Hartley
Family
Generation One
George Hartley was born about 1797/8, probably in Trawden, Lancashire, England. The
births of two George Hartleys who are about the right age to be our George are
recorded in the registers of St Bartholomew's in Colne, Lancashire. One, born
March 5, 1797 to John and Peggy Hartley, was baptized July 30, 1797. The other,
born on May 1, 1798 to George and Mary Hartley, was baptized July 28, 1798.
As an adult, George worked as a
weaver. He married Mary Heap in St. Bartholomew's on December 24, 1818.
Mary Heap
was the daughter of John Heap (bp. Colne May 4, 1775, son of James Heap and
Martha Fether of Trawden) and Nancy Riley (bp. Colne August 18, 1776, daughter
of John Riley and Phillis Hartley), who were married in St. Bartholomew's in
Colne on February 28, 1797. John Heap was also a weaver. He and his wife were
living in Boughgap when Mary, born on July 24, 1798, was baptized at St.
Bartholomew's on July 14, 1799. There is a Bough Gap section of Keighley Road,
Trawden. A man named James Ellis was a witness to both the marriage of John
Heap to Nancy Riley and the marriage of Mary Heap to George Hartley. Mary Heap
Hartley died at some point between 1827 and October 5, 1829, when her husband
remarried. She is not the Mary Hartley, wife of George, who was buried on March
19, 1826 in West Ardsley, Yorkshire. The family was still living in Trawden at
that point.
On October 5, 1829 George
Hartley, widower, married Ann Turner, widow in St. Bartholomew's in Colne.
The family is listed in the 1841
census in Bradford, Yorkshire, in the same parish as John and Ellen Briggs. Two
of George's sons would marry two of their daughters. Some of the ages are
obviously off, a common occurrence in census records, but the summary of the
entry is as follows:
George Hartley, 40
Ann Hartley, 30
William Hartley, 20
James Hartley, 15
Martha Hartley, 15
Richard Hartley, 15
Joseph Hartley, 14
Jane Hartley, 9
Ellis Hartley, 8
His sons' marriage certificates
in 1841 and 1849 list the family residence as Pudsey, Yorkshire. George is
listed as a weaver in 1841 and a twister in 1849.
Children of George Hartley and
Mary Heap:
1. John (1820-1875)
2. William (born 1821)
3. James (1823-before 1861)
4. Martha (born 1824)
5. Richard (1826-1886)
6. Joseph (born 1827)
Children of George Hartley and
Ann Turner:
7. Jane (born 1832)
8. Ellis (born 1833)
Generation Two
John Hartley (George) was born, according to census records, in Bogap,
Lancashire. This is probably the Bough Gap section of Trawden. He cannot be the
John, son of George and "Matty" Hartley who was born May 18, 1821 and
baptized July 22, 1821 in Keighley, Yorkshire because that date is too close to
the baptism date of his brother William. Since all his siblings were baptized
in Colne, it seems likely that he is the John Hartley baptized there on January
10, 1820. His mother's name is given as Mary. His father is listed as John
Hartley, weaver, of Lower Colne but that could easily be a mistake for George
and Trawden is just southeast of Colne. When John Hartley married on May 3,
1841 in St. Wilfrid's Church in Calverley, Yorkshire, he gave his age as 21.
Susanna Briggs (c.1822-May 31, 1900) married John Hartley at age 19. She was the
daughter of John Briggs (September 5, 1802-July 14, 1868) and Ellen Riddihough
(December 4, 1797-before 1881). At the time of their marriage, John and Susanna
listed their residence as Pudsey and John's occupation as woolcomber.
1851 census: Baildon, Yorkshire
John Hartley, born about 1821,
Lancashire
Susan, wife, born about 1822,
Kelbrook, Yorkshire
Mary, daughter, born about 1843,
Bradford, Yorkshire; in 1861, Mary Hartley, 18, was a boarder in Baildon in the
house of Betty Nowall
William, son, born about 1847,
Bradford, Yorkshire
Ellis. son, born about 1849,
Bradford, Yorkshire
map showing parts of Lancashire and Yorkshire (Kelbrook
and Baildon are about 10 miles apart)
On July 25, 1850, John and
Susanna's sons Ellis and William Henry and their nephew, Richard Hartley's son
George, were baptized at the Primitive Methodist Church in Bradford, Yorkshire.
Once again John's occupation was listed as woolcomber. Their abode was listed
as Moor Head, Shipley.
1861 census: Baildon, Yorkshire
John Hartley, 41 (born about1819
in Bogap [sic], Lancashire)
Susannah, wife, 39 (born about
1822 in Kelbrook, Yorkshire)
William, son, 14 (born about
1847 in Bradford, Yorkshire)
Ellis, son, 12 (born about 1849
in Bradford Yorkshire)
Thomison, daughter, 7 (born
about 1854, Baildon, Yorkshire)
Ann, daughter, 4 (born about
1857, Baildon, Yorkshire)
Jane, daughter, 2 (born about
1859, Baildon, Yorkshire)
John Hartley arrived in New York
from Liverpool aboard the Orient on
August 18, 1865, together with his two oldest children. The names listed
together on the manifest are:
John Hartley, 41
W. H. Hartley, 20
John Pickels, 23
M.A. Pickels, 21
M. A. Pickels (Pickler in 1870
census below) is Mary Ellen Hartley, who married John Pickles in 1862.
