Harry Baker Humphrey 1873 - 1955 Harry Baker Humphrey 1873 - 1955 Olive Agatha Mealey 1875 - 1962 Olive Agatha Mealey 1875 - 1962 Robert R Humphrey 1904

Harry Baker Humphrey1873 - 1955

Harry Baker Humphrey1873 - 1955

Olive Agatha Mealey1875 - 1962

Olive Agatha Mealey1875 - 1962

Robert R Humphrey1904 - 2002

Robert R Humphrey1904 - 2002

Llewellyn M Humphrey1903 - 2001

Llewellyn M Humphrey1903 - 2001

Helen Humphrey (Heidi)1906 -2010

Helen Humphrey (Heidi)1906 -2010

Isabel Humphrey (Tedda)1906 - 1991

Isabel Humphrey (Tedda)1906 - 1991

Harry B Humphrey1911 - 1996

Harry B Humphrey1911 - 1996

John W D Humphrey (Gee)1915 - 2006

John W D Humphrey (Gee)1915 - 2006

Garnett Peelle January1883 - 1967

Garnett Peelle January1883 - 1967

Viva Mae Morton1883 - 1969

Viva Mae Morton1883 - 1969

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Robert Regester Humphrey1904 - 2002

Robert Regester Humphrey1904 - 2002

Roberta January1909 - 2004

Roberta January1909 - 2004

Shirley Joan (Schoof)1932

Shirley Joan (Schoof)1932

Lois Anne (Angus)1935

Lois Anne (Angus)1935

Alan Baker Humphrey1939


Beth Peele (Grady)1944

Beth Peele (Grady)1944

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Carl H Schoof1921 - 2004

Carl H Schoof1921 - 2004

Ed Grady1936

Ed Grady1936

Robert Angus1936

Robert Angus1936

ShirleyShirley

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LoisLois AlanAlan BethBeth

Jane Simonson1946

Jane Simonson1946

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Elizabeth Jane Simonson1946

Elizabeth Jane Simonson1946 Loretta Bridget Lyons

1940

Loretta Bridget Lyons1940

Alan Baker Humphrey, Jr.1959

Alan Baker Humphrey, Jr.1959

Gwendolyn Joan Corley1960

Gwendolyn Joan Corley1960

Bridget Loretta Humphrey1962


Robert ThomasHumphrey1963

Robert ThomasHumphrey1963

Dylan Wells Humphrey

1976 - 2008

Dylan Wells Humphrey

1976 - 2008

Ross Edward Humphrey

1980

Ross Edward Humphrey

1980



Alan Baker Humphrey Jr.1959

Alan Baker Humphrey Jr.1959

Eleanor Boba1957

Eleanor Boba1957

Gary Humphrey Boba1993

Gary Humphrey Boba1993

Alida Boba Humphrey1996

Alida Boba Humphrey1996

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Gwen Joan Corley1960

Gwen Joan Corley1960

Ken Pridgen1955

Ken Pridgen1955

Matthew Alan Pridgen1995

Matthew Alan Pridgen1995

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Robert Eugene Corley1958

Robert Eugene Corley1958

Robert Thomas Humphrey1963

Robert Thomas Humphrey1963

Magdalena Jean Humphrey2002

Magdalena Jean Humphrey2002

Diane Lisa Amend1964

Diane Lisa Amend1964

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Colleen Ann O’Rourk1952

Colleen Ann O’Rourk1952



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Lois Anne Humphrey (Angus)

1935

Lois Anne Humphrey (Angus)

1935

Robert Joseph Angus1936

Robert Joseph Angus1936

Troy Rae Angus1967

Troy Rae Angus1967

Traci Anne Angus (Dean)1971

Traci Anne Angus (Dean)1971

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Traci Anne Angus 1971

Traci Anne Angus 1971

Eric Christopher Dean1971

Eric Christopher Dean1971

Taylor Anne Dean2005

Taylor Anne Dean2005

Tyler Christopher Dean2002

Tyler Christopher Dean2002

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Troy Rae Angus1967

Troy Rae Angus1967

Jennifer Downey1979

Jennifer Downey1979

Marcella Lindsey Downey-AngusMarcella Lindsey Downey-Angus

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Isabel Estella Humphrey (Tedda)1906 - 1991

