Leonard L(d.1836)-NY, Can.,Wm.G-NY,MI,IL
A chance phone call today from a Budd inspired my searching further for my distant Budd ancestors. All I know is from the research of an uncle (by marriage to my mother’s sister), done in the 1950/60s. How reliable it is I don’t know. He must have had trouble finding Budd ancestors prior to c. 1800 or he would have included the info in his family history. Can anyone help me go back further and/or provide other family info? Unfortunately, another uncle sold the Budd family Bible to an antiques dealer after my grandfather died in 1959. Known locations for my Budd ancestors are New York, Michigan, North Carolina (briefly), and Illinois.
Leonard L. [Lyman?] Budd, b. circa 1800 (1792?) is said to have been from Rochester, NY. One of my great-great-grandfathers, he comes out of thin air in the family history. Supposedly his family settled in/near Rochester "sometime in the 18th century." Leonard is said to have been a millwright and to have "built the first grist mill in Rochester. His work took him to many nearby towns and possibly that is how he met Delia Matthews in Camden [NY]."
Leonard L. [Lyman?] Budd, b. circa 1800 (1792?) is said to have been from Rochester, NY. One of my great-great-grandfathers, he comes out of thin air in the family history. Supposedly his family settled in/near Rochester "sometime in the 18th century." Leonard is said to have been a millwright and to have "built the first grist mill in Rochester. His work took him to many nearby towns and possibly that is how he met Delia Matthews in Camden [NY]."Delia (b. 8/6/1805) married Leonard circa 1825. Delia’s parents were Lyman Matthews (b. 1782, in CT, d. 1817 in Camden) and Polly Olcott Matthews (dau. of Jared and Mary Olcott), married in Windsor, CT, and went to Camden, NY, where Lyman’s father (Aaron, also a surveyor) lived and laid out the town of Camden. Delia was one of seven Matthews children.
Delia (b. 8/6/1805) married Leonard circa 1825. Delia’s parents were Lyman Matthews (b. 1782, in CT, d. 1817 in Camden) and Polly Olcott Matthews (dau. of Jared and Mary Olcott), married in Windsor, CT, and went to Camden, NY, where Lyman’s father (Aaron, also a surveyor) lived and laid out the town of Camden. Delia was one of seven Matthews children.Delia and Leonard Budd had four sons: Albert (b. 1828), Byron (b. 1830, d. 1847), William George (b. 1832 during a cholera epidemic, in Rochester), and Clinton (b. 1835). William George was my great-grandfather. Delia and the sons sometimes went with Leonard to live elsewhere when construction jobs were to take a long time. It was during such a time that Leonard died, in Demorestville, Ontario (across Lake Ontario from Rochester?), on 8/12/1836. He was buried in St. Thomas Church Yard, in Belleville, Ontario. Widow and sons returned to New York, evidently to Camden. When son Byron Budd died in 1847, he was buried in Camden next to his grandfather Lyman Matthews.
Delia and Leonard Budd had four sons: Albert (b. 1828), Byron (b. 1830, d. 1847), William George (b. 1832 during a cholera epidemic, in Rochester), and Clinton (b. 1835). William George was my great-grandfather. Delia and the sons sometimes went with Leonard to live elsewhere when construction jobs were to take a long time. It was during such a time that Leonard died, in Demorestville, Ontario (across Lake Ontario from Rochester?), on 8/12/1836. He was buried in St. Thomas Church Yard, in Belleville, Ontario. Widow and sons returned to New York, evidently to Camden. When son Byron Budd died in 1847, he was buried in Camden next to his grandfather Lyman Matthews.William George Budd became a watchmaker and jeweler. His first marriage was to Mary Stevenson 1/24/1854, but she died 4/17/1857. About the time of William’s marriage, his brother Albert Budd moved to Kalamazoo, MI, where he married Mary A. (Mate) Glover, dau. of John Glover of Kalamazoo (they had two dau., but neither married); Albert died 1/17/1890.
William George Budd became a watchmaker and jeweler. His first marriage was to Mary Stevenson 1/24/1854, but she died 4/17/1857. About the time of William’s marriage, his brother Albert Budd moved to Kalamazoo, MI, where he married Mary A. (Mate) Glover, dau. of John Glover of Kalamazoo (they had two dau., but neither married); Albert died 1/17/1890.Still in Camden, William Budd married Katy E. O’Rourke (b. County Kerry Ireland, 5/2/1842). She left the Catholic Church and was confirmed in the Episcopal Church in Camden in 1862. William and Katy were married early in 1863 and moved to Kalamazoo. A few days after their arrival, Katy died on 2/15/1863. William’s mother (Delia) and brother Clinton also went to Michigan when William and Katy moved there, but Clinton Budd stopped off at Hillsdale and stayed there until his death in 1896; no info as to whether he married and/or had children. In Kalamazoo, the mother, Delia Budd, met and married John Glover, the father of Albert’s wife. She died there 9/17/1880. Delia and Albert, at least, are buried in Mountain Home Cemetery in Kalamazoo.
