Fewson / Billiard Genealogy

GENEALOGY OF DAVID FEWSON (1797-1881) YORK, ENGLAND - HURON COUNTY, OHIO

(our great-great-great grandfather)

(copied from a professional genealogy done by a descendant)

The surname Fewson was possibly derived from Few, a Cumberland name which evidently came from Old English feoh, meaning cattle or from Old Norman fe-hus, meaning cattle-barn. Fewson would be son of Few, a cattle or cattle-barn worker.

Records of Feseham, Fewsham, Ffewson, Fuson and Fewson families are found in York, England records as early as 1691. Earlier records are found in other English counties.

PARENTS OF DAVID FEWSON (our great-great-great grandparents)

William Fewson and Elizabeth Maynard, married 6 March 1788 at Routh, York, were the parents of David Fewson. The ancestries of William Fewson and Elizabeth Maynard are uncertain. . . .

William Fewson and Elizabeth Maynard had children.

1 John Fewson . . .
2 William Fewson . . .
3 Thomas Fewson . . .
4 Ann Elizabeth Fewson . . .
5 Mary Fewson . . .
6 Ann Fewson . . .
7 David Fewson, probably born January 1797, baptized 11 October 1806 at Beverley, York, died 19 March 1881 in Norwich Twp., Huron Co., Oho, buried at Centerton Cemetery, Huron Co., married Hannah Scrivener, 31 July 1826 at Brandesburton, York. Hannah Scrivener, daughter of John Scrivener and Jane, baptized 18 January 1806 at Hunmanby, York, died 1 Octobe 1880 in Norwich Twp., Huron Co., buried at Centerton Cemetery, Huron Co.
8 Aaron Fewson . . .
9 Robert Fewson . . .

DAVID FEWSON

. . . David Fewson was a laborer in England. David and Hannah (Scrivener) Fewson, with John, Robert, Michael and Jane Fewson, emigrated from York to America in 1853. Leaving Liverpool on the clipper ship "Rappahannock," . . . after a voyage of seven weeks they debarked at New York on 9 June and traveled by railroad to Havana, Huron Co., Ohio. . . Their son-in-law and daughter, George and Elizabeth (Fewson) Billiard, had settled in the neighborhood earlier.

David Fewson rented a log house in Norwich Twp., Huron Co., Ohio, at one dollar per month, and resided there until his death. (Larry's note: Correction: Records show that he died at the county farm, "the poor house," which is the same building where I now work at Senior Enrichment Services).

1860 census: farmer, $1450 real estate, $400 personal property
1870 census: farmer, $900 real estate, $300 personal property "can't read or write"
1880 census: farmer, born England, father born Scotland, mother born Scotland
(Larry's note: Hannah's name is given as Hannah, Annie, and Joanna in different census records. Since they were illiterate, they could not spell their names for the census taker. Their British accents may have been misunderstood by the census taker.)
David became a naturalized citizen 9 November 1864 at Norwalk, Huron Co., Ohio. (Women did not become citizens because they couldn't vote anyway.)

CHILDREN OF DAVID AND HANNAH (SCRIVENER) FEWSON

1 John Robert Fewson . . .
2 Elizabeth Fewson, born 1828 in York, England, died 1896 in Huron Co., Ohio, buried in North Norwich Cemetery, Huron Co., Ohio, baptized 25 March 1832 at Nunkeeling, York, married George Billiard in England. George Billiard, born 1817 in England, died 1897 in Huron Co., Ohio, buried in North Norwich Cemetery, Huron Co., Ohio. George Billiard with his wife and daughters Rebecca and Hannah, entered the United States in April 1851, from England. George Billiard became a nauralized U.S. citizen on 19 June 1858.

1860 census: laborer, real estate $600, personal property $100
1870 census: farmer, real estate $3000, personal property $1100, can't read or write 1880: farmer


3 John A. Fewson disabled Union veteran of the Civil War . . .

4 Robert Fewson Union sergeant, POW in Civil War . . .
5 Michael Edward Fewson Union veteran of the Civil War . . .
6 Jane Fewson . . .

GRANDCHILDREN OF HANNAH (SCRIVENER) FEWSON

George Billiard and Elizabeth Fewson had children.

1 Rebecca Billiard . . .
2 Hannah Billiard . . .
3 Mary Billiard . . .
4 John Billiard . . .
5 Thomas J. Billiard, born about 1855 in Ohio, married Minnie Almina Davis, born about 1861 in Michigan. (Also given as Mina or Minna. I have exact dates. Our great-grandparents)
6 George Billiard . . .
7 William Billiard . . .
8 Jannie Billiard . . .
9. Elza Billiard. married Bessie ---. (namesake of our Aunt Bessie)
10 Frank Billiard . . .

GREAT GRANDCHILDREN OF DAVID AND HANNAH (SCRIVENER) BILLIARD

Thomas Billiard had children.

1 Hazel Billiard
2 Rose Billiard
3 Isadora Billiard
4 Clarence Billiard (our grandfather)
(There are others whom this genealogist did not reord.)