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Generation: 1
Generation: 2
| 2. |  James Newton Lasbury, Jnr. was born on 22 Apr 1911 in East Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA (son of James Newton Lasbury, Snr. and Grace Townsend); died on 8 Jun 1992 in Vernon, Tolland, Connecticut, USA; was buried in Windsorville, Hartford, Connecticut, USA. Other Events and Attributes:
- FindaGrave ID: 62058781
- Occupation: Self Employed Farmer
James married Margaret Ethel Donahue on 9 Sep 1939. Margaret was born on 4 Aug 1914 in Manchester, Hartford, Connecticut, USA; died on 21 Feb 2004 in Thompson, Windham, Connecticut, USA; was buried in Windsorville, Hartford, Connecticut, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
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| 3. |  Margaret Ethel Donahue was born on 4 Aug 1914 in Manchester, Hartford, Connecticut, USA; died on 21 Feb 2004 in Thompson, Windham, Connecticut, USA; was buried in Windsorville, Hartford, Connecticut, USA. Other Events and Attributes:
Notes:
Died:
Margaret E. (Donahue) Lasbury, 89, of the Broad Brook section of East Windsor, wife of the late James N. Lasbury Jr., died Saturday, Feb. 21, 2004, at St. Francis Hospital.
Margaret was born in Manchester, and lived in Broad Brook for 64 years. She had been a secretary at the Broad Brook Middle School and was a communicant of St. Catherine Church, Broad Brook. Margaret was an avid cook, loved to entertain, and was a talented seamstress and quilter.
Margaret is survived by a son, James N. Lasbury III and wife, Sharon, of Princeton Junction, N.J.; a daughter, Suzanne Simmons and husband, John, of Madison; sister, Ethyl Collins of Manchester; five grandchildren, Allison and Kevin Lasbury, Jeffrey Peck, Vallerie Bettini, and Anne Peck; and several nieces and nephews. Margaret was truly loved by her husband, children, and grandchildren who will miss her dearly.
A funeral service will begin Thursday, Feb. 26, at 9 a.m. at the J.M. Bassinger Funeral Home, 37 Gardner St., East Windsor, followed by a Mass of Christian Burial at 10 a.m. in St. Catherine Church, Broad Brook. Burial will follow in Windsorville Cemetery.
Visiting hours will be Wednesday, Feb. 25, from 4 to 7 p.m. at the funeral home.
Memorial donations may be made to American Heart Association, 2550 U.S. Highway 1, N. Brunswick, NJ 08902.
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Generation: 3
| 4. |  James Newton Lasbury, Snr. was born on 24 Mar 1877 in Thompson, Windham, Connecticut, USA (son of George Lasbury and Esther M. Schoonmaker); died on 19 Feb 1961 in Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, USA; was buried in Windsorville, Hartford, Connecticut, USA. Other Events and Attributes:
- FindaGrave ID: 62058760
- Occupation: Farmer
- Alt Birth: 16 Mar 1877
- Military Service: 12 Sep 1918, Broad Brook, Hartford, Connecticut, USA
Notes:
NOTES FOR JAMES NEWTON LASBURY:
1910 CENSUS East Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut 151B
Lasbury, James, head, 33, married 6 yrs, CT, Eng, NY, tobacco farmer
Grace, wife, 23, married 6 yrs, 2 births 2 living, ME, Maine, Eng
Hazel, dau 5, CT
Helen, dau, 3, CT
Ezra Gilman Townsend, father-in-law, 71, wd, ME, Eng, Eng, wool sorter
1920 CENSUS East Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut 136A
Lasbury, James N, head, 43, married, CT, Eng, NY, tobacco farmer
Grace, wife, 38, CT, ME, ME
Hazel, dau, 15, CT
Helen, dau, 13, CT
James, son, 8, CT
Gertrude, dau, 4, CT
1930 CENSUS East Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut
Lasbury, James N, head, 53, 1st married at 25, CT, Eng, NY, tobacco farmer
Grace. wife, 44, 1st married qt 18, ME, ME, ME
Hazel, dau, 25, CT
Helen, dau, 23, CT
James, son, 18, CT
Gertrude, dau, 14, CT
James married Grace Townsend on 19 Apr 1904 in Connecticut, USA. Grace (daughter of Ezra Gilman Townsend and Deborah Annie Ramsdell) was born on 23 Nov 1885 in Bangor, Penobscot, Maine, USA; died on 6 Apr 1962 in East Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA; was buried in Windsorville, Hartford, Connecticut, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
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| 5. |  Grace Townsend was born on 23 Nov 1885 in Bangor, Penobscot, Maine, USA (daughter of Ezra Gilman Townsend and Deborah Annie Ramsdell); died on 6 Apr 1962 in East Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA; was buried in Windsorville, Hartford, Connecticut, USA. Other Events and Attributes:
- Also Known As: Jonah
- FindaGrave ID: 62058752
Notes:
The following was derived from recollections of Gertrude Lasbury Marcy, daughter of Grace Townsend Lasbury and from Gladys H. Warren (from Marilyn Macdonald)
James married Grace Townsend of Old Town., Maine on April 19, 1904. Grace's father was Ezra Gilman Townsend, born 7 Jun 1838, Portland, Cumberland, Maine, USA and worked for years as a wool sorter for Chapin Humphrey. He died on 23 Feb 1914, Broad Brook, Hartford, Connecticut, USA. Her mother was Deborah Annie Ramsdell, born in 1841 in Lincolnville, Maine and worked at the old "National House" as a table girl. She died on 5 Jun 1893, Hudson, Penobscot, Maine, USA.
