Bardsley Ancestors of Ruth and Florence Paget – Virtual Genealogy Project by Ruth Paget
My mother’s grandpa Bardsley lived with her family at the end of his life and loved doing crossword puzzles. He showed my mother Beatrice Pennington how to do them, and she still starts her day doing the newspaper crossword puzzle and the New York Times crossword puzzle on Sunday.
G1 below refers to generation 1 and so on.
G1 – Florence Paget
-daughter of Laurent Paget and Ruth Pennington
G2 – Ruth Pennington
-daughter of Clarence Pennington and Beatrice May Sawle
-Ruth Paget was elected to serve on the Downtown District Citizens Council of Detroit, Michigan in 1982. She resigned from office to attend college at the University of Chicago.
-Ruth's sister Kathleen has worked as a printer for the Atlanta Journal and Constitution newspaper.
G3 – Beatrice May Sawle
-daughter of Frank Henry Sawle and Daisy May Bardsley
-My mother worked as a newspaper printer, most notably for the Detroit (Michigan) Free Press and various ethnic newspapers in Detroit. She was working for the Unique Press, which printed the Michigan Chronice, a black newspaper, when Rosa Parks sat down on the bus; the press was immediately stopped to cover the story. The daily Detroit newspapers were on strike at the time, letting the Michigan Chronicle scoop the story.
-Beatrice Pennington was part of the Detroit Free Press staff that was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1968 for General Local Reporting of the 1967 Detroit Race Riots.
-Elected to the Downtown Citizens Council of Detroit, Michigan
G4 – Daisy May Bardsley
-daughter of Edward Charles Bardsley and Etta Pearl Carpenter
-My grandmother worked as a newspaper printer
Born: April 25, 1905
Died: April 14, 1984, buried in Arena Cemetery, Arena, Iowa County, Wisconsin
G5 – Edward Charles Bardsley
-son of James Edward Bardsley and Anna C. Charlesworth
Born: July 31, 1863 in Blue Mounds, Dane County, Wisconsin
Died: July 31, 1949 in Black Earth, Dane County, Wisconsin
G6 – James Edward Bardsley
-son of William Stevenson Bardsley and Betty Harrison
-Immigrant to the US
Born: August 1, 1843 in Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire, England, UK
Died: April 16, 1892 in Madison, Dane County, Wisconsin (Lived in Black Earth and Springfield, Wisconsin)
By Ruth Paget, author Eating Soup with Chopsticks and Marrying France
