RIdley Creek Grave site

This gravesite in Ridley Creek is worth checking into because of the names: Russell and Pennell, which I have seen in connection with Wilcox/Walton/Wallover.

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=2189162&CScntry=4&CSst=40&CScnty=2263&CSsr=81&

Middletown Friends Monthly Meeting Cemetery

There are some Waltons listed here in the Middletown Friends Monthly Meeting Cemetery that I need to look into.  Maybe these names tie in to Sarah/William Walton.

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gsr&GSiman=1&GScid=1978849&GSfn=&GSln=wal

Tayr Pont

http://lowermerionhistory.org/buildings/image-building-list.php?building_id=1244

"Tayr Pont began as a paper mill by John Roberts III circa 1758 and continued to operate until the devastating flood of 1894. The mill and Tayr Pont next door now serve as single-family residences and are the only mill and miller’s-house buildings remaining in the township."
http://myowntimemachine.com/2009/09/10/its-that-time-again-fall-lecture-series-at-lower-merion-conservancy/

Waltom baptisms 1773

In the records of the American Catholic Historical Society, Volume 4, p. 146, I found the following under the heading "Baptisms for 1773":

Waltom, John and Sarah, brother and sister, of John Waltom, non-Catholic, and Sarah Waltom, Catholic, baptized 1773; sponsor Honora Fitzimmons.

Hmm.. wonder how/if these Waltoms (Walton?) tie in ....

Thomas Slater will info to look up

http://www.sampubco.com/wills/pa/pagreene.htm

Greene County, PA

Column One: Name of Testator
Column Two: Place of Residence of Testator

Column Three: County #, Volume #, Page #

SLATER, THOMAS               FRANKLIN                     PA-30-1-124

Link to abstract of Prudence Slater's will.
http://files.usgwarchives.net/pa/delaware/wills/s/slater-p.txt

I need to find the original. A random paper I found in my files at home states in this will that Prudence names her granddaughter Prudence (Wilcox Kartchner) as the daughter of her son John and Sarah Willcox and leaves her 60 dollars to be put out to interest until she, Prudence is of age.... I want to verify this and also see if it can be used as a source to verify Sarah. It says there was an inventory taken of her things... would there be any mention of family history items and who they went to? Hmm....

Taking 'the Waltons might be German' angle

I'm taking a different angle today - I am following up on the idea that the Waltons might be of German descent .... I tried to make a connection with the Byberry Waltons again today, with no luck.

But... this is interesting.  I Googled a book containing ship lists and there is a Johan Valltin listed (p. 677)  Never before have I considered this spelling, but it might make sense.  A German pronunciation of Walton - "Valltin."

The book is Pennsylvania German pioneers: a publication of the original lists of arrivals in the port of Philadelphia from 1727 to 1808, Volume 2 by Strassburger, Ralph Beave and Hinke, William John. Call number at FHL 974.811 W3s 1992.

I am going to look more into it - also, there are two others to try at this link:

Printed sources: a guide to published genealogical records

 By Kory Leland Meyerink

http://books.google.com/books?id=z8DP4mmc-QYC&pg=PA516&dq=german+pioneers+pa&hl=en&sa=X&ei=Oo5nT8v8BOmSiQLY_ZjpBg&ved=0CEYQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=german%20pioneers%20pa&f=false

I also need to look more into these sources:

The peoples of Pennsylvania: an annotated bibliography of resource materials

 By David E. Washburn

http://books.google.com/books?id=O6rnKYe2KKwC&pg=PA86&dq=german+pioneers+pa&hl=en&sa=X&ei=Oo5nT8v8BOmSiQLY_ZjpBg&ved=0CFsQ6AEwBw#v=onepage&q=german%20pioneers%20pa&f=false

Robert Sutcliff mentions Peter Walover

PA magazine mentions Peter Walover

The Pennsylvania magazine of history and biography , Volume 50 Historical Society of Pennsylvania 0 Reviews Historical Society of Pennsylvania., 1926 - History

From inside the book

 

1 page matching "peter walover" in this book

Page 17

Paper maker book mentions Peter Walover

The Paper Maker, Volumes 24-29 pages 213 and 215 mention Peter Walover.

http://books.google.com/books?id=LlMhAQAAMAAJ&q=%22peter+walover%22&dq=%22peter+walover%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=e0I3T8CjAvLZiALmv-WFCg&ved=0CDYQ6AEwAQ

American watermarks book to read

I want to get a hold of this book from the library - it has the Willcox watermark in it, too, I believe.

