Home Sweet Home

 

I believe this beautiful Home Sweet Home
was hand stitched by one of my husbands
maternal ancestors

     Amy Johnson Crow has a 52 Ancestors Week blog challenge which I have decided to give a try for the second year. 

     The prompt for week # 13 is Home Sweet Home.

     Goodness gracious!  What to blog about here?  I have "over" blogged about my wonderful childhood home in Perrysville, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania and my decade plus living there from 1950 to 1961.  When I think of home sweet home, my memories wander there.  

     I do have two other places that I have alluded to on Flipside, Morgantown, Monongalia County, West Virginia and Hartlepool, Durham County, England.  

     Morgantown represents my paternal grandmother's families, and my ancestors who lived there for over a century.  I have spent much time walking cemeteries, researching at West Virginia University and visiting homes and historical sights.  Almost heaven, West Virginia. 😊

     Hartlepool, or the section that was called West Hartlepool, was where my paternal grandfather was born and lived until age eight when the family immigrated to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1906.  My brothers and I had the opportunity to visit in 2003 and meet numerous family still residing in town.  

    I can't decide so.....I'll do both. 😁

Morgantown, West Virginia

     I have been looking back at my picture files and the nearest I can come to the number of visits to Morgantown is ten.  Twice was a full weeks stay at a time share and others were a couple of days in hotels/motels.  The trips from 1993 to 2010 was during a time when I was heavily researching my Morgantown ancestors.  It's been a while since I have wandered there.

     My pioneer ancestors settled in the area as early as 1786 and my paternal great grandmother and family relocated to Pennsylvania in 1911.  I have pushed past that time with some Morgantown family members; however, my primary focus is during those one hundred twenty five years.

 List of the Morgantown surnames

1. John and Bathsheba FERGUSON--Bathsheba Ferguson 
2. William FRUM and Anna Smith
3. Sampson Smith FRUM and Elizabeth  Ann VanGilder
4. Philip William HARNER and Sarah Fearer (Fear)
5. Robert HILL and Rebecca Caldwell
6. Joseph Davidson Hill and Sarah Houston
7. Purnell HOUSTON and Mary Carey
8. William LANHAM and Catherine Ferguson
9. Thomas McELROY and Elizabeth 
10. Asby POOL and Vilender Lanham
11. William Lanham Pool and Ann Frum
12. Sampson Frum Pool and Sarah Louise Harner
13. Jacob VANGILDER and Anna Margaret Gibler
14. Jacob VanGilder, Jr. and Sarah McElroy
15. John Oliphant VanGilder and Mary Louise Hill
16. George Ethelbert VanGilder and Jessica Pool

     This was a good exercise.  I see I'm missing a few ancestors in Morgantown that need a blog.  For some the link is on my old website.

1994 VanGilder Reunion
Face Forward Pictured
Richard Rootes & George VanGilder Hughes 
Garrett Bevin Hiser

     My first trips to Morgantown involved attending VanGilder reunions in the Winfield District, Marion County, Fairmont, West Virginia.  I believe I was the only attendee from Jacob VanGilder, Jr's descent.  On several reunions my Dad, Aunt Faith, brothers and son, Garrett, came along.  

1995 Morgantown, West Virginia

     During these trips we also located cemeteries and the area where the old VanGilder farm once was located.  There is a street corner there--VanGilder and George Streets.  Appropriately I captured my Dad, George VanGilder Hughes, named for his maternal grandfather, pictured there.  

     We always enjoyed shopping on High Street.  I google mapped the street and it appears that many of our hunts are no longer there.  Often I would imagine my paternal grandmother, as a young girl, wandering up and down High Street with her sisters.  

     I dragged any family members in attendance from one cemetery to another, wandering up and down the rows looking for family names and then taking the photographs.  They were all good sports!  

