James Estep: ancestral history

The ancestral history of JAMES ESTEP, immigrant ancestor to Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania.


James was born 5-12-1818 in Breconshire, Wales, the son of John and Jane (Lewis) Estop.  John and Jane had sons names John, Lewis James and George.  They also had daughters named Mary and Rachel.  The children were all baptised in Llanover (Llanvoyer) Breconshire, with the exception of Mary who was baptised again in Llanfair Kilgeddin at the age of two.

John, the father, was listed as a laborer until the 1834 baptism of George.  He is listed there as a carpenter.  He was born in 1794, in Great Whitley, Westershire and died in Llanfair Kilgeddin, Monmothshire in 1860.  He married Jane Lewis, born 1794 in Llanfihangel Cwm Du, Breconshire, in 1814 in the same town.  She also died in 1860 in Llanfair Kilgeddin.  Her parents were Lewis Lewis and Mary ?.  She had a sister named Anne, who was born in 1797 in Llanfihangle, also.

John Estop was the son of John Easthop born about 1760, place unknown, but believed to be Great Whitley.  He married Martha Goodsir, born in 1765, in 1791 at Great Whitley.  He died in 1844 at Llanfair Kilgeddin and she died in 1859, also in Llanfair Kilgeddin.

This is information gathered from Dewi Thomas, of Consultant Ancestral Research Wales by Al Estep ([email protected]) who most generiously provided it to me to add to these ESTEP family history pages.

UPDATE:

James married ELIZABETH PRICHARD who was born in Grosmont, Monmouth, England August 16 1824 Christen 14 November 1824. Father William Pritchard, Mother Elizabeth Charles.
(provided by Daniel B. Estep at [email protected])


LINKS to Additional Information

The Family Story of James and Elizabeth Pritchard Estep: coming to America.

List of the Descendants of James and Elizabeth Pritchard Estep

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