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BRUMBLE FAMILY HISTORY
The family surname BRUMBLE is an English location surname meaning "One who came from Bromley (grove where broom or where brambles grew)," the name of several villages in England. Variants of this name are Brumbley, Brumbely, Bromley and Bromly.
Our earliest record of this name appears in "The Staffordshire Chartulary" of 1194 where we find Hubert de Brumle. In 1200 Edward de Bromleghe appears in the "Archaeologia Cantiana." In the ancient "Hundred Rolls" of 1273 we find Robert de Bromlegh of Shropshire and Geoffrey de Bromleye of Staffordshire. Johannes de Bromylegh appears in the "Poll Tax" of Yorkshire in 1379. (Highland Heights, Ltd.,
King's Lynn, Norfolk, England received from Dave Brumble of North Carolina)
While in London, Joe Brumble (brother of Pat Gracie) spent a day in a new (1997) Family History Center in search of Brumble roots. He found there were people in the Norfolk, England vicinity in the 1830s with the exact Brumble spelling and there were reasonable variations in other places earlier. You can tell from the records that some of the spelling variations are the same families later shown as Brumble.
The earliest account of the name in America was of a Brumble Hill Road in the town of North Hampton. North Hampton was known as North Hill Parish, and set off as a town in 1642. It is four miles north of Hampton Falls. Land along the road was called Brumble Hill Pasture land. The derivation of the name seems to be unknown although they may have married into the old families there of Smith, Crimball, Palmer, Jenness, Chapman, Dow and Leavitt to mention a few. (National Geographic)
The variations of the surname Brumble that I have encountered in my U.S. research are: Brumble, Brumbles, Brumbley, Browmbly, Brumblay, Bramble, Brumbell, Brumbly, Brommell, Brummel, Broumell, Brumly, Brumbal and Bromley.
There are early Brumble families in Dorcester, Somerset and Worcester counties in Maryland and New London, Connecticut with given names found in our family in North Carolina visual: Tabitha, Elizabeth, Gilbert, David, Robert and William. Of the 2400 records of Brumble/Brumbles in the last two centuries that I have located, they all seem to trace back to Robeson, North Carolina in the mid eighteenth century and I believe to Maryland and Connecticut before that. I have only found one Canadian Brumble family that did not follow this pattern. I suspect that the other descendants of the early Maryland and Connecticut families ended up standardizing the spelling of their surnames with some of the other variations. Brumble is not a common surname in the United States and especially not in the world as found by Dave Brumble's survey. So far, I have found no immigrant to the states with a surname with the exact spelling Brumble. (1993)
In one account an Alex Bromley was credited with being the Brumble immigrant ancestor. That remains to be proven. Actually there were several early Bromleys who came to the American colonies.
A patron, Sam Howard, researching his German immigrant family in the Family History Center (Mar. 1995) said his ancestors had names like Jacob-Brummel or Claas-Brumble and that they eventually dropped the first part of their hyphenated name. They came from Verl near Paderborn, Germany and were Catholic. He was researching in LaSalle Co., Illinois in 1850, and thought Stephen A. Brumble was one of his. That is worth keeping in mind especially since the North Carolina family Brumbles thought the Brumbles came from Germany.
Jerry Lee Brumbelow compiled the book BRUMBELOW: LINEAR EXPANSION. He believed that Brumble was derived from Brumbelow or Brumbeloe. There was a Jesse Brumbeloe born in Richmond Co., VA in 1742, the son of Mary and Isaac. This Jesse was in Brunswick Co. in 1782 & 1800.
The above was compiled by Barbara (Brumble) Stoddard of Portland, Oregon
(Reprinted here with Barbara's kind permission)
JESSE BRUMBLE
Jesse Brumble was born in 1800 in North Carolina, probably in Robeson County. He may have lived part of the time just across the border in South Carolina. On the 10th of September 1822, Jesse and Mary had a son named Stephen A. Brumble whom the family called Steve. Perhaps Mary died following her son's birth as at the age of twenty-three on the 12th of April 1823, Jesse along with Noah Muen made their marks on a marriage bond. The mark of an X was Jesse's signature as he was not able to read or write. With this document Jesse became "firmly bound unto his Excellency Gabriel Holmes Governor .... the sum of 500 bound lawful money of the said state .... the conditions of the above obligation is such that .... Jesse Brumble hath made application for a license for a marriage to be celebrated between himself and Elizabeth Cox of the said county......" This bond money was not required to be paid unless it became known that Jesse was not free to marry Elizabeth or he skipped out on his obligation.