John Hartley must have sent for
the rest of his family because more of them arrived in Philadelphia on May 21,
1866 aboard the Saranak after sailing
from Liverpool. The manifest records the following:
Susan Hartley, 41
Ellice Hartley, 17
Richard Hartley, 26
Thomasine Hartley, 25
Ann Hartley, 7
Jane Hartley, 5
Thomas Hartley, 4
Thomasine Hartley, infant
The Saranak under tow
The ages of Ann and Jane differ
from those given in the 1861 census and Thomison, daughter of John and
Susannah, who would have been fourteen, does not appear, although she was with
the rest of the family by the time of the 1870 census. Richard Hartley, 26, was
John's brother and Thomasine Hartley, 25, was his wife and also Susannah's
sister, Thomasine or Thomason Briggs. Thomas Hartley and Thomasine Hartley
appear to be their children, based on their ages. They had another son, John
Briggs Hartley, who would have been five in 1866, who is missing here but is
with the family in the 1870 census.
1870 census: Billerica,
Middlesex County, Massachusetts (where son Ellis was married in 1869), taken
July 8, 1870
John Hartley, 49, farm labor, b.
England c. 1821
Susannah Hartley, 48
Thomasene Hartley, 18, working
in woolen mill
Anne Hartley, 15, working in
woolen mill
Jane Hartley, 12
John Pickler, 30
Mary E. Pickler, 27
Susannah Pickler, 4/12
1880 Census: Upper Darby,
Delaware County, Pennsylvania:
Susanna Hartley, widow, 59 (b.
c. 1821 in England)
Jane Hartley, daughter, 22
Susannah Briggs Hartley lived
until May 31, 1900. Although her death certificate says she was born c.1820 in
Philadelphia, and gives her marital status as married, her identity is not in
question. She was living at 110 North 63rd Street, Ward 34 at the
time of her death and was buried in Fernwood Cemetery in Yeadon, Delaware
County, Pennsylvania on June 2, 1900.
The children of John Hartley and
Susanna Briggs are:
1. Mary Ellen Hartley, b.
September 17. 1842, Bradford, Yorkshire; d. after 1870
2. William Henry Hartley, b.c.
1847, Bradford, Yorkshire; d. October 9, 1893, Pennsylvania
3. Ellis Hartley, b. March 4,
1850, Bradford, Yorkshire; d. 1885, Pennsylvania
4. Thomison Hartley, b. December
1853, Baildon, Yorkshire; d. after 1876 Pennsylvania
5. Ann Hartley, b. c. 1857,
Baildon, Yorkshire; d. 1900, Pennsylvania
6. Jane Hartley, b. c. 1859,
Baildon, Yorkshire; d. after 1880
William Hartley(George) was born in Trawden, Lancashire and baptized in Colne on
January 28, 1821.
Martha Hartley (George) was born in Trawden, Lancashrie and baptized in Colne on
December 26, 1824.
James Hartley (George) was born in Trawden, Lancashire and was baptized June
15, 1823 in St. Bartholomew's in Colne. James married Sarah Sykes, daughter of
David Sykes, a weaver, on February 20, 1849, at St. Wilfrid's, Calverley,
Yorkshire, when he was recorded as being 24 (b. 1825) and she was 23. They were
living in Pudsey. He died between 1854, when his son was born, and 1861 when
his wife and her second husband, William Clark, appear in the census. In 1851
James and Sarah were living in Baildon, Yorkshire and James's brother Richard
was boarding with them.
1851 census: Baildon, Yorkshire
James Hartley, 26, woolcomber,
b. Trowden, Lancashire
Sarah Hartley, 25, wife, b.
Kirkheaton, Yorkshire
Elizabeth Hartley, 5, daughter,
b. Kirkheaton, Yorkshire
Salena Hartley, 10 mo.,
daughter, b. Baildon, Yorkshire
1861 census: Baildon, Yorkshire
William Clark, 22
Sarah Clark, wife, 34
Elizabeth Hartley, stepdaughter,
15
Selina Hartley, stepdaughter, 12
Blackburn Hartley, stepson, 7
The children of James Hartley
and Sarah are:
1. Elizabeth Hartley, b. 1846,
Baildon, Yorkshire; d. after 1861
2. Selina Hartley, b. 1850,
Baildon, Yorkshire; d. after 1871
3. Blackburn Hartley, b. 1854,
Baildon, Yorkshire; d. 1863, Baildon, Yorkshire
16th
century baptismal font at St. Bartholomew's, Colne
Richard Hartley (George) was born in 1826 in Trawden, Lancashire and baptized
June 4, 1826 in St. Bartholomew's, Colne. On his birth record his father is
listed as a weaver living in Trawden and his mother's name is given as Mary.
