I created the web page for the 1902 Reunion years ago and posted a link to it. but I’ve now revised it to have links to to WikiTree rather than to our defunct family tree,
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Cotswolds, Part 7
[Originally published Aug. 17, 2021] We don’t know how Sarah Lugg and Thomas Clinch met. Avening, where he was born & raised is abut 6 miles south of Bisley, where she was born and raised.
Continue ReadingSeely Farm, Norway Ridge Rd, Osceola, Tioga Co., PA
Here’s an aerial photo, ca 1950, of the Seely farm — courtesy of Roger R, Hughey, According to hotes on the back (plus a little research) it belonged to: Henry Seely (1820 – 1888)). Then
Continue Reading1st Cook Reunion – 1958
Cooks are a limb on the John & Jane Campbell Hazlett branch of our tree. I’ll start sharing minutes from the notebook our former VP, the late Lois CHURCH Hassoldt lent me. Minutes & Attendance
Continue ReadingJoseph Campbell (Ann Clinch’s husband)’s Visit to Pittsburgh
Leafing through a notebook of minutes of early Campbell Reunions I came upon what at first glance was just a routine “letter of regret” in response to an invitation to attend the 1894 Campbell Reunion.
Continue Reading1947 News Clip About the Rev. Canon E. C. Essex and My Mother
I think many of you will find this clipping (and my reflections on it and our Clinch cousins in England, of interest; Even if you’re not a descendant of Joseph & Ann Clinch Campbell Click
Continue ReadingJoseph W. Buck’s 1937 Letter to Mabel SHIPMAN Shaw About Rev. Canon Edward Claude Essex
As I mentioned recently, I plan to add a bunch of web pages about Cousin Claude, not only because of their contents, but also in hope of reconnecting with that branch of the family and
Continue ReadingReunion Planning
I’m “Back in the Saddle Again” after bouts with what apparently was Omicron followed by “long COVID.” It hasn’t disappeared, but I’m now functional. And high on my list of priorities are planning and preparations
Continue ReadingCotswolds Part 6 [Originally published Aug. 16, 2021]
Sarah Lugg’s 1st husband was Thomas Clinch, b. 1778, presumably in Avening, Gloucestershire (he was baptized there). He and Sarah were married there in 1803. He died shortly after arriving in America n 1805. By
Continue ReadingCotswolds (Part 5) [Originally published Aug. 15, 2021]
OUR LUGGS’ ANCESTORS WERE ROBERT & ANN ELY LUGG, OF BISLEY, GLOUCESTERSHIRE, ENGLAND. OF THEIR 8 CHILDREN, TWO CAME TO AMERICA: THEIR ELDEST, SARAH (LUGG) CLINCH BLACKWELL CAMPBELL IN 1805 & THEIR YOUNGEST SON, CHARLES
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