The Old Harner Homestead
my photograph

     The most memorable trip was in 2007.  My brother Ken and I took a couple of these trips to Morgantown together.  We decided to stay at the Hotel Morgan in town.  We did our usual meals in town and driving around looking for ancestral places.  This time I had an address for the Harner House in the community of Sabraton.  Imagine our surprise when we saw a For Sale sign outside.  That led to us actually getting inside.  The home was built in 1850 by my maternal great great great grandfather Philip William Harner.  I had shivers thinking about my family actually living in the house and walking up the stairs to the bedroom area where they all climbed daily.  It's no surprise that I have a blog on The Old Harner Homestead.   

 

When we came down the hill and I first caught a glimpse
of The Old Frum Cemetery
I felt like Dorothy seeing Oz for the first time.

     Another fantastic find was The Old Frum Cemetery.  The cousin and very engaged family researcher I was then in contact with was Dr. Robert Poole Wilkins.  He was not aware of the location.  In 1995, through the Internet and very early genealogical websites, somehow I hooked up with a Morgantown researcher and she connected me with a distant cousin who knew where the cemetery was located.  I was in a car with my kids and my Mom and on the way to Morgantown.  After the VanGilder Reunion in August, 1995, we made a return trip to fix tombstones.  

      Morgantown is rich in my family history and on the sixth floor of the Wise library The West Virginia and Regional History Center is located on the West Virginia University campus.      

And now for a trip across the pond.😉

The Hughes Kids on The Headland
Hartlepool, England
2003

     Around 2000 a woman from the UK emailed me.  She had seen I had family from Hartlepool, England and offered to help me with research there.   She is also a genealogist and lives a short drive from Hartlepool. 

     It was a very generous offer.  We have now shared a friendship for over twenty-five years.  I was able to visit her in person twice, in 2003 and in 2005.  During the 2003 visit we spent time together in Hartlepool.  In 2006 it was in Scotland.  

     Through her I was able to connect with Hughes relations in Hartlepool and we spent many happy hours sharing stories, photographs, tea and biscuits.

List of the Hartlepool surnames

1. George Henry Hughes and Mary Ann Storey
2. John George Hughes and Elizabeth Ferdinande Olesen
3. Samuel Hughes and Ann Hill
4. William Hughes and Mary Bourne
5. Frederick Heinrich Adolph Weiss and Ferdinande Lehman
6. Christian Invart Olesen and Ferdinanda Weiss
7. John Storey and Ann Robinson
8. Robinson, Pounder and Roundtree

     I do want to mention that there are numerous links on Flipside to some of these ancestors.  To see if there are additional pieces on an individual person, an alphabetical listing is available on my blog.     

     Over the years I have been able to trace my Olesen line back through a generous researcher in Denmark.  My UK friend also was able to trace the Robinson line back some additional generations.  The Danish Olesen blogs are in the alphabetical list.  The Robinson, Pounder and Roundtree surnames are MIA on Flipside.  Note to self:  Get busy on that, Linda. 😇

     The first hurtle when arriving in the UK was my brother, Ken, adjusting to driving on the "wrong side" of the road. 😅  And, he did a masterful job of it.  

At the Sandwell Gate Town Wall
Hartlepool, England

     Of our week in the UK, we spent three days in Hartlepool and it was filled with Hughes Family time and special time with my new friend.

      It was an exhilarating feeling just being in Hartlepool where my grandfather, George Henry Hughes, was born and lived until the family immigrated when he was eight years old.  Certainly much of the town had changed over the century.  West Hartlepool, where the Hughes and Olesen families lived was amalgamated into Hartlepool in 1967.  The section of West Hartlepool where my paternal great great grandparents lived, Longhill, has been totally destroyed.   

Myself with my Hughes Cousins
Hartlepool, England
2003

My brothers with our Hughes cousins
Hartlepool, England
2003

Cousins John and Mary Marsh
Their daughter and grandson

     We were treated like royalty during our stay by both our cousins and my UK friend.  Dinner out, a trip to a caravan with fish and chips, numerous teas and being chauffeured around.

Sumptuous Teas

Sunday service at St. Aidan's Church

Myself at the Hartlepool Monkey

On the Moors

     Just a sampling of our wonderful three days.  One of the perks was trading old photographs and stories with our UK cousins.  And, Mary Marsh sharing several of her old Hughes recipes for the cakes she made for our tea at the Marsh home.  

