William Tirrell
and his first wife Rebecca Simpkins
and Some of Their Descendants

JAMES BRADFORD8 TIRRELL (Cornelius7, Benjamin6-5, Gideon4-3, Rebecca Simpkins2. Nicholas Simpkins1) was born at Weymouth, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, on 20 April 1820 a son of Cornelius Tirrell and his wife Jane Pratt,[1] and died there on 6 November 1852.[2] He married at Weymouth on 11 May 1843 MARIA ANGENETTE BAYLEY.[3] She was born at Weymouth on 29 May 1820, a daughter of Samuel P. Bayley and his wife Thais Loud.[4] She died at Weymouth on 31 August 1910.[5] Maria (Bayley) Tirrell married as her second husband at Weymouth on 4 August 1862 ISRAEL JUSTIN FEARING.[6] He was born at Massachusetts on 14 July 1833, a son of Israel Fearing and his wife Clarinda Ellen White.[7] He died at Andersonville, Sumter County, Georgia, on 24 July 1864.[8]

James and Maria married at the ages of 23 and 22 respectively. He worked in the boot business as a leather cutter. They had two children, and a third on the way, before James' untimely death at the age of 32 from disease of the heart and lungs. Maria, a 32-year-old widow, was left with children aged six and three, and gave birth to their third child a month later.

The 1860 Census reported Maria's family as follows:[9]

10.
Line Name Age Sex Occupation R.E. P.E. Birthplace
9. Maria A. Tirrill 40 F $1000 $200 MA
10. Ellen M. Tirrill 14 F MA
11. Harriet Tirrill 11 F MA
12. James B. Tirrill 7 M MA
13. I. J. Fearing 27 M boot cutter MA
14. Ira Litchfield 21 M carpenter MA

Fearing and Litchfield appear to be boarders, probably taken in to help Maria financially. However this would change, as two years later Maria would marry I. J. Fearing.

Israel Justin Fearing fought in the Civil War. He enlisted on 2 August 1862 in the First Massachusetts Regiment of Heavy Artillery. Two days later Israel, age 29, married Maria A. (Bayley) Tirrell, age 42. Then he left with his regiment, organized on 20 August. The First Massachusetts Heavy Artillery was at first stationed around Washington, D.C. They became part of Grant's Army of the Patomac on 17 May 1864. Israel was captured at the Battle of Cold Harbor on 3 June, placed in the prisoner camp at Andersonville, and died there on 24 July.[10]

Maria Angenette (Bayley) (Tirrell) Fearing, widowed for the second time at the age of 44, would live as a widow for 46 more years. The Tirrell and Fearing families became further intertwined, when Maria's daughter, Ellen Maria, married Israel's brother, Francis Henry Fearing, in 1867. The Tirrells and Fearings lived in proximity to each other in South Weymouth. The 1870 Census reported Maria's family:[11]

Line Name Age Sex Race Occupation R.E. P.E. Birth
24. Fearing, Maria A. 50 F W keeping house $1900 $400 MA
25. Tirrell, Hattie H. 21 F W no occupation MA
26. Tirrell, James B. 17 M W works in boot factory MA

The parents of Isreael and Francis Fearing lived in the next house:[12]

Line Name Age Sex Race Occupation R.E. P.E. Birth
30. Fearing, Israel 61 M W ice dealer (retired) $4000 $3600 MA
31. Fearing, Clarinda 60 F W keeping house MA
32. Fearing, Clarence W. 20 M W attending school MA

Clarence attended college. The very next household, at the same address, included the children of Maria Fearing and Israel and Clarinda Fearing:[13]

Line Name Age Sex Race Occupation R.E. P.E. Birth
33. Fearing, Francis H. 28 M W cigar pedlar $600 MA
34. Fearing, Ellen M. 23 F W keeping house MA
35. Fearing, A. Maria 1 F at home MA

