Tregay, Heath, Gardiner and Stewart Family Web Page
My name
is Alice Lindsey Fluegge. Twenty years ago my paternal grandfather asked me to
find out about the parentage of his mother. Little did I realize what a
never-ending and thrill-packed journey I was going on. I started with my
family, and because I do cluster genealogy, I keep going by doing both sides of
the family. Our family is the typical blended American family, with full, half
and step relations. We are very lucky labels do not hinder these relationships;
because with us the most important thing is that we are family.
This page
is dedicated to my stepfather's family. His family is, for the most part, from
the United Kingdom - namely, Cornwall, England, Scotland and Ireland. They
emigrated from the UK to Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Illinois, Ontario and
Manitoba Canada.
Here is
a brief history of the family to see family trees and pictures click on the
links below.
The
Fraternal Side of the Family is Tregay/Heath.
The story
of our branch of the Tregay family starts with two brothers John and William
Trega. They were born in Cornwall, UK where they were miners. Their migration
patterns are a history of mining in UK and the USA. Our ancestor was John
Tregay, who was born Abt. 1788 in Cornwall, UK. He died March 29, 1857 in
Argyle, Lafayette Co., WI. He had three children, John, Erma and James. His son
John, born Abt. 1815 in Cornwall, married Jane Harvey, born Abt 1817 in
Cornwall, Abt 1837 in Cornwall. They had seven children. They emigrated from
Cornwall to Albany, New York sometime between 1840-1847, and then migrated to
Mineral Point, WI between 1848-1849. Mineral Point WI was a booming lead and
zinc mining area, and is called where "Wisconsin Begins". On July 5,
1836 at Mineral Point, Wisconsin became a territory. According "Mineral
Point, a History", by George Fiedler, "It was in the middle 1830's
that the Cornish began to arrive in considerable numbers. By sailing vessel
from Cornwall, some landed at New York and other eastern ports, then took river
boats down the Ohio, and up the Mississippi to Galena, thence 35 miles overland
to Mineral Point." Our ancestor was their fifth born, John Harvey Tregay.
He was born November 10, 1849 in Mineral Point, WI. The family moved from
Mineral Point to Argyle, WI. He died in Mineral Point at the home of John Gray,
a relation on November 8,1864 of congestion of the lungs. In his obituary it
states that the Tregay family were lifelong members of the Primitive Methodist
Church.
After the
death of his father, John Harvey Tregay and his sisters migrated to the coal
mining area of LaSalle, IL in 1871. On January 18,1877, he married Sarah Ella
Heath, daughter of Richard and Amelia (Mason) Heath.
The Heath
family story starts in England. Sarah's father, Richard Heath, was born Abt.
1820 in Gloucester, England. His parents were Richard (?) Heath and Ann Morgan,
he and his brother George migrated from England to America and his family were
(according to family stories) neighbors of George Washington. They then moved
to Pottsville, PA, where he met Amelia Mason, who was born in Gloucestershire,
England, June 9, 1831. Her father was William Mason, and her mother's name is
unknown. They emigrated from England to PA in 1838. Richard and Amelia were
married on February 27, 1847, in Pottsville, PA. Shortly after their marriage
Amelia's parents went back to England. Richard and Amelia had ten children, of
which three died in infancy. The Heath family moved from PA to LaSalle, IL in
1860. Sarah was born September 1851 at Pottsville. Richard Heath died in
LaSalle around 1870. (Note: the obituary for Amelia says he died in 1871, but
she is listed in the 1870 census as a widow living with her eldest son Jesse)
Amelia remarried on April 29, 1890 to William Burrell, who died in 1898. She
was a seamstress and a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church in LaSalle. She
died June 29, 1917 in LaSalle.
John and
Sarah Tregay had 5 children. John was a mechanic at the Carbon Coal Company of
LaSalle. He died August 15, 1936 in LaSalle County of hypostatic lung
congestion, like his father, the curse of being a miner. Sarah was a housewife and
died after an accidental fall in her home, May 1, 1937 in LaSalle, IL. Of those
children our ancestor is Lloyd Tregay, born October 22, 1883 in LaSalle, IL.
