I have some Charlesworth and Stiles pictures at http://community.webshots.com/user/nancyreeb Nancy > This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > > Surnames: PANGBURN, PHARO, PHAROS, STILES, CHARLESWORTH > Classification: Query > > Message Board URL: > > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/wQB.2ACE/1078 > > Message Board Post: > > Just FYI (I have a question following this...) > > 1. Pieter (George?) Pangbourne b. 1640-1642 Oxfordshire > (town of Pangbourne is on the Bershire/Oxfordshire border); > d. 1696 Woodbridge, NJ > left England before 1660 and arrived first in New Haven Colony, > then owned property in Long Island, NY in 1668, then migrated to NJ. > married Grace Ffidoe. > 2. Stephen Pangburn b.1671 d.?1746 > married Joanna Tuttle(Tuthill). > 3. Stephen Pangburn Jr. b.1695 d.1778 > married Rebecca Imlay. > 4. Lines Pangburn b.1742 d. 1781 > married Anne Hazelton. > 5. Stephen Pangburn b.1770 d.? > married ? > 6. William (Gustavus?) Pangburn b.1802 d.? > married Catherine ? > 7. Samuel Adolphus Pangburn b.1825 d.? > married Hannah Cathcarte. > 8. Samuel Adolphus Pangburn Jr. b.1851 d.1937 > married Mary Eva Pharo. > 9. Edward Lewis Pangburn (twin) b.1872 d.? > married Clara Headley Charlesworth. > 10. George Oscar Pangburn b.1905 d.1969 > married ?- separated (Catholic--no divorce) > lived with Elsie Bittle Stiles. > 11. George Oscar Pangburn Jr. b. 1936 > married Comilla Frances (Spencer) Pettit- divorced > 12. Ravyn Comylla b. 18 may, 1962 > married Lee Joseph Giuliani > > my inquiry is about Mary Eva Pharo, my GG Grandmother. Family anecdotes say that > her real name was "SAY-NOH". I can find no genealogy for her at all. I am > wondering if her name may have been PHAROS instead of Pharo because it was noted > that she was of some exotic ethnicity(family rumor had her as 'indian' however, > everybody in south jersey claims 'indian' and it is highly unlikely since the > Lenapes left the area at least 100 yrs. before she was born!) Most likely I am > guessing she was either Greek or Gypsy--perhaps both! But Xenobia is not an > uncommon Greek name and it would have been pronounced "SAY-NOH-BEE-AH" and Sayno > could be a short form of it. The story goes that Mary Eva or Mary Elizabeth was > her Confirmation name--so again, Greek (Orthodox) is a possibility. I understand > that Greek immigrants first settled the area in the 1850's. > Any suggestions on how I might be able to find out more about this? Anyone heard > of Pharos/Pharo in South Jersey? I know there are some in Philadelphia who are > Greek. > thanks, > Ravyn > > > ============================== > Census images 1901, 1891, 1881 and 1871, plus so much more. > Ancestry.com's United Kingdom & Ireland Collection. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13968/rd.ashx >