While in the Lumberton area of Robeson County, Elizabeth and Jesse had the following children: Malcey, called Mollie, born in 1825; John D., born October 20, 1829; Sarah Jane who went by Jane, born October 1830; and little Dicie, born ca. 1832.
The United States suffered a tremendous depression in the 1830s which almost devastated Robeson County. Many farmers and planters left for the south and the southwest or to the new and unused frontier lands to the west. Leaving the Carolinas behind, Jesse and Elizabeth and their four children were swept with the flow and emigrated to Tennessee, probably following the Jonesboro Road. These times were so desperate that one fourth of North Carolinas population left the state.
A story handed down in connection with their walk from the Carolinas to Missouri was when Dicie was not yet walking and had to be carried by the others as they traveled. They were so worn out from carrying her that at one point in the trip they made up their minds that it was impossible to carry her any farther and set the baby down, starting on without her. When they looked back and saw her trying to crawl after them they went back, picked Dicie up and finished the trip with her. Dicie died young.
While in Tennessee, Jesse and Elizabeth added two more children to their family: Elizabeth called Betty or Betsey, born April 25, 1833, and William Davis called Bill, born March 9, 1838, said to have been born near Nashville. Elizabeth probably passed away in Tennessee following the birth of her youngest son.
A grandson, John F. Brumble wrote that while in South Carolina, Jesse had a good friend by the name of Miller who had come on to Missouri. John F. visited with Miller's son, John, who was an old man at the time.
The widower and his family traveled to Gasconade County, Missouri, by ox cart where they are recorded in 1840. Osage County was created from Gasconade in 1841. The family must have encountered some very hard times as it was said that when Jesse with his two sons and four daughters arrived in the Linn community on foot all Jesse had with him in the way of personals was a feather bed to bunk in at night. This was in about the year 1839. Steve, the eldest was seventeen and Bill a one year old toddler.
Jesse homesteaded a 140 acre tract of land from the government. He and the children started keeping house here.
In the early 1840s Steve ran away from home never to be heard of by his family again. A granddaughter said that after he ran away he changed three letters of his name so his father could not find him. If he did, he changed them back again by the time he married Mary Tripp in LaSalle, Illinois, October 20, 1850.
September 13, 1849, Mollie married John W. Carwile. She and John lived next door to her father in Crawford Township, Osage County. This left only John, Jane, Betsey and William home with their father. Except for Steve and Dicie who died, Jesse kept his family together.
John D. married Nancy Jane Carnes on July 30, 1854, and Sarah Jane married June 30, 1856, to Joseph Bogle. Bill was next to marry on February 14, 1860, to Martha Farabee. Then July 3, 1861, Betty married Robert Farabee. In 1860, both Jane and Bill with their families lived next to their father.
A tract of land was deeded by Jesse to Nathan Koshland in 1853. Jesse was a Baptist and he generously deeded a tract of land to Jesse Miller and E. C. Marwell, trustees of the Pleasant Grove Freewill Baptist Church. This land was to be used for Church purposes, a new chapel. This was in the vicinity of what became Lane, Missouri. A large log Freewill Baptist church building was erected on this property. Another tract of land was sold by Jesse to his son-in-law, Joseph I. Bogle in 1870. These deeds were all signed with Jesse's mark as he could not read or write.
By 1870, after her husband Robert Farrabee died, Betsey and her two children went to live with Jesse, keeping house for him. Jane and her family were next door and William and John with their families were not far away. Jesse was disabled with Shaking Palsy. This debilitating disease became so bad he had to be fed. Jesse was very active and was up and around until about three weeks before he died. He passed away in the presence of his grandson, Adam Carwile in about the year 1884.
