Long Line The North Family Week 3

Starting to catch up on my posts. I recently updated my computer. Now I can get back to my genealogy. 

Week 3 Long Line

The North family

I picked the North family since they were the first line I started to research. I found that the line went back to 1635 when John North at age 20 sailed from London on The ship "Susan & Ellen" which was owned by Sir Richard Saltonstal one of the original patentees of Connecticut. I started researching my Great great grandmother Fidelia Maria North Booth. At that time my mother her great granddaughter was alive and owned some items that belonged to Fidelia. There was her diary from 1855 that I transcribed, a needlework sampler that she did when she was 12 and a picture of her. It was an adventure discovering a tinsmith Jedediah North, a revolutionary war veteran Levi North, and many religious leaders in the congregational church in Connecticut. It was then that I realized how long some of my ancestors had been in this country.

Fidelia North Booth 1833-1874

Favorite Picture Week 2

Week 2 Favorite Picture 

I found this picture in a box of my grandmothers that contained misc papers.

This tintype picture is of her mother Brenda Brown Getchell (1862-1961) at age 14 year.
What a thrill it was to find it.

Fresh Start Week 1

52 Ancestors in 52 weeks 2020
Fresh Start Week 1

The ancestor I picked for this is my grandfather Claude Clayton Barlow. 1886-1969

Claude was born in Manchester, England, the 7th child of 8 born to Charles Barlow and Elizabeth Clayton. He immigrated to the Connecticut area in May of 1910. At the age of 24, he left Liverpool England on the 11th and arrived in Philadelphia PA on the 23^rdon the Merion. On the ship manifest he is listed as a Marine Engineer who is headed to New London, Connecticut.

Family story is he left because there was nothing for him in England. His mother had died and his widowed father had remarried. I have never found that his father remarried. I did find his retired railway clerk father Charles living with Claude’s sister Agnes Marguerite (35) (Daisy) and her husband John Blackburn (37) and 2 children Marjorie (4) and Lawrence (8) and his other sister May (20).

I now presume that Claude came to New London because of some friends in his hometown in England, Broughton, Salford, Lancashire which is near Manchester.

In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Broughton like this: 

BROUGHTON, a township-chapelry and a subdistrict, in Salford district, Lancashire; on the river Irwell, near the Bolton railway, in the parish and within the borough of Manchester. It includes a suburb of Manchester, called Higher Broughton and Lower Broughton, communicating with Salford by Broughton bridge; includes also the village of Kersall; and has a post office,‡ of the name of Broughton-Road, under Manchester. ...

This is how I figured it out. I have a list of presents from my grandparents wedding. It is handwritten. In it she mentions George Carr and his future wife Beatrice Phillips.  I know that on the ship manifest for Claude in 1910 he is meeting a George Carr. So I decide to check the census records. 

In 1910 according to the census Thomas Widger and Mary Cruise Phillips lived at 51 Phillips St in New London Ct.. Most everyone in their home and the home next door were all from Broughton England. My grandmother Gladys Getchell (his future wife) lived at 25 Phillips St with her parents Joseph and Brenda Getchell and 2 sisters and brother. She was single 18 and a teacher.

It appears that the neighbors to my grandmother the Philllps were from England. George Carr arrived in US 1909 from England.

George Carr was from the same place that Claude was from.

Beatrice’s parents Thomas and Mary Phillips were also from Broughton, Salford and arrived in New London Connecticut in 1882 or 83.