The Penn-Gaskell Family: Addenda to the Family of Penn

The Penn-Gaskell Family Addenda to the Family of Penn HANNAH BENNER ROACH, F.G.S.P., F.A.S.G. D ESCENDANTS of William Penn, Founder of Pennsylvania, survive today, but only through female lines. By his first wife, Gulielma Maria Springett, one child only left progeny. This was William Penn, Jr. whose granddaughter is the ancestress of the Penn-Gaskell family. The standard genealogical account of the Penn family is the late Howard M. Jenkins' long-out-of-print The Family of William Penn, published in 1899. In it the Penn-Gaskell line, representing the senior branch of the family, stemming from the Founder's first marriage, received less attention than the junior branch, descendants of Penn's second marriage. Through the researches in England of Francis James Dallett, and an examination of Philadelphia records, it is now possible to extend the account of the senior branch given by Mr. Jenkins, and to clothe it with more substance than he provided. All descendants of the Penn-Gaskell branch, whether in England or in America, issue from the marriage of the Founder's grandson, William Penn, 3rd, and his first wife Christian Forbes, through their daughter CHRISTIANA GULIELMA PENN, born 22 October 1733, and her husband, PETER GASKELL, born about 1731, sometime of Bath, Somerset, England. On 13 August 1761, the London office of the Vicar General of the Archbishop of Canterbury issued a marriage allegation as follows: Appeared personally Peter Gaskell of the parish of Saint Pancras in the County of Middlesex and made Oath that he is a Batchelor of the age of thirty years and upwards and that he intends to intermarry with Christiana Guhelina Penn of the Parish of Sunninghill in the County of Berks, aged upwards of twenty-six years . . . and prayed a License for them to be Married in either of the aforesaid parish Churches. Is/ Peter Gaskell , The ceremony was performed 14 August 1761, in the Church of St. Pancras, Middlesex, by the Reverend William Nicolls, in the presence of Vicar General's Marriage Allegations, Lambeth Palace Library, London, located and furnished by Mr. Dallett, as are all English records unless otherwise noted. 97 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine 98 Thomas Hicklin and Mary Talbot, both of whom signed the register with the bridal pair.' The Gaskells settled in Bath from which place, in 1773, they initiated steps to recover lands in Pennsylvania which had descended to Christiana Gulielma. For the purpose of "Docking, Barring and Cutting of all estates Tail and remainders in Tail and reversions of all lots and lands in or near the City of Philadelphia and Liberties thereof or elsewhere," they empowered Abel Evans and Joseph Reed in Philadelphia to commence an amicable action. Joseph Reed was to sue forth against Abel Evans one or more "writs of entry sur Disseisin en le post" so that a good and perfect common recovery with double vouchers might be had for the use of the Gaskells.' Two years later in 1775, by their attorney Joseph Galloway, the Gaskells agreed to a partition of city lots originally assigned to Christiana's grandfather William Penn, Jr., by his father, the Founder. The division was made with John and Thomas Hurst, Charles Hurst, their attorney, John Barron, and Israel Morris, who were or represented the issue of Christiana's aunt, Gulielma Maria (Penn) Fell.' Then in 1778, in the midst of the Revolution, having authorized Charles Hurst to locate and have surveyed "at his own charge and expense," some 36,000 acres of land which they claimed under warrants issued by the Founder to his son William, to his daughter Letitia Aubrey, and to his granddaughter Gulielma Maria Penn, the Gaskells assigned to Hurst better than half of the surveyed lands.' Peter Gaskell's death was reported in The Bath Chronicle, issue of 27 January 178 5, as examined by Mr. Dallett in the Bath Reference Library: "Last week died Peter Gaskill, esq., in Westgate-Buildings." His will, dated 20 December 1783, and proved 5 February 1785, by his executors, is on record in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, Register Ducarel, folio 78, an abstracts of which follows: 2 P.90/PAN.1/50, Greater London Record Office, County Hall, London, S.E.1. 2 Philadelphia Deed Book D-22, 610 26 June 1773, Peter Gukell to Abel Evans and Joseph Reed. The deed won RCM recorded until 3 September 1788. PhiladelpIL Deed Book 1-14, 484: 29 May 1775. Deed of Partition between Peter Gaskell and John Hurst of al. The mod, 204 feet in breadth, extended along the north side of South Street from Delaware Second Street to the Schuylkill. It included not only the lot of William Penn, Jr., but also the lot originally assigned to the Lowther,. There were 55 loon marked off within the area, as shown on the draft appended to the deed. Of these, 22 went to the Gaskells. Possibly it was this partition which occasioned the suit for damages brought by Hurst and Barron, as mentioned by Howard M. Jenkins, The Family of William Penn, Founder of Pennsylvania, Ancestry and Descendants (Philadelphia, 1899), 242. In 1782 and 1783, Peter GaskelPs estate wu ass.sed at £6730 for property in the south part of Dock Ward, Philadelphia, and at £653 for property in North Ward. Pennsylvania Archives, Sod Seri., XW, 320s 436, 737. Philadelphia Deed Book D-17. 351: 30 May 1778. Peter Gaskell, "surgeon," of Bath to Charles Hunt. This deed, sealed '111 London in June, 1783, was recorded in Philadelphia 27 December 1786. The Penn-Gaskell Family 99 The will of Peter Gaskell, of the City of Bath in the County of Somerset, Gentleman. . . . In consequence of being kept out of the rents of my estate, I have contracted debts in Bath and vicinity to Tobias Salmon, Simon Draper, the Reverend Richard Graves, Rector of Claverton, Robert Noak Brewer and others. . . Rents due in Ireland. • . . Suit between Springett Peon and myself in the Court of Chancery.. Personal estate I shall be entitled to on the death of my father Peter Gaskell, of Bollington near Macclesfield, in the County of Chester. . • . Loving wife Cluistianna Gulielma Gaskell and Tobias Salmon to be joint executors. . . . /5/ Peter Gaskell Witnesses: Ed. Vernon Goodall, William Goodall N.B. The names of my father's executors are John Gaskell of Rainow, Gentleman, and William Wardle of Macclesfield, Button Merchant. Peter Gaskell, Sr., mentioned in his son's will, died shortly before the son. His will, dated 10 March and proved the following 6 November 1784, was recorded in the Probate Records of Lancashire in the jurisdiction of the Consistory Court of the Bishop of Chester, at the Lancashire Record Office, Preston. In abstract it reads: Will of Peter Gaskell, of Bollington Cross in the County of Chester, yeoman. . . . My brother John. . • . Tenement in Disley called Cock Knowle. . . My servant, Sarah Dale. . . . My only son and heir Peter, and Peter's second son Peter, and his younger children, Alexander, William and Jane. . . . John Gaskell of Ingersley in Rainow and Thomas Wardle of Macclesfield, button manufacturer, to be executors. . . . /s/ Peter Gaskell Peter Gaskell, husband of Christiana Gulielma Penn, is thus shown to have been the son of a country gentleman-cum-yeoman having a link with Macclesfield, as suggested by Jenkins in his account of the family; the adjacent villages of Bollington and Rainow, both in Cheshire, are two miles north of Macclesfield. But what connection Peter's family had with the Gaskells of Lancashire and Buckinghamshire has not yet been established.' According to Mr. Dallett, Westgate Buildings, the Georgian terrace of houses in Bath where Peter and Christiana Gulielma (Penn) Gaskell lived, still stands. In Claverton village, outside Bath, just below the American Museum in Britain on Claverton Down, remains Claverton Old Rectory, the home of Gaskell's principal creditor, the Reverend Springett Penn was Christiana Gulielma GaskelPs half-brother, issue of her father's second marriage to Ann Vaux. He died in 1766 without issue. The Chancery suit, carried on by Ann Vaux's second husband, Alexander Durdin, was over the descent of tin estates originally settled on 'William Penn, Jr., the Irish portion of which wis chiefly in contest. Mr. Dillens suggesm that the elder Peter Gaskell was perhaps a son of John Gaskell of Rainow, gent., bur. 3 June 1768, at Adlington, Cheshire. John Parsons Earwaker, East Cheshire: Past and Present (London, 1877), 1,217. The posterity of Peter GaskelPs uncle John Gaskell of Ingersley in Rainow, gentleman, acquired Ingersley Hall in the nineteenth centm7. John Upton Gashes still lived there in 1882, and was also then proprietor of Tower Hill, "an old house here, formerly belonging to the Savage and the Brocklehurst from whom it passed by descent to the Gaskells.” Thomas Helsby, ed., The History of the County Palatine and City of Chester, by George Ormerod (London, 11821, HI, 771. 