Walter Sherman TREFETHEN0153
(31 July 1869 - 30 December 1927)
Married Ellen Lucy ADAMS
PARENTS: George TREFETHEN, Jr.0152 (20 August 1831 - 15 February 1894) Married Susan Welch STARLING
Events:
Born on Peaks Island, Portland, Maine [Source 36: Maine Vital Records - Births]
Married on 06 June 1894, on Peaks Island. Wife: born 30 October 1871 on Peaks Island, daughter of Charles & Mary (WELCH) of Portland.
Resided on Peaks Island. She was a bookkeeper for W.S. Jordan & Co. for 13 years. In 1898 he went to work for his uncle Newell’s Lobster & Real Estate businesses, and he soon took over the Lobster trade. Under his guidance, the business became one of the largest exporters of lobsters in the state, and he inherited the business when his uncle died in 1903 [Source 129].
He was also treasurer & manager of the Welch Land Company.
129. BAILEY, Glenn R.- His references are marked as follows:
1. Rockingham County, New Hampshire Deeds 63:408, 64:237, 129:295, 130:97
2. Dover, New Hampshire Cemeterty Inscriptions
3. Dover Vital Records
4. York County, Maine Deeds 54:84, 95:17, 54:83, 59:45, 69:149, 128:127
5. Lincoln County Deeds 41:176 and/or Massachusetts Tax Valuation List of 1771, Betty H. Pruitt; Boston, Massachusetts 1978
6. Strafford County, New Hampshire. Deeds 26:61, 24:240, 29:173,30:32, 35:57,36:269
7. York County, Maine. Probate Docket #19153
8. Federal Census (assorted)
9. Strafford County Probate 5:121
10. New Castle Vital Records
11. Monhegan Island Cemetery Inscriptions
12. Bristol, Maine Vital Records
13. 1st Parish Church Records, Kittery, Maine
14. Petition to Selectman of Kittery, Maine; June 17, 1799
15. Strafford County, New Hampshire Probate Docket #5:121
16. Lincoln County Deeds 149:6, 41:177, 41:178,44:32, 64:25+, 148:332, 148:393, 109:220
17. Columbian Centinal, 'Deaths' - July 13, 1816, November 19, 1823
18. Windham, Maine Vital Records
19. Maine Monthly Magazine - July, 1836
20. Friendship, Maine. Cemetery Inscriptions
21. Friendship, Maine Vital Records
22. Lincoln County, Maine Probate 24:117
23. Pond Grove Cemetery, Portland, Maine Inscriptions
24. Portland, Maine Vital Records
25. Pourtsmouth, New Hampshire Vital Records
26. Maine, Genealogy & Family History Of the State of, George Thomas Little, A.M., Litt. D. Vol. IV; Lewis Historical Pub. Co., N.Y.- 1909 (same as Source 42)
27. Monhegan Island Plantation Records
28. Portland City Directory - 1894,1897 - 1927
29. Bremen Maine Vital Records
30. Maine Home Journal, ‘Cronicles of Cushing & Freindship’, Rockland, Maine 1892
Maine Bride’s Index, Salt Lake City
Children:
Eleanor Adams TREFETHEN0388 (28 November 1901 - unknown) Married John William DEERING on 25 April 1925 [Source 36: Maine Bride’s Index, Salt Lake City]