Teresa Helena Higginson (1844-1905), was the daughter of Francis Higginson and Mary Bowness. She had a deep love for Jesus Christ at an early age. As she grew older, Teresa was often found in a state of unconsciousness commonly called ecstacy. One of her "secrets" was how "Our Lord had claimed her as His spouse, entitling her the 'Spouse of the Crucified', giving her to understand that she must climb with Him to Calvary; and how He had allowed her...

Newsletter for the interchange of genealogical data and history of the Pleydell (and variant spellings) families who came mainly from Canada, France (especially Brittany), and the English counties of Berkshire, Gloucestershire, Lancashire, London, Oxford, Sussex, and Wiltshire. Some focus is on the posterity of William Pleydell (d. 1494), his wife, Isabella who lived in the 1400's in Coleshill in old Berkshire. Their son, Thomas married Agnes Oxenbridge....

John Higginson was living in Baltimore County, Maryland, in the 1720s and perhaps earlier. He and his wife, Anne, had at least three children, 1723-1733. He died in 1738. His grandson, Samuel Higginson/Hickerson was born between 1760 & 1770 in Baltimore County, the son of Samuel Hickerson (b. 1733). He married Mary Elizabeth? Tharp in Baltimore County in 1788. They had nine children, 1789-1814. The family was living in Liking County, Ohio, by 1810....

James Jackson Higginson, son of George Higginson and Mary Cabot Lee, was born 19 June 1836 in New York City. He married Margaret Bethune Gracie, daughter of Archibald Gracie, Jr. and Elizabeth Davidson Bethune, 11 November 1869 in Elizabeth, New Jersey. They lived in New York City and had five children. Descendants lived in New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Connecticut, California and elsewhere.

History and genealogy of Reverend Thomas Higginson and his descendants, who resided mainly in Canada. Reverend Higginson entered Trinity College in Dublin in 1718. Vital records and names and birth dates of children are given for Higginson's descendants.

Descendants lived chiefly in Massachusetts and the midwest.

John Kilpack was born in 1813 in Coventry, England, to George Kilpack and Sarah Scruby. His earliest known ancestor was John Kilpack who was born about 1713 and married to Lydia Chandler. John married in 1834 to Frances Sheriff. She was born in 1813 in Abthorpe, England, to Arthur Sherriff [sic] and Esther Miller. John and Frances had 7 children. They immigrated to Utah in 1864. John died in 1878 in Murray, Utah, while his wife died in 1879....

Henry Lee (1782-1867) was a merchant in Boston, Mass.

"The Lee family papers, 1535-1957, consists of twenty archival boxes of loose manuscripts, one oversize folder, and 164 volumes of business reports, letterbooks, personal journals and scrapbooks. The collection consists chiefly of the personal papers of Henry Lee (1782- 1867), a prosperous India merchant and free trade economist and publicist; his wife, Mary Jackson Lee (1783-1860); and their son, Henry Lee Jr. (1817-1898), a banker, theatrical entrepreneur...