Reminder: Second Sunday in July is Reunion for the
Maine PENLEY'S and Related Families
2 PM, 9 July 2006
See Details Below
We want to make contact with any living descendants that
we can find. Additions and corrections are most appreciated.
There are several lines from the Maine PENLEY family that
either lived in MI at some time or moved thru MI in both the
1800's and 1900's
One PENLEY grandson, William Dingley PENLEY, moved
to Ontario in the late 1840's and
m 1845 Bytown, Ottawa, CAN Scholastique SEGUIN.
They had:
Maria who m E I CARTER who was b in PA
Julia D who m ? FOSDICK
Angeline
Joe / Joseph ?
Unknown Child
m abt 1857 Coldwater, Ontario, Susanna NEWELL.
They lived in Coldwater and Orillia, ON.
Some of their descendants are known to have lived in
Saskatchewan, Alberta, British Columbia, Michigan.
Washington, and California.
They had:
1857 Minerva who m James L ROBERTSON. They had 3
known daus:
Annie m Duncan McNABB
Jean; and
Florence m Norman McMILLAN
1860 William Dingley, Jr m Isabelle McRAE. They had
William Farquhar m in SAS Mabel Rosella
TABBERNOR
Seward Alexander
Mabel Maria m Blake WRIGHT
John Kenneth m Wahnita Elizabeth BARKER
Susanna Isabelle m Alvin ELLIOTT
Minerva Pearl m Percy Frank George COLLISON
Russell Dan
Kenneth Norman m Emmaline Isabelle ARNOLD
Clarence James m Kate Burton WHITE
Albert Josiah m Frances ALRIGHT
1864 Seward Dingley 1m Jane GARRETT. They had
Walter Dingley 1m Sophie BRANDON
2m Eva (PAGE) BLACK
Margaret Susannah 1m Charlie McMAHON
2m William S BROWN
Ferdinand Albert 1m Mary REID
2m Stephie VOGEL
Minerva m Joseph BORROW
Harriet
Florence m Fred GILBERT
Lillian Gertrude m James Andrew "Jack" SCOTT
1864 Seward Dingly 2m Mary JOHNSTONE. They had
Seward Nelson m Nellie PROCYSHYN
Lorne Earl 1m Violet ROWE, 2m Audrey THOMAS
Mamie Evaline 1m Harvey TIFFIN,
2m Robert MONAHAN
3m George FETTES
Olive Miriam m Cecil TIFFIN
Madeline m Earl BARD
Muriel
Daughters and granddaughters of progenitor Joseph 1 PENLY
1755 Eng -1844 Maine are known to have married into the:
ACKLEY / AKELEY, CROCKETT, DAKIN, DAVIS,
DINGLEY, DYER, GARCELON, HACKETT, HAINES,
HODGKIN, JORDAN, MARSHALL, MITCHELL,
PACKARD, RANDALL, VICKERY, WAGG,
WATERHOUSE and other families and lived in
Androscoggin, Aroostook, Cumberland, Franklin,
Kennebec, Oxford, Penobscot, Piscataquis, Sagadahoc,
Somerset, and York counties in Maine.
Descendants are known to have lived or be living in many
states from Massachusetts to California and across Canada
from Ontario to British Columbia. One great grandson
established a line centered around Vicksburg, Mississippi
after the Civil War. A great granddaughter moved to Kansas
with her family when she was twelve years old. She and her
husband were missionaries in India and all but one of their
children were born there.
I had a major computer crash last Oct (2005) and lost
all of my e-mails and addresses. PLEASE, if you have
ever contacted me before last Oct, send me another
e-mail about your PENLEY connection / information so
I will know who you are and how to contact you.
If you have a PENLEY ancestor in or from Maine or New
England, you are urged to contact us. If you can provide
your direct line back to your earliest known PENLEY
ancestor(s), it will be a great help in placing you
in the correct branch.
The Maine PENLEY family is primarily the descendants
of the children of the progenitor, Joseph 1 PENLY,
who was born in England in 1755, arrived in Freeport,
Maine, in 1770, and died in 1844. Joseph was first married
1780 to the widow, Esther FOGG JOHNSON, and they
had 10 children. They moved from the Freeport area to
Danville abt 1792. Following Esther's death in 1796,
Joseph second married 1797 Thankful MOODY and they
had six children.
However, there was an earlier Sam(p)son PENLEY who
was living in Falmouth (now Portland), Maine in 1658.
He was later associated with House Island, Cape Elizabeth,
and Long Neck. He was a fisherman and jail keeper. When
he died in 1688, he was survived by his wife, Rachel;
a son, Sampson; and 3 daus:
Jane or Ann who married Dennis MURROUGH (MURROW ?)
Dorcas who married Hugh WILCOTT
Mary who married Henry BAILEY
His son, Sampson PENLEY, was a mariner who is believed
to have died without issue.
How or if these two PENLEY families may have been
related is not known, but the PENLEY family genealogists
welcome the participation of Sam(p)son's descendants
in hopes that future research will give us some
resolution to these questions.
The Maine PENLEY family has an annual reunion,
at 2 PM every 2nd Sunday in July. The special service
is held at PENLEY Corner Church, state route 136
(same as Riverside Dr on the Auburn side), 3 miles south
of the Auburn - Lewiston, Maine bridge (just a few
hundred feet south of the Auburn city limits sign).
Route 136 cuts across from Freeport to Auburn.
This year the meeting will be Sunday, 9 July 2006.
Rev E Richard WRENTZEL, pastor of visitation at the
Turner Village Church, Turner, Maine, will the guest
speaker. He had served as pastor of many churches in
Massachusetts, New York, Connecticut and Maine, but is
now retired from active preaching.
Family members who now live in AR, CT, MD, and ME
will be participating in the service.
Family genealogists will be available both before and
after the service to receive information from descendants
and discuss your line with you. If you have New England
PENLEY's, the chances are very good that you are a
descendant of Joseph 1 PENLY.
If you are unable to be at the reunion on July 9th,
PLEASE contact me. And if you know of other PENLEY
descendants, please let me know who they are and how
to contact them by phone or e-mail by sending an e-mail
directly to me (to protect their privacy re phone
numbers and addresses).
Thank you for your help. Our success, in updating the
genealogy of Joseph 1 PENLY's descendants, is dependent
on the contributions made by all of our living cousins.
Janice