The Partridge Nest

Welcome to the Partridge Nest. I was hoping to create a WIKI where users could contribute but the MediaWiki software is greatly targeted by spammers (useless humans intent on making the Internet worse for everyone) and as such I have created this alternative format to enable others to assist directly with the development of the website.

Partridge Family Histories

The first project will be to place online what I have on the Partridge family of Medfield, Massachusetts. This data comes from my separate Partridge database and may not be reflective of all the information and sources I have in my personal genealogy database. I descend directly from both William Partridge and John Partridge of Medfield, Massachusetts.

• Partridge Family of Medfield, Massachusetts
  • Partridge Family of Pleasant Grove, Minnesota
• Partridge/Patridge Family of Woolwich, Maine

Obituaries of Partridge’s

• Obituary of John H. Partridge
• Obituary of Dr. Randy Philip Partridge

Partridge Records

Locality Based Records on Partridge’s

These pages are sources to the data found in the family histories above. When possible and permittable I include images of the documents. These documents will eventually cross-link with the family histories.

Alabama Partridge Records

• Chambers County, Alabama Partridge Notes
• Mobile County, Alabama Partridge Notes
• Tallapoosa County, Alabama Partridge Notes

Maine Partridge Records

• 1870 Orland, Hancock County, Maine Census
• 1880 Orland, Hancock County, Maine Census

Massachusetts Partridge Records

Partridge Court Records

• Partridge Norfolk County MA Probate Index
  This is an index from Ancestry’s “MA Probate Index 1793-1900” and is specific to Norfolk County, Massachusetts only. To actually view the probate records see the Massachusetts, Norfolk County, probate case files, 1793-1900 on FamilySearch. As I add the digital PDF for each probate record, I will link it to the case number.
• Partridge Suffolk County MA Probate Index
  This index appears on FamilySearch Film #007703032 and represents an index to the wills of Suffolk County, Massachusetts for the years of 1636-1899. All listings are for individuals with the last name of Partridge or Patridge. Norfolk County was created from Suffolk County and all probate records for townships which eventually fell under the jurisdiction of Norfolk County are located here prior to 1793. As I add the digital PDF for each probate record, I will link it to the case number.

Partridge Vital Records

Temporarily de-linked while I convert to the new format.

• Vital records of Bellingham, Massachusetts, to the year 1850.
• Vital Records of Brimfield, Massachusetts to the year 1850.
• Vital records of Holden, Massachusetts, to the year 1850.
  • Partridge Baptisms from the Records of the First Church of Holden, Massachusetts
    These Partridge records were not included in the Vital records of Holden, Massachusetts, to the year 1850 manuscript published by the New England Historical and Genealogical Society, the births were not recorded on town records.
• Vital records of Medfield, Massachusetts, to the year 1850.
• Vital records of Medway, Massachusetts, to the year 1850.
• Vital records of Milford, Massachusetts, to the year 1850.
• Vital Records of Sturbridge, Massachusetts to the year 1850.
• Vital records of Ward Massachusetts, to the year 1837.

Disputed Genealogy and Brick Walls

More often then genealogists would like, family histories encounter information which can be confusing or non-existent. This results in genealogies which are often disputed or seem impossible to resolve the conflicting information.

• Disputed Marriages of Rachel Partridge (1669-1717)
  It became quite obvious as I researched the Partridge-Daniell connections in Medfield, that past genealogists had gotten a kinship determination incorrect. This article is an attempt to right their wrong, and as a result, correct what you may have recorded in your family tree.
• The Four Josiah Partridge’s
  One would think that proving four generations of Josiah Partridge’s would be relatively simple. But this line of the Partridge family has remained difficult to track for over a century. It starts with Josiah Partridge, son of Nathaniel Partridge and Lydia Wright of Medfield, Massachusetts.
• Captain John Partridge of Navestock, England
  The ancestry of the Partridge Family of Medfield, Massachusetts, being that of Capt. John Partridge and Jane Hogg of Navestock is refuted here. Any other source making this claim derives from this source and the research of Dennis Partridge and Priscilla McElvein.
• Partridge, James Monroe (1836-1905)
  This is an older research article that has been moved to the new format. Since the initial writing of this article in 2002, I have made a match for James and identified him as the likely son of William A. Partridge of Georgia.

Correspondence

• A Glimpse of Early Merrimac, Wisconsin
  Three letters written by temporary residents of Merrimac, Wisconsin, hailing from Templeton, Massachusetts, and throwing interesting light on social and economic conditions in the Badger State in 1857-58. The letters were written to Unity Fales (Mrs. Otis) Partridge at Templeton by her sons James Otis and Maynard.
• Herbert L. Partridge Correspondence
  Correspondence (2 letters) between Herbert L. Partridge and Vera Partridge Hamilton. This is the basis of what I used to document much more in depth, the Woolwich Maine Patridge Family.
• Lizzie A. Lane Correspondence
  A transcription of a letter written by a Mrs. Lizzie A. Lane of Stockton Springs Maine to Vera Partridge Hamilton. Lizzie was born 17 Nov 1871 to Matthew Partridge and Elizabeth Ann Berry.  She married as her second husband, Fred Amos Lane.

Research Notes About Partridge

• The Land Purchase of Partridgetown Massachusetts
  Situated within the current bounds of Bellingham, Massachusetts, in the northern part of that locality, was for one-and-a-half centuries an area called Partridgetown. This land was purchased for £240 in 1720 by Eleazer Partridge and comprised of several different parcels of different tracts previously purchased by Samuel Rich, along with all buildings upon it.

Partridge Locations

These are articles on locations which contain Partridge in them. Often these types of locations were named for people named Partridge.

• Partridge Lake, Littleton, New Hampshire
• The Land Purchase of Partridgetown Massachusetts

Standards

I expect to add to these as I go along and see different issues. For purposes of keeping consistency though, I’d like to keep to these standards.

• Each page shall be for one person, not a family unit, though I will add the family information on the page. Biographical information shall be limited to the targeted person for the page, not their spouse, where possible. The spouse will eventually get their own page.
• The title of the page shall be structured as “Surname, Given Middle (birthyear-deathyear)
  • If date is not known an estimate will be provided, prefixed by c, like c1653.
• Female lines will likely only be included down two generations from their Partridge marriage, unless they match up with the Partridge line again further down the tree.
• When listing the children of a couple and that child has children themselves, I will only provide the pertinent facts, BMD and similar, Bapt. Burial, etc. in the parents Family area. This will keep down on repetition. You can click through and see that information it on the persons page if you want to know more.
  • For an example of this please see Elisha Harding beneath Mary Partridge’s page, and then view Elisha Harding’s personal page. Even though he never married and had no offspring, there was sufficient biographical information to create a separate page for him.
• Locations are shortened enough to not confuse you, then provided abbreviated later in the biography area. This same thing is replicated within the family area. An example would be Medfield, Massachusetts. The first time in both the bio and family area I list that as Medfield, Massachusetts, but any subsequent usage of the town would only be Medfield, and unlinked.
  • I have chosen to use the current jurisdictional names for towns, cities, and states. In the event an individual has remained at one location, but his records were spread over different jurisdictions, I shall mention it clearly.