Re: Fred Ensor Millwood,Lincoln County, Mo. 1800's
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In reply to:
Fred Ensor Millwood,Lincoln County, Mo. 1800's
3/16/02
Lynda,
I have been researching Fred Ensor this week.I am descended from his sister Laura.Their father was Dr. Sidney Rainford Ensor, and their mother (his first wife) was Berilla Jameson-- I just found a marriage date for them, 22 June 1840, in Lincoln County.I have not yet tied her in to the Millwood Jamesons who were among the first settlers of the area.Sidney was born in London in 1808, and according to the IGI all of his male siblings had a second given name Rainford, for their mother.
Fred Ensor drowned in the Cuivre River in 1876 or 1877.He left his young wife, Martha Emerson, pregnant with their second child, Anna.Ella was the first child.However, my recent research indicates that Martha was his second wife.In Millwood was a George I. (or J.) Dyer whose 1885 will leaves a bequest to his grand-daughter, Mary Estelle Ensor.Now, Sidney Ensor's second wife was Elvira Dyer, and her father's name was George Dyer.I suspected that information I had received about the Dyer family was wrong, that Elvira must have belonged to the George Dyer in Millwood, not the one in St. Paul.However, the census gave the answer.In 1850 George Dyer of St. Paul had a daughter named Elvira, while the George Dyer of Millwood did not.The answer was in the 1870 census.In the household preceding George Dyer of Millwood is "Ensaw, Frederick" (very hard to read, and probably therefore not correct in any indexes), who is the same age as Sidney's son Frederick, with his wife, Celeste, and one child, Estella.Celeste was listed with George I. Dyer of Millwood in the previous census, so that about wraps it up, I think.Martha, Fred's widow, married John Scott and they are listed together in the 1880 census with Anna and Ella.
My next step is to get the church records from St. Alphonsus parish in Millwood.I understand they are available on film from LDS.
Also this week I found info in World Connect for Sidney's ancestral line (which I did not have) indicating that his family was a branch of the family that went to Maryland with Lord Baltimore.In other words, the two branches of Ensors, those of London and those of Maryland, have a common origin, the common ancestor being Edward Ensor of Willincott.The various World Connect lineages have conflicting data for him, but the last ancestor in World Connect is Edward's gggg-grandfather, Sir Thomas Edensor, b. 1455 in Staffordshire.The link is not proven yet to my satisfaction, but I'm working on it!
Please see also my note to Kate Simmons.
Laura