MOTHERS DAY PT 1

Once again for Mothers Day I'm posting photos of our family's mothers.

For our Mom's side we don't have very many since her grandparents immigrated
here from Ireland and Germany in the 19th century.

 

John McFarland & Annie (Kelley) McFarland

First there's Anna Kelley, born 1Oct 1858 in Kiltrustan, Roscommon, Ireland. She married
my great grandfather in Edinburgh Scotland on 16May1879 and shortly after they came
to America and settled in Boston. She had 17 children, 10 of whom survived to adulthood.
Anna died 15Feb 1945 at Boston, Ma. at age 86.

Pauline (Offinger) White

Our other maternal great grandmother was Pauline Offinger, born 17Dec 1873
in Cambridge, Massachusetts to German immigrant parents. She married Edward J.
White on 27Nov 1895 in Boston, Ma. and had 9 children.          

Agnes (McFarland) White

Our grandmother Agnes (McFarland) White was born 7Oct 1898 in Boston, Ma, the
14th of John & Annie's 17 children. She was known as "Aggie" in the family.
She married Edward F.White, Sr. and had two children, our Uncle Ed and our Mom
Anne Marie. She died 12Feb 1957 in Malden Ma.

Anne M. (White) West

Finally, our Mom, Anne M. (White) West. She was born 7Jul 1927 at Boston, Ma and
married our Dad on 29Jun 1947, also at Boston. To her McFarland cousins she was
known as "Red White". She died on 28Jul 1999 at Weymouth, Ma and she is missed by
my brother, my sister, myself and the rest of the family.

MOTHER'S DAY PT 1

Once again for Mothers Day I'm posting photos of our family's mothers.

For our Mom's side we don't have very many since her grandparents immigrated
here from Ireland and Germany in the 19th century.

 

John McFarland & Annie (Kelley) McFarland

First there's Anna Kelley, born 1Oct 1858 in Kiltrustan, Roscommon, Ireland. She married
my great grandfather in Edinburgh Scotland on 16May1879 and shortly after they came
to America and settled in Boston. She had 17 children, 10 of whom survived to adulthood.
Anna died 15Feb 1945 at Boston, Ma. at age 86.

Pauline (Offinger) White

Our other maternal great grandmother was Pauline Offinger, born 17Dec 1873
in Cambridge, Massachusetts to German immigrant parents. She married Edward J.
White on 27Nov 1895 in Boston, Ma. and had 9 children.          

Agnes (McFarland) White

Our grandmother Agnes (McFarland) White was born 7Oct 1898 in Boston, Ma, the
14th of John & Annie's 17 children. She was known as "Aggie" in the family.
She married Edward F.White, Sr. and had two children, our Uncle Ed and our Mom
Anne Marie. She died 12Feb 1957 in Malden Ma.

Anne M. (White) West

Finally, our Mom, Anne M. (White) West. She was born 7Jul 1927 at Boston, Ma and
married our Dad on 29Jun 1947, also at Boston. To her McFarland cousins she was
known as "Red White". She died on 28Jul 1999 at Weymouth, Ma and she is missed by
my brother, my sister, myself and the rest of the family.

52 ANCESTORS IN 52 WEEKS#44: RICHARD KELLEY

Fellow geneablogger Amy Johnson Crow of No Story Too Small has issued the
52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks Challenge. Basically, we have to post something every
week on a different ancestor, whether a story, picture, or research problem. I've
been posting about the Barnes, Hoyt, Colby, and Davis family lines most recently
which are all in my Dad's maternal Barker ancestry. We're now at the point where
those lines come together with the Kelleys through the marriage of my 6x great
grandparents Richard Kelley and Susannah Hoyt, who were both the grandchildren
of William Barnes.