100 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine Richard Graves; it would have been very familiar to the Gaskells' young son Peter who went to Pennsylvania after his father's death. In the Administration Act Book of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury for November, 1803, are recorded letters of administration granted 25 November 1803, on the estate of young Peter's mother, Christiana Gulielma Gaskell, late of the Parish of St. Giles in the Fields, Middlesex, widow, to Thomas Penn Gaskell, her eldest child. She had died at her house in Thornhaugh Street, London, 24 March 1803, aged sixty-nine. Issue of Peter Gaskell and his wife Christiana Gulielma Penn:' i. THOMAS PENN GASKELL, b. C4. 1762; d. at his house in Fitzwilliam Square, Dublin, Ireland, 19 October 1823, ae. 61 years; m. 1794, MISS WARD, daughter of John Ward and his wife Jane Vesey, heretofore described as a daughter of the Dowager Countess of Glandore. Mr. Danett reports that following the death of John Ward, Jane (Vesey) Ward m. 1 November 1777, William Crosbie, Earl of Glandore, of Glandore, County Cork, and Viscount Crosbie of Ardfert, County Kerry, by whom she had no further issue and, dying in September, 1787, was bur. at Ardfert. 9 Thomas Penn Gaskell and his wife had issue an only son who died in infancy. The Shanagarry estate, which Thomas inherited from his mother, thus fell to his brother 1. Peter in America. 1.ii. PETER GASKELL, b. ca. 1764; d. in Pennsylvania 16 July 1831, in his 68th year, of whom further. ALEXANDER FORBES PENN GASKELL, d. unmarried after 1816, when he was writing to his brother Peter in Radnor, from Gray's Inn, London, according to letters in the Penn-Gaskell-Hall correspondence in the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. He was somewhat aggrieved that his brother had not accepted the offer made earlier by Alexander to house two of Peter Gaskell's young eons in England to train them as clerks in an "English profession" as opposed to an "American business." " 2. iv. WILLIAM PENN GASKELL, b. ca. 1769; d. in England, 17 November 1842, or. 73 years, of whom further. -v. JANE GASKELL, b. ca. 1772; d. in England, testate and unmarried, 19 May 1844, aged 72 years, according to her death notice in The Gentleman's Magazine, July 1844, page 103, and in which she was described as "a lineal descendant of William Penn and Robert Barclay." Her residence was given as New Ormond Street in the parish of Sc, Andrew Holborn above Bars, Middlesex, London, in her will dated 27 April 1837, and proved 1 June 1844, by her nephew William Penn Gaskell, her executor, on record in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, Na. 460 of 1844. In the will she directed that she was to be Genealogical data in the following pages is based an the information given in Jenkins, cited in Note 4, except when otherwise noted. 9 ne Complete Peerage (London, 19261, V, 6s9. In jobs W. Jordan, Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania (New York and Chicago, 1911), I, 13, the wife of Thomas Penn Gaskell is identified as "Lady Diana Sackville, daughter of the Dowager Countess of Glandore." " Tim letter in the Perui•Gaskell-Hall Correspondence, Gran Collection, Historical Society of Pennsylvania (HSP), was margined by Mrs. Robert L Cumin far Mt- Dallett in April, 1967, as per a letter from her. The Penn-Gaskell Family 101 buried in the parish in which she happened to be residing at the time of her death, "not to be buried in a vault" and that her funeral "be conducted in the simplest manner." To her "Dear brother William Pemi (laskell of Cheltenham in the County of Gloucester Esquire," she devised "our dear Mother's picture" and other goods. To his wife Elizabeth Gaskell, silver, etc. To Caroline Phillips, then living with her, as a testimony for service, she left an annuity of £40 for life and £10 for mourning, also various household effects including "silver marked P.G." To her nephew William Penn Gaskell, son of her brother William, her Bible; to Saint John's Chapel, Bedford Row, 819; the leasehold house in New Bond Street in the occupation of Mrs. Owen, and held under lease of the City of London, and all residue after payment of legacies, she left to her nephew William, he and John Freeman of Bishopsgate Street in London to be executors. The will was witnessed by Wm. Tooke, 39 Bedford Row, and W. Hallowes, his clerk. A codicil dated 23 March 1844, revoked bequests of silver and china to Elizabeth Gaskell, widow of her "late dear brother William Penn Gaskell," deceased, leaving them to Mary Gaskell, wife of her "dear nephew" William Perm Gaskell, and to his daughter Jane Gaskell. The codicil was vntnessed by Tooke and by Elizabeth Remmie, 20 Ormond Street. 1. PETER GASKELL, born about 1764, second son of Peter Gaskell and his wife Christiana Gulielma Penn, first appears in Philadelphia records in 1786, when he was assessed as a single man in North Ward, lodging with the Widow Sarah Clark." The dwelling appears to have been on the east side of North Fourth Street, about five doors above Market Street, and near the Friends' burying ground. Although he was a comparative stranger in town, as a landowner and resident he was liable for militia duty; in 1786 and 1787, at least, he was enrolled in Captain Charles Syng's 5th Company of the Third Battalion commanded by Colonel John Shee." Peter may also have been involved in the efforts of his mother's attornies to establish her claim to Philadelphia property contested by her father's other heirs. In 1789, Thomas Clifford and Mires Fisher, her attornies, applied to the Pennsylvania Supreme Executive Council to set a time for hearing "the objection of the Attorney General" to receiving "a declaration in ejectment, on her demise, to try her title to three equal fourth parts of divers lots of ground" in the city, extending from the west side of Delaware Fourth Street to the Schuylkill, 102 feet in breadth. The hearing was held 11 August 1789, but was rejected "unanimously" the following 8 September." Peter was still lodging with the Widow Clark in 1790, but was not 11 Philadelphia Assessment Lists, North Ward, Municipal Archives, Department of Records, City Hall, Philadelphia. ', Pennsylvania Archives, 6th Series, III, 1073, 1074, 1081. Minutes of the Supreme Executive Council of Pennolvenie ... 153. (Harrisburg, 1863), XVI, 105, 130, 102 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine enumerated individually. She was listed as having four males over sixteen years of age in her household, and four females including herself." He remained with her until 1793, when the yellow fever epidemic drove him out of town. That year, on 5 December 1793, he married at St. James' Episcopal Church, Perkiomen, at Evansburg in Lower Providence Township, Montgomery County, ELIZABETH EDWARDS. Born about 1773, she is said to have been the daughter of Nathan Edwards of Radnor." They lived in Montgomery County in Upper Merion Township for several years where, in 1795 Peter Gaskell signed a petition, with thirtyfive residents of the county, for the erection of a bridge over Perkiomen Creek." But a year later, when he bought the property he called Ashwood in Radnor Township, Delaware County, he was described as "Peter Gaskell of Radnor, yeoman," and in 1798 was taxed in Radnor for his "saw'd logd weather boarded" two-story house. It was then described as being 45 by 19 feet, had 27 windows, with a smoke house which was 10 by 8 feet." The property fronted on Spring Mill Road and extended east to the Lower Merion Township line. Ashwood, much enlarged by later Penn-Gaskells and their successors, still stands on what is now called Ashwood Road in Villanova, and is the home of G. Clinton Jones, IV. In 1806, three years after their mother's death, Peter's brothers and sister in England released their claim to a lot on the west side of Delaware Second Street "opposite the New Market and between Cedar and Lombard Streets." Bounded on the south by "ground claimed by Charles Hurst," the consideration money was $266.66. Similar deeds for other lots may have been executed but were not recorded." When Peter was sixty years old, and after he had succeeded to the Irish property of Shanagarry upon the death of his eldest brother Thomas Heads of Familks at the First Census of the United States . . 1790, Pennsylvania (Washington, D. C., 1900, 222. Peter Gaskell was assessed regularly at Sarah Clark's in North Ward from 1786 to 1792, after which his name disappeared from the Philadelphia assessment lists. 18 Jenkins, 244. Her parentage, however. is open to question, for no evidence has been found to establish it. The only Nath. Edwards located to date died in Middletown Twp., Delaware Co., in 1785, before their marriage, listed in Pennsylvania Archives, 2nd Series (Harrisburg. 1880), 171. 