Mrs. Catherine Truro

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Last Will and Testament 1817 ( Original Here )

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This is the last will and testament of Mrs. Catherine Truro of Flushing in the parish of Mylor in the County of Cornwall widow which I make publish and declare in manner and form following that is to say all my just debts funeral and testamentary expenses to be in the first place duly paid and satisfied and I charge all and singular in personal state and effects with the payment thereof I give over and bequeath unto my brother Joseph Richards of Flushing aforesaid Mason Thomas Brout of the same place custom house office and Thomas Luke of the same place Mason all that my household furniture dwelling house and premises situated in Flushing aforesaid in my own occupation and my tenants or lodgers which I hold under a lease determinable on the lives of myself and aforesaid who are hereinafter named to hold the same with the apartments unto the said Joseph Richards, Thomas Brout and Thomas Luke their executors, administrators and arbutus for all such term estates and interest shall have accrued at the time of my decease upon trust in the first place by and out of my residuary personal state hereinafter mentioned or a competent part thereof to raise so much money as shall be necessary and sufficient for renewing the lease of the said premises and substituting the life of my Granddaughter Lavinia Howe Truro instead of me and for defraying the first and other expenses attending such renewal and in the next place in trust that the aforesaid trustees do and shall review and take the rents and profits of the said premises as the same shall become out and after deducting and paying there out the annual rent taxes and necessary repairs of the same premises do and shall pay and apply one month or half part of the net rents and proceeds unto my son William Truro and his arbutus during his natural life and the other month remaining or half part subject to worthwhile charities with the payment of the sum of two pounds when and so soon as my said granddaughter Lavinia Howe Truro shall attain the age of fourteen years with said sum of ten (100?) pounds I direct my said trustees to revise and retain accordingly and to apply together with other monies after mentioned for or towards putting out my said Granddaughter approaching or otherwise advancing her life provided for that if any time after my decease in the judgment of my said trustees or any two of them or the survivors or the survivor of them his executors or administrators my said granddaughter shall be unkindly or improperly treated by her father or mother in law then I will and direct my said trustees to pay and apply for the money or half part of the said rents and profits heretofore given to my said son William unto and for the sale use and benefit of the said Lavinia Howe Truro and so as the said William Truro shall not interfere through nor the same be in any as subject to his debts rental or engagements and if practicable I desire my said trustees in such rare happening to remove the said Lavinia Howe Truro from her said father or mother in law to such other residence as they have in their discretions shall so fitting and from the and immediately after the decease of other of my said sons and devise out monthly or equal half part of the said dwelling house and premises with the apartments (?) unto the said Lavinia Howe Truro her executors, administrators and arbutus and after the decease of any of the other of my said sons, Father and devise the other or remaining half part thereof unto the said Lavinia How Truro her executors administers and arbutus also I give and bequeath unto the said Joseph Richards, Thomas Brout and Thomas Luke the sum of ten (100) pounds now in the hands of the said Thomas Luke and also Luke and also such sums as shall become payable upon my decease from the club of which I am a member in trust to put and place forth the same at interest upon good security and pay the interest thereof unto the said son William Truro and his arbutus until my said granddaughter Lavinia Howe Truro shall attain the age of fourteen years and when and so soon as she shall attain her said age of fourteen years the in trust to apply the same or combination thereof for her advancement in life and so much of the residual thereof from time to time as they in their discretion shall see fit for the necessary purposes of the said Lavinia Howe Truro and if any remain unapplied as aforesaid in trust to pay the same unto the said Lavinia Howe Truro on her attaining her age of twenty one years or being married which shall first happen also I give and bequeath unto the said Lavinia Howe Truro all my wearing apparel silver spoons best bed quilt and new large bible toe to be maintained and taken account of my said trustees in the presence of my said son William Truro as soon as reasonably may be after my decease and then to be securely locked up in my two trunks and deposited in care of John Edy Brout (my said son William keeping the keys thereof) until my said granddaughter attain the age of fourteen years when I direct the to be delivered up to her for her own use and benefit provided always that in case the said Lavinia Howe Truro shall happen to die under the age of twenty one years being unmarried then I give and bequeath the **** or dwelling house moneys offers and premises heretofore given and bequeathed to her or for her benefit unto and between my said two sons William Truro and Anthony Truro to share and share alike as tenants in common and to their respective executors, administrators and arbutus and all the test residue and remainder of my goods chattels monies and securities for monies *** household furniture personal estate and efforts whatsoever and whosesoever not heretofore or otherwise disposed of after and subject to the payment represent of my just debts funeral and testamentary expenditure I give and bequeath the same and every part thereof unto my said sons William Truro and Anthony Truro to be equally divided between them share and share alike and to their respective executors administrators and arbutus and it is my wish and will that my said trustees shall not be answerable or accountable one for the other but each for himself and his own deeds and defaults only for any loss happening to the said trust premises except by their own default and that they may deduct and retain all such reasonable costs and charges as the they shall sustain in the execution of the trusts hereby in them reposted and lastly and lastly I constitute and appoint the said Joseph Richards Thomas Brout and Thomas Luke executors of this will and thereby revoking all forms and other wills testamentary dispositions by me before made to declare this only to be my true last will and testament in witness whereof I have hereinto set my hand and seal this twenty first day of June one thousand eight hundred and seventeen.

