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Hi Edwin,
This responds to your message concerning Lucy Bakewell Audubon and her familial connection with Bakewell Glass. Her uncle, Benjamin Gifford Bakewell came to the US and engaged in the importing business in New York. In 1798 he began a partnership with his brother William and started a brewery in New Haven, Conn. The brewery was destroyed by fire and discontinued in 1803-1804. Benjamin returned to New York and resumed his importing business. In 1807, due in part to Jefferson's Embargo the import business failed. Benjamin with capital from Thomas and Arthur Kinder (NY Merchants) and Banjamin Page bought a small glass plant at Pittsburgh on the bank of the Monongahela River. This business had begun in 1807 by Geroge Robinson and Edward Ensell. Eventually, and I have seen several stories that vary depending on family author, Ensell departs, the Kinders also withdraw leaving Bakewell and Pears under the firm of B. Bakewell and Co.
Benjamin's brother William moved his family to American in 1804. They settled at Fatland Ford across from Valley Forge. William's children were Lucy Green (who weds John James Audubon), Thomas Woodhouse, Eliza, Sarah, Ann and William Gifford Bakewell. ( I descend from Thomas Woodhouse Bakewell)
This information is extracted from The Family Book Bakewell Page Campbell, Being Some Account of the Descendants of John Bakewell of Castle Doninton. The info was compiled by B.G. Bakewell and published in Pittsburgh in 1896. I obtained a copy from a Library in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
I believe Selina Bakewell descends from an Edwin. I have not yet made the connection with this branch of the family to the ones detailed in the Family Book.
I hope some of this info is useful to you.
Regards,
D. Bakewell
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