Richard died in 1886 in Upper Darby Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania. At
21, he married Thomison Briggs, age 20, on July 30, 1849 in St. Wilfred's in
Caverley,Yorkshire. She was the daughter of John Briggs and Ellen Riddihough
and the sister of Susanna Briggs, who was married to Richard's brother John.
They were then living in Pudsey. Thomason was born c. 1829 in Kelbrook,
Thornton in Craven, Yorkshire and died in 1895 in Upper Darby Township,
Delaware County, Pennsylvania.
In 1850 their son was baptized in
the Primitive Methodist Church in Bradford, Yorkshire.
In 1851 they were boarding with
his brother James in Baildon, Yorkshire.
1851 census: Baildon, Yorkshire
Richard Hartley, 24, b. Trawden,
Lancashire
Fonnison [sic] Hartley, 22, b.
Hilbrook [sic], Yorkshire
George Hartley, 1, b. Baildon,
Yorkshire
Christopher Hartley, 3 mo., b.
Baildon, Yorkshire
1861 census: Baildon, Yorkshire
Richard Hartley, 34 (b. c. 1827
in Kansas [sic], Throwlen [sic])
Thomison Hartley. wife, 32
(b.c.1829 in Ridbrangh [sic], Yorkshire)
Christopher Hartley, son, 10
(b.c. 1851 in Baildon, Yorkshire)
Thomas Hartley, son, 3 (b.c.
1857 in Baildon, Yorkshire)
John Briggs Hartley, son, 1
(b.c. 1860 in Baildon, Yorkshire)
in 1868, Richard Hartley,
spinner, was a boarder at 90 Moody Street, Lowell, Massachusetts, along with
Ellis Hartley, dyer, and William Hartley, machinist. It seems likely that
Richard and his two nephews traveled north in search of work, leaving their
families in Pennsylvania.
1870 census: Upper Darby
Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania
William Baken, 25
Mary, wife, 23
Richard Hartley, 42, mill worker
Thomas[on] Hartley, wife, 40
Thomas Hartley, son, 14
John Hartley, son, 9
James Hartley, son, 1
all are listed as born in Pennsylvania,
but such errors were not uncommon
1880 census: Upper Darby
Township
George Fawcett, 41
Annie Fawcett, wife, 26
Richard Hartley, 47, boarder;
weaver
Thomas Hartley, 21, boarder
It is possible the Fawcetts were
relatives. George Fawcett, widower (June 2, 1839-January 28, 1908) was buried
in Fernwood Cemetery near the Hartleys.
Richard Hartley was buried
September 9, 1886 in Fernwood Cemetery, Yeadon, Delaware County, Pennsylvania.
Thomason Hartley, wife of
Richard, does not appear in the 1880 census but there is a
Thomason B. Hartley who died in
1895 and is buried in Richard's plot in Fernwood cemetery on November 10, 1895.
Her death certificate says she was 58, which would make her birth year c. 1837
rather than c. 1829, but such mistakes in recording ages were not uncommon. If
Thomason Briggs Hartley is the "Aunt Thomason" pictured in a
photograph in the album kept by Susanna Hartley Emerson, then she was in
Passaic, New Jersey at some point because that is where the photograph was
taken. The other possible subject of this photograph is Thomasin Hartley Lees,
daughter of John Hartley and Susannah Briggs.
Also buried in Richard's plot
are his sons John and Thomas and two unidentified Hartley women, Laura Hartley,
who died in Philadelphia December 18, 1903 at age five years and five months
and was buried December 22, 1903, and Mary L. Hartley, who was buried November
16, 1887. Adjacent plots were owned by John Hartley and William Hartley.
The children of Richard Hartley
and Thomason Briggs are:
1. George Hartley, b. October
13, 1849, Bradford, Yorkshire; d. before 1866
2. Christopher Hartley, b. c.
1851, Baildon, Yorkshire; d. 1863, Baildon, Yorkshire
3. Thomas Hartley, b. July 18,
1856, Baildon Green, Bradford, Yorkshire; d. January 3, 1905, Upper Darby
Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania
4. John Briggs Hartley, b. 1859;
d. April 3, 1883 Upper Darby Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania
5.Thomasine Hartley, b. 1866
England or on shipboard; d. before 1870 Pennsylvania
6. James Hartley, b. c. 1869
Upper Darby Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania; d. after 1870
7. James Lincoln Hartley, b.
November 3, 1872, Upper Darby Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania; d.
November 10, 1919, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Joseph Hartley was born in about 1827 and was listed as age 14 in the 1841 census in
Bradford, Yorkshire.
Jane Hartley was born in 1832 in Trawden, Lancashire to George Hartley's second wife,
Ann (Nanny) and was baptized in Colne on April 22, 1832.