Deborah's mother died very young on the family farm in Hudson, Maine. Deborah's father was a sea captain and sailed around Cape Horn (according to Gertrude Lasbury Marcy and the Lasbury genealogy). He was killed on the wharf at Winterport, Maine by a man who was indignant at not being hired. He struck him with "brass knuckles" in front of the people assembled to see the ship sail. Grace had four sisters, Nellie, Hattie, Maud, and Annie (age 9 when Grace was born) and two brothers, Charlie and Frank. Charles was killed by lightning and worked for Brown Thomson Company in Hartford, Connecticut. Maud and Grace thought the world of each other (14 months difference in age). The family called them "Sol" and Jonah".
Grace was born on November 23, 1885 (likely in or near Bangor, Maine) and died at age 77 on April 6, 1962 in Broad Brook, Connecticut. She came to Connecticut with her family at about age 6 (based on Annie coming to Connecticut at age 15). Grace and Maud lived with their Sister Harriet Chase on Evergreen Avenue upon coming the Hartford. She was an apprentice dressmaker in Bangor, Maine (according to Gertrude Lasbury Marcy). Her sister Annie was a dressmaker and was put on the first floor of the dress shop as a hemmer because of her good looks. On the Connecticut tobacco farm, Grace cooked and baked on an old wood and coal stove in the early years, often a complete 3-5 course dinner twice every day for 4-6 tobacco farm hands and never complained. Grace loved to garden, sported large flowery hats and made the best molasses cookies and fresh bread with molasses almost every day. She was an accomplished horsewoman and often drove her horse to South Windsor, Connecticut to see her sister Maud Graham on Graham Road.
James and Grace had three girls, Helen, Hazel and Gertrude (youngest child) and James Jr. Helen and James Malcolm Macdonald had two children, Marilyn Steele and James Malcolm Jr. Hazel and Burt Simmons had one child, Elizabeth Jane, and Margaret and James Lasbury had daughter Suzanne Peck Simmons (no relation to the above family) and son James III. (See page 202 for more details of Lasbury Family Genealogy).
Reference
"The Life of Annie M. Warren, written by Gladys H. Warren (her daughter-in-law) May, 1961, research from Marilyn Macdonald. (Annie was Grace Lasbury's sister).
Children:
- Hazel Grace Lasbury was born on 5 Oct 1905 in East Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA; died on 8 Jan 1966 in East Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA; was buried in Windsorville, Hartford, Connecticut, USA.
- Helen Elizabeth Lasbury was born on 28 Oct 1906 in East Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA; died on 11 Dec 1984 in Warehouse Point, Hartford, Connecticut, USA; was buried in East Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA.
- 2. James Newton Lasbury, Jnr. was born on 22 Apr 1911 in East Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA; died on 8 Jun 1992 in Vernon, Tolland, Connecticut, USA; was buried in Windsorville, Hartford, Connecticut, USA.
- Gertrude Arlene Lasbury was born on 13 Apr 1915 in Connecticut, USA; died on 5 Jan 2009 in Hanover, Grafton, New Hampshire, USA.
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Children:
- 3. Margaret Ethel Donahue was born on 4 Aug 1914 in Manchester, Hartford, Connecticut, USA; died on 21 Feb 2004 in Thompson, Windham, Connecticut, USA; was buried in Windsorville, Hartford, Connecticut, USA.
