Updated December 6, 2021
These
are the
people
our researchers would most like to know about. They are arranged
by family.
THE PETER LEVALLEY FAMILY
Ancestral home of Peter
LeValley
Peter and Sarah
LeValley arrived in Marblehead MA with perhaps as many as five children
by 1718. Clues linking the family to St. Mary's Parish on the
isle
of Jersey have not stood up under investigation.
Cowesett Cemetery,
Rhode Island
The cemetery where
the earliest LeValleys were buried has vanished. A report around
1900 stated that only a few of the headstones were still
standing.
Later in the century, it was paved over, and is now reportedly the
parking
lot of a restaurant. No one seems to know what happened to the
tombstones,
or whether the bodies were moved.
None of the
following
graves have been located, though I suspect the two graves with
uninscribed
fieldstones in the Peter LeValley Cemetery [named after the original
Peter's
oldest grandson] may belong to John and Ann. Some of the women
may
have been buried with their husbands' families. The rest were
probably
buried at Cowesett.
Peter LeValley c.1683-1757
=Sarah
John 1714-1808
=Hester COOK (?)
Christopher c.1746-c.76
=Ann
Martha 1780-1823 =Elijah FOSTER
Christopher 1782-1807
Sarah c.1787- =Henry PARISH
Sarah =Peleg COOK
Michael 1720-c.76 =Almy BAILEY
Marcy c.1763-c.96 =Nathan HATHAWAY +++
Amy c.1765-
Sarah 1768- =John WOOD +++
Caleb 1771- =Alice FENNER
Waity 1795-inf.
Mary 1775-1856 =Israel JOHNSON
PETER>CHRISTOPHER
Father of John's first
wife
Hester
(probably Cook)
Peleg COOK
(fl. 1750 Warwick RI) m. Sarah LeValley (b. c.1717). Her brother
John (1714-1808) m. (1) Hester (d. c.1767), thought to be a sister of
Peleg
Cook. Hester's father (name unknown) fl. Marblehead MA, where he
disappeared at sea April 1768, in a schooner with Samuel FORTIN.
Can anyone identify Hester's or Peleg's father?
Name of Christopher's
wife
I am seeking the
name of the woman who m. (1) Christopher LEVALLEY (c.1746-c.76) of
Warwick,
RI. Their children were James, George, Eunice MATTESON, Martha
COLVIN,
and probably a younger Christopher. She m. (2) _______ TINGLEY,
and
had a daughter, Esther, who years later visited her half-brother James
at Lockport, NY. The name BRUMLEY has come down as a middle name,
and may have been this mystery woman's maiden name. The only
Tingley
to ever appear in the Kent County RI censuses was an Elizabeth, aged
over
45 in 1800, living at East Greenwich six doors from Christopher
LeValley's
cousins, Marcy & Nathan HATHAWAY. Could this be her, widowed
a second time? Earlier, in 1751, a Mr. Tingley, unknown to the
minister,
sponsored the baptism of Christopher's cousin Paul KING (son of
Magdalen
and Mary). Any connection?
Washburn connection
I am seeking the
parentage of Sarah WASHBURN (d. c.1836), who m. c.1808 in Lee, Oneida
County,
NY [Sylvinus] Gardner LEVALLEY (c.1791-1820). They lived at
Lockport,
Niagara County, NY, where she m. (2) Andrew W. BRAZEE. Her
widowed
son, Franklin Jackson LeValley (1816-99) made a quick trip in 1860 to
Marengo,
IL to m. (2) Rachel Washburn (b. 1833 Harvard IL). I assume that
the two women were related somehow.
Husband of Mary Ann
DALEY
LEVALLEY
MCNEIL TOWNSEND
Mary Ann DALEY
(b. 1820 or 1822 Buffalo, NY) m. (1) by 1841 _____ LEVALLEY, and had
one
son, Salem. Between 1846 and 1850, she m. (2) Hiram MCNEIL, a
widower
of Cambria Twp., Niagara County, NY, and had another son, Belden.
Sometime after 1860, she m. (3) ______ TOWNSEND. Which LeValley
did she marry?
PETER>PELEG
Margaret LeValley (?)
Baer
In 1848, David
and Hetty LEVALLEY moved with their infant daughter from Schoharie
County
NY to Sullivan County NY. However, none of their known children
were
born until after that date, and the obituary of their son (b. 1850)
says
he was the oldest of the family. There is no evidence that David
left a will, yet one portion of his estate went to the children of the
late Margaret BAER (d. 1893, wife of John Baer). Was she the
mystery
daughter?
Descendants of Hiram
LEVALLEY of
Delhi, NY
Hiram LeValley
married twice and apparently had 14 children:
Hiram 1802-85
=Mary THORNTON
Alexander 1823-52
Alexander "Sandy" 1844-1919 =Thirza BOND
(Child) d. inf.
