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     He married Jeane Laverne Aton at Pittsburgh, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, USA, on 19 June 1944.

     She married Bernard John Ambrose at Pittsburgh, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, USA, on 19 June 1944.

     RICHARD HARGREAVES His son Henry's death certificate lists Richard Hargreaves as father. But the principal "evidence" is Henry Wm Hargreaves Family Group Record (by Barry Hargreaves) which lists father as Richard Hargreaves (Joiner) and mother Bridget Whitaker (Washerwoman).

"A joiner is somewhat less skilled than a carpenter, and well below a cabinet-maker." This information provided by Mr David Briggs, 85 Plantation St, Accrington, Lancashire BB5 6RT, in a letter to Alvy Ray Smith dated 7 Apr 1990.

The list of children of Richard and Bridget comes from the Family Tree of Richard Hargreaves as well as from the one in the Hargreaves Book (record of the 1990 Hargreaves reunion in Tumut, NSW, Australia).

The name Hargreaves is not listed in "The Origin of English Surnames'' by P. H. Reaney. However, the names Greaves, Greeves, Greve are listed, derived from Old English "graefe'', meaning 'thicket, grove'. Also, the names Grieve(s) are listed, derived from Old Northumbrian "graefa'', meaning 'governor of a province', or later 'overseer, manager, head workman on a farm, farm bailiff'. The names Grave(s) are listed, derived in Yorkshire from Middle English "greyve'', in turn derived from Old Norse "greifi'', 'steward', 'a person in charge of property'. An alternative derivation to this last is from Old Norse personal name "Greifi'' meaning 'count, earl'. The prefix "har'' is derived in various names in Reaney from 'ear', 'hare', and 'rey' (the latter from Old English "har'').

From the same David Briggs letter cited above:

"Hargreaves is an extremely common name in this area. ... From a book of Lancashire surnames, I have the information that the name derives from a small area of land north of Whalley at Standen, where the name is mentioned in 1323-4. However, there is a farmstead north of Padiham called Hargreave, also. (20th century - 'Hargrove'): this may have been named after the occupier, rather than vice versa. In 13th-14th centuries, the name was concentrated around Whalley-Burnley, and these people were mostly small free tenants, some concerned in cattle raising. By 16th-17th century, it was common in the same area, and spreading to Rossendale to the south. By the end of the 17th century, it had reached Bury and Rochdale.

Whittaker is also very common in the Padiham area. Liversedge will be from the village near Sowerby, just over the Yorkshire border."

The following additional information was provided by Mr John Hargreaves, 32, Portway Close, Weymouth, Dorset, DT4 8RF, England, 13 Apr 1990:

"I enclose a copy of notes I made on the origins and distribution of the name, principally culled from "The Surnames of Lancashire" by Richard McKinley, English Surnames Series, Vol. 4, published 1982. The C. M. Bardsley whom he followed was the son of a well-known curate of St. Peter's church, Burnley, who published an internationally known book, "A Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames", 1901, reprinted 1981."

"Origins and Distribution of the Surname HARGREAVES.

The recent study of Lancashire surnames by McKinley follows Bardsley who indicated that the name was one of the many in the North of England which were 'locality derived'. He named villages and parishes in the counties of Cheshire, Northamptonshire and Suffolk as possible sources. (Grave = grove, so probably Hargrave = haregrove.) Bardsley suggested that the village near Chester was the likely source.

However, McKinley suggests that, because of the early appearance of the name in Lancashire, it is probable that there may have been an additional source within the county. He states that there was land called 'Haugreves', mentioned in 1323/4, at Standen near Whalley. It was in the district around Whalley and Burnley that occurrences of the surname and by-name Hargreaves are concentrated in the 13th and 14th centuries. The persons who appear with that name in those two centuries seem to have been mostly small free tenants, in some cases concerned with the cattle raising, which was an important aspect of agriculture in the hillier parts of East Lancashire.