Lloyd went to LaSalle-Peru High School, where he played on the football team.
After graduation in June 1901, he became a telephone installer for C.W.
Telephone Company in Springfield, IL, making 8 cents an hour. He worked for
that company until October 1905, working his way up to Wire Chief. In 1905 he
went to work for MO & KS Telephone Co. In Kansas City, MO as a cable
tester, but he was dissatisfied with the working conditions and in February
1909 went to work for SW Telephone & Telegraph in Dallas, TX. He was a
midwestern young man and was uncomfortable in Texas. In September 1909 he
started working for Corn Belt Telephone Co. in Waterloo, IA. In 1910 he joined
the IBEW (International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Union). But companies
in the US did not want to hire Union members so in order to work Lloyd went to
Winnipeg, Canada in May of 1918. It was there that he met Myrtle Marjorie
Gardiner daughter of James and Euphemia (Stewart) Gardiner.
Here is the Link
to the Paternal Side: Tregay_ Heath
The surnames
associated with the Tregay family are:
ADAMS, ANDERSON, BAKER,
BALTHIS, BARNES, BENT, CLEAVES, COOKE, DEEKS,
DEISBECK, DEMARTINI, DEWAR,
EVANS, FAWVER, FITCH, FLETCHER, FOLEY, FULKERTH, GARDINER, GILLETTE, GRAY,
GUNSOLUS, HAMAR, HARKNESS, HARVEY, HEATH, HOLLINGSWORTH, HOOK, JACKSON,
JENKINS, JENNINGS, JOSEPH, JOSLIN, KELISH, KENDALL, KIDD, KIEKENS, KNOWLES,
LAKEY, LICKFELD, LISKY, MALONEY, MARCH,
MAYBITTE, MCCALL, MCDONALD
MCNALLY, MCPHAIL, MILLER,
MOORE, MUSENGO, NEINDORF, NORTH, ORR, PARKS, PEMBERTON, PETERS, PETERSON,
POSTMA, RAMBOUSEK, ROUND, ROUVEL, SCHMIDT, SCOTT, SHOELTING, SLEETH, SMITH,
STRUSKA, TREGAY
TREGEA, WEBB, WESLEY
The surnames
associated with the Heath family are:
AMSBERG, BAINTER, BARNES,
BUTTON, COLE, DEGRANGE, GARDINER, HASTINGS, HEATH, LAMBERT, LICKFELD, LISKY, MASON,
MCCALL, MERWIN, MILLER, MUELLER, MUSENGO, NEINDORF, SEGAL, STRUSKA, TREGAY,
TRESTRAIL
TYNER, WEBB
The
Maternal side of the family is Gardiner/Stewart:
James
Gardiner of Irish origins, was born January 30, 1860 in Glencoe, Ontario,
Canada. According to "The Lansdowne Story", the Gardiners, the
McConnellls and the McFaydens came to the Orange Ridge district of Ontario,
north of Arden, from Glencoe Abt 1879 or 1880. The family of James Gardiner
lived in a log cabin about halfway between Eden and Birnie. His father was
William Gardiner and his mother was Elizabeth Bowen, a cousin of Lady Grey, the
wife of one of the Governor Generals of Canada. In Eden he met and later
married on August 30, 1893 Euphemia Stewart. The family moved to Neepawa in the
spring of 1901. James and his brothers David and Henry opened up a machine shop
in Neepawa. When they closed the machine shop the brothers scattered. James
Gardiner went north to work in a lumber mill west of Riding Mountain and west
of Kelwood. Euphemia ran a boarding house in Neepawa. . One of her boarders was
Pauline Johnson, the famous Native American poet and writer, who was the first
Canadian Native American to be honored on a stamp. She cooked for 2 winters at
the mill until the children had to go back to school. Then she went back to the
boarding house routine until spring of 1911. In 1911 James and his family moved
to a farm about 2 miles west of Kelwood. Mr. Gardiner became ill in 1912 and
after a year he died May 10, 1913, leaving Euphemia a widow at age 37 with 5
small children.