The mark of Catherine Truro … the writing within routinely was duly signed sealed published and *** by the within named Catherine Truro as and for her last will and testament in the presence of us who in her presence and at her request in the presence of each other have hereinto subscribed our names as witnesses, Robert Rimell Sol. Falmouth, Edgecombe Rimell

On the 7th of March 1822 administration with the will disposed of the Goods, Chattels and Credits of Catherine Truro late of Flushing in the parish of Mylor in the county of Cornwall widow deceased was granted to Willam Truro one of the natural and lawful children and on e of the residuary signatures named in the will of the said deceased having been first sworn by commission duly to administer Joseph Richards Thomas Brout and Thomas Luke the executors named in the will having first renounced the probate and execution of the said will.

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 “Richards is a common Celtic Welsh, or Cornish surname based on the English version of the parent’s name ending in -S. In 1881 people with this surname were mainly located in Wales, Cornwall and adjacent South-West counties of England. By 1998 many Welsh and Cornish people had migrated to cities in England particularly those adjacent to these areas. Originally, it was an English surname brought to England in the great wave of migration following the Norman Conquest of 1066″ quoted from Wikipedia entry.

Catherine Richards married Peter Truro in Flushing, Cornwall in 1783. She was 20 years old and Peter was an apparently dark, Bengali who by that point in time was earning his living as a sailor. The couple named all of their children after the mother’s family as far as I can tell. Is it possible that, Catherine’s family was also Peter’s foster family in Cornwall? If so then it is even possible that Catherine’s father, Anthony Richards, was a sailor who could have accompanied Peter from India to the UK.


Catherine and Peter raised their family in Flushing–an important watering point for the packet ships. Peter continued as a sailor. Catherine’s brother, Joseph Richards, was a builder in the small port town across from Falmouth. He is believed to have built the archway that protected the watering place. Indeed, in 1994, one could still see the “JR” inscribed on the arch.
I believe that Anthony was Catherine’s father. Anthony Richards Truro was the name of one of the children of Peter and Catherine. A Catherine, daughter of Anthony Richards in Perranarworthal, Cornwall shows up in parish records as the daughter of Faith Spargo. All the other children of Anthony in Perrananworthal are said to be the children of Mary. I am assuming that Mary and Faith could be the same people as Catherine is born between two siblings that are Mary’s children. Of course, two other possibilities should not be written off, despite the evidence that points against it, Anthony could have had two wives or, less likely, there could have been two Anthony Richards of about the same age in the village of 1700 people.

