HARLEY FARNHAM worked at the tanners trade in Brookfield before coming to Tunbridge. He was farmer there in 1850.spouse: Leavitt, Mary (~1798 - ~1856)
HORACE FARNHAM settled on the George Cushman farm in Tunbridge, Conn. where he built a sawmill.spouse: Hibbard, Sarah (~1789 - )
ORAMEL FARNHAM removed to Lowell and resided with sister Freelove until his marriage.
Osman was a good carpenter and an excellent hand to build stone bridges. (History of Royalton pg 480.) Buried in Tunbridge Village Cemetery. Over 140 descendants and spouses of Osman Farnham are contained in Broderbund World Family Tree, Volume 15, Pedigree #1766.spouse: Felton, Lucy (1802 - 1887)
PHILIP FARNHAM, JR. was a blacksmith. Philip resided in Tunbridge most of his life before removing to Illinois. Eleanor was the daughter of Capt. William and Mary Clements. (Source: Bement Chronicles Supplement, 1996)spouse: Clements, Eleanor (1794 - )
Robert Felton was a law enforcement officer in Washburn, Illinois.
Ferdinand V, called The Catholic (1452-1516), king of Castile (1474-1504); as Ferdinand II he was also king of Sicily (1468-1516) and of Aragón (1479-1516); as Ferdinand III, king of Naples (1504-1516). He was the son of King John II of Aragón.spouse: Isabella, ? I, Queen of Spain (1451 - 1504)The union of the Spanish kingdoms of Aragón and Castile was effected in 1469 by Ferdinand's marriage to his cousin Isabella I, queen of Castile. Ferdinand had hoped by this alliance to obtain the Castilian crown for himself, but his high-spirited and politically astute wife firmly retained sovereign authority in her own realm. The political philosophies of the two rulers were almost identical, however, and their reign was inaugurated with the promulgation of energetic and sweeping measures designed to strengthen the royal authority and to curb the power of the nobles, who had usurped many privileges and functions of the Crown. To this end, in 1476 Ferdinand organized the Santa Hermandad, or Holy Brotherhood, a kind of national military police. Insistence on religious conformity was one of their basic policies. In 1478 a bull issued by Pope Sixtus IV empowered the king and queen to appoint three inquisitors to deal with heretics and other offenders against the church; this marked the beginning of the Spanish Inquisition. The Inquisition targeted non-Christians, especially Marranos, Jews who had insincerely converted to Christianity for their own security. Although founded to further religious ends, the Inquisition in Spain became a political instrument of the absolute monarchy, further abridging the power of the nobles and bringing the monarchy closer to the church.
The year 1492 was the most notable of Ferdinand's reign. It opened with the conquest of the province of Granada, which marked the victorious conclusion of the long struggle against the Moors. In August Christopher Columbus, sponsored by Ferdinand and Isabella, set sail from the small Spanish seaport of Palos on his epoch-making voyage to America, which was the first step in the creation of the Spanish overseas colonial empire. Also in 1492 the monarchy cruelly expelled about 150,000 Jews. In 1493, by the terms of a treaty between Spain and France, Ferdinand recovered from King Charles VIII of France the ancient province of Roussillon (now forming the French department of Pyrénées-Orientales), which Ferdinand's father had mortgaged to King Louis XI of France.
Because his daughter Joanna the Mad was insane, Ferdinand assumed the regency of Castile in 1506. He joined the League of Cambrai against the republic of Venice in 1508, and conquered Oran and Tripoli on the North African coast in 1509. He annexed the kingdom of Navarre in 1512, thereby extending the borders of Spain from the Pyrenees Mountains to the Rock of Gibraltar. Ferdinand was in many ways a competent ruler. His reign, however, was characterized by an insatiable thirst for power, and he was both cruel and perfidious. He was succeeded by his grandson Charles (Holy Roman Emperor Charles V).
Edmund Easton Ferguson descendant information was provided by his grandson, James Easton Ferguson, of Cleveland, Ohio, e-mail: easton423@@aol.com. (Oct 1999)spouse:
Dr. George White Field, son of David and Electa (Hastings), b. in Geneva, N. Y., March 1, 1826. He graduated at Union College, Schenectady, N. Y., in 1846; at the Geneva, N. Y., Medical College in 1849, and commenced the practice of his profession in Geneva. He removed to New York city, where he d. March 20, 1875. He married (1) Dec. 17, 1857, Eliza Bement, of Ashfield, Mass., and married (2) Nov. 25, 1862, Mary, dau. of Samuel and Rosannah (Covert) Jones, of Tompkins, N. Y., b. Jan. 16, 1839. Res. New York, N. Y. (Source: Field Genealogy by Frederick C. Pierce, Call Number: CS71.F453, p. 722)spouse: Bement, Eliza (1834 - 1858)
LDS: AFN: ZF47-WWspouse: Haney, Mae Irene (1882 - 1973)
LDS: AFN: ZF47-SDspouse: Bement, Lyle Henry (1894 - )
Calvin Luther Fisher married his first cousin, Mary Ann Idle, the daughter of his aunt, Anna Fisher.spouse: Ide, Mary Ann (1819 - 1852)
Married and living in Sonora, California in 1914.
