Chase Family Tree

In this post, I'm going to focus on Jeremiah Thomas McGlew's wife, Martha Luella (Chase) McGlew, and the Chase family tree.   

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Martha Luella Chase was born in Groveland MA, on July 26, 1874.  Her parents were Charles Chase and Mary (or Abby) Ricker Chase.  She seems to have gone by her middle name, Luella, throughout her life, often being named in various public records as "M. Luella Chase."  

Luella married Jeremiah McGlew in December of 1889.   Their marriage record states her age as 18, but according to her birth certificate, she would have actually been 15 when she wed (and Jeremiah would have been thirty).  They went on to have nine children together, including Winfred McGlew, our direct ancestor.  

While searching for information on Luella, I stumbled across a community cookbook called The Rowley Cook Book: True and Tried Recipes, which was published in 1922 and consisted of recipes contributed by women of Rowley, MA and "Arranged by the Historical Society for the benefit of restoring the Platts-Bradstreet House."  Luella's contributions to this cookbook were: 

PLAIN MOLASSES COOKIES — 1-2 cup sugar , 1-2 cup shortening, 1 cup molasses , 1 teaspoon salt, 2-3 cup cold water, 2 rounding teaspoons soda, 1 teaspoon ginger.  Mix sugar, molasses and shortening, add water, then 2 cups of flour sifted with soda, salt and ginger. Add enough more flour to roll. — Mrs Luella McGlew 

APPLE CUSTARD — Peel and core as many apples as will set in a dish you are going to use.  Fill the holes where the cores were with sugar and pour over them a custard made a bit sweeter than usual and bake. — Mrs Luella McGlew

BEEF WITH TOMATO — Select 2 1-2 lbs of beef solid meat ,wash well and place in baking dish. Sprinkle Well with salt and pepper, also a dash of cayenne. Cut up 2 medium sized onions, add to meat, and lastly add 1 large can of tomatoes. Cover dish and bake in moderate oven for 3 hours. Take from oven, place meat on large platter and add to it tomato gravy, also 1 package of elbow macaroni which has been boiled tender and pour over meat. — Mrs Luella McGlew

On the 1930 census, Luella's occupation was listed as "laundress."  She passed away on October 3, 1937, in Rowley MA.

Martha Luella (Chase) McGlew
photo shared by Ruth McGlew

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Luella's mother, Mary A. Ricker (it appears that the A stands for Abby), was born in either 1850 or 1851 in Groveland, MA to William and Eliza Ricker.  She passed away on Feb. 3, 1904 from "general debility" in Ipswich, MA.  In following her maternal line back, I was able to reach the late 1600s and discovered that our family has ties to the Salem Witch Trials, as both the accused and as the accusers (I'll delve more into that lineage in a later post).

Luella's father, Charles Frederick Chase, was born in Haverhill MA on January 2, 1853, to John and Martha Thayer (Fowler) Chase.  John was a shoemaker by trade (on the 1880 United States Federal Census his occupations listed as "works in shoe fact.), and married Mary on Dec. 3, 1873.   He died in Rowley, MA from "pulmonary tuberculosis."

I was also able to follow Martha's family back on her paternal side to when her ancestors immigrated to the Massachusetts Bay Colony.  The Fowlers, Herricks, and Kimballs were founding families in the North Shore area of Massachusetts, and have ties to the Salem Witch Trials as well as the King Philip's War.  I'll follow up on those lines back in later posts.  

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Charles' father, John Chase, was also listed as a shoemaker.  Her was born aprox. 1826 to Frederick and Mary (Stinson) Chase.  John married Martha Fowler (b. April 7, 1829 to John Fowler and Lydia Brown) in Haverhill, MA, on June 7, 1849.  He passed away only four years later, on August 12, 1853, leaving her a widow with two young children at the age of 24.  Martha remarried on Dec. 27, 1857, to widower John Bradley.  Tragically, she died from consumption only two years later, at the age of 30.  I have located a Charles F. Chase, age 12, living with a Putnam family in Danvers MA on the Massachusetts 1865 State Census. Andrew Merriam Putnam's wife, Sarah (Fowler) Putnam, was Martha's sister.  My assumption is that he, and possibly his older brother Henry, went to live with his aunt and uncle after his mother's death.