American watermarks 1690-1835 Thomas L. Gravell, George Miller, Elizabeth A. Walsh 0 Reviews Oak Knoll Press, 2002 - Art - 363 pages This new edition, revised with the assistance of Elizabeth Walsh of the Folger  Shakespeare Library, incorporates enhanced illustrations of all the original 700  watermark photographs, and adds more than 320 new watermarks found by  Mr. Gravell during the past twenty years. In all, 1,057 watermarks have now  been computer enhanced and tripled-indexed for better identification. This new  corpus of research includes revised and updated paper-mill histories,  an updated bibliography, a new glossary of papermaking, and new name, geographic,  and iconographic indexes. A new foreword by Keith Arbour recounts  Thomas Gravell's contributions to paper history. « Less

From inside the book

 

3 pages matching "peter walover" in this book

Page 270

Page 315

Walover watermark

The following link from The Library Company of Philadelphia identifies a letter from the United States, Office of Purveyor of Public Supplies as being printed on paper watermarked with "W & J" and an eagle; Gravell 1000 and 1001 identify the papermaker as Peter Walover.


http://pacscl.exlibrisgroup.com:48992/F/?func=direct&doc_number=000264218

St. Paul's Lutheran Cemetery

http://www.lowermerionhistory.org/burial/lutheran/w.html

St. Paul’s Lutheran Cemetery

Last name	First name	Date died	Location
Wilcox	Elizabeth	June 20, 1919	Plot 204 grave 2 South portion
Wilcox	James	December 27, 1886	Plot 204 grave 3 North portion
Wilcox	Sarah	September 11, 1859	Plot 204 grave 4 North portion

Wallover	Ann Maria	January 31, 1818	Plot C1033 grave 2 South portion
Wallover	Margaretta	September 15, 1846	Plot C1033 grave 4 North portion
Wallover	Peter	April 17, 1824	Plot C1033 grave 3 North portion
Wallover	Peter W.	January 26, 1905	Plot C1033 grave 3 North portion
Wallover		December 5, 1871	Plot 64 grave 1 South portion

Walton	Anna Mary	June 14, 1958	Plot 340 grave 1 South portion
Walton	Charles M.	July 24, 1941	Plot 340 grave 1 South portion
Walton	Edward B.	Unknown	Plot 1285 grave 3 North portion
Walton	Elizabeth P.	April 17, 1896	Plot 464 grave 4 North portion

Kartchner

John Christopher

Unknown

Plot 64 grave 2 South portion

I've got to make sense of the Sarah and James Wilcox listed here.  There is a James Wilcox who is a son of John Wilcox and Sarah Walton....

Also, I need to see if I can determine from records who is buried in the other graves in the plots... that would help a ton in identifying other lines/relationships.

Map of Manayunk 1875

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~dynamo53/Manayunk/1875Manayunkmap.JPG

History of Manayunk by Charles V. Hagner

Great info about the history of Manayunk that I need to go back and read.  Manayunk Mills is mentioned in Wm. D. Kartchner’s history as being the place where his father and mother worked (and they lived in Manayunk for a time as well).

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~dynamo53/Manayunk/EarlyHistory/EarlyHistManayunk.html

Two names that popped up in the text:

Paul Jones

Apparently Peter Walover  “was trained in papermaking in America at the Paul Jones Mill in Manayunk after serving as an indentured servant to Henry Drinker.”

Captain John Towers

Mentioned in Joseph Price’s diary along with Peter Walover.

His is a very fascinating history to read – according to the text “Captain John Towers may justly be considered the pioneer of Manayunk.”

Info, video about mills of Lower Merion

The Mills of Lower Merion

Along the creek at Rolling Hill Park you can observe ruins of structures that once housed tenement workers of Deringer's Mill. The Nippes Rifle Manufacturing Mill site is now part of Rolling Hill Park. At the intersection of Old Gulph and Mill Creek Roads stands the 1690 house, assumed to be the home of millwright John Roberts.Mill Creek is the largest waterway running through Lower Merion Township. For over 200 years the mill industry supplied local residents and Philadelphians with grain, paper, guns and gun powder, lumber, metal, woolen fabrics, candles and lamp wicks. By the 1850's many of the mills closed or converted to textiles due to advances in technologies. Storms and floods devastated the mills and the flood of 1893 brought the final destruction to most of the mills along the creek.

