Family History, Dring, Chambers Chart 0717 Johnson Dring, Alice Thoday and John Chambers

1841 High Street, Over, Cambridgeshire, Male Servant to Nathaniel GIFFORD(70) Farmer Alice (45), Elizabeth (20), Phoebe (20), John (15) and Nathaniel(20) HUTCHISON. Eleanor DRING (30) was a Female Servant in the same house. Addresses (Cynthia KIMPTON 21/8/2000) 1851 Church Street, Over, Cambridgeshire 1861 Chain Road, Over, Cambridgeshire 1871 17 High Street North, Parson Drove, Cambridgeshire 1861 Chain Road, Over, Cambridgeshire 1871 17 High Street North, Parson Drove, Cambridgeshire 1880: Census Clay, Kansas. I have found this family on the US 1880 Census. I found that Alice had remarried and had had a child and the children with a note 7 next to them are listed as Step Children to John Chambers On the 1851 Alice is living at Chain House, Over, Huntingdonshire. The name is vary clearly down for the whole family as THOADY. Her father was a William THOADY, age 50 a Farmer of 1 Acres born in Over, Cambs, his wife was Sarah age 46 born Swaveny? Cambs. Samuel was 17 an Ag Lab born Over and then Alice, 15 also bon Over Cambs. Parents of Alice THODAY – William THODAY (1795-) and Sarah SPRING (1800-) 1880: Census Clay, Kansas. I have found this family on the US 1880 Census. I found that Alice had remarried and had had a child and the children with a note 7 next to them are listed as Step Children to John Chambers 1900; Census Place: McPherson, McPherson, Kansas ; Roll: T623 488; Page: 23B; Enumeration District: 142. Found John Chambers on the US 1900 Census. With him is Alice, born correct year and month. It is the right person as there is a TIlley DRING, Stepddaughter with them. The only query is that I assume Tilley is Matilda but they have the birth as September 1867 not 1866 as we have it above. 1861 Chain Road, Over, Cambridgeshire 1880 Union, Clay, Kansas, USA 1900 Kansas City, Jackson, Missouri Information from Carolyn REDMAYNE 21/6/2008 Johnson DRING was admitted to the British School in Over, Cambridgeshire on 8 July 1872. He left 26 July 1872 "gone to America". Previously attended private school. Father Johnson DRING 1861 Chain Road, Over, Cambridgeshire 1871 17 High Street North, Parson Drove, Cambridgeshire 1880: Census Clay, Kansas. I have found this family on the US 1880 Census. I found that Alice had remarried and had had a child and the children with a note 7 next to them are listed as Step Children to John Chambers 1900 Harry Dring is a boarder with an Eliza GRAHAM a widow. US Census details -Year: 1900; Census Place: Clay Center, Clay, Kansas; Roll: T623 474; Page: 9A; Enumeration District: 6. Information from Carolyn REDMAYNE 21/6/2008 Harry DRING was admitted to the British School in Over, Cambridgeshire on 24 June 1871. He left 1 August 1872 "gone to America". Previously attended private school. Father Johnson DRING Individual biographical text for ARTHUR DUSTIN DRING Original prepared by Michael DRING Sunday August 6 2000 and sent to Cynthia KIMPTON Arthur immigrated to America as a baby of not quite two years of age. The family settled in Clay Center, Kansas. His father died when he was just over three years of age. He then lived with his mother and stepfather to adulthood and then settled in Pawnee Rock, Kansas, in 1901. Pawnee Rock is a hill topped with a reddish rock surrounded by a flat terrain. Its name comes from an Indian battle fought at its base where a band of Pawnee Indians were killed by a larger force of Comanche Indians. Wagon trains, with adventurers like Kit Carson, traveling the Santa Fe Trail would circle their wagons at the base of Pawnee Rock (circa 1824) for an overnight stop. Pawnee Rock was one day's march from the "great bend in the Arkansas River" (now Great Bend, Kansas). Over the years, Pawnee Rock became a prosperous town with railroad service surrounded by fertile farmland which may have prompted young Arthur Dring to choose Pawnee Rock as a place to settle. Arthur was employed by the Lindas Lumber Company and the Pawnee Rock State Bank. He was a Mason #167 AF & AM, in Larnard, Kansas. Arthur was active in the Pawnee Rock Methodist Church. A story is told that soon after Arthur purchased his first automobile. . . He was driving his car into the garage and beyond all the while yelling "WHOA, WHOA, WHOA" as he forgot to use the brakes on his new horseless carriage! 