There were seventeen Gidleys who went off to fight and never returned, and it seems fitting to remember them in this centenary year, particularly if they don't have any descendants to remember them. Their ages ranged from 41 down to an unbelievably young 17, with an average age of 26. Some were volunteers from very early in the war, others were no doubt conscripted men, following the introduction of conscription in 1916. To meet the demands of the fighting, by May 1916 even married men between the ages of 19 and 40 were required to register for military service. I'm not sure who were the braver -those who volunteered right from the start, or those who went later, already knowing what horrors they were going to. The following blog posts commemorate those who didn't return, but there are several Gidleys who survived, but whose lives were changed for ever by the wounds they suffered.
The seventeen Gidleys who died were from three branches, the Gidleys of Dean Prior, of Winkleigh, and of Buckfastleigh. If we count the Dean Prior and Buckfastleigh men as one branch (they probably separated in the 17th century), then they make up by far the largest number of those killed - eleven. The remaining six were all from the Winkleigh branch. My own family, which originated in Spreyton, lost no-one in the war. My own grandfather was considered unfit to fight, following a childhood leg injury (he fell off a wall in Heavitree, Devon, scrumping for apples, and was later very glad he had, although the leg never healed properly and he always limped).
Tragically, there were three pairs of Gidley brothers killed, and of those pairs, one also lost a first cousin.
No Gidleys from the USA, Canada or Australia were killed, as far as I can ascertain, although many of the Americans fought. New Zealand is represented by one of the last to die, Robert Northleigh Gidley, an apiarist of some distinction.
The huge loss of life in the First World War is mirrored by Gidley casualties in both that war and the Second World War. There were far fewer in the Second World War. Between 1939 and 1945, although there were more casualties from Gidley families in the USA, and another from an Australian family, in Britain there were only two, and only one of those was due to the fighting. The other was a serviceman who was killed in the London Blitz. I shall commemorate them all at a later date.
If anyone reading this has any photos of these Gidleys I should of course be very pleased to add them to the blog posts, also if they have any more details of thier lives. I know only what is in the public domain. Family members may have more stories to tell of bravery. And I'm not a military historian. I have tried to put their deaths in context, but may well not have got it completely accurate.
Saturday, 14 June 2014
Saturday, 10 May 2014
Gidley DNA test results
Bryan Gidley began the DNA testing some years ago and it has been slow to get off the ground. However, at a family funeral last year I managed to persuade a male Gidley cousin to take a yDNA test. I wanted to compare it with a test from the Gidleys of Winkleigh, to see if my theory that my Gidleys (descended from William and Wilmot Gidley of Spreyton) linked on to that tree. Pete Gidley of the Winkleigh branch kindly volunteered to be the Winkleigh branch's guinea pig.
It takes months for the findings to come through. And what a disaster - for me anyway. We are in no way linked to the Gidleys of Winkleigh in the male line, but form a completely separate line. Nor are either branch linked to Bryan's, the Gidleys of Cornwall, although Bryan's results are closer to mine.
So what does it all mean? I am absolutely no scientist and struggle with this. I have linked the two tests with Bryan's Gidley DNA project, and with the Devon DNA project. Both are run by Family Tree DNA. Debbie Kennett is the Group Administrator for the Devon Project and sent the following helpful e-mail:
"R1b [i.e.my own and Bryan's haplogroup] is the most common haplogroup in Europe, and indeed in the British Isles. About 70% of British men belong to haplogroup R1b. You can read more about the various European haplogroups on the Eupedia website:
http://www.eupedia.com/genetics
You can also read the relevant article on Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haplogroup_R1b_(Y-DNA)."
Pete Gidley and all the others who can be traced back to Winkleigh are haplogroup I1.
I still find it difficult to believe that two families with the same name in the same small village (for one offshoot of the Winkleigh branch moved to Spreyton) are not connected in some way. If it's not in the male line, then I feel illegitimacy (for my lot) is likely to come into the picture. This might explain why there is no apparent baptismal record for William Gidley, my 3X great grandfather. I had begun to think that he must be William, son of John and Mary Gidley, who was baptised in South Tawton in 1776. The vicar kindly adds his date of birth three years earlier and adds "his father transported". This is very close to the date of a removal order for this family from South Tawton in 1772. William's date of birth, however, is a few years out from my William's age in 1841, 1851 and at his death in 1853, so I must reluctantly abandon William of South Tawton as my ancestor, I think. And start again!