Living in Chicago, Illinois in 1914.spouse: Pond, George M. (~1856 - )
Ela FitzPatrick, Countess of Salisbury was the daughter and heiress of the Earl of Salisbury, and later, Abbess of Lacock in Wiltshire. (Source: Copyright 1994 + 1995 + 1996 + 1997 Brian C. Tompsett, University of Hull, UK)spouse: de Longespée, William Earl of Salisbury (~1173 - 1226)
MATILDA, Queen of England, from 1066-1083, wife of William I, King of England, (aka, William The Conqueror) was the daughter of Baudouin V, Count of Flanders (France), and the sixth in descent from Elfrida, daughter of Alfred the Great.spouse: William, ? I, The Conqueror, King of England (1027 - 1087)ALFRED, called The Great (849-99), king of the West Saxons (871-99), and one of the outstanding figures of English history. Born in Wantage in southern England, Alfred was the youngest of five sons of King Ethelwulf (790?-858). On the death of his brother Ethelred (r. 866-71) Alfred became king, coming to the throne during a Danish invasion. Although he succeeded in making peace with the Danes, they resumed their marauding expeditions five years later, and by early 878 they were successful almost everywhere. About Easter of 878, however, Alfred established himself at Athelney and began assembling an army. In the middle of that year he defeated the Danes and captured their stronghold, probably at present-day Edington. During the following 14 years Alfred was able to devote himself to the internal affairs of his kingdom. By 886 he had captured the city of London, and soon afterward he was recognized as the king of all England.
In 893 the Danes invaded England again, and the following four years were marked by warfare; eventually, the Danes were forced to withdraw from Alfred's domain. The only ruler to resist Danish invasions successfully, Alfred made his kingdom the rallying point for all Saxons, thus laying the foundation for the unification of England.
Alfred was a patron of learning and did much for the education of his people. He began a court school and invited British and foreign scholars, notably the Welsh monk Asser (fl. 885-909?) and the Irish-born philosopher and theologian John Scotus Erigena, to come there. Alfred translated such works as The Consolation of Philosophy by the Roman statesman and philosopher Boethius, The History of the World by the Spanish priest Paulus Orosius (c. 385-420), and Pastoral Care by Pope Gregory I. Alfred's laws, the first promulgated in more than a century, were the first that made no distinction between the English and the Welsh peoples.
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The information on the descendants of Harold Fredrick Fletcher and Elizabeth "Eliza" May Bement Fletcher was provided by Ronald Frederick Rogers of Bloomington, Indiana (March 1998)spouse: Bement, Elizabeth May (1892 - 1976)
Obituary of Richard C. Flintoff Grand Rapids Press, November 29, 1983:spouse: privateRichard C. Flintoff, aged 63, of Sand Lake, passed away Monday morning at Grand Rapids Osteopathic Hospital. Surviving are his wife, Marie, his children, Mark and Rita Flintoff of Grant, Timothy and Beth Flintoff of Grand Rapids, three grandchildren, Stephanie, Kimberly and Timothy Jr.; one brother, Harold and Aileen Flintoff of Sand Lake; nieces, Linda Glass of Grand Rapids, Diane Warneke of Cedar Springs; several other nieces and nephews. Funeral Services will be held Wednesday at 1:30 P.M. at the Bliss-Earl Funeral Home, Cedar Springs, Rev. Clarence E. Roberts officiating. Interment Pierson Cemetery. Mr. Flintoff reposes at the funeral home where the family will receive friends Tuesday from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9.
Remembrance Card: In Memory of Richard C. Flintoff Date of Birth: July 25, 1920 Date of Death: November 28, 1983 Service Held At: Bliss-Earl Funeral Home Wednesday, November 30, 1983, 1:30 P.M. Officiating: Rev. Clarence E. Roberts Casket Bearers: Kevin Schildroth, Jerry Schildroth, Harold Flintoff Jr., Phillip Decker, Pat Humphrey, Wally Glass Place of Interment: Pierson Cemetery
Jacob Flook was a blacksmith.spouse: Flook, Lydia (???) (~1820 - )
Sarah Flook was a seamstress.spouse: Caldwell, Constantine M. (1834 - 1907)
Owned a general store and was later Postmaster in Quigelville, in the Williamsport, Pennsylvania area.