10 Peter Gaskell was assessed in U. Merlon Two. on 136 acres of land and dwell'ing, 2 hors. and 2 cattle, from 1793, when he was a single man, through 1795, and was described as a farmer. Original tax duplicates, Montgomery County Historical Society, Norristown, Pa. The petition for the bridge is in the Bulletin of the Montgomery County Historical Society, X (1956), 123. IT Delaware County Deed Book C, 285 , II May 1796, John Bewley to Peter Gaskell. United States Direct Tu, 1798, Microfilm Roll 7, National Archives, Washington, D. C. An illustramd historical and architectural survey of Ashwood (north of Lancaster Pike nod Spring Mill Road), prepared without benefit of the 1798 Direct Tax record, is in Historic American Building Surveys, U. S. Department of the Interion Pile PA-194. These records were examlned by Mr. Dane.. Philadelphia Deed Book GWR- 31, 88: 7 June 1806, Thomas Penn Gasketl et al. to Peter Gaskell. The Philadelphia deed indices were examlned only up to 1850. The Penn-Gaskell Family 103 Penn Gaskell, he assumed the additional surname of Penn "by royal license" 31 May 1824, "in compliance with the testamentary injunction of his brother." Neither his elder nor younger brothers used the hyphenated form since they both bore Penn as a Christian name and went by the double name, Penn Gaskell. Peter, however, and his descendants thenceforth used the hyphenated name (now extinct in his line), as his younger brother William's descendants have done in England in recent years, according to Mr. Dallett. It is of interest to note that the name invariably is indexed as Gaskell in Philadelphia public records. Mr. Dallett points out that Peter Penn-Gaskell, as he now called himself, was something of an amateur artist and probably the first person to paint in Radnor. A portrait by him of his neighbor, George Fisher Curwen of Walnut Hill in Lower Merion, belongs to Miss Elinor Ewing Curwen of Villanova, Pa. Peter's interest in art probably accounts for the portraits Thomas Sully painted about 1829 or 1830, of Peter and his wife Elizabeth, of their eldest surviving son Thomas, of their youngest son Isaac, and of their daughter Jane, following the death of the fourth son, Alexander Forbes Penn-Gaskell. Some of these portraits now hang in the entrance hall of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, others in Lemon Hill in Fairmount Park. Three months after the death of his fourth son, Peter Penn-Gaskell "the elder," then residing in the city, purchased for $4 S 00 a three-story brick messuage and lot on the south side of Mulberry (Arch) Street, just west of Delaware Twelfth Street." The property was purchased for his third son, married four years earlier, who was listed in 1829 at that address as "P. P. Gaskell, Jr." Peter Penn-Gaskell, Sr. died in Radnor 16 July 1831, in his sixtyeighth year, and was buried in the Lower Merion Baptist churchyard. His widow Elizabeth died testate three years later on 19 July 1834, in her sixty-second year, and was buried beside her husband. In her will she left three thousand dollars for the erection of monuments over the remains of her husband, herself and their children. In the course of time large flat marble tablets were placed upon the graves with appropriate inscriptions, some portions of which are badly eroded." .Philadelphia Deed Book GWR-37, 30: 8 December 1829, Isaac Collins to Peter Penn-Gaskell. The Ins, 46 feet west of the corner of Twelfth Street, was 24 feet wide and extended 173 feet to Sheaff Street, now presumably Ludlow. 001, 1938, the late Edward M. Hecker copied all inuriptions then in the churchyard, including the Penn-Gaskell stones. They were difficult to read then, and have not improved with time. Occasionally he mistook "threes" for "Eves:" Christiana Gulielma Hall, daughter of Peter and Elizabeth Penn-Gaskell, d. 1830, Ma 1810, and her parents cl. in 1831 and 1814, 001 1851 and 1854. However, Jane, their daughter, whom Jenkins said d. in 1852, aged 24 years, Mr. Hocker correctly transcribed as "1832, in her 24th year." The ages quoted by Jenkins do not correspond to the inscriptions; he may have gotten these from the church burial record. In the record given in this present text, they are corrected to read as given on the tombstones. The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine 104 Issue of 1. Peter Penn-Gas/cell and his wife Elizabeth Edwards: i. WILLIAM PENN-GASKELL, b. ca. 1794; d. unmarried 12 October 1817, in his 24th year, bur. L. Merion Baptist churchyard. ii. THOMAS PENN-GASKELL, b. ca. 1795; d. in L Merion Township, 18 October 1846, in his 52nd year, bur. 20 October following "in his vault at St. John's R. C. Church, Thirteenth Street above Chestnut, Philadelphia;" m. by the Right Reverend Bishop White, of Christ P. E. Church, 22 December 1825, MARY McCLENACHAN, daughter of George McClenachan and his wife Mary Morris;. d. 21 December 1867, in L. Merion Township and was bur. 24 December following in the vault in St. John's Church. Thomas PennGaskell, as the eldest surviving son, succeeded to the entailed Shanagarry estate on the death of his father Peter in 1831. According to John F. Watson, when Thomas visited the property "he was received with all the pomp and circumstances of Lordship, which a numerous tribe of tenants and mansion house menials could confer."" His widow, Mary Penn-Gaskell, entertained Granville John Penn, her husband's cousin, in January 1852, at her home, Penn Cottage, located on a 73-acre tract east of the Ashwood tract in Lower Merion.. ELIZA PENN-GASKELL, b. ca. 1799; d. testate unmarried at Ashwood, where she had lived all her life, 23 November 1865, in her 67th year, bur. at L. Merion Baptist churchyard. In her will she made elaborate provision for preserving the ownership of Ashwood in the family, but by 1888 the last part of it had been sold. 3. iv. PETER PENN-GASKELL, JR., b. 3 April 1800; d. in Philadelphia testate 6 April 1866, of whom further. v. ALEXANDER FORBES PENN-GASKELL, b. ca. 1803; d. at Ashwood unmarried, 8 September 1829, in his 27th year, bur. at L. Merion Baptist churchyard. 4. vi. CHRISTIANA GULIELMA PENN-GASKELL, b. ca. 1807; d. 20 March 1830, in her 24th year, of whom further. vii. JANE PENN-GASKELL, b. ca. 1809; d. unmarried 7 July 1832, in her 24th year, bur. at L. Merlon Baptist churchyard. The portrait of her by Sully, painted in 1829 "for Mr. Hall," apparently was commissioned by her brotherin-law, rather than by her father. viii. ISAAC PENN-GASKELL, b. ca. 1811; d. unmarried 24 October 1842, m his 32nd year, bur. L. Merion Baptist churchyard. He had received the degree of M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1834. He left a will dated 23 October 1842, which was probated 16 May 1843, by his eldest brother Thomas, to whom letters of administration had previously been granted, though "his belief of the mental incapacity" of Isaac "to make a will remains unaltered.". no Gouge McCImachan (1769-1833, son of Blnr and Ann McClenachan) and Mary Morris, his wife (d. 1849 in her 74th year, daughter of Jacob md Meribah Morris) are "Interred, wIth many other members of her family, in the L. Merlon Baptist churchyard near the Perm-Gaskell lot. .2 John F. Watson, Annals of Philadelphia and Pennsylvania . . . (Philadelphia, 1927), I, 126. 88 For an account of the entertainment, see The Pennrylvania Magazine of History and Biography (PMHB), XXIV (1900), 231. The use of the Penn Cottage tract is in Edward H. Browning, Welsh Settlement of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, 1912), 485. 24 pok, 244 The Penn-Gas/sell Family 105 2. WILLIAM PENN GASKELL, born about 1769, fourth child of Peter Gasket! of Bath and his wife Christiana Gulielma Penn, remained in England and was the progenitor of the English branch of the Penn Gaskell family. A landed proprietor of Burnham, Bucks, when his first child was born, by 1835 he had retired to Cheltenham where he died seven years later. Described as a surgeon in 1806 when he released with his brothers and sister their rights in the lot in Philadelphia to Peter Gasket!, he married before 1808, ELIZABETH, surname not known, who survived him. According to Mr. Dallett, the notice of his death in 1842 appeared in The Gentleman's Magazine for January 1843, page 106: "Nov. 17. At Cheltenham, aged 73, William Penn Gaskell, esq. lineally descended, through his mother, from William Penn, the founder and original proprietor of Pennsylvania, and [from] Sir William Springett, who was killed at the siege of Banbury." An abstract of his will, dated 24 July 1835, and proved at London 7 December 1842, reads: Will of William Penn Gaskell of Cheltenham in the County of Gloucester. . . . All real estate in England, Ireland, America or elsewhere to my dear son William Penn Gaskell. Also £13,000 at 5 percent to be his at my decease. To my dear wife Elizabeth Gaskell all household goods. To my dear wife also inn in the 31/4 percent standing in my name and her name which I consider hers already. To dear wife for her life the interest of £5000 in the 3 Va percent and at her death to my son William Penn Gaskell. Also any money left me by the late — Cotton, Esquire, or his wife, to my wife. Gold watch to my son. Gold reading glass to my dear sister Jane Gaskell. Son William Penn Gaskell and my wife Elizabeth Gaskell to be executors • • . . /s/ William Penn Gaskell The will was witnessed by Thomas Gilling, William Wakefield, and Harriet Marden, Spinster, and was proved on the oath of "William Penn Gaskell Esquire the son to whom Administration was granted, power reserved of making grant to the widow, the other Executor." Issue of 2. William Penn Gas/sell and his wife Elizabeth: 5. i. WILLIAM PENN GASKELL, JR., b. 20 February 1808; d. in England 27 December 1881, of whom further. ELIZABETH PENN GASKELL, d. unmarried between 2 August 1830, when she was corresponding with her cousin Eliza in Pennsylvania, daughter of 1. Peter Penn-Gaskell, and 24 July 1835, when her father wrote his will without naming her." 3. PETER PENN-GASRELL, JR., born 3 April 1800, was the fourth child and third son of Peter Penn-Gasket!, Sr. and his wife Elizabeth EdHis death certificate, located by Mr. Dille., is filed at the General Register Office, Somerset House, Strand, London, "07.C2, where his will is No. 815 of 1842. All information on this English Penn Gasket! fuse ins been supplied by Mr. Dallett. 