Please volunteer to be tested if you are a male Gidley and can trace back to any of the branches not yet tested. And there are plenty of those - Buckfastleigh, Brixham, Kenton, Dean Prior, Chudleigh, Woodbury, Massachusetts, West Virginia, and so on. The results may not be what you expect, but there's no arguing with science and it's totally fascinating.
My next posts will be, in this 1914 centenary year, to commemorate all the Gidleys who fell in the First World War. If anyone has any photos of these men, I should be very pleased to post them here. There were 17 Gidley men killed, and they died between 1915 in the Gallipoli campaign, and October 1918 on the Western Front.
It takes months for the findings to come through. And what a disaster - for me anyway. We are in no way linked to the Gidleys of Winkleigh in the male line, but form a completely separate line. Nor are either branch linked to Bryan's, the Gidleys of Cornwall, although Bryan's results are closer to mine.
So what does it all mean? I am absolutely no scientist and struggle with this. I have linked the two tests with Bryan's Gidley DNA project, and with the Devon DNA project. Both are run by Family Tree DNA. Debbie Kennett is the Group Administrator for the Devon Project and sent the following helpful e-mail:
"R1b [i.e.my own and Bryan's haplogroup] is the most common haplogroup in Europe, and indeed in the British Isles. About 70% of British men belong to haplogroup R1b. You can read more about the various European haplogroups on the Eupedia website:
http://www.eupedia.com/genetics
You can also read the relevant article on Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haplogroup_R1b_(Y-DNA)."
Pete Gidley and all the others who can be traced back to Winkleigh are haplogroup I1.
I still find it difficult to believe that two families with the same name in the same small village (for one offshoot of the Winkleigh branch moved to Spreyton) are not connected in some way. If it's not in the male line, then I feel illegitimacy (for my lot) is likely to come into the picture. This might explain why there is no apparent baptismal record for William Gidley, my 3X great grandfather. I had begun to think that he must be William, son of John and Mary Gidley, who was baptised in South Tawton in 1776. The vicar kindly adds his date of birth three years earlier and adds "his father transported". This is very close to the date of a removal order for this family from South Tawton in 1772. William's date of birth, however, is a few years out from my William's age in 1841, 1851 and at his death in 1853, so I must reluctantly abandon William of South Tawton as my ancestor, I think. And start again!
Please volunteer to be tested if you are a male Gidley and can trace back to any of the branches not yet tested. And there are plenty of those - Buckfastleigh, Brixham, Kenton, Dean Prior, Chudleigh, Woodbury, Massachusetts, West Virginia, and so on. The results may not be what you expect, but there's no arguing with science and it's totally fascinating.
My next posts will be, in this 1914 centenary year, to commemorate all the Gidleys who fell in the First World War. If anyone has any photos of these men, I should be very pleased to post them here. There were 17 Gidley men killed, and they died between 1915 in the Gallipoli campaign, and October 1918 on the Western Front.
Sunday, 2 February 2014
Gidleys in British India
FindMyPast has recently published the Ecclesiastical Returns from the British India Office. I could have accessed these earlier by going to FamilySearch, a free site, but it took the recent national publicity to raise my awareness that these records were online. And there were some surprises. Gaps for marriages and deaths on the family trees I always assumed were due to emigration, but I always assumed to the dominions, like Canada, Australia and New Zealand. I hadn't given India much thought.The first record chronologically is for Nathaniel Gidley, a private in the H? U? (can't decipher these initials with any certainty) 59th Regiment, who was buried at Bangalore July 9th 1834 aged 30. This makes him the son of Nathaniel Gidley and his wife Mary Westcott, of Whitestone, near Exeter, Devon.
The next burial record is for Jane Gidley, aged 23, in Bhusawul Cemetery, Bombay, on Aug 12th 1870. FamilySearch has another place of burial - Asserghur, Bombay - and her name is given there as Jane Morton Gidley. There is no indication as to whether she was single or married, and I don't know who she was. The cause of death was paralysis. Could this have been due to polio, I wonder?