Flushing

Truro

Perranarworthal

Mylor

* Will of Catherine Richards
Truro (In Truro Family)

* Cornwall Map of Listed Places

Whispers from the Piper Sisters

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Apr 262008
 

While Mary Jane Piper died long before I was born, it feels like I knew her. She and her sister Bessie lived to a respectable old age, especially against the mining mountain backdrop of Leadville, where many in my family died, young of the dreaded pneumonia.

My grandfather always chuckled when he talked of his grandmothe.  The old gals, he called them because in later life Mary Jane was almost inseparable from her sister Bessie,  The two widows spent hours in their small Leadville house, stirring tea leaves and trying to read the future.

1910, Mary lived at 516 East 7th Street with her second husband, Henry Wardell.

The 18th of January 1888, Mary Jane filed a quit claim to Henry McKeon for strayhorse addition at $652 (Leadville Herald Democrat)

Mary Jane Wardell 1913 made a visit to England, she returned via Ellis Island on August 10, 1913 on the Caronia from Liverpool. Place of residence is listed as Seadville, Colorado. She travelled with her husband, Henry Sutcliffe Wardell both listed as 49 years old. They are listed as naturalized citizens of Leadville on 20th March 1903 (Wardell is). Address is 516 E. 7th.

Mary Jane Piper Burn Wardell came to Leadville as a young woman with her mother Elizabeth Piper in 1879. Her father had died the year before in Cornwall and her mother died four months after they arrived in Leadville. Her sisters Bessie and Leila went to live with other members of the family. In fact, Leila was adopted by Henry Truro Bray, her uncle, and her name was changed to Charlotte Bray. Mary Jane met a very different fate. Merely a month after her mother died, she married John Lloyd Burn and raised her brother Joseph. She was to spend most of her life in Leadville at 517 E. 7th Avenue. She married a second
time after John died to Henry Wardell. Her sister Bessie also married a Burn and they remained good friends until the end.

Mary Phillips and Sam Burn

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Samuel Burn grew up in Leadville and married Mary Grace Phillips. Grace, who was an adopted child (raised by William Phillips and Kate Nichols but apparently the daughter of Simon Phillips and Mary Higman), did not want her husband or children to grow up in the mines. So she insisted that the family move to Denver where Samuel found work on the city trolleys. Grace outlived Samuel by many years.

In Leadville, Sam Burn was a stationary engineer (he ran the hoist and the engine) for the Little Johnny Mine.

The LITTLE JONNY is on Breece hill in the Leadville, Mining district at an altitude of 11,475 feet. It had a mass of copper ore, sand carbonates 1-3 feet thick with 40-50% lead, and upwards of 30oz of silver to a ton. Sam later worked as a car repairman for the CNS railroad. In 1910, he was an engineer at the York Mill.

He left Leadville with his family around 1922 moving into a house on W. 29th (3600 blk) at Lowell in Denver, and taking a job at the Card Iron Works. The family moved to an apartment on the 3500 block of Bryant St. for a short time and also moved across the street to a house on the corner of 36th and Bryant. Moved to 3333 W. 31st Ave. till 1929.

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Mary Elizabeth Norris is the first wife of Milton Atkinson Deupree. She is buried in the Bethel Baptist Church Cemetary in Rocky Mount, Meriweather, Georgia.

The verifying sources for the ancestry of Mary Elizabeth Norris (b 1851) come from Vivian Saffold: namely, Maryland DAR and Revolutionary War records, the History of Upson County by Nottingham and Hannah, cemetary records of Upson and Meriweather Counties, Meriweather and Upson census and marriage records. For example, the 1850 Census for Meriweather yields the following information:

LN LAST FIRST AGE SEX RACE BIRTHPLACE
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39 384 384 Norris William 47 M NC
40 384 384 Norris Narcissa 38 F GA
41 384 384 Norris Cornelius 20 M GA
42 384 384 Norris William 16 M F GA
1 384 384 Norris Alfred 15 M GA
2 384 384 Norris Nancy 13 F GA
3 384 384 Norris Sarah 10 F GA
4 384 384 Norris Churchwell 9 M GA
5 384 384 Norris Ceciro 7 M GA
6 384 384 Norris Martha Ann 4 F GA

