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Thursday, April 11, 2019

May Lucy Perkins Batchelder Amesbury MA





May Lucy Perkins (1865-1924) daughter of Benjamin Perkins and Julia Hobbs. Born in Seabrook, New Hampshire.


She married to Herbert Warren Batchelder (1865-1945), son of  George Edwin Batchelder (1842-1928) and Victoria Adelaide Rich (1845-1917) of Jackson Maine, d. of Israel Thorndike Rich (1807-1897)

Herbert and lived on Powow Hill Amesbury, Massachusetts. 

George was President of the Amesbury Cooperative Bank (1886) 

Benjamin Perkins, son of Samuel Perkins and Mary M Stockman. 
Daughters of the American Revolution Josiah Bartlett Chapter
















May's husband was a carriage maker 
The firm of Rand & Co., dates from 1870. Several changes have taken place. A few years after commencing business, Rand left the firm and went on the road selling carriages. The firm changed to Batchelder & Cowan. In 1890, to Brout & Co., for two years. Since this date the firm has been known as Rand & Batchelder W. H. Rand and Herbert Batchelder.

Burial: Elmwood Cemetery Seabrook New Hampshire, USA Photo by Robert Davis Purple Sr.


  • Chronological Record of the Principal Events that Have Occurred in Amesbury

Friday, January 25, 2019

Henry Canby Biddle link to Quaker lines

Henry Canby Biddle (1911-1986) son of Henry Canby Biddle (1880-1937) and Margret Seton Fleming (1887-1980) married Anna Lodge Minot (1917-1997) daughter of Grafton Winthrop Minot (1892-1983) and Constance Lodge Gardner (1894-1941).  Henry descended from Quaker Owen Biddle and English immigrants William Biddle (1630–1712) and Sarah Kempe (1634–1709), who arrived in the Province of New Jersey in 1681. see Biddle Quaker lines

May 1937 Wedding



On the Steps of the Fleming House Hotel seated in the middle with white blouse is Margaret Fleming.






Mary Augusta "Dusty" Biddle (1918-2016) daughter of Henry Canby Biddle and Margaret Seton Fleming. Photo of Mary in a 1937 Pond’s Cold Cream
From Obituaries in The Inquirer: Mary Augusta "Dusty" Biddle daughter of Henry Canby Biddle and Margaret Seton Fleming. She married Philadelphia lawyer William Henry Snyder Jr who died in 1951 at age 41, leaving her a widow with three young children. In 1952, she married Gordon Stouffer, chairman of Stouffer Foods, who adopted her children. The family lived in Cleveland.
Stouffer died in 1956, soon after the couple returned home from an African animal-capture safari for the Cleveland Zoo. In 1960, she returned to the Philadelphia area, where she married architect William Cramp Scheetz Jr. He died in 1996.
Mary Scheetz, 98, socialite, volunteer by By Bonnie L. Cook, Staff Writer, Posted: January 26, 2016