Ellis Hartley was born in 1833 in Trawden, Lancashire to George Hartley's second wife,
Ann (Nanny) and was baptized in Colne on October 6, 1833.
Generation Three
Mary Ellen Hartley (John, George) was born September 17, 1842 in Bradford, Yorkshire,
England and baptized April 7, 1844 at St. Peter's, Bradford (now Bradford
Cathedral). She is listed with her parents in the 1851 census. In 1861, she was
a boarder in Baildon, Yorkshire in the house of Betty Nowall. She married John
Pickles in St. Peter's, Bradford on December 25, 1862. She is the M. A.
Pickels, age 21, who traveled from Liverpool to New York on the Orient with her father, brother, and
husband, John Pickels, age 23, arriving on August 18, 1865, which would make
her Mary E. Pickler, age 27, living with John and Susannah Hartley in
Billerica, Massachusetts at the time of the 1870 census. There her husband is
listed as John Pickler, b. c. 1840. They had a daughter named Susannah.
Susannah Pickler (March 1870-September 9, 1871) died at age eighteen months in
Philadelphia and was buried in Mount Moriah Cemetery. Her parents were listed
on the death certificate as John and Mary Ann Pickler.
William Henry Hartley (John, George) was born January 3, 1847 in Bradford, Yorkshire,
England, baptized July 25, 1850 in the Primitive Methodist Church in Bradford,
and died October 9, 1893 in Pennsylvania. He arrived in New York with his
father and sister aboard the Orient on August 18,1865. He married Elizabeth
Bibby. She was born c. 1850 in England, emigrated in 1851, and died November
25, 1933 at the age of 82.
In 1868, William Hartley was
listed in Lowell, Massachusetts as a machinist boarding in the same house at 90
Moody Street as Ellis Hartley and Richard Hartley. They had probably left the
rest of their family in the Philadelphia area and gone to Lowell looking for
work. In the 1870 census for Philadelphia Ward 24 District 79 there are
duplicate entries for a William Hartley, 24, born in England. One has wife
Lizzie, age 20, and children John, age 3, and Annie, age 1. The other is below.
1870 census: Philadelphia ward
24, district 79 (June 17, 1870)
James Smith, 40, mill hand, b.
Ireland
Annie Smith, 40, b. England
(1900 census shows her arriving in the U.S. in 1853)
Robert Smith, 10
Annie Smith, 8
Samuel Smith, 1
William Hartley, 24, dyer, b.
England
Elizabeth Hartley, 20, b.
England
John Hartley, 2, b. Pennsylvania
Annie Hartley 5/12, b.
Pennsylvania
1880 census: Upper Darby,
Delaware County, Pennsylvania
William Hartley, 34, weaver
Elizabeth Hartley, wife, 30
John F. Hartley, 12
Annie Hartley, 10
William H. Hartley, 7
Emma Hartley, 5
Harry Hartley, 3
William H. Hartley died October
9, 1893 in Philadelphia and was buried October 12, 1893 in Fernwood Cemetery,
Yeadon, Delaware County, Pennsylvania. Willie Hartley, probably William's son,
was buried there on November 24, 1882. Elizabeth Bibby Hartley married Thomas
Allen. She was buried with her first husband, but under the name Elizabeth
Allen, on November 29, 1933.
The children of William H.
Hartley and Elizabeth Bibby are:
1. John F. Hartley, b. c. 1867
2. Annie Hartley, b. 1869
3. William H. Hartley, b. c.
1873; d. November 1882
4. Emma Hartley, b.c. 1875; d.
1956
5. Harry Hartley, b.c. 1877
Ellis Hartley (John, George) came to America in 1866 and applied for naturalization
in 1872. According to the U. S. Census, he was twenty-nine in 1880 and
therefore born c.1851. According to his daughter Eva's death certificate, he
was born in Manchester, the largest city in Lancashire, England. Information on
death certificates (and in obituaries, census records, and anywhere else where
poor memory and/or bad handwriting is a factor) is notoriously unreliable. Ellis
was in fact born in Yorkshire and he was not the only member of his immediate
family to leave England for America in 1866. The confusion over Manchester?
Possibly this came about because Ellis's father was born in Lancashire,
although not in that city and because the family embarked from another
Lancashire city, Liverpool.
According to the register of the
Primitive Methodist Church of Bradford, Yorkshire, Ellis Hartley was born May
13, 1850 and baptized July 25, 1850, at which time his parents lived in Moor
Head, Shipley. He died in Chester, Pennsylvania in 1885. He is listed with his
parents in the 1851 and 1861 census records for Baildon, Yorkshire. He arrived
in Philadelphia with his mother, siblings, uncle and aunt on the Saranak on May 21, 1866. In 1868, he was
in Lowell Massachusetts, when he is listed as boarding at 90 Moody Street. His
occupation was listed as dyer. Also boarding at that location were Richard
Hartley, spinner, and William Hartley, machinist. No ages are given for any of
them and no wives or families are listed with them, but William was probably
Ellis's brother and Richard was probably their uncle.
