HANDY FAMILY TREE Ancestors and descendants of Seth HANDY of Lee, Berkshire, Mass. Hogan Overview | Tree 1 | Tree 2 | Tree 3 | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | DESCENDANCY CHART -- Seth Handy of Lee, Massachusetts -- D R A F T May 2011 This chart was compiled by a descendant of this HANDY line: English immigrant Richard HANDY & Hannah UNKNOWN -> Isaac HANDY & Eleanor STEWART -> Joseph HANDY & Lois HATCH -> Seth HANDY & Susannah RUSSELL -> Henry W. D. HANDY & Mary Ann MORGAN -> Mary Ann (HANDY) HOGAN It represents new research on Seth HANDY who migrated from Cape Cod, Massachusetts to Berkshire County, four children by his first wife: Barney C. HANDY (aka Barna Coe), Joseph HANDY, Sarah Ann (HANDY) YOUNG and Hannah Parker (HANDY) BARRINGER, and the two children of his second wife: Henry W. D. HANDY and Fanny Fowler (HANDY) BUCK. I have done no personal research on Seth HANDY's ancestors or siblings, but I am including the bare-bones tree for context. To my limited knowledge, the only offspring of Seth Handy whose lines did not die out are these two: Joseph Handy, who left Lee, Mass for to neighboring Columbia County, New York during the 1830s, and Henry W. D. Handy, my great(2) grandfather, who appeared in Brooklyn, New York around 1850. Seth's son, Barney, also had step grandchildren, and that line has probably survived. An overview of Seth Handy's lost or truncated offspring lines: George Franklin HANDY and Charles Backus HANDY disappeared from the early Berkshire County records. These two boys might have relocated, but neither has been obvious in census. Their father was not enumerated in the 1820 census, so we are without a family nose count for the 1810-1830 stretch. I have come across an online family tree proposing that a Charles HANDY born in Massachusetts and relocated to Kansas, was the son of Seth and Hannah, but to date I've found no compelling evidence for this link. The MA > KS Charles HANDY did indeed have a family, and probably living descendants. Hannah Parker (HANDY) BARRINGER was widowed early and had a daughter, Mary Grenelle BARRINGER. Mary became a career teacher but did not marry. Census listings and wills suggest that Sarah Ann (HANDY) YOUNG and Barney C. HANDY, who both married, had no direct descendants. Their wills name only niece, nephew or adopted survivors. Fanny (HANDY) BUCK, with her mother, Susannah (RUSSELL) HANDY, husband and three small children, moved to western New York State during the mid 1860s, settling in Livonia, New York, where they lived and died. One son moved to Illinois and never married. The daughter and the other son married but both lost their only children in infancy. In 1848, Barney C. HANDY married Mary (DAME) HOPKINS, born in Portsmouth, NH. Her background: married to William HOPKINS in Springfield, MA