Bewley roots newsletter
(Periodical)

Quarterly

Quarterly.

Vol. 1 no. 1 (Mar 1980) -

Editor: S. "Jack" (Shelby Jackson) Bewley.

Back issues available on microfiche. Some pages have photocopies of newsclippings and previously published works that may be in small print, or are faded, smudged, shadowed, or otherwise hard to read. Best copy available.

Not yet available in PERiodical Source Index (PERSI) at this time. (7 Nov. 2005).

Vol. 3 nos. 3/4 (Sept/Dec 1982); vol. 4 nos. 3/4 (Dec 1983); and vol. 5 no. 4 (Dec 1984)/vol. 6 no. 1 (Mar 1985) are double issues.

Newsletter for the interchange of genealogical data and history of the Bewley families who lived in North Wales, England, Ireland, and Scotland. In the 1700-1800s some families immigrated to Australia and New Zealand. Others went to America and settled in North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Virginia. During the 1800s, some moved to Ontario (Canada). in 1820, John Bewley established the first home in Bewleyville, a village near Hardinsburg, Breckinridge County, Kentucky. Other Bewleys moved to Illinois, elsewhere in Kentucky, Maryland, New York, and Tennessee. Later descendants also lived in Australia, Canada, Ireland, England, New Zealand, Wales, and in Alabama, California, Idaho, Indiana, Louisiana, Minnesota, Mississippi, New Jersey, Oklahoma, Oregon, Texas, Wisconsin, and elsewhere.

The village of Bewleyville was established in 1820 near Hardinsburg, Breckinridge County, Kentucky.

Also available on microfiche.

Title varies: Bewley family roots newsletter; Bewley family roots; Bewley roots; The Bewley--Buley family newsletter; Bewley roots newsletter.

The Bewley Family Association was organized at the first national Bewley reunion held at Elizabethtown, Kentucky, in June 1980.