Two grandparents I knew well and loved were Doc and Minnie Casey, very unalike, one serious and quiet and one always joking and visiting, one with dark hair and eyes and one sandy-haired and fair. They met when Doc traveled to another state for training and they seemed to have nothing in common. But it turns out that Doc's grandmother was Eliza Hancock (see earlier blog) and Minnie's great grandmother was Mary Ann Hancock. When Mary Ann was growing up in Derbyshire, England, Eliza lived on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. Perhaps they were related a few generations back.
Mary Ann was the daughter of Joseph and Mary Jackson Hancock and she married Charles Marsden. They had thirteen children who grew up in Derbyshire. Aat some point, Mary Ann became a Mormon. Half of her children moved to Salt Lake City as adults and Mary Ann moved to Utah probably after Charles died in 1854 when he was only 50. There is a record of a Mary Marsden coming in 1866. Her daughter, our grandma Ellen Marsden, came to America about 1850.
Mary Ann apparently was living with her youngest daughter, Ann, when she died in Lehi, Utal in 1877.
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Thursday, July 19, 2012
Wednesday, July 18, 2012
ELLEN MARSDEN DAVIS PULLEN 1829 - 1906
I traced her name from the death certificates of two of her kids and later found her in the census. My grandma, Minnie Casey, would have grown up in the same neighborhood in Litchfield, IL as her grandma Ellen, but I never heard her talk about Ellen. The maiden name on the death certificates were Maiden and Maisden, so it took a while for me to think: Marsden. A distant cousin on the internet connected, writing that his Ellen had married Davis and Pullen. So now we know about Grandma Ellen.
Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England is in north central England, and that's where Ellen's family had lived for several generations. She came to America as a young woman, went to St. Louis, married Louis Davis and had a boy and a girl. Louis died early in their marriage, and she married Charles Pullen, also from Derbyshire who had come to America the same year as Ellen. Perhaps they knew each other back there. He was 7 or 8 years younger and had children from a previous marriage.
Some of Ellen's family were Mormon. Many siblings and her mother came to the US, mostly settling in Salt Lake City. Nothing I've seen in records shows that Ellen was a practicing Mormon.
Ellen and Charles lived in Litchfield, IL in the 1880's according to the census. Charles was a coal miner as was her first husband, Louis Davis. I've often wondered if Grandpa Louis was killed in a mining accident, but have found no evidence. Ellen died when she was 77.
sue<hilda casey lynch<minnie hilda davis<sophia kindlinger davis<louis james davis<ellen marsden davis pullen
Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England is in north central England, and that's where Ellen's family had lived for several generations. She came to America as a young woman, went to St. Louis, married Louis Davis and had a boy and a girl. Louis died early in their marriage, and she married Charles Pullen, also from Derbyshire who had come to America the same year as Ellen. Perhaps they knew each other back there. He was 7 or 8 years younger and had children from a previous marriage.
Some of Ellen's family were Mormon. Many siblings and her mother came to the US, mostly settling in Salt Lake City. Nothing I've seen in records shows that Ellen was a practicing Mormon.
Ellen and Charles lived in Litchfield, IL in the 1880's according to the census. Charles was a coal miner as was her first husband, Louis Davis. I've often wondered if Grandpa Louis was killed in a mining accident, but have found no evidence. Ellen died when she was 77.
sue<hilda casey lynch<minnie hilda davis<sophia kindlinger davis<louis james davis<ellen marsden davis pullen
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