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             Husband: Charles FRENCH (1)
                Born: 19 DEC 1765 in Derby, New Haven, CT (2 3 4)
          Christened: 06 MAR 1766 in St. James Episcopal Church, Derby, New Haven, CT (5)
             Married: 25 FEB 1784 in Derby, New Haven, CT (56)
                Died: 09 APR 1814 (6 7 8)
              Buried: in Union Cemetery, Seymour, New Haven, CT (9 10)
              Father: Israel FRENCH
              Mother: Sarah LOVELAND
             Spouses: 
                Wife: Anna WOODCOCK (11)
                Born: l 1763
                Died: 14 DEC 1849 (12 13)
              Buried: in Union Cemetery, Seymour, New Haven, CT (14)
              Father: 
              Mother: 
             Spouses:
Children
01               (F): Sally FRENCH
                Born: 14 NOV 1784 in Derby, New Haven, CT (15)
                Died:
             Spouses: Erastus SPERRY
02               (F): Polly FRENCH
                Born: 26 OCT 1786 in Derby, New Haven, CT (16)
                Died: 11 NOV 1794 in Derby, New Haven, CT (17 18)
              Buried: in Union Cemetery, Seymour, New Haven, CT (19)
             Spouses: 
03               (M): Wales FRENCH
                Born: 12 OCT 1788 in Derby, New Haven, CT (20)
                Died:
             Spouses: Betsey HITCHCOCK
04               (M): Grant FRENCH
                Born: 13 OCT 1790 in Derby, New Haven, CT (21)
                Died: 29 SEP 1794 in Derby, New Haven, CT (22 23)
              Buried: in Union Cemetery, Seymour, New Haven, CT (24)
             Spouses: 
05               (M): Raymond FRENCH
                Born: 29 JUL 1792 in Derby, New Haven, CT (25)
                Died: 27 SEP 1794 in Derby, New Haven, CT (26 27)
              Buried: in Union Cemetery, Seymour, New Haven, CT (28)
             Spouses: 
06               (M): Alfred FRENCH (29 30)
                Born: 22 AUG 1794 in Derby, New Haven, CT (31 32)
                Died: 23 JUN 1859 (33)
             Spouses: Lydia HOTCHKISS; Sarah A.
07               (M): Grant FRENCH
                Born: 28 JUL 1796 in Derby, New Haven, CT (34)
                Died:
             Spouses: 
08               (F): Polly FRENCH
                Born: 28 AUG 1798 in Derby, New Haven, CT (35 36)
                Died: 27 MAY 1865 (37)
             Spouses: Joseph RUSSELL
09               (F): Susan FRENCH
                Born: 28 JUL 1800 in Derby, New Haven, CT (38)
                Died:
             Spouses: 
10               (F): Harriet FRENCH
                Born: 20 MAR 1803 in Derby, New Haven, CT (39)
                Died: 05 MAY 1804 in Derby, New Haven, CT (40)
             Spouses: 
11               (M): Raymond FRENCH (41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48)
                Born: 07 JAN 1805 in Derby, New Haven, CT (49)
                Died: 19 FEB 1886 in Seymour, New Haven, CT (50 51 52)
             Spouses: Olive CURTISS; Maria M.
12               (M): Charles FRENCH (53)
                Born: 01 OCT 1807 in Derby, New Haven, CT (54)
                Died: 09 JAN 1892 (55)
             Spouses: Julia SPERRY

Footnotes

  1. 1790 Derby Census.
  2. Compiled by Lorraine Cook White, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records, Vol 8 - Derby 1655-1852 (Baltimore, Maryland, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc, 1997), 224.
  3. Donald Lines Jacobus, Families of Ancient New Haven ([CD]Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1981[originally]Rome, N.Y. and New Haven, Conn., 1922-1932), vol 3, p 626.
  4. Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), 721.
  5. Donald Lines Jacobus, Families of Ancient New Haven ([CD]Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1981[originally]Rome, N.Y. and New Haven, Conn., 1922-1932), vol 3, p 626.
  6. Ibid., vol 3, p 626.
  7. Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), 722.
    He d. April 14, 1814.
  8. 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Union Cemetery, Seymour (Union Cemetery, Seymour), 20.

