Archives of New and Interesting Huntley Memorabilia 


November, 2009

Dan Huntley researches Canadian Huntleys and shares his information at his website!

"I first became interested in the Huntley family history as a result of a request by one of my cousins. Back in 1992, after my father's death,the women of the family decided that we should have a family reunion since my Dad's immediate family was thinning out due to terminal aging. My cousin asked me if I could design a family tree with information she had obtained from various members of the Huntley clan. After getting the info via the mail, I discovered that there was no information beyond that of our common grandparents. Since the reunion wasn't until August of 1993, I decided to find out as much as I could  about our ancestors we didn't know about.

I did a little reading about researching the family history and this led me to the Canadian census pages. After going down some blind alley and wrong paths I came across a number of Huntleys, and managed to locate our g/grandfather and his family. I had heard stories about my father's family from various sources and for the most part after doing research to verify each bit of info, I was able to at last put together a more accurate depiction of the Huntley family from the time they emigrated to Canada up to the present day."

Dan's  website site is www.huntleygenealogy.ca

You must set up an account to use it, but there is no charge. Dan explains:

"The only reason I ask people to register is to maintain some semblance of privacy for the living
individuals in the database. By having  everyone register can give each registrant individual rights as
opposed to having group rights. A little less exposure to leaking of personal information.
Hope this explanation helps. By all means register. When I get notification of a registration request, I can set the
person up in minutes and they can peruse to their heart's contentment.
 
I've included scans of birth, marriage and death certificates of the Huntleys that I have managed to gather over the years.
I am working on uploading news articles that are of importance to the Huntley's or their extended families."

July, 2009

Honoring Evelyn Simon

For 40 years, Evelyn worked tirelessly for HNA as Corresponding and Recording Secretary, spending countless hours maintaining a membership list, recording and sharing minutes of meetings, sending bulletins and booklets, and performing many other tasks important to keeping HNA working.

Evelyn, HNA can never thank you enough for your dedication and hard work!


January, 2009 From Marcia Rose:

"This picture was painted from photographs of Calvin and me at age 8."

Marcia continues:

"My father is working on a writing project. Here is an excerpt from his work:"

My Kids

Marcia was a miracle baby. She required a 100% blood transfusion at birth. By the Grace of God and a good physician she pulled through. When Marcia started school, she was very small and we received a call from the school because she was too young for admittance. When Marcia heard this, she told the teacher that unless she could stay at school, she would cut her into little pieces and stuff her into her overshoes.

 Marcia was not very graceful so we sent her to dancing school. We went to her recital and watched the graceful young girls go through their dancing routines. In the middle of her dance, Marcia’s laces on her vest became untied. She stepped to the front of the stage and asked her mother to come on stage and tie her laces.

We had a summer home in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Our cottage was on a hill overlooking the lake. There was a slant from the cottage to the pier. I yelled that I had caught a fish and Marcia heard me and started down the hill towards the pier but she couldn’t stop and ran off the pier into the water!

We usually took the same route north each summer to our cottage. The trip was long and boring so we asked the kids if they wanted to try a different route. They did and we took a route around Lake Michigan toward the Upper Peninsula. In the early afternoon, we stopped at a motel that had a swimming pool. The kids quickly put on their swimsuits and headed for the pool. We were just getting comfortable when we heard people shouting, “Look at that little kid on the high diving board.” Sure enough, it was Marcia on the highest board getting ready to dive. Before we could yell, Marcia dove off into the pool. She came to the surface and with a big smile said, “That was fun.”

 When Marcia graduated from high school, she decided to go to Israel and work on a Kibbutz. She went and served in a Kibbutz in Northern Israel near Lebanon for six months. When she returned, she went back to school and graduated with a B.S. from Shimer College. I know because as a trustee of Shimer, I signed her degree. For the past 25 years plus, she has worked at Abbott Labs.

 Calvin was the first born. He was an adult from the day that he was born. He walked and talked at an early age. He used the childhood potty but insisted that he wanted to use the adult one. One morning we heard a scream coming out of the bathroom. There was Calvin with two hands in the air, two feet sticking straight up and a head! He didn’t put the toilet seat down before getting on.

We took the kids to a fair at their school where students put on display different things for sale. Calvin saw a metal bank he wanted and asked if he could buy it. The bank cost $3.00. Calvin looked at the three dollars in his hand, then looked at the bank and said, “If I buy the bank I won’t have any money to put into it.” We explained to him that he could earn money to put in the bank if he did chores. He bought the bank.

 Calvin was a good musician and our home was filled with students who played in his band. We had no peace while the band thundered on. He graduated from NIU (Northern Illinois University) with a MS in Engineering, and is doing well at his job.