A video about mills
http://www.mainlinevideoguide.com/merionmills.pop.html

Peter Walover mentioned in Joseph Price diary

From the diary of Joseph Price

http://lowermerionhistory.org/texts/price/price1819.html

Mo. 17th 1819 Wind S W froze prety hard but very fine Still Clear morn at Meeting George & John here to dinner at the Doct alittle while Evening Reading after Tompson high

18th Wind S & moderate thawing day Little Wm. & I of[f] with the wagon to Abraham Carriers to get it mended they finished about dusk & off Set for home prety dark Spent at Taylors 3 pints

19th wind S. and Red to sun rise froze very Little If any not any one Wells here to Get a Coffin for Brooks Child 2/6 Long I fell to work & made it myself out Mehoganey finishd it Evening at Yerkes Pint bear Capt Towers & Peter Walover their Chated the Evening with them

Modern photos of Walover's Mill

800 Mill Creek Rd

Comments: Once Walover's Mill, later Merion Roller Flour Mill; Remodeled 1890

Keywords: Gladwyne

Three more photos are found at http://lowermerionhistory.org/buildings/image-building-list.php?building_id=583

Fascinating stories about Lower Merion mills and John Roberts III

http://www.lowermerionhistory.org/texts/first300/part07a.html

Walover’s Mill. After the Revolution Peter Walover, an immigrant from Menz, Germany, settled in Lower Merion. He was trained in papermaking in America at the Paul Jones Mill in Manayunk after serving as an indentured servant to Henry Drinker. The mill and miller’s house he purchased in 1807 was one of John Roberts’ original paper mills. The buildings were located at the current hairpin turn in Mill Creek Road at the narrow bridge.

For nearly ten years Walover apparently ran an efficient and immaculate mill, but the economic recession that occurred after the War of 1812 forced him into debt. His 33 acres of land with three "messuages" and a paper mill were sold at a sheriff’s sale in 1818. These buildings remain today serving as suburban residences.

The millers’ early 18th century home is known as "Tayr Pont" and is characterized by a second story porch. The mill building itself, along the side of the road, was run as a paper mill until 1848 by the new owners, Horatius G. Jones and Evan Jones. At that time Evan Jones renovated it to a cotton and woolen mill. Later he converted it to a flour mill called Merion Flour Mills. A date stone stating "E J 1848 Remodelled by Edw. S. Murray 1890" indicates a later conversion by Edward Murray, whose business was known as the Merion Roller Flour Mills.

Link to a photo:
http://www.lowermerionhistory.org/photodb/web/html3/062-1.html

Tayr Pont and the Evans Jones Mill

http://www.lmconservancy.org/?d=18687045.6281

Tayr Pont and the Evans Jones Mill
Penn Valley

Tayr Pont, Welsh for "three bridges," a tribute to the three links to Mill Creek Road across Mill Creek. Tayr Pont itself sits high above Mill Creek Road. Presenting its side to the road and screened by mature trees, the house can be difficult to see. The core of this building was built in 1690, and had a long association with the area's creek history. Noted miller John Roberts III owned property far upstream, but in the mid-1700s he greatly expanded his holdings to own much of Mill Creek and numerous mills. He did not live here, but likely his millers did, and the core building was expanded in 1722. In 1939, architects Walter Durham and James Irvine worked on the property and the nearby mill, and their renovations revealed evidence of a 17th-centure core. Today a portion of once-exterior timber logs have been exposed on the interior.

Perhaps even more important than Tayr Pont's age is the fact that the Evan Jones Mill remains alongside. The mill building itself still stands at the Z-curve, now also a private residence, and for many years the mill and Tayr Pont were under the same ownership: Tayr Pont as the miller's residence and the mill on the creek. John Roberts built a paper mill on this site in 1758; he was hanged for treason 20 years later and the holdings dispersed to different owners.

In 1807 Peter Walover ran the mill, and it was renovated in 1848 by new owners Horatius Jones and Evan Jones first into a cotton and wollen and then a flour mill named the Merion Flour Mills. By 1890, Edwards Murray rehabbed it again and renamed it the Merion Roller Flour Mill. The two buildings were seperated in 1902 and in 1914 Tayr Pont was purchased by James Crosby Brown as part of his estate. 

Peter Walover/Jones Mill in Mill Creek Historic District

From the Mill Creek Historic District Website: http://www.livingplaces.com/PA/Montgomery_County/Lower_Merion_Township/Mill_Creek_Historic_District.html

The earliest mill located at the mouth of the [Mill] creek was a saw mill owned by Thomas Rees, a stone cutter formerly of Roxborough. Rees ran the mill from 1735 to 1741. The original Rees Mill was destroyed in 1805, the result of an attempt at operating it as a powder mill. The site is now below the waters of the Schuylkill River, the river's height having since been raised by the construction of the Flat Rocks dam.[6]…

