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Note: Had strong Brooklyn accent (Gertrude pronounced "Goitrude" and work pronounced "woik")
Typed Renshaw notes -- unknown author -- has some handwritten notes from HWN {Amy's notes in parens: father of Rebecca Bynner in question - may be George Bynner and not William Howard Bynner} "The Renshaw Line William Howard Bynner, vestry clerk and town overseer of Birmingham for over 42 years was also a Wesleyan local preacher. Father of
Rebecca Bynner (1785-1871), who married Samuel Renshaw in Birmingham. He was a silver plater. Her brother, Henry Bynner, was British Consul to Trieste, France. {I think Trieste is in Italy - there WAS a Henry Bynner appointed to consul in Trieste 1835?} She afterwards married Thomas Stokes in New York, having come to this country to live with her son George. She had three children by Samuel Renshaw: Emma (Mrs. Robert Blake) who died in London without issue; Henry, who married Mary and had six children. Their descendents still live in East Orange and Jersey City.
* George (1825-1899), the third child, a japanier, married Martha Woolley (1823-1877) of Harborne County of Stafford, daughter of Joseph Woolley, a gun maker, and Mary Garbett. They were married in Birmingham and came to the United States in 1848. They had seven children. The only one to have issue was
George, who married Angelina Hudswell. They had eight children -- George, A. Alfred, Gertrude, Arther, Elbert, Ethelwyn, Wallace and Richard.
[hand written: * was honored by his Masonic Lodge and presented with 'Tiffany Ware' silver Emer? + 2 goblets - (given to Frank and Hazel as a wedding present by his son, James Renshaw. The tray for this was given by James Renshaw to his niece Gertude R. N. Livingston. Later she gave it to son Wally Renshaw Nelson.]
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