In 1919 Alice Edith Frederica Gidley, wife of Lt. Col. Courtenay de Blois Gidley, Royal Field Artillery, of the Winkleigh branch, died at Simla aged 49. She left a son of only 9, Courtenay Terence Robert Gidley, who married in 1953 in Southern Rhodesia. Alice's widower, Courtenay de Blois Gidley, returned home to England much later and served in the Second World War as Col-Commandant of the Devon Army Cadet Force.
In 1925 Augustus George Gidley, 46, a driver on the Great Indian Peninsula Railway, was buried in Jhansi (new) Cemetery. He died of angina pectoris and was the father of 3 young children, all born in India. Augustus was the son of Charles Edwin Gidley, of Poplar in East London. Charles Edwin had 10 children by his first wife, Jessie Matilda, before abandoning her for his second wife, Eliza Anderson, who was his brother's stepdaughter, and had a second family of another 6 children. Most of the children of the first family didn't stay around for long after that. The G.I.P. railway apparently used British drivers with Indian firemen used as stokers. Augustus married Carmeline Cecilia Dennis in Byculla, Bombay, in 1914 and their family of three - Jessie Matilda (called after Augustus' mother), Sydney Herbert (called after Augustus' brother, a Royal Naval Petty Officer, drowned off the island of Coll whilst serving on HMS Jason in 1917) and George Augustus were all born in India. There remains a mystery as to was the Augustus Gidley, cited as a co-respdondent in the divorce case of Eustace Charles Palmer versus Carmeline Mary Palmer in India in 1916. The coincidence of the names - Carmeline and Augustus - is amazing but the surnames are different, as Augustus George Gidley the engine driver had married Carmeline Cecilia Dennis, a spinster, in 1914 in Byculla, Bombay. After Augustus' death his family presumably stayed on in India for some time, as daughter Jessie Matilda Gidley married in Bengal in 1932 aged only 14.
In 1932 Herman Gidley, R Battery, Royal Artillery, was buried in Bolarun, Hyderabad (Deccan), Trimulgherry. Aged only 24, he was the son of John Benjamin Gidley and his wife Mary Ann Jackson of Grimsby, Lincolnshire. He died of malaria.
Miriam Gidley married a Drum Major, Joseph Cashaldine, in 1875 in Ranikhet, Calcutta, Bengal. She had left her home town of Exeter in her early 20s and was the daughter of William Gidley and his second wife, Miriam Sanford. William belonged to the Winkleigh branch and was variously an ag lab, a butcher and a cattle dealer and had various convictions for petty theft.
Minnie Gladys Gidley, daughter of Henry Gidley, who married Edward Horace Turner at Colaba, Bombay in 1913 is a mystery. She was a spinster aged 21 at the time of her marriage.
Sunday, 5 January 2014
Charles Gidley and a minor misdemeanour
A short report of a court case, published on 6 January 1869 in the Morning Post. Charles Gidley, a labourer of Moyson, Devon, was prosecuted at Kingsbridge Town Hall, Devon, by the Board of Trade for the plunder of goods washed ashore from the ship, Gossamer, wrecked off nearby Prawle Point. The coastguard had caught Charles Gidley in Hollacombe Lane with a bag on his back. The alert coastguard challenged Charles, only to be told the bag contained something he had bought, but on closer examination, it was found to be a pair of women's elastic shoes. Charles' counsel claimed at his trial that Charles was actually doing his duty and about to deliver the shoes to the Receiver or the nearest customs or coastguard officer, and was on his way straight to the watch house. In fact Charles should really be a plaintiff claiming salvage for saving goods from the wreck, and should not have been put on trial at all. Unfortunately, it was pointed out by prosecuting counsel that Charles had already passed the turning to the watch house when he was stopped.
The charge of plunder was dismissed, as there was no evidence that the goods had come from the wreck. Charles was given the benefit of the doubt, as he had "probably acted under a mistaken view of the law". The newspaper report says "there was no vindictive feeling by the Receiver of the Wreck". But to discourage others who might feel they could help themselves with impunity to goods washed ashore, Charles was ordered to pay a fine of 2s 6d, plus 10s (the estimated value of the boots), plus 15s costs.
