[39599] Find A Grave Memorial 110010124 offers: "Ruth Allen Perkins, 87, died Aug. 20, 2012, in Penobscot. She was born Feb. 8, 1925, in Lincoln, daughter of William O. and Anne (Lambert) Allen. She is survived by two sons, Bernard H. Perkins Jr., and William D. Perkins Sr., and wife, Jinnie, all of Penobscot; two daughters, Katheryn P. Berglewicz and husband, Tom, of Trenton, and Kelly S. Perkins and significant other, Paul, of Penobscot; eight grandchildren, Melanie L. Perkins, William D. Perkins Jr., Tiffany J. Perkins and husband, Seamus, Emily A. Reinstein and husband, Charles, Meaghan A. Perkins, Adam J. French and partner, Amanda, Brook C. Perkins and partner, Jon and Gabrielle S. Farrenkopf; and three great-grandchildren, Chloe A. Perkins, Olivia M. Perkins and Mason J. Perkins; and one great-great-grandchild, Jordyn H. Perkins. Ruth is also survived by one brother, Harold A. Allen and wife, Eleanor; as well as several nieces and nephews. She was predeceased by one son, Robert A. Perkins, in 1976; and an infant daughter, Sara Jane Perkins, in 1967."
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[46301] Alfred and Irene are from the unverified 2020 Campbell Family Tree in Ancestry.com which provides their parents.
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[16273] See the unverified file LYZP-BDP in familysearch.org.
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[49722] "The Ellsworth American [Ellsworth, Maine]. 2 December 2021": "Dr. Augusta Foster Law, who spent her childhood in Ellsworth, died after a short illness at the RiverMead Retirement Community in Peterborough, N.H. She was 98. Born in Sargentville on Oct. 19, 1922, to Mildred (Sargent) Foster and Charles K. Foster I, she attended Ellsworth High School, the University of Maine at Orono, Tufts Medical School and the Harvard School of Public Health. Augusta and her husband, Dr. Alexandre G. Law, settled in Milford, N.H., in 1954. A remarkable trailblazer in the medical field, her long career in public health included positions at the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, the Harvard School of Public Health and the New Hampshire Division of Public Services. In addition to her work in public health, she assisted her husband and other area physicians in general practice. Dr. Law was preceded in death by her husband, her parents and her beloved brother, Charles 'Pat' Foster II, of Ellsworth. Dr. Law is survived by her son and three daughters: Ian Law (Wanda) of San Diego, Calif.; Marjorie Law (Joe) of Crawfordville, Fla.; Susan Fleisher (Adam) of Poughkeepsie, N.Y.; and Aimee Heru (Michael) of East Greenwich, R.I. In addition to her four children, Augusta is survived by seven grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren."
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[1889] Ratherius is reputed to be "builder of Rotterdam."
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[55430] AZlice is daughter of John C. Hutchinson (1858-1934) & Alice Janet Straight (1864-1947).
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[52926] "Bangor Daily News [Bangor, Maine]." 26 September 2011: "Presque Isle - George I. Leach, 86, died peacefully Sept. 25, 2011, at his home. He was born Sept. 25, 1925, in Presque Isle, son of George and Evelyn (McEntee) Leach. George was employed by Hedrich Vending for 30 years. He is survived by his wife of 65 years, Marjorie (Sprague) Leach of Presque Isle; a daughter, Carol Adams and her husband, Dellas, of Easton; a son, Glen Leach and his fiancee, Darlene Akeley, of Squa Pan Lake; four grandchildren, seven great-grandchildren; two sisters, Evelyn Miller and her husband, Ronald, of Fort Myers, Fla., and Christine Leach of Fort Fairfield; and a brother, Darrell Leach and his wife, Mary, of Presque Isle."
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[23080] William m. (1) Ann Barby, daughter of John Barnby, and (2) Isabel Bosvile. See http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~pmcbride/rfc/gw47.htm
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Catherine Armstrong (at http://castlewales.com/mar_chld.html) reports: "When William died, his brother Richard, who was his heir, was in France. Richard did not arrive in England until the end of July 1231. Roger of Wendover in his history writes that King Henry III tried to deny Richards right to seisin of his parents and brothers lands, titles, and offices on the advice of Hubert de Burgh, justiciar. He writes that Richard went immediately to Ireland to raise the military support he needed to take possession of his inheritance by force if necessary, and this action made Henry III grant him seisin. Wendover is the only chronicle that tells this story. Other chronicles state that Richard did homage and was granted investiture of all his lands on August 3, 1231.
"Richard had been granted the Giffard lands of Orbec and Longueville in Normandy by the wish of his father and the deed of his brother William in 1220. Richard also held lands in England and had been to England many times though he had spent most of the years between 1220 and 1231 in France caring for the Normandy lands and castles. Prior to 1224 Richard had married Gervase, daughter of Alan de Dinan, and had become in her right lord of Dinan and Viscount of Rohan in Brittany. One chronicle writes that Richard had received the best knightly and chivalric training in France and was the "marshal of the army of the King of France."
"After receiving investiture of his lands, Richard spent time in Ireland from November 1231 to June 1232. In the month of June 1232 Richard met King Henry III at Worcester and worked out an arrangement in regard to the dower rights of Henrys sister Eleanor, widow of William the younger. When Hubert de Burgh was attacked and accused by Peter des Roches and Henry of all manner of evils in October 1232, Richard stood by him and acted as one of the four earls who stood as surety for de Burghs actions and accountability.
