I am seeking information on this family - W.S. CHASE b. about 1879 Coalport, Clearfield, PA m. Maria MILLER (also born in Coalport, PA) d. ? They had a child (could be more) Frank Edward CHASE b. 1899 Johnstown, Cambria Co., PA m. Jean Esther TANSLEY 20 Dec. 1923 Portage, Cambria, PA d. ? Jean Esther TANSLEY b. 11 June 1904 Spring Hill, Cambria, PA d. about 1924-1930 she is the daughter of Alfred TANSLEY and Edith BATES. Does any one know when Jean died? I am a Tansley decedent (of her brother) and am wondering what happened to her. Marta Norton HOT in Longmont, CO.

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ALL, This is my"egg all over my face time". I have had a gedcom called Robin.ged for some time. Debbie and Richard have been helping convert it to my ancient BK5 type dbase. Thay ahve,as always,been sucsessful BUT now I cannot find where it came from! The early data refers to Benjamin BROLIN and Mary LEE and there are notes with their info. There are about 1,500+ names in the dbase but many we already have. Could the owner of this database contact me with a straight line of descent,( as on the Researcher Page),within the database to enable me to track to where it has info not at present in our database on site. If you have already filled in the form on The Chase Researcher page all I need is YOUR name, Sorry about this Keith Hume Keith Hume, email khume@netcomuk.co.uk CHASE-L Website at:- http://www.surnameweb.org/centers/c/chase/index.html http://www.netcomuk.co.uk/~khume/home.html Kent,England Researching:- HULME,DAWSON,(In Lancs.) HUME,McKAY, (In New Brunswick & Nova Scotia SHERMAN,SIMMONS,HATHAWAY AND CHASE,(In USA & Canada) SHERRING & BLUNDEN (Hampshire,England) FALL,(Ireland & Australia) BUTCHER,PAYNE/PAINE,BURCKITT(Bedfordshire,England)

Hello all.. Abraham appears magically in New Brunswick, in the Northeast/French-speaking area, in time for the 1861 census...I have spoken to his descendants... Apparently he served on a British lumber -transport ship...was abused...and jumped off in Richibucto...he was found lying under the verendah of a house (according to one story) by a French family who took him in and raised him as their own ...He grew up hating the English, speaking French, was ROman Catholic, unlike most other Chases...and his farm exists to this day in Adamsville, Kent Co., outside Moncton (Monkton) NB The other story is a RC priest took him in, took him into the faith (in Buctouche) then placed him with a French/Acadienne family.. BUT I don't think he came from this side the Atlantic ....... (note , this line of CHases is RC to this day, whereas all other lines in NB are FW Baptist or Anabaptist, or Baptist. There are some C of E, there is one "Methodist" family.so this is quite an anomoly given the Quaker beginnings or many of them) Anyway......born abt 1795 ?? in England ?? anyone ????? Thanks Derek --------------------------------------------------- Visit the Chase/Chace Surname Database http://www.surnameweb.org/centers/c/chase/index.html _________________________________________________________

I have been on the Chase/Chace database site , and while I have posted Sackville area (NB) GEDcom files, I seem to have missed out CHIPMAN CHASE, from Yorkshire...born abt. 1820 ......He came and settled in the Chegnecto area, and I have spoken to his descendants.... but I cannot find out whence he was begotten ! and by whom . Anyone with anything on Yorkshire CHASE folks please let me know. Derek --------------------------------------------------- Visit the Chase/Chace Surname Database http://www.surnameweb.org/centers/c/chase/index.html _________________________________________________________

Someone on the Onondago Co., NY, genweb site has generously offered to do lookups on the Chase family cemetery in Tully, NY, which contains records on Esther and Russell Chase. The email address is LCrow10101@aol.com. Sue

Re: the colour (since this is British) of the canton & lion on the Chesham Chase device: the Chase/Chamberlaim quote is for a "canton or, a lion passant azure". I also have a more modern description (which I got when I was in England a couple of years ago) of "the most ancient Coat of Arms" found for the CHASE family (unspecified branch) which describes "four golden crosses and on a gold square top left a blue lion." I guess the early Chases didn't go in for gold lions, preferring blue ones. Dick C.