November, 2008: Recognize anyone...part 2

Marcia Maloney shared these pages of autographs from the Marlow, New Hampshire Reunion in 1948

She writes: "My cousin, Al Huntley, was going through some old papers of his Dad's and found a copy of the 1948 Huntley reunion in Marlow.  I was four and I remember it well (at least the picnic part). But best of all, there is proof that I was there.  The last two scanned
pages show my name written in by my grandmother.  Virgil's name is there as well.
Thanks to Uncle Alton for saving that program."


 

from Virgil:

Hi, Lois,  Nearly everyone at the Marlow reunion have gone to the Happy Huntleying grounds.  Still here me,  Guy Huntley, Bob Herel, Marcia.  Perhaps some one else will identify others who might be living.  Virgil

from me:

Virgil, Lucile Gear is still alive, too.

Marcia adds:

Grace Huntley Sanders, the daughter of Ivan Huntley of Marlow is still alive.  Grace and my Dad, Ira “Ike” Huntley are residents at Maplewood Nursing Home in Westmoreland , NH .  Grace and Dad are first cousins once removed, I think.

Ruth E. (Godfrey) Huntley is still alive.  She is the wife of my Uncle Alton.  She lives in senior housing in Connecticut .

 This was the first year Royce printed a Reunion Booklet!

Happily, not everyone decided to "chuck it!" We have a wonderful history of HNA's reunions in our bulletins and booklets. And if you have any tales of Huntleys or HNA Reunions not lost through the years please send them to me so I can share them with everyone!

Virgil remembers:

"Royce would be 110 if living.  Jeraleen always made him a strawberry shortcake for his birthday and I celebrated a few with him."


October 8, 2008

Virgil and other World War II Veterans Honored with Connecticut Public Service Awards from Secretary of State Susan Bysiewicz 

   

                        Virgil and Susan Bysiewicz                               


September, 2008

Virgil is feeling better and visits Barney Huntley in Lyme!

The Lyme Public Hall recently hosted a program on Lyme cemeteries, including the cemetery behind the Lyme Congregational Church where Barnabas Huntley and daughter Laura Huntley Peck are buried.  During the 2006 reunion in Old Lyme, some of us visited the Lyme Public Hall and the Barnabas homestead just down the street. Bill brought Virgil over from Mystic for the program. Bill's sister, Paula, and her husband, Ron, joined us. It was a perfect New England late-summer day.

Barnabas served in the War of 1812, and was a fisherman and longshoreman. Bill and Paula are descended from Horace L. Huntley, and Virgil from Frederick Fowler Huntley, sons of Barnabas. Charter member #15 Lucile Gear is descended from Henry, a third son of Barnabas.

As you can see, Virgil is looking and feeling well. We are all hoping to see you in Maine in 2009!

    


August 4, 2008

Our Past President, Gordon K. Huntley, recently visited with Beatrice Huntley, who is 102 years young! He writes:

                                                  "Here is how Beatrice Huntley, Evelyn Simon, and myself are related:

                    John Huntley, Old Lyme

Aaron, David, Ezekiel

Asher 3/1/1767                  Rufus c. 9/2/1778

Asher Jr. 8/25/1793           William S. 6/4/1817

Chauncy E. 8/16/1835        Virgil 3/7/1848

Bernard C. 4/4/1881           Herbert Clair 3/17/1878

Royal K. 1/21/1909             Beatrice Louise 7/24/1906

         Gordon K. 9/12/36                                               

So, you see her Great Grandfather and my Great Great Grandfather were first cousins!

Evelyn is more closely related as she is descended from Rufus.  Asher, Rufus, brothers and other relatives who moved from Canandaigua, New York, settling in the Medina, Ohio area.

Beatrice still lives in her Grandfather's house on Medina Road, in Granger Township.  I was at her 100th birthday party and she was at our Logan Reunion. 

Beatrice was great on the piano and in vaudeville and travelled the country before returning home to live with her parents."

Gordon K. Huntley and Beatrice Huntley, age 102, at her home in Medina, Ohio, on August 4, 2008


Raymond G. Huntley

Son of Robert Royce Huntley and grandson of our HNA founder, Royce Huntley

He is currently serving his second tour in Iraq.

He writes to Virgil:

Virgil, It is great to hear from you. I am thankful of your prompt reply. 