Isabel Estella Humphrey (Tedda)1906 - 1991

George Harold Godfrey1888 - 1982

George Harold Godfrey1888 - 1982

Susan Wadsworth Godfrey1940

Susan Wadsworth Godfrey1940

Malcom David Godfrey1940

Malcom David Godfrey1940

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Llewelyn Mealey Humphrey1903 - 2004

Llewelyn Mealey Humphrey1903 - 2004

Margret Otilla Disher1907 - 1994

Margret Otilla Disher1907 - 1994

Eugene Register Humphrey1933


David Ford Humphrey1934


Edward Sydney Humphrey1935


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Mary Lorraine Register1907 - 1953

Mary Lorraine Register1907 - 1953

Helen Wadsworth Humphrey1906 - 2009

Helen Wadsworth Humphrey1906 - 2009

John Mark McLernon (Mac)1898 - 1956

John Mark McLernon (Mac)1898 - 1956

Roberta Irene McLernon1932 - 1998


Patricia McLernon1934


Sheila Jean McLernon1938

Sheila Jean McLernon1938

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Harold Paul Hass1918 - 1991

Harold Paul Hass1918 - 1991

Frank Whitlow1939 - 2004

Frank Whitlow1939 - 2004

Sheila McLernon (Gerhart)1938

Sheila McLernon (Gerhart)1938

Dale William Whitlow1959


Sherrie Jean Whitlow (Jones)1961


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Travis Wayne Whitlow1990

Travis Wayne Whitlow1990

Tyler William Whitlow1990

Tyler William Whitlow1990

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Shelley Stokes1957

Shelley Stokes1957



Katie Lynn Jones 1986

Katie Lynn Jones 1986

Shannon Liegh Jones 1988

Shannon Liegh Jones 1988

John W Jones1960

John W Jones1960

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Gayle Farwell1921

Gayle Farwell1921

Heidi Joanne Farwell1959


James Todd Farwell1960

James Todd Farwell1960

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Steve SchoolSteve School

Megan



Melvin C Greer1930 - 2005

Melvin C Greer1930 - 2005

Melvin Edward Greer1966

Melvin Edward Greer1966

Deborah Jean Greer1954

Deborah Jean Greer1954

Tracy Mac Greer1960

Tracy Mac Greer1960

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Velma Ruth Galbraith1940

Velma Ruth Galbraith1940

Gregory Scott Humphrey1963

Gregory Scott Humphrey1963

Lewellyn Mealey Humphrey II1959

Lewellyn Mealey Humphrey II1959

Michael Eugene Humphrey1961

Michael Eugene Humphrey1961

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Judith E. Stoltenberg1941 - 2006

Judith E. Stoltenberg1941 - 2006

Kimberly Joy Humphrey1973


Travis David Humphrey1971




Deborah Kathleen Leonard1957

Deborah Kathleen Leonard1957

Bobby B. Humphrey1973

Bobby B. Humphrey1973

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John William David Humphrey1915 - 2006

John William David Humphrey1915 - 2006

Marian Blackburn1918

Marian Blackburn1918

Barbara Jeannette Humphrey1943

Barbara Jeannette Humphrey1943

David Llewellyn Humphrey1946

David Llewellyn Humphrey1946

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Harry Bartholomew Humphrey 1911 - 1996

Harry Bartholomew Humphrey 1911 - 1996

Vivian Laura Linder1917 -

Vivian Laura Linder1917 -

David Rowland Humphrey1940

David Rowland Humphrey1940

Judith Kathleen Humphrey1941

Judith Kathleen Humphrey1941

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Ann Humphrey1971

Ann Humphrey1971

Trenton David James Humphrey2005

Trenton David James Humphrey2005

Tyler Cyrel-Ford Humphrey2006

Tyler Cyrel-Ford Humphrey2006

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SOME NOTES ON THE HUMPHREY (HUMPHREYS) FAMILYBy

Harry Baker Humphrey

Origin It seems to be established on thoroughly dependable authority that the first Humphreys were Scandinavians and that they may have lived on a "Peaceful Island”. The name Humphrey had its origin in the ancient Scandinavian words Holm frid (mod. Swedish Holm frid) meaning peaceful Island and suggesting that the first member of our now multitudinous family may have sought and enjoyed the privacy of his own island.