During the 16th and 17th centuries, Hargreaves became a common name in some parts of East Lancashire, near to the district where it had earlier appeared.

In Rossendale it was quite a numerous name from the 16th century and very common at Burnley, Padiham and Newchurch. During the 17th century it occurred in places to the south such as Bury and Rochdale parishes. At Colne it was one of the more numerous names in the parish from the end of the 16th century and continued as a common surname in the district around Burnley and Whalley.

Though occasional examples appear in other parts of the county during the 16th and 17th centuries, it did not become really numerous outside the areas just mentioned during that period. At Manchester it remained rare (a single person of that name in the Protestation Returns of the 17th century.)

As late as the 17th century it was still mainly concentrated in and around the area where it first appeared and it had proliferated markedly in some parishes there, while elsewhere it remained scarce or absent.

The surname is found in West Yorkshire from the early 14th century. No Yorkshire placename from which the surname could be derived has been discovered, and it seems probable that the appearance in Yorkshire is due to migration, over a moderate distance, across the county boundary."

Mr Jack Saxon, 7 Rockwell Terrace, Thurso, Caithness, Scotland KW14 7PJ, sent me, on 6 Apr 1990, his transcription of the Parish Register, Padiham St Leonard Chapelry. I quote some of the earliest and latest entries from this transcription to give the flavor of the use of the Hargreaves name in the area where our Richard Hargreaves lived:

"Book 1 Christenings, Marriages & Funerals 1573 to 1652

1573
Richerdus Hargreaves baptizatus fuit die May Anno Praedicto
1575 Helen filia Jacobi Hargreaves baptizatus fuit vicesimo nono die Junii A.P. Ano RR Eliza xviii
Thomas Claiton et Jana Hargreaves matrimonio coniuncti fuere vicesimo actavo die Novembris A.P.
...

Book 2 Christenings, Marriages and Funerals 1653 to 1706

1653
Richard the sonne of Robert and Katherin Hargreaves of Hapton borne the 28th December
...

Book 3 Christenings 1707 to 1765

...
1708
May 30 John son of John Hargreaves of Pendle

...
1763
...
Mar 28 Jane dau of William Hargreaves of Higham
..."

[23 pages of such listings!]

I am missing the information between 1765 and 1789 when Richard was born, so cannot yet make a link to any of this older data. Mr Saxon also provided the following useful analysis of our particular Hargreaves problem:

"In the Burnley-Padiham area there appear to be three distinct branches: one in Padiham - Habergham Eaves, one in Burnley and one in Clinger. Since it is possible to walk from Padiham to Clivnger via Habergham Eaves and Burnley it would be sensible to consider them as co-linear. Some were wealthy landowners - some humble folk. But Hargreaves appears in probably another dozen areas no great distance away. ... Habergham Eaves [which is mentioned prominently among some of our Hargreaves relatives] was linked strongly with Burnley, in fact it appears in some documents as "Burnley cum Habergham Eaves." Burnley won out and Habergham Eaves is now just an area of Burnley. But Habergham Eaves parish adjoins the parish of St Leonard, Padiham."

Note added 28 Sep 2005 after my 10-day walking tour of Yorkshire, led by Dr. George Redmonds, an expert on Yorkshire place names and surnames. Dr. Redmonds supported the notion that Hargreaves was a surname based on a locality just across the Yorkshire-Lancashire boundary in Lancashire, the "greaves" portion referring to a grove of trees. He stated that the "har" portion probably meant "hare" but that this was not definitely established.

