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Re: Frederick Williamson, Shipton

Posted: 3 Feb 2015 6:47PM GMT
Classification: Query
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5. Leona marble b 1834 at Shipton and died on 6 July 1844 Father was recorded as Frederick Williamson and mother as Polly Darling.
6. Orwell Collamore b 27 Feb 1837 at Shipton. He is buried in Danville Cemetery as O C. He died on 18 feb 1879 and was buried on 20 Feb 1879. in the Congregational church records his occupayion is listed as a farmer. His father was Frederick Williamson and his mother as Polly Darling. he was married to Sophronia Pierson Emerson.

Warren Williamson died at Shipton on 4 Dec 1868 and buried on 06 Dec 1868 in Danville Cemetery Occupation listed as a farmer. Warren had only one child, Lucinda who married George Washington Leet on 25 Nov 1848.She was 18 yrs 11 mo and 14 days. She died on 26 Dec 1869 and was buried on 27 Dec 1869.
Warren married Orpha Matthews at Ascot in the Anglican church on 26 jan 1829.

Phylinda Pearson Williamson died on 21 July 1840 and buried on 23 July 1840 in Danville Cemetery. age 37 yrs and 11 months. Wife of Frederick Williamson. He married her on 15 Aug 1830. in Shipton.

Re: Frederick Williamson, Shipton

Posted: 6 Feb 2015 10:46PM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Williamson
You supplied great information, thank you. I rechecked my sources so I can be accurate. Our Williamson Bible says it was given to Sarah Blake Williamson by her husband in either 1857 or 1859. That same handwriting gives Alonzo's (her husband) birth as 20 Dec. 1815 in Woodstock, VT. No vital records in Vermont confirm this date (or any other date). That same birthdate is given in the History of Cornish which gives a small biography of Alonzo. He was admitted to the bar in Cornish in 1837. It makes me wonder when he left Canada. Page 794 of the Mayflower Families tells that in 4 May 1832 Henry C. Dennison was appointed guardian of Elvira, Verona, Alonzo, Eleutheria, Lenora and Orwell, heirs of Polly Williamson. It says that is when her parent's estate was settled. It mentioned that Orwell and Lenora still needed mother's care, so that may have led to the breaking up of the family. Elvira went to live with her aunt in Constable, New York, so perhaps the other children went to other relatives.
This book gives the birth year of Lenora as 1824 and Orwell 1827, the year his mother died.
I keep thinking about your comment about them traveling north and south, I suppose there are little bits of information along that route! I noted in a sketch of Shipton that Nathan Williamson (among others) arrived before 1804. Some of those other surnames you have mentioned: Leet, Barnard, Harvey..

Re: Frederick Williamson, Shipton

Posted: 11 Feb 2015 2:44PM GMT
Classification: Query
I would look at some of the pages on World Connect. I saw a well documented one on Elvira.
Orwell stayed in the Shipton area but Verona who married Bickford moved back to the US, I did quite a bit of research on this area as my great Aunt married a Bickford. I was later able to trace her husband's family back to Ohio where my research dried up and I could not find any connection.
I could not get over how far they travelled.by cart or horse or boat..

Re: Frederick Williamson, Shipton

Posted: 12 Feb 2015 1:42AM GMT
Classification: Query
Thanks for the tip. I will look into World Connect. Sometimes it is easier to find our family when we look at their siblings!
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