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Harry Baker Humphrey1873 - 1955
Harry Baker Humphrey1873 - 1955
Olive Agatha Mealey1875 - 1962
Olive Agatha Mealey1875 - 1962
Robert R Humphrey1904 - 2002
Robert R Humphrey1904 - 2002
Llewellyn M Humphrey1903 - 2001
Llewellyn M Humphrey1903 - 2001
Helen Humphrey (Heidi)1906 -2010
Helen Humphrey (Heidi)1906 -2010
Isabel Humphrey (Tedda)1906 - 1991
Isabel Humphrey (Tedda)1906 - 1991
Harry B Humphrey1911 - 1996
Harry B Humphrey1911 - 1996
John W D Humphrey (Gee)1915 - 2006
John W D Humphrey (Gee)1915 - 2006
Garnett Peelle January1883 - 1967
Garnett Peelle January1883 - 1967
Viva Mae Morton1883 - 1969
Viva Mae Morton1883 - 1969
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Robert Regester Humphrey1904 - 2002
Robert Regester Humphrey1904 - 2002
Roberta January1909 - 2004
Roberta January1909 - 2004
Shirley Joan (Schoof)1932
Shirley Joan (Schoof)1932
Lois Anne (Angus)1935
Lois Anne (Angus)1935
Alan Baker Humphrey1939
Alan Baker Humphrey1939
Beth Peele (Grady)1944
Beth Peele (Grady)1944
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Carl H Schoof1921 - 2004
Carl H Schoof1921 - 2004
Ed Grady1936
Ed Grady1936
Robert Angus1936
Robert Angus1936
ShirleyShirley
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LoisLois AlanAlan BethBeth
Jane Simonson1946
Jane Simonson1946
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Elizabeth Jane Simonson1946
Elizabeth Jane Simonson1946 Loretta Bridget Lyons
1940
Loretta Bridget Lyons1940
Alan Baker Humphrey, Jr.1959
Alan Baker Humphrey, Jr.1959
Gwendolyn Joan Corley1960
Gwendolyn Joan Corley1960
Bridget Loretta Humphrey1962
Bridget Loretta Humphrey1962
Robert ThomasHumphrey1963
Robert ThomasHumphrey1963
Dylan Wells Humphrey
1976 - 2008
Dylan Wells Humphrey
1976 - 2008
Ross Edward Humphrey
1980
Ross Edward Humphrey
1980
Alan Baker Humphrey1939
Alan Baker Humphrey1939
Alan Baker Humphrey Jr.1959
Alan Baker Humphrey Jr.1959
Eleanor Boba1957
Eleanor Boba1957
Gary Humphrey Boba1993
Gary Humphrey Boba1993
Alida Boba Humphrey1996
Alida Boba Humphrey1996
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Gwen Joan Corley1960
Gwen Joan Corley1960
Ken Pridgen1955
Ken Pridgen1955
Matthew Alan Pridgen1995
Matthew Alan Pridgen1995
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Robert Eugene Corley1958
Robert Eugene Corley1958
Robert Thomas Humphrey1963
Robert Thomas Humphrey1963
Magdalena Jean Humphrey2002
Magdalena Jean Humphrey2002
Diane Lisa Amend1964
Diane Lisa Amend1964
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Colleen Ann O’Rourk1952
Colleen Ann O’Rourk1952
Bridget Loretta Humphrey1962
Bridget Loretta Humphrey1962
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Lois Anne Humphrey (Angus)
1935
Lois Anne Humphrey (Angus)
1935
Robert Joseph Angus1936
Robert Joseph Angus1936
Troy Rae Angus1967
Troy Rae Angus1967
Traci Anne Angus (Dean)1971
Traci Anne Angus (Dean)1971
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Traci Anne Angus 1971
Traci Anne Angus 1971
Eric Christopher Dean1971
Eric Christopher Dean1971
Taylor Anne Dean2005
Taylor Anne Dean2005
Tyler Christopher Dean2002
Tyler Christopher Dean2002
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Troy Rae Angus1967
Troy Rae Angus1967
Jennifer Downey1979
Jennifer Downey1979
Marcella Lindsey Downey-AngusMarcella Lindsey Downey-Angus
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Isabel Estella Humphrey (Tedda)1906 - 1991
Isabel Estella Humphrey (Tedda)1906 - 1991
George Harold Godfrey1888 - 1982
George Harold Godfrey1888 - 1982
Susan Wadsworth Godfrey1940
Susan Wadsworth Godfrey1940
Malcom David Godfrey1940
Malcom David Godfrey1940
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Llewelyn Mealey Humphrey1903 - 2004
Llewelyn Mealey Humphrey1903 - 2004
Margret Otilla Disher1907 - 1994
Margret Otilla Disher1907 - 1994
Eugene Register Humphrey1933
Eugene Register Humphrey1933
David Ford Humphrey1934
David Ford Humphrey1934
Edward Sydney Humphrey1935
Edward Sydney Humphrey1935
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Mary Lorraine Register1907 - 1953
