Sawle Ancestors of Ruth and Florence Paget: Virtual Genealogy Project by Ruth Paget

Sawle Family Ancestors of Ruth and Florence Paget by Ruth Paget 

I used online public records in the United States to put together this virtual genealogy project on my Sawle ancestors from Cornwall, England. The Sawles were famous as ship captains of Celtic origin.

G1 refers to generation 1. David Sawle wrote a genealogy of the family in England, which I will add to this first step of information gathering. 

G1 – Florence Paget 

-daughter of Laurent Paget and Ruth Pennington 

G2 – Ruth Pennington 

-daughter of Clarence Pennington and Beatrice May Pennington 

G3 – Beatrice May Sawle 

-daughter of Frank Sawle and Daisy May Bardsley  

G4 – Frank Henry Sawle 

-son of William Stephen Sawle Sr and Jeanette Scott Hodgson 

Born: 1901 

Died: 1996 

Frank Sawle’s sisters Elizabeth and Winifred were graduates of the University of Wisconsin at Whitewater and obtained teaching credentials.

G5 – William Stephen Sawle Sr 

-son of Captain Stephen Sawle and Margaret Dunn Rowe 

Born: 1858

Died: 1955 

G6 – Captain Stephen Sawle 

Immigrant to the United States. Entered the United States at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.  Settler of Arena, Wisconsin

Born: 1830, Porscatho, England 

Died: 1910, Arena, Wisconsin, Iowa County 

Spouse: Margaret Dunn Rowe 

Born: 1835, Tregony, Cornwall, England 

Married: January 29, 1857 in Cuby, Cornwall 

Died: March 1, 1909 in Arena, Wisconsin, Iowa County 

Margaret Dunn Rowe lived in Veryn, Cornwall and Gerrans, Cornwall before coming to the US with Captain Stephen Sawle. They entered the US at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 

I will consult David Sawle’s genealogy for further information about the Sawle family in England. 

By Ruth Paget, author Eating Soup with Chopsticks and Marrying France

Pizza Stone Economics by Ruth Paget

Pizza Stone Economics by Ruth Paget 

One kitchen item that my family uses all the time and is very happy with is a pizza stone for baking frozen pizza. 

I have to admit that when my daughter Florence Paget bought the pizza stone I was not convinced of its worth. 

However, even after our first time using it, I noted that the crust on frozen pizza was crisp and crunchy and not spongy and soggy like it is when you just place the pizza on oven racks for baking. I also noted that when we used the pizza stone that the cheese on the frozen pizza was well melted, the tomato sauce was hot, and toppings like mushrooms were hot and soft. 

The crisp crust makes it easy to use a wooden pizza peel to slide the pizza off the pizza off the pizza stone and feel like a Neapolitan doing it. A crisp crust also makes it easy to use a roller pizza cutter. 

Eating frozen pizza cuts down meal costs. For years my family has eaten frozen vegetable pizza once a week. If you save even $5 a week on a weekly pizza night that turns into $260 saved in a year. (52 weeks x $5) 

The $260 saved can be used for holiday meals or invested in things like a family vacation and college expenses. This money does not pay for everything, but it helps. It can certainly pay for valet parking, if you go to Disneyland or a bus trip there for a high school graduation trip. 

A big added savings is using less energy to cook the pizza. I have noticed that pizza stones cook frozen pizza faster. I lower the temperature by 50 degrees F sometimes and can cook pizza at 350 degrees Fahrenheit, because the pizza stone retains heat and warms the entire oven. 

Energy costs are variable due to energy price changes, but if you save even $50 in a year cooking pizza at home, you can add that money to the frozen pizza savings of $260 to save a total of $310. 

My daughter Florence Paget bought a large pizza stone for $75, but you can buy them on Amazon and other cookware outlets for about $50 now. 

If your family eats frozen pizza on a weekly basis, the pizza stone will pay for itself in one year at either $75 or $50. It is also a good buy for flavor. 

By Ruth Paget, author Eating Soup with Chopsticks and Marrying France

Napoleon: A Life reviewed by Ruth Paget

Napoleon: A Life Reviewed by Ruth Paget 

Readers interested in the history that created modern France might enjoy the biography Napoleon: A Life by Andrew Roberts (869 pages in Kindle version). 