So close to memorial day it is
great to hear and see just how many Huntley's will
serve and continue to serve our nations call. I have
 been in the Army for about 16 years now, currently
 stationed with the 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 101st
 Airborne Division (Screeming Eagles). This is my
 second tour. I will return December time frame and
 scheduled to leave in February of the following year
 for a third tour. I probably will not be able to
 make this family reunion but I will try my hardest
 to get to the next. I grew up knowing you were
 heavily involved with the genealogy, but never
 understood how extensive it was. I appreciate all
 that has been done to retain the heritage of the
 Huntley name. Sometimes we need to look back to see
 where we are going.

Raymond, we are praying for your safe return home and thank you for your service to our country.


 Casey Zahn interviewed about ways to excite children about their roots:

Mid-Atlantic African American Genealogy Conference

Cherry Hill, New Jersey

April, 2008

 http://www.rootstelevision.com/players/player_kids.php?bctid=1515879271

You may remember that Casey spoke at our 2006 HNA reunion in Old Lyme.


April, 2008

  

New and Interesting!

Loisanne Foster, of the Marlow, New Hampshire Historical Society, launches a new website! She writes:

"I'm working on a new web concept called a lens...The
idea of a lens is to assemble web pages on a topic and present the
links with a short introduction to each link. It's a way, for instance,
to point to a website such as the MHS Forum and add access to pages
which are copyrighted or just impractical to share on line...

...This lens focuses on the Lyme, Connecticut/Marlow, New Hampshire connection and its long-term results."

"Please check out my efforts on behalf of Marlow Historical Society. "

http://www.squidoo.com/marlowhistorynh

Here's an excerpt:

"Marlow, N.H., chartered in 1761, is not unique because its early settlers came from Connecticut. That is true of many New Hampshire towns. Marlow is unique because its first seventeen families came from one Connecticut town, Lyme, a town unique in itself. Among colonial towns, Lyme, located at the mouth of the Connecticut River, had the highest per capita income."


January 1, 2008

Harriet Matilda (Huntley) Cox celebrated her birthday on Jan. 1st: 105 yrs. old !!!!

Congratulations!

  


August 31, 2007...from August, 1981

Although not specifically about Huntley history, Virgil's passion for careful research is clearly illustrated here. How much all of us in HNA have benefited from his years of research!

 

 

 

 

 

Courtesy Mystic River Historical Society, Huntley Collection, Mystic, CT


August 9, 2007

Lucile Gear, HNA Charter Member#15, honored as Hometown Hero by local TV Station!


Winter, 2006: Malcolm Jardine shares this tin-type and information about his Huntley ancestor!

Thought you might like to see this scan of a very small tin-type photo (2 inches square) of Mary Morton Huntley -- Mom's great grandmother who was married to Lucius Arthur Cary McConnell.  She is the Huntley connection that we have.  Interestingly, Mary's grandmother was Elizabeth Morris, sister of Robert Morris of Pennsylvania, who was leader of the Pennsylvania delegation to the Continental Congress, financier of Washington's army up to the battle of Yorktown, and co-signer of the Declaration of Independence.

Mary Morton Huntley was the daughter of Zeno Huntley of Queensville, Ontario and the grand daughter of Bethuel Huntley.  It is the same line as David Huntley who was host of the Toronto gathering of the HNA.  Mary Morton Huntley married Lucius Arthur Cary McConnell of Blyth, Ontario.  They had several children, of which Anna McConnell married Rev. William Barclay Hutton.  They had a son Malcolm Alexander Hutton who married Ada Thomson of Moncton, New Brunswick.  They in turn had a daugher Nancy Jean Hutton, who married Roland Graham Jardine.  They in turn had a son, me!

It is certainly a stern face that has seen its share of trial, but also a very intelligent face.  Note the dress -- so much for our current debate about headscarfs!  My cousin Bob Hutton of Sussex, New Brunswick has a self-portrait done by Mary which likeness and dress style helps establish the provenance of the photograph in my mind.  I have a rather awkward photo of the painting with natural light, but the main features do shine through.

Thank you for sharing, Malcom!


Fall, 2006

From Malcolm A.H. Jardine
RASC Moncton just published their quarterly publication Horizon for the fall and they included an article that I wrote on my experience this summer with my telescope and mount.  Thought you might enjoy reading it and the other articles in the publication.

http://www.rascmoncton.ca/english/News_Autumn_2006.pdf


Fall, 2006

Virgil and Bev Huntley, of  Kings County, Nova Scotia, Canada, share this correspondence and new website to explore:

Hi Virgil:
 