Ellis married Ellen Haulton
(Houlton/Holton) on December 6, 1869 in Billerica, Massachusetts. Ellen was
born in 1847 in North Billerica, Massachusetts and died July 5, 1911 in Lowell,
Massachusetts. She was the daughter of John Houlton (b. Ireland c.1804;
d. Billerica, Massachusetts 1874) and
Bridget Riley (b. Ireland c.1806; d. Lowell, Massachusetts April 1, 1891)
1870 census: Lowell,
Massachusetts, ward 3
Ellis Hartley, 20, common
laborer, b. England
Nellis Hartley, 21, keeping
house, b. Massachusetts
Thomas Burnham, 30, works in
woolen mill, b. Ireland
Honora Burnham, 25
On September 13, 1872 in Philadelphia,
PA, Ellis Hartley filed a declaration of intent to be come a U. S. Citizen.
Richard Hartley, who was already a citizen, deposed that Ellis had been in the
U. S. for the past six years.
Ellen
(Nellie) Haulton (Houlton/Holton) Hartley
In 1873, Ellis Hartley and his
wife Nellie were living in Chester, Pennsylvania when their first child was
born. They were in Brunswick, Maine in 1875 for the birth of the second. They
had returned to Chester in 1876 for the birth of their third child. In 1879,
they were back in Lowell, Massachusetts.
1880 Census: Lowell,
Massachusetts (19 Crosby Street)
Ellis Hartley, 29, b. England
Ellen Hartley, 30, b.
Massachusetts
Susanna Hartley, 8, b.
Pennsylvania
Agnes Hartley, 5, b.
Massachusetts
John Hartley, 3, b. Pennsylvania
James Hartley, 1, b.
Massachusetts
The family had returned to
Chester, Pennsylvania by 1884 when their last child, Eva, was born. Ellis died
in Pennsylvania in 1885 and was buried in his father's plot in Fernwood
Cemetery on February 15, 1885.
Unfortunately, the 1890 census
records were destroyed in a fire but in 1902, Nellie was back in Lowell,
Massachusetts.
Nellie
Hartley with grandson W. Merritt Emerson
Now we enter into some confusion,
as there seem to have been three Nellie Hartleys living in Lowell in the first
decade of the twentieth century. When the 1902 Lowell, Massachusetts city
directory came out, Nellie Hartley, widow of Ellis, was living in a house at 28
Pollard Street. Obviously, she is not the Nellie Holton Hartley, widow,
daughter of John Holton, living at 40 Agawam, who married Albert White,
widower, of the same address on August 7, 1901. That Nellie gave her age as
forty-nine and listed her mother's name as Delia. Then, in the 1910 census,
Nellie Hartley, 57, is listed as a boarder in the household of Edward B.
McSorley, 25 and his wife Jennet, 21 on Walnut Street in Lowell, a single woman
with no children born or now living with a father born in England and a mother
born in Ireland. Her profession is "housekeeper, private family." Our
Nellie died in 1911 and her death certificate records she was living at 456
Gorham St., Lowell, at the time of her death. She died of sun stroke. This is
confirmed by an article in the Lowell Sun
for Friday, July 7, 1911. She was one of "Six More Deaths" due to the
heat ("Mrs. Nellie Hartley, Gorham Street). She was buried July 8, 1911 in
St. Patrick's Cemetery, Lowell. As is often the case, accounts of how old she
was when she died vary. The family bible belonging to Nellie's daughter Susanna
records Nellie's age at the time of her death as sixty-three. Her death
certificate, where the information came from a younger daughter, Agnes, says
she was fifty-nine.
The children of Ellis Hartley
and Ellen Haulton are;
1. Susanna Hartley, b. March 24,
1873, Chester, Pennsylvania; d. May 2, 1939, Bangor, Maine
2. Agnes Hartley, b. 1875,
Maine; d. 1968, Maine
3. John Hartley, b. 1876,
Pennsylvania; d. October 11, 1909, Lowell, Massachusetts
4. James Hartley, b. March 15,
1879, Lowell, Massachusetts; d. February 5, 1942, Bangor, Maine
5. Eva Hartley, b. December 17,
1884, Chester, Pennsylvania; d. July 17, 1900, Bangor, Maine
Thomison Hartley (John, George) was born in December 1853 in Baildon, Yorkshire and
died after 1876 in Pennsylvania. She is not listed on the 1865 or 1866
manifests with other members of her family but she appears with them in the
1870 census in Billerica, Massachusetts at age 18 and working in a woolen mill.
She appears to be the Thomison Hartley who married John Frederick Lees and was
the mother of William Clement Lees. His death certificate gives her maiden name
and states that she was born in England.
