The
Hambly Family
of Kenwyn, Cornwall
&
California
The Descendants of David Hambly
[Much of this information came from a small booklet Genealogical
Notes of the Hambly Family, Collected and Compiled by Harry
Bishop Hambly [Jr.: San Francisco, 1903] and added to by Margaret
Hambly Watson and her husband, Shelley Burch Joel Watson from
1981 to about 1990. There is another booklet I have not seen, The
Family of Hamley, Hambly, et. als., by Edmund Henry Hambly,
Gloucester, printed for private circulation by J. Bellows
(1946?), 144 pages. Lib of Congress Cat. Cd. No. NH 0067016 NN]
DAVID HAMBLY was born in England in 1752. He died in March of
1799. On February 4, 1774 he married Mary, the daughter of
Anthony Sandoe of Kenwyn Parish, Cornwall. Mary was born in 1755
and died in 1847 having lived all of her 92 years in Kenwyn
Parish, Cornwall, England. David and Mary are both buried at
Truro Parish, Cornwall. All of their children were born in or
near Tregavethan, Cornwall, England. They had issue:
A. Mary Hambly, born August 13, 1775. On May 26, 1795 in
Kenwyn Parish, Cornwall, she married John Martyn, a farmer.
B. Honour Hambly, born June 11, 1777; born in Kenwyn
Parish, Cornwall. She was baptized in July of 1778, probably
at Kenwyn Parish, Cornwall. She died June 19, 1781 in Kenwyn
Parish, Cornwall, England.
C. Honour Hambly [second of the name], born in Kenwyn
Parish, Cornwall; baptized December 29, 1782; died July 22,
1786.
D. Elizabeth Hambly, born June 25, 1786; married in London
to a retired coal merchant, whose last name was Lovsay.
E. David John Hambly, born August 23, 1789, died April 26,
1831.
F. William Hambly, a coal merchant in London at Delphi
Wharf for many years was born March 3, 1792 and married
Isabella Hoskin by whom he had issue:
1. William Hambly
2. Mary Hambly
3. John Hambly
4. a son
5. a son
William married secondly to Mrs. Rickard and had issue:
6. _____ Hambly who married S. J. Fletcher who died
in San Francisco, California on October 12, 1883.
7. Helena Hambly who married Daniel Lake of Chicago,
Illinois.
8. a son
G. John Hambly, born January 17, 1796; died March 18,
1864. He married on July 27, 1820, Mary Ann Rawlings who was
born on April 10, 1799 in Truro Parish, Cornwall, England,
and died in March of 1869. Her step-father was John Trugen
who died when Mary Ann was four years old. She was then
adopted by Thomas Trestrial of Chevelah, Cornwall, England.
Mary Ann's mother was Jane Werry, the daughter of The
Reverend Thomas Werry, an Anglican Priest. John Hambly lived
for may years at the Manor of Tregavethan, near Truro,
Cornwall, England, the home of Sir Huzy Vivyan, M.P. In 1828
John Hambly went to Gongo, Brazil [see Autobio. David
Hambly] in the employ of an English Mining Company and
retired to England in 1831. From that date until his death
he followed the calling of buying, selling and managing
mines. He and Mary Ann Rawlings were both buried at the
Parish of Crediton in Devonshire. They had the following
children:
1. David William Hambly, born October 5, 1821, in
Devonshire, England [according to his obituary, which
also give the year of his birth as 1820]. He died on
August 5, 1890, at Snake Lake, Plumas County,
California, and was buried on Friday, August 8, at the
Quincey Cemetery by Plumas Lodge No. 88, of the
International Order of Odd Fellows "of which he was an
old, esteemed and respected member" according to the
"Plumas National." According to the paper he died of
"inflammation of the bowels." "Friends, relatives and
neighbors followed the remains to their last resting
place." At the age of eight, David went with his
parents to Brazil, and lived in Gongo, Brazil in 1828
according to his autobiography. While there was a
schoolmate of Don Pedro, the "late" Emperor of Brazil.
In 1832 his parents returned to London. During the
cholera epidemic, the family moved to Cornwall, England
where he studied minerology and assaying. In 1838 he
went to New Brunswick and Newfoundland, Canada, as an
assayer and geologist for and English company. He
returned to England in 1840,settling again in London in
1840. There he studied for two years and then relocated
in Cornwall where he was elected by the People's Party
as Tax Collector. He resigned his office late in 1843
and then on January 11, 1844 married. They then
embarked for America on March 10, 1844. Lead had long
been known in a remote part of the Michigan Territory.
Part of this area came to be known in 1836 as the
Territory of Wisconsin. Indians and itinerant Frenchmen
had mined and crudely smelted it for years. After about
1825, emigrants from Missouri and Tennessee began to
mine it again. With the lead were found two forms of
ore that were useless to most miners because there was
no known method for processing it. The tin and copper
mines of Cornwall were closing, and when knowledge of
these rich deposits of ore reached Cornwall, economic
conditions forced Cornish hard-rock miners to search
elsewhere for work, and the Territory of Wisconsin
seemed the perfect place. One Francis Clyma was the
first to arrive in Mineral Point, about 1827-28. Others
followed throughout the 30s and 40s. There too David
and his family settled, arriving there on June 14,
1844. According to his autobiography it was then called
"Shake Rag." There he prospected successfully for
galena and was employed in the copper mines of Lake
Superior while Jane took care of the family. Here were
born William David John Hambly and Thomas James Jenkin
Hambly. [More can be found with wonderful photos in the
August 1974 issue of "The Magazine ANTIQUES." They then
went to Dubuque, Iowa, in the fall of 1848, settling
there in May of 1849 and mining until March, 1850.