Another and less authoritative attempt to explain the origin of the name of our family is that offered by somebody whose ear may have been more keenly sensed to sound than to fact. His opinion was that Humphrey came from homme yrai, the French for true or sincere man. But, however plausible such an accounting for our name may seem, the fact remains that the first Humphreys were Scandinavians. To be sure, there were members of the family in Normandy in the 11th century and long since. But that part of what is now France had already been overrun by the roving hordes from the land of the Norse. It is not improbable that some of the descendants of the original Holm frid may have found their way into Normandy. At any rate, the Norman Conquest of England in 1066 left Humphreys in that unpeaceful isle. These same members of the family and possibly others who came later out of Normandy started a family tree whose vigorous seed established the name on the court and church registers of England, Scotland, Wales, and subsequently in Ireland.

Spelling of the name From all accounts I have thus far been free to examine the names Humphrey and Humphreys are synonymous. I have found in some instances both spellings employed by members of the same family; though, as a general practice, those of a given family line adhere to one spelling or the other, from one generation to another, indefinitely. Variants from the original are such names as Humphry, Humfrey, Homfray, Umphry, Humphries, Humphery, Humphre-ville and Onfroi. The name Pumphrey is the shortened form of the Welsh ap Humphrey (son of Humphrey) and may, therefore, be regarded as a variant of Humphrey, just as Powell (ap Howel) is a variant of Howell.

Pronunciation of the name Our standard dictionaries give but one pronunciation for the name Humphrey, namely, Hum (as in hum, hump) fri = Humfri. The Cockney English pronunciation is Umf ri and many there be who bear the name Humphrey, yet pronounce it incorrectly. On the other hand, the Humphreys are legion whose pronunciation of the name does not ignore the initial H. I have been mildly admonished, even criticised, for having departed from the more or less traditional pronunciation of our name. Yet, I can see no good reason why I should not pronounce it correctly. In doing so I shall be none the less a member of the family.

In the days of my boyhood I attended school in a neighborhood where there were many children of French-Canadian parentage who answered in their Parish church and in their homes to such family names as Pepin, Chouinard, Bourgeois, Plourde, and Caron. To this day one may hear these names (even find them so recorded on school registers) as Pippin, Sweenor, Bushway, Ploode, and Coral, or sometimes Corron, originally so pronounced and so written — yes, printed — by neighbors and teachers of non-French lineage who had neither the ear nor the patience to pronounce French names correctly, But though these neighbors and teachers and their progeny, even to the nth generation continue to mispronounce these splendid old French names they would still he wrong. And why. perpetuate an error' 'Thy continue to pronounce Humphrey as though it was Umphrey? There is no genuine authority for it. To say: “We have always so pronounced it", does not make it right.

Family traits It is with no little hesitancy that I approach a subject so beset with the temptation to lay claim to all the virtues and to refer to them as hereditary and more or less peculiar to the Humphrey family. It would obviously be difficult to prove that such qualities as integrity, moral courage, the art instinct, judicial sense, were family traits or characteristics in any hereditary sense. These qualities or characteristics are not—-can not be peculiarly those of any one family line of such ancient origin as our own. And yet, I have heard it said and have read from the printed page such, statements as The Humphreys are preeminently artistic. The family has to its credit a long and enviable roster of artists, architects, musicians, writers. The Humphrey family has been outstanding in its production of Clergymen, college presidents, jurists, and teachers. Now one difficulty with such generalizations is that they may not bear comparison with those recorded for families bearing such names as Barton, Williams, Bartholomew, Henderson, Regester, Smedley, and others too numerous to mention. In other words, almost any such characterization applied to the Humphreys might easily and equally be applicable to many other families.