As part of this trip, I visited Burnley for a few hours, and found the marriage record for Richard and Bridget in the Burnley Public Library. RICHARD was born at Padiham, Lancashire, England, on 8 March 1789.¹ He married BRIDGET WHITAKER at St. Leonard's Church, Padiham, Whalley Parish, Lancashire, England, on 23 October 1809.⁶ RICHARD died on 16 October 1824 at Padiham, Lancashire, England, at age 35.¹

     Mary Elizabeth "Molly" Smith Nancy Nielson' Cordie Smith marriage record posting:

"Also found in the 1880 Dallas County, Texas Census:
Frank Goodsell
Mary E. Goodsell

In the 1890 Runnels County, Texas Veterans Census:
Frank L. Goodsell"

1880 Census TX, reported by Melanie Snyder, 6 Jul 2001, The Gililland Family, MyFamily.com:

"Census Place: Precinct 8, Bell, Texas
Source: FHL Film 1255290 National Archives Film t(-1290 Page 459D
Relation Sex Marr Race Age Birthplace
Frank GOODSELL Self M M W 32 NY
Mary GOODSELL Wife F M W 30 TX F-MS M-AL
Minnie GOODSELL Dau F S W 6 TX F-NY M-TX
William GOODSELL Son M S W 4 TX F-NY M-TX
May GOODSELL Dau F S W 2 TX F-NY M-TX." Mary was born at Washington, Texas, USA, on 1 January 1850.^3,4,5,6,2 She married Frank Goodsell.⁷

     James was born at Texas, USA, circa 1851.^1,2,3,4

     William L "Will" Smith Billups letter:

"Disappeared after an encounter with James Wesley Hardin, about 1880."

Should probably be John Wesley Hardin, the famous outlaw, but Hardin went to prison in 1877, Huntsville, Texas, released Feb 1894.

Huntsville is in Walker Co., Texas, where Jesse R Smith presented himself to the County Clerk 29 Aug 1848. William was born at Texas, USA, on 27 November 1852.^2,3,4,5 William died circa 1880.⁶

     John was born at Texas, USA, circa 1855.^1,2,3,4

     Samuel was born at Texas, USA, on 11 April 1856.^1,2,3,4 Samuel died on 28 June 1920 at Douglas, Cochise, Arizona, USA, at age 64.^5,6 His body was interred on 1 July 1920 at Douglas, Cochise, Arizona, USA, at Calvary Cemetery.^7,6

     Cordelia was born at Texas, USA, on 12 May 1858.^1,2,3,4 She married Phineas Watkins Hudman at Runnels, Texas, USA, on 10 March 1884.^5,6

     Sophrona (Sophronia) Parilee Smith Letter from Sherry Thompson, posted to The Gililland Family forum, www.myfamily.com, 22 Jun 2001:

"... My grandmother told me that both of her grandparents - Jesse R. Smith and Benjamin Turner Hudman were the same age or that they had a birthday on the same day. I can't remember how it went. Ben T. Hudman was born in 1820. He also died in Alamogordo, N.M. in 1913. So I think the Smith's and Hudman's traveled there around the same time. She told me when she was a little girl that she came to Alamogordo in a covered wagon from Mayhill. She was born: Minnie Lois Hudman - 5/26/1894. to Benjamin Monroe Hudman and Sophrona Parilee (or Parille) Smith. She had a sister Mary Ethal Hudman that married Oscar Frank Burns. I think they lived in Phoenix, AZ.

I also knew aunt Ruby. I use to go to her house when I was small but did not see her after about the time I finished high school in 1969. She has passed away. Do you know of Lacy Simms? He married Ruby. He was the Reverend at my grandmothers funeral ...
Oh, Jesse R. may have been in Ellis Co., Tx. in 1890 also." Sophrona was born at Pleasanton, Atascosa, Texas, USA, on 23 March 1860.^2,3,4,5 She married Benjamin Monroe Hudman at Lookout, Lincoln, New Mexico, USA, on 8 April 1888.^1,6,7 Sophrona died in 1935 at Pasadena, Los Angeles, California, USA.^6,8