While there his brothers William and Josiah were also
living there. They too had been in Wisconsin. There
Jane and their two eldest children remained while David
started overland for California, departing on March 12,
1850. He arrived at Hangtown [now Placerville] in the
first part of July. He located and mined in Nevada
County at Grass Valley, Boston Ravine, and other places
until December 12, 1851 when by way of Panama he
returned to Iowa. By ox team, David soon commenced his
second journey "across the plains" to California with
his family and twenty one others in April of 1852. They
arrived in American Valley on September 17, 1852, via
the Beckwith Pass Route. The journey was one of severe
trials and misfortunes, but with untiring strength and
energy, backed by a force of character little short of
wonderful, Jane and David arrived full of hope for the
future. They camped on the Ohio Ranch, which in 1890
was the property of D.R. Finlayson. David sold his
outfit and, leaving his family there, went again to
Nevada County to look after his mines. He expected to
find there his brother William S. R. Hambly, but was
disappointed. The brother had been shipwrecked on the
Southern Coast and had not yet arrived. David's mine by
this time was not in the possession of others, so he
returned to Plumas [then part of Butte County] and in
October, with his family, located on Nelson Creek at
Henpeck Flat, engaging in farming as well as mining.
Here his first daughter was born and died; here his
second son also died, in 1853. In October of 1854 they
bought Shore's Hill Mine and Oak Grove Ranch, later the
Lime Kiln Ranch in the West end of the American Valley
on Spanish Creek. There they resided until the Spring
of 1861, having bought Snake Lake Ranch on May 1, 1860.
During 1855 and 1856 David spent seven months visiting
Chile, South America. There at Snake Lake David lived
until his death. There he buried his son Josiah in
April of 1869 and his first wife, Jane in June of 1877.
David married twice. His first wife was Jane Jenkin
[sometimes, in family and in legal records it is
written "Jenkins"] who was born November 10, 1821, at
Blackwater, near Truro, England. She was the daughter
of Thomas Jenkin, a brewer [see Jenkin Family]. Her
mother died when she was quite young and upon her
marriage to David, they emigrated to America. According
to David Hambly's autobiography, her first cousin was a
Thomas Jenkin of Mineral Point, Wisconsin, who had a
brother in law named Richard Rickard. There are several
members of this family in Iowa Township in the Census
records. Work should be done on this family. Jane died
June 7, 1877 at Snake Lake where she is buried. They
were married at Marazion, Cornwall, England. David
married his second wife, Mary Jenkin, on July 1, 1878,
at Snake Lake, Plumas County, California, by Plumas
County Judge William A. Ceney. Mary E. Lewis of nearby
Spanish Ranch was witness for the marriage. David was
57 and Mary was 50. Both were living at Snake Lake at
the time. Mary was the widow of James Jenkin, a
half-brother of David's first wife Jane. There were no
children by his second marriage, but David raised the
Jenkin children as his own. Mary died November, 1893. A
funeral notice found at the Museum in Quincey says that
she was buried "from her late residence near Spanish
Ranch at 10:30 A.M., Tuesday, November 7, 1893. Place
of Interment Meadow Valley Cemetery," Meadow Valley
[Plumas County], California. For thirty five years Jane
and David Hambly lived in the immediate vicinity of
their pioneer home-- a life full of goodness and
unbounded charity toward all.
David Hambly "[here quoting his obituary] was a
pioneer of the state and county and assisted in the
development of the resources thereof, doing what he
could also in the mental development of the people with
his pen. He was a student of all matter pertaining to
progression and the elevation of humanity. He had no
sympathy for the followers of fashion. He was bold in
his utterance, denouncing what he called fraud and
misrepresentation. He was not in sympathy with forms
and rites, from the dark ages called religion. He
believed in an individual spirit existence, capable of
expression under the proper conditions with the same
free agency as the physical man. He promulgated and
defended his belief under all circumstances both by
word and pen.
Mr. Hambly has contributed many articles to the
literature of the age on the subjects of geology,
minerology, science of life, spiritualism, all on an
advanced plane of thought. He was highly respected for
his integrity and uprightness in business and
neighborly affairs. Mr. Hambly, during his residence in
Plumas County, was elected Justice of the Peace,
appointed Road Tax Collector, and for many years served
as School Trustee (Butterfly District) to the advantage
of his district. His general bodily activity had been
impaired for the last four or five years from kidney
troubles, the primary cause of his death.
Another Pioneer has gone to his last resting place
and before another decade they will all have passed
away to live only in memory.
The following composition was found among Mr.
