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Re: Looking for a marriage record for Barton Gidley and Desire Pearce

JudithThomas89 — 2009-11-11 19:58:17Z

I don't have a date for the marriage of Barton Gidley and Desire Pearce, but I can let you have a large family tree of all the Gidleys I have found on Barton's tree. His father was Jasper Maudit Gidley, and he belonged to one of the largest branches of the Gidleys. If you look at my contact details on the Gidley One Name Study profile page at http://www.one-name.org.uk, you can e-mail me direct.

Re: Looking for a marriage record for Barton Gidley and Desire Pearce

theclown16 — 2009-11-10 15:18:42Z

The gidley name appears mostly in Dutchess county Ny in that time period. It is rare in Albany. Also in tracking barton he appears in alleghany county, NY in 1840 and Michigan in 1850 census. The 1860 census idicates that desire was born in Vermont. Try there for marriage. also look for any Pearce genealogies that may have been published for her origins.

Looking for a marriage record for Barton Gidley and Desire Pearce

amidd67 — 2009-11-06 02:28:16Z

They may have married in the 1820s in Dutchess, New York. I am especially interested in Desire Pearce's (or Pierce) parents' names.

Thank you.

Looking for a marriage record for Barton Gidley and Desire Pearce

amidd67 — 2009-11-05 03:20:28Z

in Albany, New York around the 1820s. What are Desire's parents' names?

Thank you.

Re: Gidley From Wabash, Indiana

melissa5041 — 2009-10-07 23:52:25Z

Brad, I believe I went to school with your Uncle Jeff Gidley and your Aunt Brenda Gidley. I think I met your father, also called Duke, twice. Let me know if you want to hear any stories.
Melissa

Re: GIDLEY, Nicholas, James F, Jeremiah C. Texas

jchamp48 — 2009-10-05 22:09:38Z

Lisa,
Please contact me at jchamp48@bellsouth.net, I have a lot of information on the Gidleys. My grandmother was a Gidley and John W. and Julina were my great great grandparents. Julina is buried in the Jacksonville City Cemetery. I have pictures.

Jerry Champion

Alabama Gidleys

jchamp48 — 2009-10-05 21:46:02Z

Looking for information on GIDLEYs in Calhoun County, Alabama or Johnson County, Texas. Any information would be greatly appreciated.

Jerry Champion

Re: gidley name

cfgertner — 2009-07-14 23:53:02Z

Judith Thomas is doing a One Name Study on the name Gidley worldwide. She would love to hear from you. She can be contacted at gidley@one-name.org

Re: Gidley Family Whitestone, Devon, UK

JudithThomas89 — 2009-06-09 18:39:15Z

I run the Gidley One-Name Study and can provide you with quite a large tree of the Whitestone Gidleys, if you contact me directly through the Gidley Profile page of the Guild of One Name Studies website at
http://www.one-name.org.uk.
My contact details are at the end.

Gidley Family Whitestone, Devon, UK

Thomas_Peeke — 2009-06-08 18:05:41Z

Would love to hear from the family of John Gidley & Grace Speare from Whitestone in Devon. I currently know of 3 children. Charles Clark Gidley (b.1836), Mary Gidley (b.1838) & John Gidley (b.1841).

GIDLEY LaVerne and Weldon Monroe

t42RoseHill — 2009-05-01 02:03:23Z

GIDLEY LaVerne and Weldon Monroe

I photographed this gravestone in the (Shannon) Rose Hill Cemetery, Tarrant Co., Texas. Feel free to use this picture for your personal records. This is one of the 203,283 cemetery photos free at http://teafor2.com .

If you know more about this person please reply here,instead of contacting me because this is most likely not my family.

Bartholomew Gidley, born bet 1474-1510

AuntieGrizelda — 2009-04-20 20:22:23Z

Does anyone have any additional information on this record for Bartholomew Gidley, born bet 1474-1510? ...

http://www.familysearch.org/eng/search/IGI/family_group_reco...

Was this son named Richard the same one that was buried at Winkleigh on 26 March 1574?

-thanks-

South Tawton, Devon is about
5 miles SE of Speyton
5 miles NW of Gidleigh
12 miles S of Winkleigh

Re: GIDLEY, Nicholas, James F, Jeremiah C. Texas

JudithThomas89 — 2009-02-14 15:45:40Z

Hello
I run the Gidley One Name Study and look at anyone called Gidley from anywhere in the world. I can let you have a lot of information about your particular tree, and put you in touch with a distant cousin in the UK who is also studying your branch, if you contact me direct via the contact details at the end of the Gidley profile page on the Guild of One Name Studies website at http:www//one-name.org.uk.