     Elijah was born at Texas, USA, on 24 March 1862.^1,2,3

     Benjamin was born.¹ He married Sophrona (Sophronia) Parilee Smith at Lookout, Lincoln, New Mexico, USA, on 8 April 1888.^1,2,3 Benjamin died in 1919 at Alamogordo, Otero, New Mexico, USA.²

     Benjamin was born. He married Ruby Scott.¹ Benjamin died in 1961.²

     She married Benjamin Vernon Hudman.¹

     Daniel Harry McGuire Siblings: Joseph Eubank McGuire, Charlie Fulton McGuire, Henry Justus McGuire, Emma Ruth McGuire Knight, Mary Elizabeth McGuire Tiley, John Bradford McGuire and Rosa Olivia McGuire Sitton.

His name given variantly as Henry Daniel McGuire.

Headstone photo, Fairview Cemetery, Tularosa NM:

"McGUIRE

Dan H. Doppie E.
1874-1958 1883-1966." Daniel was born at Williamson, Texas, USA, on 16 December 1874.² He married Dorcas "Doppie" Elizabeth Cooper at Alamogordo, Otero, New Mexico, USA, on 20 August 1913.² Daniel died on 4 January 1958 at Yucaipa, San Bernardino, California, USA, at age 83.² His body was interred on 10 January 1958 at Tularosa, Otero, New Mexico, USA, at Fairview Cemetery.²

     John Sellers McGuire From an old journal in Doppie McGuire's papers, apparently written by Dan McGuire: J.S.McGuire left Kentucky in Oct. 1853. He and his companion, Mr. Nuckles, joined Joseph Eubank's party (later J.S.McGuire's father-in-law.) Oct 10 at Nashville, TN and all went to Texas together----arriving at Cameron, Milan County then after 27 days - on Dec 31, 1853 settled at Camp Gabriel on the Gabriel River--now Circleville, Williamson County.

The dates originally here were b. 12 Aug 1797, d. 31 mar 1871, which differ from McBryde #2, Eubank Family Tree, which give his dates as 1837-1883. See evidence. They also are inconsistent with son Dan's birthdate, so the McBryde #2 dates are used.

The death place was originally given as Circleville, TX, but this has been deleted since the date information seemed incorrect. He married Emma Eubank. John was born in 1837.¹ John died in 1883.¹

     She married John Sellers McGuire. Emma was born in 1835.¹ Emma died in 1883.¹

     Dorcas "Doppie" Elizabeth Cooper When Edith Hortense Sanders was 2 and Alice Jeannette Sanders was 4 Daniel and Doppie McGuire entered into a contract with their father- Jefferson Jackson Sanders to raise these girls. Doppie was named Dorcas but her sister Dora could not pronouce that so she called her Doppie and that name stuck. Doppie and Daniel spent their honeymoon at The Lodge in Cloudcroft--riding the Excursion train from Alamogordo.
Siblings: Dora Cooper Lentz, Albert Jackson Cooper - died as an infant. Her father Albert G Cooper had been a Colonel in the Mexican War. A Texas Marker on his grave at Cresson, TX

See headstone inscription in text for husband Dan. Dorcas was born at Parker, Texas, USA, on 13 December 1884. Headstone gives 1883.¹ She married Daniel Harry McGuire at Alamogordo, Otero, New Mexico, USA, on 20 August 1913.¹ Dorcas died at Clovis, Curry, New Mexico, USA. Her body was interred on 31 August 1966 at Tularosa, Otero, New Mexico, USA, at Fairview Cemetery.¹

     Samuel died. Samuel was born. He married Martha Elizabeth Lackey.

     Martha died. Martha was born. She married Samuel Henry Cooper.

     Daniel died. Daniel was born.

     Joseph was born in 1797.¹ He married Elizabeth James Bransford before 1827.¹ He married Mary Jane Eubank before 1846.¹ Joseph died in 1871.¹

     Taylor died. Taylor was born. He married Mary Jane Hines.

     Mary died. Mary was born. She married Taylor Hournbuckle.