Thisselle Family

Generation 1

William Thisselle (Reference # 280) married Sarah (Reference # 281), surname unknown. Further information about them is unknown. They had at least one child:
  1. Richard Thistle or Thisselle

Generation 2

Richard Thistle or Thisselle (Reference # 140) was born 18 June 1755 at Beverly, Essex Co., MA. He married first to Joanna, surname unknown, 5 March 1778. She had married first to _____ Larcum. He married second to Sarah Worthington (Reference # 141). She was born 30 April 1768 and was the daughter of Richard (1739-) and Rachel (1744-1830) Worthington (Reference # 282 and # 283) of Henniker, NH.

Children of Richard Thisselle and Joanna:

  1. Henry Thisselle
  2. Edith Thisselle
  3. Joanna Thisselle
  4. Elizabeth Thisselle
  5. Apphia Thisselle
  6. Richard Thisselle
  7. Hannah Thisselle
  8. Capt. Hezekiah Thisselle
  9. Sarah Thisselle
Children of Richard Thisselle and Sarah Worthington:
  1. William Thisselle
  2. Josiah Thisselle
  3. John Thissel
  4. Rachel Thisselle
  5. Thomdike Thisselle

Generation 3

Josiah Thisselle (Reference # 70) was born 26 January 1803 at Newbury, Hillsborough? (now Merrimack) Co., NH and died 30 March 1886 at Menneapolis, Hennepin Co., MN. He married Abigail Allen Flint (Reference # 71) of New Boston, NH 19 January 1830 at Bedford, Hillsborough Co., NH. She was born 5 June 1808 and died 24 February 1887 at Minneapolis, Hennepin Co., MN. For information on her parents see the Flint Family. They removed to Minnesota in 1865. They had the following children:
  1. Nathaniel Woodbury Thisselle
  2. William Allen Thisselle
  3. Sarah A. Thisselle
  4. Mary Lydia Thisselle
  5. Nancy Ann Thisselle
  6. Eliza Jane Thisselle
  7. Eldridge Farley Thisselle
  8. Lowell Sprague Thisselle
  9. Sophronia Woodbury Thisselle

Generation 4

Eliza Jane Thisselle (Reference # 35) was born 23 May 1842 at Amherst, Hillsborough Co., NH (in the same house Horace Greely was born in) and died 29 July 1921 at Minneapolis, Hennepin Co., MN. After the death of her husband she removed from Lansing, MN to Minneapolis c1868 where she became a dressmaker. She married Harlan Paige Marshall (Reference # 34) 28 December 1865 at Lansing, Mower Co., MN. He was born 25 September 1839 at Lempster, Sullivan Co., NH and died 15 July 1868 at Lansing or Austin, Mower Co., MN. He had served in the Civil War. For further information and information on his ancestry see the Marshall Family. They had one child:
  1. Ada Attiline Marshall

Sources

Interview with Burton Frost by Susan Frost Bennett and Cathleen Frost, 27 April 1996 - supplemented with his research notes

Frost Genealogy in Five Families by Norman Seaver Frost, West Newton, MA 1926

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31 October 1997