Re: Pembroke of England and US
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In reply to:
Re: Pembroke of England and US
10/26/98
It looks like your Elihu Pembrook is a
brother to my Enos Pembrook Jr.Another
researcher found the following information on Elihu which came from Elihu's own biography in 1879.Unfortunately, I do not
have the source but I would look in the county where he was living at that time.
"Mr. Pembroke (Elihu) was born in Ontario county, NY, April 27th, 1802...His father,
Enos Pembrook was born in NY, and moved to the western part of that state, and settled
there when it was almost a complete wilderness; he married Lucinda Warner and the
third child of this marriage was Elihu Pembroke. He was raised in western NY and
attended school mostly in Genesee County.
His mother died and his father married again, and in 1818 the family emigrated to KY.They lived two years within three miles
of Louisville, and in February, 1820, came
to Madison county, IL.His father bought ten
acres of land where the main town of Alton is
now built, where they lived three or four years, but found the location so sickly that
they were compelled to remove elsewhere.At
that day the Mississippi river opposite Alton
was covered with a green scum like that which
may now be seen on the surface of stagnant ponds and fever and ague prevailed to such an
extent along the river banks that the settlers were obliged to remove.About 1825
or 1826, his father moved with the younger
children to the visinity of Ottawa, in LaSalle county...When he came to IL, in 1820,
there was not a house in Jersey or Macoupin counties, and IL had been admitted as a state
only two years.It was never expected at that time that the prairies would ever improve.He says that when his father came
to IL an old hewed log-house and some cabins
were the only signs of civilization which
marked the site of the present city of Alton".
This is the only info I have on Elahu.
I would like to know if in your Pembroke
Papers, there is any mention of illegitimate
lines?
Papers, there is any mention of illegitimate
lines?
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Re: Pembroke of England and US
10/31/98
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Re: Pembroke of England and US
10/31/98