In a message dated 98-06-25 12:17:47 EDT, you write: << Re: a CHASE device; Chase/Chamberlain note that it is recorded in Philpot's >The Visitation of the County of Buckingham, 1634, that Matthew Chase b. 6 Jan >1576/7 (this is a Chesham Chase: son of John; grandson of Thomas) had granted >to him "Gules, three crosses patonce argent, on a canton or, a lion passant >azure." This is similar to--but not quite the same as--the arms that are >currently displayed on our CHASE page. >Dick C. >> This is probably translated as Gules (red background), three crosses patonce argent (argent is white or silver with patonce being a particular type of cross where there seems to be a slight flaring at the last one fourth of the arms of the cross), on a canton Or (Or is gold and a canton is a small square division of the shield in the upper left corner), a lion passant azure (azure is sky blue while passant is a walking lion with one foot raised). Keith or Dick, you might want to reread your source since it is usually a gold lion on a blue background meaning a canton Azure, a lion passaant Or rather than a blue lion on a gold background. There has been a lot of controversy in the past about whether the crosses were "patonce" or "flory" with flory being a different kind of arm but I cannot find the description of "flory". On top of the arms in most cases there is a crest with a lion rampant Or (gold), holding between his feet a cross patonce - Gules (a red colored patonce cross - I think the Chesham Chase used a gold cross). There seems to have been rather heated discussions re the arms and crests in the Chase Chronicles; Boutell's "Heraldry" reviewed by J.P. Brooke-Little: Peerage & Baronetage; long essays by H. G. Somerby, Esq. and the papers of the late Theodore Chase, Esq.; Genealogical memoirs of the Chase family of Chesham, Bucks by George Chase reprinted from the Heraldic Journal in 1869; & various descriptions in the Miscellanea Genealogica et Heraldica (p. 100). There is also a long article about the Bodleian Library which apparently has a Chase pedigree & arms; a Visitation of Kent 1663/8 published in the Harleian Society, Vol. 54 about Chesham which is taken from Stowe MS 621; Ms 5507 (British Museum) has a collection of pedigrees in the handwriting of Edward Hasted with the pedigree and arms included; a letter in State Papers Domestic 1634/5 from a Robert Calvert to his cousin Owen about his search for a coat of arms for Chase in Suffolk; and apparently a letter that indicates there was an armigerous family in Suffolk from which the Bucks family was an offshot but the Record Office of Suffolk said they had no records of an armigerous family of the 16th century. Miss Corder in 1965 in her Dictionary of Suffolk Arms does not mention the Chase family. However, Mr. Calvert's letter of 1634 seems definite evidence of the use of a coat before that granted to the Bucks family; more on the arms of the Bucks family and Samuel Chase, the Baptist minister of Luton & the arms on his tomb & subsequent use by Richard Chase of London, a descendant of a Hampshire family who ws buried in 1708; & the arms used by the Hertfordshire family which included the arms of the Buckinghamshire family; & an arms on the tomb of Thomas Curtis Chase, 1818, in St. Mary Abbots Church, Kensington. Whew, talk about a great deal of details, details, details, If anyone wants more, I probably can get around to doing the article from the Chase Chronicles. It tends to be the more definitive one. Rex

Some of you may have noticed that the web page [address below] does not list the word "passant" This is what Webster says: "of any animal represented as walking with the dexter forepaw raised". Keith and all, For the meanings of coats of arms descriptions, go to the following address. http://www.fleurdelis.com/meanings.htm Lonnie Chase

Keith and all, For the meanings of coats of arms descriptions, go to the following address. http://www.fleurdelis.com/meanings.htm Lonnie Chase

Hi, I'm back, Just wanted to share one more thing with you. Just found this nice article---written by Jewel Jerome---I wonder if she's related to Jenny Jerome??? It's titled A TASTE OF NANTUCKET, Book rekindles memories of youth on island --------- I grew up in a big, drafty house on Cape Cod, at the top of a cliff overlooking Vineyard Sound. On a clear day, you can see Nantucket Island from the bay window in the livingroom, and mark the hours by the horn blasts of the ferry boats traveling between Wood's Hole and Martha's Vineyard. I remember digging for clams when I was no more than 4 years old, searching for the tiny breathing holes that meant a clam was hiding just beneath the mud. Surrounded by an endless supply of fresh-off-the-boat delights, I was lucky enough to grow up eating things like "quahogs" (the Pequot Indian word for hard-shelled clams), bluefish and lobster. ------How about that folks. Doesn't that make you want to go where William Chase walked. ????? The museum there holds much info. on the Chase Seafaring Captains and seamen Ginger.

