Alonzo Franklin Parish and Ida Lavisa Pettingill Family Blog

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Share your pictures and stories about our ancestors by sending them via email to: brenda.bailey.1@hotmail. They will be posted on the family blog and available for all of our family to enjoy.

Heritage Album

HERITAGE ALBUM
Black and white photos aged with time now cover the pages before you. These pictures are a reminder of a moment in time and give us a past to hold onto.

The harders of times our loved ones endured as they steadily paved the way. Gratitude and respect they have earned and their legacy of love we can never repay.

Each photo has a story of personal happiness, heartaches, blood and sweat. But for their individual journeys and their legacies to live, the sacrifices we must not forget.

Hold onto the history stored within these precious pages and allow these stories to live. For these memories of trial and triumph are the most priceless treasure that one can give. By Wendy Silva

Old Photographs by Ernest Jack Sharpe

OLD PHOTOGRAPHS by Ernest Jack Sharpe
A box of faded photographs I opened yesterday, And instantly my memories were carried far away

To many friends and places, from years so long ago, As I sorted through those photographs of folks I used to know.

There were some of family members that are no longer here, and photographs of sweethearts I once thought very dear.

Thoughts swiftly raced and tumbled on things that are no more, As I daydreamed over photographs and happy days of yore.

ANCESTORS

ANCESTORS

If you could see your Ancestors All standing in a row, Would you be proud of them, or not, or don't you really know?

Some strange discoveries are made in climbing family trees. And some of them, you know do not particularly please.

If you could see your Ancestors all standing in a row, These might be some of them perhaps, You wouldn't care to know.

But here's another question which requires a different view, If you could meet your Ancestors, Would they be proud of you?

Sunday, November 6, 2011

Mary Ann Dorset Fenner Life History

Mary Ann Dorset (Fenner)
Mary Ann Dorset Fenner pulled her hair in a bun and was quite short.  She had a mole on her lip and had dropsy or watery blood and would get real big.  The grandchildren carried a chair for her to sit on after every three or four steps. 

Mary Ann was born 14 Feb 1817 in Mushmarkle, Hereford, England.  Her mother was Maria Dorset and her step father was William Fenner.  She took his name as an adult because she was an illegitimate child.  She was baptized into the Church of Jesus Christ in 1840.  She was married to Benjamin Taylor on Oct. 25, 1837.  She was the mother of nine chldren.  She died 10 Oct. 1892 in Willard Utah.



ANCESTORS (This is not all documented as facts)


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  1. Cindy K. Smith-ThredgoldSeptember 5, 2012 at 8:14 AM

    Can you tell me the source of the knowledge of Mary Ann Fenner's name originally being Dorset (her mother's maiden name) and the source stating she was an illegitimate child? This is the first time I've run across this knowledge. She is my husband's 2nd great grandmother.

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  2. Brenda BaileyOctober 1, 2012 at 9:13 PM

    This information was in my grandmother's records.
    "Mary Ann DORSET was the illegitimate daughter of Maria DORSET. Her mother married William Fenner later and Mary Ann took his name as an adult. Mary Ann was christened 25 Jan 1818 in Ashperton, Herefordshire, Eng. She was married 25 Oct. 1837 to Benjamn Taylor. She died 10 Oct 1892. Her mother Maria Dorset was christened 4 Mar 1788 in Putley, Herefordshire, Eng. She died Jan 1861 in Herefordshire, Eng. William Fenner was born abt 1752 or 1791 in MuchMarcle, Herefordshire, Eng. He died 21 Oct 1866 in Peterstwo, Hereforshire Eng. This is not documented but will give us information to go on.

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