The five Brumble children lived, married and died in the Linn community. All were useful and substantial citizens. Jesse and a number of the family were buried at a spot called Pointers Creek in what they called the Brumble Cemetery. It is located seven miles east of Linn, Missouri. There were no tombstones at the time, only a huge rock with the letter B carved on it.
The above biography was compiled by Barbara (Brumble) Stoddard from North Carolina marriage bond; Osage County History; North Carolina & Missouri census records; land records; Research of Gary K. Lee (garyklee@stlnet.com); and Barbara (Strikwerda) Brumble's correspondence with Jesse's and Stephen's descendants: John Brumble, Adam Carwile, Clyde Morton, Steve Pattee and Ralph Hoofnagle. (13 Sep 1997)
WILLIAM DAVIS BRUMBLE
Jesse's oldest son, Bill, married Martha Brownlee FARABEE (b. 26 Sep 1837 in Clay County, Ohio) on 14 Feb 1860 in Osage County, Missouri.
According to their daughter, Charlotte Mary, that Valentine's day was snowy and cold. Wedding guests arrived in sleighs accompanied by the sound of sleigh bells. Martha wore a white satin gown and a head dress of brown satin ribbon.
Bill and Martha had nine children: Charlotte Mary, John W., Nancy Irene, Augusta Althea, Jesse Adam, Aldula Euglin, William J., John Selvy, and Louis Eugest.
William Davis Brumble was a music teacher. It is said that most all the Brumbles were musical. I have a photocopy of a Don Brumble in what looks like a publicity photo. He was apparently signed to BM Records. The note says he is the son of Burl Brumble. Charlotte Mary Brumble wrote a song and had a fine singing voice. William had a college education, as did brother John Selvy Brumble. I recall hearing a story about John who walked into a music store one day, picked up and played nearly every instrument in the store. The owner of the store, astonished at John's talent, asked him why he made a living picking cotton when he was such a fine musician. John just chuckled.
After the death of her husband, Martha ran a boarding house (or perhaps it was a restaurant?) in Hastings, Nebraska. According to family legend, she once served a meal to the 25th President of the United State, William McKinley. Another time, her guest was William Jennings Bryan.
Their daughter, Charlotte Mary Brumble, married Leonadis McDaniel. They had children: Eva Myrtle, Lawrence Lester, Grace Lenore, Lucien Dewitt, Bessie Augusta, Maggie Olive, Ralph Russell, Ray Ashwood, David Earl, and Robert Jean.
Millie McDaniel Flood reminisces about her grandmother, Charlotte Mary: "I often remember when I was a little girl, I would go over to my grandma's house in Tillamook, Oregon, and she always had lots of flowers in her yard. She would let me pick a bunch of flowers before I went home. She would give me a big slice of home-made bread covered with butter, applesauce and sprinkled with brown sugar. I was a happy little girl with my flowers and my bread ... she was a great grandma to me - - so good and kind - - always telling me stories and singing old hymns, letting me play on the old player piano. I would pedal and sing the songs that were on the old paper rolls. I remember once she said I had a beautiful singing voice. She had a brother some where back east who had been a singing teacher."
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While in the Lumberton area of Robeson County, Elizabeth and Jesse had the following children: Malcey, called Mollie, born in 1825; John D., born October 20, 1829; Sarah Jane who went by Jane, born October 1830; and little Dicie, born ca. 1832.
The United States suffered a tremendous depression in the 1830s which almost devastated Robeson County. Many farmers and planters left for the south and the southwest or to the new and unused frontier lands to the west. Leaving the Carolinas behind, Jesse and Elizabeth and their four children were swept with the flow and emigrated to Tennessee, probably following the Jonesboro Road. These times were so desperate that one fourth of North Carolinas population left the state.
A story handed down in connection with their walk from the Carolinas to Missouri was when Dicie was not yet walking and had to be carried by the others as they traveled. They were so worn out from carrying her that at one point in the trip they made up their minds that it was impossible to carry her any farther and set the baby down, starting on without her. When they looked back and saw her trying to crawl after them they went back, picked Dicie up and finished the trip with her. Dicie died young.