The
Stewart Family history is full of contradictions and confusion. The family
story that we were told was that Hugh was born in Scotland July 8, 1837. He
came to Canada around 1853 with his two sisters. One was married, but their
names are unknown. The rest of the family had died of some illness in Scotland.
Hugh Stewart married for the first time Abt 1859 to Elsie Mitchell. They had 6
children. Elsie died while giving birth to their sixth child around 1870. Hugh
Stewart began working for Sir John Simmons down in the corner of Lower Canada
(Quebec), along the St. Lawrence near the corner of Upper Canada (Ontario).
Hugh fell in love with one of John Simmons' daughters, Elizabeth, who was born
January 2, 1843. They had come from two different worlds; he was an orphan
working his way up and she was the daughter of an important landowner. She was
educated by a governess and could sing in both French and English. She also had
learned the fine art of doing needlepoint. Her father refused to give Hugh and
Elizabeth permission to marry so they eloped about 1872. This would cause a
permanent rift between the two families and they never had any contact again.
Horses killed Hugh in September of 1913, and Elizabeth died April 1935. Both are
buried in the family plot at Arden, Manitoba, Canada.
But new
and probably more accurate information has been supplied by Ryk Brown a Stewart
Family Historian in Canada (for more information see his site: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~rykbrown/stewart_of_arden.htm#Hugh%20Stewart,%20Pioneer%20Settler%20of%20Arden,%20Manitoba.
Our
ancestor, Euphemia Ellen Stewart, was born December 19, 1874 in Guelph,
Ontario, Canada. She was a remarkable woman even from birth, as when she was
born she weighed less than two pounds and her mother said she could pass her
wedding ring up as far as her elbow. She apprenticed at age 17 to Miss Green's
dressmaking shop in Neepawa, and was a partner for about six months before she
was married. She was multi-talented and made all kinds of things. She
specialized in crafts, clothes, hats, flowers, knitting, was an outstanding
cook and could make the most professional looking candy and chocolates. She
could also play the organ and often filled in at the church. She married for
the second time to Andrew Alexander August 30, 1893. They had three children.
Euphemia died January 14, 1958
Myrtle and Lloyd were married June 18, 1919
in Winnipeg. The family tells the story of how they were anxious about having
to take the train from Dauphin to Winnipeg some 8 miles away for the wedding
and didn't want to miss it. The story goes that Myrtle said, " Oh well if
I miss this one, there will be another one tomorrow and after all he can't get
married until I get there." She did get there and they got married. They
lived in Winnipeg where the two oldest of their seven children were born. In
1922 Lloyd brought his family back to the United States with him first going
back to LaSalle and then moving his family to Oak Park, IL, a suburb of Chicago,
in January of 1923. It was there that the next five children were born and
raised. He went back to doing electrical work and was still a proud member of
the IBEW. But like most families, the depression hit them hard and they had to
struggle to live the best way they could. After the depression life got better
and the children went on to make something special out of their lives.
