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Carol's Ancestry List
Money for nothin' -Life in the commodities market
The hills
The Bartelme's
NORTHFIELD INN - HOME OF THE NORTHBROOK HISTORICAL SOCIETY (Picture available on the Henderson-Hill photo page)
The landmark Inn served as a welcome stop on the two-day trip from Chicago to Milwaukee during the late 1800s. In 1901 the Frank Bartelme family moved their business from Chicago to Shermerville (now Northbrook) and established the Northfield Inn as one of the finest restaurants on the North Shore. The carriage trade flocked to Bartelme's for all you could eat for $1.00 chicken dinners, complete with Mrs. Bartelme's homemade salads and pastries.
A dance pavilion, picnic area and bowling alleys added to the popularity of the Northfield Inn. Until its doors were closed for the last time in 1973, the Inn was a leading social and political center for Shermerville and Northbrook.
When the Bartelme property was sold, the new owner wanted to tear down the Inn to build condominiums. Through community support the Historical Society was able to save the Inn by raising the money necessary to move and restore it. From its original location at the corner of Shermer and Waukegan Roads, the Inn slowly rolled down Shermer Road and across the park to its new site on the Village Green on January 17, 1975.
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California Dreamin' and Canada bound
The Hendersons, Claffy's, Davison and Johnsons
I have to give a hearty thanks to all the help I've gotten researching these sides of the families. People such as Jim Claffee and Carol Claffey Mounts have added a great deal of information to my data base.
Jim was able to find information regarding 2 Thomas Claffey's. One was in the 1871 Census for Halton Co, Ontario. The other was in the 1880 Census for Pennsylvania. This second one was the right age to be ours, had a wife named Elizabeth like ours, but had no child named Mary (as far as we knew).
In my never ending search for information about my ancestors, I sometimes stumble upon the most interesting information. While researching (or trying to) Samuel Johnson, I stumbled upon the obit for the Thomas Claffey:
Claffey, Thomas, News , appeared in Acton Free Press, 28 Jun 1888 , page 2 , column 2
DEATH OF A FORMER RESIDENT.
Thomas Claffey, a Well-Known Character in
Acton's Early History Died in
Pennsylvania.
Mr. Thomas Claffey died suddenly on June 6th in Sharon, Pa., at the age of 70, and was buried at Newcastle, Pa. He left a wife and five children, viz., Mrs. Jennie Levake, Alliance, O.; Mrs. Mary Albin, Belleville, Ill., Mr. James Claffey, Mrs. Susan Honley and Mr. Thos. Claffey, of Sharon, Pa., all of whom arrived in time to attend his funeral. Mr. Claffey was one of the best known business men residing in Acton in the years from 1850 to 1865. He was a successful railroad contractor and built the greater part of the Grand Trunk railway between Toronto and Sarnia; also the Northern railway between Toronto and Barrie, being the trusty business manager of Messrs. Walter and Frank Shanley. He also built the Esplanade in Toronto. In 1859 he owned 700 acres of land in and about Acton, and the people of this vicinity gratefully remember the assistance he gave in the purchase of timber, ties and railway supplies as well as the hiring of teams and labor. The Roman Catholic church at Dublin owes much to his generous subscriptions. Although not possessed of much worldly wealth at the time of his demise, in 1864 he had as much as ,000 in the Commercial Bank of Toronto. Many of his old time friends in Acton, Guelph and Georgetown will hear with regret of his death.
OK. So we tie the 2 of them together. I have requested the information on the household members from the 1871 census. I'm certain it will show our Mary. There were an extremely limited number of Thomas Claffey's in Canada during this time to chose from (this is the only one). Also, the information that Mary is married also makes sense. She is fairly old (by the standards of the time) when she had Frances in 1891.
As I progress down the family, i'm also fairly sure that we'll find Susie became a Donley, not Honley. Carol Claffey Mounts had one of her Washington Co,PA Claffey's married a donley. There were many Donley's in the PA area. Jennie's (I suspect she's "Jane" on the 1881 census) last name is really spelled Levacque and moves to Alliance, Ontario, not Ohio like we from the US would have thought. James marries a Herrmann whose father owns a hotel in Sharon, PA where the lived in 1880.
NEW INFORMATION ON THE DAVISON'S:
All the information on the Davison family has been moved to a new page. Click on the link on the left to take you there.
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I'm Henry the VIII (I am!)