While in Tennessee, Jesse and Elizabeth added two more children to their family: Elizabeth called Betty or Betsey, born April 25, 1833, and William Davis called Bill, born March 9, 1838, said to have been born near Nashville. Elizabeth probably passed away in Tennessee following the birth of her youngest son.
A grandson, John F. Brumble wrote that while in South Carolina, Jesse had a good friend by the name of Miller who had come on to Missouri. John F. visited with Miller's son, John, who was an old man at the time.
The widower and his family traveled to Gasconade County, Missouri, by ox cart where they are recorded in 1840. Osage County was created from Gasconade in 1841. The family must have encountered some very hard times as it was said that when Jesse with his two sons and four daughters arrived in the Linn community on foot all Jesse had with him in the way of personals was a feather bed to bunk in at night. This was in about the year 1839. Steve, the eldest was seventeen and Bill a one year old toddler.
Jesse homesteaded a 140 acre tract of land from the government. He and the children started keeping house here.
In the early 1840s Steve ran away from home never to be heard of by his family again. A granddaughter said that after he ran away he changed three letters of his name so his father could not find him. If he did, he changed them back again by the time he married Mary Tripp in LaSalle, Illinois, October 20, 1850.
September 13, 1849, Mollie married John W. Carwile. She and John lived next door to her father in Crawford Township, Osage County. This left only John, Jane, Betsey and William home with their father. Except for Steve and Dicie who died, Jesse kept his family together.
John D. married Nancy Jane Carnes on July 30, 1854, and Sarah Jane married June 30, 1856, to Joseph Bogle. Bill was next to marry on February 14, 1860, to Martha Farabee. Then July 3, 1861, Betty married Robert Farabee. In 1860, both Jane and Bill with their families lived next to their father.
A tract of land was deeded by Jesse to Nathan Koshland in 1853. Jesse was a Baptist and he generously deeded a tract of land to Jesse Miller and E. C. Marwell, trustees of the Pleasant Grove Freewill Baptist Church. This land was to be used for Church purposes, a new chapel. This was in the vicinity of what became Lane, Missouri. A large log Freewill Baptist church building was erected on this property. Another tract of land was sold by Jesse to his son-in-law, Joseph I. Bogle in 1870. These deeds were all signed with Jesse's mark as he could not read or write.
By 1870, after her husband Robert Farrabee died, Betsey and her two children went to live with Jesse, keeping house for him. Jane and her family were next door and William and John with their families were not far away. Jesse was disabled with Shaking Palsy. This debilitating disease became so bad he had to be fed. Jesse was very active and was up and around until about three weeks before he died. He passed away in the presence of his grandson, Adam Carwile in about the year 1884.
The five Brumble children lived, married and died in the Linn community. All were useful and substantial citizens. Jesse and a number of the family were buried at a spot called Pointers Creek in what they called the Brumble Cemetery. It is located seven miles east of Linn, Missouri. There were no tombstones at the time, only a huge rock with the letter B carved on it.
The above biography was compiled by Barbara (Brumble) Stoddard from North Carolina marriage bond; Osage County History; North Carolina & Missouri census records; land records; Research of Gary K. Lee (garyklee@stlnet.com); and Barbara (Strikwerda) Brumble's correspondence with Jesse's and Stephen's descendants: John Brumble, Adam Carwile, Clyde Morton, Steve Pattee and Ralph Hoofnagle. (13 Sep 1997)
WILLIAM DAVIS BRUMBLE
Jesse's oldest son, Bill, married Martha Brownlee FARABEE (b. 26 Sep 1837 in Clay County, Ohio) on 14 Feb 1860 in Osage County, Missouri.
According to their daughter, Charlotte Mary, that Valentine's day was snowy and cold. Wedding guests arrived in sleighs accompanied by the sound of sleigh bells. Martha wore a white satin gown and a head dress of brown satin ribbon.