1880 census: Chester, Delaware
County, Pennsylvania
John Lees, 27, born Pennsylvania
Thomison Lees, wife, 27, born
England
William Lees, son, 4
The child of Thomasin Hartley
and John Frederick Lees is:
William Clement Lees, b. April
28, 1875, Delaware County, Pennsylvania; d. February 21, 1914, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania
It is possible she is the
"Aunt Thomason" in Susanna Hartley Emerson's photograph album. The
picture was taken in Passaic, New Jersey. The alternative subject is her aunt,
the wife of Richard Hartley.
Ann Hartley (John, George) was born about 1857 in Baildon, Yorkshire. She is
listed in the 1861 census as age 4. She arrived in Philadelphia on May 21, 1866
aboard the Saranak, where she is
listed as age 7. In 1870, the census for Billerica, Massachusetts lists her as
age 15 and working in a woolen mill. Annie Hartley, weaver, resided in Chester,
Pennsylvania in 1888 and 1889, according to the Chester Directory. Annie
Hartley was buried in John Hartley's plot in Fernwood on March 11, 1900. The
Annie Hartley (1854-April 10, 1892) listed in Find-a-Grave as buried in Fernwood
Cemetery, Fernwood [sic], Delaware County, Pennsylvania was born in
Philadelphia and was married at the time of her death.
Jane Hartley (John, George) was born about 1859 in Baildon, Yorkshire. She is
listed in the 1861 census as age 2. She arrived in Philadelphia on May 21, 1866
aboard the Saranak, where she is
listed as age 5. In 1870, age 12, she was with her family in Billerica,
Massachusetts. In 1880, age 22, she was living with her mother in Upper Darby
Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania.
Elizabeth Hartley (James, George) was born c.1845 in Baildon, Yorkshire. She was listed
in the 1851 census as age five and in the 1861 census as fifteen, by which time
she was living with her stepfather, William Clark.
Selina Hartley (James, George) was born c. 1850 in Baildon, Yorkshire. She was listed
in the 1851 census aged ten months and in the 1861 census as age twelve and
living with her stepfather, William Clark. In 1871, age twenty, she was a
lodger in Baildon with the Holmes family.
Blackburn Hartley (James, George) was born in 1854 in Baildon, Yorkshire. In 1861 he was
living with his mother and stepfather, William Clark, in Baildon, and was
listed as age seven. He was buried March 5, 1863 in St. John the Evangelist,
Baildon.
George Hartley (Richard, George) was born October 13, 1849 in Bradford, Yorkshire. He
appears to have died before the 1851 census.
Christopher Hartley (Richard, George) was born c. 1851 in Baildon, Yorkshire. He was
buried in St. John the Evangelist, Baildon on July 11, 1863.
St. John the
Evangelist, Baildon, Yorkshire
Thomas B. Hartley (Richard, George) was born July 18, 1856 in Baildon Green,
Bradford, Yorkshire and baptised at St. John the Evangelist, Bailden on June
16, 1857. He came with his parents to Philadelphia in May of 1866. In the 1880
census Thomas Hartley, 21, weaver, is listed with Richard Hartley as boarding
with George Fawcett and his wife Annie in Upper Darby Township, Pennsylvania.
Thomas B. Hartley died January 3, 1905 and was buried January 7, 1905 in
Fernwood Cemetery, Delaware County, Pennsylvania in Richard Hartley's plot.
Thomasine Hartley (Richard, George) is listed as an infant in the manifest of the Saranak, arriving in Philadelphia on May
21, 1866 and was probably Richard and Thomason Hartley's daughter since
Susannah Hartley already had an older daughter with the same name. She appears
to have died before the 1870 census was taken.
James Hartley (Richard, George) b. c. 1869, Upper Darby Township, Delaware County,
Pennsylvania. Listed in the 1870 census as being one year old. Nothing further
is known of him. A second James Hartley has a birthdate two years later and
thus could not have been the James listed in 1870. It is likely the first James
had died by 1872.
James Lincoln Hartley (Richard, George) b. November 3. 1872 Upper Darby Township,
Delaware County, Pennsylvania; d. November 10, 1919, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
He married Marion Nenevilliar Daymon in 1896 in Philadelphia. She was born
August 19, 1875 and died June 3, 1937 in Upper Darby Township. Her death
certificate indicates that she died while living at 59 Sunshine Road in Upper
Darby, Pennsylvania. She is buried in Arlington Cemetery, Drexel Hill,
Pennsylvania. Also buried there is James L. Hartley, but cemetery records show
his date of death as April 3, 1920. The death certificate for James Lincoln
Hartley gives the date of his death as November 10, 1919 and states he is to be
buried in Fernwood Cemetery. It is possible that he was buried first in
Fernwood and later moved to Arlington. Other information on his death
certificate includes his parents names and his profession. He was an
electrician.
Susanna Hartley Emerson's album
contains a photograph of "Lincoln and Marion Hartley" taken in
Philadelphia.