20 Penn-Gaskell-Hall Correspondences Gratz Collection, FISP, cited in Note 10. 106 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine wards. Undoubtedly he was one of the sons his English uncle, Alexander Forbes Penn Gaskell, had offered to train as a law clerk in 1816. But Peter was probably apprenticed to some Philadelphia merchant instead, for by 1824 he had been in co-partnership with the merchant Thomas Earle for at least a year. On the first of March of that year, Thomas Earle and Peter Penn-Gaskell, as agents or commission merchants having become indebted to "divers persons" through unfortunate business ventures, assigned all their real, personal or mixed estate to Howell Hopkins. He was charged with their conversion into funds and the distribution of the monies arising out of the sale to their creditors, the largest of which was the Farmers and Mechanics Bank. After the creditors were satisfied, the estate was to be reconveyed to Earle and Penn-Gaskell." This apparently was only a temporary setback, for less than a year later Peter Penn-Gaskell was married by the rector of Christ Church on 15 February 1825, to LOUISA ADELAIDE HEATH, born 2 October 1805, daughter of Charles P. Heath. In 1829, they were living in the house on Mulberry Street above Twelfth which Peter's father had purchased. Here they lived until 1835, when Peter purchased for $12,500 a three-story brick house and lot on the north side of Chestnut between Schuylkill Sixth (Seventeenth) Street and Schuylkill Seventh (Sixteenth) Street. A year later he bought another house and lot further up Chestnut Street for $3500, nearer the corner of Schuylkill Sixth." Since this was a smaller property, the three-story house was the one they occupied, listed in the City Directory in 1855 as 523 Chestnut, and in 1861, when the house-numbering system in Philadelphia was stabilized, as 1613 Chestnut Street. Four years later, when he wrote his will, he was of 1613 Chestnut Street, "and of Shanagarry, County Cork," which he had inherited on the death of his elder brother Thomas in 1846. In his will he devised Shanagarry to his eldest son William, and in the event of his death without male heirs, to his own younger son Peter." Peter Penn-Gaskell, Jr. died in Philadelphia 3 April 1866, and was buried the following 7 April in Laurel Hill Cemetery in Section G, Lot 168, which he had purchased in 1847. His widow Louisa Adelaide was in London, residing at Eastbourne Terrace, Hyde Park — possibly visiting her husband's relatives — when she wrote her will 29 June 1869. ET Philadelphia Deed Book GWR-2, 135. 1 IvLarch 1824, Thomas Earle and Peter Penn-Gaskell to Howell Hopkins. The amount to be paid the bank was $117.32, .being 45 percent of the amount of debt owing!' 28 Philadelphia Deed Book AM-67, 375: 19 September 1835. Charles H. White to Peter Penn-Gaskell. This first property, formerly owned by Simon Gratz, was 22 feet wide and extended north 158 feet to Rammed Street, then called Linden. The second lot was II feet by 188 fee, Deed Book 5HF-4, 646 7 October 1836, William A. Rhodes to Peter Penn-Gaskell. Its subsequent history has not been traud. 2 . Philadelphia Will Book 57, 304, #207. 1866. The will of Peter Penn-Gaskell, dated 26 April 1865, was proved 10 April 1866, by his yid° Louisa and son Peter Penn-Gaskell, 3rd. The Penn-Gaskell Family 107 Portraits of herself, her husband's father, and her deceased daughter Gulielma she left initially to her daughter Mary Penn-Gaskell Coates, and all other paintings, books, her large Bible, and the residue of her silver plate to her son Peter Penn-Gaskell, 3rd. Three codicils, dated 22 July 1870, 7 November 1873, and 27 March 1877, in which she named grandsons Harold Coates, Penn-Gaskell Skillern, Granville Quinn, and her own son "Willie" Penn-Gaskell, were added before her death 7 February 1878. In the last codicil she left her one-third share of the house at 1613 Chestnut Street to her son Peter Penn-Gaskell, 3rd, "now living in London." She was buried in the lot in Laurel Hill Cemetery beside her husband and those children who had predeceased her." The monument now standing on the lot bears the Penn shield: a crescent in chief, on a fess three plates, and is surmounted by a cross dexter, the figure of Justice sinister. The motto is so badly eroded it is difficult to decipher. Issue of 3. Peter Penn-Gaskell, Jr. and his wife Louisa Adelaide Heath: 6. i. ELIZABETH PENN-GASKELL, b. 19 December 1825; d. in Tennessee 23 October 1866, of whom further. ii. LOUISA PENN-GASKELL, b. 15 August 1827; d. 28 March 1848, bur, in the family lot in Laurel Hill; m. at St. Stephen's P. E. Church, Philadelphia, 15 May 1845, WILLIAM GERALD FITZGERALD, of New York. Only issue: WILLIAM PENN -GASKELL FITZGERALD, b. 8 February 1847; d. 4 July 1847, bur, in the Penn-Gaskell lot in Laurel Hill. hi. MARY GULIELMA PENN-GASKELL, b. 3 August 1829; d. 21 June 1830. Her remains were bur. in Laurel Hill 25 October 1847, nine days after her father purchased the lot. Her first burial place remains unknown. iv. GULIELMA PENN-GASKELL, b. 29 May 1831; d. 25 October 1850, bur. in the family lot at Laurel Hill. v. HETTY PENN-GASKELL, b. 29 January 1833; d. 23 October 1847, bur, in the family lot in Laurel Hill. vi. MARY PENN-GASKELL, b. 12 September 1834; d. testate in Delaware County, Pa., 22 August 1877, bur, from the residence of her mother, 4058 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, in the family plot in Laurel Hill; a. m. 22 March 1865, Is66c T. CoarEs of Chester, Pa., who d. 23 June 1883. Issue: 1. porost PENN-GASAELL COATES, b. 26 February 1866; bur. 26 January 1869, or. 2-11-0, in the Penn-Gaskell lot in Laurel Hill. 2. HAROLD PENN-GASKELL COATES, b. ca. 1870; IE. FLORENCE j6avxs, said to be of Philadelphia. He was listed in the City Directory of 1891 at 711 and 3701 Walnut Street, but 8 . Philadelphia Will Book 92, 552, #544: 1878, will of Louisa Penn-Gaskell. Her birth and marriage dates are from the Penn-Gaskell-Skillern Bible records in the Collections of the Genealogical Somety of Pennsylvania. Her death date is from the inscription on the marble obelisk, now the only stone standing on the Penn-Gaskell lot in Laurel Hill. Unless otherwise noted, all dates in the accounts of her issue are taken from the Bible record, the interment records of Lmrel Hill, or from the obelisk. 85 Mary P. G. Coates' death notice is in the Philadelphia Inquirer for Friday, 24 August 1877. In her will, on record in Delaware County will Book G, 58, she left her interest in 1613 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, to her son Harold Coates. The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine 108 was not listed before or thereafter. That year he conveyed the interest his mother had left him in the home at 1613 Chestnut Street. At an undisclosed later date he was living at 4100 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, when he asked for an estimate from Laurel Hill Cemetery for maintaining the family lot. 32 According to Mr. Dallett, Dr. Penn G. Skillem thought they lived in Virginia and had issue, of whom nothing is known. 3. CHARLES MORTON COATES, b. October 1872; bur. 20 May 1873, or. 7 mos., in the Laurel Hill lot. vii. WILLIAM PENN-GASKELL, b. 9 July 1836; d. unmarried 6 December 1865, bur. in the family lot at Laurel Hill. He served with credit in the Union Army, and was discharged as a captain on a surgeon's certificate 5 July 1864. An obituary in a New Orleans newspaper, dated 13 January 1866, stated he died of consumption "in the bosom of his family." viii. JANE PENN-GASKELL, b. 4 July 1839; d. 1 November 1863, bur. in the family lot at Laurel Hill; m. 15 October 1862, WASHINGTON IRVING, said to have been a nephew of the author. He may have been the man who was paymaster, U.S.N., 1 June 1861, and who was wholly retired 11 February 1870..3 No issue. ix. EMILY PENN-GASKELL, b. 27 January 1842; d. 17 February 1869, bur. in the family lot at Laurel Hill; m. 13 January 1864, JOHN PAUL QUINN, U.S.N.; d. 6 June 1869. He was assistant surgeon, 9 May 1861, and surgeon, 30 October 1864." Issue: I. HAMILTON QUINN, b. and d. September 1865, or. 42 hrs., bur, in the family lot at Laurel Hill. 2. Guwwvn.a.n PENN QurNN, b. 6 January 1868; d. Washington, D. C., bur. in the family lot in Laurel Hill, 24 May 1892, or. 24. A week before his death he made over his rights in 1613 Chestnut Street to Delia E. Quinn for $5000. She has not been identified, nor has the B. C. Quinn who witnessed the conveyance. 