Nolan

From Carol:

The short version: Mary Ellen got abstracts from the Northern Tipperary Heritage Center of the marriage record of James Nolan, born around 1792 in Ireland, to Bridget Ryan, born around 1800, in the Roman Catholic Church in Borrisokane. The record says Bridget's address was "Bokane" which we take to be an abbreviation for Borrisokane. Per the Irish Tithe Applotment records (the government forced the Irish to pay tithes to the Church of England at one time), there were lots of Ryans living in and near Borrisokane, but very few Nolan families. Mary Ellen also got abstracts of the baptismal records of James (Jr.), my great-great-grandfather, in January 1822; and younger children Darby/Jeremiah, Mary (baptised 3/17/1826); Margaret, and John, born in 1833. Missing is the one for Mary Ellen's ancestor, Thomas, but she's working on it.

The family sailed from Liverpool to NewYork on a ship called the American, arriving on September 14, 1835. According to the handwritten ship's passenger list, baby John died at sea on 9/1/1835. The family settled in or near Newark, Essex County, New Jersey, for the next several years. Children Malachy and Bridget were born and baptised at St. John's Catholic Church in Newark in 1837 and 1839, respectively. It appears Malachy died before 1840. At the time of the 1840 US Census, the family was living in Belleville, Essex County, New Jersey, which is north of Newark. Their last name appears to be "Noram" or Norum" in the transcription of the US Census record, but I'm sure it is the right family. James and Bridget's youngest child William was born there in December 1841 and baptised in St. Peter's Catholic Church. In the same church record book I also found the marriage record of my great-great grandparents, James Jr. and Susan Connolly, on 6/6/1840.

At some point after William's birth, the family moved to Iowa. I don't know how most of the family got from New Jersey to Iowa. James Jr. and Susan's oldest son Thomas reportedly was born in Mobile, Alabama, in December 1842 (though we haven't found his baptismal record yet), which suggests that James and Susan sailed from New Jersey to the southern coast, most probably going on to New Orleans and up the Mississippi River; they lived in Washington County, Missouri, for several years, and their next 3 sons were born there. But I've got no evidence that the rest of the family took that route.

I've picked up what appear to be records of James Nolan/Nowlan Sr. in Iowa as early as 1843. He and his son Thomas bought land in Johnson County in eastern Iowa in what originally was Newport township; it got split up and their land was in Graham and Cedar townships. They were instrumental in the building of the original St. Bridget's Church in that area, which became known as the Nolan Settlement. James Sr. died there in 1870. We believe his wife Bridget may have died the year before, and we think they may be buried in the cemetery around St. Bridget's but there are no records of this. Right before he died, James sold some of his farmland to youngest son William for $1. In his will he left his remaining farmland to his two daughters, Mary Beeson and Margaret Kelly. It appears the Beesons did move up to that land and farmed it for a time. Mary Ann appears to be the only Nolan that we know for sure is buried at St. Bridget's - she died at age 49. We really don't know what became of Margaret at this point. Absalom and one or more of his sons seem to have continued farming the land for a time.

James Jr. and his wife Susan ended up farming in Union township, Johnson County, west of Iowa City. Susan died in 1873 and is buried in St. Joseph's Cemetery in Iowa City. James remarried; he died in 1905, and his wife Annie died 3 years later. We believe both are buried in St. Joseph's too. Their four sons had all moved away. Both Thomas and William eventually sold off their land and moved away. Jeremiah and his wife Elizabeth had moved to Nebraska not long after they married. By 1889 there were no Nolans left living in the Nolan Settlement.

Flanders

Genealogy of the Descendants of Stephen Flanders

Who settled at Salisbury, Mass. in the year 1643

Collins E. Flanders – joined the LDS Church on March 9, 1857

Birth – March 6, 1814

Death – July 10, 1857

Married to Ellen Sophia Jacobs on July 10, 1857

Birth – April 6, 1814

Death – September 1, 1901

Son: Oden Goodman Flanders

Birth – May 1, 1866 in Payson, Utah

Date and place of death – Sept 5, 1903 in Kimberly, Utah

Married to Emma Cook

Birth – July 12, 1876 in Kanab, Utah

Date and place of death – Sept. 15, 1943 in Salt Lake City, Utah

Date and place of marriage – Sept. 5, 1894 in Panguitch, Utah

Names of mother’s parents – Fredric Cooke and Mary Ann Picton Luke

Names of children, date and place of birth, death and marriage:

• Emma Flanders born July 26, 1895 in Milford, Utah married L. Charles Gates on June 23, 1915
• Raymond Flanders born July 8, 1897 in Cove, Utah Married Rosetta Rudd on December 23. 1918
• Sarah Ella Flanders born December 22, 1901 in Junction, Utah married Andrew Gaven. Second marriage to William Joseph Simpson on October 10, 1925.
• Frederick Ralph Flanders b. June 10, 1899 d. Nov 10, 1965 m. Maggie Rolena Ackerman on June 12, 1923

Sarah Ella Flanders and William Joseph Simpson are Emma LaRue Simpson's parents.

Leslie William Peirce, Jr

Grandpa was born not breathing and with no heartbeat but the midwife refused to let the baby die. She performed mouth to mouth and hit him on the back in hopes to bring him back to life, but with no results. Quickly, she prepared two tubs of water, one hot and one cold. SHe dunked him in one and then in the other. The shock to his body started his heart and started his breathing.

Kathleen Marjorie Critchley

Grandma was born without a heartbeat and was labeled a "blue baby". Her mother refused for this to be the case so she beat on her back unil she started to breat and her heart started to beat again. Grandma had a lot of health problems throughout her life and she attributes them to her rough start.

Interview with Grandma July 24, 2004
My mother wasn't healthy, she was sick all the time. I can see her close now. My mother was slender and my dad was short. That's why I am short. I don't remember if my mother was tall. She was about the same size as he was I guess. She was sick and I remember being in the hospital with them. They came out and told me she had died. It was a neighbor that live on the next street, on Common Wealth Avenue, somebody from mutual. She heard about it and she came over and got me and sat me down and talked to me. I don't know what she talked about but she tried to make me feel better. I think she was telling me that my mother had gone to heaven. She told me the good things, and it made me feel a lot better. But I knew that she was gone and it was awful (sobbing).

Pett Family

Jennette Wilson Pett & Henry Herbert Pett

At the Brigham City Cemetery

Jennie Pett Peirce

Love this photo of Jennie Pett Peirce! 

??? & Jeanette Wilson Pett

Jennie Pett Peirce

Eli Thomas Peirce and Annie Margrett Olsen

Eli Thomas Peirce was the son of William and Jerusha Smith Peirce.

Barden Family

"Tracing the Barden geneology is difficult because the Barden family moved often, bought no land, left no wills, and forgot to erect headstones. They also managed to avoid the census taker. Another reason they are so hard to trace is the name itself; when the name Barden is spoken it may be misundersood by a clerk of census taker.
Another fact that confused early historians and genealogists was that the first Bardens, and Bordens in Massachusetts, both lived in the southern part of the state adn had the same given nams, like John, William, and Joseph." -Leon R. Brown and Mary R. Porter.

Jerusha descends from honest, humble ancestry. William Barden, who was born about the year 1624, came to American from England in 1638 as the covenant servant of Thomas Boardman. The Barden family settled in the part of Middleboro Mass today called Barden Hills. William Barden reputedly became quite wealthy in that he became an "owner in nearly all of the purchases from the Indians in town. William Barden died in Middleborob early in 1692/3.