Here is the Link
to the Maternal Side: Gardiner_Stewart
The surnames
associated with the Gardiner family are:
BARNES, BOWEN, BOEING,
CLARKE, DONALDSON, EDWARDS, FORD, FOSTER, GARDINER, GRAVES, HENDERSON, JOHNSON,
KEIPE, KIEKENS, KOMERASSKY, LANE, LICKFELD, LISKY, MCCALL, MCCONNELL, MOTION,
MUSENGO, NEINDORF,
SARARAS, SEGAL, SIMPSON,
STEWART, STRUSKA, TREGAY, TURNBULL, VICKERY
WATSON, WATTS, WEBB
The surnames
associated with the Stewart family are:
ACHESON, AITCHISON,
ALEXANDER, ANDERSON, ANNE, ANSEMS, ATKINSON, BAILEY, BARBER, BARBER, BARNES,
BARNETT, BAYLISS, BEACOM, BECK, BLACK, BLAIN, BOLES, BRADFORD, BREEN, BRIAN,
BRIGGS, BROOKS, CAMPBELL, CATHER, CATHERS, CHRISTMAS, CLARKE, COCHRANE, CRAIG,
CRAWFORD, DALE, DANARD, DASILVA, DECOOK, DERBYSHIRE, DONNER, DUNN, EDWARDS,
ELIZABETH, ERDMAN, ESPEN, EVANS, FEDORAK, FERGUSON, FOULON, FREEMAN, GAGNE,
GARANT, GARDINER, GERRISH, GILLESPIE, GIRARDIN, GISI, GOODMAN, GORDON, GOULDEN,
GOYEAU, GREENWOOD, HARPER, HARRIOT, HART, HATT, HAYWORD, HERNIMAN, HICKMOTT,
HILL, HILLIER, HOPKINS, HOPPFENBRACH, HOWIE, HUDYMA, HUME, HUTCHINS, HUYGE,
IMESON, INWOOD, IVES, JACKSON, JOHNSON, KARGES, KEIPE, KEITH, KERN, KERR,
KIEKENS, KING, KNIGHT, KOMERASSKY, LAMBIER, LEHMAN, LEWIS, LICKFELD, LISKY,
LUNDAY, MABLEY, MATTHEWS, MC FADYEN, MCCALL, MCCORMICK, MCDONALD, MCDOUGALL,
MCEACHERN, MCGINNIS, MCKNIGHT, MCLEAN, MCLEOD, MCQUEEN, METCALFE, MIDDLETON,
MILLS, MITCHELL, MOFFAT, MOORE, MORRIS, MOTION, MUSENGO, MUSGROVE, NEGRO,
NEINDORF, NICHOL, NICOL, O'KEEFE, PRESSICK, QUICK, RAYMOND, REID, REINER,
REKUTA, RIBBLE, RIDDELL, ROBERTSON, ROBINSON, ROSS, RUSSELO, SAMMONS, SCHAUB,
SEGAL, SEYMOUR, SHUTTE, SIMMONS, SIMPSON, SMITH, SNYDERS, SOPER, SOROKOSKI,
STEA, STEWART, STIMPSON, STRUSKA, TAYLOR, TERRON (GREENWOOD), TERRON, THOMPSON,
TREGAY, VARGA, WALES, WALLER, WEBB, WELLS, WEPPLER, WHEELER, WHITE, WHITTAKER,
WILDER, WILKINSON, WITHAM, WOLTZ
This
family that came from all over the British Isles and North America came
together and has achieved the true American dream of making a difference in the
quality of life wherever they can.
As with any genealogy site it is always under
construction so please check again in the future for updates.
Not all
is completely verified and is subject to correction. I have information on my
family, my husband's family, and inter-related families. I am now up to 12,450
people in my family database (many recently added while putting together this
book). This web page covers The Tregay/Heath/Gardiner/Stewart family branches.
Email me Alice Fluegge (alicelinzy@yahoo.com) to
see Marriage, Census, Birth, Deaths, Pictures and Other Records I have in my
possession, or to add any information or pictures to this site.
Acknowledgments
I would like to thank all the family
members (many of the family members who contributed to this work
in progress, have died and I miss them. But the journey keeps them close and I
know that they are still helping me find my way),
librarians, cemetery workers, local historians, county office clerks, Las Vegas
Public Library for their access to Heritage Quest and Newsbank (America's
obituaries and death notices), Ancestry.com, LDS and the new friends I have
made on-line for their time, research and help in acquiring the photos, family
trees and stories on this WebPages. Family history is not something anyone can
do alone and there are so many great people out there working together to make
it easier to do, all you have to do is just look. Not all is completely
verified and is subject to correction. To all of you out there thank you. Alice
Fluegge