(Son) c.1825-young
(Son) c.1827- ...?
(Son) c.1828-young
Helena 1829-
Leroy 1832- =Maria REDMOND
Blanche 1864-
Hattie 1867-
Leroy 1877- ...?
Maud c.1833-74 [May have died a few years earlier]
Valentine c.1834-97 =Harriet
Ellen 1835- = John DODGE +++
Harriet 1837- =Wallace MUMFORD
Arthur 1839- ...?
Florence 1841-
=Electra Bennett
King*
A. Alberta 1867- =Oscar HAIGHT +++
Maude 1869-72
I am not at all certain where the
second Alexander fits in. Any descendants out there with fuller
records?
PETER>COOK
Daughters of Cook
LeValley
Cook LEVALLEY
(1761-1839)
m. Deborah CAPRON and they moved from Coventry, RI to Killingly, CT
1786;
Coeymans, Albany County, NY 1790; Summit, Schoharie County NY 1805;
Davenport,
Delaware County, NY 1818; Worcester, Otsego County, NY 1832.
Children
included:
John S.
c.1782-
=Betsy DURHAM
Esther 1782-c.1855 =Joseph VAN ZANDT
Rufus
1784-c.1830
=Lucy KIES
Benjamin
1785- =Polly VANHOSEN
William
c.1788-1838 =Hannah CALLAGHAN
Ellen 1790-
James N.
1792-1870 =Laura ALLEN
Sally
1799-1875
=Horatio TOLCOTT +++
(Daughter) c.1801-
Can anyone supply the missing names?
John S.
LEVALLEY
(b. c.1782) m. Betsy DURHAM and their younger children were born at
Davenport,
Delaware County, NY. They moved to Hendersonville, Knox County
IL,
in 1844. Children included:
Christopher
1815-95 =Harriet GAINES
Angeline
1819-97
=John Dales +++
=Austin Gaines*
Lydia 1820-68
=Nelson BRESEE* +++
(Daughter)
c.1823-
Margaret
1824-90 =Gideon HAWKINS +++
(Daughter)
c.1826-
Eleanor
c.1827-
=Francis STEPHENS +++
(Son)
c.1828-
...?
Can anyone supply the missing
names?
There was a $1 land sale to a D.F. BLAIR, who may have been a
son-in-law.
We are wondering whether the youngest son could be the Erskin or John
Erskin
LeValley (1824-75) of Charter Oak IA.
The dates of John
and Betsy are another mystery. They seem to have gotten a little
younger with each census. Their graves have not been located.
Children of William LeValley of
Charlton, Saratoga County, NY
In 1827, at about age 44, William LEVALLEY m.
34-year-old Hannah CALLAGHAN at Charlton, NY. He was buried there
nine years later, and Hannah spent her later years in
Schenectady. There is no indication of children from that
marriage. But Harriet LeValley (wife of Thomas HANIGAN Sr. of
Glenville NY) appears to have been William's daughter, born about five
years before his marriage to Hannah. Who was his first
wife? Were there other children? Where did he live, since
he never appeared in any census record?
Possible first wife of
Rufus
LeValley
Rufus LeValley
(c.1787-c.1830) moved around a lot. Known locations include 1810
Jefferson, Schoharie Co. NY; 1814 Bradford Co. PA; 1823 Delaware Co.
NY;
1826 Troy, Bradford Co, PA; c.1829 Elmira NY. His known children
were:
(Son)
c.1809-
...?
Leonard
1814-1901
Lucinda
1823-
=Philip GEBHARDT +++
Sarah 1825-
N. Liberty
1826-95 =Juliett DECKER
Lucetta
c.1827- =John SANDERS +++
M. Frances
1828- =James HILL +++
Decatur
c.1830-
...?
Lucy KIES (b. in the 1790s in Canada)
was the mother of the younger children. But several clues hint
that
she was not the mother of Leonard--who always listed his mother's
birthplace
as CT. Leonard spoke much of his father and grandfather, but
never
mentioned his mother's name.
I once saw an 1860
census listing for a Decatur Savelley (or some such wierd spelling) in
one of the New England states--but could never find it again.
Could
that possibly have been the youngest son?
Descendants of Francis
LeValley
of Richmondville, NY
Francis LEVALLEY (b. 1814) of
Richmondville,
Schoharie County NY, m. (1) Margaret BARGER, and (2) Louisa CLOW or
GLOUGH.
Children from the second marriage included:
Mary
Ann
1841-
1900 =(1) John STERNBERG, (2) Charles BUTTERFIELD +++
Sewell
1842-1902 =T. Ann DIGMAN
+++
H.
