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"EVERY DAY IS A NEW
BEGINNING"
Welcome to our Family Home Page. We are researching the following names : Townsend,
Cottingham, Tewksbury, Beamish, Paddock, Pickering, Poole, Philips, Butler,
Crosby, Freeman, Arnold, Hazard, Dillon, Anthony, Tripp, Groves, Potter,
Sheldon, Sands (Sandys), Niles, Mohler and Cottyn.
I am particularly interested in Townsend information circa 1786 in the
Barnstable MA area and the Southeast NY area. My "Brick Wall" was
Stephen Townsend, the beginning of my particular branch of the tree, who
married Mercy Crosby, daughter of Eleaser Crosby and Jemima Porter. Their son
Isaac married Susan Butler probably around 1830. Fortunately I have been
helped along by others and now have a fairly comprehensive single line back
to John Townsend and his wife Elizabeth Montgomery who emigrated from England
about 1645. I have recently been sent a copy of Stephen Townsend's will
listing all 11 of their children. That information is in the report on this
page.
I have added a number of old tin type pictures from our Family Bible but have
no clue as to who most of the people are. I have indicated them as
"Unknown". I do know that one of them is Mary Jane (Poole)
Tewksbury, my Great, Great Grandmother. I also have one of Susan Butler. The
rest are unknown. Please feel free to contact my regarding any of the above
names .
Linda and I travelled through the North Eastern United States the summer of
2002 and visited a number of cemeteries doing what we affectionately call
"The Graveyard Stomp". We took a number of pictures of Townsend and
Cottingham gravestones. I have a good collection of photos from the Jerusalem
Hill Cemetery at Litchfield NY (Townsend and Crosby) and others from the
Evergreen Cemetery at Motley MN.(Townsend and Cottingham)
My current challenge is getting information on Lenor (my Great Grandfather)
Townsend and his sister Emma. Emma married Thomas Groves and they had three
boys; Cory, Earl and Carl. Evidently Thomas was killed in an accident in
1907. I have no information on any other possible siblings of Lenor and Emma.
Their parents were Isaac Townsend and Susan Ann (Butler)Townsend.
I am presently working on a Family History Book (for our children and
grandchildren) which I hope will be of interest. I have absolutely no
intention of every having it published or printed but I thought it might be
nice for our future families to read. I guess it just that I want my time to
be proven valuable to someone other than myself.
The family photos are just some that I have run across and thought might be
of interest to family members. I have added a few current family photos just
for fun.
My Brother-in-Law David Pickering (who got me started in this hobby)has an
very extensive FTM library on the Beamish and Pickering families.
I have a fairly good selection regarding the Cottinghams (343 individuals)
and Tewksburys and I am constantly getting more thanks to e-mail contacts. My
Townsend information is also growing daily and includes 570 individuals at
this point. I am more than willing to share information but I will not put my
hard work on the internet to be captured and "sold" by anyone.
If you are interested, please contact me, I'd love to work with you.
Thank you for visiting our site.
Good Hunting!
Wayne Townsend
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- Wayne
and Linda in Cruise Mode (140 KB)
Here we are all dressed up and enjoying our cruise in the Caribbean.
What a great way to holiday!
- Townsend
Home, Motley, MN 1886 (377 KB)
Left to right.. Lenor Townsend, Cora (Tewksbury)Townsend, Clarence and
Claude on the fence, Jane Tewksbury (Cora's Mother), Pearl, Clyde and
Max (note the dresses on the two young boys!) (See "Their First
Pants")
- Susan
(Butler) Townsend (40 KB)
Susan Townsend...wife of Isaac and mother of Emma and Lenor Townsend
- Unknown
1- Picture from Family Bible (23
KB)
No idea who this fellow is...do you know him?
- Lenor
Townsend with his son Claude (155
KB)
Here is Lenor with Claude and Molly the horse. My grandfather, Clarence,
Lenor's son claimed that Lenor was a jocky and to sweat his weight off
he would have the boys bury him up to his neck in the manure pile and
pour water on it to produce heat. Some sauna ! No thanks !
- The
Ichabod Niles Cottingham family around 1905 (119 KB)
Left to right Front row: (seated) Ichabod Niles, Daniel Omar (Dick),
Melissa. Left to right Back row: Guy, Ada, Lucy, Mary, Tacy, Bertha and
Clinton
- Unknown
2 - Picture from Family Bible (16
KB)
No idea of this person's identity but he has his elbow on my bible! Do
you know him?