Hambly's effects and were his sentiments and controlled
to a great extent his rule of action:
When o'er my cold and lifeless clay
The parting words of love are said,
And friends and kindred meet to pay
Their last fond tribute to the dead,
Let no stern Priest, with solemn drone,
A funeral liturgy entone,
Whose creed is foreign to my own.
Let not a word be whispered there
In pity for my unbelief,
Or sorrow that I could not share
The views that gave their souls relief.
My faith to me is no less dear
No less convincing and sincere,
Then theirs, so rigid and austere.
Let no stale words of church-born song
Float our upon the silent air,
To prove my implications wrong,
The soul of him, then lying there.
Why should such words be glibly sung
O'er one whose living tongue
Such empty phrases never rung.
But rather let the faithful few
Whose hearts are knit so close to mine,
That they with time the dearer grew,
Assemble at the day's decline,
And while the golden sunbeams fall,
Let them in soften tone recall
Some tender memory of the dead;
Some kindly act, some words of power,
Which I, perchance, have done or said,
By loved ones treasured to that hour,
Recount the deeds which I admired,
The motives, which my soul inspired,
The hope, by which my heart was fired.
---David William Hambly"
In the Bancroft Library can be found the original 120
page autobiography of David William Hambly [a microfilm
copy is now (as of 1990) in the Museum at Quincey,
California], written in 1883. According to the Bancroft
Library's catalogue card it contains "Recollections of
his experiences rewritten from Diaries. Notes on his
family in Wales [sic]; mining experiences in the Middle
West; arrival in California, 1850, and mining on the
Feather River; return to Iowa and second overland
journey to California, 1852; pioneering (mining and
ranching) in Plumas Co.; trip to Chile, 1856; interest
in Spiritualism. The number of the book is: C-D/5069.
David and Jane had children as follows:
a. William David John Hambly, born January 5,
1846 at Mineral Point, Wisconsin. He married on
October 25 [his biography says December 25], 1874,
Catherine Vinter, the oldest daughter of William
Vinter, twice grandmaster of the grand lodge of
Ancient Order United Workman of California.
Catherine was born on September 8, 1852. Catherine
was called "Kitty." On the back of photos at the
Plumas Museum it is written that "All these
pictures were taken September 26, 1886, when the
family lived at Snake Lake, and Mr. Hambly had
written the above information on the back of each
picture and had given them to his friends Mr. and
Mrs. Thomas Hughes. Then after the Hamblys moved
to San Jose, another picture was sent of a
daughter Evyline Dee Hambly, who on Dec. 20, 1900
was then 3 years old....As to their departure for
San Jose, one old-timer recalls their leaving not
long after they all watched a solar eclipse, which
he thinks was about 1893. Another recollects an
approximate date of 1896." They had:
i. Walter Harold Hambly, born September 24,
1875; married on April 24, 1898, Edith Schell
who was born on August 11, 1877.
ii. W. Frank Hambly, born July 31, 1877;
married Inez Clifton on December 22, 1901.
iii. Fred Bertram Hambly, born March 19,
1880; married on March 19, 1902, Ramona
Padilla. On the back of two different photos
at the Plumas County Museum, Fred's first
name is listed as "Frederick," not just
"Fred," and his middle name is written
"Bertrain," not "Bertram."]. They had:
(a) Berdina Uona Hambly, born March
26, 1903.
iv. David Vinter Hambly, born January 15,
1883. [On back of the photo mentioned under
Fred Hambly above, David's middle name is
written "Veiter," instead of "Vinter"].
v. Mabel Hyacinth Hambly, born March 27,
1886.
v. Uona Verona Hambly, born December 19,
1888; died August 5, 1889.
vi. Dahlgren Whittier Hambly, born July 10,
1892.
vii. Evelyn Dee Hambly, born January 26,
1897.
b. Thomas James Jenkin Hambly, "Tommy," who was
born on March 9, 1848. He died on June 16, 1853 on
Nelson Creek, California and is buried there.
c. David Francis Charles Hambly, born in Iowa
[according to marriage License] August 13, 1850;
died in Oleander, Fresno County, California in
1890. At the age of 25, he married fifteen year
old Sarah S. Lathrop, a California native and
resident of Greenville, Plumas County at the time
of their marriage. [Sarah had an only brother
William F. Lathrop who married and lived in Edith
Street in Berkeley, California]. They were married
in Greenville on June 17, 1876, but they did not
get their license until June 21! J. D. Compton of
Greenville and John H. Ridal were witnesses to the
marriage. David was also a resident of Greenville.
They had:
i. Hubert Dalziel Hambly, born January 26,
1878. Hubert [Huburt] married. There is a
photograph of him and his wife with his
sister Madie and her family at the museum in
Quincey, California.
ii. Madie B. Hambly, born August 30, 1882;
married on June 12, 1901 to James F. Boyle.
