the new Ottley Courier A gathering place for the descendants and family of Edward Ottley and Harriet Mills

Elsie Stoneham Warne (Harriet-John) visited the US from the UK in the early 1970s. At the airport she knew which in the crowds had come to meet her by their familiar female Ottley faces. Who were they? Elsie had her unmarried aunt Zillah Ottley with her, and possibly Elsie’s sister Harriet (Ettie) Stoneham Bainbridge too.

The article about Ottleys in Quartzsite has omitted the visit to Iola and Gene Lee of DeLoy and Effie Flinders Ottley of the Fred H. branch.

DeLoy was immediately recognisable to the English visitors as he looks just like Bert (Albert Edward) Ottley of the John O branch.

As I recall, Teggie Ottley Barker Krause (Fred H group) was interested in the series of 12 crosses which English King Edward I (1239-1307) caused to be erected at the end of each stage of the funeral procession of his Spanish wife Queen Eleanor (d. 1290) from Nottinghamshire to Westminster Abbey in London.

The last cross was at Charing Cross, now a well-known London railway station site.

Was this an Ottley connection, or did this Royal Line come through her mother Abigail Lewis Ottley?

(Horrid pun – Royal Line at the Railway Station!)

Well, not blue exactly, but type B+. Several of the John Ottley branch have this group, but it may stem from Edward Stoneham the husband of Harriet Ann.

English people do not have blood tests before marriage, so unless they know for some other reason (e.g. voluntary blood donors) they do not know their groups. American Ottleys seem to favour (English spelling!) groups O+ and A+. Comments please.

Has anyone ever done the genealogy for Abraham Whiting who was christened 9 July 1797 at Colne Engaine parish church, Essex, England?

Who were his parents? He was the stepfather and the only father Edward Ottley I knew. Ed’s mother Frances (bet she was called Fanny!) married Abraham in 1826 and several of Ed’s children seem to have lived with his step-brother George Whiting in Holloway, London. Did the Whitings immigrate with Edward II?

Fred H. Ottley descendant Iola Barker Richardson Lee and husband Gene Gerry Lee live in Quartzsite, AZ, So do Iola’s eldest son Alva Barker Richardson, his wife Sherry and their daughter Alyssa. Alyssa is 14 and attends the local school at Ehrenberg. Iola’s sister Abbie Barker Pyne and husband Leo Vincent Pyne live right opposite Iola & Gene each winter.

Ann Warne Chiswell and husband W.Crawford Chiswell, John Ottley cousins from Plymouth, England, are visiting Iola & Gene January thru March this year.

Thirza-Lou Ottley of the Fred H. branch visited Quartzsite briefly last week.

Laura Bruesch Hunton of the Fred H. branch visited her father Lawrence (Bud) Bruesch who lives in the winter at Quartzsite last week with her daughter Annalee; this was a sad time as Annalee spent days in hospital with a fever before being allowed home to VA with her mother and her father John who had flown down.

Wayne W.Ottley and wife LuRee, Edward II branch, visited briefly too and are gone again today to return to Wayne’s brother Warren who lives in St.George, UT, and is sick.

Hi, I am Richard Barker Pyne and my lineage is:

• Edward Ottley – Harriet Mills
  • Frederick Hugh Ottley
    • Teggie Harriet Ottley (Barker) (Krause)
      • Abbie Barker (Pyne)
        • Richard Barker Pyne

My mother was the editor of the original Ottley Courier for many years.

I grew up in Twin Falls, Idaho, and some of my fondest memories are of the Ottley Reunions.

I currently live in Provo, Utah. I moved to Utah in 1977 shortly after getting married. I have been divorced since 1986. I have two beautiful daughters and two wonderful grandsons.

The Ottley Courier is reborn, now in electronic form. After years of a void in Ottley Family news, the famous Ottley Courier family news letter is reborn, now on the World Wide Web.

There will be a lot of evolution going on here, but that will just make it more interesting and exciting.

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