52 Ancestors Week 3: Long Line

I was trying to be creative with this week's prompt from Amy Johnson Crow's 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks, but nothing was coming to me.  Something is better than nothing, so I will forge ahead with something basic.

My Stanley ancestors resided for nearly 300 years in the Beverly/Manchester area of Essex County, Massachusetts.  My mother has broken the chain.

George Standley (1635- abt 1698) is the origin of this line.  It is not known where he was born, but the first mention of him in Beverly is in 1668 when he and, by then, his wife, Bethia Lovett, were fined for fornication before marriage.  Quite an auspicious beginning.  George and Bethiah had 11 children, the eldest being George, whose birth proved the sin of fornication before marriage! 

My line is as follows:
George (1635-abt 1698) died Beverly
George (1668-1721) born/died Beverly
Joseph (1701-1791) born/died Beverly
Robert (1734-1821) born/died Beverly
Peter (1767-unk) born/most likely died Beverly
Paul (1795-1832) born Beverly/died Manchester
Paul (1821/2-1894) born/died Beverly
Otis (1846-1931) born/died Manchester
Howard (1880-1962) born/died Manchester
Grandfather (1905-1992) born/died Manchester
Mother (1937-) born Manchester

52 Ancestors Week 2: Favorite Photo

I am writing this is response to the prompt from Amy Johnson Crow's 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks.  Playing a little catch-up as this is the Week 2 prompt:  Favorite Photo.

"Big Sarah" MacLeod, Dorothy Harvey, Thomas Harvey, Mary Ann MacLeod Harvey, Spring 1905

This picture has long been a favorite of mine.  My grandmother, Dorothy, sits in the front seat of this early vehicle with her Aunt Sarah.  My great-grandparents sit behind.

My great-grandfather, Thomas Harvey (1873-1927), emigrated to Boston from Cortamlet, County Armagh, (Northern) Ireland in 1892 and worked as a coachman for Charles T. Pulsifer, President of Newton Savings Bank.  He then became a chauffeur for William H. Coolidge, a lawyer in Newton.  Thomas eventually became the superintendent of Coolidge's estate in Magnolia, Mass.  I assume this is one of the vehicles he used as part of his employment.

My great grandmother, Mary Ann MacLeod (1877-1921) was from Grand River, Richmond County, Nova Scotia.  She emigrated to Boston in 1893 with her sister, Sarah, and they were both domestics living with a family named Crane in Brookline, Mass. in 1900.  The Crane family had two children, Dorothy and Walter, and those are the names given to my grandmother and her brother.  In this photo, you can see that my great-grandmother is pregnant with Walter.  My grandmother was born in November 1903, and Walter, was born in June 1905, so this dates the photo to sometime in the spring of 1905.  Mary Ann and Thomas had one more child, Mary, born in 1917.

"Big Sarah" MacLeod (1875-1960) was a couple of years older than Mary Ann.  Their mother died after the birth of Mary Ann, and their father later remarried and had another daughter named Sarah.  Thus, "Big Sarah" and "Little Sarah".  "Big Sarah" married Daniel Ferguson and they lived in Lynn, Mass.  They had five children and adopted one more.