Dodson-Howard connections
It's always been thought in my mothers family that one of our maternal ancestors was a descendant of a relative of Ann Boleyn, wife of Henry VIII. There seems to be little doubt that Matthew Howard, who came to America somewhere about 1630, was a descendant of Thomas Howard, born 1473. Thomas Howard was son-in-Law to King Edward the IV, brother-in-law to Henry VII (his first wife was Anne Plantagent, daughter of King Edward IV) and uncle to both Ann Boleyn and Catherine Howard, the beheaded wives of Henry VIII. The story gets better, though, when you start researching how Matthew was descended from Thomas Howard.
There are 2 popular theories of the ancestry of Matthew Howard. Either theory is equally interesting. Filled with betrayal, corrupt officials and beheadings. It's the kind of things that make Hollywood proud.
THEORY NUMBER 1
The first theory is that he is descended from Sir Henry Howard, Thomas Howard's second son. His father was also named Thomas Howard, born 1561:
Name Suffix: Earl of Suffolk
2nd son of 4th Duke, 1st Earl of Suffolk 1603,1st Baron Howard De Walden 1597 Knight of the Garter(KG) 1597;Lord Chamberlin 1614;Lord High Treasurer in 1615.He and Margaret were corruped by the system and in 1618 he was tried for corruption in office anad dismissed from all his offices and fined 30,000
pounds.He had 6 sons and 3 daughters. Son Thophilus, 2rd Earl, and daughter Frances were noteable, but they were not commendable. Suffolk was among the richest men in England at one time,but he died owing huge debts. After
Theophilus sold Framlingham there was still 132,000 pounds owed.He inherited Augley Eng and spent a sum of 200,00 pounds rebuilding it. His third wife,
Cathryn Knyvett- SS: 16 Jan 1967:SL.
Source of Information:GeneralHistry House of Howard's
Vol.13 Table 7 V1-2, York 27a.
This Thomas Howard was the son of another Thomas Howard:
Thomas was born at Kenninghall at 36 min and 37 seconds past 2 in the morning. 4th Duke ofNorfolk (1538), Son of Henry, (Earl of Surrey). (2) wife ,Margaret Audley(1539). (1) Lady Mary Fitzalan (1540) (3) Elizabeth Leyburne (d.1567), dau of Sir Thomas Leyburne, & widow of Lord Thomas Dacre
of Gilslland. She had his children, 1 boy &3 dau. Tom assused wardship of the children. Md the three Dacre dautohis three sons. First atainer rev 3 Aug 1553 with KG &K of B.
Attainer place on 4th Duke in 1572. Atainer removed in 1860 for Thomas who became the 5th Duke,His Father was Henry Fedrick Howard 1608-1652. (Encylo
of America, Vol 14 (1953)p.454.
Thomas Howard, fourth Duke of Norfolk, K. G., born,March 101536(Cole's Esch. lib. 1.),succeeded his grandfather in the dukedom, in 1554, arraigned
and condemned on charge of treason,Jan. 16, 1572, beheaded on tower-hill,on the second of June following (Camd.208-217.),buried in
the tower. MS.life ofhis son,ch.18
And of Sir Henry Howard:
Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey.(1517-47), English soldier and poet, son of Thomas Howard, 3rd duke of Norfolk. He was given his title by courtesy in 1524, when his father became duke of Norfolk. Howard served in the war with Scotland in 1542, and in 1543 he fought in Flanders with the English army on the side of Holy Roman Emperor Charles V,
who was seeking to acquire the Netherlands. The following year he was wounded at the siege of Montreuil; in 1545 and 1546 he was commander of the garrison of Boulogne. Quick-tempered and quarrelsome, he made many enemies and was
imprisoned several times for misconduct. Arrested with his father on trumped-up charges of treason, he was condemned and executed in 1547. Although not
primarily a man of letters,Howard greatly enriched English literature by his introduction of new verse forms.His love poems, like those of his contemporary
Sir Thomas Wyatt, show the influence of Italian models. The two share the distinction of having introduced the sonnet to English literature. Howard's translation of the second and thirdbooks of the AENEID by Vergil was written in blank versew of five iambicfeet,thefirst use of this form in English. forty of his poems were printed posthumously in 1557 in Songs and Sonettes,
Written by the Ryght Honorable Lorde Henery Howard, Late earle of Surrey, ond others, and in the same year his translationsfrom Vergil appeared as Certain
Bokes od Virgiles (Copyright---Surrey,Henry Howard, Earl of Funk and Wagnalls New Encyclopedia)
THEORY NUMBER 2
The second theory is that he is descended from Thomas Howard, Thomas Howard's first son.
