MARY ANN HANCOCK MARSDEN 1803 - 1877

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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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.



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MORE ABOUT GRANDMAS

A lot of grandmas are still unknown to me.  Others are "probables."  My gg grandma Ellen who came over from England mid nineteenth century may be a Marsden, Maiden or some similar last name.  She is one I hope to find more about.  But that will be a future blog as I'm out of known grandmas.

Today I'm beginning a new blog:  suekrusegrandpas.  I'll start with the Casey side.  Hope you'll take a look if you're interested.

ALICE CRANMER NORTON about 1536 - 1601

Alice must have had a very difficult life in England.  Her father was prominent in the church and in politics and had to flee the country when Queen Mary came into power.  Her uncle, the Archbishop of Canterbury, was burned at the stake before she was 20.  Her first cousin, Margaret, the archbishop's daughter, died soon after marriage, and Alice ended up marrying Margaret's husband, Thomas Norton.

The Nortons of Sharpenhow, Bedfordshire were a prominent family.  Thomas was nicknamed "the rack-master-general of England" for his torturous questioning of Catholics.  He had a master's degree from Cambridge and was a member of parliament; a poet as well as an attorney.

Alice was a Protestant like her father.  She had ten children.  When she was about 50, whe was considered "insane" and lived with her oldest daughter, Anne.  Her husband was imprisoned in the Tower for a while, then died in 1584.  Alice didn't live to see her son, Walter, killed in a massacre on a ship between Boston and Virginia.


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ALICE SANDS CRANMER born about 1500

When Aunt Maggie took Nancy and I to the movies to see Henry VIII in 1948, we loved it and had no idea that the three of us were descendants of the Cranmer family.  Thomas Cranmer was the Bishop of Canterbury and close confident of the king during Henry VIII's reign and was later burned at the stake.

Alice Sands was from Kent, England in the southeast near London.  She married Edmund Cranmer, brother of Thomas, who had been educated at Cambridge and was named Archdeacon of Canterbury in 1534.  During this time, England was in religious turmoil while some royalty still were loyal to the Catholic Church, and to the Pope, and others leaned toward the teachings of Martin Luther and other Protestant leaders and didn't like the hierarchy with the Pope above the King of England.  Both Edmund and his brother Thomas were church leaders and both leaned toward Protestantism and both were married, although kept their wives and families under wraps at times.

Alice and Edmund had about six children including Alice who married the widower of her first cousin, Thomas' daughter, Margaret.

When Catholic Mary became queen, Edmund fled to Germany.  His brother Thomas was burned at the stake in 1555.  I haven't yet learned when or where Alice died.


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ANN SPICER PARTRIDGE about 1617 - 1689

Ann and her husband, William Partridge, were probably from Buckingham, England and married there in 1636.  They soon left for America and settled in Salisbury, Massachusetts, just a mile or two from the southern border of New Hampshire.

They had at least seven children, one of whom married Ed Gove who is known for "Gove's Rebellion" in which some of our Wadleigh and Sleeper ancestors participated.  A new governor had been appointed for New Hampshire who apparently a lot of people didn't approve of.  In 1683, Gove instigated a small rebellion against the governor.  The demonstrators were arrested for treason.  Ed Gove was sent to the London Tower for three years.  His wife, Hannah, sister of our grandma Elizabeth, wrote for his safe return saying he was beset with these outbursts. 

William Partridge died when he was still a young man and Ann married Anthony Stanyon.  They lived in Hampton, New Hampshire where Ann died in 1689.



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ANN SMYTH SHAW about 1600 - 1647

Ann married Roger Shaw in London, England in 1618.  About eight years later, with at least 4 young children, they sailed for America and settled in Cambridge, Massachusetts near the Bay.  Roger was active in local government and was a vintner and innkeeper.

Later, they sold their Cambridge home and moved north to Hampton, New Hampshire, located on that about 20 mile strip bordering the Atlantic ocean.  Ann died there around 1647 when she still had very young children.  Soon thereafter, Roger married Susannah Tilton, a widow.  Ralph died in Hampton in 1661.


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