     The scope of this trip for, anyone working on their family genealogy, is that they would look back on it with a heart full of love and appreciation to all those folks that came together to organize the three days.  

THANK YOU. 💗  

 

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Elizabeth Ferdinande Olesen Hughes Burial Information

My paternal great grandmother, Elizabeth Olesen Hughes as I remember her.
Circa early to mid 1950's

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     Apparently, I never did a Tombstone Tuesday blog on my paternal great grandparents.  Or, if I did, I was not able to find it doing a search on Flipside.  

Page inside the prayer book with Elizabeth Ferdinande Olsen's
date of birth written by her mother

     My paternal great grandmother, Elizabeth Ferdinande Olesen Hughes was born in West Hartlepool, England on October 16, 1876.  Her parents were Christian Invart Olesen and Ferdinande (Ferdinanda) Weiss Olesen.  

     I knew my Great Grandmother Hughes.  She lived with my grandparents and spent a large portion of the day alone in her bedroom listening to the radio.  I do not remember her "hanging around" my grandparent's apartment during the day. In elementary school, during the summer, I often spent several days at my grandparents apartment when they lived in Bellevue, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.  Great Grandma would have lunch in her bedroom and dinner with us in the dining room.  It was customary to have evening tea and a baked good before bed.  Great Grandma was already in the living room watching the television and would join in for teatime.

     She was not an overly warm or friendly individual.  I think the three of us Hughes great grandchildren were somewhat fearful of her.  It was mandatory that we go in to her bedroom to greet and give her a kiss on the cheek or at a minimum, a hug.  I think I can speak for my two younger brothers, it was not a familial duty we looked forward to when visiting Grams and Pop Pop.   

     I might mention that Great Grandmother had a nickname--Noonie.  No one alive now knows who originated the nickname.  I do not remember my Grandmother or Grandfather calling her Noonie and assuredly, we great grandchildren did not use her nickname.  Oddly, when we (cousins, too) refer to her now, many of us do use the name Noonie.

     When my brothers and I visited Hartlepool, England in 2003 and met with Hughes adult cousins, one in particular, John George Marsh, referred to her as "Lil".

Death certificate of Elizabeth Ferdinande Olesen Hughes

      Great grandmother died in her bed at 71 North Bryant Avenue, Bellevue, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania on October 11, 1961 at age eighty-four, just five days shy of her eighty-fifth birthday.   It is my understanding that Grams' niece, Catherine Wallace Billik (Kae), was attending her when she died.  George Henry Hughes, my grandfather and Elizabeth's only child, supplied the information for the death certificate.  Pop Pop did get his Olesen grandfather's name wrong.  To be fair, Pop Pop never knew him since, Christian Invart Olesen, died before Pop Pop was born.  Wm C. Olesen was the name given and it was the name of Pop Pop's uncle.

     My Dad, George VanGilder Hughes, was the attending physician who signed his grandmother's death certificate.  There was a story Dad loved to tell about this day.  Apparently, Pop Pop was extremely annoyed that it took Dad until evening to drive to Bellevue and sign the death certificate as his mother's dead body had been there all day.  My Dad's response to his Dad, "Well, I had live patients to attend to in the office all day."

     When Elizabeth's husband, John George Hughes, died on May 20, 1921, Elizabeth purchased five cemetery plots in Section A, Lot 53 at Woodlawn Cemetery, Aliquippa, Beaver County, Pennsylvania.  When the cemetery was built, the area was called Woodlawn and housed the workers and administrators of the Jones and Laughlin Steel Company.  

     Elizabeth is buried next to her husband in plot #3.  John George Hughes is buried in plot #2, Elizabeth's mother, Ferdinande Weiss Olesen, is in plot #1 and Elizabeth's brother, William Christian Olesen, is in plot #2.  There is one plot unused.  Perhaps Elizabeth though her son, George Henry Hughes, would be buried with his parents.  That did not happen.

