April 3, 2013 - Going through Bartholomew Information

Along with other documents that cousin Gwyn sent me, were a few that I already had.  In fact, it was through these Bartholomew Records that I learned a love of searching for more information on family ancestors.  The two rather large documents that I'll deal with next are from the Bartholomew Family, of which Lucius Carrington's (Gram Irene's father) mother was Mary Montgomery Bartholomew.  All this information has already been highlighted on this Blogsite, but I'm really okay going through it again.  Sometimes...actually most of the times, this is beneficial.  I'll probably not quote it verbatim, but will "plod" through it with the readers in mind.  This document was put together by "a cousin of Irene Carrington Daugherty, from New York State".  How's that for being specific?  Sure wish I could have asked Gram more about this cousin.  I get the feeling that this cousin took some of his information from George Bartholomew who wrote the Bartholomew History.  George may have been the cousin that was previously mentioned.  I do know that there are historians questioning some of the information that George Wells Bartholomew, Jr. wrote in his "Record of the Bartholomew Family", in 1885.   I have a copy of this 752 page book.  The original book or books (this could have been more than one edition) was way out of my price range.  My additions are in bold/parenthesis. 

We start with "Three Bartholomews bearing the names John, Robert and Richard were living in Warborough, Oxfordshire, Eng. about 1550; the latter two are known to have been brothers, and it is supposed that the former also held the same relationship, from the fact that his son was made an overseer in Richard's will, while Robert's several and component sons were still living.  They held land in their own names, were churchwardens, etc.

John Bartholomew was living in Warborough, Oxfordshire, England.  He married there, Nov. 22, 1551, as his 2nd wife, Elizabeth Skutter.  From this same source, John Bartholomew married Alice Skutter (my 12th great grandmother).   I think the writer confused the two Scutter women.  Elizabeth married Henry Bartholomew of Salem, Mass. about 1640.  I'm wondering if there is any relationship, however distant, between these Scutter women.  So for purposes of this writing I am suggesting that the above John Bartholomew married an Alice Skutter. 

The names of his children are uncertain, except the following, mentioned in the record of his marriage: John

John m. in Warborough, Nov. 6, 1553, married Margaret Joyces, and was probably the John buried in Warborough, Nove. 14, 1578.  Margaret may have been buried in Warborough Sept. 20, 1578.  He was made overseer of his Uncle Richard's estate by the latter's will in 1577.  He, or his son John probably assisted in the founding of Bartholomew Chapel, Burford.  His four sons apparently all settled in the neighboring towns of Oxford and Burford.

An example of the insides of the Bartholomew Chapel, Burford, Englan

 

 

I had the honor of visiting the Bartholomew Chapel in Burford.  Burford is a lovely town, in the Cotswolds.  It has been unchanged over the centuries, due to the lack of railroads going through.  Daughter Elisabeth has been there, as well as the Goehring family and aunt Delores Johnson.