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Generation: 4
| 8. |  George Lasbury was born on 25 Sep 1819 in Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire, England, UK (son of Benjamin Lasbury and Sarah Teakle); died on 2 Jan 1907 in Thompson, Windham, Connecticut, USA; was buried in Windsorville, Hartford, Connecticut, USA. Other Events and Attributes:
- FindaGrave ID: 61079886
- Baptism: 27 Dec 1819, Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire, England, UK; Address:
Holy Trinity Church, Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire, England, UK
- Occupation: 6 Jun 1841, Hilperton, Wiltshire, England, UK; Millman
- Residence: 6 Jun 1841, Hilperton, Wiltshire, England, UK; : 20y
- Occupation: 21 Aug 1842, Beckington, Somerset, England, UK; Millman
- Emigration: Abt 1843, UK
- Immigration: Abt 1843, Thompson, Windham, Connecticut, USA
- Naturalization: 22 Jun 1848, Webster, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
- Residence: 1850, East Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA
- Residence: 1860, East Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA
- Residence: 1870, Thompson, Windham, Connecticut, USA
- Residence: 1880, Thompson, Windham, Connecticut, USA
- Residence: 1900, East Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA
Notes:
George Lasbury, above mentioned, was born in England, October 25, 1819, and died in 1906 at Broad Brook, Connecticut.
At an early age he left home and school to help his parents, as he was the oldest of a large family of children. He was employed in the woolen mills of Bradford, England, his native town, and by his industry worked up until he became overseer of fulling. He learned the trade of finishing.
He married (first) in 1840, in England, Fannie Sylcox, and came to this country alone the following year. Speaking the same language, feeling the brotherhood in our Common ancestry, he became an American in the best sense of the word.
His wife and son arrived in America a year and a half later, and they located at Webster, Massachusetts. Mr. Lasbury worked first in the mills of Lowell, Massachusetts, then later removed from there to Broad Brook, Connecticut, where he resided for about fifty years.
By industry and economy he saved enough from his modest income to buy a farm in the southern part of Broad Brook. Enjoying the respect and confidence of the people of all the vicinity, he spent his last years on this place, and his memory is still honored by all who knew him.
By his first wife, who died in 1852, there were the following children: Edward G., married Jeanette Guernsey, Elizabeth, wife of Samuel Morgan, of New York; Emma, married Oscar Willey, of Broad Brook; Addie T., wife of Gilbert Nabel.
Mr. Lasbury married (second) in 1854, Sarah Morgan and their children were Mattie M., resides in Redding, Massachusetts; William Morgan, the subject of our sketch; and George B. of Omaha, Nebraska. Mrs. Sarah (Morgan) Lasbury died in September, 1865.
George Lasbury married (third) Mrs. Esther Allen., and their children are: Charles, who lives in Cleveland, Ohio; Ralph C. of further mention; James N.; and Harry L.
The family have long been members of the Congregational church of Broad Brook.
1850 CENSUS East Windsor twp, Hartford, Connecticut
Lasbury, George, 31, faller in factory, England
Fanny, 34, England
Edward, 8, England
Elizabeth, 4, Connecticut
Mary, 17, England (Mary is George's sister)
1860 CENSUS East Windsor twp, Hartford, Connecticut 107B
Lasbury, George, 40, faller, England
Sarah, 40, England
Edward, 17, clerk, England
Elizabeth, 14, Massachusetts
Emma, 12, CT
Adeline, 8, CT
Martha, 4, CT
William, 2, CT
George, 2/12, CT
1870 CENSUS Broad Brook PO, East Windsor twp, Hartford, Connecticut 247B
Lasbury, George, 50, farmer, England
Esther, 34, NY
William M, 12, CT
George B, 10, CT
Joseph, 1, CT
Allen, Clara, 10, CT (step daughter)
John D, 7, CT (step son)
1880 CENSUS Broad Brook, East Windsor twp, Hartford, Connecticut 484B
Lasbury, George, head, 60, married, farmer, Eng, Eng, Eng
Esther, wife, 40, married, NY, NY, NY
Emma, dau, 32, married, works in post office, CT, Eng, Eng
Martha, dau, 24, single, dress maker, CT, Eng, Eng
Charles, son, 8, CT, Eng, NY
Ralph, son, 6, CT, Eng, NY
James, son, 3, CT, Eng, NY
George B, son, 20, CT, Eng, Eng
Allen, John D, step son, 17, CT, CT, NY
Willey, Fanny, 6, grand daughter, CT, CT, CT (Emma's dau)
1900 CENSUS East Windsor twp, Hartford, Connecticut 312B
Lasbury, George, head, Sept 1819, 80, married 30 yrs, immigrated 1841, Eng, Eng, Eng