The Line goes back to Geoffrey Noreys of Tilney, Norfolk, England who was born before 1396. And, perhaps further, as this record from Yorkshire indicates:

A.D. 1276: The Sheriff is ordered to inquire whether John Morel, who held a toft and 17 acres of land in Bereford of GEOFFREY LE NOREYS, father of Geoffrey le Noreys (whose heir he is), which toft and land Geoffrey the son claims as his right against the Prioress of Ellerton, committed felony for which he was outlawed, as Geoffrey says he did, or not as the Prioress says.

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* Descendants of Alexander McColl

Florence McCole grew up with her three sisters in the Scottish area of Ryegate and McIndoes Falls in Orange County Vermont in the 1860s. She married Haviland George Wilmot (see Wilmot Family ) and they moved to Colorado.

Florence was one of the thousands of Buchanan descendents to fall prey to a great hoax in the 1920’s. Buchanan descendents were contacted through a series of letters informing them that they were meant to inherit millions of dollars that were left for them on 99 year leases. Among this valuable real estate were 500 oil wells in Texas and the land on which the “Sears Building” in Manhattan was built.

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Apr 262008
 

The surname “du pre” apparently originates in the bucolic French for “from the meadow.”  Variants I have seen include: dupree, deupree and depres with or without a space and a capital “P.”  The Dutch version seems to come with a final “z” instead of an “s.” See this wikipedia article for more facts on the name du pre wiki.

A Huguenot story…

The family I research were Huguenots–French protestants–who migrated in the early 1700s to the Richmond area of Virginia. This US branch has been well documented by Langley’s extensive Dupre Trail (see link at bottom of the page.).

…hardened in the business of London,

I question the suggestion that Joseph and Mynetta (Lameroux) Dupre are  the progenitors of this family.  This information is said to have originated with a Dupree family bible and was reinforced with juicy parallels to a South Carolina family of Dupres.  This line of reasoning was enough to convince for me for years but, in all that time, I never managed to locate a lick of supportive evidence. A blog post on this site covers my reasoning, supposition and some of the evidence.

Armed with skepticism, I tracked the movement of many of the early Richmond families (this is documented in a blog post) and have come to make a suggestion that the family more likely has its immediate roots in the French refugee neighborhoods of London.  Threadneedle Street and Spittalfields appear to have been robust, thriving areas where French refugees established both lives and livelihoods.  They worked cloth and traded in wine and other fine continental goods.  This was a world unto itself where French was spoken. Families bearing the name “dupre” lived here from the late 16th century.  And their churches kept excellent records that give a wonderful cultural view into their customs. I trace out at least one possible path from Jean Despres, a Huguenot silk weaver from Sedan, a silk weaving region of northern France.

woven into the culture of the American South,

Three Huguenot brothers, Thomas, Jean and Louis Dupre arrived in Manakintown, Virginia in 1701, possibly, aboard the Mary Ann, one of four ships that brought Huguenots to America from England. King George granted them land along the James River .

Thomas, the elder brother and top of my line, married Margaret Easley who was among even earlier settlers in Virginia. Over the years, the family migrated mile-by-mile into the deeper South. By the late 1700s, Lewis (Thomas, Thomas) and his children Drury and Daniel lived in South Carolina before they moved to the Northeastern corner of the state of Georgia. Within the next centuries, the family spread to Texas, Alabama, Mississippi and one Dupreem so the story goes, accompanied the Cherokee on the Trail of Tears from Georgia to Oklahoma.

Approx. location, Manakin was on James River near Richmond.

Scrapbook

* The Dupre Trail (in PDF) Volume1 & Volume 2 & Addendum
* A possible dupre lineage to 880 ad
– Significant thanks and credit to Cheryl Kravetz and Bob Dupree

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