Re: Bargsley From Texas
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Re: Bargsley From Texas
patricia skaggs 4/18/05
I did some work on this line for my (step)dad.He can trace to a John L Bargsley (married Sarah Lucretia Arrington) and his brother Andrew Jackson Bargsley.They were everyone's brickwall.
It seems they are the sons of James BEARDSLEY( died 1830) and wife Hester Bradley.This is from a BEARDSLEY will where the sons are named and the name is spelled both BARGSLEY and BEARDSLEY in the documents surrounding a land grant to BEARDSLEY.
James Beardsley was the son of John Beardsley (1760 - 1806)
John Beardsley was the son of Abraham Beardsley (1725 - 1815) ETC, ETC, ETC
The Beardsley's came from Derbyshire, England and founded the town of Stratford, Connecticut.The line is documented on Ancestry.com as far back as Richard Beardsley of Essex England born 1521.
I don't have my documentation in front of me but I am certain from the land grant documents that this is where the Bargsley name started...as a mutation of Beardsley and it only occurs in the families of these two Bargsley brothers, and mostly in Texas.
There seems to have been several occasions where a father died when his children were very young and were raised by extended family and I think this is how the mutation to Bargsley occured and the Beardsley origin was lost.
These Bargsley brothers were early Texas pioneers and served in the Texas Rangers.A Bargsley owned Texas Ranger gun was on display at the Ranger museum in Waco when I was little.(1970's)