The records kept by Somersworth schoolmaster Joseph Tate have the family of Henry Gooding and Elizabeth Weymouth. Two children are listed: Ann Gooding born July 28, 1760 and Lydia Abbott born April 10 [no year given].1 Why the second child has the surname Abbott is unknown, but probably means she was a relative living with the family and not the child of Henry and Elizabeth.
Citations
Joseph Tate, "The Diary of Master Joseph Tate of Somersworth, N.H., From a Manuscript in the Possession of the New England Historic Genealogical Society," New England Historical and Genealogical Register, vol. 73-74 (Oct 1919, Jan, April, July 1920), 73:315.
Benjamin Weymouth
M, d. before March 1724/25
This research is a work in progress, taken from sources of varying reliability. The information should be verified before being relied upon.
Charles Thornton Libby, and Walter Goodwin Davis Sybil Noyes, Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1976; originally published in five parts, Portland, 1928-1939), p.741.
Mary (?)
F
This research is a work in progress, taken from sources of varying reliability. The information should be verified before being relied upon.
Charles Thornton Libby, and Walter Goodwin Davis Sybil Noyes, Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1976; originally published in five parts, Portland, 1928-1939), p.741.
George William Wallingford
M, b. in February, about 1854, d. probably before 1926
This research is a work in progress, taken from sources of varying reliability. The information should be verified before being relied upon.
George William Wallingford was born in February, about 1854 in Somersworth, Strafford County, New HampshireG. Place of birth comes from the birth certificates of his two children Edna and Guy. He was age 7 in the 1860 census, and the 1900 census gives his age as 45 with a birth month of February. The year is obscured but appears to be either 1854 or 1855.
Marriage*
He married Sarah Lovicea Kincaid, daughter of Hiram Kincaid and Louisa Cook, on 5 March 1876? In Rome, Kennebec County, MaineG. George W. Wallingford of Rome, Maine and Miss Sarah "Kingcade" of Livermore, Maine filed their intention to marry on 16 Mar 1875 in Rome. The certificate was issued on March 24th. The original Rome records later show their marriage, performed by trial justice C.W. Fuller, but the date is problematic. The month and date clearly state March 5th, but the year appears to be 1875. The final digit isn't fully formed, however, so likely is a 6. That would mean they waited nearly a full year after filing their intention to get married, which is a bit unusual. Sarah was only 15 when they filed the intention, however, so perhaps they were merely waiting until she was a bit older.
Death*
George died probably before 1926, probably in Canton, Oxford County, MaineG. A grandson believes that George died before his wife.1
A delayed (1942) birth record of his son Guy called him George William Wallingford. He was George W. Wallingford on his marriage records.
George hasn't been located in either the 1870 or 1880 censuses. Using the LDS website's 1880 census index, the entire towns of Rome and Canton, Maine were checked to no avail. The 1900 census of Canton, Maine has George and Sarah living as boarders in the household of 63-year-old widower John Tracy. It states that Sarah was the mother of eight children, only seven of whom were then living, five of them living with them at the time. The number of years they had been married is obscured, but appears to read either 15 or 16. No occupation was listed for George, but John Tracy is said to be a farmer.2
In 1910 they were still in Canton, living on Livermore Falls Road with four of their surviving seven children. George worked as a laborer doing odd jobs. It states that they had been married for 36 years at the time, and again mentions that Sarah was the mother of eight children, seven living.
A page by page search of the 1920 census of Canton, Maine was done but they are not to be found there. George and Sarah were still alive in 1921 when the following diary entry was made by the mother of their son Roland's wife: "Sunday, Sept. 18, 1921. Warm and pleasant Roland went to Canton to day to visit his parents."3
Correspondence from Joan Willette of Wales, Maine, email dated 1 Feb 2004.
1900 U.S. Federal census, Maine, Oxford Co., Canton, p.83, original record viewed on HeritageQuest.com on 18 Jan 2004.
Correspondence from Leah Smith, great-great granddaughter of the diary's author, email dated 26 Jan 2004. She transcribed some pages from the diary which is in the possession of her cousin..
