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1	At least one living individual is linked to this note - Details withheld.	Family: F97
2	Married by Thomas Brockway	Family: F63
3	Name: Justin C. Doolittle Gender: Male Spouse: Ella Mae Newman Spouse gender: Female Marriage date: Oct 27, 1923 Marriage location: Shoshone, Lincoln Co., Idaho Source: This record can be found in the marriage book at the County Courthouse located in Lincoln Co., ID in Volume 3 on Page 363.	Family: F102
4	At least one living individual is linked to this note - Details withheld.	Family: F351
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6	Ross, Ohio, USA	Family: F296
7	! Copyright FamilyHart 2007 - .NAME: MARGIE WEILER, mweiler(AT)tds.net	Adelheid
8	! Copyright FamilyHart 2007 - .DEATH:BERYL CLOTFELTER, 1421 6TH AVE, GRINNELL, IOWA 50112.	Anna Maria
9	! Copyright FamilyHart 2007 - .BIRTH & DEATH: SEE AARON D. RENNOLL, YORK CO. HISTORY, GIBSON, PG 110. A.K.A. RENOLLY. POSSIBLY REINAU OR REIN. CHECK REINOEHL IN STUTTGART OR BISSINGEN. EXACT BIRTH DATE, DEATH: DONALD J. GUNNET, YORK, PA.	Maria Elisabeth
10	In March 20, 1634/35 he arrived from Weymouth, England with Rev.J.Hull. In 1637 He was living in Cape Cod. In September 03, 1639 he was Admitted as a freeman. In 1640 he served as a Surveyor. In 1640-1649 he was Deputy to the New Plymouth Court. In 1649 he was buried in Quaker Cemetary, Sandwich, Mass. Lived to be 81 years old.	George ALLEN, I
11	Kempston, Bedfordshire, England	James ALLEN
12	Kempston, Bedfordshire, England	James ALLEN
13	Kempston, Bedfordshire, England	James ALLEN
14	Kempston, Bedfordshire, England	James ALLEN
15	Kempston, Bedfordshire, England	Joane ALLEN
16	Kempston, Bedfordshire, England	Joane ALLEN
17	Kempston, Bedfordshire, England	Joane ALLEN
18	New Haven, Connecticut, USA	Joane ALLEN
19	Kempston, Bedfordshire, England	John ALLEN, I
20	! Copyright FamilyHart 2007 - .NAME: LUCILLE INNERST NORDGREN, LUCYNO28(AT)CRUZIO.COM. CHRISTENING: MARGIE WEILER, mweiler(AT)mcttelecom.com	Barbara ATZENWEILER
21	! Copyright FamilyHart 2007 - .NAME: MARGIE WEILER, mweiler(AT)mcttelecom.com	Johannes ATZENWEILER
22	Neice to Enos Gary. From The Chronicle of Higher Education dated April 6, 2001 Unearthing 'the Original Helen Keller' By JENNIFER K. RUARK Ask any schoolchild to name the famous deaf-and-blind girl who spelled words into her teacher's hand and you'll be told: Helen Keller. But when Keller burst onto the American scene in the late 1880's she was heralded as "a second Laura Bridgman." Born a half-century before Keller, in 1829, Laura Bridgman was the first deaf-blind person ever to learn language. Like Keller, she fascinated and moved people the world round by triumphing over her disabilities -- chatting with friends by signing into their hands, reading books, and writing letters. Her education was the subject of scientific treatises and school poems. In the 1840's, at the height of her fame, it was said that the only better-known female was Queen Victoria. Her star had faded, though, by the time Keller's began to rise. And while Keller's life story has inspired dozens of biographies, Bridgman's has not been told since 1903. That silence will soon be broken. Next month, two biographies of "the original Helen Keller" will appear: The Education of Laura Bridgman: First Deaf and Blind Person to Learn Language (Harvard University Press), by Ernest Freeberg, and The Imprisoned Guest: Samuel Howe and Laura Bridgman, the Original Deaf-Blind Girl (Farrar, Straus & Giroux), by Elisabeth Gitter. In recalling a girl forgotten by history, both authors explore not only Bridgman's life story but that of the extraordinarily ambitious man who, for a while, made her his pet project. Samuel Gridley Howe was a doctor and restless social reformer who would later gain fame as an abolitionist. "Howe always described Laura as 'entombed' before he met her. I wanted to unbury her myself," says Ms. Gitter, an English professor at the City University of New York's John Jay College of Criminal Justice. A specialist in Victorian literature and women's studies, she discovered Laura Bridgman in the account Charles Dickens wrote about meeting her in his 1842 travel narrative, American Notes. Mr. Freeberg, an intellectual historian and assistant professor of humanities at Colby-Sawyer College, says his curiosity was piqued when he stumbled upon a brief mention of Bridgman in a history of American ideas about human nature. "It's a rare thing in historical writing to come across such a rich and unusual story that no one else has written about for 100 years," he says. Neither author realized that someone