If we confine our observations solely to our lineal household, the Humphreys of the Dudley, Massachusetts branch of the family it is still difficult for us to say with certainty whether a given characteristic is peculiarly that of the Humphrey side of the house. We must not forget our mothers. And yet, I believe it can be truthfully said that the majority of our family, as far back as we have any record, has been characterized by the following traits and qualities: “mental conservatism; hospitality; the spirit of the pioneer; marked Industriousness; integrity, dependability, love of nature, of philosophy, history, and the beautiful in art and literature: sound business sense; and a profound instinct for the home and for family stability and excellence.

The Dudley, Massachusetts, branch of the family has been preeminently agricultural. There have been in the family no artists, no musicians, no writers, no clergymen, no teachers, no scholars, no business men of truly outstanding merit; yet, some of them may have been of more than average ability and distinction. In agriculture, even, we have produced not more than two or possibly three "master" farmers. One of these was, in his day, an outstanding genius in his chosen field and would today undoubtedly be rated as a master farmer of the first rank.

My research into the published or other records of the Humphreys of Dudley has failed to disclose any suicides, any idiocy, any predisposition to such diseases as tuberculosis, diabetes, insanity, etc. Our people, being largely of the New England puritan household, have adhered consistently and rather rigidly to certain principles of moral rectitude. Indeed, I might say that the reaching of such principles within our family has become traditional. As a consequence, there have thus far been no murderers to hang on the family tree; no gamblers worthy the name; no victims of delirium tremens; no "Jail birds" and, so far as I can ascertain, no saints. Some of the Humphreys of our branch have quarreled with their wives but they usually have yielded to feminine entreaties before matters got into the divorce courts.

As a family, we have been much addicted to hard work; have worried too much; have been thrifty; and have been too cautious in business matters to amass great material wealth. We are not belligerent, though we have not always been wise enough to avoid resort to arms in case of war. As a family, we have despised hypocrisy and have never joined such organisations as the Ku Klux Klan or the I.W.W's (Industrial Workers of the World?).

SOME NOTES ON THE HUMPHREY (HUMPHREYS) FAMILYBy

Harry Baker Humphrey

Origin It seems to be established on thoroughly dependable authority that the first Humphreys were Scandinavians and that they may have lived on a "Peaceful Island”. The name Humphrey had its origin in the ancient Scandinavian words Holm frid (mod. Swedish Holm frid) meaning peaceful Island and suggesting that the first member of our now multitudinous family may have sought and enjoyed the privacy of his own island.

Another and less authoritative attempt to explain the origin of the name of our family is that offered by somebody whose ear may have been more keenly sensed to sound than to fact. His opinion was that Humphrey came from homme yrai, the French for true or sincere man. But, however plausible such an accounting for our name may seem, the fact remains that the first Humphreys were Scandinavians. To be sure, there were members of the family in Normandy in the 11th century and long since. But that part of what is now France had already been overrun by the roving hordes from the land of the Norse. It is not improbable that some of the descendants of the original Holm frid may have found their way into Normandy. At any rate, the Norman Conquest of England in 1066 left Humphreys in that unpeaceful isle. These same members of the family and possibly others who came later out of Normandy started a family tree whose vigorous seed established the name on the court and church registers of England, Scotland, Wales, and subsequently in Ireland.

Spelling of the name From all accounts I have thus far been free to examine the names Humphrey and Humphreys are synonymous. I have found in some instances both spellings employed by members of the same family; though, as a general practice, those of a given family line adhere to one spelling or the other, from one generation to another, indefinitely. Variants from the original are such names as Humphry, Humfrey, Homfray, Umphry, Humphries, Humphery, Humphre-ville and Onfroi. The name Pumphrey is the shortened form of the Welsh ap Humphrey (son of Humphrey) and may, therefore, be regarded as a variant of Humphrey, just as Powell (ap Howel) is a variant of Howell.

Pronunciation of the name Our standard dictionaries give but one pronunciation for the name Humphrey, namely, Hum (as in hum, hump) fri = Humfri. The Cockney English pronunciation is Umf ri and many there be who bear the name Humphrey, yet pronounce it incorrectly. On the other hand, the Humphreys are legion whose pronunciation of the name does not ignore the initial H. I have been mildly admonished, even criticised, for having departed from the more or less traditional pronunciation of our name. Yet, I can see no good reason why I should not pronounce it correctly. In doing so I shall be none the less a member of the family.

