Echenagucia, Helena ("Posie")
1. Echenagucia, Helena ("Posie") (daughter of Echenagucia, Herman and Conner, Priscilla A.). Notes:
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Helena m. Wallace Child. In 1908 she r. on Hillside Street, Roxbury, MA.
2. Echenagucia, Herman was born on 30 Jul 1853 in Penobscot, Hancock, Maine; was buried in Bangor, ME. Notes:
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Penobscot Vital Records lists him as Haman Hahn de Echenagucia. Phil Perkins
stated in 1995 that Herman is buried in Bangor, ME. Herman owned and ran a
bakery business facing Water Street approximately where the parking lot is in
the 1990s in front of Bah's Bake House (where Hooper's drug store stood in
the 1880s). Herman and Priscilla r. on the east side of Green Street, in the
second house north of Arthur Conner's home (at the corner of Water Street);
their house is owned by Gary L. Brouillard in the 1990s.Herman married Conner, Priscilla A. on 26 Jul 1872. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
3. Conner, Priscilla A. (daughter of Conner, William Henry Jr and Snowman, Emaline). Notes:
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Priscilla r. Ellsworth, ME at the time of the death of her brother, Ezra (per
his obituary).Children:
Generation: 3
6. Conner, William Henry Jr was born in 1807 (son of Conner, William and Dunbar, Elizabeth); died on 3 Oct 1884 in Penobscot, Hancock, Maine. Other Events and Attributes:
- Occupation: sea captain and fisherman
Notes:
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William's family history is given in "A Family of the Bagaduce: The Ancestry and Genealogy of William Conner, Jr....," by Albert E. Myers (Harrisburg, PA, 1976). His middle name is Henry per plaque under his portrait in the Wilson Museum, Castine,
Maine; this plaque notes that Capt. Conner sailed clipper ships to the West Indies and other ports, and later sailed to the Grand Banks. He is not to be confused with person of the same name in coastal Waldo County, Maine. The ship William H. Conner,
built in Searsport, was named for this other William H. Conner, who d. 13 Sept 1875 at age 57, resident of Belfast, ME, merchant and shipbuilder (m. Caroline R. Porter 22 Sept 1839, she d. 13 Sept 1875) - the ship was the largest and last full-rigged
ship built at Searsport [launched in June, 1877, 210' long, 40' beam, 24' depth, 1496 tons]. A fine description of fishing on the Grand Banks under sail is given in Chapter 26 of "Coastal Maine: A Maritime History," Roger F. Duncan (New York:
W.W.Norton, 1992). Also see "Maine Sea Fisheries: The Rise and Fall of a Native Industry, 1830-1890," by Wayne M. O'Leary (Boston: Northeastern University Press). By 1860 Castine was the wealthiest town in Maine, due to its fishing fleet.William married Snowman, Emaline on 17 May 1829 in Penobscot, Hancock, Maine. Emaline was born on 16 Jan 1811; died on 16 Oct 1880. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
7. Snowman, Emaline was born on 16 Jan 1811; died on 16 Oct 1880. Notes:
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Emaline Bank in the Grand Banks off of Newfoundland, a prominent fishing
spot, was named for her.Children:
- 3. Conner, Priscilla A.
- Conner, Jarvis was born on 9 Oct 1829 in Penobscot, Hancock, Maine.
- Conner, William was born on 14 Mar 1831 in Penobscot, Hancock, Maine; died on 9 May 1848 in At Sea; was buried in Penobscot, Hancock, Maine.
- Conner, Robert S. was born on 26 Jun 1833 in Penobscot, Hancock, Maine; died on 27 Feb 1854 in in Africa.
- Conner, Lucinda H. was born on 10 Jul 1835 in Penobscot, Hancock, Maine; died on 15 Jan 1919 in Castine, Hancock, Maine.
- Conner, Edwin was born on 20 Jan 1836 in Penobscot, Hancock, Maine; died in Baton Rouge, LA.
- Conner, Ezra S. was born on 20 Jun 1841 in Penobscot, Hancock, Maine; died on 20 Jan 1912 in Castine, Hancock, Maine.
- Conner, Emeline was born on 9 Oct 1843 in Penobscot, Hancock, Maine; died in 1932 in Lincoln, ME; was buried in Castine, Hancock, Maine.
- Conner, Elizabeth H. was born on 15 Apr 1845 in Penobscot, Hancock, Maine.
- Conner, Augusta was born on 12 Apr 1851; died in 1854.
- Conner, Fred Morton was born on 2 Jan 1856 in Penobscot, Hancock, Maine; died on 8 Jul 1942 in Castine, Hancock, Maine; was buried in Castine, Hancock, Maine.
Generation: 4
12. Conner, William was born on 1 Aug 1774 in Penobscot, Hancock, Maine. Other Events and Attributes:
- Occupation: blacksmith
Notes:
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William was a blacksmith and resided at Penobscot, Maine. The first
schoolmaster in the village, James Whitelaw, for many years "taught in the
home of William Conner, as early as 1785 and as late as 1791." {-"Penobscot
Bicentennial" [booklet], p.31} John and Elizabeth had a large family; the
children listed here are those whose names were remembered by Fred S.
Conner in 1938 and Ardelle M. Conner in 1932 (in a letter to her niece
Luena) - they are not listed in birth order.William married Dunbar, Elizabeth on 13 Jan 1802 in Penobscot, Hancock, Maine. Elizabeth (daughter of Dunbar, David Jr and Elms, Elizabeth) was born on 18 Aug 1781 in Scituate, MA; died on 8 Oct 1867 in Penobscot, Hancock, Maine. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
13. Dunbar, Elizabeth was born on 18 Aug 1781 in Scituate, MA (daughter of Dunbar, David Jr and Elms, Elizabeth); died on 8 Oct 1867 in Penobscot, Hancock, Maine. Notes:
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Her marriage intention to William Conner was published at Penobscot 19 Dec
1801.Children:
- Conner, James H.
- Conner, Nancy Dunbar
- Conner, Mary
- Conner, Joanna
- Conner, Betsy
- Conner, George W.
- Conner, John was born in 1802; died in 1885; was buried in Conner-Dunbar Cemetery, Penobscot, ME.
- 6. Conner, William Henry Jr was born in 1807; died on 3 Oct 1884 in Penobscot, Hancock, Maine.
- Conner, Alice was born in 1816; died on 27 Apr 1890.