else, in fact, was writing about Laura Bridgman. Nor did either of their editors until they saw it announced by the other's press. Indeed, the two books do share many details of Bridgman's story and what it reveals about mid-19th-century ideas and culture. But, in the end, the literary scholar and the historian diverge dramatically on the reasons that Samuel Howe and his famous pupil parted ways. And they reach opposite conclusions about what became of Bridgman after that, including how happy she was toward the end of her life. When Mr. Freeberg started his research in 1991, he was interested primarily in how Bridgman's story reflected evolving notions of human conscience. He never bumped into Ms. Gitter, who says she started with the question of "how women's bodies are made to speak for who they are." She had recently put her research aside, after an agent told her no one would be interested in reading such a depressing story. With the rise of disability studies, "the wheel turned," says Ms. Gitter. "Suddenly, telling the story of a deaf-blind girl was interesting." That story began when 2-year-old Laura Bridgman, the daughter of farmers in Hanover, N.H., contracted scarlet fever. It destroyed not just her hearing and sight but most of her sense of taste and smell, too. Within months, she had forgotten the few words she had known. By the time Samuel Howe discovered 7-year-old Laura in 1837, she didn't even know she had a name. She communicated through a few simple gestures for eating and sleeping. Her parents, by praising her with pats and punishing her with taps -- or, from her father, heavier smacks -- had taught her to behave and even to set the table, churn butter, knit, and sew. But no one thought to take her education any further; deaf-blind people were classified with "idiots" and the insane as subhuman. Samuel Howe was convinced that they were much more than that. Upon meeting Laura, he wrote to a friend that "a human soul thus clogged & trammeled calls upon us as strongly for aid as a living man buried under ruins." He persuaded Laura's parents to bring her to live at the Boston school he had founded, the Perkins Institute for the Blind. With no way to know where she was or why she was being left behind, Laura panicked, sobbing and clinging to her mother. But apparently, she adjusted quickly. According to letters Howe wrote to Mrs. Bridgman, within a few days she was "as happy as a bird." Howe did not discover Laura by accident. Bored with his work on behalf of the blind, he had been looking for a new challenge and was excited to read a doctor's account of Laura. He also thought she would be a good poster child for the Perkins Institute. As Mr. Freeberg writes, Howe "surely understood that this 'doubly afflicted' child promised to be a doubly effective means of arousing public support." But he wasn't simply selfish. "His motives were complex," says Mr. Freeberg in an interview. "His desire to advance his career was linked to the well-being of his students." Part of Boston's famous Unitarian reform movement, Howe campaigned with others for the universal education of children, aid to the poor and disabled, and the rehabilitation of criminals. Inspired by a combination of altruism, class-consciousness, and careerism, the Reformers were also taken with Scottish Common Sense philosophy, a version of Enlightenment thinking that challenged John Locke's claim that we know the world only through the information provided by our senses. The mind was not a blank slate, they argued; rather, God had provided people with distinct faculties. As an avid phrenologist, Howe believed he had physical proof of those faculties. Laura, like everyone, had an Organ of Language just behind her eyes, waiting to be unlocked. Doing that would prove that even a person sealed off from others had innate ideas to express, and not only that, but a natural sense of right and wrong. "It was a very public experiment of what conscience is," says Mr. Freeberg. Howe even hoped to prove through Laura that the Calvinist doctrine of original sin was wrong. He would show that children came into the world with an inborn sense of God -- an Organ of Veneration -- and with gentle guidance would work out their own salvation. Howe might have developed Laura's few gestures into a form of sign language, but he was determined to teach her to communicate through words. Words were better suited to abstractions, and signs, which he considered primitive, would only keep Laura from full membership in society. He and Lydia Drew, one of a series of young women who worked daily as Laura's teachers and constant companions, made