I found information on Richard online from the same two sources where I found
some about his father Abiel:  

(IV) Richard Kelley, son of Abiel and Rebecca, was born Oct. 24, 1697, and for a few
years resided in West Amesbury, and in about 1727 removed with his father to Methuen (now Salem, N. H.). He held a commission as captain in the Provincial militia. On Sept.
28, 1721, he married Susannah Hoyt, of Amesbury, who was born Feb. 20, 1697, daughter of William Hoyt, a grandson of John Hoyt, one of the early settlers of the town of Amesbury. The children born of this union were: Rebecca, born Dec. 22, 1722: William, Oct. 5, 1725: Richard, Nov. 2. 1727; Sarah, Nov. 28, 1730; Samuel, March 2, 1733; John, April 8, 1735: and Susannah, Nov. 11, 1738. p242
-Representative Men and Old Families of Southeastern Massachusetts: Containing Historical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens and Genealogical Records of Many of the Old Families ... (Google eBook) J.H. Beers & Company, 1912 - Barnstable County (Mass.)

The second source adds a bit more:

25. Richard-4 [ John 1,  John 2,  Abiel3], born October 24, 1697, married Susannah Hoyt, of Amesbury, September 28, 1721. She was born February 20, 1697. Her father was William Hoyt, a grandson of John Hoyt, one of the earliest settlers in the town of Amesbury.

Conjointly with his father, Richard Kelly bought, December 13, 1722, a lot of land in Amesbury (West), originally the lot of Robert Quenbe. On this spot he lived a few years and here three of his children were born. The place was sold to his cousin,  Richard, April 17, 1727, as elsewhere stated, and soon after with his father he removed to Methuen (Salem, N.H.).

In 1738 he was one of "a committee to provide stuft' for a meeting-house." He and two others were a committee calling " a meeting of the voters of the North Parish in Methuen," the call bearing date April 18, 1740.

It is recorded of him that he "was baptized and admitted to the Haverhill Church January 21, 1728." This must have been very soon after his removal from Amesbury. It is further stated that with others he 'was dismissed from the Haverhill Church to form a new Church in Methuen" October 26, 1729.

He held a commission of captain in the Provincial militia. -p22
A Genealogical Account of the Descendants of John Kelly of Newbury, Massachusetts, U.S.A. (Google eBook)

52 ANCESTORS IN 52 WEEKS#43: ABIEL KELLEY

Fellow geneablogger Amy Johnson Crow of No Story Too Small has issued the
52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks Challenge. Basically, we have to post something every
week on a different ancestor, whether a story, picture, or research problem. For
this prompt I've tried to concentrate on ancestors I haven't researched as much
as I have others in my family. This time my subject is 7x great grandfather Abiel
Kelley.

Abiel is another one of those ancestors that does not have as much information
on the internet as some of my other ancestors do, but I did find two entries for
him in genealogies. The first gives mostly the bare facts:


III) Abiel Kelley, son of John and Sarah (Knight), born Dec. 12, 1672, resided in Newbury, West Newbury and Methuen (now Salem, N. H.), in which latter place he
was a large land holder, and he took a prominent and active part in the early church
work of the places in which he resided. He died June 18, 1750. He married Rebecca, daughter of Samuel Davis, of Haverhill, Mass., Jan. 15, 1697, and their children were: Richard, born Oct. 24, 1697; Sarah, born Aug. 14, 1699; Mary, baptized March 29, 
1702: Rebecca, born Sept. 20, 1705; Mary, May 2, 1709; Abigail, March 16, 1712; Hannah, March 14, 1714; and Mehitabel and Ruth (twins), Aug. 18, 1716.-p242
-Representative Men and Old Families of Southeastern Massachusetts: Containing Historical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens and Genealogical Records of Many of the Old Families ... (Google eBook) J.H. Beers & Company, 1912 - Barnstable County (Mass.)

The second is a Kelly family genealogy and has a bit more information about Abiel:

Abiel3 [John2,  John1] born, December 12, 1672, married Rebecca, daughter of Samuel
Davis of Haverhill, January 15,(5 Cof.) 1697. He was one of twenty-four persons who
in 1796 "wished the second meeting house in Newbury to be located on Pipe Stave Hill,
and not on the plains." He and his wife were members of the second church in Newbury
(first church in West Newbury) at the time of Rev. Mr Tuft's ordination, June 30, 1714.