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Frederick Chase (John's father) was born on Dec. 10, 1800 in Haverhill, MA, to John and Betsey (Kelley) Chase.  He married Mary Stinson (born on April 13, 1804, in Goffstown, NH, to Samuel Stinson and Abigail Potter) on December 13, 1823.  Frederick is listed on the census as being a farmer.  Frederick and Mary had six children together.  He passed away in Haverhill on Jan 10, 1867, and Mary lived until June 8, 1874.

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I have been unable to trace back the Chase family line any further - there are at least two different John Chases living in Massachusetts during the correct time period, and I have not yet been able to pinpoint which is "our" John Chase.  If I have a breakthrough at any point I'll be sure to update this post.

Broderick Family Tree

In this post, I'm going to focus on Patrick McGlew's wife, Winefred (Broderick) McGlew, and her family tree.  I have limited information on the Broderick line, but hope to eventually delve back further, if at all possible.  

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Patrick McGlew's wife, Winefred Broderick, was born to Samuel and Eleanor (also known as Ellen) Egan in Newfoundland, in either 1820 or 1821.    I've also seen her given name writen in public records as "Winifred," Winnifred," and "Winnefred," and her surname as "Brodric" and "Brodrick."  She married Patrick McGlew on October 8, 1842 in Newburyport, MA.

Winefred and Patrick had six children together between 1845 and 1859. Hugh (b. 1845), Samuel (b. 1846), Jeremiah (b. 1848, and passed away in 1855, at age 6), Eleanor (b. 1851), Anna (b. 1857), and Jeremiah Thomas (b. 1859, our direct ancestor).

Her husband and two teenaged sons, Hugh and Samuel, all enlisted in 1861 to fight for the Union in the Civil War.  While both of her sons survived the war, Patrick never came home.  He passed away in New Orleans from dysentery on July 23, 1862.

Winefred passed away from pneumonia/influenza on Feb 8, 1905, in Rowley, MA.

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Winifred's father, Samuel Broderick (also found spelled as "Brodric") was born around 1798 in Newfoundland, Canada.  There is some speculation, as of yet unverified, that Samuel may have lived for a period of time in Harbour Grace and/or Carbonear, Newfoundland.

He married Eleanor/Ellen Egan (b. aprox 1803), and later emigrated to America with his family sometime between 1832 and 1841.  Samuel passed away from consumption in Newburyport, MA, on January 31, 1852, at age 54.  I have been unable as of yet to find any more information on his wife Eleanor, other than that she was still living in Newburyport MA with her daughters Ann and Frances as of the 1855 Massachusetts State Census.

McGlew Family Tree

I'm still trying to figure out how to best share family tree charts online.  Click on the link under that image below, and it should bring you to an enlarged (and much more easily readable!) PDF chart of a portion of the McGlew/Chase branches of Grampy McGlew's parental family tree.  If this doesn't work, send me an email or Facebook message, and I can forward the file to you.  

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Grampy's father, Winfred Thomas McGlew, was born in Mar 26, 1890 to Jeremiah Thomas and Martha Luella (Chase) McGlew.  Uncle Charlie loaned me copies of some of his extensive research with me when I was originally working on my college assignment in 1997, and shared that Winfred had attended the Governor Dummer School, and later became a carpenter and supervisor for the contracting firm of Ashman Bro. Construction Company in Newburyport, MA.  He worked on the Water Street Fire Station in Haverhill, the wall at the entrance to the Riverview Cemetery in Groveland, and bridges on routes 1 and 1A.  

Winfred's first wife was named Helen Rogers, and they had three children together: Edith, Marion, and Winfred.  Helen passed away on Oct. 6, 1918 from influenza, during the Spanish Flu pandemic.  

Winfred eventually remarried, to Grace Gertrude Fairbanks, and they had four children together: Alice, Donald, Charles, and Winnifred, who was not yet born when Winfred passed away suddenly in June of 1929.