paper labels with raised letters for objects like bed, chair, and door, and taught Laura to place the labels on the corresponding object. At first, she merely copied her teachers, but after a few days she made the connection between word and thing, delightedly placing the label "chair" on every seat in the room. Her teachers then broke the words into individual letters, and showed her how the letters could be rearranged to mean different things. Gradually, "she perceived that here was a way by which she could herself make up a sign of anything that was in her own mind, and show it to another mind," wrote Howe. When Miss Drew then taught her to finger-spell, Laura was thrilled to discover that she could converse with other people. The more she learned, the more she wanted to know. Within three months of coming to Perkins, Laura had learned a hundred common nouns and was starting on verbs. After a year, she could communicate in simple sentences; after two, she was writing letters home. By the time she was 12 years old, she was making up short stories, doing math, and studying geography. She grew devoted to Howe, who treated her like a daughter. And she seemed poised to be the perfect demonstration of his ideas. "Rescued from a living death," Ms. Gitter writes, "she was a case study in the resilience of the 'immortal spirit,' the limitless potential of the mind, and the transformative power of enlightened education." Thanks to Howe's strategic publicity campaign, she had also become an international celebrity. The 1830's and 40's saw the rise of women's magazines, museums, and other forms of mass entertainment as a growing educated middle-class sought novelty and enlightenment. People were fascinated by "freaks" -- it was the age of P. T. Barnum -- and also by fame, seeking autographs and souvenirs from anyone with a claim to celebrity. Howe's annual reports on Laura's progress were reprinted in newspapers, magazines, and children's books. Young girls poked out the eyes of their dolls and named them "Laura." After Charles Dickens's account of her in American Notes established her as a tourist attraction, hundreds of people lined up weekly at the institute to see the petite, pretty Laura, pointing to geographic landmarks on a relief map or signing her autograph, her damaged eyes wrapped in a green, velvet ribbon out of consideration for her visitors. Dickens, a master of the sentimental novel popular during the period, was just the man to publicize Laura, for Howe's reports of her played off the ideal that animated such characters as Little Nell or the Little Match Girl: the innocent child whose suffering made readers count their own blessings and resolve to be better. Laura was "constantly joyous," "pure and spotless as the petals of a rose," Howe wrote in his annual reports. The truth, not surprisingly, was that the real Laura was much more complex. While generally good-natured and quick to joke, she could also be demanding and irritable. She made loud noises that Howe thought "barbaric." She was impatient with slow finger-spellers, and in fits of temper sometimes struck other children or her teachers. Those truths not only would have interfered with Howe's publicity campaign, they complicated his moral and religious agenda. He was determined to show "that it was social institutions, not human souls, that were in desperate need of salvation," writes Mr. Freeberg. That was harder to prove when his test-tube girl showed human failings. So Howe played them down, mentioning them in his reports only as rare missteps to demonstrate how his program of moral education was working. He and Laura's new teacher, Sarah Wight, corrected Laura incessantly, hoping to make her conscience her guide by punishing any acts of rebellion, even minor rudeness, with social isolation. Laura learned to monitor herself with zeal. "I hope I shall not be cross or make any noises or fret or deceive or tell any wrong stories this week," she resolved one morning at breakfast. In 1843, Laura's life changed dramatically. Howe married Julia Ward -- who would later become a vocal suffragist -- and left for a honeymoon in Europe. "Does Dr. love me like Julia?" Laura asked her teacher. "No," came the blunt reply. Meanwhile, to advance his religious experiment, Howe had forbidden anyone to speak to Laura of spiritual matters while he was gone. She questioned her teacher endlessly about God and sin, but got no answers. Of course, it was impossible to isolate her completely. Visitors proselytized her, and she seized on a more orthodox, evangelical notion of God. "Even if she had been able to understand Howe's