They had at least one child:
(a) David Boyle
iii. Philip Denver Hambly, born August 19,
1884.
iv. Ora Maysel Hambly, born December 30,
1886. [Her tombstone in Quincy Cemetery,
Plumas County, California, says she was born
December 30, 1883 and died March 10, 1952].
v. Thomas Hambly, born 1888.
d. Ophelia Anna Dee Hambly, born June 23, 1858.
died January 23, 1854 [David Hambly's Autobio.
says January 3].
e. Josiah James Jenkin Hambly, born September 3,
1858. Died April 16, 1869.
f. Thomas Werry Hambly, born March 31, 1861. He
married Kittie D. Brown. As of 1980 they lived in
San Jose, California. Their issue:
Earl David William Hambly, born December 17,
1891.
g. Harry Bishop Hambly was born at Snake Lake,
Plumas County, California, on April 18, 1863. He
died August 8, 1937. Harry Bishop Hambly worked
for Bancroft. The Company announced his death as
"The Dean of the Bancroft Sales Staff." He was
"known affectionately as 'the Judge' to all of
those with whom he came in contact." He joined the
Bancroft-Whitney Company in 1891. "Genial, kind
and helpful to everyone with whom he came in
contact, 'the Judge' was undoubtedly the best
known and liked law book representative on the
Pacific coast and one with a glowing record of
achievement for his Company. Associated with the
Bancrofts for 46 years [in 1937] he has been for
many years the oldest salesman in point of years
of service on our staff," read a company notice
found in the scrapbook of his son Alvin's wife. He
married September 7, 1892 Nyna Emma Sargent, born
August 28, 1872 [the Sargent Family Record says
she she was born 1870], the daughter of Joshua
Colomore Sargent and Charlotte Ann Stone. They had
the following children:
i. Alvin Sargent Hambly, born August 27,
1894 in San Francisco, California; At his
death he was a Real Estate Dealer of
Berkeley, California and former head of the
East Bay division of the National Safety
Council. He was killed on July 10, 1957, in
an automobile accident "when his car plunged
into a ditch and caught fire on Highway 40
alternate, three miles east of Oroville" on
the way home from a business trip to Oroville
[according to his Obituary] but on his way
home from Plumas County according to family
stories. At his death he was of 99 Eucalyptus
Road, Berkeley. He is buried beneath his wife
in the National Cemetery, San Bruno,
California. Ensign Alvin Sargent Hambly
"enlisted in the Naval Reserve force on April
18, 1917 and was first stationed at San
Pedro, California. He obtained a transfer to
the U.S. Naval Reserve Flying Corp and was
sent to San Diego, Cal. and later to the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology at
Boston. Upon completion of his ground
training there he was sent to Key West Fla.
later to Miami and then to Pensacola for
flying instruction. He was commissioned an
Ensign on November 8, 1918 and is at present
[?] instructor of flying at the U.S. Naval
Reserve Air Station at Pensacola, Florida.
[From a hand-written letter on
Bancroft-Whitney Company stationery, on file
at the California Section, California State
Library, Sacramento, California in 'Biography
info. file.']" He was Ensign in night bombing
when Armistice was signed on November 11,
1918. He stayed as flight instructor for one
year. He had a cousin Helen, for she gave him
a book, The Story of Moses, "Re-told by L.L.
Weedon," [1886] to "Alvin S. Hambly from
Cousin Helen, Xmas 1907." [This book is now
in the possession of Margaret Hambly Watson].
He married Marguerite Vivian Cheever [see
CHEEVER family] on July 2 [some records, even
Marguerite's say July 21, yet the marriage
certificate says July 2], 1923 in Los
Angeles, California. The ceremony was
performed by W. S. Dysinger, "Minister of the
Gospel," in the presence of Harry B. Hambly.
Marguerite was born April 25, 1898 in Los
Angeles, California. She was the daughter of
Edward Cheever and Emma Winter of Los
Angeles. She was baptized by the Rev. Herbert
J. Weaver on May 28, 1906 in Evangelican
Lutheran Church in Los Angeles, California
with Mrs. Minna Winter, Ms. Lillie Ehlers,
and Mrs. Emma Cheever as her sponsors.
Marguerite Vivian Cheever Hambly died July
24, 1988 at Mt. Towers Healthcare, Cheyenne,
Laramie County, Wyoming. She was buried with
her husband in Golden Gate National Cemetery,
San Bruno, California, South Drive [between
Second Drive East and Third Drive East,
Section "T," Grave number 2267. They had the
following children:
(a) Alvin Sargent Hambly, Jr. born
August 23, 1924. Alvin graduated from
the University of California Medical
School, San Francisco, California with
an M.D. degree in 1948. He served in the
Navy for several years and then had a
private service in Berkeley, California
and then in Healdsburg, California.
Alvin then joined the U.S. Veterans
Administration as a practicing physician
in Cheyenne, Wyoming in 1976. He died in
Cheyenne, Laramie County, Wyoming on
July 17, 1981. There he is buried. He
married twice. First to Joan Bailey on
Tuesday, the twenty-third of October at
eight o'clock in the evening at the
Church of Our Saviour, San Gabriel,
California. Joan was born in Oakland,
California, on July 10, 1924 to Elmer
Ellsworth Bailey, Jr., and Martha
Eleanor Lowell of Alhambra, California
[see LOWELL family]. Alvin married
secondly to Penny Lee Seeberger, nee
Martensen, the daughter of George and
Virginia Martensen, on February 8, 1976.