Re: GIDLEY, Nicholas, James F, Jeremiah C. Texas

jgidley16 — 2009-02-11 20:16:03Z

Hey im from alabama i always wanted to know the gidley history theres not many gidleys in alabama i didnt think there was many gidleys anyway cause i never heard anyone with the same last name as me but if u have some info please share it with me thanks

Re: GIDLEY, Nicholas, James F, Jeremiah C. Texas

jgidley16 — 2009-02-11 20:15:48Z

Re: gidley name

jgidley16 — 2009-02-11 20:09:34Z

Hey i would like to know a lot about the Gidley name
I'm from Alabama and there is not many Gidleys around
I always thought there wasnt many So if you could help that would be great thanks

Re: looking for my family

jgidley16 — 2009-02-11 20:05:10Z

Hey
i dont know any thing about your father but im a Gidley
im from Alabama I didnt think there was many Gidleys around
but i thought i would at least say hey

Re: The Gidley name versus Gridley

alicerogers2007 — 2008-10-15 17:35:38Z

One other comment on the Gidleys and the Benedicts.
In the book "The Genealogy of the Benedicts in America," the author mistakenly refers to the Gidleys as Gridleys, on page 403: "ADIN STEVENS [BENEDICT] ,3 b. 31s1 of 10th mo., 1795 ; m. Sarah, dau Wm. and Phoebe Gridley of Saratoga, and d. 2 1st of 3d mo., 1843, at Peru, Ohio."

Re: William Gidley, Hamilton, Ontario

2006-11-13 03:21:52Z

Yes, thank you. I do have that information along with their birth registrations if you are interested at all.

Thanks again,
Jennifer

Re: gidley's in nebraska

2006-11-13 00:58:41Z

Hi Laura,

I do not have much but maybe it will help some.

Mary Ann Gidley b. abt 1872, Nebraska
father is Richard
married to Christin Robertson 11 Sep 1888 Eastport, Antrim County, USA

Christin father was Robert Wilmos Richardson, his mother was Gertrude Anderson

Hope this helps,

Bryan Gidley

Re: William Gidley, Hamilton, Ontario

2006-11-13 00:28:09Z

Hi Jennifer,

I have the following:

William Gidley b. abt 1871 d: abt 1916
Married 13 Mar 1893 Waterdown, Ontario to
Jane ("Jennie") Jackson
with the following children:
William George b. 9 Aug 1893 pob died before 1907 see below
Robert William b. 19 Aug 1895
Harold John b. 29 Jul 1898
Arthur Roy b. 9 Apr 1905
William George b. 30 Jul 1907

Hope this helps

Bryan Gidley

Re: Gidley One Name Study

2006-10-17 17:23:59Z

Hello,
My name is Pamela Gidley and I stumbled upon this web site today. If you would like any information that I have I would love to talk to you. My father, Albert Edward Gidley 1926-1982, was raised in Lawrence Mass., or so I am told. I do not have any information about his parents and was hoping you might.
Cordially,
Pamela Gidley

Re: Gidley Family

2006-06-10 16:50:59Z

My grandfather's name was Charles E. Gidley

Re: The Gidley name

alicerogers2007 — 2008-10-14 03:25:55Z

Several Gidleys married Moshers and they also married Benedicts in Peru, Morrow County, Ohio. They were all Quaker families.
The Quaker families tended to move together in groups.
I know some of them settled in a community in Winnieshiek, Iowa and also in Raisin, Michigan.
I have some family letters written by Cynthia Benedict Grisell Rogers and also a letter she received from her mother, Sarah Gidley Benedict Hole.

Re: William Lothar Gidley--Gidley descendents

alicerogers2007 — 2008-10-14 02:53:39Z

Hi,
I am also descended from William Gidley and Phoebe Mosher, though their daughter, Sarah Gidley, born about 1800 in New York (I think). I know she was Quaker and married Adin Stevens Benedict of Peru, Morrow County, Ohio. She remarried, to a Jonah Hole, and died in a Quaker settlement in Winnieshiek, Iowa where her daughter Cynthia Benedict Grisell Rogers was living. I am descended from Cynthia's son, Arthur Curtis Rogers.