in 1832, widowed in 1843. Mary brought a step-son into Barney's life: Henry S. HOPKINS, born 1834 in Mass and died 1902 in St. Louis, leaving children and grandchildren. Two descendant surnames: ARCHAMBAULT and KAHMANN. Henry was executor of his stepfather's estate. In the 1855 and 1860 censuses, Barney and his wife's household also included a girl born circa 1844 and identified as Hellen A. HANDY. Born during Mary's widowed interval, she was not the correct age for a daughter of either husband, and the fact that this girl was not in the family's 1850 census listing suggests an adoptive relationship. Barney Handy's obituary confirms that he was survived by an adopted daughter residing in California, but gave no name. Yet the official transcript of his will in the Berkshire County libers includes a misleading error. It makes no mention of a stepdaughter, instead naming among his heirs a "half-sister" named "Hellen A. MCCLELLAN," and omitting Barney's only real half sister, Fanny HANDY BUCK of Livonia, NY. The will is clearly incorrect. I suspect that the two names were concatenated during transcript of the will, and one of the heirs (probably Fanny) might have been left out in the administration of the estate. Helen A. HANDY's life in a nutshell: she trained in Massachusetts as a teacher, teaching English and French at Wesleyan Academy in Wilbraham, Mass during her twenties (1865). By her mid thirties she had relocated to California, taking up a teaching post at Mills Seminary in Oakland by 1880 and later at the Irving Institute in San Francisco. During her forties she married widowed businessman Robert MCLELLAN, and after his death, married John COOP, another widowed businessman. To my knowledge, Helen had no children of her own, but she had step children from both marriages. She was also active in the bay area in local book clubs. Richard HANDY, b. ca. 1639-1645, d. 1719 Sandwich, Barnstable, MA, bur. Old Town Cem, Sandwich, MA gravestone & Hannah (Unknown) HANDY, b. ca. 1643-1650 MA?, m. ca. 1671 Sandwich, Barnstable, MA, d. 1732 Sandwich?, MA |-- Richard HANDY, b. 1672 Sandwich, Barnstable, MA, d. aft 1730 Sandwich, MA | & Patience RANDALL, b. ca. 1670 MA?, m. 1700 Sandwich, MA |-- Jonathan HANDY, b. 1675 Sandwich, Barnstable, MA |-- John HANDY, b. ca. 1679 Sandwich, Barnstable, MA | & Keziah WING, b. ca. 1680 Sandwich?, Barnstable, MA, m. 1704 Sandwich, Barnstable, MA |-- Desire HANDY, b. 1680-1684 Sandwich, Barnstable, MA, d. 1753 Sandwich, Barnstable, MA | & Timothy PERRY, b. 1689 MA, m. 1719 Sandwich, Barnstable, MA |-- Hannibal HANDY, b. 1685 Sandwich, Barnstable, MA | & Experience PERRY, b. 1691 Sandwich, Barnstable, MA, m. 1719 Sandwich, Barnstable, MA \-- Isaac HANDY, b. 1688 Sandwich, Barnstable, MA, d. 1762 (at 73) Sandwich, Barnstable, MA & Eleanor