She was born August 4, 1945. By her
previous marriage Penny had issue:
Virginia Seeberger, born January 18,
1969 and Russell Seeberger, born August
6, 1971. By Joan Bailey, Alvin Sargent
Hambly had:
(1) Katherine Hambly, born
Christmas Day, 1948. At 2:00 PM on
Sunday, June 6, 1982 she married
Michael Lewis Crow, Esq., at St.
Paul's Church, Healdsburg,
California. Michael was born March
15, 1948 in Colorado Springs,
Colorado, the son of Ivan Lewis
Crow, born February 18, 1920 in
Garden City, Kansas, and Betty
Nelle White, born September 7, 1921
in Witchita, Kansas. His brother
was John Randall Crow, born August
13, 1951 in Colorado Springs,
Colorado. His sister is Cathy
Camille Crow, born August 13, 1954
in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
Katherine and Michael Crow had
issue:
Matthew Ellsworth Crow, born
in Sacramento, California,
November 23, 1982, baptized
May 15, 1983, at Trinity
Cathedral, Sacramento,
California by The Very
Reverend Charles Mortimer
Guilbert.
Barbara Whitman Crow, born
March 19, 1984, baptized First
Sunday after Easter, 1984 at
St. Paul's Church, Healdsburg,
California by The Very
Reverend Marvin Bowers, Rector.
Susan Lowell Crow, born May 7,
1987 in Sacramento, California
and baptized at St. Paul's
Church, Healdsburg,
California, July 22, 1987 by
the Very Reverend Marvin
Bowers, Rector.
(2) Barbara Hambly, born February
10, 1950. Married Nicholas Tennant
on April 19, 1969. Nicholas was
born September 6, 1943. They had
issue:
Joseph Matson Tennant, born
August 31, 1970
Rosemary Tennant, born August
28,1973.
Rebecca Tennant, born November
22, 1974
(3) Stephen Lowell Hambly, born
April 5, 1951. He married on August
8, 1974 to Pamela Elise Grace
Ogbin, born February 2, 1955. They
had a son:
Stephen Ozias Hambly, born
April 23, 1975
Stephen Lowell Hambly married
secondly to Cynthia Ann Potts, born
April 15, 1957 in Pomona,
California. They were married by
The Rev. Marvin Bowers at St.
Paul's Church, Healdsburg,
California at 12:00 Noon on
Saturday, November 20, 1982. She
was the daughter of John Potts and
Joyce Madolyn Ugalde. They had no
children. By her first marriage
Cindy had issue:
Rene Marie Hammerstaedt, born
August 4, 1977.
(4) Margaret Hambly, born at 9:02
A.M. on March 14, 1956 at Alta
Bates Community Hospital, Berkeley,
California. C. C. Chappell, Jr.,
M.D., delivered her. Home at that
time was 38 Oakvale Avenue,
Berkeley, California at that time.
She was Graduated from Healdsburg
High School, Healdsburg,
California, she married on
September 5, 1981 at 12:00 Noon, at
Ascension Episcopal Church, Kent
Street, Greenpoint, Brooklyn, New
York to (The Reverend) Shelley
Burch [Joel] Watson, Jr., born
November 16, 1944 in Toronto,
Ontario, Canada, the son of Shelley
Burch Watson of Capron, Virginia
and Alice Wingfield Whitley of
Suffolk, Virginia. Shelley and his
wife Margaret were Christians. When
he married Margaret Hambly, The
Right Reverend Robert C. Witcher,
D.D., Bishop of Long Island was the
Officiant at the marriage and at
the Celebration of the Holy
Eucharist. The Very Reverend
Charles M. Gilbert, Canon of Grace
Cathedral, San Francisco,
California was the assistant. At
the time Shelley B. Joel Watson was
Rector of the Parish of the
Ascension, having been Instituted
and Inducted as Priest and
Fifteenth Rector at 7:00 P.M. on
Thursday, February 12, 1981 by The
Rt. Rev. Robert Campbell Witcher,
Bishop of Long Island. "Joel" and
Margaret lived for a time in
Winstead, Connecticut, Riverton,
Connecticut and are presently
(1990) living in Santa Rosa,
California.
(5) Peter Sargent Hambly, born
January 4, 1960. Peter married at
St. Paul's Church, Healdsburg,
California, by the Very Rev. Marvin
Bowers, Rector, at 1:00 P.M. on
Saturday, June 15, 1985, Cindy
Renee Overcamp.
By his secondly wife Penny Lee Martensen
Seeberger, Alvin Sargent Hambly, Jr. had:
(6) David Cheever Hambly, born
June 21, 1977. As of 1988 he and
his mother and step-father, Jim
Murray were living in Santa Rosa,
California.
(b) Nancy Louise Hambly, born April
26, 1926. Died March 29, 1977. She
married on December 29, 1956, William
Austin Hall, born March 5, 1923. Their
children:
1. Gregory Philip Hall, born July
12, 1958
2. Christopher Sumner Hall, born
September 22, 1960.