0 7. a. PETER PENN-GASKELL, 3rd, b. 24 October 1843; d. Co. 1905, of whom further. 4. CHRISTIANA GULIELMA PENN —GASKELL, born about 1807, sixth child of Peter Penn-Gaskell and his wife Elizabeth Edwards, was married in Philadelphia by the rector of Christ Church on 2 January 1827, to WILLIAM HALL, born about 1799 or 1800, whose middle name is variously given as Von Swartzbrick or Swabric. He is reported to have been born at Wavertree, Lancashire, son of Richard Hall, a Liverpool merchant, who sent the young man to Philadelphia to manage a branch office." Their marriage was of short duration, for Christiana died in her twenty-fourth year on 29 March 1830, following the birth of her secI. According to the records of Laurel Hill Cemetery, a lien of $90 ranains against the lot for maintenance front May 1912, to 1 May 1920. In Philadelphia Deed Book TG-48, 491: 10 August 1891, Harold P. G. Coates to Rush ICersey Morton, Harold', wife's name was given as Florence 3. Coates. 55 Edward W. Callahan, ed., List of Officers of the Navy of the United States and of the Marine Corps front 1775 to 1900 . . . (New York, 1901), 290. Ibid., 45e. 80 Philadelphia Deed Book TG-202, 61: 17 May 1892, Granville P- Quinn to Delia E. 30 Jordan, 16, cited in Note (23.111112. The Penn-Gas/cell Family 109 ond child. Her husband survived her thirty-two years, dying 26 September 1862, in his sixty-third year. Both are buried at Lower Merion Baptist churchyard. Issue of 4. Christiana Gulielma Penn-Gas/cell and her husband William S. Hall: i. WILLIAM PENN-GASKELL HALL, b. 26 November 1827; d. in Camden, N. J., 2 May 1862, bur. L. Merlon Baptist churchyard. From 1842-1844 he was a member of the class of 1846 of the College, University of Pennsylvania, and from 1844 - 1846 a student in the Medical Department. He was "Devoted to literary and scientific study; and spent most of his time in foreign travel." A member of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, he was also the author of a number of poems published in the Bizarre and in newspapers." 8. is, PETER PENN - GASKELL HALL, b. 16 March 1830; d. 1 February 1905, of whom further. 5. WILLIAM PENN GASKELL, JR. was born in England at Burnham, Bucks, 20 February 1808," eldest child and only son of 2. William Penn Gaskell, Sr. and his wife Elizabeth. He was admitted pensioner at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, 4 July 1826; matriculated at Michaelmas, 1827; Scholar, 1829, and received his B.A. in 1831." He was the author of An address to the operative classes, being the substance of a lecture explanatory . . of the nature and objects of the Cheltenham Mechanics' Institution, published at Cheltenham in 1835, a copy of which is in the British Museum. About 1840, he married by common law, with ceremony following by license on 27 June 1842, at St. John's Church, Paddington, by the Reverend J. Symons, rector of Radnage, Berks., to MARY Homis, born at Sandhurst about 1815, daughter of John Hobbs of Sandhurst, Gloucester." They lived in Paddington, Middlesex, for a number of years: in 1841, at No. 5 Bayswater Terrace; in 1842, at No. 17 Porchester Terrace; in 1845, at No. 32 Eastbourne Terrace. From 1847 to 1855, at least, they were at Great Marlow, Bucks, where William's property was at Lane End, and where they were listed in the 1851 Census. He was then farming thirty-six acres and employing three laborers and four house servants. By 1865, they had moved to Ealing, Middlesex, where they died. BiograPhical Catalogue of She Matriculates of the College, University of Pennsylvania • • 1749-1893 (Philadelphia, 1894), 152. 98 Rains, 243, gives his precise date of hire, Mr. Duets reports that the year is corroborated by the 1851 Census, M which his age was then 43 years, and the place of birth as Burnham. H.O. 107/1719/2/1. Public Record Office, London. Data on him and his family has been supplied by Mr. Hallett. 90 .1. A. Venn, Alumni Cantabrigienses, Part II, III, 22. 40 Their marriage certificate is filed at Somerset House. In the 1851 Census, Mary Penn Gads& was aged 56 years. 110 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine William Penn Gaskell died testate 27 December 1881, having drawn his will 16 February 1877. Then of No. 1 Craven Terrace, Ealing, he left to his "dear wife Mary the house, garden and blacksmith shop at Sandhurst" as her claim to dower. All personal and other estate he left in trust to his three eldest sons, William Penn Gaskell, Thomas Penn Gaskell, and Alexander Barclay Penn Gaskell, for the benefit of his ten children, all named. The three sons were to act as trustees and were appointed executors. The will was proved at London 13 February 1882, by "William Penn Gaskell of 10 New Broad Street, London, Accountant, Thomas Penn Gaskell of 8 Victoria Chambers, Westminster, Civil Engineer, and Alexander Barclay Penn Gaskell of 1 King's Bench Walk Temple, London." The personal estate amounted to £22,911 17s. 7d.' His widow Mary survived him less than three years, dying testate 8 August 1884, at Shangarry, Hamilton Road, Ealing, Middlesex. Her will was proved 12 February 1885, by their three eldest sons." Issue of 5. William Penn Gas/tell and his -wife Mary Hobbs:' i. WILLIAM PENN GASKELL, 3rd., b. ca. 1840; d. testate 30 March 1886, at No. 40 Castletown Road, West Kensington, Middlesex.. An accountant, he left his property to his four sisters. THOMAS PENN GASKELL, b. 12 April 1841, at Bayswater, Middlesex; d. testate at Bayswater 3 May 1928; m. 12 March 1878, at the parish church of Mansfield, Notts., ADA WALLIS, b. ca. 1854, daughter of Henry Bell Wallis; d. after 1928." Thomas Penn Gaskell was a civil engineer of London, and in 1886 lived at Grange Bank, Brighton Rd., Sutton, Surrey. He was the author of five laooks, all to be found in the British Museum: Rai/ways: Their Financial Position and Prospects (London, 1874); Free Trade, a Failure from the First (London, 1903); Protection Paves the Path of Prosperity (London, 1913); The Canting Great Depression in Trade (London, 1914); and The Curse of Cobdenism (London, 1919). By his will, dated 14 June 1921, when he was living at 22 Fitz George Ave., Kensington, he left the copyright of his books to his wife and included the following direction: "I suggest to my trustees that the portrait of Guile!mina [Christiana Guliehna] Penn, the grandm William Penn GaskelPs death date is from his will, Na. 108 of 1382, Somerset House. 42 Mary Penn GaskelPs death date is from the probate of her will, No. 122 of 1885, Prerogative Court of Canterbury, Somerset House. 48 All the children, except Jane, received Penn as a Christian nune, all of them later adopted it as part of a double surname. In the next generation, Wihi,,o Penn-Gaskell, b. 1883, added the hyphen. 44 The date of his death is in the probate of his will, No. 707 of 1886, Somerset House. Dated 26 February 1882, it was proved 28 August 1886, by his brothers Thomas and George. One Charles Wilfred Gaskell, admitted pensioner, aged 22, at Jesus College, Cambridge, in October. 1894, son of W. Gukell, Esq., was born at Fulmer, Bucks, and matriculated at the same college in Michaelmas, 1894. It is suggested by Venn, Alumni Cantabrigienses, Part II, III, 22, that his father was William Penn GaskelL As the only one of the name possible to have been Ills father, he, however, appears to have been unmarried and, like all his brothers, used the double surname Penn Gaskell. 48 His birth certificate and their marrlage certificate are at Somerset House. Ada Wallis . age at marriage was 24 Pura The Penn-Gasksell Family 111 daughter [great-granddaughter] of William Penn shall on the death of my wife remain in my family as an heirloom and I make this suggestion without imposing any MUM on them."" Issue: I. WALLIS WILLIAM PENN GASRELL, some Mrie of 204 Bishopsgate, London; killed in action in World War I, 26 May 1915, with administration granted to his father 20 December 1915." 2. ADA PI-1ELLIS PENN GASKELL, living in 1945. Her portrait was hung in the Royal Academy Exhibition of 1911. She was named in the wills of her aunt Elizabeth Penn Gaskell and of her uncle George Edward Penn Gaskell. One HAROLD EDWARD PENN GASRELL, called nephew in the will of George Edward Penn Gaskell in 1945, at that time married to WINIFRED and father of Guliehna Penn Gasket!, wife of Murdoch McLennan, may have been a son of Thomas Penn Gaskell. iii. JANE GASKELL, b. ca. 1843, at Paddington; d. testate unmarried, 19 December 1923, at No. 92 Earls Court Square, Middlesex." iv. ALEXANDER BARCLAY PENN GASKELL, b. 19 March 1845, at Paddington; d. testate 30 August 1930, at No. 31 Edith Rd., West Kensington, Middlesex; m. at St. John's Church, Notting Hill, Middlesex, 9 October 1880, MIRIAM DA COSTA, b. ca. 1847; d. testate at No. 31 Edith Rd., 18 February 1927, daughter of Isaac Gomes Da Costa, late of 62 Ladbroke Grove, Notting Hill, dec'd." A barrister-at-law, in 1882 Alexander B. Penn Gaskell had offices at No. 1 King's Bench Walk, Temple, London. Issue: 1. LESLIE DA COSTA PENN GAMMA, Lieutenant in Norfolk Regiment and temporary Major, R.F.C., d. 4 February 1916, at Royal Flying Corps Hospital, 37 Dorset Square, Middlesex:. 