Winfred and Grace Gertrude (Fairbanks) McGlew
in Newburyport, MA
Photo shared by Ruth McGlew

Grace (holding Charles) and Winfred (with Donald)
Photo shared by Judy Dirks

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Jeremiah Thomas McGlew was born in Newburyport to Patrick and Winnefred (Brodick) McGlew on July 2, 1859.  He was named after a younger brother, also named Jeremiah, who was born in November of 1848 and passed away in January of 1855.  Jeremiah married Martha Luella Chase on Dec 2, 1889, and they went on to have nine children together.  Jeremiah was a farmer, and owned quite a bit of property in Rowley, MA.  He passed away in 1941.

Martha Luella (Chase) and Jeremiah McGlew
photo shared by Ruth McGlew

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Patrick McGlew was born  on March 17, 1821, in Stamullin Parish, Co. Meath, Ireland, to Hugh and Catherine McGlew.  He immigrated to America with his parents sometime between 1822 and 1824, arriving first in Salem MA before settling in Newburyport.  He married Winfred Brodick in 1842.  On the 1850 and 1855 censuses, Patrick is listed as being a blacksmith by trade.  

The Civil War broke out in April of 1861, and Patrick enlisted with the Union Army on November 8 of the same year, along with his two teenaged sons, Hugh (b. 1845) and Samuel (b. 1846).  Patrick served with the 4th Independent Battery, Massachusetts Light Artillery.  His job title was an artificer, a non-commissioned officer or enlisted man who was a skilled craftsman or specialist of some kind, who was responsible for working on artillery in the field.  Patrick's division went with General Butler's expedition to New Orleans; however he became ill with dysentery, was discharged for disability on July 5, 1862, and passed away in New Orleans on July 23, 1862. 

U.S., Registers of Deaths of Volunteers, 1861-1865

Patrick McGlew is listed about 2/3 of the way down the page

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Hugh McGlew was born in Co. Meath, Ireland, on August 15, 1801.  He married Catherine (maiden name unknown) in Ireland, and later immigrated with his family to Massachusetts.  Hugh passed away on May 8, 1846 in Newburyport, MA, and he was buried in Newburyport's Highland Cemetery.  

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A Hugh McGlew played a role in establishing the first Catholic Church in Newburyport, MA.  While it's unconfirmed as to if this is our direct ancestor Hugh (b. 1801) or Patrick's brother Hugh, but with the dates given I'm thinking that it is a pretty safe bet that this is referring to Hugh Sr. (as his son - and Patrick's brother - would have been in his early 20s at most). 

  

Excerpt from the book
"Municipal History of Essex County in Massachusetts, Volume 2"
edited by Benjamin F. Arrington

The Dash Between Those Years...or, I'm Taking on Yet Another Project

"He noted that first came the date of birth

and spoke the following date with tears,

but he said what mattered most of all

was the dash between those years."

Excerpt from "The Dash" by Linda Ellis 

Click here to redirect to the author's website for the full poem. 

Last month, a family member reached out to me (hi, Aunt Donna!) to ask if I still had any of the family history research I did back in college.  It was my freshman year, and the half-semester-long project in my English Comp class was to write yet another research paper.  I'd been writing research papers since middle school...and I was so sick and tired of having to research and write about the typical, overdone topics.  When my professor met with me to discuss/approve my topic, he encouraged me to think outside the box in regards to what we typically think of as research papers.  We tossed around several ideas together, but as soon as the idea of researching my family history came up I knew instantly that was the topic I wanted to delve into.  

What followed was weeks of reaching out to older family members, conducting telephone interviews and exchanging letters.  Extended family members shared photocopies of genealogical charts, public birth/marriage/death records, and even pages out of books that referenced our ancestors.  I had never enjoyed a research project more during my entire educational career.  

While I struggled a bit in how to correctly format my sources for the research paper's works cited page, I still received an A on my project.  And then I tucked it away, having to focus my attention on the next assignments. 

When Aunt Donna asked if I still had this research available to share, it took quite a while for me to figure out where I had tucked it away.  If you're curious, it was in my old trunk, tucked in with high school journals, my baby book, and a scrapbook filled with clippings from teen magazines about the New Kids on the Block.  That was a riot to revisit!  But I digress... 

I'm feeling so inspired, and after rereading this decade old college assignment, I find myself wanting to continue researching.  I want to not only see if we can reach even further back in time on different branches of our family tree, but I also want to see if we can fill in the gaps.  I want to see if we can flesh out our family history beyond just dates and places, but learn as much as we can about the lives that were lived between the dashes.