She married George William Wallingford, son of Giles Wallingford and Margaret Ann Bean, on 5 March 1876? In Rome, Kennebec County, MaineG. George W. Wallingford of Rome, Maine and Miss Sarah "Kingcade" of Livermore, Maine filed their intention to marry on 16 Mar 1875 in Rome. The certificate was issued on March 24th. The original Rome records later show their marriage, performed by trial justice C.W. Fuller, but the date is problematic. The month and date clearly state March 5th, but the year appears to be 1875. The final digit isn't fully formed, however, so likely is a 6. That would mean they waited nearly a full year after filing their intention to get married, which is a bit unusual. Sarah was only 15 when they filed the intention, however, so perhaps they were merely waiting until she was a bit older.
Death*
Sarah died circa 1926, probably in Canton, Oxford County, MaineG. One of her daughter Edna's daughters remembers her mother telling her that she went to her grandmother's wake on the farm in Canton when she was about two years old, or about 1926. He may have died elsewhere.3
When the 1900 census was taken Allie, as he was then called, was living as a boarder in the home of William Allen in East Livermore, Maine. He was employed as a day laborer.5 When the 1910 census was taken on April 15th, Alson was a sailor on the U.S.S. Vermont. He was single at the time. The website of the Naval Historical Center has this to say about the early history of the U.S.S. Vermont:
"USS Vermont, a 16,000-ton Connecticut class battleship, was built at Quincy, Massachusetts. Commissioned in March 1907, she spent most of the rest of that year on trials, "shake down" operations and fleet maneuvers. With other Atlantic Fleet battleships, she left Hampton Roads, Virginia, in December 1907 to begin the era's most important demonstration of Naval mobility, the World cruise of the "Great White Fleet". Over the next fifteen months, Vermont steamed around South America to the U.S. west coast, crossed the Pacific and Indian Oceans, transited the Suez Canal and returned to Hampton Roads via the Mediterranean Sea and Atlantic Ocean.
Modernized after this trip, Vermont received two "cage" masts and other new features. After completion of this work in June 1909, she spent most of the following eight years taking part in fleet operations along the U.S. east coast and in the Caribbean. In 1910-11 and again in 1913, the battleship crossed the Atlantic to visit European ports. She also participated in the Vera Cruz intervention during April-October 1914 and supported U.S. Marines in Haiti in 1916-617."
It is presently unknown exactly how long Alson served on the Vermont.
Ten years later he was living in a rented house on Walnut St. in Bridgewater, Mass. with his wife and two children. Living with them were his brother George, his wife's sister May C. Grace, and an aunt named Annie J. Burns.7 The exact relationship of this Annie is unknown at present. She was a 43-year-old widow whose parents were both said to have been born in Ireland, which would indicate that she isn't the sister of either of Allie's parents. She may be a sister of one of his wife Lena's parents.
If their daughter Louise was really 10 in the 9 January 1920 census, then she would have been born before her parents married. She may, therefore, be the daughter of one, but not both, of her parents, or perhaps an adopted daughter.
Children of Alson Allie Wallingford and Lena M. Grace
Correspondence from For month, year and place Clara Elaine (Hughes) Wallingford Tirrell of New Haven, CT, email dated 24 Jul 2001, referencing a death certificate tucked into a family Bible owned by Alson's grandson John Wallingford, her ex-husband..
Correspondence from Clara Elaine (Hughes) Wallingford Tirrell of New Haven, CT, email dated 24 Jul 2001, referencing a death certificate tucked into a family Bible owned by Alson's grandson John Wallingford, her ex-husband..
1900 U.S. Federal census, Maine, Androscoggin Co., East Livermore, p.168, original record viewed on HeritageQuest.com on 18 Jan 2004.
In the 1920 census of Bridgewater, Mass. when he was 7 years old, his name was "Alvie".
According to the Social Security Death Index his card was issued in California. In 1936 he was working in Venice, California for the Underwood Elliott Fisher Co.5
Shirley was living on Poquonock Rd. in Groton, Conn. when she died.
The parentage of Shirley A. Arnold is uncertain. Her mother's name comes from an email from her son's ex-wife Clara Tirrell of New Haven, CT dated 18 Feb 2004. Her father's name is assumed from the 1920 and 1930 census records, where a Shirley Arnold of the correct age was living in the household of Samuel and Emma (Emile in 1930) Arnold. In 1920 she was age 4 6/12 in Milford, CT and in 1930 she was age 14 living in Bridgeport, CT. (1920 census, Conn., New Haven Co., Milford, E.D. 493, p.12A, original record viewed on HeritageQuest.com on 25 Jan 2004 ; 1930 census, Conn., Fairfield Co., Bridgeport, Voting District 1, E.D. 1-2, p.10B, original record viewed on HeritageQuest.com on 25 Jan 2004.)