Just received our program from the 60th anniversary reunion.  It is a very interesting booklet this time and so neat to have the Aaron Huntley mansion on the front.
Belated Congratulations on your 90th birthday how wonderful for you.  I went on the website and checked out the pictures and you look amazing.  Hope your health is good and you have many more.
I am still working on my genealogy up here in Canada.  Thanks to people like you a lot of the leg work has been done for the Huntley side of the family so I have been concentrating on Preston's maternal side and my side as well.
I am a director of the Kings County Burial Grounds Care Society and we find neglected and abandoned cemeteries in the area and give them the care and recognition they deserve.  We have many projects on the go but the 3 that are located in Scott's Bay where many Huntley's settled are the Jess Memorial, Ells Cemetery and Pingree Cemetery.  There were Huntley's buried at the Ells Cemetery that we know of for sure.  If you would like to check out our new and in progress website I will include the link.  Feel free to pass it on to anyone you think would be interested. 
 
http://www.freewebs.com/burialcare/
 
Take care and many happy returns.  Bev Huntley

Summer, 2006

Prepare for your visit to Connecticut and Old Lyme!

Are you planning to do some research during your visit to Old Lyme this summer? We suggest you prepare! Here are a few ideas:

Decide what you want to research. 

Are there certain last names you want to know about? 

Use our list of genealogical resources to prepare your ancestor search list.

The Old Lyme Library has many resources including indexes of important last names, cemeteries and gravestones, and other library and historical organizations that can help you. Spend some time at their site before you come so you have a plan for using their archives.

Are you more interested in old epitaphs and gravestones, or are you seeking burial sites of certain types of historical figures, such as early settlers or Revolutionary War heroes?

To create a plan to search area cemeteries:

Use Find A Grave to identify areas of interest to you

Use the Connecticut Gravestone Network to refine your search

Interested in politicians? Use the Political Graveyard

See lists or photos of gravesites all around Connecticut: click on Duck River Cemetery for pictures of gravestones there.


from April, 2006 

Shad Fishing In Connecticut

Shad fishing was an important industry in Connecticut from the 1800s into the early twentieth century. Special gill nets were made to catch the fish. The season was short, lasting only from April 1 to June 15, when the water temperature was 55-64 degrees. Fishing was done at night when the shad could not see the nets. The fisherman spent winters cutting ice to prepare for the shad fishing season the following spring, because the fish were packed in boxes with layers of the harvested ice to be shipped to New York City and other places. In the early 1900s, the catch could be as many as 400 shad in one night, but by the 1930s, the numbers had dropped off to about 60 a night. Our host's grandfather, Erastus Brockway Huntley, did this type of work.

Source: Brockway's Ferry, Lyme, CT  A History and Memoir by Elizabeth Putnam

Read more about the history of shad fishing in Connecticut


A treasure: the Lyme Public Hall!

This group has been active in collecting Lyme historical documents, photographs, and memorabilia of all kinds for twenty years. If you live in the area, or are coming to the reunion this year, you may want to visit their climate-controlled archives. If you are interested, contact your hosts  and we will set up an appointment for you.

One recent acquisition includes a 19th century photo of Henry Huntley. Virgil believes it may be the original of this photo found on page 163 of his Book 3:


The Old Lyme Tea Party! Did you know that Boston wasn't the only hotbed of rebellion in the 1770s? On March 16, 1774, a peddlar came to Old Lyme from Martha's Vineyard carrying 100 pounds of tea. He was detained, searched, and his entire stock burned near the Congregational Church by the Sons of Liberty!

Read about the Boston Tea Party

Source: Landmarks of Old Lyme: Historic Buildings and Monuments with a Short Record of the Town since 1635 AD, published by Ladies Library Association of Old Lyme, 1968

Were there Huntleys involved in this tea party? We don't know for sure, but many fought in the Revolutionary War. Visit Francis Huntley's website to see who they are!


from March, 2006

Visit the Marlowe, NH Historical Society! 

Loisanne Foster, Secretary of the MHS, sent us this link. 

She writes, "Please check out our web FORUM under "Literary Marlow"Solomon Mack
Narrative and then the "Marlow History," - the same. Solomon's mother
was Hannah Huntley Mack, married to Ebenezer Mack who left Lyme
apparently in the 1760's. Solomon was in Marlow as early as 1761 and
was still here in 1772 which we know because he signed a petition. Then
he moved to the next town south, Gilsum. His youngest daughter Lucy
married Joseph Smith and became mother of THE Joseph Smith (Check the
Mormon websites.)" 

Virgil adds, "the John Cordy  Solomon Mack mentions is John McCurdy, one of the wealthiest men in Lyme at the time.  Also his Hawton at the head of the Minas Basin is the Township of Horton, Kings Co., NS where the Huntleys, Beckwiths, DeWolfes settled in 1760."


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