STEWART, b. 1694 Rochester, Plymouth, MA, m. ca. 1711 Sandwich? d. ca. 1750 Sandwich, MA |-- Silas HANDY, b. ca. 1714 MA |-- Joseph HANDY Sr, b. ca. 1715? Falmouth? Sandwich?, Barnstable, MA, d. 1800-1810 Lee, Berkshire, MA | & Elizabeth NORRIS, b. 1731 MA?, m. 1749 Rochester, Plymouth, MA, d. bef 1753 | & Lois HATCH, b. ca. 1729 Tolland, CT, m. 1753 Falmouth, Barnstable, MA, d. 1812 (abt age 83) Lee, Berkshire, MA | |-- Silas HANDY, b. 1753 Falmouth, Barnstable, MA | |-- Martha HANDY, b. 1756 Falmouth, Barnstable, MA, d. 1773 Lee, Berkshire, MA | |-- Joseph HANDY Jr, b. 1759 Falmouth, Barnstable, MA, d. 1838 Chenango, Broome, NY | | & Ruth DEMING, b. 1763 MA, m. 1786 Richmond, Berkshire, MA, d. 1844 Chenango, Broome, NY | | \-- offspring | |-- Susannah Chadwick HANDY, chr. 1762 Falmouth, Barnstable, MA | |-- Nathaniel HANDY, b. 1764 Falmouth, Barnstable, MA -------------------- O R I G I N A L R E S E A R C H -------------------------------------- | |-- Seth HANDY, b. 1767 Falmouth, Barnstable, MA, d. 1853 (at 85) Lee, Berkshire, MA | | | | & Hannah PARKER, b. 1780 Lee, Berkshire, MA, m. 1803 Lee, MA, d. 1816 Lee, MA | | |-- George Franklin HANDY, b. 1804 Lee, Berkshire, MA, death unrecorded | | |-- Unnamed HANDY, b. and d. 1806 Lee, Berkshire, MA | | |-- Sarah Ann (HANDY) YOUNG , b. 1807 Lee, MA, d. 1885 (at 78) Stockbridge, Berkshire, MA | | | & William YOUNG, b. ca. 1811 Williamstown, MA, m. 1830s?, d. 1884 Stockbridge | | | \--no known offspring | | | | | |-- Barney Coe HANDY, b. 1808 Lee, Berkshire, MA, d. 1898 (at 89) Becket, Berkshire, MA | | | & Mary (DAME) (HOPKINS) HANDY, b. ca. 1813 Portsmouth, NH, m. 1848 Springfield, MA, d. 1887 Becket, Berkshire, MA | | | |-- Step son Henry S. HOPKINS b. 1834, MA, d. 1902, S. Louis, MO [Mary's son by a prior marriage:] | | | \-- Adopted dau Helen A. (HANDY) MCLELLAN, b. c1844, MA, d. 1927, Piedmont, Alameda Co., CA, bur. Cypress Lawn Cem, Colma, CA | | | & Robert MCLELLAN, b. 1832 New Bruns., Canada, m. ca 1889, d. 1906, San Francisco, CA, bur. Cypress Lawn Cem, Colma, CA | | | & John COOP, b. 1839 Lancashire, England, m. ca 1909, d. 1921, Watsonville, Santa Cruz Co, CA, bur. Mt. View Cem, Oakland, CA | | | | | |-- Joseph HANDY, b. 1812 Lee, Berkshire, MA, d. 1850-1860, Claverack? Columbia Co. NY assumed | | | & Lucretia (SMITH??) HANDY, b. ca 1808 NY, m. ca. 1833, d. aft 1880, Kinderhook? Columbia Co. NY | | | |--Sarah HANDY b. ca. 1834 NY, d. aft 1850 | | | |--Catherine M. (HANDY) GADDIS b. 1836 NY, d. 1919, Claverack, Columbia Co, NY | | | | & Alexander GADDIS, b. ca. 1834 Ireland, m. ca. 1858, d. 1917, Claverack, Columbia Co, NY | | | | |-- Charles Edward GADDIS, b. ca 1859 Stottville, Columbia Co, NY, d. 1917 Chatham, Columbia Co, NY | | | | | & Isabella (PHIPPS) GADDIS, b. ca. 1860 NY, m. ca. 1884 Columbia Co, NY | | | | | |-- Caroline "Carrie" (GADDIS) FINCH, b. 1886 Columbia Co, NY, d. aft 1912 | | | | | | & Charles E. FINCH, b. ca 1887, NY, d. ca 1867, NY | | | | | |-- George Phipps GADDIS, b. 1892 Columbia Co, NY, d. aft 1917 | | | | | |-- Eva (GADDIS) CLASSON(?), b. 1897 Ghent, Columbia Co, NY, d. aft 1930 | | | | | | & Clyde CLASSON, b. ca. 1903 NY, m. ca. 1924 Columbia Co, NY | | | | | | |-- Clyde CLASSON, b. ca. 1925 Columbia Co, NY | | | | | | \-- Arthur M CLASSON, b. ca. 1926 Columbia Co, NY | | | | | \-- Laura GADDIS, b. ca. 1902 Ghent assumed, Columbia Co, NY | | | | |-- Sarah J. GADDIS, b. ca. 1861 Columbia Co, NY, d. aft 1870 | | | | |-- Arthur J. GADDIS, b. 1862 Claverack assumed, Columbia Co, NY, d. aft 1930 Ghent assumed, Columbia Co, NY | | | | | & Margaret UKNOWN, b. 1868 NY, m. ca. 1891 NY | | | | | \-- Frank A. GADDIS, b. 1892 Ghent, Columbia Co, NY | | | | |-- Franklin GADDIS, b. 1866 Columbia Co, NY, d. 1882 Claverack assumed, Columbia Co, NY | | | | |-- George A. GADDIS, b. 1868 Claverack assumed, Columbia Co, NY, d. 1870 Claverack assumed, Columbia Co, NY | | | | |-- Anna GADDIS, b. ca. 1871 Columbia Co, NY | | | | |-- Helen GADDIS, b. 1873 Columbia Co, NY, d. 1891 Claverack assumed, Columbia Co, NY | | | | |-- Celia GADDIS, b. ca. 1875 Columbia Co, NY | | | | |-- Wilson GADDIS, b. 1877 Columbia Co, NY, d. 1927 Claverack assumed, Columbia Co, NY | | | | |-- Mary GADDIS, b. ca. 1879 Claverack, Columbia Co, NY | | | | \-- Clarence GADDIS, b. ca. 1881 Claverack assumed, Columbia Co, NY, d. 1888 Claverack assumed, Columbia Co, NY | | | |-- Jane HANDY, b. ca. 1840 Claverack, Columbia Co, NY, d. aft 1860 | | | |-- William H. HANDY, b. ca. 1842 Claverack assumed, Columbia Co, NY, d. aft 1870 | | | \-- Christina (HANDY) ROGERS, b. ca. 1846 Claverack assumed, Columbia Co, NY, d. late 1890s? Kinderhook, NY? | | | & John ROGERS, b. ca. 1820 Ireland, m. 1870-1880, d. aft 1880, Kinderhook, NY? | | | | | |-- Charles Backus HANDY, b. 1814 Lee, Berkshire, MA, death unrecorded | | | | | \-- Hannah Parker (HANDY) BARRINGER, b. 1815 Lee, MA, d. 1895 (at 79) Stockbridge, MA | | & Peter William BARRINGER. b. 1809 NY, m. 1847, d. 1849 | | \--Mary Grenelle BARRINGER, b. 1848 NY, d. 1938 (at 90) Gr. Barrington, MA, bur. Stockbridge cem | | | | & Susannah (RUSSEL) b. 1787 Tyringham, Berkshire, MA, m. 1826 Lee, MA, d. 1888 (at 100) Livonia, Livingston Co, NY (RUSSELL chart) | | |-- Henry Williams Dwight HANDY, b. 1828 Lee, Berkshire, MA, d. 1913 Brooklyn (at 85), bur. 1913 Calvary, Queens, NY | | | & Mary Ann (MORGAN), b. c1832 Co. Down, Ire, m. c1851 Brooklyn?, d. 1896 Brooklyn, bur. Calvary (MORGAN chart) | | | |-- Fanny J HANDY, b. 1852 Brooklyn, NY, d. 1925 Brooklyn, NY, bur. 1925 Calvary | | | |-- Frank W. HANDY, b. 1854 Brooklyn?, NY, d. 1915 Brooklyn, NY, bur. Holy Cross | | | | & Teresa (DOWD) HANDY, b. 1855-56 Rathcline, Co. Longford, Ire, m. ca. 1881 Brooklyn, NY, d. 1901 Brooklyn, bur. Holy Cross | | | | |-- Gertrude (HANDY) CONNORS, b. 1881 Brooklyn, NY, d. 1920 Brooklyn, bur. St. John's, Middle Village, Queens | | | | | & John H. CONNORS, b. 1871 NY, m. c1900 Brooklyn?, d. 1924 Brooklyn | | | | | |-- James CONNORS b. c1904 Brooklyn?, d. 1963, Long Island?, bur. St. John's, Middle Village, Queens | | | | | | & Freda ---?, b. c1906, d. 1985, Long Island? | | | | | | \-- at least 2 children b. 1920s-30s | | | | | \-- Teresa CONNORS, b. c1907 Brooklyn, NY | | | | |-- Teresa HANDY, b. 1882 Brooklyn, NY, d. 1924, Brooklyn, bur. Holy Cross | | | | | & Joseph PARADINE, b. 1874, NY, m. ca. 1902, d. 1930, Brooklyn, bur. H. Cross | | | | | |-- Robert F. PARADINE, b. ca. 1903 Brooklyn, NY, d. 1945 Dallas, TX, bur. Holy Cross | | | | | | & Alice HOWARD, b. ca 1907, m. ca 1929 | | | | | |-- Evelyn PARADINE, b. ca. 1906 Brooklyn, NY, d. 1974 | | | | | | & Harold J. LAWRENCE, b. ca. 1902 NY, m. ca 1927, d. 1964 | | | | | |-- Teresa PARADINE, b. ca. 1908 Brooklyn, NY, d. aft 1945 | | | | | | & Robert DICKIE, b. ca 1892 NY, m. ca. 1926 | | | | | |-- Joseph PARADINE Jr, b. 1909 Brooklyn, NY, d. aft 1945 | | | | | |-- John PARADINE, b. ca. 1913 Brooklyn, NY, d. aft 1945 | | | | | \-- Grace Joan PARADINE, b. 1917, d. 1932 Brooklyn, bur. Holy Cross | | | | |-- Henry J. HANDY (3), b. 1885 Brooklyn, NY, d. 1955 Brooklyn? Queens?, bur. Holy Cross | | | | | & Julia (GOODWIN), b. 1885 NY, m. c1906, d. 1912 Brooklyn, bur. Calvary | | | | | |-- Teresa E. HANDY, b. 1906 Brooklyn, d. 1995, Queens, NY | | | | | | & Robert J. MCHAFFIE, b. 1904, Scotland, m. 1936, Brooklyn, d. 1994, Queens(?) | | | | | \-- James HANDY, b. c1909 Brooklyn?, d. 1978 Brooklyn?, bur. Holy Cross | | | | | & Edna (DIXON), b. 1891 Brooklyn, m. 1912, d. 1964, bur. Holy Cross | | | | |-- Francis W. HANDY, b. ca. 1887 Brooklyn, NY, d. aft 1942 | | | | | & Rose V. FARRELL, b. ca. 1885, Brooklyn, m. 1909 Brooklyn, d. 1945, Brooklyn, bur Holy Cross | | | | | \-- 5 children, b. 1911-1926, Brooklyn | | | | |-- Estella (Mary) HANDY, b. 1889 Brooklyn, NY, d. 1934 Brooklyn, bur. Holy Cross | | | | | & George E. LACEY, b. ca. 1885 USA, m. 1907 Manh., NY, divorced? | | | | |-- George HANDY, b. ca. 1893 Brooklyn, NY, d. 1895 Brooklyn, NY, bur. Holy Cross | | | | \-- Robert HANDY, b. 1895 Brooklyn, NY, d. aft 1942 NY? | | | |-- Mary Ann (HANDY) HOGAN, b. ca. 1856 Brooklyn, NY, d. 1927 (at 70) Brooklyn, NY, bur. Holy Cross | | | | & Thomas Francis HOGAN, b. 1851 Manh., NY, m. 1874-75 Brooklyn?, d. 1937 (at 86) Brooklyn, bur. Holy Cross (HOGAN Chart) | | | | |-- Mary F. (Mamie) HOGAN, b. 1875? Manh.?, NY?, NY, d. 1931 (at 56) Brooklyn, NY, bur. Holy Cross | | | | |-- Katherine HOGAN, b. ca. 1877 Brooklyn?, NY, d. 1882 