Handwritten genealogy notes — marriage of Julia Virginia Bessellieu and B. F. Dunkin Perry; marriage of Mary Annie Perry and Samuel Gaillard FitzSimons with their children
Book 1, Page 630 ·1887–1904
Transcription
Two pages of handwritten genealogical notes in faded ink, recording marriages and children.
Left-hand page:
Julia Virginia Bessellieu married at Pottersville, S.C., by the Rev. Mr. Becker, to B. F. Dunkin Perry.
Their children were:
Mary Anne, married S. G. FitzSimons. [Annotation above S. G. in a slightly different ink: “Samuel Gaillard.”]
Elizabeth Howell — Wm. Bee Coffin.
James O’Bannon — killed in R.R. accident.
Dunkin Drayton — unmarried.
Maurice Jane Mueller [unmarried].
Rose Aldrich — married, Andrew Mountfort. [Surname reading uncertain.]
Right-hand page:
Mary Annie Perry married at Columbus, Georgia, in Church at 7 o’clock in the morning of the 13th of April 1887, by the Rev. Mr. Krenler [reading uncertain] to Sam’l G. FitzSimons.
Their children:
Amy Perry — born 4th Feb. 1888. Married James Pickens Walker.
Theodore Barker — born 8th July 1890.
Dunkin Perry — born 8th of May 1893; died 4th of February 1895.
Thomas Porcher — born 3rd of November 1894; died 17th of May 1896.
Samuel Cashel — born August 30th 1897; died July 21st 1898.
Mary Anne — born September 30th 1899.
Samuel Gaillard — born September 21st 1904.
AI Notes
Two facing pages of handwritten genealogical notes in faded ink. Left page records the marriage of Julia Virginia Bessellieu (at Pottersville, S.C., by the Rev. Mr. Becker, to B. F. Dunkin Perry) and lists their children. Right page records the marriage of Mary Annie Perry at Columbus, Ga., in the morning of 13 April 1887, by a minister whose name is hard to decipher (reads ‘Krenler’ or ‘Krenter’), to Samuel G. FitzSimons, and lists their children with birth and (where applicable) death dates. Key names: Elizabeth Howell; Wm. Bee Coffin; R.R. accident (railroad); Theodore Barker; Thomas Porcher; Samuel Cashel; Amy Perry (the compiler herself — born 4 Feb 1888); Samuel Gaillard born September 21st 1904. The manuscript’s ‘Maurice Jane Mueller’ next to Dunkin Drayton Perry is a misread of Jane Miller (Donkin Drayton Perry’s wife per pp. 624 and 628); ‘Rose Aldrich — Andrew Mountfort’ is a misread of Rosa Aldrich Perry m. Andrew Savage Crawford (canonical on pp. 624, 628). ‘Dunkin Perry FitzSimons’ (b. 8 May 1893, d. 4 Feb 1895), the third child of Mary Annie and Samuel Gaillard FitzSimons and the first of Amy’s three brothers to die in infancy, is the canonical reading of the name elsewhere transcribed in pencil charts as ‘Hunter Perry’ — Amy’s cursive capital D often leaves its top loop unclosed, which her later annotators (and earlier passes here) read as ‘H’ (cf. Dee → Ilee on another page).
This is the family-Bible-style record of the compiler’s own parents and siblings. Mary Annie Perry (“Minnie,” 1859–1934) was Amy’s mother; her marriage to Samuel Gaillard FitzSimons Sr. on 13 April 1887 in Columbus, Georgia produced seven children. Three — Dunkin Perry, Thomas Porcher, and Samuel Cashel — died before age three, a not-uncommon rate of infant mortality for the 1890s South. The compiler Amy Perry, b. 4 Feb 1888, was the eldest and the only survivor old enough to remember her three lost little brothers.