Amelia
1844-1928 =Nathan BROCKWAY +++
L.
Elizabeth
1849-c.90
=Levi
PALMER
+++
Antonette
1853-c.68
Marcus
1856-95 ...?
Edna
1860-
Any descendants out there with records?
PETER>GARDNER
Daughters of Gardner
LEVALLEY of
Riverhead, NY
Gardner LEVALLEY
(1786-1877) of Warwick RI m. (1) Jemima WALKER (1781-1826, dau.
Calvin).
At Somers CT they had 2 childrens who d. young, and a daughter
Susan.
He m. (2) Ruth CAPRON (d. 1885, dau. Edward), and moved to Riverhead
NY.
Children from the two marriages included:
=Jemima
Walker
Almira 1818-25
Gardner 1821-23
Susan 1823-
=Ruth
Capron
Almira 1827-1904 =(1) F. Warren BISHOP, (2) Henry EARLE
Maria 1829-76 =William OVERTON* +++
Sarah 1834-1932 =Charles RAYNOR +++
Margaret 1835-1905 =P. Rene VILLEFEU +++
(Daughter) d. young
Celestia 1840-1917 =Charles BISHOP Sr. +++
T. Gilbert 1843-86
=Emily Simmons
=Mabel Reeve*
Mary 1846-c.1930 =Charles HOWELL
Anyone know what became of Susan, or the name of the other daughter?
PETER>PETER JR.
Two wives of Lee LeValley
Lee LEVALLEY 1872-1956 of the Los Angeles area
m. (1) a daughter of C. S. STOWELL. In a drunken spree, he went
gunning for his father-in-law in 1897. She is not heard of after
that. If she left him, she did not take the children with
her. She was born in Nevada, but does not appear there in her
father's household in the 1880 census.
In 1916, Lee m. (2) Mrs. Minnie E.
Gee (1873-1950)--maiden name unknown. She
was born in California.
PETER>CALEB
Uriah LEVALLEY who
"went West"
Uriah LEVALLEY (b. 11 June 1793,
oldest
son of Caleb of Warwick RI) left New England. An early family
history
simply states, "He traveled in foreign lands when young, and went West
in 1817." West in those days could have meant western New York,
where
two of his uncles had settled. Has anyone ever come across a
record
of Uriah?
Maiden names
Besides those already mentioned, we
seek the maiden names of these women who married into the Peter
LeValley
family:
B-14 Burt 1874-1966 =(3) Marian
B-102 Charles 1842-1903 =Susan
B-103 Moreau 1806-67
=Sarah (later HENRY)
B-106 Fred
1870-
=Josie
D-78.13 J. Floyd LaValley
1917-
=Mary
D-81.3 Walter LaValle 1891-1972
=Edythe
D-115 Valentine c.1834-97
=Harriet
E-110 Sewell
1842-
=Tammy
F-16 William E. 1881-1960 =(2) Violet and (4)
Minnie
G-73 Boyd 1907-81 = (1) Ada
H-104 Thomas 1890-1932 =(3)
Tina
H-135 Lee 1872-1956 =Mrs. Minnie GEE
J-18 B. Franklin 1883-1942
=Nellie
ANDREW JACKSON LEVALLEY FAMILY
Ancestry of Isaac
LeValley
Andrew Jackson
LeValley (b. 1826, reportedly the son of Isaac) ran away from New York
state in 1841, and eventually settled at Alma Nebraska. Censuses
show that Peter's grandsons Christopher and Cook each had unnamed
grandsons
of Isaac's age in New York. A connection is likely.
ERSKIN LEVALLEY FRAGMENT
Ancestry of Erskin
LeValley
Erskin LeValley
(b. 1824 NY, d. 1875 Charter Oak IA) m. Mary Ann RAU (dau. Valentine,
b.
1824 Bethlehem PA). She had apparently reverted to her maiden
name
after giving birth to two daughters named BOYER. One notation
refers
to him as John. This has led to speculation that his name might
have
been John Erskin LeValley, and that he might have been the missing
younger
son of John S. LeValley--see Peter>Cook above.
CHARLES F. LEVALLEY FAMILY OF RI
Ancestry of Charles F.
LeValley
Charles F.
LeValley,
born c. 1860 at Warwick RI was Catholic, and therefore probably
unrelated
to the Peter LeValley family. By the 1880s, lots of
French-Canadian
LaValley families were drifting down to work in the textile mills, but
officials had gotten used to recording the LeValley spelling.
NAPOLEON LEVALLEY FAMILY OF RI
Ancestry of Alexander
LeValley
Napoleon LeValley
(reportedly the son of Alexander) was in Providence RI by 1911.
His
mother was Canadian; probably the
whole family was.