Thank you, Lonnie, and Chasers You are amazing. You are always sharing something very important from the Internet and I for one am grateful to you for this. Thank you for sending that important bit of info. to all of us. Now---concerning the Coat of Arms---I have to add my little bit here.: Somehow all genealogists---or non genealogists--or people just doing research on an individual family have always had a fascination with these symbols. We all love them---it seems---We all want to link up with one---it seems. I'm no different from anyone else----so------when I was rustling around and working on the Chase Coat-of-Arms I too wanted to know more ,so when I was living in England I convinced my genealogy instructor ---Betty Brown, ( who was then on the Executive Committee for the Society of Genealogists in London), to give us a lecture on the subject---which she did. After her talk she opened up for discussion and at that time we talked about all of the varied BUT SIMILAR Chase Coat of Arms. Her explanation was --- Sometimes if you see a Coat of Arms for a particular family and all look similar but not all exactly the same, they are related somehow but from different branches and different areas of the country. I know that during all of my digging I was under the impression that the Chesham group was the only one that had a proven right to display them. That hasn't stopped most any of the other Chases however and I doubt if most of us---particularly those of us who are American ,Canadian or australian would let that stop us from using a Coat of Arms. Some of you will come up with the real official reason for all of this.---GOOD I can see it now---Big Newspaper article-- Internet Chase Descendants fill jails with illegal use of Coat-of Arms. We would give them a run for their money, wouldn't we? Pertaining to my book: I've had a lot of queries asking if they can obtain my book. I would be more than happy for you all to have one if you so desired but I don't have any extra copies of it. My husband thinks I should have more printed, but it would be quite complicated as I have sent all of the original pictures, maps, etc. back to the rightful cousin or owner, and it might be a long process to get them back. Thank you for your kind words. I never knew there would be such a huge response to it. I still have mounds of data to share with you---one is on the Butter family connected to the Chase/Shermans . In the autumn I plan to start putting that together to share with you all along with my Chase---Chace data. (You probably already have all the Chase data anyway). There are so many of you out there who have lots more expertise than I ,so perhaps I won't have to send any more info. to you all. I think we will be ever grateful to Keith for pulling all of the information together for us and sharing it. I wonder if he doesn't wake up at night wondering what he has been torturing himself for as I know we are all 'pests' at times. --Or perhaps after he has been working on his computer for hours and hours and hours he sits in his chair with his hands hanging over his chair and tells himself --"I think that Chase/Chace line is a pain in the you know what". regardless, I hope he knows we're grateful for all of this work. Now some of you are very lucky to be going off to the Boston area soon. I hope I have poked at the guilt bone again. Hopefully the William descendants will take time to explore the Freetown, Cape Cod, Yarmouth areas and have lots to share with your Chase cousins when you return. I have some favorite places and people for you to link up with if you are interested . Ginger in Az.

Joseph Lapham Chase (Solomon, Dr. Benjamin, Joseph, Aquila) b. Kent CT 17 Jun 1784; d. Durham Can. 28 May 1852 m. abt 1814 Mary CONVERSE (b. Kent 24 Aug 1798; d. Farmersburg IA 22 Jul 1859 Moved to Durham, Canada abt 1828 Children: Dorman b. 11 Mar 1817; m. 8 Dec 1838 Emily WILLIAMS Elijah b. 7 Sep 1818; m. (1) 6 Aug 1851 Charity SNELL m. (2) 23 Mar 1856 Elisabeth A. Sprauge John b. 14 Apr 1821; m. 26 Apr 1842 Susanna CRAWFORD Caroline M. b. 25 Dec 1822; m. 25 Dec 1835 James JACKSON Tamson b. 29 Aug 1829; m. 4 Jan 1844 John CRAWFORD Mary Ette b. 4 July 1831; m. 1 Jan 1850 Nathan SNELL Dick Chase

To all descendants of (the Loyalist) Reuben Chase through William, William Jr., John, Isaac, and Isaac: I thought I would share a line from one of the letters I have, written by Salome Johnson to her stepson, Edward Mills London, in 1834. Salome was the granddaughter of Reuben Chase, being his daughter Charlotte's child. Salome's stepson, Edward Mills London, would married Deborah Chase, daughter of Eben/Epenitus Chase (Charlotte's brother), in 1837. Salome writes to Edward: "Remember me to Unkle Epinetus Chase, and all his family" Edward was living near Epenitus at the time, and would eventually marry his daughter, Deborah. I thought I would write this to clarify why I believe Reuben's son, listed as being born Eben, was a misspelling of Epen (short for Epenitus). Any comments? Lisa Zajkowski