With his brother,  Jonathan, and eight others he received on petition, September 24,
1718, a grant from the town of eighty rods of the flats above Holt's Rocks, as fishing
ground, ''upon condition that they pay yearly one salmon each to Rev. Mr. Tappan and
Rev. Mr. Tufts."

He was resident in Newbury (West) as late as April 17, 1727. This appears from a document of that date bearing his signature. Nine months later he was in Methuen (Salem, N.H.)On January 17, 1728, he, with his son Richard, both of that town, 
bought of James Eaton, of Haverhill, eighty acres of land in Methuen, one of the 
corner bounds of which was at a point "on the top of Spicket Hill." March 15, 1729, 
he bought of John Renwee, joiner, of Methuen, a certain tract of land "situate lying 
and being in Haverliill and Methuen, by estimation 200 acres." It is described as "being on the south side of a path leading to Capt. Wainwright's Spicket Meadow, 
so called;" and as having on one side the old Spicket path, and on another side 
Spicket meadow, "but reserving and leaving suficient way for people to fetch their 
hay from out said meadow, joining said land."

He, with his wife, was dismissed from the second church in Newbury (First in West Newbury) in November, 1729, in order to join the church in Methuen. He was one 
of a committee appointed to lay out "a burying place" in the North Parish in Methuen (Salem, N. H.) in the year 1736. The parish voted, December 17, 1739, "to Abiel Kelly, for bords, the sum of 1. 3. 0." The boards were for a meeting house which was going up at the time. He was elected parish clerk the year previous.

The date of his death is thus given in the records of Salem: "Abiel Kelly desest on June ye 18, 1750.'
-pp13-14

A Genealogical Account of the Descendants of John Kelly of Newbury, Massachusetts, U.S.A. (Google eBook)

The important part though in all this is Abiel's marriage to Rebecca Davis, the daughter of
Deborah Barnes and granddaughter of William Barnes.

52 ANCESTORS IN 52 WEEKS#42: JOHN KELLEY

Fellow geneablogger Amy Johnson Crow of No Story Too Small has issued the
52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks Challenge. Basically, we have to post something every
week on a different ancestor, whether a story, picture, or research problem. For
this prompt I've tried to concentrate on ancestors I haven't researched as much
as I have others in my family. Recently I've been posting about my Barnes
Hoyt, and Colby ancestors. In this post I'll discuss my 8x great grandfather Samuel
Colby,

There's not much information about John, and none at all about who his wife
might have been. I do have this from another of William Richard Cutter's books
on New England genealogy:

John Kelly, the immigrant ancestor, was one of the early settlers of Newbury,
Massachusetts, where he is said to have been in 1635, coming from Newbury,
England. Not much is definitely known of him after his arrival, and nothing is known
of his life in England. He received a grant in Newbury of a house lot of four acres
near the Great River, "bounded by the River on the north, John Pemerton on the
west, by the way on the south, and John Merrill on the east." He also received at
the same time, a planting lot of four acres on the same neck of land, the date being
doubtless the year 1639, when many other similar grants were made. The Great river
is the river Parker. John Kelly also seems to have had a house lot granted him in another part of the town which was mentioned in a record of his son's grant. His 
house was on the north side of Oldtown Hill, and he does not seem to have used 
either of his grants. He was so far separated from the town that the citizens took
a vote that if he should be killed by the Indians because of living so far from the 
others, "his blood should be on his own head." He died December 28, 1644. According to tradition, he was born in Exeter, Devonshire, England. Children: Sarah, born February 12, 1641, and John, mentioned below.
p2289
New England Families, Genealogical and Memorial: A Record of the Achievements of Her People in the Making of Commonwealths and the Founding of a Nation, Volume 4 (Google eBook) Lewis historical publishing Company, 1915, (Boston, Ma.)

I particularly like the concern shown for my ancestor by his fellow townspeople.

Well, obviously John Kelley survived long enough to start a family, since I'm here
writing this today nearly 300 years later!

52 ANCESTORS IN 52 WEEKS#38: JOHN HOYT PT3

Before I move on to the next post in this part of my family tree, I want to
post a chart of my descent from William Barnes, ending with my father: