|  |  /--Carl  Krueger 
|  \--Charlotta Regina Louisa  Krueger 
|     \--Amelia   
|--Roman Henry  Backhaus 
|     /--
|  /--
|  |  \--
\--Wilhelmina Albertine  Schultz 
   |  /--
   \--
      \--

Pedigree Chart for: Hedwig Linda Bartelt

      /--
   /--
   |  \--
/--
|  |  /--
|  \--
|     \--
|--Hedwig Linda  Bartelt 
|     /--
|  /--
|  |  \--
\--
   |  /--
   \--
      \--

[11310]

From Bernie Backus:
Roman was a farmer all of his life.

Johann Christian Enderle / Johanna Haag

Husband: Johann Christian Enderle
Born:	17 May 1817	at:	Hoepfigheim, Wuerttemberg, Germany
Married:	6 Jun 1847	at:	Kleinbottwar Wuerttemberg Germany
Died:		at:	United States
Father:	Johann Gottlieb Enderle
Mother:	Johanna Justina Greiner
Wife: Johanna Haag
Born:	4 Oct 1822	at:	Kleinbottwar Wuerttemberg Germany
Died:		at:	United States
Father:	Georg Adam Haag
Mother:	Johanna Klumpp
Children
Name:	Johann Christian Enderle
Born:	11 Nov 1848	at:	Hoepfigheim, Wuerttemberg, Germany
Died:		at:	United States
Spouses:
Name:	Johanna Friedrike Enderle
Born:	5 Jun 1850	at:	Hoepfigheim, Wuerttemberg, Germany
Died:		at:	United States
Spouses:
Name:	Wilhelm Friedrick Enderle [11408]
Born:	8 Sep 1852	at:	Hoepfigheim, Wuerttemberg, Germany
Married:		at:
Died:	22 Dec 1922	at:	Lomira, Dodge, Wisconsin, USA
Spouses:	Elisabetha Terlinden

Pedigree Chart for: Johann Christian Enderle

      /--Johann Friedrich  Enderle 
   /--Johann Christian  Enderle 
   |  \--Anna Katharina  Sperr 
/--Johann Gottlieb  Enderle 
|  |  /--Johann Georg  Borzel 
|  \--Maria Dorothea  Borzel 
|     \--Anna Maria  Schwarz 
|--Johann Christian  Enderle 
|     /--
|  /--Johann Georg  Greiner 
|  |  \--
\--Johanna Justina  Greiner 
   |  /--
   \--Margarete Dorothea  Herzer 
      \--

Pedigree Chart for: Johanna Haag

      /--
   /--
   |  \--
/--Georg Adam  Haag 
|  |  /--
|  \--
|     \--
|--Johanna  Haag 
|     /--
|  /--
|  |  \--
\--Johanna  Klumpp 
   |  /--
   \--
      \--

[11408]

The ancestors of Wilhelm were contributed on 9 Apr 2003 by Horst Hemminger (HHemminger(at)aol.com).

Wilhelm Johann Konrad Bremser / Lilli Senft

Husband: Wilhelm Johann Konrad Bremser
Born:	4 Jul 1885	at:	Wiesbaden, Hesse-Nassau, Prussia, Germany
Married:	25 Oct 1913	at:	Tsingtau, China
Died:	20 Mar 1965	at:	Wiesbaden, Hesse-Nassau, Prussia, Germany
Father:	Philipp David Heinrich Bremser
Mother:	Auguste Johannette Wilhelmine Luise Klippel
Wife: Lilli Senft
Born:	14 Apr 1885	at:	Osnabrück
Died:	22 Jun 1963	at:	Wiesbaden, Hesse-Nassau, Prussia, Germany
Father:
Mother:
Children

Pedigree Chart for: Wilhelm Johann Konrad Bremser

      /--Johann Christoph  Bremser 
   /--Johann Conrad  Bremser 
   |  \--Maria Katharine  Ries 
/--Philipp David Heinrich  Bremser 
|  |  /--
|  \--Elisabeth Margarethe  Reinhard 
|     \--
|--Wilhelm Johann Konrad  Bremser 
|     /--
|  /--
|  |  \--
\--Auguste Johannette Wilhelmine Luise  Klippel 
   |  /--
   \--
      \--

Pedigree Chart for: Lilli Senft

      /--
   /--
   |  \--
/--
|  |  /--
|  \--
|     \--
|--Lilli  Senft 
|     /--
|  /--
|  |  \--
\--
   |  /--
   \--
      \--

Peter Christian Bremser / Maria Magdalena Henriette Zorn

Husband: Peter Christian Bremser
Born:	30 Jan 1880	at:	Ramschied, Bad Schwalbach, Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis, Hesse, Germany
Married:	11 Dec 1904	at:	Schlangenbad-Bärstadt
Died:		at:
Father:	Johann Karl Bremser
Mother:	Maria Katharine Rosine Presber
Wife: Maria Magdalena Henriette Zorn
Born:	25 Jan 1880	at:	Springen, Heidenrod, Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis, Hessen, Germany
Died:		at:
Father:
Mother:
Children
Name:	Karl August Bremser
Born:	2 Oct 1906	at:	Ramschied, Bad Schwalbach, Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis, Hesse, Germany
Died:	2 Jun 1910	at:
Spouses:
Name:	Heinrich August Bremser
Born:	13 Mar 1911	at:	Bad Schwalbach
Married:		at:
Died:	ABT 1980	at:	(zuletzt in Ramschied)
Spouses:

Pedigree Chart for: Peter Christian Bremser

      /--Philipp Daniel  Bremser 
   /--Johann Philipp  Bremser 
   |  \--Anna Magdalene  Höhn 
/--Johann Karl  Bremser 
|  |  /--
|  \--Katharina Elisabethe  Klös 
|     \--
|--Peter Christian  Bremser 
|     /--
|  /--
|  |  \--
\--Maria Katharine Rosine  Presber 
   |  /--
   \--
      \--

Pedigree Chart for: Maria Magdalena Henriette Zorn

      /--
   /--
   |  \--
/--
|  |  /--
|  \--
|     \--
|--Maria Magdalena Henriette  Zorn 
|     /--
|  /--
|  |  \--
\--
   |  /--
   \--
      \--

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