1871 17 High Street North, Parson Drove, Cambridgeshire 1880: Census Clay, Kansas. I have found this family on the US 1880 Census. I found that Alice had remarried and had had a child and the children with a note 7 next to them are listed as Step Children to John Chambers “Information from Carolyn REDMAYNE to John TERRY 13/6/2008 Chart 0717 states that Parsons Drove is in Over, it's not! Parsons Drove is out in the Fen near Wisbech, an hour's drive from Over. Possibly those children were for a different Dring family?” However, details for including William and James in this family were sent to us by Lee CHAMBERLAIN and therefore we have kept the information as we have it with this note in the hope that in the future someone will send us details to clarify this problem. “Information from Carolyn REDMAYNE to John TERRY 13/6/2008 Chart 0717 states that Parsons Drove is in Over, it's not! Parsons Drove is out in the Fen near Wisbech, an hour's drive from Over. Possibly those children were for a different Dring family?” However, details for including William and James in this family were sent to us by Lee CHAMBERLAIN and therefore we have kept the information as we have it with this note in the hope that in the future someone will send us details to clarify this problem. 1871 17 High Street North, Parson Drove, Cambridgeshire 1880: Census Clay, Kansas. I have found this family on the US 1880 Census. I found that Alice had remarried and had had a child and the children with a note 7 next to them are listed as Step Children to John Chambers 1900; Census Place: McPherson, McPherson, Kansas ; Roll: T623 488; Page: 23B; Enumeration District: 142. Found John Chambers on the US 1900 Census. With him is Alice, born correct year and month. It is the right person as there is a TIlley DRING, Stepddaughter with them. The only query is that I assume Tilley is Matilda but they have the birth as September 1867 not 1866 as we have it above. 1871 17 High Street North, Parson Drove, Cambridgeshire 1880: Census Clay, Kansas. I have found this family on the US 1880 Census. I found that Alice had remarried and had had a child and the children with a note 7 next to them are listed as Step Children to John Chambers Year: 1900; Census Place: Union, Rice, Kansas ; Roll: T623 497; Page: 14A; Enumeration District: 234. Arthur was a boarder on this Census Year: 1920; Census Place: Pawnee Rock, Barton, Kansas; Roll: T625_524; Page: 11B; Enumeration District: 25; Image: 980. There was a niece a Lilian M DRING aged 9 born Kansas with the family Information from Carolyn REDMAYNE 21/6/2008 Harry DRING was admitted to the British School in Over, Cambridgeshire on 24 June 1871. He left 1 August 1872 "gone to America". Previously attended private school. Father Johnson DRING Individual biographical text for ARTHUR DUSTIN DRING Original prepared by Michael DRING Sunday August 6 2000 and sent to Cynthia KIMPTON Arthur immigrated to America as a baby of not quite two years of age. The family settled in Clay Center, Kansas. His father died when he was just over three years of age. He then lived with his mother and stepfather to adulthood and then settled in Pawnee Rock, Kansas, in 1901. Pawnee Rock is a hill topped with a reddish rock surrounded by a flat terrain. Its name comes from an Indian battle fought at its base where a band of Pawnee Indians were killed by a larger force of Comanche Indians. Wagon trains, with adventurers like Kit Carson, traveling the Santa Fe Trail would circle their wagons at the base of Pawnee Rock (circa 1824) for an overnight stop. Pawnee Rock was one day's march from the "great bend in the Arkansas River" (now Great Bend, Kansas). Over the years, Pawnee Rock became a prosperous town with railroad service surrounded by fertile farmland which may have prompted young Arthur Dring to choose Pawnee Rock as a place to settle. Arthur was employed by the Lindas Lumber Company and the Pawnee Rock State Bank. He was a Mason #167 AF & AM, in Larnard, Kansas. Arthur was active in the Pawnee Rock Methodist Church. A story is told that soon after Arthur purchased his first automobile. . . He was driving his car into the garage and beyond all the while yelling "WHOA, WHOA, WHOA" as he forgot to use the brakes on his new horseless carriage! 1880: Census Clay, Kansas. I have found this family on the US 1880 Census. I found that Alice had remarried and had had a child and the children with a note 7 next to them are listed as Step Children to John Chambers 1900; Census Place: McPherson, McPherson, Kansas ; Roll: T623 488; Page: 23B; Enumeration District: 142. Found John Chambers on the US 1900 Census. With him is Alice, born correct year and month. It is the right person as there is a TIlley DRING, Stepddaughter with them. The only query is that I assume Tilley is Matilda but they have the birth as September 1867 not 1866 as we have it above.

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