Esther, wife, Aug 1839, 60, married 30 yrs, 5 births 4 living, NY, NY, NY
Ralph, son, Feb 1876, 24, single, CT, Eng, NY, farmer
James, son, March 1878, 22, single, CT, Eng, NY
Harry, son, Jan 1880, 20, CT, Eng, NY
Lasbury, Martha, head, Jan 1856, 44, single, CT, Eng, NY (mother actually born Eng)
1910 CENSUS East Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut 156A
Lasbury, Esther, head, 70, widow, CT, CT, CT, tobacco farmer
Harry, son, 30, single, CT, Eng, CT, farm labor
Residence:
Living next door to his sister Mary Ann lasbury and John Bailey
George married Esther M. Schoonmaker on 7 Apr 1867 in East Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA. Esther (daughter of Charles Schoonmaker and Elizabeth Palmatier) was born in Aug 1839 in Knox, Albany, New York, USA; died on 14 Dec 1916 in East Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA; was buried in East Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
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| 9. |  Esther M. Schoonmaker was born in Aug 1839 in Knox, Albany, New York, USA (daughter of Charles Schoonmaker and Elizabeth Palmatier); died on 14 Dec 1916 in East Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA; was buried in East Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA. Other Events and Attributes:
- FindaGrave ID: 75714255
- Baptism: 30 Aug 1839, Knox, Albany, New York, USA
Notes:
Esther appears in the 1850 CENSUS census as follows:
1850 CENSUS Knox twp, Albany, New York 655A
Schoonmaker, Elizabeth, 59, farmer, NY
Elizabeth, 17, NY
Dinah, 19, NY
Hannah, 14, NY
Esther, 12, NY
Charles, 10, NY
Children:
- Joseph Henry Lasbury was born on 31 Mar 1869 in Thompson, Windham, Connecticut, USA; died on 24 Dec 1872 in Thompson, Windham, Connecticut, USA; was buried in Windsorville, Hartford, Connecticut, USA.
- Charles Jay Lasbury was born on 12 Aug 1871 in East Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA; died on 2 Jun 1959 in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA; was buried in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Ralph Chesick Lasbury, Snr. was born on 22 Feb 1875 in East Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA; died on 11 Feb 1944 in South Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA; was buried in Windsorville, Hartford, Connecticut, USA.
- 4. James Newton Lasbury, Snr. was born on 24 Mar 1877 in Thompson, Windham, Connecticut, USA; died on 19 Feb 1961 in Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, USA; was buried in Windsorville, Hartford, Connecticut, USA.
- Harry Garfield Lasbury was born on 19 Jan 1879 in East Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA; died on 9 May 1968 in Windsor Locks, Hartford, Connecticut, USA.
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| 10. | Ezra Gilman Townsend was born on 17 Jun 1838 in Portland, Cumberland, Maine, USA (son of Ezra G. Townsend and Sophia Mitchell); died on 23 Feb 1914 in Thompson, Windham, Connecticut, USA. Other Events and Attributes:
- Also Known As: Ezruff
- Occupation: Wool Sorter at Chapin Humphrey
Ezra married Deborah Annie Ramsdell on 25 Oct 1862 in Bangor, Penobscot, Maine, USA. Deborah was born in 1841 in Lincolnville, Waldo, Maine, USA; died on 5 Jun 1893 in Hudson, Penobscot, Maine, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
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| 11. | Deborah Annie Ramsdell was born in 1841 in Lincolnville, Waldo, Maine, USA; died on 5 Jun 1893 in Hudson, Penobscot, Maine, USA. Other Events and Attributes:
- Occupation: Table Girl at the old "National House"
Children:
- Nellie Townsend was born about 1864 in Bangor, Penobscot, Maine, USA.
- Hattie Townsend was born on 20 Jul 1867 in Bangor, Penobscot, Maine, USA; died on 29 Dec 1949 in Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, USA.
- Charles Gilman Townsend was born on 17 May 1870 in Bangor, Penobscot, Maine, USA; died on 30 May 1898 in Hudson, Penobscot, Maine, USA.
- Annie M. Townsend was born in 1873 in Bangor, Penobscot, Maine, USA; died on 1 Apr 1961 in Maine, USA.
- Frank More Townsend was born on 22 Jul 1875 in Bangor, Penobscot, Maine, USA.
- Maude A. Townsend was born on 20 Sep 1883 in Bangor, Penobscot, Maine, USA.
- 5. Grace Townsend was born on 23 Nov 1885 in Bangor, Penobscot, Maine, USA; died on 6 Apr 1962 in East Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA; was buried in Windsorville, Hartford, Connecticut, USA.
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