Bigelow, Ethel Mae (9) = eth92252.htm

Sources:
Bigelow Society, The Bigelow Family Genealogy, Vol II, pg 296 child; lists husband as Robert "Amyl"
Research by Bigelow Society from various sources including correspondence with descendants.

<>New Info 2012:
From: David R Ellis-Anwyl < dave_ellis-anwyl@lgarde.com >
I noticed a posting you made about Ethel Mae Bigelow. It was interesting to me because of the parallels between the John Anwyl and the Robert Ellis Anwyl mentioned and my own great and great-great grandfathers. My great great grandfather was John Ellis Anwyl who married a Margaret who had a son named Robert Ellis Anwyl who was born in 1843. Robert worked in a coal mine in Wales as well as his father John. Robert came to the US and received his citizen ship by fighting in the Civil war for an Ohio regiment. He also married an Margaret (Enoch). His father and mother came to the US in their later years and lived in Frostburg, Maryland. Robert lived and died in Middleport Ohio where he owned a licensed saloon next door to his sister Lizzie’s lady’s fashions and hat store. Others of Roberts brothers and sisters stayed in Wales where their descendants lived even today. The main difference seems to be that your Robert and John were a generation later than mine. Robert’s son Isaac was my grandfather and my father was Robert Harry Ellis-Anwyl. Isaac was a supervisor for Bethlehem Steel in New Castle, PA and my father was a Ceramic engineer and Geologist who was well known in the Brick,Tile and pottery industries in the US. As I said I am very interested in the parallels and wonder if there is any connection.
David R Ellis-Anwyl<>
Huntington Beach, CA
Ellis.anwyl@verizon.net
dave@lgarde.com

New Info 22 Mar 2008:
Subject: New information and a few corrections - PA Bigelows
Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2008 21:32:51 -0400
From: "G. Bert Stevenson" <gbs13@comcast.net>
Dear Rod:
I would like to provide you with the following information. I have included source information so that others can check on my work. The oral tradition information came from my mother (now deceased).
Bert Stevenson
Bstevenson13@comcast.net

Ethel Mae Bigelow (14266.2252)
Correction

1. Ethel married Robert Ellis Anwyl. This is an old and honorable Welsh name. No Robert and Ethel Amyl or Amoyl could be found. Source: Ancestry.com and a wide variety of other search engines. Sources: Oral Tradition and Censuses

New Information

1. Ethel married Robert Ellis Anwyl. Robert was born on September 18, 1885 in Edwardsville, Luzerne County, PA; son of John E, Anwyl and Margaret (?)[1]. In 1910, Robert was working as laborer in a coal colliery; and in 1917 he was working as a machinist for Barnes Motor Company in Wilkes-Barre, PA. The family was living at 920 Market Street, Kingston, PA in 1917. They had two children Dora (born circa 1918) and Robert, Jr. (born circa 1920). The family was living in Monroe Township, Wyoming County, PA in 1920. Robert was farming. Their children (Dora and Robert) were living with their Bigelow grandparents in 1930 and Ethel was living with her brother Howard in Binghampton, Broome County, NY. She was working as sorter in a shoe factory (probably the same one as her brother).

Sources: Censuses. WW-I draft form, oral tradition

[1] John Anwyl (father of Robert) was born circa 1859 in Wales. Margaret (?) was born circa 1871 in Pennsylvania. The family was living on Toban Lane, Edwardsville, PA in 1910. John was a laborer in a coal mine and laid track for a railroad. John and family may have also lived in Frostburg, MD.

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