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Robert Warren Andrews


My Great Great Grandfather, inventor and machinist, here with his great grandson George on his lap in 1892.

Warren Andrews was born May 19, 1814 in Wales, Hampden County, Massachusetts. He was the son of Alanson Andrews and Phoebe Green. He married Nancy Bocker May 14, 1835.
Nancy was the daughter of Zacharia Bocker and Louisa Brockway. She was born October 3, 1805 in Florida, Montgomery County, New York. We know this because she wrote it down in the margins of her bible. Nancy died March 10, 1882 and Robert Warren Andrews died February 26, 1898.


They lived in Staffordville near the center of the village near a corner. Around the corner, the properties actually joining, were John Pinney and his wife, Jane Bocker. The Pinney house is much larger than it looks from the front.

Jane and Nancy were sisters; their mother died in 1813 and their father in 1815. I don't know how they ended up in Stafford twenty years later. the men were obviously close friends. Warren and Nancy named their son, George Pinney Andrews and my father was named John Pinney Andrews.

Warren was a machinist and inventor. He invented the Stafford Loom, improvements on attaching knives to guns, improvements in teapots and I have in my possession a number of his patents.


Family Links

George Pinney Andrews, his son
Charles Andrews, his grandson
George Randolph Andrews, his great grandson twenty years later
Sue's Page
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