The most likely Charles Gidley in the vicinty of Kingsbridge at that time is the son of Robert Gidley and Miriam Heath, born in Dean Prior in 1822. In 1861 he was living in Slew Lake Cottage, South Brent, and in 1871 he was an ag lab in Stokenham, quite close to the coast. He married Maria Ellis Lavers in 1846 and at his death in Kingsbridge registration district in 1892 was survived by just one of their 4 known children, Maria Gidley, who married Thomas Wills Stone in 1869, the same year as the court case. Did she wear the shoes at her wedding?
Saturday, 9 November 2013
The earliest mentions of Gidley as a surname
David Bethell of the Family Origin name Survey (FONS) has sent me over the years many useful and obscure references to the surname Gidley. I thought it might be of interest if I listed the ones with the earliest dates. I've left most of the place names as they appear in the original record. Some records have been condensed by me.
1175 -1176. Reginaldus de Giddelega is mentioned on the Pipe Rolls (the Exchequer's financial records):
For the King's mercy for his forest. Reg. de Giddelega renders account for 2 marks for the same. In the Treasury 1 mark. And he owes 1 mark.
1332. William de Giddeleghe is mentioned on the Devonshire Lay Subsidy (records of taxation, the closest thing to a medieval census) in Polslo, in the Hundred of Wonford.
Bishop of Exeter's records
1370 John Gederleghe was tonsured in Tiverton church i.e. inducted into the clergy.
1381 Luke Gydleghe was ordained to the first tonsure.
1400 William Gydelegh was ordained by the Bishop in the chapel of his manor of Chuddelegh as an acolyte [a minor order].
1403 Letters dimissory were granted to William Gyddelegh, subdeacon, to be ordained by any Catholic Bishop within England.
1403 31 March William Gyddelegh, subdeacon, was ordained in the chapel of the manor of Clyst.
1403 22 September. William Gyddelegh was ordained in Crediton church.
1408 Richard Gydelegh was ordained in Crediton church.
1413 Letters dimissory were granted to Richard Gydelegh (i.e.to leave the diocese for another).
1432 Licence was granted to Sir John Giddelegh, rector of Jacobstowe [near Hatherleigh and 5 miles north of Okehampton], for absence from his church for one year.
1434 Commission to the Archdeacon of Exeter to enquire in full chapter into the vacancy &c. of the parish church of Teyngton Drew [Drewsteignton], to which Sir William Gyddelegh chaplain has been presented by Sir John Herle knight, John Jaibien and Walter Burell.
1449 On the petition of Sir William Yurle, rector of Teygnton Drewe: to enquire into dilapidations in the houses, walls, fences &c. pertaining to the church, left by Sir William Gydlegh deceased, the last rector.
1449 8 May: To the Archdeacon of Cornwall: to enquire into the alleged pollution of the parish church of Talland [between Looe and Polperro] by bloodshed between Thomas Gyddelegh and Thomas servant of William Collan.
1449 31 May: Declaration that the church and churchyard found by inquisition not to have been so polluted, and that divine service and burial of the dead may be resumed.
Feet of Fines (the agreement between two parties in an English lawsuit over land)
Cornwall
1464 Thomas Gydelegh granted tenements held of Thomas and Margaret Sele. Rents granted to Henry Courtenay, Earl of Devon. For this Henry has given them £200.
1494 Thomas Gidelegh and his wife Margaret, deforciants [against whom a fictitious action of fine was brought]. 26s of rent on properties in parishes of St Neot's and Warlegan [both in the Bodmin area]. Also to receive one grain of corn for 100 yrs, then 11s of silver.
1175 -1176. Reginaldus de Giddelega is mentioned on the Pipe Rolls (the Exchequer's financial records):
For the King's mercy for his forest. Reg. de Giddelega renders account for 2 marks for the same. In the Treasury 1 mark. And he owes 1 mark.
1332. William de Giddeleghe is mentioned on the Devonshire Lay Subsidy (records of taxation, the closest thing to a medieval census) in Polslo, in the Hundred of Wonford.
Bishop of Exeter's records
1370 John Gederleghe was tonsured in Tiverton church i.e. inducted into the clergy.
1381 Luke Gydleghe was ordained to the first tonsure.
1400 William Gydelegh was ordained by the Bishop in the chapel of his manor of Chuddelegh as an acolyte [a minor order].
1403 Letters dimissory were granted to William Gyddelegh, subdeacon, to be ordained by any Catholic Bishop within England.
1403 31 March William Gyddelegh, subdeacon, was ordained in the chapel of the manor of Clyst.