Mary Lorraine Register1907 - 1953
Helen Wadsworth Humphrey1906 - 2009
Helen Wadsworth Humphrey1906 - 2009
John Mark McLernon (Mac)1898 - 1956
John Mark McLernon (Mac)1898 - 1956
Roberta Irene McLernon1932 - 1998
Roberta Irene McLernon1932 - 1998
Patricia McLernon1934
Patricia McLernon1934
Sheila Jean McLernon1938
Sheila Jean McLernon1938
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Harold Paul Hass1918 - 1991
Harold Paul Hass1918 - 1991
Frank Whitlow1939 - 2004
Frank Whitlow1939 - 2004
Sheila McLernon (Gerhart)1938
Sheila McLernon (Gerhart)1938
Dale William Whitlow1959
Dale William Whitlow1959
Sherrie Jean Whitlow (Jones)1961
Sherrie Jean Whitlow (Jones)1961
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Dale William Whitlow1959
Dale William Whitlow1959
Travis Wayne Whitlow1990
Travis Wayne Whitlow1990
Tyler William Whitlow1990
Tyler William Whitlow1990
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Shelley Stokes1957
Shelley Stokes1957
Sherrie Jean Whitlow (Jones)1961
Sherrie Jean Whitlow (Jones)1961
Katie Lynn Jones 1986
Katie Lynn Jones 1986
Shannon Liegh Jones 1988
Shannon Liegh Jones 1988
John W Jones1960
John W Jones1960
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Roberta Irene McLernon1932 - 1998
Roberta Irene McLernon1932 - 1998
Gayle Farwell1921
Gayle Farwell1921
Heidi Joanne Farwell1959
Heidi Joanne Farwell1959
James Todd Farwell1960
James Todd Farwell1960
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Heidi Joanne Farwell1959
Heidi Joanne Farwell1959
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Steve SchoolSteve School
Megan
Patricia McLernon1934
Patricia McLernon1934
Melvin C Greer1930 - 2005
Melvin C Greer1930 - 2005
Melvin Edward Greer1966
Melvin Edward Greer1966
Deborah Jean Greer1954
Deborah Jean Greer1954
Tracy Mac Greer1960
Tracy Mac Greer1960
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Eugene Register Humphrey1933
Eugene Register Humphrey1933
Velma Ruth Galbraith1940
Velma Ruth Galbraith1940
Gregory Scott Humphrey1963
Gregory Scott Humphrey1963
Lewellyn Mealey Humphrey II1959
Lewellyn Mealey Humphrey II1959
Michael Eugene Humphrey1961
Michael Eugene Humphrey1961
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David Ford Humphrey1934
David Ford Humphrey1934
Judith E. Stoltenberg1941 - 2006
Judith E. Stoltenberg1941 - 2006
Kimberly Joy Humphrey1973
Kimberly Joy Humphrey1973
Travis David Humphrey1971
Travis David Humphrey1971
Edward Sydney Humphrey1935
Edward Sydney Humphrey1935
Deborah Kathleen Leonard1957
Deborah Kathleen Leonard1957
Bobby B. Humphrey1973
Bobby B. Humphrey1973
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John William David Humphrey1915 - 2006
John William David Humphrey1915 - 2006
Marian Blackburn1918
Marian Blackburn1918
Barbara Jeannette Humphrey1943
Barbara Jeannette Humphrey1943
David Llewellyn Humphrey1946
David Llewellyn Humphrey1946
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Harry Bartholomew Humphrey 1911 - 1996
Harry Bartholomew Humphrey 1911 - 1996
Vivian Laura Linder1917 -
Vivian Laura Linder1917 -
David Rowland Humphrey1940
David Rowland Humphrey1940
Judith Kathleen Humphrey1941
Judith Kathleen Humphrey1941
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Travis David Humphrey1971
Travis David Humphrey1971
Ann Humphrey1971
Ann Humphrey1971
Trenton David James Humphrey2005
Trenton David James Humphrey2005
Tyler Cyrel-Ford Humphrey2006
Tyler Cyrel-Ford Humphrey2006
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Kimberly Joy Humphrey1973
Kimberly Joy Humphrey1973
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SOME NOTES ON THE HUMPHREY (HUMPHREYS) FAMILYBy
Harry Baker Humphrey
Origin It seems to be established on thoroughly dependable authority that the first Humphreys were Scandinavians and that they may have lived on a "Peaceful Island”. The name Humphrey had its origin in the ancient Scandinavian words Holm frid (mod. Swedish Holm frid) meaning peaceful Island and suggesting that the first member of our now multitudinous family may have sought and enjoyed the privacy of his own island.
