For book "Descendants of James Stanclift of Middletown, Connecticut and Allied Families", By Robert C. and Sherry [Smith] Stancliff (Pg Revised)
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FRANCIS WILSON GIDDINGS FAMILY
(575) MARTHA E. STANCLIFT "Mertie" married CHARLES L. GIDDINGS
(600) ADA STANCLIFT married FREDERICK W.
GIDDINGS
FRANCIS WILSON GIDDINGS "Frank"
Son of Francis and Matilda [Fowler] Giddings, born Ohio Mt. Vernon, Knox County, OH 1842(1) or 1843, married McKean Feb. 23, 1865 CHARLOTTE A. LONG daughter of Charles and Susannah [____] Long(2), born McKean, Erie County, PA 1845.(3) Frank was a Carpenter by trade. About 1845 his father had died and his mother remarried to James Osborn. In the 1850 Census the combined Gidding and Osborn family lived next door to Abraham and Clarissa [Stanclift] Thompson, and two houses away from Lester Stanclift.
In 1910 F. W. and Charlotte were living on Orchard Road in Washington Township next door to Melvin E. and Alice [Wright] Stancliff. Both Frank and Charlotte Giddings died after 1920 and are buried Golden Cemetery along with Charlotte's parents..
It is of interest to note that members of the Giddings family living in Lyme, New London County, CT in the 1700's had gravestones carved by ancestors of Mertie and Ada Stanclift.
CHILDREN: Francis Wilson and Charlotte [Long] Giddings
1.CHARLES L. GIDDINGS born PA Jan. 1867, married 1885 MARTHA E. STANCLIFT "Mertie" daughter of William and Adelia Warren [Whitney] Stanclift of Waterford, Erie County, PA born PA Nov. 1868.
2. FREDERICK W. GIDDINGS born PA 1869(4), died before
1895, married by 1889 ADA STANCLIFT daughter of James Patterson and Sarah Ann [Grant]
Stanclift born Erie County, PA Jun. 23, 1870. Ada And Mertie Stanclift were cousins.
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Footnotes:
1. . PA 1850 CENSUS, Erie County, McKean Township, Dwelling 93, Family 95, Household of James Osborn who married as a second husband the widow Matilda [Fowler] Giddings. The family consisted of both Giddings and Osborn children.
2. . Records of Giddings researcher, Earl Giddings
3. . PA 1870 CENSUS, Erie County, Middleborough Township, McKean P.O., page 282B, Dwelling 24, Famile 23.
4. . PA 1880 CENSUS, Erie County, McKean Township, Dwelling 129, Family 155.
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