Brooklyn, NY, bur. Holy Cross | | | | |-- George William HOGAN, b. 1878? Manh.?, NY, d. 1945 (at 66) Brooklyn, NY, bur. Holy Cross | | | | | & Sarah Loretta (SMITH)(MARTIN), b. 1875, NY, m. c1907 Brooklyn?, d. 1932, bur Calvary | | | | | \-- 2 children b. 1907-1910, Brooklyn, NY, gc | | | | |-- Joseph A. HOGAN, b. 1883 Brooklyn, NY, d. 1944 (at 62) Brooklyn, NY, bur. St. John Cem, Middle Village | | | | | & Rose E. (DEREMEIK), b. c1880 Eng, m. 1905, d. 1954 NY, bur. St. John | | | | | \-- 7 children b. 1906-1921 Brooklyn, many gc | | | | |-- Richard HOGAN, b. ca. 1884 Brooklyn, NY, d. 1886 Brooklyn, NY, bur. Holy Cross | | | | \-- Augustine Leo HOGAN, b. 1888 Brooklyn, NY, d. 1976 (at 88) Freeport, NY, bur. Holy Rood | | | | & Alice COLLINS, b. 1894 Brooklyn, m. 1919 Brooklyn, d. 1974 (at 75) Freeport (COLLINS) | | | | \-- 4 children, b. 1919-35 Brooklyn, Freeport, 7 gc, 13 ggc, 3 gggc | | | |-- Henry HANDY Jr., b. ca. 1859 Brooklyn, NY, d. 1863 Brooklyn, NY, bur. Queens?, NY | | | |-- George HANDY, b. ca. 1863 Brooklyn, NY, d. 1906 Manh., NY, bur. Calvary | | | \-- James HANDY, b. ca. 1868 Brooklyn, NY, d. 1874 Brooklyn, NY, bur. Calvary | | | | | \-- Fanny Fowler (HANDY) BUCK, b. 1830 Lee, Berkshire, MA, d. 1913 (at 83) S. Livonia, Livingston Co, NY, bur. Oakridge Cem, Livonia | | & William Eben BUCK, b. 1827 Stafford, Tolland, CT, m. 1855 Lee, Berkshire, MA, d. 1905 S. Livonia, NY | | |-- Franklin N. BUCK, b. 1857 Lee, Berkshire, MA, d. 1925 (at 68) Kewanee, Henry Co., Ill, bur. Pleasant View Cem., Kewanee, Ill | | |-- Lydia S. (BUCK) PIERCE, b. 1859 Lee, Berkshire, MA, d. 1948 (at 88), Taunton, MA, bur Mayflower Hill Cem, Taunton, MA | | | & Roswell Adrian PIERCE b. 1851, Dighton, MA, m. 1894 Rochester, NY, d. 1916, Taunton, MA, bur Mayflower Hill Cem | | | \-- twins Emma Lydia and Ethel Bart PIERCE, b. and d. 1896 Taunton, MA | | \-- Sherman Adorno BUCK, b. 1864 Lee, Berkshire, MA, d. 1921 (at 56) Livonia, NY, bur. Oakridge Cem, Livonia, NY | | & Amy C. (CLARK) BUCK, b. 1865, Taunton, Bristol, MA, m. 1897 Taunton, MA, d. 1923 Livonia, NY | | \-- Fannie M. BUCK, b. and d. 1901, Taunton, Bristol, MA --------------------------------------------- E N D ---------------------------------------------- | \-- Alice HANDY, b. 1771? Falmouth, Barnstable, MA |-- Samuel HANDY, b. ca. 1716 MA |-- James HANDY, b. ca. 1718 MA |-- Elnathan HANDY, b. ca. 1720 MA |-- Ann (HANDY) CROCKER, b. ca. 1722 MA | & Benjamin CROCKER, b. ca. 1720 MA, m. 1759 MA |-- Sarah (HANDY) DEXTER, b. ca. 1724 MA, d. 1809 Rochester, Plymouth, MA | & John DEXTER, b. 1725 Rochester, Plymouth, MA, m. 1746 Sandwich, Barnstable, MA, d. 1813 Rochester, Plymouth, MA |-- Mary HANDY, b. ca. 1726 MA |-- Thankful HANDY, b. ca. 1728 MA \-- Eleanor (HANDY) LAWRENCE, b. ca. 1730 MA & --? LAWRENCE, b. ca. 1730? MA?, m. MA |