- Five
Great Kids...our five grandchildren (48
KB)
Left to Right: Chandler Townsend, Tyler Smyth, Jonathan Smyth, Jessica
Smyth, Zachary Townsend
- Unknown
3 - Picture from Family Bible (22
KB)
Another family member. Who is he?
- Wayne
and Jonathan at the beach (71 KB)
Here we are enjoying a day at the ocean not far from our home. Jonathan
(I call him Bumper) is almost sleeping. He has had a busy day.
- Unknown
4- Picture from Family Bible (15
KB)
Who is he?
- Linda
and Jessica looking for "Critters" (84 KB)
Here they are searching the tidal pools for little critters. What a
great way to enjoy grandchildren! We are blessed to have them living so
close to us.
- Unknown
5 - Picture from Family Bible (14
KB)
Who is he?
- Wayne
and his horse Taurus..summer of 2000 (162 KB)
Here we are getting ready to go for a ride through the bush. I'm not
sure which of us enjoys it more. We are blessed with silence and beauty
all in one while we are in the forest and on the beach.
- Unknown
6 - Picture from Family Bible (19
KB)
So who's children are these?
- Four
tough "Cottingham" guys (15
KB)
Ralph Townsend, Clint Cottingham, Donald Cottingham and Paul Hayner 1976
- At
Clint Cottingham's 1946 (22 KB)
Here are Jim and Joyce Cottingham, Dad, Grandpa Townsend and me at Uncle
Clint's in Fairview Montana.
- Unknown
7 - picture from Family Bible (11
KB)
Anyone know who this lady and her children are?
- Unknown
8- picture from Family Bible (10
KB)
Anyone know who this young lady is?
- Unknown
9- picture from Family Bible (9
KB)
Anyone know who this young lady is?
- Great
Grandma Cottingham (9 KB)
Melissa Rowena Mohler married Ichabod Niles Cottingham in 1866 and had 9
children. She was a school teacher.
- Unknown
9- picture from Family Bible (17
KB)
Anyone know who this young lady with the interesting hair is?
- At
the Hayner Farm circa 1926 or thereabouts (12 KB)
Here are Grandma Townsend, Dad, James Cottingham (in the car) Lillian
Cottingham and Grandpa Townsend at the Hayner farm near Admiral,
Saskatchewan.
- Clarence
Sidney Townsend age approximately 1 year (50 KB)
Here is Gramps in his carriage at about the age of one year or less. I
wish I had that carriage now.
- At
the Hayner farm around 1926 (11
KB)
Grandma Tacy Townsend, Ralph Townsend, James Cottingham (in the car),
Clinton Cottingham and Clarence Townsend at the Hayner farm near Admiral
Saskatchewan.
- Clarence
Sidney Townsend age about 16 to 18 (79
KB)
Here is Gramps as a young man. It is hard to tell wheather this is a
picture of my father or my grandfather except for the style of clothes
and the name on the back of the photo.
- Linda
and Chandler (24 KB)
It is always fun playing with grandchildren. Here are Linda and Chandler
Townsend having a laugh about something. Who knows what...they are just
having fun together.
- Mary
Jane Tewksbury (35 KB)
Jane Tewksbury, wife of Ira B.
- Wayne
and Zachary (35 KB)
It is always fun playing with grandchildren. Here are Wayne and Zachary
Townsend having a game of checkers. Zachary won!
- Ira
B. Tewksbury (209 KB)
Ira B. Tewksbury was a soldier in the Union Forces during the civil war.
He was captured and died in Salisbury Prison Camp, NC.
- Zachary
Townsend and the Bubble Gum machine (97
KB)
Zachary has a problem..."I can see it in there, but....."
- Clifton
and Max Townsend (300 KB)
Photo of two of the Townsend brothers, Clifton and Max. Probably taken
sometime in the 1940's.
- Wayne
1945 (322 KB)
Wasn't he cute??
- Max
and Clyde Townsend in their new pants (207 KB)
Here they are, their FIRST pair of pants. Up until this time they had
been wearing dresses which was the common practice in those days. Both
girls and boys wore dresses until the age of about 5 years.
- Wayne
, Zachary and Chandler (700 KB)
Here we are camping. It was a semi-miserable day and Zachary really
wanted to be at the playground,not just sitting around. Chandler is
having fun anyway.
- Linda
and Megan Smyth (our 6th Grandchild) (41 KB)
Megan is our second wonderful granddaughter. What a doll. I call her
Tinker Bell because she was so tiny when she was born.
- Great
Grandma Townsend and family
(76 KB)
Great Grandma Cora Townsend (Tewksbury) with her family. Unfortunately
Lenor had left them by the time this was taken and she was a single mom
with six children.
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