In 1880 the households of Maria Fearing, her mother-in-law Clarinda Fearing, her son, James B. Tirrell, and her daughter and son-in-law Francis and Ellen Fearing, all appeared on the same page in South Weymouth. Maria Fearing, age 60, lived alone. Clarinda Fearing, recently widowed, age 70, lived with her son, Clarence W. Fearing, a teacher. Francis Fearing, 37, a wholesale pedlar of twine, paper bags, etc. lived with his wife Ellen, 33, and their children Angenetta, 11, Clarinda, 9, and Albert, 3. James B. Tirrell, 27, "pedler for another," lived with his wife, Sarah, 24, and their children, Bertha, 5, Arthur, 3, Lewis, 1, and a newborn. Daughter Harriet Tirrell had died in 1876.[14]

The 1900 Census reported Maria A. Fearing, 80, a household of one, but at the same residence as her son James B. Tirrell, and before her grandson Arthur Tirrell. Only two households after James Tirrell, resided Albert Fearing, his wife and two children, and his father Francis Fearing[15] (brother-in-law and son-in-law to Maria). Ellen (Tirrell) Fearing had died the previous year.

Maria Angenette (Bayley) (Tirrell) Fearing died in 1910, age 90 years, from "morbid changes due to senile condition."[16]

bayleyplace
Bayley Home, 459 South Main Street, South Weymouth
built by Nathaniel Bayley about 1750
Home of Marie Angenette (Bayley) (Tirrell) Fearing
Home of James Bradford and Sarah Jane Tirrell
Torn down for the construction of Route 128

James Bradford Tirrell and his wife Maria Angenette Bayley had the following children:

  1. ELLEN MARIA9 TIRRELL b. at Weymouth on 15 September 1846.
  2. HARRIETT HOWE9 TIRRELL b. at Weymouth on 4 March 1849;[17] d. there on 27 January 1876.[18]
  3. JAMES BRADFORD9 TIRRELL b. at Weymouth on 4 December 1852.

Family of Israel and Clarinda (White) Fearing

ISRAEL FEARING was born at Hingham, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, on 28 July 1809 a son of Israel Fearing and his wife Elizabeth Cushing, and died at Weymouth on 4 March 1880.[19] He married at Weymouth on 15 April 1832 CLARINDA ELLEN WHITE.[20] She was born at Weymouth on 7 April 1810, a daughter of Silas White, Jr., and his wife Rebecca.[21] She died there on 4 June 1890.[22]

The three sons of Israel and Clarinda Fearing all married women surnamed Tirrell. Isreael Justin married widow Marie Angenette (Bayley) Tirrell. Francis married Marie's daughter Ellen Maria Tirrell. Clarence married Mary Blanchard Tirrell, a great granddaughter of Benjamin Tirrell and Elizabeth Derby. She was also a great great granddaughter of Daniel Blanchard and Mary Pratt, great grandparents of Marie Angenette Bayley.

Israel Fearing and his wife Clarinda White had the following children:

