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Alice Bucquet McCully family papers, 1824-2012.
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Alice Bucquet McCully family papers, 1824-2012Creator/Contributor:
McCully, Alice Bucquet, 1921-2020, creator, creator.Creator/Contributor:
Easton (Family, creator.Creator/Contributor:
Taylor (Family, creator.Creator/Contributor:
Howard (Family, creator.Creator/Contributor:
Shafter (Family, creator.Creator/Contributor:
Bucquet (Family : Bucquet, Harold Spencer, 1891-1946), creator.Abstract:
Papers of and relating to the family and forbearers of Alice Bucquet McCully (1921-2020). Included are family trees and general
family histories and notes on the Easton, Taylor, Howard/Hayward, Shafter, and Bucquet families. Also included are the following
materials created by or relating to specific family members: materials relating to the 1857 honeymoon of Ansel Ives Easton
and Adeline Mills, which involved surviving the shipwreck of the steamer Central America off the Carolina coast; Edward Taylor's
diaries from the 1860s through the 1880s and his original correspondence (with typed transcripts) from his work in trade in
China in the 1840s; assorted correspondence from the Hayward/Howard family dating from 1828 through 1912; a volume containing
copied excerpts from the diary of Emma Lovell (Shafter) Howard and some material relating to Oscar Lovell Shafter; a bound
transcript of Emma Lovell (Shafter) Howard's journal (1863-1916); Maud Howard's childhood diary (1876); Bertha Shafter's diary
(1936); Frederick Paxson Howard's correspondence and research material relating to the Spanish exploration of the San Francisco
and Bodega Bay areas. a typescript copy of Frederick Paxson Howard's work on Marin County's Spanish history; Adeline Mills
(Taylor) Howard's correspondence (1927-1928) and memoirs; materials relating to the wedding of Adeline Mills Taylor and Frederick
Paxson Howard in 1893; Louise de Fremery Howard correspondence (1918-1922); and some materials relating to the McCully and
Bucquet families. The collection also includes two volumes, one on the Taylor family manor house, Shadoxhurst, and another
on the Taylor-Snow family genealogy, as well as one infant collar (cloth), most like belonging to Guy Gilbert Gilchrist (husband
of Adeline Easton).
Date:
1824 (issued)Subject:
n-us-caShipwreck survival
Americans -- China -- History
Families -- California
Americans
Families
Shipwreck survival
California
China
Central America (Ship)
Central America (Ship)
McCully, Alice Bucquet -- 1921-2020 -- Archives
Easton, Ansel Ives -- 1819-1868
Mills, Adeline -- 1830-1916
Taylor, Edward -- 1819-1887
Howard, Frederick Paxson -- 1871-1942
Taylor, Adeline Mills -- 1871-1951
Shafter, Bertha -- 1858-1949
Shafter, Emma Lovell -- 1842-1916
Shafter, Oscar Lovell -- 1812-1873
Howard, Louise de Fremery -- 1900-1955
Bucquet, Harold Spencer -- 1891-1946
Bucquet family
Easton family
Taylor family
Howard family
Hayward family
Shafter family
Easton family
Hayward family
Howard family
Shafter, Oscar Lovell -- 1812-1873
Taylor family
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COLLECTION STORED, IN PART, OFF-SITE: Advance notice required for use.
Gift of Alice Bucquet McCully; 2018.
Photographs transferred to the Pictorial Collections of The Bancroft Library (BANC PIC 2019.024).
Related collection: [Taylor, Easton, Howard, and Shafter, family photographs] (BANC PIC 2019.024).
Alice Bucquet McCully's ancestors included members of the Easton, Taylor, Howard/Hayward, Shafter, and Bucquet families. Among
these families were California settlers of the 1840s and 1850s. On Alice Bucquet McCully's paternal side are her great-grandfather,
Charles Webb Howard of Oakland (president of the Spring Valley Water Company and owner of the large Shafter-Howard ranch at
Point Reyes, Marin County), her paternal great-grandmother Emma Lovell (Shafter) Howard, and her great-great-grandfather Oscar
Lovell Shafter (an attorney and California Supreme Court justice). On her maternal side are great-grandfather Edward Taylor
(early landowner in San Mateo County) and great-grandmother Frances (Fannie) Bishop (Easton) Taylor (a sister of Ansel Easton
of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company).
Alice Louise Bucquet McCully family papers, BANC MSS 2018/261, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
In English.
Type:
Family papers.Archives.
Diaries.
Family histories.
Genealogical tables.
History.
Diaries.
Family histories.
Genealogical tables.
Physical Description:
print
3.5 (2 2
Language:
English
Origin:
CaliforniaCopyright Note:
COLLECTION STORED, IN PART, OFF-SITE: Advance notice required for use.