I have a quite a bit more information about the Gidley/Benedict line that I can share if you're interested.

I would love to know more about the Gidleys and Moshers if you have that information.

My email is alicerogers2006@comcast.net.

Alice

Re: The Gidley name

alicerogers2007 — 2008-10-15 17:21:47Z

Hi,
Thanks for your note. I would love more information on the Gidleys, and I'll see if I have any more transcribed letters.
Sorry if I implied that all the Gidleys were Quaker. I just know that the branch I descended from was Quaker and that I've been able to trace them along with Benedicts and several other families who moved together to various Quaker settlements.
Thanks!
Alice

Re: The Gidley name

TeriRyan17 — 2007-12-12 16:41:00Z

Late 60s as in 1960s, or as in 1600s? Guess it depends on the amount of research you have done. I have back to the late 1700s, am looking for previous to that.

Re: The Gidley name

TeriRyan17 — 2007-12-10 00:31:52Z

Do you know where in the US your Gidleys lived or when then arrived? Do you know if they were ever part of the Quaker movement?

Re: William Lothar Gidley

TeriRyan17 — 2007-12-10 00:29:04Z

"My" William Gidley was married to Phoebe Mosher in February of 1799 in Saratoga, NY and died 18 April 1855 in Morrow County, Ohio. His father was Content Gidley. His son was Moses Gidley, who married Ruth R Wood in Delaware County, Ohio in 1840 and died in the Lansing, Michigan, area. Doesn't sound like much of a match unless you know of some way of connecting through brothers or cousins. Would love to hear if you do!

Re: Gidley One Name Study

mbgidley — 2008-02-06 04:41:19Z

I am a Gidley from Canada, originally from Scotland. How's it going.

Re: Gidley From Wabash, Indiana

bradwabbott — 2006-12-19 22:53:37Z

Judith,

Thanks so much for you information. I really appreciate it! I wasn't expecting so much help. I am just starting trying to document some of my family history, so I am sort of new to all of this. I actually made a mistake in my original post in that I stated that my grandfather's name was Earl and not Wayne. I knew that but I think I was mixed up with my father's middle name. In any case, thanks again and I will post my full family history up to present once I get everything organized.

Also, I am not sure if I mentioned this, but my surname was changed to Abbott as a result of my step father adopting me at age eleven. So for documentation purposes, it should be noted that my real father was William Earl Gidley. Most of my siblings live in south Texas now. I now live in Australia with my wife Crystal.

Brad Abbott

Re: Gidley From Wabash, Indiana

bradwabbott — 2006-12-17 23:52:21Z

In reference to my previous post, My mother's maiden name is Diane Lucille Turner not "Daine"

Gidley From Wabash, Indiana

bradwabbott — 2006-12-17 23:50:48Z

I am just starting to research my family. My father was William (Duke) Earl Gidley born in Wabash, Indiana and was originally married to my mother, Daine Lucille Turner, both born in Wabash, Indiana. My grandmother's name was Elizabeth (not sure if this is correct)and my Grandfather's name is Earl Gidley. I am not sure, but my family may have come from Alabama. I am trying to find out from which country my family originally immigrated. I was actually adopted and have had my name changed to Abbott. So, I would like to research my birth family origin before it is lost somehow.

Thanks!

Brad

Re: Gidley One Name Study

karencole345 — 2008-03-13 11:12:07Z

hi,

I am looking to find some information on Gidley's living in the Midland and Penetanguishene area of Ontario. I am trying to get some information on my paternal grandmother. When I knew her,her name was Elsie Dean. My father,Bruce Alexander was half brother to Robert Gidley.He was married to Audrey. All these people are deceased and I can't find any records. Do you have any info/

Re: Gidley One Name Study

karencole345 — 2008-03-14 21:56:38Z

thank you for your help.

William GIDLEY 1767

cfgertner — 2007-08-14 08:45:58Z

William married Willmot REEVE 1 Jan 1795 In Spreyton, Devon but I'm unsure who his parents were or the exact date of his birth/christening. I believe William was born in 1767 in Spreyton, Devon but I can't confirm this.

Any help greately appreciated.