1403 22 September. William Gyddelegh was ordained in Crediton church.
1408 Richard Gydelegh was ordained in Crediton church.
1413 Letters dimissory were granted to Richard Gydelegh (i.e.to leave the diocese for another).
1432 Licence was granted to Sir John Giddelegh, rector of Jacobstowe [near Hatherleigh and 5 miles north of Okehampton], for absence from his church for one year.
1434 Commission to the Archdeacon of Exeter to enquire in full chapter into the vacancy &c. of the parish church of Teyngton Drew [Drewsteignton], to which Sir William Gyddelegh chaplain has been presented by Sir John Herle knight, John Jaibien and Walter Burell.
1449 On the petition of Sir William Yurle, rector of Teygnton Drewe: to enquire into dilapidations in the houses, walls, fences &c. pertaining to the church, left by Sir William Gydlegh deceased, the last rector.
1449 8 May: To the Archdeacon of Cornwall: to enquire into the alleged pollution of the parish church of Talland [between Looe and Polperro] by bloodshed between Thomas Gyddelegh and Thomas servant of William Collan.
1449 31 May: Declaration that the church and churchyard found by inquisition not to have been so polluted, and that divine service and burial of the dead may be resumed.
Feet of Fines (the agreement between two parties in an English lawsuit over land)
Cornwall
1464 Thomas Gydelegh granted tenements held of Thomas and Margaret Sele. Rents granted to Henry Courtenay, Earl of Devon. For this Henry has given them £200.
1494 Thomas Gidelegh and his wife Margaret, deforciants [against whom a fictitious action of fine was brought]. 26s of rent on properties in parishes of St Neot's and Warlegan [both in the Bodmin area]. Also to receive one grain of corn for 100 yrs, then 11s of silver.
Sunday, 2 June 2013
Unknown Gidleys in the 1940 US census
Do email me if you can help put these Gidleys on a family tree. Some are almost certainly not Gidleys, but I can't work out what their surnames should be.
Florida
John Gidley aged 18 of St Petersburg, Pinellas, Florida, stepson of Lloyd Lilly and his wife Annie. I believe this is John Albert Gidley, whose obituary in 2012 gives his date of birth as 26/05/1921. John later became the Fire Chief of St Petersburg. In the 1930 census his father's birthplace was given as West Virginia.
2015 update: a relative has explained that John Albert Gidley was the son of William Albert Gidley, so John Albert Gidley now fits on to the West Virginia tree.
Illinois
Jean Gidley, a widow aged 62, of Lexington Ave, Chicago, born in Indiana. Her grandson Charles Willett aged 6 is with her.
October 2013 update: I think she must be the third wife of John Amos Gidley of the Massachusetts Gidley family. In 1930 she is enumerated as "Jona". John Amos Gidley died in 1937 in Cook county, Illinois.
Massachusetts
Herbert Gidley aged 10, a state ward, living in Watertown and born in Brockton. He died in 1976 in Texas.
Michigan
1) Milfred Gidley aged 36 and his wife Pauline of Detroit. I can't find any further references to these names and the initial letter of Gidley is suspect.
2) Adella B Gidley, divorced, nee Kimball, aged 30, living in Highland Park with her son James M Gidley aged 8. They are in her parents' home.
3) Laurain Gidley aged 22 and his wife Helen, living in Flint, Genesee county. Again, the initial letter of Gidley is suspect.
New York
1) A whole family whose race is given as black, living in Buffalo, headed by James Gidley aged 20. I can't find him, or his sister Pauline aged 17 in 1940, in the 1930 census.
2) John Gidley aged 26, a gasoline station attendant of Eastchester, living with his stepmother Nellie Riordan. In 1930 he is described as the son of Nellie Riordan.
Ohio
Richard S Gidley, a barber, aged 30 of Goshen, Mahoning, Ohio, and his wife Sarah.
Florida
John Gidley aged 18 of St Petersburg, Pinellas, Florida, stepson of Lloyd Lilly and his wife Annie. I believe this is John Albert Gidley, whose obituary in 2012 gives his date of birth as 26/05/1921. John later became the Fire Chief of St Petersburg. In the 1930 census his father's birthplace was given as West Virginia.
2015 update: a relative has explained that John Albert Gidley was the son of William Albert Gidley, so John Albert Gidley now fits on to the West Virginia tree.
