Sept Bigelow Bulletin Board
This page is for questions and additions related to
the information posted by the Bigelow Society.
The Query
Page that Don Bigelow set up is getting too big, so I started this.................ROD
01/07/99
My e-mail is bigelow@slic.com
There is also My Family.com
set up by David Duane ( wzbngpop@worldnet.att.net
)........11/12/99
There is also FamilyHistory.com
which has postings.................................05/12/2000
There is also a Bigelow
Family Genealogy Forum set up by Family Tree Maker, that has postings.
01/31/99
There is now a Family Search
site from The Latter Day Saints (LDS)........................5/10/99
also search RootsWeb
Surname List for contacts....................3/11/99
See Old Bigelow Notes
1998 for messages I am just now getting around to.....ROD 1/26/2000.
See Old Bigelow Notes
1999 for messages I am just now getting around to.....ROD 12/26/2000.
see the following notes from September that are out of order...........ROD
Subject: Bigelow Tattoo
Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2000 22:20:34 -0400
From: "Eric Bigelow" < big3@bellatlantic.net >
Hi Rod:
You don't know me, but I emailed you some time ago regarding my branch's
genealogical structure based on research my mother, Mary Bigelow, had done.
I didn't send you that information, as I'd been informed the information
was
already submitted to the forge.
About a week ago, however, I decided to have a professional tattoo
done of our family's crest. I realize this is highly unorthodox,
and I wouldn't be surprised or offended at all if you weren't interested
in including it on your site. I do grant permission for this though,
should you be interested in doing so. I chose to have it placed directly
between the shoulderblades,
which turned out to be 3 solid hours of excruciating pain, but these
are the trials we endure for family and heritage. I have no regrets.
At any rate, I felt you might find this interesting, and I'd imagine
it's not something you see every day. I have taken the liberty of
attaching a digital photograph in .JPG format to this email, complete with
an inset comparison photo of the crest which I appropriated from your website
(hope that's OK!)
I'm 30, live in Fair Lawn, NJ and work for Sony Electronics.
This is my first (and probably last) tattoo. The artistry can be
credited to Jonathan Shaw at Fun City Tattoo in NYC (www.funcitytattoo.com).
He's also done tattoos for Johnny Depp, Kate Moss, Naomi Campbell and a
few other notables that are escaping me. His talent is unquestionable,
as you'll see. I'm
very pleased with how it turned out.
Incidentally, I chose to omit the ram's head from the very top of the
crest, as I liked the general appearance of the crest slightly better without
it, and I'm ignorant to the significance of that aspect of it. I
insured that it could be added later with little effort, should I so desire.
So thanks for your time, thanks for your invaluable website, and please
enjoy.
Eric Bigelow
Subject: Dengate cousin
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 15:06:27 EDT
From: Faye Baker Sanderlin Perndrgn98@aol.com
To: Kitkit917@aol.com
Hi Rod - was checking the net for Dengate and came on your page - we
are cousins - my mother was Frances Hunter Baker - her mother was Louise
Dengate Hunter - Lillis was Mother's Aunt Lil. I remember Roy and
Bertha well - they were a part of my growing up and I loved them dearly.
I live in CA and am retired now so do let me hear from you - I have Dengate
in Wittersham, Kent, England
Faye Baker Sanderlin
see Hobbs Family............................ROD
Subject: Statue of Samuel Jones Tilden
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 11:14:34 -0400
From: "Lim, Nathaniel" <Nathaniel.Lim@nasd.com>
Dear Mr. Bigelow,
I have been to the website regarding the Bigelow family.
I have a quick question to ask you, which I hope you can be gracious
enought to answer.
Can the only statue of Samuel Jones Tilden ( benefactor of the New
York Public Library) be found in the at the house that Asa Bigelow built
in Malden, New York ?
If so, is this place open for public visit ? I would be grateful
for any information from you.
Thank you,
Nathan Lim
E-MAIL : limn@nasd.com
Subject: Samuel 16163.2211t
Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2000 23:44:02 EDT
From: Phoebe Cortessis MzCortez@aol.com
Hi,
Just got referred to your website. Am a descendant of Jonathan
Melvin of Hollis, Conway, and Phelps, NY. We (me Phoebe and Jan Pahnke
are working on a theory that:
1. Mary Melvin who married John Bigelow may have been the dau
(so far no proof) of Jonathan Melvin and Mary Brooks and the sister of
Jonathan Melvin III who went to Conway and then to Phelps, etc. (he too
is buried in the Melvin Hill Cemetery where Mary (Melvin) Bigelow was .
2. Mary (Brooks) Melvin was the dau of Benjamin Brooks of Townsend
3. After death of Jonathan Melvin, his widow, Mary (Brooks) Melvin
married Moses Foster, Jr. of Ashburnham.
4. As I recall all three families went to Conway, later, Jonathan
Melvin and some of the Bigelows to Phelps and Fosters to VT.
Regards, Phoebe Cortessis in CA
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