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From: "Cynthia" <>
Subject: Re: [MAHAMPDEN] Minister's ledgers--FANNELL...FINNEL...ETC
Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2005 19:56:06 -0400
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We were in Granville yesterday, stopped at the old Granville General store and got some of their famous
cheddar cheese. Across the road is a small park and a enclosed frame a copy of the 'history' and it explains
how the documents were "lost"...apparently when someone had passed
away, their attic was "cleaned out", tooooo throughly, all VR and other records were thrown out....
hence there are little or no documentation prior to 1900 or so.
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the old name was Bedford Plantation and changed to Granville in 1775
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I checked my Corbin collection........no Fennell or any other spelling.....in Granville or
anywhere in western Massachusetts.
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I checked my book "Directory of Ancestral Heads of New England Families, 1620-1700"
No Fennell listed.....(means they came after 1700 ? or were they "missed" )
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"The Massachusetts Tax Evaluation List of 1771"; ............there is only ONE
--Fennill, Thomas and he was in Medfield which is in Norfolk Co.
of course it could be your Fennill/Fennell didnt own land....but it's worth checking on this Thomas
as you may get some leads.
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SUFFOLK COUNTY MASSACHUSETTS to about 1850; CD, Search and Research, Wheat Ridge,CO.
Suffolk County Marriages:
--Boston, Mass 1752-1809
James Fennel and (S?)aby Churchill by Rev.Thomas Baldwin, 1/10/1809
James Fennel and Mary Donoughue by Rev.Francis Matignon, 4/26/1796
Willson Fennell and Sarah Williston, intentions 10/11/1759
Willson Fannell and Sarah Williston, m. 5/22/1760 (no minister given)
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That's all I have for Fannell / Fennell / etc.

Cynthia
list adm.

----- Original Message -----
From: "John Fennell" <>
To: <>
Sent: Sunday, April 17, 2005 3:53 PM
Subject: [MAHAMPDEN] Minister's ledgers


>I want to throw this out in the news to see how it flys.
> I have been trying for several years to get a little info about my 5th great
> grand father. I can track him down to 1748 with the birth of his only known
> son or child. Records earlierthan that date seem to have fallen into the
> lost and destroyed bin.
> I have been wondering if there were ledgers kept by ministers that traveled
> to various communities to take care of weddings, baptisms, birth records.
> There had to be a lot of things happen during the time this person was in
> other communities.
> I was wondering if this church official would have not only recorded new
> info into the local chuuch files but also the main church this minister
> called home for every outlying church he visited.
> I am researching the surname FINEL/FENNELL. My great grand father had his
> son born in Granville, MA. in 1748. If my idea of a travelling minister is
> correct, what larger town would he been headquartering out of?
> At this time I do not know my grand father's faith. At this time my thinking
> he was Irish because his wife seems to have been of Irish descendant. I
> have no record of him dying or being buried in Granville or any other place
> because of the lack of records.
> Any thought on this would be very much appreciated.
> John Fennell
> Atlantic Canada
>
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