Scanned page 639 of Book 1
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Envelope (laid over the upper half of the family-tree sheet):

Printed return address at upper left, in dark blue:

Grace Church 1318 Lyttleton St. Camden, South Carolina 29020

Cancelled with a Camden, S.C. postmark and franked with two 6-cent purple Franklin D. Roosevelt stamps, dated June [13?], 1969.

Notation in blue ballpoint across the upper center of the envelope, in the rector’s hand:

Historical notes and Burial record on the Rev. B. F. Dunkin Perry Burial record on Julia (N) Perry

Addressed in typewriting:

Mrs. J. P. Walker, Jr. 4275 Garibaldi Avenue Jacksonville, Florida 32210

[The envelope contained the three notarized extracts from the Grace Church parish registers signed by Harry E. Lawhon Jr., Rector, on 13 June 1969 — transcribed on pp. 640–642.]


Packet of folded sheets at upper left (vertical pencil notation visible above the envelope):

  1. Written by my Mother — Mary Annie Fitz Simons about her father + grand father —
  2. Extracts from the family Bible of John Hadley brother of M[r]. C. F. S.'s grand mother Maria Anne Hadley —

[The compiler Amy’s own pencil note labelling the packet’s contents. “Mary Annie Fitz Simons” is the compiler’s mother (Mary Anne Perry FitzSimons, “Minnie”); “C. F. S.” is Christopher FitzSimons, the Irish emigrant patriarch. The packet contains the loose sheets transcribed on pp. 633–637. See p. 638 for the full reading of this annotation.]


Small card at lower right — Bessellieu family list:

The card lists the family of Elizabeth Howell of Savannah, Georgia, who married Charles Mason Bessellieu of Grahamville, South Carolina; their eight named children include Julia Virginia Bessellieu, who married B. F. Dunkin Perry. A side annotation in cursive references a Bessellieu memorial stone in a Charleston, S.C. churchyard. [Full transcription is on p. 638.]

AI Notes

The same album page as p. 638, photographed with the Grace Church (Camden, S.C.) mailing envelope laid flat over the upper half of the Perry family-tree sheet. The envelope was delivered June 1969 from the Rev. Harry E. Lawhon Jr. of Grace Church, Camden, to Mrs. J. P. Walker Jr. at 4275 Garibaldi Avenue, Jacksonville, Fla. — the residence of James Pickens Walker Jr. (‘Bo’) and his wife Anne Knight Walker (the compiler Amy’s son and daughter-in-law). It contained the three notarized parish-register extracts signed by the rector and transcribed on pp. 640–642 (historical notes and burial record for the Rev. B. F. Dunkin Perry; burial record for Julia N. Perry). The packet of folded sheets at the upper left of this album page (visible to the left of the envelope) bears the compiler Amy’s pencil notation 'Written by my Mother — Mary Annie FitzSimons … 2) Extracts from the family Bible of John Hadley brother of M[r]. C. F. S.‘s grand mother Maria Anne Hadley’ — ‘C.F.S.’ = Christopher FitzSimons, the Irish emigrant ancestor. The card at lower right is a Bessellieu family list (Elizabeth Howell of Savannah Ga. m. Charles Mason Bessellieu of Grahamville S.C.; their daughter Julia Virginia m. B. F. Dunkin Perry). Full transcription of the family-tree sheet and the Bessellieu card is on p638.

The remainder of this album page is the same as p. 638; see that page for the Perry/Drayton/Bessellieu family-tree sheet (signed “P.D.” at lower right corner) and the complete card transcription.