Marguerite N. Lambert, Marshall Marriage and Death Newspaper Notices (Detroit, MI: Detroit Society for Genealogical Research, 1997), p.138 (From The Marshall Statesman Nov 7, 1849).
Susan Jemima Ketchum
F
This research is a work in progress, taken from sources of varying reliability. The information should be verified before being relied upon.
Marguerite N. Lambert, Marshall Marriage and Death Newspaper Notices (Detroit, MI: Detroit Society for Genealogical Research, 1997), p.138 (from The Marshall Statesman, Apr 14, 1846]
Mary Ann Wallingford
F, b. circa 1817, d. 19 October 1851
This research is a work in progress, taken from sources of varying reliability. The information should be verified before being relied upon.
There is no proof yet that she is a daughter of Jonathan and Esther, and only her birth date and residence in Marshall is evidence of its liklihood. According to her obituary she was sa resident of Marshall, Michigan for many years, and later moved to Allen's Grove, where her sister and her husband, the Blairs, also resided. She was single, a teacher and a Presbyterian.
Citations
Marguerite N. Lambert, Marshall Marriage and Death Newspaper Notices (Detroit, MI: Detroit Society for Genealogical Research, 1997), p.138 (from The Marshall Statesmen, Nov. 5, 1851).
Esther Wallingford
F, b. circa 1820
This research is a work in progress, taken from sources of varying reliability. The information should be verified before being relied upon.
The 1846 Wisconsin State census finds Gaylord Blair living in the town of Racine.2 On 10 February 1848 he was living in Walworth County, Wisconsin when he purchased 120 acres of land from the U.S. General Land Office3, presumably land in Darien, where he was subsequently found in census records.
When the 1850 census was taken on September 12th, they were living in Darien, Wisconsin, where Gaylord was a farmer on property worth $6000. Living with them were Esther's parents Jonathan and Esther Wallingford.4 They were still in Darien when the 1860 census was taken on June 20th. Gaylord was a farmer on property worth $15,000, and his personal property was worth $1000. Esther's father Jonathan Wallingford was still living with them, her mother having since died.5 According to her mother's death notice in the Marshall, Michigan newspaper (where brother Alanson Wallingford lived), she died in 1854 while visiting the Blairs at their home in Allen's Grove, Wisconsin. Allen's Grove is a section of Darien.
Marguerite N. Lambert, Marshall Marriage and Death Newspaper Notices (Detroit, MI: Detroit Society for Genealogical Research, 1997), p.6 (from The Marshall Statesman Apr 25, 1844]
Website Source: Wisconsin Census 1820-90 on ancestry.com, Wisconsin 1846 State Census Index, date viewed 11 Jan 2004.
Website Source: United States Bureau of Land Management, General Land Office Records, (http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/), Accession/Serial No. WI2920_.139, date viewed 11 Jan 2004.
1850 U.S. Federal census, Wisconsin, Walworth Co., Darien, p.329.
1860 U.S. Federal census, Wisconsin, Walworth Co., Darien, p.95-96.
Gaylord Blair
M, b. May 1807
This research is a work in progress, taken from sources of varying reliability. The information should be verified before being relied upon.
Gaylord Blair was born in May 1807 in New York, New YorkG. He was 42 in the 1850 census and 53 in the 1860 census, born in New York. A Rootsweb database has a Gaylord Blair born in May 1807 to Joel Blair and Mary Lawson, a family who moved from Warren, Massachusetts to Bridgewater, New York in April 1798.
Marguerite N. Lambert, Marshall Marriage and Death Newspaper Notices (Detroit, MI: Detroit Society for Genealogical Research, 1997), p.6 (from The Marshall Statesman Apr 25, 1844]
Benjamin Weymouth
M, b. before 8 December 1756
This research is a work in progress, taken from sources of varying reliability. The information should be verified before being relied upon.
Benjamin Weymouth was born before 8 December 1756. He was baptized at his father's house in Rochester on that date "Being Dangerously Sick with Fitts".1 He may have died of his illness. No record has yet been found for him after this point.
Citations
"First Congregational Church Records, Rochester, N.H.," New Hampshire Genealogical Record, (Oct 1907-Apr 1910), 6:114.
Elfriede Kaefer
F
This research is a work in progress, taken from sources of varying reliability. The information should be verified before being relied upon.