Bill and Martha had nine children: Charlotte Mary, John W., Nancy Irene, Augusta Althea, Jesse Adam, Aldula Euglin, William J., John Selvy, and Louis Eugest.
William Davis Brumble was a music teacher. It is said that most all the Brumbles were musical. I have a photocopy of a Don Brumble in what looks like a publicity photo. He was apparently signed to BM Records. The note says he is the son of Burl Brumble. Charlotte Mary Brumble wrote a song and had a fine singing voice. William had a college education, as did brother John Selvy Brumble. I recall hearing a story about John who walked into a music store one day, picked up and played nearly every instrument in the store. The owner of the store, astonished at John's talent, asked him why he made a living picking cotton when he was such a fine musician. John just chuckled.
After the death of her husband, Martha ran a boarding house (or perhaps it was a restaurant?) in Hastings, Nebraska. According to family legend, she once served a meal to the 25th President of the United State, William McKinley. Another time, her guest was William Jennings Bryan.
Their daughter, Charlotte Mary Brumble, married Leonadis McDaniel. They had children: Eva Myrtle, Lawrence Lester, Grace Lenore, Lucien Dewitt, Bessie Augusta, Maggie Olive, Ralph Russell, Ray Ashwood, David Earl, and Robert Jean.
Millie McDaniel Flood reminisces about her grandmother, Charlotte Mary: "I often remember when I was a little girl, I would go over to my grandma's house in Tillamook, Oregon, and she always had lots of flowers in her yard. She would let me pick a bunch of flowers before I went home. She would give me a big slice of home-made bread covered with butter, applesauce and sprinkled with brown sugar. I was a happy little girl with my flowers and my bread ... she was a great grandma to me - - so good and kind - - always telling me stories and singing old hymns, letting me play on the old player piano. I would pedal and sing the songs that were on the old paper rolls. I remember once she said I had a beautiful singing voice. She had a brother some where back east who had been a singing teacher."
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WILLIAM DAVIS BRUMBLE
According to their daughter, Charlotte Mary, that Valentine's day was snowy and cold. Wedding guests arrived in sleighs accompanied by the sound of sleigh bells. Martha wore a white satin gown and a head dress of brown satin ribbon.
Bill and Martha had nine children: Charlotte Mary, John W., Nancy Irene, Augusta Althea, Jesse Adam, Aldula Euglin, William J., John Selvy, and Louis Eugest.
William Davis Brumble was a music teacher. It is said that most all the Brumbles were musical. I have a photocopy of a Don Brumble in what looks like a publicity photo. He was apparently signed to BM Records. The note says he is the son of Burl Brumble. Charlotte Mary Brumble wrote a song and had a fine singing voice. William had a college education, as did brother John Selvy Brumble. I recall hearing a story about John who walked into a music store one day, picked up and played nearly every instrument in the store. The owner of the store, astonished at John's talent, asked him why he made a living picking cotton when he was such a fine musician. John just chuckled.
After the death of her husband, Martha ran a boarding house (or perhaps it was a restaurant?) in Hastings, Nebraska. According to family legend, she once served a meal to the 25th President of the United State, William McKinley. Another time, her guest was William Jennings Bryan.
Their daughter, Charlotte Mary Brumble, married Leonadis McDaniel. They had children: Eva Myrtle, Lawrence Lester, Grace Lenore, Lucien Dewitt, Bessie Augusta, Maggie Olive, Ralph Russell, Ray Ashwood, David Earl, and Robert Jean.
Millie McDaniel Flood reminisces about her grandmother, Charlotte Mary: "I often remember when I was a little girl, I would go over to my grandma's house in Tillamook, Oregon, and she always had lots of flowers in her yard. She would let me pick a bunch of flowers before I went home. She would give me a big slice of home-made bread covered with butter, applesauce and sprinkled with brown sugar. I was a happy little girl with my flowers and my bread ... she was a great grandma to me - - so good and kind - - always telling me stories and singing old hymns, letting me play on the old player piano. I would pedal and sing the songs that were on the old paper rolls. I remember once she said I had a beautiful singing voice. She had a brother some where back east who had been a singing teacher."