3. Melissa Louise Hall, born
October 12, 1964
4. Timothy Austin Hall, born
January 7, 1966
ii. Helen Josephine Hambly, born January
18, 1896; died June 19, 1974. She married
George Magee Cunningham on March 5, 1922. He
was born July 14, 1895 and died July 24,
1963. George graduated from the University of
California, Berkeley as a geologist. He spent
several years in the field in Arabia, the
Persian Gulf, Mexico, Indonesia, and
Australia. He became the Chief Geologist of
The Standard Oil Company of California and
then the General Manager of Exploration. In
1952 he became the first President of the new
Caltex Exploration subsidiary, American
Overseas Petroleum Co., New York. His travels
took him to Lybia, Australia, Turkey, Taiwan,
and other countries throughout the world, as
well as the United States. He retired in 1960
at the age of 65. George served in the United
States Army in World War I as a sergeant in
the Artillery. He was wounded. They had issue:
(a) Mary Jean Cunningham, born April
5, 1923; married on November 21, 1948,
James W. Jones, born June 11, 1921. Mary
Jean was a W.A.V.E. in the United States
Navy during World War II. She tool
preliminary training on the East Coast
and was assigned principally to
recruiting on the West Coast. After
service release she and James were
married. James was an Army Combat Flier.
He served in over thirty individual
pursuit combat missions in the European
Theater of World War II, and as many
against the troops of the Japanese
Emperor in the South Pacific Area. He
served in the Army Flying Reserves for
four years while finishing at the
University of California, Berkeley in
the School of Engineering. He then
joined the International Telephone and
Telegraphy and served in the electronics
research and development both in the
U.S. of A. and in Australia. Both he and
his wife have civilian flying and
gliding (soaring) licenses as of 1977.
They had issue:
(1) Clyde Magee Jones, born
August 14, 1949; married Joan Ellen
Gilmour on May 7, 1977. Joan was
born February 4, 1955 in
Sacramento, California. They had:
Stephen Matthew Jones
Margaret Ann Jones
(2) Leigh Steven Jones, born
January 18, 1951; married Jocelyn
Grover on January 30, 1973. She was
born on February 6, 1954.
(3) Martha Jean Jones, born
August 14, 1952. She married David
Intersimone. As of 1989 they lived
at 7559 Arden Way, Aptos, CA 95003.
They had a daughter,
Gina Marie Intersimone
(4) Carol Ann Jones, born May 1,
1955
(b) George Magee Cunningham, Jr., born
July 14, 1925; George was in World War
II and the Korean "Conflict." He was a
Lieutenant Flying Navigator in the Army
Air Corps. George served as Instructor,
some tine in Europe as well as in the
United States. He participated in the
early development and use of refueling
airplanes in the air while in flight. He
joined in working for the Pacific
Telephone Company in February of 1949.
Since 1977 he has been District Manager,
Operations Services, North Valley
District of California. George married
July 30, 1949 to Carolyn Tilton, born
April 28, 1926. They had issue:
(1) Kathleen Ann Cunningham, born
May 26, 1952 in Rosewell, New
Mexico; married August 23, 1975 to
Scott Norman Lamb, born February
27, 1952. She married David Bayard
Judson son of Philip M. Judson and
Virginia Dean (his father had first
married Elizabeth Stuart Peck) at
"Brackney." David was born in Palo
Alto, California December 28, 1943.
They had issue:
Kevin Magee Judson, born in
Sacramento, California
December 29, 1982.
Carolyn Elizabeth Judson, born
December 30, 1983 in
Sacramento, California.
Elise Judson
(2) Nyna Lynn Cunningham, born
February 24, 1954; married William
Dana Dolby on July 9, 1977. He was
born April 3, 1954. They had issue:
Joseph William Dolby
Louise Gabrielle Dolby
(3) Mary Louise Cunningham, born
April 16, 1955. She married Rex
White in 1980. He is a fine
furniture maker.
(b) Margaret Ann ["Peggy"] Cunningham,
born June 12, 1928; she graduated from
the University of California with honors
in Music, Phi Beta Kappa, 1949. Peggy
served two years as Graduate Assistant
in Teaching, 1949-1951. She received a
scholarship to the Royal Academy of
Music, London, 1951-1954. She was the
first woman to receive a degree in
orchestral conducting. Peggy joined the
San Francisco Symphony in 1955 as a
member of the percussion section. She
completed her MA degree and teacher's
credentials at San Francisco State
University in 1957. In addition to the
Symphony, Peggy performed with the San
Francisco Opera (1961 on--). She taught
at the San Francisco Conservatory of
Music and the University of California
at Berkeley. She married Dino Lucchesi
on August 5, 1961. Dino was born July
21, 1911. They had issue:
(1) Teresa Ann Lucchesi, born May
28, 1962
(2) Dino Alan Lucchesi, born
January 4, 1964
(3) Rocco George Lucchesi, born
April 29, 1966.
iii. Harry Bishop Hambly, Jr., born May
7, 1898, in Alameda, California. "He was
voluntary [sic] inducted into the U.S. Naval
Reserve Force on October 24, 1918, and was
sent to the Aviation Detachment at the
University of Washington at Seattle with the
rating of a Chief Quartermaster of Aviation.