  1. ISRAEL JUSTIN FEARING b. at Massachusetts on 14 July 1833 (See above).
  2. CLARINDA LINCOLN FEARING b. at Weymouth about June 1836; m. at Rutland, Worcester County, Massachusetts, on 23 April 1863 JOSEPH WASHINGTON ARMINGTON, b. at Saint Johnsbury, Caledonia County, Vermont, about July 1834, child of Nathaniel K. Armington and his wife Betsy Carr.[23]
    1. George A. Armington b. at Massachusetts about 1865-6.[24]
    2. Everett Fearing Armington b. at Dedham, Norfolk County, on 25 May 1867;[25] d. at Everett, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, on 14 October 1901;[26] m. at Weymouth on 19 April 1888 Abbie Caroline Loud[27] b. at Weymouth on 17 September 1866, child of Levi and Charlotte B. (Richards) Loud.[28]
      1. Ralph Loud Armington b. at Weymouth on 31 January 1891;[29] m. at Everett on 24 June 1917; Evelyn Covey b. at Crapaud, Prince Edward Island, about 1891-2.[30]
        1. Ralph Elmer Armington b. at Medford, Middlesex County, on 24 June 1918,[31] d. on 24 October 2010.[32]
        2. William R. Armington b. at Massachusetts on 1 November 1922, d. on February 1987.[33]
        3. James E. Armington b. at Massachusetts on 17 April 1925, d. on 31 January 2005.[34]
      2. Everett Allan Armington b. at Weymouth on 2 July 1893,[35] d. at Beverly, Essex County, Massachusetts, on 5 December 1970;[36] m. about 1914-5 Sarah C. ________ b. at Massachusetts about 1892.[37]
        1. John G. Armington b. at Massachusetts on 5 September 1923, d. at Danvers, Essex County, on 30 December 1995.[38]
        2. Allen L. Armington b. at Massachusetts about 1927-8.[39]
        3. Alton F. Armington b. at Massachusetts on 20 September 1927, d. on 29 April 2006.[40]
    3. Helen F. Armington b. at Massacxhusetts about April 1869; m. about 1896-7 Eldon H. Ladd b. at Vermont about August 1872.[41]
      1. Irma L. Ladd b. at Illinois about 1904-5.[42]
      2. Herbert A. Ladd b. at Illinois about November-December 1909.[43]
  3. MARIA ELIZABETH FEARING b. at Weymouth on 2 January 1838;[44] d. there on 20 April 1839.[45]
  4. FRANCIS HENRY FEARING b. at Weymouth on 12 July 1843.
  5. CLARENCE WHITE FEARING b. at Weymouth on 9 June 1850;[46] d. there on 1 March 1942;[47] m. there on 11 December 1883 MARY BLANCHARD TIRRELL,[48] b. at Nashua, Hillsboro County, New Hampshire, on 16 October 1855, d. at Weymouth on 20 May 1951, child of Quincy and Belinda (Shaw) Tirrell.[49]
    1. Laura Shaw Fearing b. at Weymouth on 7 December 1844.[50]
    2. Miriam Clark Fearing b. at Weymouth on 17 January 1889;[51] m. at Weymuth on 8 July 1914 William J. Nutter b. at Mount Desert Island, Maine, about 1880-1.[52]
    3. Stella Tirrell Fearing b. at Braintree, Norfolk County, on 16 May 1890.[53]
    4. Justin Lincoln Fearing b. at Braintree on 27 October 1891,[54] m. at Newington, Hartford County, Connecticut, on 23 June 1920 Nellie Marie Elliott b. at Hampton, Windham County, Connecticut, about 1897-8.[55]
    5. Allen Clarence Fearing b. at Provincetown, Barnstable County, Massachusetts, on 15 November 1894;[56] m. about 1922-3 Jessie M. ________ b. at Massachusetts about 1893-4.
      1. Marjorie Fearing b. at Massachusetts about 1924-5.[57]
    6. Edward White Fearing b. at Provincetown on 2 June 1899.[58]