reasonable, Unitarian God, that benevolent but distant abstraction might not have satisfied her," writes Ms. Gitter. "She wanted a warm, embracing deity who could work compensatory miracles in Heaven, a Savior who would ultimately open her eyes and ears and loose the string of her tongue." Howe returned 16 months later to a different girl, one whose maturing features had lost their girlish charm, one who parroted commonplaces about the Lamb of God. He was terribly disappointed. But Mr. Freeberg and Ms. Gitter differ about how he reacted, and how Laura ended her days. According to Mr. Freeberg, Howe's disenchantment with Laura was intellectual, and gradual. The pedantic, childish teenager was less than he had hoped Laura would become. Moreover, efforts he had made with other deaf-blind students had failed, showing that Laura's education could not settle questions about how much judgment children were born with. And blind students whom he had sent out into the world began asking to return, challenging his claim that with a good education they could integrate into society. "When he ran up against the limits of his program, he and some of his allies groped for another answer," says Mr. Freeberg. They became biological determinists. Howe began to believe that the physically disabled were intellectually and morally damaged, as well. Blindness, for example, made people lazy. "He thought their inferiority made them even more worthy of help," says Mr. Freeberg, "but he thought the ultimate goal ought to be manipulation of heredity to eliminate blindness, deafness, and insanity." Ms. Gitter agrees that for Howe "the great romance of [Laura's] rescue from darkness was over," but says his change of heart happened too fast to be explained intellectually. When Howe came home, he turned on Laura "with a sudden and surprising vehemence," she writes. "What happened was puberty," she says in an interview. Howe was disturbed by Laura's sexual maturation, which challenged the pure-as-snow image of her he needed. Ms. Gitter also believes Howe was displacing anger against his independent-minded wife onto Laura. His emotional withdrawal from Laura devastated her, she argues. Laura began to punish herself physically, refusing to eat or striking herself. After Miss Wight resigned from her post, Laura lived out her days at Perkins, but "was never really happy again," Ms. Gitter writes. Mr. Freeberg is more hopeful. "Laura's free will destroyed the experiment. That's the happy moral of the story," he says. Howe and Laura's teachers "laid down a very clear track for her and yet her personality, her soul, jumped the track." While Howe may have "walked away from his experiment, he didn't walk away from Laura," Mr. Freeberg argues. And yet Laura gained some freedom. "She developed friendships without Howe's supervision, she developed a religious faith that he disapproved of. In later life she finally got the privacy and dignity that she deserved." Both authors agree that, in any case, Laura had lost her best PR person. Though Howe continued to support her financially, health problems and new projects -- especially the abolitionist cause -- kept him too busy to spend much time with her. "It was important for him to be doing something manly -- making a new conquest, a new discovery, showing his prowess," says Ms. Gitter. The public, too, moved on to new distractions. Tourists who had come in droves to see the pathetic, pretty little girl were bored, perhaps even put off, by the gaunt, high-strung woman she had become. "It's an old, bitter story in the disabled community," says Ms. Gitter. "Everybody loves a disabled child, but the adults suddenly aren't so cute." And, after all, a prettier, perhaps smarter, deaf-blind girl soon came along. "Helen Keller has a lot to do with Laura Bridgman's eclipse in the public mind," says Mr. Freeberg. "I mean, she wrote treatises on socialism and Swedenborgian religion!" By the time Keller was educated, Braille was taught in the United States. She also learned to speak, and traveled widely on behalf of the disabled. In 1903, 14 years after Laura's death, at age 59, Howe's daughters published a book, Laura Bridgman: Dr. Howe's Famous Pupil and What He Taught Her. But it attracted little attention, overshadowed by one of the year's best sellers: Helen Keller's The Story of My Life. "From the beginning," writes Ms. Gitter, "the world judged the two women as if they were contestants in a deaf-blind Miss America pageant." Ms. Gitter wonders what would have happened if Laura had had the same access to Braille books and the same intellectual companionship. As Helen Keller herself once said: if Annie Sullivan had been Laura's teacher, "she would have outshone me." _________________________________________________________________ Copyright (c) 2001 by The Chronicle of Higher Education. Posted with permission on The ConnSENSE Bulletin website. This article may not be published, reposted, or redistributed without express permission from The Chronicle. To obtain such permission, please send a message to permission@chronicle.com. For subscription information, send a message to circulation@chronicle.com. _________________________________________________________________	Laura BERIDGMAN