2. WILLIAM PENN-GNSKELL, b. 4 April 1883, at Fulham, Middlesex; living in 1963 at Gardiners Ground, Beaulieu, Hampshire; m. 26 June 1919, at All Saints Church, Poole, Dorset, IRIS ELEANOR BURGOYNE (NE0e1AM) DEANE, widow, daughter of Capt. Charles Sewell Nedham. Commissioned in the 2nd Hampshire Regiment 3 September 1904, he became Major on the Reserve of Officers 17 December 1919. He returned to the colours, joining the Royal Tank Corps, became Major 8 August 1923, and retired 17 December 1926.. It was he who used the hyphen in his name, as does his son.. 4, His will, proved by his widow and brother George 4 March 1929, is No. 513 of 1929, at Somerset House. 40 Probate No. 2110 of 1911, Somerset House. s , In the 1851 Census her age was 8 years. The date of her death and residence are from the probate of her will, No. 2358 of 1925. Dated 7 February 1923, it was proved by ho sister Elizabeth as executrix cola December 1925. 4 SEvrolled as a student of the Inner Temple 13 November 1865, Alexander Penn Gaskell was called to the Bar 6 June 1868. Joseph Foster, Men-at-the-Bar (London, 1885), 172. His birth certificate and their marriage certificate are at Sommer Home. She was aged 33 years when married. Death dates are from the probate of their wills, also at Somerset Home. His, Na. 2407 of 1930, was dated 30 July 1924, when he WU then mired, and was proved 4 December 1930 by his second son. Hen. Na. 1448 of 1927, was proved 16 July 1927, by her husband. SO His dmth date is from the administration of his estate at Somerset House, granted 25 January 1919 to his father. His birth certificate is at Somerwt House. Other information is from The Army List. Their son, Leslie de Nedbon Penn-Goshen, Lieutenant-Commander, R.N., in 1963 served on H.M.S. Sr. Eagle at Londonderry, Northern Ireland, in the Supply Branch. He rn. Joyce Jesslop and had issuer Nigel William Perm-Geskell, b. 10 May 1963, according to a birth announcement in The London Times. 112 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine v. GULIELMA MARIA PENN GASKELL, b. 6 February 1847, at Great Marlow, Bucks; d. after 1882; m. 10 November 1877, at Christ Church, Ealing, Mid-. dimes, EDWARD BOWEN, b. ca. 1851, son of John Bowen, dec'd.; probably d. between 1922 and 1924.. Edward Bowen was a Licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh, and a Licentiate in Midwifery and Member of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1876. As a surgeon, at the time of his marriage he was of St. Luke's Parish, Lower Norwood, Surrey. Attached to Guy's Hospital, London, he lived for some time at Rushmere, Ritherdon Rd., Upper Tooting, London, S.W. Known issue:. 1. JOHN ALEXANDER BARCLAY PENN BOWEN, b. 25 November 1882; living in 1945; m. FRANCES STELLA, surname unknown, living in 1945. John A. B. Penn Bowen was commissioned 23 July 1901, promoted Major, Royal Army, 1 October 1917; retired 15 March 1922, and had been in the Royal Engineers in India.. In 1937 he was living at 32 Elgin Crescent, London, W.11. He and his wife were named in the 1945 will of his uncle George Penn Gaskell, who also mentioned their son John Ivor Erskine Penn Bowen, living in 1966, at Colchester, Essex, and had a daughter, Mrs. Peter Gregory. 2. PETER BOWEN, mentioned in the 1945 will of George Penn Gaskell with "all his sons and daughters." 3. GULIEL1AA MARIA PENN BOO7EN, unmarried in 1945, and named in the some will. 4. JANET PENN BOWEN, unmarried in 1945, when named in the same will. A Mrs. Hilda Perm Deane, named as a niece in the 1945 wills of Elizabeth Penn Gaskell and her brother George, together with her son of an earlier marriage, Edward Stephen Patrick Dorman, was probably a daughter of this family. vi. ELIZABETH PENN GASKELL, b. ca. 1849, at Great Marlow, Bucks; d. testate unmarried 28 May 1947, at No. 14 Bedford Ave., Bexhill-on-Sea, Sussex.. vii. MARY PENN GASKELL, b. in 1851, at Great Marlow, Bucks; d. unmarried 22 March 1885, at Shangarry, Hamilton Rd., Ealing, Middlesex." viii. FREDERICK ocrAvius PENN GASKELL, b. 2 November 1852, at Lane End, Great Marlow, Bucks; d. 25 March 1890, at Johannesburg, South Africa.. ix. ALFRED PENN GASKELL, d. testate unmarried 17 November 1922, at No. 17 Melville Rd., Brighton, Sussex." x. GEORGE EDWARD PENN GASKELL, b. ca. 1857; d. testate 12 June 1946, at Chalfont and Gerrards Cross Hospital, Bucks; m. ELEANOR CHAR"Her birth certificate and their marriage certificate are at Somerset House. Edward Bowen was aged 26 years when married. Data on his background is from listings in The Medical Directory of 1922 and of other years; his name was gone from the listings in 1924. "Possibly an incomplete record. The order of their births is not known. Information from The Army List. no in the 1851 Census she was aged 2 years. Her death date is from the probate of her will at Somerset House. Dated 1 August 1945, it was proved 25 March 1948, by her nephews John Alexander Barclay Penn Bowen and William Penn-Gaskell. 5, 10 the 1851 Census her age was given as "under 2 months." Her death date is given in the continued administration of her estate, 28 December 1925, to her brother George, at Somerset Home. 18 His birth certificate is at Somernt House; his death dam in the connnued admunstration of his estate, 28 December 1925, to his brother George, also at Somerset House. " His death date is in the probate of his will (a joint probate with that of his sister Jane), No. 2358 of 1925, at Somerset House. His will, dated 5 November 1918, named his sisters Jane and Elizabeth; the latter proved the will 25 December 1925. The Penn-Gaskell Family 113 LOTTE (LINDSAY?), who d. testate 8 May 1937, at No. 14 Mapubury Rd., Cricklewood, Middlesex." The only one of his father's ten children mentioned by Howard M. Jenkins in 1899, George Penn Gaskell matriculated at Lincoln College, Oxford, 18 October 1877, aged 20; Scholar, 1877-1881; B.A. 1881.. He was a barristerat-law of Lincoln's Inn in 1884, but practised as a solicitor. In 1898, he was living at No. 12 Nicoll Rd., Willesden, S.W., London. He retired to The Orchards at Chalfont St. Peter, Bucks, a house close to several former homes of his ancestors, and was hying there when he wrote his will. No surviving issue. 6. ELIZABETH PENN—GASKELL, born 19 December 1825, eldest child of Peter Penn-Gaskell, Jr. and his wife Louisa Adelaide Heath, married 26 July 1855, SAMUEL RUFF SKILLERN, born 16 March 1834, at Huntsville, Alabama. According to the present Dr. Penn-Gaskell Skillern, Samuel R. Skillern was "a nephew of the famous international beauty and wit, Madame Claude Le Verte, of Mobile." Samuel Skillern had graduated from the Medical School of the University of Pennsylvania, receiving his M.D. in 1854," the year before his marriage. Apparently the young couple lived in the South for a time: they were in Columbia, South Carolina, when their first child was born. During the Civil War, however, he served as surgeon with the rank of major and was in charge of Satterlee General Hospital, near what is now Forty-fourth and Baltimore Avenue." In 1865, the year the war ended, they were living at Thirty-fifth and Hamilton Avenue, according to the City Directory. Elizabeth Penn-Gaskell Skillern died testate the following year, however, at Pulaski, Tennessee, on 23 October 1866. Exactly five months before she had drawn her will in Philadelphia. In it she devised to her own issue, in equal shares, the income of her share of E10,000 her father Peter Penn-Gaskell, Jr. had directed in his will was to be raised out of the Shanagarry estate in Ireland for the use and benefit of his married daughters." She was buried 3 November 1866, in her father's lot at Laurel Hill Cemetery. Her husband continued to practice in Philadelphia; in 1880 he was riving at 3416 Baring Street, and later at 3509 Baring Street. He married secondly, Sarah Ross, daughter of William H. Ross, former governor 65fl,j, death dates are from the probates of their wills in Somerset House. His, dated 25 October 1945, and proved 10 October 1946, named many members of his family and mentioned "rny late wife's brother Bertram Alexander Lindsay," suggesting her maiden name. It was witnessed by his fssm manager and farm secretary. His wife's will, dated 27 March 1937, was proved 7 October 1937. 05 Joseph Foster, Alumni Ozonienses, Later seem, II, 513 05 General Alumni Catalogue of the University of Pennsylvania (1922), 125. 05 Data from his obituary is the Philadelphia Public Ledger, Friday, 18 February 1921, page 5, column 2. Os Will of Elizabeth Penn-Gaskell Skillet", recorded in Philadelphia Will Book 59, 402, #100: 1866. 