     I was fourteen when my great grandmother died.  I was not told of her death until after the fact.  Consequently, I did not attend the viewing at the funeral home, the church service or burial.  I have no obituary or burial card.  I do not know if any exist.  I do know that my grandmother had no love of her mother-in-law and may have simply thrown out all reminders.  Family members always thought that Pop Pop would mourn the death of his mother.  The story told is that he threw a rose on her casket and never looked back.  I may have mentioned in another blog, that Elizabeth was not very nice to her daughter-in-law (my grandmother, Grams), in fact, I have been told by many that she was downright nasty.  Sad to say my Great Grandmother Hughes was not mourned or missed.

 

 

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Addendum to the Family of Frederick Heindrich Adolph Weiss and Ferdinande Lehman Weiss

     

     In 2015, I blogged about my paternal great great great grandparents, Frederick Heindrich Adolph Weiss and Ferdinande Lehman Weiss.  The blog was entitled Weiss Family of West Hartlepool, England.  In the past five years, more information has come to light.  Adding European search to my Ancestry account and a subscription to British newspapers has given me a new research outlet.  I apologize if some of the information in this blog is also located in the one written in 2015.  I am trying to toggle between the two to keep the information in 2021 new.

1861 United Kingdom Census

Town of West Hartlepool, Parish of Stranton,  Ecclesiastical District of Christ Church.

John Street, perhaps Number 3 John Street.

Frederick H. A. Weiss, head of household, married, male age 35,  dock laborer, born in Mecklenburg, Germany.  Living in a house.

Ferdinand Weiss, wife, married, female age 31, dock laborer--wife, born in Hanover, Germany.

Adolph H. W. Weiss, son, male age 8 1/2, dock laborer--son, born in Hamburg, Germany.

Ferdinand Weiss, daughter crossed out and replaced by son, age 1 1/2, dock laborer--son, born in Hamburg, Germany.  This is a daughter and my paternal great great grandmother.

John Street, Hartlepool today

     John Street in Hartlepool today is an alleyway where folks park their cars.  The side of the street with buildings appear to be the back end of the building not the entrance.  Perhaps the Weiss house was located on the side of the street where there is a fence.  The front side of the buildings are actually businesses and apartments located on Church Street many of which look to be in a state of rehabilitation.   After looking at the map at the end of the blog, back in 1861, John Street was a residential street between Lynn Street and George Street.  It appears that the street now called John was an alley between the the back of the buildings above and the fence.  John would have been the street behind the fencing.

Frederick Heindrich Adolph Weiss Death Certificate

     Between 1861 and Frederick's death on November 27, 1870 the Weiss family moved to a house on Victoria Terrace.  Reposting Frederick's death certificate.  Frederick died at age forty-two from broncho-pneumonia at his home.  His employment is listed as a brokers clerk.  The website, Hartlepool Then and Now, has an article regarding ship broking and that there was an agency in Hartlepool.  Another website lists the job description of a ship broker, "The main purpose of a ship broker is to act as specialist intermediaries/negotiators between ship owners and charters to arrange ocean transport of goods and commodities by sea, the employment of a vessel to buy/sell ships on behalf of his client."

     Relocated after it was hidden in the Weiss file.  In 2006 a very helpful Hartlepool researcher sent me this information.  Since I forgot about it, I do not know if I ever looked up the actual obituary when I had membership to the British newspaper website.  

1871 United Kingdom Census page 1

1871 United Kingdom Census page 1

Primary Borough The Hartlepools, Town of West Hartlepool, Township of Stranton, Ecclesiastical District of Christ Church.

Victoria Terrace

The Weiss enumeration was at the bottom of one page and the top of the next.  I did a cut and paste of page one.

Ferdinande Weiss, head of family, widow, female age 49  not employed, born in Hanover (Germany).  Living in a house.  Reading between the lines, Ferdinande was indeed employed.  She was running a boarding house.  Perhaps her daughter was assisting her mother with some of the daily chores as well as employment as a dressmaker.

Adolph Weiss, son, unmarried, male age 18, employed as an apprentice to an outfitter, born in Hamburg (Germany).

Christian Olesen, boarder, unmarried, male age 25, employed as a clerk for a ships broker, born in Denmark.  My paternal great great grandfather.