23	Massachusetts, USA	Millicent BLINMAN
24	Massachusetts, USA	Millicent BLINMAN
25	Massachusetts	Lutheria E BOOTH
26	Lebanon, New London, Connecticut, USA	Hannah BRIGGS
27	John was an original proprietor of Hartford, CT, 1639. He came to New England prob. 1635 on the "Defense". He served in the Pequot War (1637) and received a lot in the Soldiers' Field, Hartford. He served on grand juries ca 1650. He was an original member of the church of Farmington, and was an original planter of same. He was sworn Constable for Farmington, 4 Mar 1651/2. He served as Deputy for Farmington to the general Court, May 1651, Oct 1655, and May and Oct 1656. Inventory of estate taken 28 Nov 1680.	John BRONSON
28	Connecticut, USA	Esther BUCKINGHAM
29	New York, USA	Esther BUCKINGHAM
30	Prominent man in town affairs - landholder in Lebanon, Connecticut	Thomas BUCKINGHAM, III
31	Taken from the book - "Buckingham Fmaily" by F. W. Chapman, 1872 the PUritan settler and ancestor of all of the American Buckinghams, was one of the company of which Eaton and Hopkins, two London merchants, and two ministers, Davenport and Prudden, belongs. They sailed from London in two ships, the Hector and the .... They arrived in Boston, Massachusetts, une 26, 1637 and on the 30th of March following (1638) this company sailed for Quinnipack, now New Haven, Connecticut-here he received some property. He moved to Milford, Connecticut in 1639--he was one of the company of which Mr. Peter Prudden was the pastor, who first settled the town. The church was first organied at New Haven, August 33, 1639, and Thomas Buckingham was one of the seven pillars of which it was composed (the Church of Christ at Milford.)	Rev. Thomas BUCKINGHAM, Jr.
32	Daughter of Deac. Samuel Butler.	Dorothy BUTLER
33	Litchfield, Connecticut, USA	Dorothy BUTLER
34	Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut, USA	Dorothy BUTLER
35	[Hannah Kilbourn.ged] Ancestral File Number: JL9F-46	Dorothy BUTLER
36	Charleston, South Carolina, USA	Elizabeth CARR
37	Washington, Tennessee, USA	Elizabeth CARR
38	Connecticut, USA	Benoni CLARK
39	Lebanon, New London, Connecticut, USA	Benoni CLARK
40	Massachusetts, USA	Benoni CLARK
41	Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts, USA	Benoni CLARK
42	Farmington, Hartford, Connecticut, USA	Sarah CLARK
43	Drogo fitz Ponts' son Walter fitz Richard fitz Ponts in 1138 married a descendent of Ralph de Todeni who brought with her the dowry of Clifford Castle. Walter then changed his name to Clifford. Walter de Clifford's daughter Rosamund Clifford (born about 1139 died 1176) was the mistress of Henry II and had a child by him. A novel concerning this is: The Fall of Rosamund Clifford by Thomas Hull. The King kept her in a wooden maze and the legend is that Queen Eleanor found her by means of a clue - a silk thread. The legend further says that the Queen then offered her poison in a chalice, but in fact she stabbed her to death in her bath. Robert de Clifford, born 1274, became the first Lord of Skipton Castle and died in a battle with the Scots in 1314. His son was to be decapitated on orders of the King, but was too ill. After a month, when he was well enough, King Edward III changed his mind and let him live. Thomas, the 8th Lord Clifford, has several speeches in Shakespeare's "Henry the VI" part III, and was written about by Wordsworth. Henry, the 10th Lord Clifford, was to be executed during the War of the Roses but his mother had him raised by a shepherd. When the Lancasters won 25 years later, he was re- instated with 4 castles. He is the subject of the " Ballad of the Nut-Brown Maid " (1505) which tells how the maid rejected him, not knowing that he was a lord. The best speculation of whom George Clifford, first in America, descended from is that Henry, The Shepherd Lord. Henry, born 1493, was not only the 11th Lord Clifford but also the 1st Earl of Cumberland. Henry, the 12th Lord Clifford, was sickly and at one point was mistaken for dead and about to be buried, when someone noticed he was breathing. George, the 13th Lord Clifford and 3rd Earl of Cumberland, was a pirate whose 3 expeditions were backed by Queen Elizabeth. Although he plundered many Spanish ships, he managed to deplete the Clifford estates (restored later by his brother Lord Francis). He was Elizabeth's champion at jousts and wore her glove on his helmet. He died in 1605. http://www.geocities.com/Pentagon/6315/family/clifford.html	8th Lord Clifford Thomas CLIFFORD