It was here while he was receiving his ground
training in the U.S. Naval Reserve Flying
Corp that the armistance was signed. The
detachment was immediately demobilized and he
was placed on the inactive list on December
20, 1918 [From a typed letter, unsigned, from
2620 Benvenue Ave., Berkeley, Calif, dated
January 27, 1919, and on file at the
California Section of the California State
Library, Sacramento, in the 'Bio info
file']." He then attended Santa Barbara State
College and obtained a teacher's certificate.
He later taught for three years in High
School. Following that he graduated from the
University of California Dental School in
1928 after four more years of study. He
established himself in a practice in the
Marina in San Francisco, California and
practiced for 44 years in the same location.
He rose to President of the California State
Dental Association and held many Civic and
Honorary positions as well. He retired in
1972. He was instrumental in having the
Palace of Fine Arts Building in San Francisco
permanently restored. A full biography may be
found in Who's Who in American and Who's Who
in California for 1929, Who's Who in the
West, 1949, 1956, and 1978 as well as in
American Dental Leaders, 1953. He married
Lilliam G. Blackman on March 22, 1930.
Lillian, who was known affectionately as
"Billie," was born April 26, 1908. They had:
(a) Harry Bishop Hambly, III, born
February 21, 1931. Harry graduated from
Modesto (1952) and San Jose State (1954)
State Colleges. He was immediately
appointed Art Director of TV Station
KNTV San Jose. Several years later he
established his own very successful
Graphic Arts Studio in Santa Clara,
California. He married Margot Weld Smith
September 9, 1962. She was born August
23, 1932. By his second wife, Vickie,
Harry Bishop Hambly, III had
(1) Bryn Hambly
(2) Will Hambly
(b) Roger Arthur Hambly, born April
13, 1936. Roger graduated from San Jose
College, California in 1957. He served
as a Captain in the U.S. Army Dental
Corps at Thule, Greenland 1962 as well
as in Pennsylavnia. He joined his father
in Dental Practice in San Francisco in
September of 1963.
iv. Maurice Donald Hambly, born January 5,
1909. He married Florence G. Tuttle, born
December 17, 1913 on September 7, 1935.
Donald was always in the music-radio field.
He had an amateur radio station of his own
while in High School and passed for licensed
radio engineer regularly throughout his life.
He played several musical instruments and was
in "Bands" in Hotels and several years
leading Band in Yosemite Valley, California.
Donald was a pioneer (1920) in radio,
covering all phases of the field of radio
broadcasting. He was with KRE, Berkeley, for
35 years and KSFO, San Francisco for 11 years
(as of 1977).
(a) Scott Hambly, born March 2, 1940.
He married Kathryn Elnora Kesler on July
10, 1971. She was born November 14,
1947. Scott was in the United States
Army-Air Force 1963-1968. He rose to
Captain, serving in Texas, Florida, King
Salmon, Alaska as well as Iowa, as
"weapons controller" at air force bases,
plus other duties. He received his PhD.
in 1977 in "Folk-lore and Folk Music in
America."
(b) Ross Hambly, born October 9, 1942.
He married Virginia Ann Doak on June 22,
1974. She was born July 16, 1945. Ross
was in ROTC at the University of
California at Berkeley and graduated 2nd
Lt. Artillery, July 1964. He took a
graduate degree in Business
Administration in 1966. He was in the
Army Supply Corps. He served at Ft. Lee,
Virginia, Sharp Park Army Depot,
Stockton, California, and then sent to
Viet Nam. Awarded the Bronze Star in
action and rose to Captain. Assigned
Electron Supply Center, Dayton, Ohio in
1969. There he served through the Spring
of 1970. In civilian life he worked for
large engineering firms.
2. William Samuel Rawlings Hambly, born December 28,
1822, in Tregavathen, Cornwall, England. He died on
December 1, 1898 at Ballarat, Victoria, Australia. He
emigrated to America in 1844 and lived for a while in
Wisconsin and then in Iowa. He lived for a short time
in California in 1850, and was a "beer and porter
celler" according to David Hambly's autobiography. He
went to Australia in 1854 and settled in Ballarat,
married Susannah Netherton in Melbourne in 1854.
According to the funeral notice of his brother David
William Hambly in August of 1890, he was living in
Australia at that time. They had the following children:
a. William Hambly, born 1856; died 1861.
b. Lena Hambly, born 1858; died 1861.
c. John Francis Charles Hambly, born October 4,
1860. He married in February of 1896, Bernice May
Parker. They had a son:
i. Geoffrey William Hambly, born July 10,
1900 at Suva, Fuji.
d. William Rundell Hambly, born November 5, 1862.
e. David N[etherton?] Hambly, born February 10,
1865. He married on October 6, 1891, Emma Louise
Sheppard who was born on June 13, 1870. They had
the following children:
i. David Augustus Hambly, born July, 1892;
died December, 1892.
ii. Dorothy May Hambly, born August 18,
1893;
iii. Marjorie Louise Hambly, born January
8, 1895;
iv. Harold Augustus Hambly, born April 10,
1897.
f. Lucie Hambly, born April 29, 1867; married in
1896 to Richard Bailey. They had a child:
i. Lindsay Bailey
g. Frank N[etherton?] Hambly, born June 29,
1869; married in 1895.
h. Richard Squire Hambly, born August 14, 1871.
i. Maud Mary Hambly, born May 8, 1876, married
Henry Hardie. They had issue:
i. Bruce Hardie, born January 16, 1896;
ii. Wallace Hardie, born July 17, 1897
j. Marion May Hambly, born January 12, 1879.