Ferdinande Weiss, daughter, unmarried, female age 16, employed as a dressmaker, born in Hamburg (Germany).   My paternal great great grandmother.

Johann Knutsson, boarder, unmarried, male age 21, employed as a clerk for a ships broker, born in Sweden.

Olaf Anderson, boarder, unmarried, male age 29, employed as a clerk for a ships broker, born in Sweden.

     The house on Victoria Terrace must have been large enough to hold the family and an additional three boarders.  I imagine it is the same residence that Ferdinande's husband died in months earlier. 

Victoria Terrace today

     I opened google map and searched Victoria Terrace.  It connects to Church Street, which is the main/business street in that portion of town.  Most of the housing units on Victoria Terrace have been destroyed.  There are a few; however, they look newer than 1871.  When my brothers and I visited Hartlepool in 2003, we wandered around this area.

     Of note, my single paternal great great grandparents, Christian Invart Olesen and Ferdinande Weiss, were living in the same household.  They married on August 30, 1874, probably in Christ Church.  My paternal great great grandmother, Ferdinande (also known as Ferdinanda, Ann and Annie) did not make a very wise choice in husbands as I found numerous articles in Hartlepool newspapers of Christian Olesen going bankrupt, stealing and making threats.

     One such threat was against his mother-in-law, Ferdinande Lehman Weiss.  Christian Olesen was brought up on charges for threatening language against Ferdinande, broke open the door to her house and threatened to kill her son, Adolph Weiss.  Christian did not appear at court.  He was at the Royal Hotel.  Perhaps his wife, Ferdinande's daughter had thrown him out.  

1881 United Kingdom Census

Primary Borough of Hartlepool, Town of West Hartlepool, Parish of Stranton, Ecclesiastical Parish of Saint James.

10 Lower Reed Street

F. Weiss, head of house, widow, female age 54, occupation running a lodging house, born in Germany.  Living in a house.

Harold Casper, lodger, unmarried, male age 24,  occupation shipping clerk, born in Denmark.

A. Samuelson, lodger, unmarried, male age 27, occupation shipping clerk, born in Norway.

W. Kurtzlisel ?, lodger, unmarried, male age 30, occupation shipping clerk, born in Germany.

Mary Costide ?, servant, unmarried, female age 18,  occupation general servant, born in West Hartlepool.

 

Reed Street, Hartlepool today

Reed and Lynn Streets today

     

     Google map searching, there are no houses remaining on Reed Street.  The houses standing today on Lynn Street were probably built after 1881.  No houses are left on Reed Street.  At the far end are a few factory buildings.

Ferdinande Lehman Weiss Death Certificate

     On May 22, 1888, Ferdinande Lehman Weiss, age sixty-two, died at her home, 20 Scarborough Street, West Hartlepool.  Cause of death was dropsy, today called edema, puffiness caused by excess fluid trapped in tissue.  Secondary cause was cardiac disease.  I do not know where Frederick and Ferdinande Weiss are buried in the Hartlepool area.

Obituary for Ferdinande Weiss
May 23, 1888

Corner of Church and Scarborough

     Wahoo, I found the house, located on a lovely street with a metal street sign above the street.  Indulge me as I walk you down Scarborough Street.  The metal sign is at the corner of Church and Scarborough Streets.

20 Scarborough Street, Hartlepool

     20 Scarborough painted, rehabbed and ready to sell.  In the 1898 "To Let" notice above, we know it is an eight roomed house.

Known streets where the Weiss Family lived

     

Adolph Herman W. Weiss--son

Ferdinande Weiss Olesen--daughter

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And the Whole Hughes/Olesen Gang was together Crossing the Pond in 1920

          Have I mentioned how much I am loving having access to the English records on Ancestry....just about every other blog recently...LOL  Here is yet another find.

     Years back I located an application for a passport for my paternal Hughes great grandparents.  It was filed on November 6, 1919 and I figured that since John George Hughes, in particular, had not traveled back to West Hartlepool, England since he and his family crossed the pond in 1906, that he was due.  As it turned out, he made it over to visit about a year before his death.  

     A bonus from the passport application, was a photo of my paternal great grandparents.