Meanwhile, John Roberts III also constructed a paper mill, probably in 1758, where the Walover/Jones Mill now stands, supporting the beginning of the boundary increase's period of significance. Like all of John Roberts III's property, the mill was confiscated after his execution for treason in 1778. (The Supreme Executive Council convicted Roberts of treason for joining the British army and acting as a guide in September, 1777.) Eventually, this land was sold by George McClenahan to Peter Walover, a Lower Merion paper-maker. Evan Jones purchased the mill through a sheriffs sale, and continued to operate the paper mill until 1848, when it first changed to a cotton and woollen mill, and finally to a grist mill, known as Merion Flour Mills. Like most mills on the creek, it ceased operation after the 1894 flood, and was eventually renovated into apartments under the ownership of James Crosby Brown, in 1924. The mill and its surrounding community of outbuildings and residences is the boundary increase's most intact mill community, providing a standing demonstration of nineteenth century mill community for all who pass by on Creek Road.

Sarah Walton

I found the following entry on Family Search: It is of interest to me because of Bucks County and because my husband's grandmother had Isaac Walton listed as the father to Sarah Walton on her handwritten pedigree.  The dates aren't right, though, because she would have died at age 20 without children. But maybe she is a relative.

Sarah Walton

about 1785 , Bucks, Pennsylvania

about 1805 , Bucks, Pennsylvania

Isaac Walton Mary Spencer

https://new.familysearch.org/en/action/openpopup?dest=splitpopup&depth=1&bookid=p.K4JH-KM7&focus=p.K4JH-KM7&ro=true

Info about Peter Wallover

I stumbled across the following information on an ancestry board which helps explain more about Peter Wallover. Please...if anyone has info about Peter Wallover... send it to me at Denianek@gmail.com.  Especially watch for mention of "Kartchner" "Kirchner" or any of Margaret Walton or her family.  Thanks!  

http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/WOHLEBEN/2000-06/0961461003

From: JWtopwater@aol.com
Subject: [WOHLEBEN-L] Peter Wallover
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 20:30:03 EDT

From: The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography

Old Mills of Mill Creek, Lower Merion by Charles R. Barker
Pg. #17 - Mention has already been made of the sale,in 1807, by
George McClenachan, of a portion of the original Robert Mill tract, with the paper mill. The buyer was Peter Walover, a Lower Merion paper maker. Previous to making this purchase, he has operated,on lease the Paul Jones paper mill near west Manayunk; but after the sale of that property to George
Helmbold,another paper maker ,he probably found it desirable to set up for
himself. To Robert Sutcliffe, a noted friend ,we are indebted for what is
undoubtly a picture of Wallover and his mill,although Sutcliffe's quaint
delicacy forbids his referring to anybody except by initials. The account,as
extracted from his diary,is as follows:

Having been several times kindly invited, I dined with P.W., a respectable paper-maker in the neighborhood of Merion,where I spent the afternoon pleasantly. The situation is beautifully romantic, being a deep narrow valley, the steep hills on either side of which are covered with wood. The mill which would be considered as an extensive one even in England, is almost wholly employed in making writing and printing paper,with large quantities of which he supplies the printers and stationers in Philadelphia.

During the visit he gave me a little history of his life. About twenty years
ago, being then twelve yrs. of age,he left Mentz,his native place in Germany, accompanied by his father, who died on passage to this country. Being of that class of immigrants called Redemptioners already mentioned,P.W. on the arrival of the ship in the Delaware,was hired by Henry Drinker,and was employed about the house as a waiting boy, and assistant to the girls in the kitchen. After spending nearly four years in this family,and having acquired the English language, he had the good sense to discern,that it would be more to his interest to be taught some manufacture; and requested liberty of his master to be put apprentice to a paper-maker,which was readily granted,although his first indenture was not yet expired. 

After having obtained a knowledge of the manufacture of paper,he, by industry and care, acquired sufficient property and credit to enable him to begin his
business;which he has now, for several years,carried on to advantage. I never was in a paper mill where the business was managed with more neatness and order."

This is surely a picture of prosperity, but unfortunately the picture has
two sides. For a sheriffs sale swept away the little property, which was
knocked down to Evan Jones. The latter continued to operate the paper mill
until 1848; then changed it to a cotton and woolen mill etc, etc.

From the Philadelphische Correspondenz (German newspaper).
November 26,1790
Freiederich Schuetz, papermaker, Lower Merion township Montgomery
County, advertises that his german servant, Peter Wallauer, ran away. He is
19 years old, has learned paper making, and speaks good English.

Peter Wallover,Sr. died April 17, 1824 and is buried at St.Pauls
Cemetery in Ardmore,Penna. Peter is listed as a veteran of the War of 1812
and his grave is suitably marked. During the war of 1812,he served in the 5th
class,36th Regimen,2nd Division,recruited in Bucks and Montgomery counties.
From: Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania" by Jordan,Volume