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From: Janice R Freeman <>
Subject: ACKLEY - AKELEY Connections to PENLEY 1845 - Present
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2006 16:45:50 -0400

The ACKLEY / AKELEY family in Maine has two known connections
to the PENLEY / PENLY family of Maine about 1845 - present. They are:
ACKLEY on Peaks Island, Cumberland Co, ME and
AKELEY in Presque Isle, Aroostook Co, ME.

Several distant cousins and I are doing all we can to try to contact
all living descendants or anyone with any data about any known
descendants in order to bring the descendants of Joseph 1 PENLY
as up-to-date as possible. Our base is the work of the late Rev
Robert Irving 6 PENLEY 1909 - 1996. If you or anyone in your family
had contact with him, please let me know.

I believe John ACKLEY d 1849 was 1m to Vesta ABBOTT and 2m 1843
Mary B (Polly) PENLEY 1816 - 1854, d/o Joseph 2 PENLEY and Lovina
MONK of S Paris, ME. John and Polly had Ambrose Virgin (AV) ACKLEY
1848 - 1941 who m Mary SKILLINGS. There were supposedly 2 other ch:
Humphrey and Rensalier b bef 1850, but we have not been able to find
information about them.

Polly AKLEY 34 is in the 1850 Census with her parents in Paris, Oxford
Co, ME. Ambrose AKLEY 2 was enumerated with them.

In 1860 Ambrose V ASLEY 12 was enumerated with Merrill SPURR 59
(Polly's 2nd husband), and Eunice L 42, in Otisfield, Cumberland Co, ME.

PEAKS ISLAND: ACKLEY - SKILLINGS - STERLING
Ambrose (AV) put himself thru Bowdoin College and became a teacher.
Ambrose and Mary lived on Peaks Island and had 4 known ch:
Laura E ACKLEY 1873-1962 who m Walter Bradford STERLING; had 7 ch:
Gladys STERLING abt 1893-1949 NJ, m Charles DAVIS
Leon STERLING 1896- ??
Walter (Stanley) STERLING 1900- ??
Lawrence B STERLING 1903 - 1949 NJ
Carolyn E STERLING 1904- ??, m 1930 Kenneth P MATTHEWS
Josiah STERLING abt 1907 - ??
Barbara STERLING abt 1914 - ??, m Albert STEITZ
Ethel M ACKLEY 1877 - ??
Edward Preble ACKLEY 1889, m Marion LEIGHTON; had 3 ch:
Josephine (adopted) b abt 1919, age 10 on 1930 Census
Kathleen or Kathlyn b abt 1927, age 2 on 1930 Census
Adrian b 1933
Adrian Lowell ACKLEY 1899 - 1924, m Marion L GREELY

PRESQUE ISLE: AKELEY
George Henry ACKLEY 1828 - 1905, s/o John ACKLEY and Vesta
ABBOTT, m 1848 Almira PENLEY 1829 - 1885, d/o Joseph 2 PENLEY
and Lovina MONK of S Paris, ME. They moved to Presque Isle, ME
where the spelling of their last name became AKELEY.