     My paternal Hughes great grandmother, Elizabeth Olesen Hughes, crossed the pond twice before the 1920 voyage.  Traveling in 1907 to West Hartlepool accompanied by her young son and my paternal grandfather, George Henry Hughes.  This crossing was about fifteen months after the family arrived in the United States.  When I visited Hartlepool in 2003, John Marsh, a Hughes cousin, recalled that whenever Elizabeth would visit, she would leave with a trunk a full of Hughes and Olesen "stuff".

     A second time Elizabeth traveled alone to England.  Her brother, Bill Olesen, accompanied her back to the US in 1910.  I will admit that I need to follow Bill Olesen's travel records.  I do not think he remained in the United States.  He was there for a visit.    

UK map showing itinerary and Olesen home in Seacombe

         

     From other travel records, it appears it took about a week to cross the pond.  John George and Elizabeth Hughes sailed from the Port of New York around December 30 or 31.  They arrived in Liverpool, England on January 6, 1920.  First stop was Elizabeth's mother's home, 39 Clarence, Seacombe, located in a town directly across from Liverpool.  Her mother, my paternal great great grandmother, Ferdinande (Ann/Annie) Weiss Olesen moved from West Hartlepool to Seacombe sometime between 1911-1920.  I have tried to track down who else lived with Ann Olesen.  My guess is, her married daughter, Emily Olesen Richards and her son, William Christian (Bill) Olesen.  Emily's husband Rowland Richards had immigrated in 1914 and was living with John George and Elizabeth Hughes in Woodlawn, Pennsylvania.

     No wonder I was not able to locate my paternal great grandparents on the 1920 census--they were in England....lol.  Years back I wondered where they were as someone else living in their company house, 131 Spring Street, Woodlawn (now Aliquippa), Pennsylvania.

Hughes Green Grocer
70 Florence Street
Longhill, West Hartlepool, England

     John George and Elizabeth stayed in England for over six months.  Certainly a portion of the time was spent in West Hartlepool, probably staying with John George's parents.  There were countless Hughes relations to visit as well as many friends.  Both John George and Elizabeth Hughes were born in West Hartlepool.  

     Years back I had located the immigration records for my Great Great Grandmother Olesen.  She, her son Bill and daughter Emily all traveled from Liverpool on July 17, 1920 to the Port of New York on the S.S. Aquitania arriving on July 24, 1920.  Emily was on medical call on arrival for a possible illness, but discharged at 10:15am.  Her husband, Rowland Richards, had traveled from Woodlawn, Pennsylvania to welcome her to the United States.

      The immediate Olesen and Hughes Family destination was Ann's youngest son's, Ernest Alfred Olesen, home in Flatbush, Brooklyn, New York.

     The information that was found when I added foreign exploration to ancestry was that my paternal great grandparents were also coming back to the United States on the same ship.  Departing on the SS Aquitania on July 17, 1920 from Liverpool and arriving at the Port of New York on July 24, 1920.  The Hughes and Olesen's all traveled back together.  Once everyone returned to Pennsylvania, they all lived together, for a time, at 131 Spring Street, Woodlawn, Pennsylvania.

     Amusing to me.  While John George and Elizabeth Hughes were overseas, their son, and only child, George Henry Hughes, my paternal grandfather, married Sarah Margaret VanGilder.  In a ceremony on June 5, 1920, in Fairmont, West Virginia my paternal grandparents began over fifty years of married life together.  It is said Elizabeth Hughes never wanted her son to marry and I have been told by those who were witnesses, that she was very nasty to my grandmother.  Perhaps one reason is that they married when Elizabeth was too far away to stop the wedding.

Olesen Family Blogs on Flipside

Ferdinande (Annie) Weiss Olesen--wife of Christian Invart Olesen and mother of Elizabeth, Frederick, Bill, Emily and Ernie Olesen.

William (Bill) Christian Olesen

Emily Maude Richards Brown

Frederick Adolph Olesen

Christian Invart Olesen--husband of Annie Olesen and father of Elizabeth, Frederick, Bill, Emily and Ernie Olesen

Ernest Alfred Olesen

   

   

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