0311 Albert TREFETHEN

Events:

He was born in New Castle or Rye, New Hampshire
He was a Mariner & Mason by trade
Married on 11 October 1843 in New Castle, New Hampshire. Wife was born on 23 October 1823, daughter of Allen PORTER (he was the son of Samuel [born about 1754, in Ipswich, Massachusetts], baptized on 21 September 1778 in Hamilton, Massachusetts [a twin brother, John, was baptized with him], died during 1849, in New Castle) & Margeret Gibb Appleton [or Peabody] Meloon (1787 - 1872, daughter of Abram M. MELOON & Eliz. MARDEN) [Source 130 & records BY John ELDRIDGE FROST 1956 & Portsmouth & North Carolina Cemetery INSCRIPTIONS by A.H. Locke- 1907]
Allen Porter also had (at least) 2 sons - James & John. Both were born in New Castle, New Hampshire and settled in Hardwick Vermont(?). John had a daughter Mary who married Jacob Horace GRAHAM [Source 130]
Wife was living in New Castle with 5 children in 1860 and she died there on April 1, 1906 [Source 130].
She remarried to someone with the last name of Jenkins and they lived in Newcastle with her daughter Alice A. C. TREFETHEN⁰³⁷³ and Ida Jenkins. [Source 130]
(1850 New Castle Census has him as a Shoemaker, born in New Hampshire - probably a different Albert)
One Source [Source 130] says he died by drowning - no reference given. He’s buried in New Castle.

SOURCES:

36. TREFREN, Leitha S.¹³²¹- Correspondence, 135 Clover Lane; Medford, Oregon 97501. Leitha passed away during February, 2001

62. New Hampshire Vital Records Office, Concord, New Hampshire

63. WEINIG, Gregory Correspondence

130. BETTIE SERFES- Correspondence ; 46 Seneca St., Lowell, Massachusetts 01852

records BY John ELDRIDGE FROST 1956

Portsmouth & North Carolina Cemetery INSCRIPTIONS by A.H. Locke- 1907]

1850 New Castle Census

Children:

Alice A. C. TREFETHEN⁰³⁷³ (19 July 1844 - unknown)
Olive M. TREFETHEN⁰³²⁹ (about 1845 - after 1859)
William A. P. TREFETHEN⁰³³⁷ (13 October 1845 - 1846)
William A. TREFETHEN⁰³³⁰ (09 August 1846 - unknown)
Charlotte 'LOTTIE' A. TREFETHEN⁰³⁹⁹ (about 1847 - after 1870)
Charles H. TREFETHEN⁰³³¹ (about 1848 - after 1849)
Albert M/F. TREFETHEN⁰³²⁸ (about 1853 - after 1873)
John R. F. TREFETHEN⁰³³² (1856 - 1872)
Marcus Clark TREFETHEN⁰³⁰² (27 May 1859 - 1873)

Albert TREFETHEN0311 (31 March 1822 - 30 June 1859) Marrie Margaret A. PORTER