Another and less authoritative attempt to explain the origin of the name of our family is that offered by somebody whose ear may have been more keenly sensed to sound than to fact. His opinion was that Humphrey came from homme yrai, the French for true or sincere man. But, however plausible such an accounting for our name may seem, the fact remains that the first Humphreys were Scandinavians. To be sure, there were members of the family in Normandy in the 11th century and long since. But that part of what is now France had already been overrun by the roving hordes from the land of the Norse. It is not improbable that some of the descendants of the original Holm frid may have found their way into Normandy. At any rate, the Norman Conquest of England in 1066 left Humphreys in that unpeaceful isle. These same members of the family and possibly others who came later out of Normandy started a family tree whose vigorous seed established the name on the court and church registers of England, Scotland, Wales, and subsequently in Ireland.
Spelling of the name From all accounts I have thus far been free to examine the names Humphrey and Humphreys are synonymous. I have found in some instances both spellings employed by members of the same family; though, as a general practice, those of a given family line adhere to one spelling or the other, from one generation to another, indefinitely. Variants from the original are such names as Humphry, Humfrey, Homfray, Umphry, Humphries, Humphery, Humphre-ville and Onfroi. The name Pumphrey is the shortened form of the Welsh ap Humphrey (son of Humphrey) and may, therefore, be regarded as a variant of Humphrey, just as Powell (ap Howel) is a variant of Howell.
Pronunciation of the name Our standard dictionaries give but one pronunciation for the name Humphrey, namely, Hum (as in hum, hump) fri = Humfri. The Cockney English pronunciation is Umf ri and many there be who bear the name Humphrey, yet pronounce it incorrectly. On the other hand, the Humphreys are legion whose pronunciation of the name does not ignore the initial H. I have been mildly admonished, even criticised, for having departed from the more or less traditional pronunciation of our name. Yet, I can see no good reason why I should not pronounce it correctly. In doing so I shall be none the less a member of the family.
In the days of my boyhood I attended school in a neighborhood where there were many children of French-Canadian parentage who answered in their Parish church and in their homes to such family names as Pepin, Chouinard, Bourgeois, Plourde, and Caron. To this day one may hear these names (even find them so recorded on school registers) as Pippin, Sweenor, Bushway, Ploode, and Coral, or sometimes Corron, originally so pronounced and so written — yes, printed — by neighbors and teachers of non-French lineage who had neither the ear nor the patience to pronounce French names correctly, But though these neighbors and teachers and their progeny, even to the nth generation continue to mispronounce these splendid old French names they would still he wrong. And why. perpetuate an error' 'Thy continue to pronounce Humphrey as though it was Umphrey? There is no genuine authority for it. To say: “We have always so pronounced it", does not make it right.
Family traits It is with no little hesitancy that I approach a subject so beset with the temptation to lay claim to all the virtues and to refer to them as hereditary and more or less peculiar to the Humphrey family. It would obviously be difficult to prove that such qualities as integrity, moral courage, the art instinct, judicial sense, were family traits or characteristics in any hereditary sense. These qualities or characteristics are not—-can not be peculiarly those of any one family line of such ancient origin as our own. And yet, I have heard it said and have read from the printed page such, statements as The Humphreys are preeminently artistic. The family has to its credit a long and enviable roster of artists, architects, musicians, writers. The Humphrey family has been outstanding in its production of Clergymen, college presidents, jurists, and teachers. Now one difficulty with such generalizations is that they may not bear comparison with those recorded for families bearing such names as Barton, Williams, Bartholomew, Henderson, Regester, Smedley, and others too numerous to mention. In other words, almost any such characterization applied to the Humphreys might easily and equally be applicable to many other families.