114 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine of Delaware. She died about 1911, leaving issue, Dr. Samuel R. Skillern, Jr., Dr. Ross H. Skillern, and Claude L. V. Skillern. Dr. Samuel Skillern, Sr., died at the home of his son, Ross, in Ardmore, Pa., 17 February 1921, aged eighty-seven.' Issue of 6. Elizabeth Penn-Gaskell and her husband Samuel Ruff Skillern:" 9. i. PETER PENN-GASKELL SKILLERN, b. 28 April 1856, at Columbia, S. C.; d. 25 July 1911, of whom further. IRVING H. SKILLERN, b. 24 April 1858; d. 1 October 1858, or. 5 mos. 6 days. LOUISE FITZGERALD SKILLERN, b. 17 May 1859; bur. at Laurel Hill in the Penn-Gaskell lot, 11 March 1862. 7. PETER PENN—GASKELL, 3rd, born 24 October 1843, youngest child of Peter Penn-Gaskell, Jr. and his wife Louisa Adelaide Heath, was their only son to have issue and carry on the Penn-Gaskell name in the American branch of the family. Educated at Heidelberg University, he returned to America at the outbreak of the Civil War, and at the age of nineteen was commissioned second lieutenant in the First Regiment New Jersey Cavalry on 7 April 1862. Promoted to first lieutenant the following 7 November, he was made captain 23 October 1863, but resigned 3 February 1864, to become major in the Second Louisiana Cavalry in which he served until 7 September 1864. His elder brother William dying in 1865, on the death of his father Peter Penn-Gaskell, Jr. in 1866, Peter, 3rd, succeeded to the Shanagarry estates in Ireland. He was admitted by "Dispensation" to Lodge No. 51, Free and Accepted Masons of Pennsylvania, on 24 May 1866, but resigned 23 April 1868," and removed to England. He married in England on 6 July 1869, MARY KATHLEEN STUBBS, daughter of Charles Edward Stubbs of Sussex Square, Hyde Park, London. They visited Philadelphia, probably in 1876, the Centennial Year, and, when in 1877 an engraving of his ancestor, William Penn, the Founder, was presented to Peter by the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, he became a subscriber to the Society's Publication Fund." He is reported to have died in 1905; when his widow, Mary Kathleen Gaskell, died 13 November 1915, she was living at 50 Castle Hill Avenue, Folke65 From Dr. Skillern's obituary, cited above. 30. The names and dates of these children are from the Penn-Gsskell-Skillem Bible record cited in Note Of them, Louise is the only one who appears to have been buried at Laurel Hill. 5, In Jordan, 16, cited in Note 9, there is a somewhat fuller account of Peter Penn.Gaskdl, led, than that given in Jenkins, 249. Memoirs of Lodge No. fl, F. ES A. M. of Pegnsylvessto (Philadelphia, 1941), 445, gives his Masonic membership. PMHB, 1)1877), frontispiece, 309, and Arcldves of The Historical Society of Pennsylvania. Watson, Agnal$, III, 98. The Penn-Gaskell Family 115 stone, Kent. Her will was proved at Dublin by her son, Captain William Penn-Gaskell, and sealed at London 29 March 1916." Issue of 7. Peter Penn-Gas/cell, 3rd, and his wife Mary Kathleen Stubbs: i. WILLIAM PENN-GASKELL of Shanagarry, County Cork, d. testate 12 October 1916, in action in France. A captain in H.M. 18th Service Battalion, Manchester Regiment, probate of his will was granted at Cork to William Bennett Barrington, solicitor, and Henry Foster Longfield, land agent, and sealed at London 30 March 1917. PERCY CHARLES PENN-GASKELL, of Redbrook House, Hythe, Kent, d. testate 26 February 1937, at Bevan House, Folkestone, Kent. When he wrote his will he was of Elirdigh Court, Stelling, Kent, and was retired as a major in H.M. Army. Probate was granted at London on 7 May 1937, to Nina Irving Baber, wife of Philip Baber, and to Ernest Harold Wainwright, solicitor. Mrs. Baker, then of 9 Bush Lane, London, and Wainwright, the solicitor, he named trustees for his daughter Patricia Penn-Gaskell until she reached the age of 30 or was married. Having succeeded to the Irish estates, he left them in trust for ha daughter. He named his sister Winifred Penn - Gaskell, and mentioned his and her "combined collections of pewter." He also established a trust for his godson Peter Baber, and desired that when he became aged 25, or upon the testator's death, he assume the surname of Penn-Gaskell, but without any legal obligation to do so. The will was witnessed by M. A. Semple, clerk to Messrs Kingsfords, Solicitors, Canterbury. Major Percy PennGaskell m. after 1911, an actress, but she was not named or mentioned in his will. Issue: 1. PATRICIA PENN-GASKELL, b. after 1911; in 1951, AS Mrs. Patricia Fox, she lived at 38 Grenville Place, Brighton, Sussex. WINIFRED ETHEL PENN-GASKELL, of Scobitor, Widecome-in-the-Moor, Devon, when she wrote her will 22 July 1937, was unmarried. She appointed the National Provincial Bank, Ltd., 66 Trafalgar Square, London, W.C. 2, and Mrs. Ivy Gatliff of Colley House, Tedbury St. Mary, Exeter, as executors. To Mrs. Gatliff she left the portrait of her great-grandfather "Tat Tito;" to the Torquay Corporation her pewter collection and portrait of the Earl of Peterborough by Michael Dahl. To her niece, Patricia Penn - Gaskell, daughter of her late brother, Major Percy Charles Penn-Gaskell, she left personal effects, and legacies to friends. The will was witnessed by clerks at Messrs Kitsons, Solicitors, Torquay?. 8. PETER PENN-GASKELL HALL, born 16 March 1830, second and younger son of Christiana Gulielma Penn-Gaskell and her husband William S. Hall, was tutored abroad, attended Princeton College, studied law and was admitted to the bar of Philadelphia. Commissioned second lieutenant 31 May 1861, in the Twenty-sixth Pennsylvania Volunteers, he was advanced to first lieutenant 25 August following, and four months ." From the Probate Index of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, Somerset House, comes all information on her will and those of her children, and is supplied by Mr Dalian. 7 . Data on Mrs. Patricia Fox, who was or is an actress also, and on the will of her aunt Winifred Penn Gaskell, is from a letter to Mr. Dallett by Laurence Easterbrook of 'camas, Easterbrook & Co., Torquay, Devon, dated 25 September 1966. 116 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine later on 24 December 1861, married ANNIE M. MIXSELL, born about 1841, daughter of Philip Mixsell of Easton, and his wife Sarah Deihle. 71 He participated in the Peninsula Campaign of 1862, and on 6 November 1863, was commissioned major and appointed paymaster of Volunteers, which office he held until 15 November 1865. At the end of the war he entered the regular army and was appointed paymaster with the same rank 17 January 1867. He served until 2 July 1891, when he retired after more than twenty years' service. He was brevetted lieutenant-colonel for meritorious service. His first wife Annie died at Vicksburg, Mississippi, 14 February 1869, and was buried at Lower Merion Baptist churchyard. Issue of 8. Peter Penn-Gaskell Hall by his 1st wife Annie M. Mixsell: i. CHRISTIANA GULIELMA PENN-GASKELL HALL, b. at Ashwood, 19 April 1863; d. testate unmarried at Fox Street and Abbottsford Ave., Philadelphia, 25 June 1938; bur. at L. Merion Baptist churchyard. In her will, dated 30 June 1905, five months af ter the death of her father, and proved 2$ June 1938, by her half-brother, Peter Penn-Gaskell Hall, Jr., she left him all family portraits — presumably those exhibited at the Academy of Fine Arts' Historical Portrait Exhibition in 1887-1888 — for his life. He was to decide which member of the family was best fitted to have them after his decease, and in no case were they to be divided, but to descend as a whole. In default of his decision, they were to go to the city of Philadelphia as a permanent part of the collection then in Memorial Hall, or to such other public art gallery as might be established in Fairmount Park. The whole were to be designated as presented by herself "in memory of the Penn-Gaskell family, descended from William Penn in the ninth generation." ta ii. ELIZA HALL, b. at Baltimore, Md., 1 February 1865; d. ca. 1917, at 906 Spruce St., Philadelphia; m. 1 July 1892, HENRY J. HANCOCK, d. ca. 1906, son of George W. Hancock and his wife Elizabeth James A member of the Philadelphia Bar, the Hancocks lived at the Lincoln Apartments, 1222 Locust Street, with his office first at 403 Girard Building, and later in the Real Estate Trust Building. After her husband's death, Eliza made her home with her half - brother Peter Penn-Gaskell Hall, Jr. until he moved elsewhere, at which time the property on Spruce Street appears to have been turned over to her. From about 191$ until her death she was the only one listed at that address in the City Directories. Issue: 1. Jean Barclay Penn - Gaskell Hancock, d, unmarried; bur. in St. David's churchyard, Radnor, Pa. EDWARD SWARBRIC HALL, b. at Ashwood, 1867; d. at Vicksburg, Miss., January, 1869; bur. at L. Merion Baptist churchyard?' 71 Jordan, 20, which amplifies the account in Jenkins. 