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Posted in Worrilow on Apr 23rd, 2010
I was talking with my cousin James Stevenson the other day and we were talking about a relative of ours who was with Buffalo Bill and his Wild West Show in the late 1800s. My mother had told me about this many years ago. James read the letter about this as a child but the [...]
Posted in Worrilow on Apr 7th, 2010
William was the 4th child born of Benjamin and Catherine Ewing Worrilow and may have been born in February between 1853 and 1856. Nevertheless, he was born on a farm in the area of Booths Corner in Bethel Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania. Not much is known of William’s early life but he was found on [...]
Posted in Worrilow on Jan 4th, 2009
Industrialist. Born in Chester, Pennsylvania and beginning life in humble circumstances, he co-founded the Lebanon Steel Foundry on December 11, 1911. The original foundry building was a wooden shed, 100 feet long and 50 feet wide, and employed 20 men. From this beginning the foundry progressed and in 1915 the Lebanon Steel Foundry became the [...]
I decided to write this in hopes that other people who may be researching the Kaufmann and Zopf surnames may be able to fill in some blanks. Both families originated in Austria-Hungary from 1900 through 1912 and after their arrival in the United States, they settled in and around Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Lawrence Kaufmann and Wilburga [...]
Posted in Fonteneau on Oct 26th, 2008
Jean Louis dit Colon FONTENEAU was born 18 Dec 1686 in Poitiers, France and was baptized in Saint Jean de Montierneuf Church of the same town. By 1720, Jean Louis was a Sergeant serving in French military and on the ship named the “Drommadaire” heading for the new world for an assignment in the colonies. [...]
Posted in Slevin on Jul 9th, 2008
Lawrence and Ellen are my 2nd great grandparents and it has been a recent find. I often wondered the origin of the name Lawrence in the Worrilow family, for before Lawrence Slevin there were none. My great grandmother, Mary Ellen Slevin, daughter of Lawrence and Ellen, married my great grandfather, William G Worrilow and they [...]
Posted in Worrilow on Jul 6th, 2008
I came across a rare photo of me and my parents a short time ago. Anyone could tell by looking at it that it had special meaning to whoever carried it for it was well worn. It was most likely carried by my father in his wallet because any man knows that anything carried in [...]
Posted in Worrilow on Jun 22nd, 2008
Thomas Henry Worrilow was the son of John and Alice Worrilow and was baptized on 26 Dec 1636 in the Parish Church of Haughton, Staffordshire, England. He was the first Worrilow to settle in the new world. He and his wife, Grace Perkes, had raised their family together in Haughton, and sometime after 1685 immigrated [...]
Posted in Worrilow on Jun 17th, 2008
About 60 miles northeast of Leominster, where the old market hall and its inscription can sill be seen today, lies the village of Haughton near the border between Staffordshire and Shropshire. Here lived one of those country gentlemen; Christopher Worrilow (often spelled Warrylow at that time). His wife Margery became a widow and a mother [...]
Posted in Worrilow on Jun 14th, 2008
The Worrilow family were among the first settlers in the English colony of Pennsylvania. The Delaware Valley was explored as early as Jamestown and Plymouth and was colonized, soon thereafter, by Swedes and Dutch who fought over rights to the territory and were eventually succeeded by the English in 1664. The first English settlers in [...]