VALCARTIER LEVALLEY FAMILY
Further details from
the Isle of
Alderney
Laurens LeVallee
and his wife Jeanne LE COCQ (1588-1671) are the earliest known
ancestors
of this line on the Isle of Alderney in the Channel Islands.
Among the Alderney
records are possible candidates for ancestors of Peter LeValley and
other
LeValley families:
Laurens' oldest
son Pierre m. Perotine PEZET (1590-1671). No descendants
mentioned.
Francois LeVallee
(1603-1703) m. Marie DUPLAIN and had two sons, but no known grandsons.
Simon LeVallee
(d. 1667) m. Jeanne DUPLAIN and had one surviving son.
Nicolas LeVallee
(d. 1671) was son of Laurens, son of Guayrand. No descendants
known.
Jean LeVallee (d.
before 1667) m. Marie LE COCQ. They were probably parents of the
brothers:
Menuel (1620-1690) m. twice. Only daughters known.
Thomas (1626-1703) m. Colette DUPLAIN (d. 1687). Two sons, one
with
grandchildren.
Descendants of the
second Daniel
Daniel LeValley
of Alderney sailed to Valcartier, Quebec in 1828. His son Daniel
moved to the US, and was probably the Daniel of Bucksport ME, who had
sons
Charles R. 1844- and Benjamin 1849- . Did they have
children?
PROSPER LEVALLEY FAMILY
Ancestry of Prosper
LeValley
Dr. Prosper "Pete"
LeValley of St. Simon, Quebec went to Africa before settling in the
vicinity
of Red Bank NJ by 1853. He m. Elizabeth FLEIGHT.
VICTOR LEVALLEY FAMILY
Ancestry of Victor
LeValley
Victor LeValley
(reportedly b. in Canada in 1864--though that date appears too late)
was
in Bay City MI in 1927--perhaps as early as the 1880s. He m.
Elizabeth
LA CHAPELLE and had several children.
Daughters of Victor
LeValley
Leah, Emma, and
Anna were later referred to as Mrs. MARIN of L'Anse MI, Mrs. SILVON of
L'Anse, and Mrs. SHELTRAW of Detroit. Which first name went with
which last name is still unsolved.
COLDWATER ORPHANAGE LINE
Ancestry of Carrol
LeValley
Shortly before
1900, Pony LeValley of Iron Mountain MI left three orphaned sons who
were
adopted out to different families from the Coldwater MI
orphanage.
His name seems curious, and could be wrong. The oldest son used
his
adoptive name, Fred WOODS. The second son, Carrol LeValley, has
many
descendants. The fate of the third son is unknown.
THE LEVALLY/LEVALLEY FAMILY OF XENIA OH
Ancestry of Joseph
LeVally Sr.
Joseph LeVally
Sr. (note the different spelling) moved in 1811 from Hardy County
(West)
Virginia to the area of Xenia OH. There may well be a connection
to the John LeVally who immigrated to Frederica GA in 1736, then headed
up into the Carolinas with his son John.
Descendants of Joseph
LeVally Jr.
Little is known
of the family of Joseph Jr.
Joseph Jr. 1797-
=Eve HUSHAW
Sabina c.1820- =Lewis STREET
(Son)
Sarah c.1823- =Joshua McCAIN
=Betsy HAMILTON
Ancestry of the many
LeValleys
of
Springfield OH
Jacob LeValley
(grandson of Joseph Sr.) has several descendants in Springfield
OH.
But the telephone book contains a lot more LeValley households who have
not been linked.
Oklahoma and Texas
offshoots
Steven E.
1899-
settled at Wynnewood OK, and married twice. Any descendants?
His nephew Stephen
P. 1922-90 lived in Houston TX, and married several times. Names
of two children are known, but nothing else.
A more distant
cousin, Lawrence O. 1932- m. Janet, lived in San Antonio
TX,
and had five children whose names are unknown.
THE GEORGE LEVALLY FRAGMENT
Ancestry of George
LeVally
George LeVally
(sometimes spelled LeValley) was in Nashville IL by 1840. The
spelling
and the 1826 birth of his son in Ohio mean he probably was connected to
the Xenia bunch. Joseph Sr. did have a son George (c.1790-1887),
but with totally different descendants. Could the two Georges
have
been cousins?
George LeVally c.1794-
Mary
c.1814-Hiram
ROBERTS
Milley
c.1823-
=T.W.G. MAUSKER
Elizabeth
c.1825- =Samuel FARMER
William H.
1826- =Sarah JORDAN
(Daughter)
c.1828-
(Daughter)
c.1831-
(Daughter)
c.1836-
Can anyone supply the missing names?
Descendants of J. Riley
LeValley
George's grandson,
J. Riley LeValley 1851-1934 m. Catharine LYONS. A daughter born
in
1878 was their fourth child. No names are known.