Napoleon fought 70 battles and won 63 Roberts writes. Despite losing the decisive battle at Waterloo, the values of the French Revolution had become entrenched among the citizens of France no matter who later led the nation. 

Roberts enlivens the chronology of battles by writing about the generals who led them, many of whom later held positions of power when Napoleon declared himself emperor.  

Roberts writes about Napoleon’s military genius strategy of breaking up a large army into smaller units that could: 

-take advantage of terrain and microclimates 

-take advantage of battle victories that could break enemy lines into smaller units

-transmit communications quicker than larger units to obtain strategic objectives. 

I especially liked Roberts’ discussion of Napoleonic reforms that still exist in modern-day France such as: 

-the Légion d’Honneur, which French citizens from all levels of society could obtain 

-the Code Napoleon, the French legal code that France still uses as well as the state of Louisiana in the United States 

-the Lycée Français, or French high school, that also operates overseas as exclusive private schools notably in Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, and San Francisco 

Roberts makes his biography of Napoleon read like a novel when he writes about Napoleon installing his relatives on thrones only to betray him and his mother who saves money in case relatives on thrones lose them so they have bread. 

Americans interested in Napoleon’s family might be interested to learn that his brother Joseph, the King of Spain, emigrated to the United States and lived in Bordentown, New Jersey. (See my blog on Bordentown, New Jersey for information about this town.) 

Napoleon: A Life by Andrew Roberts is a very readable biography about a turbulent time in French history that francophiles and military leaders alike might enjoy reading. 

By Ruth Paget, author Eating Soup with Chopsticks and Marrying France

UChicago list of ethnic restaurants promotes business reposted by Ruth Paget

The linguistics department at the University of Chicago put together a list of ethnic restaurants in Chicago for its students that promotes business in general.  

Other cities and towns might be interested in making a similar list.

The website follows:

https://linguistics.uchicago.edu/notes-access-interesting-food-chicago

Reposted by Ruth Paget, author Eating Soup with Chopsticks and Marrying France

First QR Code Donation today by Ruth Paget

I made my first donation today using a QR code to Youth for Understanding exchange program for its scholarship fund.

To use a QR code, you open the camera function on your phone and aim it at the square code.  Guidelines surround the code.  You snap a photo.  An oblong bar will appear on your screen.  Tap the bar and you will be taken to your donation page.

Once there, you can see the monetary goal and amount raised so far as well as credit card information.

Once you donate, you can request a receipt.

I liked not having to type a long web address and liked having the donation going in immediately.

For information about YFU, check out their website.

https://yfuusa.org

By Ruth Paget, author Eating Soup with Chopsticks and Marrying France

Virtual Genealogy Project (Pennington Family) for Ruth Paget by Ruth Paget

Virtual Genealogy Project (Pennington Family) for Ruth Paget and Florence Paget by Ruth Paget 

One of the skills I learned while studying for an MLIS in Library and Information Science at San José State University in California was how to do genealogical research using public records such as newspaper obituaries and death notices. 

A librarian’s rite of passage prank is to have a newbie open a tightly coiled microfiche film container and put it into a reader only to have it fly half way across the library, because you failed to “firmly hold the microfiche on one side” while feeding it through the reader. 

The second rite of passage is recoiling the microfiche and trying to find the needle in the haystack obituary for an approximate death date of “sometime in 1898.” Once you find the obituary, you have to tightly recoil the microfiche to fit in a small tubular canister without letting it fly across the library again. 

Library staff like to remind librarians “only librarians with a master’s degree can do the genealogical work. That’s not in our job description.” 

Since I have graduated from library school, many genealogical records have been uploaded to the internet, most notably to ancestry.com. Genealogical research appears to have moved into phase 2.0 with many records appearing in search engines like Google.  

I recently did a virtual project test on my English Pennington ancestors. The first names of my ancestors reflect religious dissent through generations of Baptists, Quakers, Puritans, Church of England members (Episcopalians in the US), and maybe even some Masons. 