In the days of my boyhood I attended school in a neighborhood where there were many children of French-Canadian parentage who answered in their Parish church and in their homes to such family names as Pepin, Chouinard, Bourgeois, Plourde, and Caron. To this day one may hear these names (even find them so recorded on school registers) as Pippin, Sweenor, Bushway, Ploode, and Coral, or sometimes Corron, originally so pronounced and so written — yes, printed — by neighbors and teachers of non-French lineage who had neither the ear nor the patience to pronounce French names correctly, But though these neighbors and teachers and their progeny, even to the nth generation continue to mispronounce these splendid old French names they would still he wrong. And why. perpetuate an error' 'Thy continue to pronounce Humphrey as though it was Umphrey? There is no genuine authority for it. To say: “We have always so pronounced it", does not make it right.

Family traits It is with no little hesitancy that I approach a subject so beset with the temptation to lay claim to all the virtues and to refer to them as hereditary and more or less peculiar to the Humphrey family. It would obviously be difficult to prove that such qualities as integrity, moral courage, the art instinct, judicial sense, were family traits or characteristics in any hereditary sense. These qualities or characteristics are not—-can not be peculiarly those of any one family line of such ancient origin as our own. And yet, I have heard it said and have read from the printed page such, statements as The Humphreys are preeminently artistic. The family has to its credit a long and enviable roster of artists, architects, musicians, writers. The Humphrey family has been outstanding in its production of Clergymen, college presidents, jurists, and teachers. Now one difficulty with such generalizations is that they may not bear comparison with those recorded for families bearing such names as Barton, Williams, Bartholomew, Henderson, Regester, Smedley, and others too numerous to mention. In other words, almost any such characterization applied to the Humphreys might easily and equally be applicable to many other families.

If we confine our observations solely to our lineal household, the Humphreys of the Dudley, Massachusetts branch of the family it is still difficult for us to say with certainty whether a given characteristic is peculiarly that of the Humphrey side of the house. We must not forget our mothers. And yet, I believe it can be truthfully said that the majority of our family, as far back as we have any record, has been characterized by the following traits and qualities: “mental conservatism; hospitality; the spirit of the pioneer; marked Industriousness; integrity, dependability, love of nature, of philosophy, history, and the beautiful in art and literature: sound business sense; and a profound instinct for the home and for family stability and excellence.

The Dudley, Massachusetts, branch of the family has been preeminently agricultural. There have been in the family no artists, no musicians, no writers, no clergymen, no teachers, no scholars, no business men of truly outstanding merit; yet, some of them may have been of more than average ability and distinction. In agriculture, even, we have produced not more than two or possibly three "master" farmers. One of these was, in his day, an outstanding genius in his chosen field and would today undoubtedly be rated as a master farmer of the first rank.

My research into the published or other records of the Humphreys of Dudley has failed to disclose any suicides, any idiocy, any predisposition to such diseases as tuberculosis, diabetes, insanity, etc. Our people, being largely of the New England puritan household, have adhered consistently and rather rigidly to certain principles of moral rectitude. Indeed, I might say that the reaching of such principles within our family has become traditional. As a consequence, there have thus far been no murderers to hang on the family tree; no gamblers worthy the name; no victims of delirium tremens; no "Jail birds" and, so far as I can ascertain, no saints. Some of the Humphreys of our branch have quarreled with their wives but they usually have yielded to feminine entreaties before matters got into the divorce courts.

As a family, we have been much addicted to hard work; have worried too much; have been thrifty; and have been too cautious in business matters to amass great material wealth. We are not belligerent, though we have not always been wise enough to avoid resort to arms in case of war. As a family, we have despised hypocrisy and have never joined such organisations as the Ku Klux Klan or the I.W.W's (Industrial Workers of the World?).

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Harry Baker Humphrey 1873 - 1955 Harry Baker Humphrey 1873 - 1955 Olive Agatha Mealey 1875 - 1962 Olive Agatha Mealey 1875 - 1962 Robert R Humphrey 1904