Re: The Gidley name

leanna20002000 — 2007-12-12 05:35:37Z

Our Gidley familiy immigrated from Whaley Bridge, England in the late 60s, to Nova Scotia Canada... From there we moved to British Columbia....If you need more info i can be a little bit more specific.

Re: William Lothar Gidley

jsg1948 — 2007-12-10 00:46:31Z

They're not the same William Gidley. Mine was born in Virgina or West Virginia, and married Lucinda Tombaugh. Thanks for responding though. Good luck with your search.

Re: Gidley From Wabash, Indiana

jsg1948 — 2007-12-07 03:02:33Z

Judith,
I read your message to Bryan about William Asro Gidley. I'm trying to get information about him also. I think he is my great great grandfather. My grandfather was Estell Carl Gidley of the Roann/Wabash, Indiana area. If you have any information on him I'd really be interested.
Thanks.
James S Gidley

Re: William Lothar Gidley

jsg1948 — 2007-12-06 03:45:08Z

I am also researching William Lothar Gidley. He was born in Virginia about 1817. Who is your granmother? We might be able to help eachother. If I have the connection right, he is my husbands great grandfather.

Re: looking for my family

BryanGidley — 2007-06-28 14:19:42Z

Hi Barbara,

Can you be a little more specific on your family. Do you have any dates for Charles? or his wife's first and maiden name?

Is this your paternal or maternal grandfather? and who was Edna's spouse?

Bryan Gidley
http://www.searchmytree.com

Re: Gidley From Wabash, Indiana

BryanGidley — 2006-12-19 01:03:04Z

Hi Brad,

Please reference the obit below,

Bryan Gidley

Submitter: Linda Subject: Jeffrey P. Gidley obit

http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/message/an/
localities.northam.usa.states.indiana.counties.wabash/1779

Message: WABASH — Jeffrey P. Gidley, 44, 672 Columbus St., died at 6:18 p.m. Friday, May 31, 2002, at Lutheran Hospital.

He was born on March 9, 1958, in Wabash, to Wayne A. and Betty (Pitts) Gidley. His mother survives in Wabash.

He graduated from Wabash High School in 1976, and owned Gidley Appliances. He also worked as a small engine repairman for Crulls and at Wabash Portable Equipment for five years. He was a member of the Wabash American Legion Post No.15 and the Wabash Eagles Lodge.

Also surviving are a daughter, Mandy Gidley, Wabash; two sons, Jonathan Gidley and Joshua Gidley, both of Wabash; three brothers, William E. "Duke" Gidley, San Antonio, Texas, Larry D. Gidley, Peru, and Gary B. Gidley, Wabash; three sisters, Nancy J. Crowe, Fort Knox, Ky., Brenda D. Norman, Brighton, Mich., and Beth Girtz, Monticello.

Services will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday at Wabash Friends Church. David Phillips will officiate. Burial will be in Friends Cemetery.

Friends may call from 3 to 8 p.m. Tuesday at the Grandstaff-Hentgen Manchester Avenue Chapel.

Preferred memorials are to the American Diabetes Association and the Wabash County Cancer Society.

The memorial guest book for Mr. Gidley may be signed on-line at grandstaff-hentgen.com.

Taken from the Wabash Plain Dealer in Wabash, Indiana ............... Monday, June 3, 2002

Re: Gidley From Wabash, Indiana

JudithThomas89 — 2006-12-19 20:06:33Z

I have checked my Gidley references from the American census, and have found Earl Gidley born in Indiana in abt. 1883. Thanks to Bryan's useful reply to your posting, it does seem that he was your great grandfather through his son Wayne b abt 1918 in Indiana.
Putting all the information together, Earl Gidley was the son of William Asro Gidley. Earl's World War I draft registration card gives his name as Ervia Earl Gidley born 5 Dec 1882, a moulder of 1232 Pike St, Wabash, next of kin was his wife Lena Leone Gidley. They had at least 8 children.
Earl's father William Asro Gidley was born on 29 May 1852, and was married twice. Earl's mother was Lillie B Lambert. They had about 7 children.
William Asro was the son of William Lothar Gidley and his wife Lucinda nee Tombaugh, who were living in Pleasant, Wabash County in 1870. There were 7 children in their family, all documented on various Tombaugh genealogy sites, which you would find very useful.
William Lothar Gidley was born in about 1817 in Virginia, according to the 1850 census. He married Lucinda on 12 Feb 1836, probably in Pennsylvania, as Lucinda's parents and the rest of their family set off for Indiana the following year. As he was born in Virginia, William Lothar Gidley is probably therefore descended from John Gidley, transported to Maryland after being convicted of stealing a bale of cotton in Crediton, Devon, in 1769.
And that's where the trail stops at present, I'm afraid. Do look at the Gidley profile at http://www.one-name.org/Profiles, where I have put some information about all the various Gidley families, including yours.