NOTES

1Vital Records of Weymouth, Massachusetts: to the Year 1850 (Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1910), 1:302.
2Massachusetts Archives, "Vital Records of Massachusetts, 1841-1910," digital images, American Ancestors (americanancestors.org : accessed 15 September 2017), vol. 67, p. 234, e. 83, Weymouth Deaths, 1852, James B. Tirrell.
3Vital Records of Weymouth, 2:191.
4Vital Records of Weymouth, 1:35.
5"Vital Records of Massachusetts, 1841-1910," vol. 108, certificate no. 149, Weymouth Deaths, 1910, Maria A. Fearing.
6"Vital Records of Massachusetts, 1841-1910," vol. 154, p. 273, e. 29, Weymouth Marriages, 1862, Fearing-Tirrell.
7Robert Wilson Tirrell, The Tirrell-Tirrill-Tyrrell Book: Descendants of William Therrill (Englewood, NJ: published by author, 1969), 222.
8Massachusetts Adjutant General, ed., Massachusetts Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines in the Civil War, 8 volumes (Norwood, Massachusetts: Norwood Press, 1931), 5:602.
9Eighth Census of the United States: 1860, population, Weymouth, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, roll 514, p. 397, household 1177, Maria A. Terrill family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 5 December 2015); NARA microfilm publication M653; Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration.
10Massachusetts Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines in the Civil War, 5:602.
11Ninth Census of the United States: 1870, population, Weymouth, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, roll 637, p. 547A, household 1818, Maria Fearing family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 5 December 2015); NARA microfilm publication M593, Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration.
121870 Census, Weymouth, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, roll 637, p. 547A, household 1820, Israel Fearing family.
131870 Census, Weymouth, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, roll 637, p. 547A, household 1821, Francis Fearing family.
14Tenth Census of the United States: 1880, population, Weymouth, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, enumeration district (ED) 535, roll 549, p. 389D, household 79, Maria A. Fearing; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 6 December 2015); NARA microfilm publication T9; Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C. 1880 Census, Weymouth, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, ED 535, roll 549, p. 389D, household 82, Clarinda Fearing family. 1880 Census, Weymouth, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, ED 535, roll 549, p. 389D, household 78, Francis H. Fearing family. 1880 Census, Weymouth, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, ED 535, roll 549, p. 389D, household 80, Jas. B. Tirrell family.
15Twelth Census of the United States: 1900, population, Weymouth, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, enumeration district (ED) 1084, p. 5A, household 102, Maria A. Fearing; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 6 December 2015); NARA microfilm group T623; Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration.
16"Vital Records of Massachusetts, 1841-1910," vol. 108, certificate no. 149, Weymouth Deaths, 1910, Maria A. Fearing.
17"Vital Records of Massachusetts, 1841-1910," vol. 36, p. 99, e. 58, Weymouth Births, 1849, Harriet Howe Tirrell.
18"Vital Records of Massachusetts, 1841-1910," vol. 284, p. 259, e. 3, Weymouth Deaths, 1876, Hattie Howe Tirrell.
19"Vital Records of Massachusetts, 1841-1910," Israel Fearing; Weymouth Deaths 1880; v. 320, p. 260.
20Vital Records of Weymouth, 2:70. church record - First Church of Christ [North precinct] Weymouth
21Vital Records of Weymouth, 1:337.
22"Vital Records of Massachusetts, 1841-1910," Clarinda Fearing; Weymouth Deaths 1890; v. 410, p. 391, e. 85.
23"Vital Records of Massachusetts, 1841-1910," Armington-Fearing; Rutland Marriages 1863; v. 164, p. 212, e. 4.
241870 Census, Weymouth, Norfolk County, Massachusaetts, roll 637, p. 462A, household 286, Jos. W. Armington family.
25"Vital Records of Massachusetts, 1841-1910," vol. 197, p. 284, e. 174, Births Dedham 1867, Everett Armington.
26"Vital Records of Massachusetts, 1841-1910," vol. 517, p. 483, e. 372, Deaths Weymouth 1901, Everett Armington.
27"Vital Records of Massachusetts, 1841-1910," vol. 389, p. 62, e. 33, Marriages Weymouth 1888, Armington-Loud.
