Welcome to our Townsend Family Tree. To view the Cottingham side of the family 
please go to cottinghamtree.tribalpages.com.

We are researching the following names : 
Townsend, Cottingham, Tewksbury, Beamish, Paddock, Pickering, Poole, Philips, 
Butler, Crosby, Freeman, Arnold, Hazard, Dillon, Anthony, Tripp, Groves, 
Potter, Sheldon, Sands (Sandys), Niles, Mohler and Cottyn.

Our particular line of Townsends begins in England with John Townsend.  He and 
his brothers, Richard and Henry emmigrated to the USA in the mid 1600's. 
Fortunately I have been helped along by others and now have a fairly 
comprehensive single line back to John Townsend and his wife Elizabeth 
Montgomery who emmigrated from England about 1645.  I am particularly 
interested in Townsend information circa 1786 in the Barnstable MA area and 
the Southeast NY area. My "Brick Wall" was Stephen Townsend, the beginning of 
my particular branch of the tree, who married Mercy Crosby, daughter of 
Eleazer Crosby and Jemima Porter. Their son Isaac married Susan Butler 
probably around 1830.  I have recently been sent a copy of Stephen Townsend's 
will listing all 11 of their children. 

Linda and I travelled through the North Eastern United States the summer of 
2002 and visited a number of cemeteries doing what we affectionately call "The 
Graveyard Stomp". We took a number of pictures of Townsend and Cottingham 
gravestones. I have a good collection of photos from the Jerusalem Hill 
Cemetery at Litchfield NY (Townsend and Crosby) and others from the Evergreen 
Cemetery at Motley MN.(Townsend and Cottingham) 

My current challenge is getting information on Lenor (my Great Grandfather) 
Townsend and his sister Emma. Emma married Thomas Groves and they had three 
boys; Cory, Earl and Carl. Evidently Thomas was killed in an accident in 1907. 
I have no information on any other possible siblings of Lenor and Emma. Their 
parents were Isaac Townsend and Susan Ann (Butler)Townsend.

I am presently working on a Family History Book (for our children and 
grandchildren) which I hope will be of interest. I have absolutely no 
intention of every having it published or printed but I thought it might be 
nice for our future families to read. I guess it just that I want my time to 
be proven valuable to someone other than myself.

The family photos are just some that I have run across and thought might be of 
interest to family members. 

My Brother-in-Law David Pickering (who got me started in this hobby)has an 
very extensive library on the Beamish and Pickering families.

I have a fairly good selection regarding the Cottinghams (353 individuals) and 
Tewksburys and I am constantly getting more thanks to e-mail contacts. My 
Townsend information is also growing daily and includes 714 individuals at 
this point. I am more than willing to share information but I will not put my 
hard work on the internet to be captured and "sold" by anyone. 

If you are interested, please contact me, I'd love to work with you.

Thank you for visiting our site. 

Good Hunting! 
Wayne Townsend