"Peter des Roches, bishop of Winchester and a Poitevin, was the bitterest enemy of Richard Marshal and sought to destroy him at all costs. In the winter of 1233, des Roches managed to get Richards representative at court, William de Rodune, dismissed and to replace all the English ministers of King Henry III with foreign advisors. In July 1233, des Roches took the lands of Gilbert Basset and Richard Siward, Richards strong supporters, and gave them to his own son Peter des Rievaux. In this month des Roches also issued orders that Richards messengers returning from France were to be searched when they arrived in Dover.
"Richard, with his brother-in-law Richard of Cornwall, was engaged in warfare with Llywelyn in the early months of 1233. The king called for a conference at Westminster in July, but the barons did not come. In August another peace conference was proposed, and Richard was on his way there when his sister Isabel met him at Woodstock and told him to turn back as des Roches had laid a trap for him at this conference. Richard returned to Wales, and when the King called another conference at Gloucester on August 14, Richard did not appear. Henry III declared him a traitor and deprived him of his office as marshal of England.
"This was too much for Richard, son of William Marshal. The king had declared him a traitor and taken his hereditary office of marshal without notice and without hearing and justice from a jury of his peers. The king had blatantly broken the laws of Magna Carta and abused his own position as king and feudal lord. Richard formed an alliance with Llywelyn, and the king invaded Richards lands and tried to take his castle of Usk. A truce was agreed upon, and Richard gave his castle of Usk into the kings keeping until the conference at Westminster on October 2 decided matters between the marshal and the king. When the conference did not resolve the dispute and the king refused to return Richards castle of Usk, Richard and his Welsh allies retook Usk and the castles of Abergavenny, Newport, and Cardiff. In November 1233 the kings army advanced to Grosmont castle, and Richards supporters routed them and took great spoils. Richard himself did not take part in this battle, as he would not attack the person of the king. In January 1234, Richard led the attack against the royal army under John de Monmouth and soundly defeated them, and later attacked Shrewsbury with Llywelyn.
"Edmund the Archbishop of Canterbury had seen enough of the self-destruction of England; he went to King Henry III and told him that he must rid himself of his foreign advisors and send them out of England as they were destroying the country and the people. Edmund brought about the dismissal of des Roches and the other Poitevins and a truce by April 9,1234. It was too late to save Richard Marshal.
"Peter des Roches, determined to destroy Richard Marshal, had devised a way to accomplish it. He had managed to get Henrys signature on writs that declared that Richard was a traitor and any one of his barons in Ireland who captured and/or killed him would acquire Marshals lands in Ireland. With these writs, des Roches managed to get the de Laceys, Richard de Burgh, Geoffrey de Marisco and others, some of whom were Marshals own vassals, to attack Richards lands and castles in Ireland. Richard immediately went to Ireland in February 1234 and took Limerick and retook many of his own castles. Since Richard was defeating these men in honorable warfare, the de Laceys asked the Templars to set up a truce between all sides. A conference was set for April 1, 1234 on the Curragh of Kildare. Marisco came with Richard to the conference, acting as a medieval Quisling. Except for fifteen loyal knights of Richards own men, the rest of the men with him were traitors. Richard wanted to grant terms, but Marisco advised him to demand his castles and lands back first. When he did this, the de Laceys immediately appealed to force which left Richard and his fifteen loyal men facing at least one hundred and forty armed opponents. Richard recognizing the betrayal, refused to retreat saying that, "I am well aware that I am doomed to die this day, but it is better for me to die with honour in the cause of justice than to incur the reproach of my fellow knights for cowardice" (Wendover 588-90). The battle raged and Richard proved the equal of his father in knightly combat. They could not unhorse or defeat him in fair combat, so the traitors first killed his horse by cutting off his legs. Then while Richard was trying to regain his feet from this fall, they stabbed him in the back beneath his armor. Since Richard was not immediately killed, they took him to Kilkenny castle, that they had illegally taken from Richard. On April 16, 1234, when Richard was actually on the way to recovering, they brought in a surgeon who cauterized Richards wounds so roughly and deeply that he caused Richards death. This man was the Earl of Pembroke and marshal of England and related to the most powerful and important magnates in England and Ireland. Yet these men took Richards badly damaged body secretly to the Franciscan abbey at Kilkenny, and there had him buried immediately with none of his family present and none to see to the care of his body. Even by medieval standards and practices, this was unbelievable. When Henry III heard of this murder, he claimed innocence and lack of knowledge of the contents of the writs he had signed. Here is where the historian has to make a judgmental decision. Henry III was twenty-seven years old and had been ruling England in his own right for more than seven years. Under these circumstances there are two choices; either Henry III was mentally incompetent or he was lying. Henry III owed his life, his crown, and his kingdom to William Marshal, and he had contrived and participated in the murder of Marshals second born son.
"Of all of Marshals sons, Richard was the closest to equaling his father in honour, knightly skills, and nobility of character. Richard had not attacked the king; he had tried every means at his disposal to make the king see and do what was right according to English law, custom, and the clauses set down in the Magna Carta. Only when Richard was personally attacked, did he try to defend himself and the justice and laws of England. There have been some recent works defending des Roches and Henry III and their actions, but nothing can refute the truths of the contemporary chroniclers.
"According to contemporary chronicles, 'Richard was a man endowed with all honorable qualities, distinguished for his noble birth, well-endowed in liberal arts, most vigorous in the exercise of arms, and one who kept God before his eyes in all his works' (Ann Mon ii 313). The ghosts of Richards parents must have wept and raged at the betrayal of their son by men who owed almost everything they possessed to the power, honour, and fealty of Richard 'Strongbow' de Clare and William Marshal earl of Pembroke.
"On Richards death, his brother Gilbert was his heir and successor."