Their ch included:
Eugene AKELEY, wife unknown, ch incl:
Arthur G (Sam) AKELEY
Lettie AKELEY m Alexander BOONE
Alice AKELEY m ? KELLY
Charles Henry AKELEY 1852-1930, m 1874 Oberah Sarah COLE
1856-1915; their ch incl:
Carlisle Cole AKELEY b 1873 NH, m Ada COOK b 1885
Ray Cole AKELEY 1876 NH-1953 ND, m MN Sarah GIBBS b 1877
Inez AKELEY 1880 - 1889
Florence AKELEY 1886 - 1936, m George E W COREY
Lewis AKELEY
Walter Ossian AKELEY b 1895, m Lottie May HAGERMAN
Fred M AKELEY 1854 - 1943 OR, m Nellie CUMMINGS - d 1930 OR
Ethel M AKELEY 1879 - ??, m Hart BARKER
Grace Blanche AKELEY 1881 - 1945, m Frank THIBODEAU
Mary E AKELEY 1883 - ??, m Paul BUBAR
Thomas AKELEY 1886 - 1919, m Theo ?
Frank Grosvenor AKELEY 1890 - 1910, m Theo ?
Mary AKELEY
Freeman Stephen AKELEY 1857-1931 CA, m Abbie Jane PARKS - 1935 CA
Hazel AKELEY b 1889 - ?, m ? FERGUS
Gladys AKELEY 1892 - ?
Carroll AKELEY 1895 - ?
Doris AKELEY 1901 - ?
Willis A AKELEY, m 1895 MT Elizabeth NAVE
Mary Zilda AKELEY
Luellah Elizabeth AKELEY m 1919 Victor H BARLOW
George Winfield AKELEY 1862 - 1953, 1m 1885 Annie Bradley COOK
Henry Cook AKELEY 1887 - ?, m 1906 Myrtle WHITE
Celia Winnifred AKELEY 1890 - ?, m 1909 Roy W CUNNINGHAM
George Winfield AKELEY 2m 1898 Beulah Muriel BARTON d 1956
Theodore Barton AKELEY 1901 - ?, m 1923 Margaret WILLIAMSON
Emma Lane AKELEY 1902 - ?, m 1923 Philip F TAYLOR
Eugene Winfield AKELEY 1904 - ?, m 1929 Thelma GRANT
John McBride AKELEY 1906 - ?, m 1930 Katherine LOVELY
Esther Penley AKELEY 1907 - ?, m 1933 Lewis Stearns PORTER
Helen Louise AKELEY, m 1934 Walter Dwight FULLER
Joseph Francis AKELEY 1908 - ?, m 1927 Delia Elizabeth MERRITT
Nathan Davis AKELEY 1908 - ?, m 1930 Goldie REES
Robert Vinton AKELEY 1910 - ?, m Hope GREENLAW
Olive Goodwin AKELEY 1912
Roger Pearson AKELEY 1914 - ?, m 1944 Dorothy ERNST
Sally Cox AKELEY 1916 - ?, m 1936 CA William D McKILLOP
Richard Warren AKELEY 1918 - ?, m 1946 Nora WOLFE
Barbara Goodiell AKELEY 1923 - ?, m 1944 Kenneth W SEAMAN
Lilla AKELEY m Michael CASHMAN
Lou AKELEY d 1898, m Leslie ROSE
Harold AKELEY
Eva Mabel AKELEY m Charles ROBINSON
Beryl ROBINSON
Donald ROBINSON
Francis Grosvenor AKELEY d 1935 ME, m Nettie L STEWARD
Roy C AKELEY b 1895
Leon F AKELEY b 1896
Almira Dora AKELEY b 1898
Fern R AKELEY b 1905
Edythe M AKELEY b 1915
?? AKELEY
Vina AKELEY d 1951 CA, m Sanford R GREENWOOD
Ralph GREENWOOD
Russell GREENWOOD

If you have any reason at all to think you may have connections
to the Maine PENLEY's, please contact me.

The following is a list of most of the surnames that the daus and
gdaus of Joseph 1 PENLY had as a result of their known marriages.
There may be others.

Daughters and granddaughters of progenitor
Joseph 1 PENLY 1755 Eng -1844 Maine are known
to have married into the:
ACKLEY / AKELEY, CROCKETT, DAKIN, DAVIS,
DINGLEY, DYER, GARCELON, HACKETT, HAINES,
HODGKIN, JORDAN, MARSHALL, MITCHELL,
PACKARD, RANDALL, VICKERY, WAGG,
WATERHOUSE and other families and lived in
Androscoggin, Aroostook, Cumberland, Franklin,
Oxford, Penobscot, Piscataquis, Sagadahoc, Somerset,
and York counties in Maine.

Some of these families, individual gch or G gch went to MA to
live and/or work beginning in the 1840's. From MA or directly
from Maine, some descendants are known to have moved on to
CA, CO, IL, IN, KS, OH, OR, MI, MN, ND, PA,WA. and WI
by 1900. One G gs stayed in MS after the Civil War, married, and
many of his descendants now live there. One gs went to Ontario
before 1850 and his descendants now live across Canada in ON,
SAS, AL, and BC. One G gdau and her husband were missionaries
in India and all but one of their ch were b there.

The success of this effort is absolutely dependent on the help of all of
our cousins. No matter what we do, there is no way we will be able to
find every cousin without the cooperation and collaboration of each and
every one of you.

I will be looking forward to hearing from you and am most grateful for
any additions, corrections, and help with data and in finding living
cousins.

Janice

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