Folder MS0247.01.14

Scope and Contents 1981 July 1 re: letter from Richard W. Dixey, Rebecca Gardner Dixey’s husband (typed copy is attached), curious about a “cousin Theodore” and an incident about ship Houqua in Foochow. Reynolds heard from Debrett but still doesn’t have information about English roots of Francis and Deborah Girdler. Win says that with Tracy they have nice story about the Robert H. Dixey and Tracy contacted Robert Dixey’s descendents in New Orleans. Envelope and Richard Dixey letter enclosed with...

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(47 reproduced pages of family trees of several Marblehead families including Girdler, Bray, Gardner, Brooks, Savage, Quincy, Kendrick, Hutchinson, Marbury, Dryden, Cope, Skillings, Jewett, Pierce, Proctor, Goldthwaite, Cheever, Gatchell, Hathorne, Porter, Stacey, Worcester, Dike, Croade, Hersey, Gillingham, Cook, Hardy, Pickman, Cockrell, Greenfield, Gifford, Dixey, Gale, Roots, Elkins, Lipscomb, Oldham, Upham, Orvis, Mercer, Conway, Romney, Fleete, Symonds, etc.

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(large blue print [62 x 60 cm] Family Tree tracing back to Francis Girdler d. 1692 came from Guernsey, Channel Islands came to Salem 1678 --- marked in pencil Obsolete)

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(photocopy [ 24.5 x 40 cm] of Andrew Jackson appointment of Lewis Girdler as a Captain of a Cutter in the service if the United States)

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(five typed pages)

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(six typed pages, one handwritten family tree)

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vol. 5, page 300; vol. 2, page 592; vol. 8, page 77. 1979 July 10 “We are getting closer to Richard Girdler (b.1798) in his last years – he became Superintendent of the Massachusetts Nautical School from 1859 to his death in 1865.” (handwritten note) References to Lewis Girdler age 18 Unattached Co. Mass Volunteer Militia; Richard Girdler 2nd age 22 8th Reg Mass Volunteer Inf; Richard Girdler age 19 Ord Seaman on Ohio, W.G. Anderson, Princeton.