Illinois
Jean Gidley, a widow aged 62, of Lexington Ave, Chicago, born in Indiana. Her grandson Charles Willett aged 6 is with her.
October 2013 update: I think she must be the third wife of John Amos Gidley of the Massachusetts Gidley family. In 1930 she is enumerated as "Jona". John Amos Gidley died in 1937 in Cook county, Illinois.
Massachusetts
Herbert Gidley aged 10, a state ward, living in Watertown and born in Brockton. He died in 1976 in Texas.
Michigan
1) Milfred Gidley aged 36 and his wife Pauline of Detroit. I can't find any further references to these names and the initial letter of Gidley is suspect.
2) Adella B Gidley, divorced, nee Kimball, aged 30, living in Highland Park with her son James M Gidley aged 8. They are in her parents' home.
3) Laurain Gidley aged 22 and his wife Helen, living in Flint, Genesee county. Again, the initial letter of Gidley is suspect.
New York
1) A whole family whose race is given as black, living in Buffalo, headed by James Gidley aged 20. I can't find him, or his sister Pauline aged 17 in 1940, in the 1930 census.
2) John Gidley aged 26, a gasoline station attendant of Eastchester, living with his stepmother Nellie Riordan. In 1930 he is described as the son of Nellie Riordan.
Ohio
Richard S Gidley, a barber, aged 30 of Goshen, Mahoning, Ohio, and his wife Sarah.
Saturday, 1 June 2013
Gidleys in the 1940 US census Michigan - Wyoming
Continued from the previous post. Please read it first for the explanations.
Detroit (MI), Fremont (NE), Essex county (NJ), Schenectady (NY), Akron (OH), and Austin (TX) all had Gidleys from unrelated families living there.
Michigan in 1940: one of the most populous states for Gidleys. Note how there were representatives of 4 separate Gidley branches living in the immediate Detroit area.
Eaton, Gratiot, Saginaw, Lenawee, Wayne counties: Gidleys of Massachusetts.
Tuscola, Macomb, Wayne, Shiawassee, Oakland, Genesee, Barry, Washtenaw counties: Gidleys of Winkleigh.
Wayne county: Gidleys of Dean Prior.
Ingham, Charlevoix, Barry, Kent counties: Gidleys of Buckfastleigh.
Wayne, Oakland, Douglas: Gidleys of Cornwall.
Minnesota in 1940
St Louis county: a married couple from the Winkleigh family.
Missouri in 1940
All were from the former Guethle family, with the exception of Father Lawrence Gidley of the Benedictine Abbey in Jefferson county, who was descended from the Winkleigh Gidleys.
Montana in 1940
All were probably descended from the Gidleys of Winkleigh (I shall do a futher short post about this particular family at a later date).
Nebraska in 1940
Douglas, Dodge counties: Buckfastleigh.
Dodge county: Winkleigh.
Nevada in 1940
White Pine county: Cornwall (see post about William S Gidley).
New Jersey in 1940
Camden county: Dean Prior
Union, Essex counties: Winkleigh.
Essex county: Massachusetts.
New York in 1940
Schoharie, Schenectady, Columbia, Niagara, Montgomery, Onondaga, New York counties: Winkleigh.
Dutchess, Schenectady, Orange, Nassau counties: Massachusetts.
North Dakota in 1940
Renville county: Dean Prior.
Ohio in 1940:
Cuyahoga, Lake counties: Dean Prior.
Summit, Portage, Trumbull, Hamilton counties: West Virginia.
Seneca county: Winkleigh.
Summit county: Buckfastleigh.
Oregon in 1940
Lincoln county: probably formerly Guethle.
Hood River county: West Virginia.
Clackamas county: Buckfastleigh.
Pennsylvania in 1940
Philadelphia county: Dean Prior.
Fayette, Washington counties: West Virginia.
Delaware county: Winkleigh.
Rhode Island in 1940
Providence county: Buckfastleigh.
South Dakota in 1940
Pennington county: Buckfastleigh.
Potter county: Dean Prior.
Texas in 1940
Bell, Johnson, Atascosa, Travis, Caldwell, Midland, El Paso, Refugio, Harris, Ellis, Walker, Hunt counties: Buckfastleigh.
Travis, Dallas counties: Winkleigh.