I was happy with the results of my online search and recorded the results below. G before a number means “generation.” 

G16 - Florence Paget

-daughter of Ruth (Pennington) Paget and Laurent Paget

G15 – Ruth Paget – Maiden Name: Pennington

-daughter of Clarence Pennington and Beatrice May Sawle 

Born: Wayne County, Detroit, Michigan 

G14 – Clarence Pennington 

-son of Frederick McKinley Pennington and Rose Nora Belle Thomas 

Born: Lee County, Pennington Gap, Virginia 

Died: Lee County, Pennington Gap, Virginia 

G13 - Frederick McKinley Pennington 

-son of Charles W. Pennington and Nancy Arminta Clark 

Born: 1896, Virginia 

Died: 1958, Virginia 

G12 – Charles W. Pennington

-son of Greenberry Pennington and Letitia Robbins 

Born: 1862, Lee County, Virginia 

Died: 1932, Lee County, Virginai 

G11 – Greenberry Pennington 

-son of Charles Daniel Pennington and Dianah Parsons 

Born: 1826, Lee County, Virginia 

Died: 1894, Lee County, Virginia 

G10 – Charles Daniel Pennington 

-son of Micajeh Pennington Jr and Nancy Baker

Born: 1804, Lee County, Virginia 

Died: 1876, Lee County, Virginia 

G9 – Micajeh M Pennington Jr 

-son of Micaajeh Pennington Sr and Rachel Jones

Born: 1763, Wilkes County, North Carolina 

Died: 1850, Harlan County, Kentucky  

G8 – Captain Micajeh M Pennington Sr 

-son of Benajeh Pennington Sr and Elizabeth Humphrey 

Born: 1743, North Carolina 

Died: 1815, Wilkes County, North Carolina 

G7 –Benajeh Pennington Sr

 -son of Epharaim Pennington IV and Joanna Davis 

Born: 1723, Salisbury, Rowan, North Carolina 

Died: about 1794, Wilkes County, North Carolina 

G6 - Ephraim Pennington IV 

-son of Ephraim Pennington III and Mary, a Delaware Native American 

Born: about 1689 in Morristown, Middlesex, New Jersey 

Died: about 1750 in Rowan, Bladen, North Carolina 

G5 – Ephraim Pennington III 

-son of Ephraim Pennington II and Mary Brockett

Born: about 1668, Newark, Essex, New Jersey 

Died: about 1694, Morris, New Jersey

G4 – Ephraim Pennington II 

-son of Ephraim Pennington I and Mary (no name given) 

Born: about 1645, New Haven, Connecticut 

Died: 1693, Newark, Essex, New Jersey 

G3 – Ephraim Pennington I 

-Founding family of Newark, New Jersey

-son of William Pennington and Marie Wilson

Born: about 1629, Muncaster Parish, Cumberland, England 

Died: About 1660, New Haven, Connecticut 

G2 – William Ephraim Pennington

-son of John Pennington Esquire and Ellen Leigh 

Born: before 1595, Wigen, Lancashire, England 

Died: About 1652, Muncaster, Cumberland,, England 

G1 – John Pennington Esquire 

-Born July 5, 1573, Hawkshead, Lancashire, England

-Died: About 1652 in England 

Note: Legal names may differ from baptismal names. 

I enjoyed gathering this information and liked finding all the family groups that I am related to by marriage as well. You have to verify what you find out about your family online, but it does give you material to start with when researching your family history.

By Ruth Paget, author Eating Soup with Chopsticks and Marrying France

Sherlock Holmes Pub in Carmel, California by Ruth Paget

The Sherlock Holmes Pub in Carmel, California is closed now, but I used to love going there for British Pub fare and a Newcastle Brown Ale.  

Thank you Monterey County Weekly for retrieving this fun article about “my local” out of the archives.  The review follows:

https://www.montereycountynow.com/news/local_news/carmel-s-sherlock-holmes-pub-mixes-british-and-american-classics/article_618a214d-352a-5f95-999f-307c9f027e3a.amp.html

By Ruth Paget, author Eating Soup with Chopsticks and Marrying France