28"Vital Records of Massachusetts, 1841-1910," vol. 187, p. 345, e. 199, Births Weymouth 1866, Abbie Loud.
29"Vital Records of Massachusetts, 1841-1910," v. 413, p. 521, e. 25, Births Weymouth 1891, Ralph Armington.
30Massachusetts Archives, "Vital Records of Massachusetts, 1916-1920," digital images, American Ancestors (american ancestors.org : accessed 30 July 2019), v. 644, p. 565, e. 268; Marriages, Everett, 1917; Armington-Covey.
31"Vital Records of Massachusetts, 1916-1920," v. 84, certificate 298; Births, Medford, 1918; Ralph Armington.
32Social Security Administration, "U.S. Social Security Death Index," database, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 30 July 2019), Ralph E. Armington.
33"U.S. Social Security Death Index", William Armington, 012-14-2017.
34"U.S. Social Security Death Index", James E. Armington.
35"Vital Records of Massachusetts, 1841-1910," vol. 431, p. 575, e. 105, Births Weymouth 1893, Everett Armington.
36Commonwealth of Massachusetts Department of Health Services, Boston, Massachusetts, "Massachusetts Death Index, 1970-2003," index, American Ancestors (americanancestors.org : accessed 30 July 2019), Everett A. Armington, certificate 50450.
37Fourteenth Census of the United States: 1920, population, Everett, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, enumeration district (ED) 134, roll 710, p. 4A, household 79, Everett Armington family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 29 July 2019); NARA microfilm record group T625, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C. Fifteenth Census of the United States: 1930, population, Wenham, Essex County, Massachusetts, enumeration district (ED) 283, p. 5B, household 124, Everett Armington family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 30 July 2019); NARA microfilm record group T626; Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration.
38"U.S. Social Security Death Index", John C. Armington, 029-12-8706. "Massachusetts Death Index, 1970-2003," John C. Armington, certificate 57580.
391930 Census, Wenham, Essex County, Massachusetts, ED 283, p. 5B, household 124, Everett Armington family.
40"U.S. Social Security Death Index", Alton F. Armington.
411900 Census, Everett, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, ED 753, p. 13, household 271, Joseph Armington family.
42Thirteenth Census of the United States: 1910, population, Oak Park, Cook County, Illinois, enumeration district (ED) 72, roll 239, p. 10B, household 255, Eldon H. Ladd family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 29 July 2019); NARA group T624, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C.
43Ibid.
44Vital Records of Weymouth, 1:106. gravestone record - Mount Hope Cemetery, South Weymouth
45Vital Records of Weymouth, 2:269. Church Record - First Church of Christ, South Precinct, Weymouth
46"Vital Records of Massachusetts, 1841-1910," vol. 43, p. 225, e. 101, Births Weymouth 1850, Clarence Fearing.
47Tirrell, The Tirrell-Tirrill-Tyrrell Book, 315.
48"Vital Records of Massachusetts, 1841-1910," vol. 344, p. 339, e. 121, Marriages Weymouth 1883, Fearing-Tirrell.
49Tirrell, The Tirrell-Tirrill-Tyrrell Book, 315.
50"Vital Records of Massachusetts, 1841-1910," vol. 350, p. 336, e. 221, Births Weymouth 1884, Laura Fearing.
51Tirrell, The Tirrell-Tirrill-Tyrrell Book, 315.
52Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Registry of Vital Records and Statistics, Massachusetts Vital Records, 1911-1915, v. 627, p. 150, e. 72; Marriages, Weymouth, Nutter-Fearing, 1914; digital images, American Ancestors (americanancestors.org : accessed 30 July 2019).
53"Vital Records of Massachusetts, 1841-1910," v. 404, p. 358, e.53; Births Braintree 1890; Stella Fearing.
54Vital Records of Massachusetts, 1841-1910," v. 413, p. 431, e. 101; Births Braintree 1891; Justin Fearing.
55"Vital Records of Massachusetts, 1916-1920," v. 71, certificate 182; Marriages Weymouth 1920; Fearing-Elliott.
56"Vital Records of Massachusetts, 1841-1910," v. 439, p. 23, e. 131; Births Provincetown 1894; Allen Fearing.
571930 Census, Weymouth, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, ED 143, p. 7A, household 172, Allen Fearing family.
58"Vital Records of Massachusetts, 1841-1910," v. 484, p. 21, e. 42; Births Provincetown 1899; Edward Fearing.

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