Ochiltree, Tarrant counties: Massachusetts.
Utah in 1940
Summit county: Cornwall. All descendants of William S Gidley - see earlier post.
Washington state in 1940
Cowlitz, King, Pierce counties: Massachusetts.
Whitman county: Buckfastleigh.
West Virginia in 1940
All are from the West Virginia family.
Wisconsin in 1940
All are from the Gidleys of Cornwall, although there are some indications that their earliest direct ancestor (John, died in Cornwall in 1829) may have originated from Newton St Cyres in Devon. I'll post about this later.
Wyoming in 1940
Platte county: Buckfastleigh.
Natrona county: West Virginia.
I hope I haven't omitted any, but apologies if I have, also if I've made any errors. The next post will contain the names of those listed in 1940 whom I can't link to any trees.
Detroit (MI), Fremont (NE), Essex county (NJ), Schenectady (NY), Akron (OH), and Austin (TX) all had Gidleys from unrelated families living there.
Michigan in 1940: one of the most populous states for Gidleys. Note how there were representatives of 4 separate Gidley branches living in the immediate Detroit area.
Eaton, Gratiot, Saginaw, Lenawee, Wayne counties: Gidleys of Massachusetts.
Tuscola, Macomb, Wayne, Shiawassee, Oakland, Genesee, Barry, Washtenaw counties: Gidleys of Winkleigh.
Wayne county: Gidleys of Dean Prior.
Ingham, Charlevoix, Barry, Kent counties: Gidleys of Buckfastleigh.
Wayne, Oakland, Douglas: Gidleys of Cornwall.
Minnesota in 1940
St Louis county: a married couple from the Winkleigh family.
Missouri in 1940
All were from the former Guethle family, with the exception of Father Lawrence Gidley of the Benedictine Abbey in Jefferson county, who was descended from the Winkleigh Gidleys.
Montana in 1940
All were probably descended from the Gidleys of Winkleigh (I shall do a futher short post about this particular family at a later date).
Nebraska in 1940
Douglas, Dodge counties: Buckfastleigh.
Dodge county: Winkleigh.
Nevada in 1940
White Pine county: Cornwall (see post about William S Gidley).
New Jersey in 1940
Camden county: Dean Prior
Union, Essex counties: Winkleigh.
Essex county: Massachusetts.
New York in 1940
Schoharie, Schenectady, Columbia, Niagara, Montgomery, Onondaga, New York counties: Winkleigh.
Dutchess, Schenectady, Orange, Nassau counties: Massachusetts.
North Dakota in 1940
Renville county: Dean Prior.
Ohio in 1940:
Cuyahoga, Lake counties: Dean Prior.
Summit, Portage, Trumbull, Hamilton counties: West Virginia.
Seneca county: Winkleigh.
Summit county: Buckfastleigh.
Oregon in 1940
Lincoln county: probably formerly Guethle.
Hood River county: West Virginia.
Clackamas county: Buckfastleigh.
Pennsylvania in 1940
Philadelphia county: Dean Prior.
Fayette, Washington counties: West Virginia.
Delaware county: Winkleigh.
Rhode Island in 1940
Providence county: Buckfastleigh.
South Dakota in 1940
Pennington county: Buckfastleigh.
Potter county: Dean Prior.
Texas in 1940
Bell, Johnson, Atascosa, Travis, Caldwell, Midland, El Paso, Refugio, Harris, Ellis, Walker, Hunt counties: Buckfastleigh.
Travis, Dallas counties: Winkleigh.
Ochiltree, Tarrant counties: Massachusetts.
Utah in 1940
Summit county: Cornwall. All descendants of William S Gidley - see earlier post.
Washington state in 1940
Cowlitz, King, Pierce counties: Massachusetts.
Whitman county: Buckfastleigh.
West Virginia in 1940
All are from the West Virginia family.
Wisconsin in 1940
All are from the Gidleys of Cornwall, although there are some indications that their earliest direct ancestor (John, died in Cornwall in 1829) may have originated from Newton St Cyres in Devon. I'll post about this later.
Wyoming in 1940
Platte county: Buckfastleigh.
Natrona county: West Virginia.
I hope I haven't omitted any, but apologies if I have, also if I've made any errors. The next post will contain the names of those listed in 1940 whom I can't link to any trees.
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