3. John Francis Charles Hambly who was born on
January 19, 1825. He died on November 25, 1839.
4. Dee Hambly. She was born on September 1, 1827 and
died on March 31, 1873; she was buried in Crediton,
Devonshire, England. She married Samuel Squire Gimblett
of Midhurst, Teignmouth, South Devon, England. They had
issue:
a. Dee Gimblett, died Setpember 6, 1901. She
married a Mr. Harding.
b. Mary Ann Gimblett, married a Mr. Sharp
c. Richard Gimblett
d. Effie Gimblett
5. Mary Ann Hambly, was born in Brazil, South
America, on September 26, 1830. She married at
Plymouth, in Devon, England on May 4, 1850, Joseph
Richards, a mining superintendent and surveyor. He was
born at St. Mary-tavy, near Tavistock, Devonshire,
England on January 25, 1829 and died on October 17,
1891 in South Africa. Mary Ann Hambly Richards lived in
San Francisco, California as of 1890, and died there on
October 10, 1891. They had the following children:
a. Dee Hambly, born May 22, 1851. She married on
March 28, 1874 to W. Doxey who was born March 10,
1846.
b. Elizabeth Hambly, born August 13, 1852;
married September 19, 1877 to William Woolcock.
c. Josiah Hambly. Born on March 30, 1854. He
died on February 20, 1888. Married Julia A. Labor
on January 25, 1885.
d. Isabella Hambly, born September 25, 1856.
Married on November 17, 1883 to George H. Smith.
At his death, Isabella married secondly, G. Howitt.
e. Kate Hambly, born Deceember 28, 1858; died
January 24, 1860.
f. Kate Hambly [second of the name], born
October 31, 1860. Died July 22, 1864.
g. Mary Ann Hambly, born July 7, 1863; died July
18, 1864. [note the death of her sister Kate
Hambly above].
h. Francis Joseph Hambly, born April 28, 1865;
died May 1, 1874.
i. Elsie Hambly, born February 1, 1867.
j. Harold Rawlings Hambly, born December 15,
1868.
k. Marian Hambly, born April 20, 1870; married
on September 6, 1893 to Israel Whitworth.
6. Josiah J. Hambly, born January 6, 1833 and "died
on June 3, 1852 at the age of 19 years, 6 mos. and 28
days," in California. He brother David believed he died
of cholera. His fiance at the time of his death was
Mary Williams who crossed the plains with David Hambly
and his wife. She was later married to a Mr. Stinson.
7. Richard Rawlings Hambly, born August 30, 1835.
8. Elizabeth Jane Hambly, born May 27, 1841 married
Henry Bishop. They lived since 1873 in Adelaide, South
Australia. They had issue:
a. Hambly Bishop, who married Flo.[rence?]
Campbell and had:
i. Keith C. Bishop
ii. a daughter
b. Elsie Bishop, married Hadley R. Lathlene and
had:
i. a son
ii. a daughter
c. Maud Bishop
d. Francis Leonard Bishop, married in 1899, and
had:
i. a daughter born in 1900
e. Violet Bishop, married Horace R. Knowles and
had:
i. Reginald Knowles
f. Daisy Bishop
g. Earnest Bishop, born October of 1878
h. Roy Sinclair Bishop
i. Vere Bishop
9. John Frank Hambly. He was born March 3, 1844 and
was living in Oleader, Fresno County, California in
1890. He married Elizabeth Ann Hunt, daughter of The
Reverend John Hunt, the pioneer missionary of the Fuji
Islands. [The Reverend John Hunt was born in 1812. On
March 6, 1838 he married Miss Summers. He died on St.
Francis Day, October 4, 1848. His daughter, Elizabeth
Ann Hunt was born March 14, 1844 and died on December
27, 1891. They had the following children:
a. Mary Davis Hambly, born December 29, 1874.
b. Lillie Bishop Hambly, born November 5, 1876;
died September 21, 1881.
c. Hannah Summers Hambly, born May 16, 1879. She
married September 12, 1901 to K. W. Brown.
d. Ethel Fresno Hambly, born April 25, 1881.
The Reverend John Hunt married Miss Summers. They had
the following children:
John Hunt, born on his mother's birthday, Friday,
September 27, 1839; he died on October 10, 1839.
Hannah Hunt, born September 18, 1843. She died
before the end of the year 1844.
Elizabeth Ann Hunt, born March 14, 1844, two weeks
before the death of sister Hannah Hunt, and died
on December 27, 1891. She married John Frank
Hambly.
Hannah Hunt [second of the name], born May, 1847.
10. Dee Hambly, born September 26, 1800. She married John
Eva.
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