Where did the name Chenny come from? Just curious.
Bonnie
On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 8:17 PM, Michael Cooley <michael_at_newsummer.com>
wrote:
> Boy, that name Hamill keeps coming up! :)
>
> I guess now the question is was she born a Hamill or a Chenny. The
> marriage record would have her legal name. I would presume the bio would
> have provided her maiden name, particularly since it refers to her a
> "Miss." (The first marriage would have long been out behind her.)
>
> -Michael
>
>
> On Mon, June 23, 2014 9:10 pm, Bonnie & Craig Lillywhite wrote:
> > I found the marriage of William Perrin (Perian) Murley to Alameda HAMILL
> > in the Monterey County, CA marriages on Vitalsearch, 21 Mar 1887. This
> was
> > from the original books. Bonnie
> >
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 8:00 PM, Michael Cooley <michael_at_newsummer.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> >
> >> Nothing about his mother...
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> http://archive.org/stream/historybiographi02guin/historybiographi02guin
> >> _djvu.txt
> >>
> >>
> >> WILLIAM PERRIN MURLEY.
> >>
> >>
> >> To the honor of being a native of the beautiful
> >> state of California Mr. Murley adds the distinc- tion of being the son
> of
> >> one of the state's pioneers, William Murley, who, though now passed to
> >> that bourne to which all are destined, still lived to enjoy the benefits
> >> of an advanced civilization. At the time of the birth of William P.
> >> Murley,
> >> July 22, 1858, the family home was in Alameda
> >> county, but three years later it was transferred to Monterey county.
> They
> >> did not remain here permanently at that time, however, for three years
> >> later they returned to Alameda county and made their home there for two
> >> years thereafter. The year 1866 found them located in Monterey coun- ty
> >> once more, and from that time to the present this has continued to be
> >> the home of the family, although various members have in the meantime
> >> passed away. On locating here the second time the father homesteaded and
> >> pre-empted three hundred and twenty acres in Qiolame valley, where he
> >> carried on farming and stock-raising throughout the active years of his
> >> life.
> >>
> >> Parkfield was the town nearest to his home,
> >> and in the schools of this place William P. Hur- ley received a fair
> >> knowledge in the rather primi- tive schools. He was twenty-three years
> >> of age at the time he started out on his own behalf and became a land
> >> owner, having homesteaded one hundred and sixty acres of land in the
> >> county. He had made this his home for about eighteen
> >> years, when, in 1898, he sold out his ranch and removed to Parkfield,
> and
> >> for two years conduct- ed two blacksmith shops in the town. Selling out
> >> at the end of two years, he turned his atten- tion once more to
> >> agricultural pursuits by the purchase of the William Imess ranch, near
> >> Park-
> >> field, and here he has since been contented to re- main. The ranch
> >> comprises one hundred and sixty acres, upon which Mr. Murley carries om
> >> diversified farming, raising successfully the va- rious grains grown
> >> generally in this locality, be- sides which he raises a large number of
> >> hogs.
> >>
> >> Mr. Murley's marriage occurred in 1887, unit-
> >> ing him with Miss Alameda Chenny, a native of Alameda county, and a
> >> lifetime resident of the state. She passed away December 5, 1893, leav-
> >> ing, besides her husband, one daughter, Delia Maggie.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
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