If we confine our observations solely to our lineal household, the Humphreys of the Dudley, Massachusetts branch of the family it is still difficult for us to say with certainty whether a given characteristic is peculiarly that of the Humphrey side of the house. We must not forget our mothers. And yet, I believe it can be truthfully said that the majority of our family, as far back as we have any record, has been characterized by the following traits and qualities: “mental conservatism; hospitality; the spirit of the pioneer; marked Industriousness; integrity, dependability, love of nature, of philosophy, history, and the beautiful in art and literature: sound business sense; and a profound instinct for the home and for family stability and excellence.
The Dudley, Massachusetts, branch of the family has been preeminently agricultural. There have been in the family no artists, no musicians, no writers, no clergymen, no teachers, no scholars, no business men of truly outstanding merit; yet, some of them may have been of more than average ability and distinction. In agriculture, even, we have produced not more than two or possibly three "master" farmers. One of these was, in his day, an outstanding genius in his chosen field and would today undoubtedly be rated as a master farmer of the first rank.
My research into the published or other records of the Humphreys of Dudley has failed to disclose any suicides, any idiocy, any predisposition to such diseases as tuberculosis, diabetes, insanity, etc. Our people, being largely of the New England puritan household, have adhered consistently and rather rigidly to certain principles of moral rectitude. Indeed, I might say that the reaching of such principles within our family has become traditional. As a consequence, there have thus far been no murderers to hang on the family tree; no gamblers worthy the name; no victims of delirium tremens; no "Jail birds" and, so far as I can ascertain, no saints. Some of the Humphreys of our branch have quarreled with their wives but they usually have yielded to feminine entreaties before matters got into the divorce courts.
As a family, we have been much addicted to hard work; have worried too much; have been thrifty; and have been too cautious in business matters to amass great material wealth. We are not belligerent, though we have not always been wise enough to avoid resort to arms in case of war. As a family, we have despised hypocrisy and have never joined such organisations as the Ku Klux Klan or the I.W.W's (Industrial Workers of the World?).
SOME NOTES ON THE HUMPHREY (HUMPHREYS) FAMILYBy
Harry Baker Humphrey
Origin It seems to be established on thoroughly dependable authority that the first Humphreys were Scandinavians and that they may have lived on a "Peaceful Island”. The name Humphrey had its origin in the ancient Scandinavian words Holm frid (mod. Swedish Holm frid) meaning peaceful Island and suggesting that the first member of our now multitudinous family may have sought and enjoyed the privacy of his own island.
Another and less authoritative attempt to explain the origin of the name of our family is that offered by somebody whose ear may have been more keenly sensed to sound than to fact. His opinion was that Humphrey came from homme yrai, the French for true or sincere man. But, however plausible such an accounting for our name may seem, the fact remains that the first Humphreys were Scandinavians. To be sure, there were members of the family in Normandy in the 11th century and long since. But that part of what is now France had already been overrun by the roving hordes from the land of the Norse. It is not improbable that some of the descendants of the original Holm frid may have found their way into Normandy. At any rate, the Norman Conquest of England in 1066 left Humphreys in that unpeaceful isle. These same members of the family and possibly others who came later out of Normandy started a family tree whose vigorous seed established the name on the court and church registers of England, Scotland, Wales, and subsequently in Ireland.
Spelling of the name From all accounts I have thus far been free to examine the names Humphrey and Humphreys are synonymous. I have found in some instances both spellings employed by members of the same family; though, as a general practice, those of a given family line adhere to one spelling or the other, from one generation to another, indefinitely. Variants from the original are such names as Humphry, Humfrey, Homfray, Umphry, Humphries, Humphery, Humphre-ville and Onfroi. The name Pumphrey is the shortened form of the Welsh ap Humphrey (son of Humphrey) and may, therefore, be regarded as a variant of Humphrey, just as Powell (ap Howel) is a variant of Howell.
