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Arthur Edwin Bye Genealogical Materials

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Held at: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College [Contact Us]500 College Avenue, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania 19081

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Call Number:
RG5.023
Repository:
Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Extent:
0.25 linear ft. (1 box)
Language:
English
Preferred Citation:
[Indicate the cited item or series here], Arthur Edwin Bye Genealogical Materials, RG5/023, Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Date:
1940-1956 (inclusive)
Creator:
Bye, Arthur Edwin, 1885-
Form:
genealogies (histories)
Abstract:
Contains papers compiled by Arthur Edwin Bye, Quaker genealogist and local historian. Includes genealogical files on the Bye and related families of Bucks County, PA, and Cecil County, MD. His research culminated in the publication in 1956 of the book History of the Bye Family and some allied families.

Arthur Edwin Bye, Quaker genealogist and local historian, the author of History of the Bye Family and some allied families.

Contains papers compiled by Arthur Edwin Bye, Quaker genealogist and local historian. Includes genealogical files on the Bye and related families of Bucks County, PA, and Cecil County, MD. His research culminated in the publication in 1956 of the book History of the Bye Family and some allied families.

Donor: Arthur Edwin Bye, 1957

Original order retained.

History of the Bye Family, and Some Allied Families, by Arthur Edwin Bye, was removed from the collection and recatalogued as FHL BX7791.B99B9

This account contains much of the material found in the archive, but each includes also material not found in the other

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Publisher
Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Finding Aid Author
FHL staff
Finding Aid Date
Before 1967
Sponsor
Encoding made possible by a grant by the Gladys Kriebel Delmas Foundation to the Philadelphia Consortium of Special Collections Libraries
Access Restrictions

Collection is open for research.

Use Restrictions

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Collection Inventory

Scope and Contents

Consists of six gray folders, mainly longhand, and some typed sheets, prepared by Dr. Arthur E. Bye. In addition to genealogical data, these folders contain historical narratives, character sketches, copies of deeds and wills, descriptions of coat of arms, anecdotes.

Archival Resource Key. Bye family genealogy, introduction.
Box 1 Folder 1
Scope and Contents

"Introduction. Genealogy starts with Thomas Bye d. 1726, England; Concludes with Samuel Bye b. 1-29-1764, son of Hezekiah & Mary Ingham Bye, Buckingham Meeting."

Archival Resource Key. Bye family genealogy.
Box 1 Folder 2
Scope and Contents

Begins with Enoch Bye b. 9-27-1757, d.1-12-1837. Concludes with Andrew Moore Bye b.9-24-1850.

Archival Resource Key. Genealogical printed forms, number 51-64.
Box 1 Folder 3
Archival Resource Key. Genealogical notes.
Box 1
Scope and Contents

Begins with Jonathan Bye b. l-22-1761, heir to the family estate in Solebury, and concluding with William DeWitt Bye, b. ll-24-1861.

Archival Resource Key. Bye of Buckingham, "the Junior Branch of the Family".
Box 1 Folder 4
Scope and Contents

Noted Book II, Ch.4.

Archival Resource Key. Pearson Family of Buckingham.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Ingham Family of Ingham Spring.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Kinsey Family of Buckingham.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Paxson Family of Solebury Buckingham.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Pownall Family of Solebury.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Canby Family of Buckingham.
Box 1

Archival Resource Key. Stackhouse: of Stackhouse, Yorkshire, and Langhorne.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Gillam: of Langhorne.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Dungan: of Limerick, Ireland; Rhode Island, and Pennsylvania.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Latham: of Latham, Parbold, and Elston.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Heaton: of Deane, Lancashire; and Langhorne.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Weaver: of Rhode Island.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Freeborn: of Rhode Island.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Wing: of Sandwich, Massachusetts.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Passmore: of Devonshire, England; Berkshire, England; and W. Marlborough Pennsylvania.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Strode: of Strode. Dorsetshire, Parnham, and Shefton Mallet.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Pusey: of Pusey, Berkshire, and Chester, Pennsylvania.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Wilson: of E. Nottingham, Pennsylvania.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Job: of Nottingham, Pennsylvania.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Vernon: of Shipbrook and Hauthorne, Cheshire.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Browne: of E. Nottingham.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Churchman: of Saffron Waldron, Essex, England; and E. Nottingham, Pennsylvania.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Knight: of Worcestershire, England; New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Dickerson: of Langhorne.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Sweeney: of Ireland.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Longshore: of Langhorne.
Box 1

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