Alfred Gilbert BIDWELL
SOURCES: 1. This Family Group sheet was compiled by Marion Grace Jewell Nicholls, of Gilbert, AZ 2. IGI - NY - Extracted #C501471 (page 0136), #C502791 (page 0391), Batch #8509308 (page 74), #A178082 (page 3649). 3. FHL - Film #1035617 - Item #5 - Bidwell Family - By Joan Bidwell (pages 84,85) (these pages have pictures). 4. Book #929.1AM - American Ancestry - Vol.#9 (page 10) - found at the Orlando, FL Public LIbrary. NOTES: 1. Alfred Gilbert Bidwell left home to find work - his first job was a clerk in a Hotel in New York City for several and then he went to North Carolina and Georgia to the Gold Mines, returning after seven years. The moved back to Hillsdale, New York for a few years, then he moved to Greenville, NJ. He bought his parents farm in Hillsdale, NY also had a small wagon manufacturing business - The Bidwell farm was a beautiful place on New York Route 23, about half way between the village of Hillsdale and Murray's Corner. In 1848 they sold the farm and moved to Bergen Hill, Jersey City, New Jersey - where Alfred went into business at 28 Newark Avenue. 2. Discrepancy on which town Alfred Gilbert Bidwell was born in Tyringham or Monterey? 3. Discrepancy on spelling of wife's first given name Harriet or Harriette, also her surname Collin or Collins? 4. Harriet Ann was 19 years old when her parents died and she went to live with her grandparents in Hillsdale, New York. She attended Columbia Boarding School in Chatham, New York from 183501836.
SOURCES: 1. This Family Group sheet was compiled by Marion Grace Jewell Nicholls, of Gilbert, AZ 2. FHL - Film - #1035617 - Item #5 - Bidwell Family - By Joan Bidwell (pages 84, 85) 3. Book #929.1AM - american Ancestry - Vol.#9 (page 10) NOTES: 1. Horace Gilbert Bidwell of Jersey City, New Jersey - born in Greenville, NJ - He entered Bellevue Hospital Medical College 1869 - Practiced in Norfolk,Connecticut 1872-1873 - then in Jersey City since then.
He married Harriette Ann Collin 2 May 1837 at Hillsdale, Columbia, New York . Harriette Ann Collin was born at Benton, Yates, New York 28 Oct 1816 .
They were the parents of 7
children:
Florence Alfrette Bidwell
born 28 Aug 1839.
Nancy Jane Bidwell
born 7 Apr 1841.
Henry Collin Bidwell
born 11 Jun 1843.
Harriet Augusta Bidwell
born 7 Oct 1846.
Horace Gilbert Bidwell
born 24 May 1849.
Alfred Edgar Bidwell
born 27 Nov 1852.
William Welch Bidwell
born 28 Nov 1857.
Alfred Gilbert Bidwell died 2 Jul 1881 at Jersey City, Hudson, New Jersey .
Harriette Ann Collin died 12 Nov 1892 at Jersey City, Hudson, New Jersey .