1910 census: Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania
James L. Hartley, 37
Marion, 33
Ethel Hartley, 12
Mabel Hartley, 9
James L. Hartley, 5
1920 census: Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania
Marion Hartley, 45
Ethel Hartley, 22
Mabel Hartley, 19
James L. Hartley, 15
Jacob Knows [sic], 40
1930 census: Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania
Marion Hartley, 55
Ethel Hartley, 33, daughter,
single
John Knowles, 59, cousin,
single, b. Pennsylvania 1871
Jacob Knowles, 54, cousin,
single, b. Pennsylvania 1876
Children of James Lincoln
Hartley and Marion Nenevilliar Daymon are:
1. Ethel Hartley, b. 1897; d.
after 1940
2. Mabel Hartley, b. 1901; d.
after 1920
3. James Lincoln Hartley, b.
1905; d. December 22, 1975
Generation Four
John F. Hartley (William, John, George) was born about 1867.
Annie Hartley (William, John, George) was born about 1869.
William H. Hartley (William, John, George) was born about 1873 and died in
November 1882. He was buried in William Hartley's plot in Fernwood Cemetery,
Delaware County, Pennsylvania.
Emma Hartley (William, John, George) was born c. 1875. She married Harry W. Hoffman.
He was born about 1860 and was buried on November 1, 1938 in William Hartley's
plot in Fernwood Cemetery, Delaware County, Pennsylvania. She was buried there
December 28, 1956.
Harry Hartley (William, John, George) was born c. 1877.
Susanna Hartley (Ellis, John, George) was born March 24, 1873 in Chester, Pennsylvania
and died May 2, 1939 in Bangor, Maine. She married Justus Sanford Emerson
(April 10, 1870-July 23, 1962) on January 12, 1890 in Carmel, Maine.
Child of Susanna Hartley and
Justus Sanford Emerson is:
Wilbur Merritt Emerson b.
October 12, 1890, Bangor, Maine; d. September 23, 1983, Bangor, Maine
Agnes, James, and John Hartley
with W. Merritt and Susie
Emerson
Agnes B. Hartley (Ellis, John, George) was born in August 3, 1875 in Brunswick, Maine
and died March 31, 1968 in Lewiston, Maine. Her first husband was George L.
Evans, age 21 when they married on May 29, 1897 in Nashua, New Hampshire. His
fate is unknown. In 1911, Agnes provided information for her mother’s death
certificate as Agnes Hartley. On August 14, 1914 she married James B.Taylor
(b.c.1870) in Lowell, Massachusetts. On their marriage record, he is listed as
a widower making his second marriage and this is said to be her first marriage.
A paragraph in The Lowell Sun for Friday, August 31, 1914, relates that
the wedding took place at the house of the Rev. Mr. Shurtleff and witnessed by
Mary Dwyer and Joseph Martin. A reception at the bride's home (135 Fletcher
St.) followed, "with a large number of friends and relatives
present." The couple made their home there after a wedding tour that
included a stop in Bangor, Maine. Agnes and James Taylor are recorded in the
1920, 1930, and 1940 census for Lowell. His fate is unknown, but a birth certificate
for B. Agnes Hartley was recorded in 1938. In 1963, she was issued a social
security number (007-46-4501) while living in Lewiston, Maine. Her birth date,
inexplicably, is listed as March 10, 1875. She died there on March 31, 1968 and
was buried in Mount Hope Cemetery. Her death certificate (#680238), listing her
as Agnes B. Hartley, gives her age at death as 93. According to her great
nephew, Agnes Hartley was born with no body hair and wore a red-brown wig in
life but was buried in a gray wig.
John N. Hartley (Ellis, John, George) was born in 1876 in Pennsylvania and died
October 11, 1909 in Lowell, Massachusetts. He was a shoemaker. On February 11,1902,
he married Mabel Clark. He was buried in St. Patrick's Cemetery, Lowell,
Massachusetts.
James Hartley (Ellis, John, George) was born March 15, 1879 in Lowell, Massachusetts
and died February 5, 1942 in Bangor, Maine. He married Grace I. Danforth
(1886-December 30, 1963) on August 30, 1904 in Bangor, Maine.
1910 census: Bangor, Maine
John Danforth, 53, farm laborer
Eva M. Danforth, 13, daughter
James Hartley, 30, son-in-law, brick
mason
Grace Hartley, 24
Madeline Hartley, 5
Beatrice Hartley, 3
Geneva Hartley, 9/12
1940 census: Bangor, Maine (54
16th Street)
Jones [sic] Hartley, 60, mason
Grace Hartley, 54, wife
Jones [sic] Hartley, 15, son
John Farfarth [sic], 83,
father-in-law
The children of James Hartley
and Grace Danforth are:
1. Madeleine G. Hartley, b.
August 28, 1905; d. October 21, 1982
2. Beatrice G. Hartley, b. June
25, 1906; d. July 28, 1984
3. Geneva M. Hartley, b. July
31, 1909; d. January 15, 1975
4. Wilbur D. Hartley, b.
September 29, 1911; d. September 24, 1956
5. James M. Hartley, b. May 19,
1924; April 6, 2002
Eva Hartley (Ellis, John, George) was born December 17, 1884 in Chester, Pennsylvania.
