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SPENCER, LEWIS, WHITE, HOWELL Gloucestershire
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GRANDFATHER |
GREAT-GRANDPARENTS |
2ND GREAT-GRANDPARENTS |
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Edward Spencer 1894-1955 Chicago, Ill. Athelstane, Wis. Oakland, Ore. |
Joseph
Tyndal Spencer 1860-1939 Cambridge and Stroud, Gloucestershire, England Chicago, Ill. Athelstane, Wis. |
Joseph J. Spencer 1833-1909 Wotton-Under-Edge, Gloucestershire Reading, Berkshire Cambridge, Glos. Stroud, Glos., England |
Jacob
Spencer 1798-1880 Wotton-Under-Edge, Glos., England DESCENDANTS ANCESTORS |
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Seehawer PHOTO |
PHOTOS OF JOSEPH AND MARY ANN | +Hannah Howell Abt. 1797–1863 Wotton-Under-Edge, Glos., England |
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| PHOTO OF JOSEPH AND SARAH | +Mary Ann White
1827-1919 Newbury, Berkshire Reading, Berkshire Cambridge, Glos. Stroud, Glos., England |
James
White Abt. 1804–1882 Newbury, Berkshire Reading, Berkshire, England DESCENDANTS |
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| +Esther Payne Abt. 1804—1884 Newbury, Berkshire, Reading, Berkshire, England |
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| +Sarah Ellen Lewis
1858-1941 Bisley, Glos. Stroud, Glos., England Chicago, Ill. Athelstane, Wis. |
David
Lewis About 1832-1910 Bisley, Glos. Stroud, Glos., England |
John
Lewis 1800– Bisley, Glos., England DESCENDANTS |
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| +Elizabeth Driver 1801– Bisley, Glos., England |
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| +Lydia Watts Abt. 1827– Calne, Wiltshire, England Bisley, Glos., England Stroud, Glos., England |
Samuel Watts Abt. 1793– Melksham and Calne, Wiltshire Stroud, Gloucestershire England |
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| +Eleanor Buckland Abt. 1798– Melksham and Calne, Wiltshire Stroud, Gloucestershire England |
 Jos. T. Spencer family on the list of passengers arriving in New York City on the ship Dorset April 5, 1882. Sarah's middle name was "Ellen" or "Eleanor." "Opee," age 17, was Joe's brother Opie. MISSING PIECES (Do you have one of them?)
LINKS Spencer Photos Joseph J. and Mary Ann (White) portrait, wedding portrait of Gertrude Seehawer and Ralph E. Spencer, Joseph T. and Sarah (Lewis) Spencer with some of their children and grandchildren, four Spencer sisters. Mary's Spencer Photos Gertrude Seehawer Spencer’s papers and photos ended up at my aunt’s house after Gertrude’s death. My cousin allowed me to scan these photos. Sarah (Lewis) and Joseph T. Spencer and some of their children. Susan's White Photo George Beaumont White (brother of Mary Ann) with his son and his son's family. Unidentified Spencer or Lewis Photos from England Can you help? Having old portraits and not knowing who the subjects are is so frustrating! Transcription of Spencer Bible One of my father's cousins has Joseph and Sarah Spencer's family Bible. She let me copy the names from the front of it during a visit in 1984. Northern Wisconsin's Cutover Lands In the first few decades of the 1900s, both sets of my grandparents and some of my great-grandparents tried to develop farms on land that had been cut over by lumber companies in northern Wisconsin (Marinette County). They hoped to achieve the same kind of success as homesteaders in the Midwest in the previous century, but the odds were against them. Here are some links with more information: "1870-1940: Defining a Region" by Robert Gough "Richard T. Ely and the development of the Wisconsin cutover" by Robert Gough "Colonizing the Cutover: Wisconsin's Progressive-Era Experiments in Rural Planning" by Susan O. Haswell and Arnold R. Alanen Photos of Cutover Lands from the Wisconsin History Society LDS
Ancestral
File compiled by Carol Oldroyd (going further back than Jacob)
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Musings LATEST ON THE SPENCER AND LEWIS BRANCHES December 26, 2009 Books Farming the Cutover: A Social History of Northern Wisconsin, 1900-1940 My husband bought me this book for Christmas, and I have already started reading it. Joe and Sarah Spencer were prime targets for the salesmen disposing of cutover forest land near Athelstane. When he retired as a painter, paper hanger, and decorator in Chicago, they bought land and moved to Wisconsin in 1907. They did their best to turn the land into a farm, but by the time they died (in 1939 and 1941) they were broke and depending on the county. The county took their land after they died. This book describes what they were up against. I've added some links above to articles about the cutover that you can read on line. Around Stroud: The Stories behind the Pictures Santa brought me this book for Christmas, too. It doesn't have an index, so as soon as I opened it I flipped through it looking for the Joseph Spencer shoe factory on High Street. Close! On page 54 there is a photo of Waterloo Pharmacy at 11 High Street in 1887. In the 1881 census, the Joseph Spencer family was living at 11 and 12 High Street. Dec. 10, 2009 Kenda Cook Kenda passed away this morning. She was born April 12, 1961, to June (Spencer) and Robert Cook. Oct. 20, 2009 Spencer and Lewis descendants (cousins) I've updated the pages for descendants of Jacob and Mary (Howell) Spencer and John and Elizabeth (Driver) Lewis. Sept. 28, 2009 Kenda's book My cousin Kenda has just published a book about the adoption of her daughter. [Link removed as availability is not known at this time.] June 5, 2009 I've made a little progress on finding some Spencer cousins. From putting together information from censuses, death indexes, and even a passenger list from Bermuda to New York, I'm pretty sure Albert Biehl died in California in 1979 and William E. Rasmussen, Jr. died in Florida in 1996. I don't have any information on children for Albert, and I have very little on William's children. I still haven't been able to find anything on Delores Biehl Schultz. April 9, 2009 I've added an Amazon Associates store to the site to recommend books that give us an idea of what our Spencer ancestors' lives were like. CREDITS
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