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Subject: Re: A note re: Oregon Death Index, TWOMBLEY
Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2000 00:28:38 EST
In a message dated 12/08/2000 10:09:26 PM Pacific Standard Time,
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<< Dear Warren,
All Tremblay family members originated from one couple...
Pierre Tremblay and Ozanne Achton who were married in 1658 in New France,
Canada.... now known as Quebec.
There is a Tremblay Association that has a great deal of information on the
Tremblay lines... I'm not sure of the web page address but if you do a
search on any search engine it should show up.
I am very interested in the TWOMBLEY family that you speak of... they were
probably quite closely related to my TROMBLEY family...
There is a story from one of my oldest cousins that often in the 1910's to
1920's the Tremblay family and all of their relatives would gather at the
Columbia River and have a giant potluck picnic. On one of these occasions
at least two of the Tremblay children passed away in a drowning accident...
one of my great aunts (her name was Marie Anna but they called her Ruby)
refused to learn how to swim because of the fear instilled by the incident.
From what I'm told the majority of my Tremblay/Trombley family settled in
the Vancouver Washington/ Portland, Oregon area all having migrated from
Clay and Cloud County in Kansas. I'm also told that most had very poor
English and lived in communities where there were a large number of French
speaking folk... My great aunt Ruby often talked of how she hadn't heard
English until she went to school at the age of 8.
All of this was probably more than you wanted to know... but there it is...
Have a wonderful weekend and a glorious Xmas.
Good luck in your searches and if you should learn more about your TWOMBLEY
family I would love to hear of it.
Sincerely,
Deborah
>>
Hi,
There is something about an unusual name. It looms
up like a genealogical landmark. The name ORMAL
Twombley, which I remember as a child, shows up on theOregon Death List in an
almost unmistakable way. That
with the county of Lincoln showing up on what I feel is
Ormal's father, Joseph Twombley's certificate, makes me feel that I have
found my childhood Twombleys.
Name: Twombley, Joseph
County: Lincoln
Death Date: 31 Mar 1939
Certificate: 38
Spouse: Amanda
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Name: Twombley, Amanda M
County: Portland
Death Date: 16 Aug 1951
Certificate: 9341
Spouse: Joseph
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Name: Twombley, Lelah
County: Multnomah
Death Date: 02 Jan 1955
Certificate: 1066
Spouse: Ormal
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Name: Twombley, Ormal H
County: Multnomah
Death Date: 05 D 1956
Certificate: 14634
Spouse: Lela
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I feel confident that I have found ORMAL. I am going
to put his father and mother's name in a suspense file
until I have written to the rapidly dwindling pool of people
that might remember. Why don't I remember? Children
in my day respected old people too much to even think
of calling them anything but Mr and Mrs Twombley. My parents were suspicious
of people who called strangers
and/or old people by their first names and at 78 I still have
that country-boy reticence. I never heard the name Joseph
or Amanda, if that was their given names, used. In Oregon
we were not taught to use the subservient, Sir, and we never called an old
person by their first name. I always
felt great respect for the elderly Twombleys.
Warren Tyndale Faulkner
Beaverton, Oregon
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