    French, Charles, died April 18, 1814, age 40.
    French, Ann W., wife of Charles, died Dec. 14, 1849, age 86 yrs.
  9. Donald Lines Jacobus, Families of Ancient New Haven ([CD]Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1981[originally]Rome, N.Y. and New Haven, Conn., 1922-1932), vol 3, p 626.
  10. 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Union Cemetery, Seymour (Union Cemetery, Seymour), 20.
  11. Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), 722.

    ... of Milford ...
  12. 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Union Cemetery, Seymour (Union Cemetery, Seymour), 20.

    French, Charles, died April 18, 1814, age 40.
    French, Ann W., wife of Charles, died Dec. 14, 1849, age 86 yrs.
  13. Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), 722.
    d. Dec. 24, 1859.
  14. 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Union Cemetery, Seymour (Union Cemetery, Seymour), 20.
  15. Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), 722.
  16. Ibid., 722.
  17. Ibid., 722.
  18. 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Union Cemetery, Seymour (Union Cemetery, Seymour), 20.
  19. Ibid., 20.
  20. Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), 722.
  21. Ibid., 722.
  22. Ibid., 722.
  23. 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Union Cemetery, Seymour (Union Cemetery, Seymour), 20.
    died Sept. 20, 1794, age 4 yrs.
  24. Ibid., 20.
  25. Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), 722.
  26. Ibid., 722.
  27. 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Union Cemetery, Seymour (Union Cemetery, Seymour), 20.
    died Sept. 7. 1797, age 3 yrs.
  28. Ibid., 20.
  29. 1840 Oxford Census.
    [
    [This census is written by Alfred French. Very nice handwriting that can be easily read today.]]
  30. 1850 Seymour Census.
    Manufacturer.
  31. Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), 722.
  32. 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Union Cemetery, Seymour (Union Cemetery, Seymour), 22.
  33. Ibid., 22.
  34. Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), 722.
  35. Frank F. O'Brien, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Great Hill Cemetery, 98.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/ghcemscan98.html.]
  36. Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), 722.
  37. Frank F. O'Brien, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Great Hill Cemetery, 98.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/ghcemscan98.html.]
  38. Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), 722.
  39. Ibid., 722.
  40. Ibid., 722.
  41. 1840 Derby Census.
  42. 1850 Seymour Census.
    Manufacturer.
  43. 1860 Humphreyville Census.
    Tool Manufacturer.
  44. 1870 Seymour Census.
  45. 1880 Seymour Census.
  46. Ibid.
    Shoe Manufacturer.
  47. Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 239-40.
    ... went to England to study the processes of manufacture there ...
    The Rimmon and Kinneytown dams were built, and the center dam rebuilt, under his direction ...
  48. Dorothy A. DeBisschop, Historical Personalities of the Lower Naugatuck Valley, 127.
    [http://www.oxfordpast.net/hp127.html.]
  49. Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), 722.
  50. 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Union Cemetery, Seymour (Union Cemetery, Seymour), 19.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/uncemscan19.html.]
  51. Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 240.
  52. Dorothy A. DeBisschop, Historical Personalities of the Lower Naugatuck Valley, 127.
    [http://www.oxfordpast.net/hp127.html.]
  53. Donald Lines Jacobus, Families of Ancient New Haven ([CD]Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1981[originally]Rome, N.Y. and New Haven, Conn., 1922-1932), vol 7, p 1693.
  54. Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), 722.
  55. 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Carrington Cemetery, 23.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/carrcemscan23.html.]
  56. Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), 722.

Revised: 10-Aug-08
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