Still in Camden, William Budd married Katy E. O’Rourke (b. County Kerry Ireland, 5/2/1842). She left the Catholic Church and was confirmed in the Episcopal Church in Camden in 1862. William and Katy were married early in 1863 and moved to Kalamazoo. A few days after their arrival, Katy died on 2/15/1863. William’s mother (Delia) and brother Clinton also went to Michigan when William and Katy moved there, but Clinton Budd stopped off at Hillsdale and stayed there until his death in 1896; no info as to whether he married and/or had children. In Kalamazoo, the mother, Delia Budd, met and married John Glover, the father of Albert’s wife. She died there 9/17/1880. Delia and Albert, at least, are buried in Mountain Home Cemetery in Kalamazoo.It’s a long time between known wives here, and who knows what might have gone on inbetween! My great-grandfather evidently was quite a character.
It’s a long time between known wives here, and who knows what might have gone on inbetween! My great-grandfather evidently was quite a character.On 4/3/1877 William G. Budd married his third wife, Ellen (Nellie) Doyle Parrish, a widow with an 8-year-old daughter, Mary Evelyn (Eva). Nellie, who remained a Catholic, was the first child of Irish immigrants (Jeremiah Doyle and Mary Ann Shea, m. 4/18/1845, she at age 12-1/2!) who arrived in Montreal in 1844. Nellie was born either 5/11/1849 or 5/12/1850 in Middlebury, VT. The Doyles moved to Kalamazoo and had 5 more children there.
On 4/3/1877 William G. Budd married his third wife, Ellen (Nellie) Doyle Parrish, a widow with an 8-year-old daughter, Mary Evelyn (Eva). Nellie, who remained a Catholic, was the first child of Irish immigrants (Jeremiah Doyle and Mary Ann Shea, m. 4/18/1845, she at age 12-1/2!) who arrived in Montreal in 1844. Nellie was born either 5/11/1849 or 5/12/1850 in Middlebury, VT. The Doyles moved to Kalamazoo and had 5 more children there.Shortly after William Budd m. Ellen (Nellie) Doyle Parrish, they adopted a teenage girl, Anna Mathilda Carrie, "as an older sister" to Eva. My mother always wondered whether Anna might actually have been Wm. Budd’s daughter. The family of 4 then moved to Niles, MI, where Nina May was b. 4/17/1879 and Ina Belle (my grandmother) on 8/17/1880 (or 1881?). By 1883 they had moved to Ludington, where William Walter was b. 4/29/1883 and Margaret Helen ("Wootsie") on 5/25/1885 (Wootsie died early, perhaps at 2 or 3). The Budds for a fairly brief time (in the 1880s?) moved to Bryson City, NC, in the Smokey Mtns, then went to Chicago (West Pullman), where William set up his jewelry business and Nellie kept boarders. Two of them were railroad telegraphers, who married the Budd sisters. (The son, William Walter, m. Clara H. Warning of Dolton, IL; they never had children; he d. 1970s?) Nina m. John W. Pugh 5/23/1900 and had no children. Belle (my grandmother) m. Lawrence B. Radkey, of Logansport, IN, 7/24/1901.
Shortly after William Budd m. Ellen (Nellie) Doyle Parrish, they adopted a teenage girl, Anna Mathilda Carrie, "as an older sister" to Eva. My mother always wondered whether Anna might actually have been Wm. Budd’s daughter. The family of 4 then moved to Niles, MI, where Nina May was b. 4/17/1879 and Ina Belle (my grandmother) on 8/17/1880 (or 1881?). By 1883 they had moved to Ludington, where William Walter was b. 4/29/1883 and Margaret Helen ("Wootsie") on 5/25/1885 (Wootsie died early, perhaps at 2 or 3). The Budds for a fairly brief time (in the 1880s?) moved to Bryson City, NC, in the Smokey Mtns, then went to Chicago (West Pullman), where William set up his jewelry business and Nellie kept boarders. Two of them were railroad telegraphers, who married the Budd sisters. (The son, William Walter, m. Clara H. Warning of Dolton, IL; they never had children; he d. 1970s?) Nina m. John W. Pugh 5/23/1900 and had no children. Belle (my grandmother) m. Lawrence B. Radkey, of Logansport, IN, 7/24/1901.Lawrence and Belle Radkey had two daughters (Aileen Dorothy, b. 3/3/1902, m. Fred W. Des Autels 8/2/1926, had 7 children, d. about 1980? and Ruth Evelyn, b. 6/11/l905) and one son (Robert Byron, b. 1920, m. Marjorie E. Allen of CT in 1941, he’s still living, has 5 children). William G. Budd became ill in 1913 and incompetent to run his business. His wife, Nellie, bought a big house in West Pullman for them and the Radkey family to live in and help pay for. William G. d. 7/27/1922, and Nellie d. 1/29/1940. Ruth Evelyn is my mother and still living; she m. August G. Quoos 6/27/1939; he died in 1978. I am their only child: Margaret Ruth Quoos Fallaw, b. 8/12/40, m. Walter Robert Fallaw, Jr., 6/27/1964. Thus there are no longer persons in this line who bear the surname Budd.