Hi, In response to this part of Ginger's message. (see below). Apart from the Aquila conundrum there has not been a lot of difficulty. I must admit that at times I have to be a shade arbitrary where I get 2 lots of conflicting data. I usually decide which to use by comparing the amount of additional info. sent. I am leaning towards the idea of a "Chase Short Biography" page to include reasoned rticles on our ancestors. For instance Dick CHASE has sent a very well thought out article on his analysis of the Aquila ancestry in England. This could be a start. It is also an example of what I said earlier as he also sent a Gedcom of the early "Chesham" Chases and I am replacing the current version with his as he has obviously researched it thoroughly. Thanks,Dick, Keith Hume t 18:35 23/06/98 EDT, you wrote: >Dear Beth, Genpia, >............. I know the Aquila descendants will be happy when they once solve the problem >of the links---if any---with the Chesham Aquila---- and the William group will >be happy to find Mary's last name. Those who know that Mary's last name was >NOT Townley---will be happy to learn that people have accepted that. All of >this time poor Keith has to accept all of this information and then try to >straighten it all out. Mind boggling. Then again, we all should be quite >happy. So many people who had ancestors who came over 3 or 4 generations >later certainly can't link up as well as we can at all. > Keith Hume, email khume@netcomuk.co.uk CHASE-L Website at:- http://www.surnameweb.org/centers/c/chase/index.html http://www.netcomuk.co.uk/~khume/home.html Kent,England Researching:- HULME,DAWSON,(In Lancs.) HUME,McKAY, (In New Brunswick & Nova Scotia SHERMAN,SIMMONS,HATHAWAY AND CHASE,(In USA & Canada) SHERRING & BLUNDEN (Hampshire,England) FALL,(Ireland & Australia) BUTCHER,PAYNE/PAINE,BURCKITT(Bedfordshire,England)

Hi,Derek, Can you or anybody "translate" this? Keith Hume At 11:07 24/06/98 EDT, you wrote: >Re: a CHASE device; Chase/Chamberlain note that it is recorded in Philpot's >The Visitation of the County of Buckingham, 1634, that Matthew Chase b. 6 Jan >1576/7 (this is a Chesham Chase: son of John; grandson of Thomas) had granted >to him "Gules, three crosses patonce argent, on a canton or, a lion passant >azure." This is similar to--but not quite the same as--the arms that are >currently displayed on our CHASE page. >Dick C. > > >

Does anyone have any information on Joseph Lapham Chase? I know of only one child, Elijah James who married Charity Snell (son Marquis Lafayette) and then Elizabeth Ann Sprague (children Converse, Mary Alfreda, Tamson Louise, Frederick Elanza, Francis Melvin, Eunice Lorraine, Joseph L., Adrian Aquila, and William Albert). Elijah was born in Connecticut and his children lived in Iowa and Minnesota. Would like to know about Joseph's date of birth and death, parents, wife, children, blah, blah, blah.... Thanks much, Sue

[cc: CHASE-L w/o attachment] Keith, I am attaching a GEDCOM (Chesham.zip) that contains all the Chesham Chases listed in the Chesham section of Chase/ Chamberlain's "Descendants of Aquila and Thomas", 1928. It includes the identified descendants of the three sons of Thomas (b. 1520) down through two or three generations.  I hope that the "notes" that I have included for some of the individual records transmit to your file OK, since they are a useful part of the individual's information.  (This replaces the OldChase.zip GEDCOM that I sent to you yesterday which had  errors in it, and which should be deleted forthwith.)  Please note the three initial individuals that I include in this tree: a Thomas b. abt 1430, a John b. abt 1455, and a Matthew b. abt 1486.   I have seen unverifiable references to these three (they are NOT included in the Chase/Chamberlain lineage) in  several files (probably copied from each other...) in my wanderings, but I am highly suspicious of them since the names mirror the next three (confirmed) individuals in the line, and I have encountered a file (which appears to be LDS in source !) which attributes offspring of the later verified Matthew back to the early one.   I keep them in my Chesham Chase file (with an attached warning note) only as a "possible maybe".   You may wish to simply delete them. Dick C.

Keith, I must have missed something. What is the title of Ginger's book, where is it available? and for how much? Would like to have a copy. I am of the William line as follows: Sandra (Sandi) Chace Hutchins, f. Hayward Austin Chace, gf. Ira Shufelt Chace, ggf. William Henry Chace, gggf. James Harvey Chace, ggggf. William Chace (Capt.), gggggf. Abraham Chace, ggggggf. Josiah Chace, gggggggf. Abraham Chace, ggggggggf. William Chase jr., gggggggggf. William Chase. They were from England to Yarmouth, Mass, to Rhode Island, to Dartmouth Mass., to Hillsdale, N.Y., to Newfane, N.Y., to Olcott, N.Y., to Augusta, Ks. Thanks, Sandi I'm new to this.......I THINK I sent the original message to Keith, but meant it to go onto the list, so have re-posted. I'm really enjoying this list! Sandi

Re: a CHASE device; Chase/Chamberlain note that it is recorded in Philpot's The Visitation of the County of Buckingham, 1634, that Matthew Chase b. 6 Jan 1576/7 (this is a Chesham Chase: son of John; grandson of Thomas) had granted to him "Gules, three crosses patonce argent, on a canton or, a lion passant azure." This is similar to--but not quite the same as--the arms that are currently displayed on our CHASE page. Dick C.