His father was John Howard and his grandfather was Robert Howard. Here's the story of how Robert came to be:
Lord Thomas Howard was the son of Thomas Howard, Earl of Surrey and 2nd Duke of Norfolk (1443 - 1524), and his second wife, Agnes Tilney (? - 1545). He was the secretary to the infant Princess, later Queen, Elizabeth. While he was the secretary to the infant Princess, Thomas Howard met and fell in love with Princess Margaret Douglas, daughter of Queen Margaret of Scotland (sister of King Henry VIII). Margaret was the First Lady-in Waiting to Princess Elizabeth.
On Easter Day, 16 April 1536, they became betrothed. In England at that time, a
betrothal was the equivalent of marriage, although it was customary to formalize the marriage with a church wedding, this was not required until the Council of Trent in 1563. The marriage did not set well with the King, Henry VIII. Because Henry VIII did not have a male heir, any male issue from this marriage would be a potential successor to the throne. Accordingly, Henry VIII had Thomas Howard imprisoned in the Tower of London on 8 July 1536 and charged with High Treason. The charge of High Treason would crush any claim that Lady Margaret might have to the throne and mark any of her children as illegitimate. One cannot underestimate the Tudor desire to destroy Lady Margaret's claim to the throne of England. It was a particularly touchy issue for the Tudors, especially if Princess Mary and Princess Elizabeth were declared illegitimate by the Church as a result of Henry
VIII's divorce of Catherine of Aragon.
Lady Margaret, refusing to abandon her husband which, per the Royal Marriage Act, would have secured her freedom, was also sent to the Tower on 18 July.Being "overcome with worry and melancolia" ... i.e., pregnant ... the King's physician, Dr. Cromer, recommended that Lady Margaret be moved to Syon House, a monastery. She was transferred from the Tower on 10 November. It is here that her son, Richard, was born. Apparently, his birth was known to but a few and he was sent to his Uncle Thomas's estate to be raised as his son. Note that Thomas Howard had another brother from a different mother also named Thomas.
Subsequently, Queen Jane Seymore bore Henry VIII a son, Edward VI, and the threatto theTudor succession was removed. Lady Margaret was restored to her honors and returned to court.
Unfortunately, her husband Thomas soon thereafter died of natural causes in the Tower.
Robert Howard was the only child of Lord Thomas Howard and Princess Margaret Douglas. He was raised quietly by his uncle, Thomas Howard at Brockdish Manor, Burston, Norfolk County, as his son until the Tudor threat was removed by the death of Queen Elizabeth in 1603 and the ascension of James IV of Scotland onto the English throne as James I.
He resided at Brockdish Manor until the fall of 1585. He then moved to Pelham Manor, Kenninghall, Norfolk County, located approximately 30 miles southwest of Norwich, Norfolk County.
Moss, James E., "Providence Ye Lost Towne At Severn", Maryland Historical
So you see, no matter which story you like the best, I'M HENRY THE VIII, I AM!
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Eleanor Howard
It seems I am not the only person perplexed that such a well known family as the Howard's have no record of an Eleanor Howard. She appears to come out of nowhere to marry John Dodson.
According to the book: Dodson Genealogy 1600 - 1907 by Rev. Thompson P. Ege, A.M., her father was General Eager Howard. The problem is, no record of this individual exists.
Looking at the Howards that did exist in the Maryland area, there are several possibilities.
Both include the possibility that Rev. Edge was incorrect in the first name of the father of Eleanor Howard.
The first likely candidate for Eleanor's father is Cornelius Howard, born 1706 in Baltimore, Maryland. He married Ruth Eager 14 Jan 1738. The pair had 9 known children ranging from 1739 to 1769.
Howard researcher's appear to agree on the dates of births of these children. There were several gaps, amounting to years, between their children in which Eleanor could have been born. Since this family was known to use the name of "Eager", it could easily be that this is Eleanor's family.
The second Likely Candidate for Eleanor's father is Thomas Howard Sr. This is a theory put forth by Nelson Smith, who has done an incredible amount of research into finding Eleanor's parents. Clink on the picture of Ann Boleyn to take you to
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