Pronunciation of the name Our standard dictionaries give but one pronunciation for the name Humphrey, namely, Hum (as in hum, hump) fri = Humfri. The Cockney English pronunciation is Umf ri and many there be who bear the name Humphrey, yet pronounce it incorrectly. On the other hand, the Humphreys are legion whose pronunciation of the name does not ignore the initial H. I have been mildly admonished, even criticised, for having departed from the more or less traditional pronunciation of our name. Yet, I can see no good reason why I should not pronounce it correctly. In doing so I shall be none the less a member of the family.
In the days of my boyhood I attended school in a neighborhood where there were many children of French-Canadian parentage who answered in their Parish church and in their homes to such family names as Pepin, Chouinard, Bourgeois, Plourde, and Caron. To this day one may hear these names (even find them so recorded on school registers) as Pippin, Sweenor, Bushway, Ploode, and Coral, or sometimes Corron, originally so pronounced and so written — yes, printed — by neighbors and teachers of non-French lineage who had neither the ear nor the patience to pronounce French names correctly, But though these neighbors and teachers and their progeny, even to the nth generation continue to mispronounce these splendid old French names they would still he wrong. And why. perpetuate an error' 'Thy continue to pronounce Humphrey as though it was Umphrey? There is no genuine authority for it. To say: “We have always so pronounced it", does not make it right.
Family traits It is with no little hesitancy that I approach a subject so beset with the temptation to lay claim to all the virtues and to refer to them as hereditary and more or less peculiar to the Humphrey family. It would obviously be difficult to prove that such qualities as integrity, moral courage, the art instinct, judicial sense, were family traits or characteristics in any hereditary sense. These qualities or characteristics are not—-can not be peculiarly those of any one family line of such ancient origin as our own. And yet, I have heard it said and have read from the printed page such, statements as The Humphreys are preeminently artistic. The family has to its credit a long and enviable roster of artists, architects, musicians, writers. The Humphrey family has been outstanding in its production of Clergymen, college presidents, jurists, and teachers. Now one difficulty with such generalizations is that they may not bear comparison with those recorded for families bearing such names as Barton, Williams, Bartholomew, Henderson, Regester, Smedley, and others too numerous to mention. In other words, almost any such characterization applied to the Humphreys might easily and equally be applicable to many other families.
If we confine our observations solely to our lineal household, the Humphreys of the Dudley, Massachusetts branch of the family it is still difficult for us to say with certainty whether a given characteristic is peculiarly that of the Humphrey side of the house. We must not forget our mothers. And yet, I believe it can be truthfully said that the majority of our family, as far back as we have any record, has been characterized by the following traits and qualities: “mental conservatism; hospitality; the spirit of the pioneer; marked Industriousness; integrity, dependability, love of nature, of philosophy, history, and the beautiful in art and literature: sound business sense; and a profound instinct for the home and for family stability and excellence.
The Dudley, Massachusetts, branch of the family has been preeminently agricultural. There have been in the family no artists, no musicians, no writers, no clergymen, no teachers, no scholars, no business men of truly outstanding merit; yet, some of them may have been of more than average ability and distinction. In agriculture, even, we have produced not more than two or possibly three "master" farmers. One of these was, in his day, an outstanding genius in his chosen field and would today undoubtedly be rated as a master farmer of the first rank.
My research into the published or other records of the Humphreys of Dudley has failed to disclose any suicides, any idiocy, any predisposition to such diseases as tuberculosis, diabetes, insanity, etc. Our people, being largely of the New England puritan household, have adhered consistently and rather rigidly to certain principles of moral rectitude. Indeed, I might say that the reaching of such principles within our family has become traditional. As a consequence, there have thus far been no murderers to hang on the family tree; no gamblers worthy the name; no victims of delirium tremens; no "Jail birds" and, so far as I can ascertain, no saints. Some of the Humphreys of our branch have quarreled with their wives but they usually have yielded to feminine entreaties before matters got into the divorce courts.
As a family, we have been much addicted to hard work; have worried too much; have been thrifty; and have been too cautious in business matters to amass great material wealth. We are not belligerent, though we have not always been wise enough to avoid resort to arms in case of war. As a family, we have despised hypocrisy and have never joined such organisations as the Ku Klux Klan or the I.W.W's (Industrial Workers of the World?).