Friday, September 2, 2016

52 Ancestors - Week 140: #185 Elizabeth (Ladd) Oatley (1735-1814)

Amy Johnson Crow suggested a weekly blog theme of "52 Ancestors" in her blog post Challenge:  52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks on the No Story Too Small blog.  I am extending this theme in 2016 to 156 Ancestors in 156 Weeks. Here is my ancestor biography for week #140:

 Elizabeth Ladd (1735-1814) is #185 on my Ahnentafel list, my 5th great-grandmother, who married #184 Benedict Oatley (1732-1821) in 1755.

I am descended through:

*  their son #92 Joseph Oatley
 (1756-1815) who married #93 Mary Hazard (1765-1857) in 1781.
*  their son #46 Jonathan Oatley (1790-1872) who married #47 Amy Champlin (1798-1865) in 1823. 
*  their daughter #23 Amy Frances Oatley (1826-1864) who married #22 Henry Arnold White (1824-1885) in 1844.
*  their daughter #11 Julie E. White (1848-1913), who married #10 Thomas Richmond (1848-1917) in 1868. 
*  their daughter #5 Alma Bessie Richmond (1882-1962), who married #4 Frederick Walton Seaver (1876-1942) in 1900.
* their son #2 Frederick Walton Seaver (1911-1983), who married #3 Betty Virginia Carringer (1919-2002) in 1942.
*  their son #1 Randall J. Seaver (1943-....)

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1)  PERSON (with source citations as indicated in brackets):


*  Name:                 Elizabeth "Betsy" Ladd[1–4]   

*  Alternate Name: Elizabeth Oatley[3]    
*  Sex:                     Female    

*  Father:                Joseph Ladd (1701-1748)   
*  Mother:              Lydia Gray (1707-    )   
  
2)  INDIVIDUAL EVENTS (with source citations as indicated in brackets):
  
*  Birth:                  9 July 1735, Little Compton, Newport, Rhode Island, United States[1,3-4]   
*  Death:                 27 November 1814 (age 79), South Kingstown, Washington, Rhode Island, United States[3]    
  
3)  SHARED EVENTS (with source citations as indicated in brackets):
  
*  Spouse 1:            Benedict Oatley (1732-1821)   
*  Marriage 1:         2 October 1755 (age 20), South Kingstown, Washington, Rhode Island, United States[2–3]   
*  Child 1:               Joseph Oatley (1756-1815)   
*  Child 2:               Rhoda Oatley (1758-    )   
*  Child 3:               Abigail Oatley (1760-1831)   
*  Child 4:               Susannah Oatley (1762-    )   
*  Child 5:               Jonathan Oatley (1764-    )   
*  Child 6:               Lucy Oatley (1766-1814)   
*  Child 7:               Benedict Oatley (1773-1849)   
  
4)  NOTES (with source citations as indicated in brackets):   

Elizabeth Ladd was born 9 July 1735 in Little Compton, Rhode Island, the third child and second daughter of Joseph and Lydia (Gray) Ladd[1,3].  The entry in the Rhode Island Vital Record book says[4]:

LADD, Elizabeth,                   July 9, 1735

Elizabeth Ladd was married by the Rev. Dr. Joseph Torrey of the Church of Christ, South Kingstown, Rhode Island on October 22, 1755 to Benedict Oatley[1-3].

They had seven children born between 1756 and 1773 in South Kingstown.  All of the births were recorded in the South Kingstown town records[3].

Elizabeth Oatley died 27 November 1814, according to the South Kingstown town records.  No gravestone marks his burial location[3].  

5)  SOURCES

1. Benjamin Franklin Wilbour, Little Compton Families ( Little Compton, R.I.: Little Compton Historical Society, 1967), page 391, Joseph Ladd family sketch.

2. "Rhode Island Marriages, 1724-1916," indexed database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org), Benedict Oatly and Elizabeth Ladd, 02 Oct 1755; citing South Kingstown, Washington, Rhode Island, reference 22395 p. 142; FHL microfilm 22,395.

3. Harry J. Oatley, The Oatley Family in America and Their Descendants (Providence, R.I. : The Oatley Family Association, 1970), page 26, Benedict Oatley sketch.

4. "Rhode Island, Vital Records Extracts, 1636-1899," indexed database and digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com), Volume 4, Newport County Vital Records, page 134 (image 501 of 691), Elizabeth Ladd entry.


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