SPENCER/DE SPENCER GENEALOGY
Compiled by Glenn Gohr


What little bit I know about the Spencer family comes from my study of the Roberts and Herriman families in Madison County, Arkansas, where so many of my wife's ancestors lived before 1900. A book has been written on the Herriman family and is in the process of being updated. Perhaps the new Herriman book will contain additional information on the SPENCER family.

SPENCER is a common surname in the U.S. and in Great Britain. I am sure you already know this but Princess Diana was Lady Diana SPENCER before she married Prince Charles. The Spencers in England are a very noble family connected with Royalty from the time of the Wars of the Roses back in the 1300s. They intermarried with the NEVILLE and PERCY families in England, and many other noble families. In Medieval times the name was De Spencer and Le De Spencer, which indicates the origin may have been French originally. There is a Spencer/De Spencer/Le De Spencer Family Association which publishes a newsletter. Copies are available in the local Ozarks Genealogical Society Library where I live in Springfield, Missouri.

Here is my wife's SPENCER lineage as far as can be proven:

  1. Elijah SPENCER; md. Elizabeth DEWEESE
  2. Nancy E(lizabeth?) SPENCER, b. 14 Sept. 1822 IN, d. 31 July 1866 Hot Springs, Saline Co., AR; md. 26 Nov. 1817 Boone Co., IN to Noah Andrew ROBERTS, b. 12 Oct. 1817 KY, d. 22 Dec. 1889 Benton, Saline Co., AR (buried in Winters Cemetery)
  3. Joel Van Buren ROBERTS, b. 30 April 1842 Platte Co., MO, d. 26 Jan. 1921 Madison Co., AR; md. 6 Sept. 1860 Madison Co., AR to Rachel Caroline HERRIMAN, b. 10 Nov. 1844 Cannon Co., TN, d. 12 March 1911 Madison Co., AR (both buried Aurora Cemetery)
  4. Kima Nevada ROBERTS, b. 1882 Japton, AR, d. 23 Dec. 1944 San Bernardino, San Bernardino Co., CA (buried at Mountain View Cemetery, San Bernardino, CA); md. 1900 Madison Co., AR to Franklin Montgomery CALICO, b. 9 July 1877 Drake's Creek, Madison Co., AR, d. 15 November 1969 Ely, White Pine Co., NV
  5. Bonnie Ruth CALICO, b. 5 Aug. 1905 Drake's Creek, Madison Co., AR, d. 1 Dec. 1968 San Bernardino, San Bernardino Co., CA; md. 22 Aug. 1928 to Robert Archie HENRY, Jr., b. 26 Aug. 1902 Sickles, Caddo Co., OK, d. 10 June 1944 Los Angeles, Los Angeles Co., CA (both buried at Mountain View Cemetery, San Bernardino, CA) *These are my wife's grandparents.


If you have queries concerning the Spencer surname, you may post these at the Spencer Family Genealogy List. Spencer Genealogy List is a part of the Rootsweb e-mail discussion lists. It offers free queries and discussion on the Spencer surname and variant spellings.

To subscribe, send an e-mail to: [email protected]
Leave subject line blank (This will be ignored).
In the body of the message type: subscribe

Then a welcome message will be sent telling how to post messages. Once you are subscribed, you may send a query to everyone on the list by sending e-mail to: [email protected]

Archived postings to the Spencer e-mail list can be found on the WEB at:

    https://mailinglists.rootsweb.com/listindexes/

When prompted, type in SPENCER for the name of the list. A second screen will appear where you can choose a year and type in a search word(s). If you type in SPENCER you would probably get all the previous postings to the list. You can also type in a person's name instead or a locality to narrow your search. If you wish to do a search by date, try entering it in quotation marks with the day and then the month as "01 Mar" using single digit dates preceded by a zero and only the first three letters of the month.



ROOTSWEB SPENCER MESSAGE BOARDS

There are several Message Boards on Rootsweb which are set up for the SPENCER surname. These boards are for posting information in the following categories: BIBLE, BIOGRAPHY, BIRTH, CEMETERY, CENSUS, DEATH, DEED, IMMIGRATION, LOOKUP, MARRIAGE, MILITARY, OBITUARY, PENSION, QUERIES, and WILLS. The search perameters and drop down screen on the main page allow you to do a key word search or to view all postings according to one of the above categories. Click on the icon below to access the Spencer Message Boards.

Query Post a query (or information from any one of the above categories) on any SPENCER name or related family. Please give dates, and locations they lived. Try to give as much information as possible.




An online genealogy forum for posting queries has also been set up specifically for the SPENCER family on GenForum. It can be found at the following address:

    http://genforum.familytreemaker.com/spencer

***Note***During the Fall of 1998, GenForum combined with Family Tree Maker, which means that all queries and information posted to that site becomes the property of Family Tree Maker. This is still a good site to look up information and get contact names for the SPENCER lines you are searching, but be advised that if you now post a new query or a response to something on that site, chances are that sometime in the future Family Tree Maker will include that information on a CD-ROM which they will sell for profit to anyone who is interested. I do not like the idea of someone else using my hard researched information and ideas and selling them for a profit without my knowledge. This same practice is evident on all of the Family Tree Maker pages which are found on the internet, if you will read the disclaimer notices on those pages. I recommend the Family Tree Maker pages as good look up pages, but I don't recommend posting information there. Similar things can be said for Ancestry.com and MyFamily.com which are connected to each other and seek to make a profit from genealogical materials on the internet.



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Last updated June 1, 2003.


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