Re: Gidley One Name Study

JudithThomas89 — 2006-10-18 16:03:17Z

Pamela
I don't have quite all the American census details yet, but I can see your father on my index to the 1930 census for Lawrence with his parents Albert E Gidley born Massachusetts about 1901, mother Nellie E born abt 1900, and sisters Dorothy G b abt.1919 and Shirley E born abt. 1929. Unfortunately I can't trace your grandfather in what I have of the 1910 census (and that doesn't mean he isn't there, just that I haven't got it yet).
Now the Gidleys in Massachusetts are mainly descended from a settler/settlers in the 17th century. If you look at my Gidley profile on the Guild of One-Name Studies website (www.one-name.org), you will see a brief description. But Lawrence was a bit different, and its textile mills seem to have attracted much later settlers in the 19th century, including some Gidleys from Buckfastleigh and Dean Prior in Devon, where they had already been involved in the woollen industry there. Two brothers, for example, Frederick and Samuel Gidley, emigrated to Lawrence in about the 1890s and lived in Spruce St. And I think there were others too.
Do you have any family traditon of where your family originated?
You can get my e-mail address from the Profile web page, as I should like to hear details of your family.

Gidley One Name Study

JudithThomas89 — 2006-07-16 14:00:43Z

Having been working on this study for about 5 years now, I have produced a lot of family trees. Look at the Gidley Profile on the Guild of One Name Studies website for brief details, and contact me for further information.
If you are stuck, the chances are that I am too, but it's worth a try and if we pool our knowledge we may break down some brick walls!

Re: William Gidley, Hamilton, Ontario

JudithThomas89 — 2006-07-16 13:52:04Z

Hello Jennifer
I am doing a One-Name study of the Gidley surname, but must admit my researches in Canada are minimal, as it's not an easy country to research. I know of at least 3 families who emigrated there, and one from London went to Ontario in the 1840s, but I can' t see your family on what I have of the 1901 Canadian census. Do you have any more information at all?

Re: Gidley From Wabash, Indiana

JudithThomas89 — 2007-12-07 20:34:49Z

If you look at the Gidley profile on the Guild of One Name Studies web pages (via www.one-name.org - then type Gidley into the "Is your surname registered?" box), you will find my contact details. I am quite happy to send you a GEDCOM tree I have drawn up of what I call the Gidleys of Maryland & West Virginia (sorry, I suppose I should have added Indiana to that!).

Re: Gidley One Name Study

JudithThomas89 — 2008-03-14 20:20:49Z

Hello Karen
That sounds like the Gidleys from Cornwall, and the expert is Bryan Gidley. I don't actually have the names you mention on the Cornish tree which I've compiled, but if you look at Bryan's website at http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Estates/4294/, then I think you will find his contact details. If not, look at the Gidley Profile on http://www.one-name.org, and you will find my e-mail address at the bottom. I will then give you Bryan's e-mail address direct.

Re: Gidley One Name Study

JudithThomas89 — 2008-02-06 15:30:18Z

Hello
If you look at the Gidley profile on the Guild website at http://www.one-name.org/uk (type Gidley in the "Is your surname registered?" box), you will find my e-mail address at the end. I should be interested to hear from you direct - I'm particularly interested to hear that there are Gidleys from Scotland.

Re: The Gidley name

JudithThomas89 — 2008-10-15 15:42:36Z

I am recording at the moment all the Gidleys in the American censuses for the Gidley One Name study. I have built up a tree of the Gidleys from Massachusetts and New York, which includes the Gidleys from Peru, Morrow County, Ohio. There are still some Gidley family members in Peru I cannot fit on to it, so if you like to look at the Gidley Profile at the Guild of One Name Studies website, and use my contact details at the bottom of the Profile page to contact me, I will send you what I have, and perhaps you may know where some of those missing Gidleys fit in.
The letters sound very interesting, and I would love to hear about them.
Not all Gidleys in the USA were Quakers, though.