44	[Olson.FTW] Was a farmer (Gaarsman). The name of the farm Gronvold in Maridal. Sagene and Maridal are part of Christiania later changed back to Oslo Norway in 1924.	Gustav Erik DANIELSON
45	[jessop.FTW] Dare, Capt. William (ca 1682-1721) NJ: m. Constant...........Mariner, 1682 frm. gen. library-Seventeeth Century colonial ancestors. pg. 16	William DARE
46	"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> Found on Anc estry.com, and noted in my family files there. I note it gratefull y here today... 9/30/09 /ln The Graves of Beeley, Derbyshire, England Added by Linda_Newbrough on 30 Sep 2009 Originally submitted by < span style="font-size:12pt">wgraff181 to face="Times New Roman">wgraves80308 on 23 Aug 2009 THE GRAVES F AMILY IN ENGLAND. The family o f Graves is one of the most ancient in England. It went in with the Norma n army, and its members have been De Grevis, De Greves, Greve, Grave, Greav es, Greeves and Graves. In the portion of Doomsday Book for Lincolnshire it is record ed: "In Hor belinge hbt Greve III car t-ra ad gld t-ra ad IIII car—In Draiton e Hundret hbt Greve VI bov t-ra ad gld t-ra ad VI bov." In Latin extended: "I n Horbelinge habet Greve quatuor carucatas terrae ad geldam; terra ad quatuor carucas. In Draiton e Hundred habet Greve sex bovatas terrae ad gel- dam : terra ad sex bovas." Translat ed: In Horbelinge Greve holds four caru- cates (about 400 acres) of land, for which he pay s geld (civil tax levied for support of the state) ; there is land for four ploughs;" ; and "In Draitone Hundred Greve holds six bo- vates (about 75 acres) of land for which he pays geld ; there is land for six oxen." The familv l ived in early days in that part of England now known as counties Lincoln, Nottingham, Derby and York, occupying the northern part of the three firs t named and the southern part of York. The first recorded family seat was known as Gr eves or Greaves, in the parish of Beeley, near Chatsworth, in the northern part o f Derbyshire, and a few miles from the southerly boundary of York, where the family reside d as early as the reign of Henry III (1216- 1272). John Greaves, a descendant in the reig n of Elizabeth (1558-1602), became a purchaser of "Beeley," a quaint old hous e with an enclosed court, on the hill above Beeley, and now known as "Hilltop," and it wa s occupied as a family seat until about 1664, when it was sold to John, Earl of Rutland.< /font> In the littl e church at Beeley, within the altar rails, is a fine flat stone on whic h are cut the coat of arms of the family, the motto "Superna Quaero," an d the following inscription: "This m arble stone doth presse but not op- presse the body of John Greaves of Gr eaves, Esq., who always was a true son of the church of England, merciful and ch aritable to the poor, patient and courageous in a tedious sickness, and at length, bein g full of faith and hope, did exchange this troublesome world for a better, upon the I3th da y of October, in the year of our Lord 1694. Ann, his wife, b. of Geo. Bird, of Stenly Hall , Gent., ob. May. 25, 1700." From the vis itations of Derbyshire, in the College of Arms, and from Mss. in the Brit ish Museum the following descent of the early founders of the family is extra cted : (I). John de la Greves. (2). Hugo de la Grevis, vixit temp. Henry III (1216-1272) . (3) William de la Grevis, filius Hugonis, temp. Edward I (1272- ly7)-* (4) Egidrus d e la Greves, Letitia uxor ejus, 1316. (5) Thomas de la Greves, filius Egi- dri, temp. Edward I II (1327-1377). (6) Johannes de la Grevis, fil. Thomas, fil. Egidri, temp. Edward III. (7 ) John. (8) William and wife Agnes. (9) John, 1497; buried December 30, 1546. (10) Jo hn of Greaves; buried December 3°> *595- (n) John of Greaves and Beeley . (12) John of Greaves, Beeley and Woodhouse, baptized September 17, 1581, and living 16 34; had eight sons and three daughters. (13) John of Beeley; buried February 6, 1 673-74. (14) John of Stanton Hall and Biggin; born in 1644; died without issue, Octobe r 13, 1694. The family h ad early scattered over the surrounding country. As early as 1574 members of it are mentioned as at Kings Norton in Worcester county, where, in th e chapel, is