78 Will of Christiana Penn-Gaskell Hall recorded in Philadelphia Will Book PS-128, 346, #2611: 1938. In the Penn-Geskell-klall Correspondence, cited in Note 26, there are numerous letters written in 1899, by "Gulie," as she signed herself, to het father describmg the European tour she and her sisters were making. In the light of the cost of such a tour today, the amount of money her father sent for the;r expenses is of some interest. TS sp.u,d on the Slane in the churchyard. The Penn-Gas/cell Family 117 iv. ANNIE M. HALL, b. at Vicksburg, Miss., January, 1869; d. at Holly Springs, Miss., May, 1869, bur. at L. Merion Baptist churchyard. In November 1871, some two and a half years after the death of his first wife Annie, 8. PETER PENN-GASKELL HALL married AMELIA MIXSELL, at San Antonio, Texas. She was apparently deceased by 1899, when the daughters were touring Europe. Her husband took up residence at 906 Spruce Street after his retirement from the Army, and lived there until his death, occupying his time with his memberships in the Historical Society, Society of Colonial Wars, the Colonial Society, of which he was president, the Philadelphia Club, and other organizations." He died 1 February 1905, and was buried at Lower Merion Baptist churchyard. Issue of 8. Peter Penn-Gas/cell Hall by his 2nd wife Amelia Mixsell: v. WILLIAM PENN-GASKELL HALL, b. at San Antonio, Texas, 16 January 1873; d. 27 July 1927, bur. at L. Merion Baptist churchyard; m. at St. Luke's P. E. Church, Philadelphia, 8 December 1904, CAROLINE HARE DAVIS, b. 20 July 1876; d. 2 September 1942, daughter of Sussex Delaware Davis, Esq. and his wife Mary Fleming Hare, bur. at L. Merion Baptist churchyard. Educated at private schools, he was listed as a civil engineer before his marriage while he was living at 906 Spruce Street with his brother Peter. After his marriage he was listed at 1118 Spruce Street until 1910, and was associated with his brothers in the Hall Gas Engine Company which they established in 1905. A member of the Racquet Club, Colonial Society, Society of Colonial Wars, etc., he probably died at his place in Chester County, Leventhorpe. Issue:. 1. MARY FLEMING HARE HALL, b. at 1118 Spruce Street, 31 December 1905; M. and has issue. 2. WILLIAM LEVENTHORPE PENNGASRELL Ham., b. at Atlantic City, N. J., 9 October 1908; m. and has issue. vi. PETER PENN-GASKELL HALL, JR., b. at New York City, 14 March 1875; d. testate unmarried at Hahnemann Hospital, Philadelphia, 26 April 1962, bur. at L. Merion Baptist churchyard, where his name is inscribed on the stone of his grandmother. An engineer by profession, with his brothers he established the Hall Gas Engine Works in 1905, and was president of the company for some years. From about 1915 through 1925 he was listed at 2833 Pratt Bldg., in which latter year he was listed as president of the Hall Planetary Thread Milling Machine Co., and was living with his sister at Fox and Abbottsford Avenue. At his death he was living at the Parkway House, 22nd and the Parkway, and had a summer place at Kentmore Park, Kennedyville, Md. He left his estate to his nephew, William Penn-Gaskell Han, Jr., and named the Second National Bank of Philadelphia executor." vii. AMELIA HALL, b. at New York City, 9 February 1877; dec'd; m. by ArchJord., 20. 7, Ibid., 22. 75 Petee Penn-Gaskell Hall's will is #1570: 1962, examined ea mierofilm, City Hall. The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine 118 bishop Ryan at the Cathedral of SS. Peter and Paul, Philadelphia, 10 December 1902, RICHARD PHILIP McGRANN of Grandview, Lancaster County; deed. Issue: BERNARD PENN-GASKELL MCGRANN, b. at Grandview 20 November 1903; m. SARAH H. (KEOWN) STEVENSON:' viii. PHILIP PENN-GASKELL HALL, b. at Ashwood, 10 September 1878; deed; m. at Wilmington, Del., 21 December 1901, MARY ELOISE HILTON; dec'd. Educated at the Forsythe School, Philadelphia, as a machinist he was associated with his brothers in the Hall Gas Engine Works and was secretary of the company for a number of years. Between 1905 and 1930 he was listed at various addresses in the city, but apparently lived, or had his permanent residence, in New London Township, Chester County. Known issue: 1. MARY ELOISE HALL, b. at 906 Spruce Street, 4 October 1902. 2. ANIELIA HALL, I,. at 906 Spruce Street, 27 November 1905. 15 9. PETER PENN-GASKELL SKILLERN, born 28 April 1 8 5 6, at Columbia, South Carolina, eldest and only surviving son of Elizabeth PennGaskell and her husband, Samuel Ruff Skillern, was educated at Rugby Academy, Philadelphia, Phillips Andover Academy, and Pennsylvania Military Academy. He was graduated from the Medical School of the University of Pennsylvania in 1877, and was in practice in 1890, at 427 South Broad Street. Five years later he was located at 241 South Thirteenth Street, where he lived and practiced until his death. By 1890 he had dropped the Christian name of Peter and thenceforth was known as Dr. Penn-Gaskell Skillern. At the church of St. James the Less in Philadelphia, he married first, on 7 October 1878, ANNA DORSEY, born 17 October 1861, at 2121 Delancey Place, daughter of Robert Ralston Dorsey, M.D., of Philadelphia. She died 8 October 1900, at 241 South Thirteenth Street, and was buried in the churchyard of St. James the Less. Penn-Gaskell Skillern married secondly, after 1900, THEODOSIA HARTMAN, born 19 February 1860, and died 23 June 1935, without issue. Her husband had predeceased her, dying testate 25 July 1931." Both are buried at St. James the Less. Issue of 9. Penn-Gas/cell Skillern and his 1st wife Anna Dorsey: I. VIOLET PENN-GASKELL SKILLERN, b. 13 November 1879, in Philadelphia; d. 20 May 1948, bur. at St. Jam. the Less. The Bible from which many of the dates in this present record have been taken, was in her possession when photostats were made for the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania. PETER PENN-GASKELL SKILLERN, Jo., b. at Philadelphia 26 March 1882; ', Jordan, 21; General Alumni Catalogue, cited in Note 62. D Jordan, 21. The will of Dr. Peter Penn-Gaskell Skillern is recorded in Philadelphia Will Book 564, 42, #2720: 1951. Dated at Sharon Hill, Pa., 9 October 1921, it was proved 5 August 1931, by his widow to whom he left his estate. Data on him and his family is largely from information supplied Mr. Dallett in 1961 by his son, Dr. Penn G. Skillern of South Bent, Indiana. The Penn-Gaskell Family 119 living in 1961 at South Bend, Indiana; m. at Kjoge, Denmark, 1 October 1918, LISA MARGRETA VALENTINER, daughter of Julius Valentina. of Kjoge; Living in 1961. Like his father, he dropped the Christian name of Peter and went by the hyphenated Penn-Gaskell. He was educated at William Penn Charter School, Philadelphia, and was graduated from the Medical School of the University of Pennsylvania, M.D., in 1903. He was a member of Phi Delta Theta, Phi Alpha Sigma, the class bowling team, and in 1903 received the Medical Society prize in bandaging. A surgeon, he was later associate professor of surgery in the Graduate School. Twice commended for devotion to service in World War I, he was a lieutenant in the Marine Corps, U.S.N.R.F. in the transport service. A member of the University and Aesculapian Clubs, in 1922 he was at 1523 Locust Street, but had removed to South Bend, Indiana by 1924. Issue: 1. PENN.GASKELL SKILLERN, M.D., b. 26 July 1920, in Philadelphia; living in East Cleveland, Ohio, in 1961; m. at Cleveland 4 April 1959, NORA BETTY MORRIS, b. in Mattingley, Hampshire, England, 15 December 1930, daughter of Frederick George Morris of Crowthorne. They have no issue. 2.. ANNA Lisa SKILLERN, b. in Philadelphia 16 September 1922; m. at New Orleans, La., CARL Twsso Smrm, b. at Angola, Ind., 18 April 1919. He is a graduate of Louisiana State University, and has three daughters and two sons, all b. at New Orleans." 3. SCOTT DORSEY SKILLERN, M.D., b. at South Bend, 17 May 1924; m. at Gary, Indiana, 9 March 1957, JOYCE MCCULLOUGH, b. at Gary, 22 May 1931, daughter of William Elmer McCullough. Scott Dorsey Skillern graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1951, and in 1961 was of South Bend, Indiana." 50 Th, children are: 1. Lisa Suzanne Smith, b. 13 September 1948. 2. Richard Mark Smith, b. Si October 1950, 3. Christine Smith. b. 10 December 1952. 4. Carl Torso Smith, jr., b. 15 February 1955. 5. Nancy Smith, b. 31 December 1956. 5 .01 1961, they had one daughter: Dorsey Skiltern, b. 1 June 1958, at South Bend. Information Wanted joHN T. ROBERTSON, b. ca. 1809 in Maryland; d. 1 Sept. 1894, in N. Liberty, Iowa; M. ca. 1830 in Maryland or Pennsylvania, HANNAH W/LLIABIS (possibly descended from Robert Williams of Westmoreland Co., Pa.), b. ca. 1810 in Maryland; d. 6 Feb. 1891, in N. Liberty. Issue, b. in Pennsylvania: Susan, David, William, Abraham, John B., Daniel, Barbara, Benson Wigton, b. 18 March 1849, Franklin Pierce, Sarah, and Ellen Robertson. In 1854 the family was in Tiffin, Jefferson Co., Iowa. JANE COWAN (possibly daughter of Patrick Cowan), b. 4 June 1802; m. April, 1826, at Middlespring Presbyterian Church, Cumberland Co., Pa., JANIES Goanox FRENCH, and had children b. in Indiana. Her parentage, and the parentage of John T. Robertson and wife Hannah Williams is sought by Mrs. Luther French, 519 Adams St., Midvale, Utah, 84047, who will exchange information on these families.