Beckwith Genealogy
Beckwith Genealogy Blog
Saturday, February 18, 2012
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Sunday, December 18, 2011
Tuesday, October 04, 2011
Friday, September 16, 2011
Tuesday, July 12, 2011
Tuesday, June 21, 2011
Bookplate of Thomas Beckwith of York Painter FAS 1730-1786 by the owner c1775

Bookplate of Thomas Beckwith of York Painter FAS 1730-1786 by the owner c1775, a photo by CharmaineZoe on Flickr.
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
Martha Beckwith
In 1920, Martha Beckwith became the first person to hold a chair in Folklore at any college or university in the country. The Folklore Foundation, established at Vassar with an anonymous donation by the naturalist, Annie Alexander, was an unprecedented institution. With its establishment, Vassar College suddenly became a center of research in the almost entirely new field of folk culture.
Beckwith Commercial Block (1882) - interior
Queen Anne style, three-story, brick, flat roof. Features: original storefront, stained glass, cornice arcading, enriched cornice, terracotta, keystone, round arch windows, segmented arch windows, marble stringcourses, parapet, beltcourse, decorative brickwork. • Now the headquarters of the National Bank of Middlebury.
• The Beckwith Block, as a part of the Middlebury Village Historic District, has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places (#76000223), since 1976.
Mrs. Stephen [i.e. Steven] Ayres (LOC)
Photo shows Mrs. Steven Beckwith Ayres (right) and another woman posed at an event probably related to the 1912 presidential election. Mrs. Ayres was active in the Woman's National Democratic League. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2009)
Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
Artists at a banquet for Harry Siddons Mowbray
Photos (annotated on reverse) of a banquet given for Harry Siddons Mowbray at the Sieghortner Hotel, Lafayette Place, N.Y., May 26, 1888. One photo shows collector Thomas B. Clarke speaking. Pictured in one and/or both are: J. Carroll Beckwith, William M. Chase, Thomas B. Clarke, William A. Coffin, Kenyon Cox, R. Cleveland Coxe, Thomas W. Dewing, Samuel Isham, Elbridge Kingsley?, Harry Siddons Mowbray, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Robert W. Van Boskerck and Julian Alden Weir. Photographer(s) unknown.
Mrs. J.S. Crosby, Mrs. Cullop, Mrs. S. Ayers, Mrs. Linthicum, Mrs. R.L. Henry, and Miss Hopkins (LOC)

Mrs. J.S. Crosby, Mrs. Cullop, Mrs. S. Ayers, Mrs. Linthicum, Mrs. R.L. Henry, and Miss Hopkins (LOC), a photo by The Library of Congress on Flickr.
Photo shows a group of women, possibly board members of the Woman's National Democratic League (WNDL), which Mrs. Crosby founded in 1912. Identified as Nellie Fassett (Mrs. John Sherwin) Crosby, WNDL president; Nettie Goodwin (Mrs. William A.) Cullop, DAR regent and a congressman's wife; Mrs. Steven Beckwith Ayres of New York, active with the WNDL and a congressman's wife; Helen A. (Mrs. John Charles) Linthicum of Baltimore, a congressman's wife; and Louine Childers Tyler (Mrs. Robert Lee) Henry of Texas, a congressman's wife. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2009)
Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
Mrs. Crosby and Mrs. Ayres (LOC)
That's Mrs. John Sherwin Crosby (the former Nellie Fassett), founder and president of the Women's Democratic Club of New York City, president of the Woman's National Democratic League--she gave a victory breakfast at the Waldorf-Astoria to congratulate the incoming first lady, Mrs. Wilson, and her daughters.
uic.edu/orgs/cwluherstory/jofreeman/polhistor y/1912.htm
And Mrs. Steven Beckwith Ayres (that spelling), also a leader of women supporters of the Democratic Party in NYC. Her husband was a congressman from the Bronx:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_B._Ayres
Artists at a banquet for Harry Siddons Mowbray
Beckwith, J. Carroll James Carroll, 1852-1917
Chase, William Merritt, 1849-1916
Clarke, Thomas B. Thomas Benedict, 1848-1931
Coffin, William A. William Anderson, 1855-1925
Cox, Kenyon, 1856-1919
Coxe, R. Cleveland Reginald Cleveland, 1855-
Dewing, Thomas Wilmer, 1851-1938
Isham, Samuel, 1855-1914
Kingsley, Elbridge, 1842-1918
Mowbray, Harry Siddons, 1858-1928
Saint-Gaudens, Augustus, 1848-1907
Van Boskerck, Robert Ward, 1855-1932
Weir, Julian Alden, 1852-1919
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
Wednesday, February 06, 2008
Copy
Letter from Robert E. Lee to John Watrus Beckwith of Raleigh, NC
Washington College, Lexington VA: 20 Jany 1870
Rt Revd & Dear Sir
The Literary Societies of Washington College sent to you an invitation to address them at the coming Commencement, in June next; and not having heard from you fear that their letter or your reply may have miscarried. They have requested me to ask whether their invitation reached you, & in doing so I cannot refrain from impressing my earnest wish & the wish of the whole Faculty, that it may be convenient for you to grant the request of my young friends. A visit from you will not only give pleasure to our community but I feel sure will be a benefit to the cause of religion as well as of education. Between the two Institutions, Washington College & the VA: Mil: Institute, there are nearly seven hundred young men, at the most impressible age for good or evil. Words of admonition from you I think would do great good.
Should you be able to visit us at the appointed time, I beg that you will come directly to my house on your arrival, & remain as long as convenient. I will reserve (page 2) a room for you
With great respect your obtservt
R E Lee
Rt: Revd John Watrus Beckwith D. D.
Bishop of Georgia - Macon Ga:
Monday, February 04, 2008
The Enderbys
The Enderbys
"Mavis Enderby occurs as Endrebi in Domesday Book, as Endrebi in 1115, and as Enderby Malbys in 1302. Mavis Enderby was held (among other lands) by William Malebisse in 1202, Malbys being shortened later to Mavis. Two of the owners had Anglo-Saxon names and, like Bag Enderby, there was a mill and the land was good arable land. The population appears to have been possibly around the hundred mark.
Like Bag Enderby it stands on the drier sandstone, above a spring line feeding a tributary of the River Lymn. Mavis Enderby lies less than 2 miles uphill from Bolingbroke, with strong historical connections. It was the seat of John of Gaunt, whole eldest son, the future Henry IV was born. The moated castle was the site of a Royalist garrison during the Civil War, and about four miles from the site of 1643 Battle of Winceby. The remains of the castle have recently been partially excavated."
Monday, January 28, 2008
Erispoe Frodaldus Desposyni I King of Brittany
Erispoe Frodaldus Desposyni I King of Brittany
Father of Nominoe, King of Brittany (not Spears)
[See Northern Neck, Virginia & the Nominoes.
Kings and dukes of Brittany family tree
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dukes_of_Brittany_family_tree
House of Wessex family tree
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Wessex_family_tree
West Riding of Yorkshire
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Riding_of_Yorkshire
Sunday, January 27, 2008
Anleta "Thora Donada" MACKENNETH
Anleta "Thora Donada MACKENNETH
Anleta "Thora Donada" MACKENNETH 1
Birth: About 968 in Of, Atholl, Perthshire, Scotland
Sex: F
Father: Malcolm II MACKENNETH KING OF SCOTLAND b. About 970 in Scotland
Mother: Irish Woman of Ossary Siguadsdatter Aefgifu b. About 962 in Scotland





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