found a large monument to Sir Richard Greves, Kt., with crest; he died i n 1631. In the rolls of the Exchequer Lay Subsidies for Buckingham and Northampton count ies, there are found taxes laid against different members of the family as early a s 1522, and from that time forward. John Graves was a resident of Cleckheaton, in the pari sh of Birstall, and Wapentake of Morley, in the West Riding of Yorkshire, as early as th e time of Edward IV (1461-1483), and from him descended several of the most promine nt families in Great Britain. The followin g is the lineage of the family of Graves of Mickleton Manor: (i). John Graves, of Cleckheaton, Edward IV (1461-1483). (2). Robert, of Cleckheato n, Henry VII (1485-1509). Added by Linda_Newbrough on 30 Sep 2009 Originally submitted by < span style="font-size:12pt">wgraff181 to face="Times New Roman">wgraves80308 on 23 Aug 2009 Anyone comp iling a list of the most picturesque villages in Derbyshire would have to include Beeley. It is a pretty, unspoilt village sheltered by Beeley Moo r with wonderful views in all directions. But things could have been very different. The o ld road to Chatsworth used to go through the heart of the village. It left by Pig La ne, so named because of a group of pigsties by the side of the road and crossing Jame s Paine’s, Single Arch Bridge. Before the completion of the bridge in 1761, traffic crosse d Mill Bridge, near the old ruined mill buildings in Chatsworth Park. Fortunately for Be eley, it has had a bypass for over a hundred years, effectively shutting out all the hustl e and bustle of the Chatsworth traffic hurrying along the winding road. Most motorists hardl y give the village a passing glance, which even to this day remains quiet, peacefu l and relatively undiscovered. It was only after the third Duke of Devonshire had bought B eeley Hill Top in 1747 that his successor embarked upon a grand plan to develop and land scape Chatsworth. Beeley then started to become part of the estate. Land and bu ildings were purchased as they came on the market, but this task took some time and wa s completed by the sixth Duke. Many of the properties have been sold off into privat e ownership in recent years as they became surplus to requirements. Beeley had acquire d its present shape and size by 1800. With the exception of a small group of propertie s built in recent years on the Chesterfield Road, it has remained remarkably unchanged fo r over 200 years. The same does not apply to the use of the buildings: the school, s choolhouse, post office and reading room are all now private houses. Dukes Barn built in 1 791, to house the estate carts used to carry coal from Rowsley Station, is now a reside ntial study centre, and available for hire by any educational group. What makes the village s o beautiful is that almost all the farm and domestic buildings are built from the same h oney coloured sandstone, quarried locally close to Fallinge Edge. The local stone quarr ies once gave employment to a large number of men. The two quarries at Bruntwood produc ed stone not only of good appearance, but also of such hardwearing quality that i t was used in many of the principal buildings in Manchester. The ancient church of St A nne, close to the gabled vicarage - now a private house, is one of the oldest in Derbys hire. Its considerably mutilated round headed doorway dates back to the middle of t he 12th century. In the churchyard, is a finely shaped 200 - year -old yew tree . However, the star attraction, at least as far as age is concerned, is a gnarled old yew - o nce a massive tree - said to be older than the church. Beeley Old Hall is easily recognisabl e by its stout chimney. It was thought to be the original Manor House of the village unt il 1559, when John Greaves of the ‘Greaves’ bought it. Manor House status w as then transferred to the ‘Greaves’ later known as Beeley Hill Top. One of the oldest h ouses in this part of Derbyshire thought to date back to 1250. Both reverted to farmhouse class ification in the 17th century	John DE LA GREVES
47	Came to America in 1856. Settled in Mishawaka, Indiana. Her father died when she was three years. Left home to make her own living at the age of seven years. Her parents were catholic and she was raised in the Catholic faith but refused to confirm to the Catholic religion. after she was 14 years of age. She died in the Minnesota Soldiers Home, Minneapolis, Minnesota.	Julia Marie DITSCH
48	Kidderminster, Worcester, England Worcester	Abraham DOOLITTLE
49	Kidderminster, Worcester, England Worcester	Abraham DOOLITTLE
50	Wallingford, New Haven, Connecticut, USA	Abraham DOOLITTLE