She died July 17, 1900 in Bangor, Maine.
William Clement Lees (Thomison, John, George) was born on 28 April , 1876 in
Delaware County, Pennsylvania and died February 21, 1914 in Philadelphia. He
was buried February 25, 1914 in Mt. Moriah Cemetery. According to his death
certificate, he was an attorney and real estate broker. He married Fannie
Henrietta Palmer on April 30, 1902 at Cooper Memorial United Methodist Church
in Philadelphia.
Ethel Hartley (James Lincoln, Richard, George) was born in 1897. In 1920 she was
living with her mother and siblings in Philadelphia and in the 1930 census she
was still with her mother. In 1940, she was living in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania
with her brother James's family.
Mabel Hartley (James Lincoln, Richard, George) was born in c.1901. In 1910,
age nine, she was living with her parents, and in 1920, age nineteen, she was
living with her mother. A Mabel Hartley, born August 14, 1900, died January
1978 in Pennsylvania, but there are no particulars given about her parentage or
place of birth.
James Lincoln Hartley (James Lincoln, Richard, George) was born in 1905 and died
December 22, 1975. He married Marion Elizabeth Fisher (d. October 11, 1992).
James and Marion are buried in Arlington Cemetery, Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania,
as are his parents.
1940 Census: Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania
James Hartley, 34, waiter
Marion Hartley, 36
Barbara, 10
Ethel, sister, 41
The child of James Lincoln
Hartley and Marion Elizabeth Fisher is:
Barbara Hartley, b. c. 1930,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Generation Five
Wilbur Merritt Emerson (Susanna, Ellis, John, George) was born October 12, 1890 in
Bangor, Maine and died September 23, 1983 in Bangor Maine. He married Helen
Margaret Hanlon (February 12, 1889-August 19, 1948) on June 13, 1918 in
Burlington, Vermont. His second wife was Angelin Myrtle Palmer (April 30,
1890-November 13, 1986), widow of Leon Percival Carver of Howland, Maine. They
married on September 9, 1951. Wilbur Merritt Emerson was a partner with his
father, J. S. Emerson and Son, Mason Contractors, in 1911 but later entered the
University of Vermont College of Medicine and graduated in 1918. He had
previously attended college in Philadelphia. Dr. Emerson bought the practice of
Dr. McNally at 131 State Street, Bangor, where he lived and practiced medicine
until moving to 181 State Street in 1982.
The child of Wilbur Merritt
Emerson and Helen Margaret Hanlon is:
W Merritt Emerson, b. December
10, 1921 in Bangor, Maine; d. December 7, 2009 in Farmington, Maine
Madeleine G. Hartley (James, Ellis, John, George) was born August 28, 1905 in
Bangor, Maine and died October 21, 1982 in Bangor, Maine. As late as 1931 she
was living in her parents' house at 54 16th Street. She married
David H. Cronin on August 27, 1934.
1940 census: Bangor, Maine (186
3rd Street - same address as on April 1, 1935)
David Cronin, 44, proprietor,
office supply shop
Madeline Cronin, 35, wife
David E. Cronin, 4, son
John Cronin, 3, son
Mary M. Cronin, 0, daughter
Daniel Cronin, 47, brother
The children of Madeleine
Hartley and David Cronin are:
1. David E. Cronin, b. c. 1936
2. John Cronin, b. c.1937
3. Mary M. Cronin, b. c. 1940
Beatrice G. Hartley (James, Ellis, John, George) was born June 25, 1906 in
Bangor, Maine and died July 28, 1984 in Bangor,Maine. She married Henry Edward
Samways. In 1940, they were living in Brewer, Maine with their son, H. James
Samways.
The child of Beatrice Hartley
and Henry Edward Samways is:
H. James Samways, b. c. 1936
Geneva M. Hartley (James, Ellis, John, George) was born July 31, 1909 in
Bangor, Maine and died January 15, 1975 in Bangor, Maine. She married Wendell
Temple Smart (March 8, 1912-March 28, 1962) on May 21, 1938 in Bangor, Maine.
1940 census: Hampden, Maine
Wendell T. Smart, 28, deputy
sheriff
Geneva M. Smart, 30, wife
They resided in Bangor in 1942.
Wilbur D. Hartley (James, Ellis, John, George) was born September 29, 1911 in
Bangor, Maine and died September 24, 1956 in Bangor, Maine. According to city
directories from 1937-1955, he lived at the house his parents had owned at 54
16th Street.
James M. Hartley (James, Ellis, John, George) was born May 19, 1924 in
Bangor, Maine and died April 6, 2002 in Bangor, Maine. He is also listed as
James N. Hartley.
This account was compiled by
Kathy Lynn Emerson in 2014, based on the best information available at the
time. If you have any additions or corrections please send them to mailto:kathylynnemerson@roadrunner.com