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Family HistoryFamily History - Edward Trowbridge


Key:1.“+” before a child’s name indicates the child has their own entry in the next generation.
 2.“born xxxx” indicates the child is under 18 years of age so the birth date is not shown.
This family history features Edward Trowbridge and three of his descendants down to the third generation.


First Generation
1. Edward Trowbridge,1 born ____ (parents not determined). Edward married Sarah Ann Smith1 (born ____, parents not determined1).

Edward spent much of his life in Barbados and Trinidad, and was the United States consul at Barbados during the Civil War.1


+2i. Sarah Loise Trowbridge, born 8 February 1865 in Brooklyn, Kings County, New York. Married Benjamin Sillman Warner.

  1. Abbe-Abbey Genealogy, in Memory of John Abbe and His Descendants, by Cleveland Abbe and Josephine Genung Nichols. New Haven Connecticut: The Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Company, 1916. Pages 235, 236, 349, 350. Digitized copy available at Google Books.
Second and Third Generations
2. Sarah Loise Trowbridge2 (Edward1), born 8 February 1865 in Brooklyn, Kings County, New York.1 Sarah married, 3 June 1886, Benjamin Sillman Warner1, 2 (born 24 September 1856, the son of Alexander Warner and Mary Trumbull Mathewson1, 2).

Benjamin was educated in the south and at Putnam and Sheffield Scientific Schools in Connecticut, was graduated from the University of the City of New York in 1882 and admitted to the bar of Windham County, Connecticut. He resided for a time in Pomfret, Connecticut, where he was a justice of the peace, notary public, and assessor. He also resided in Baxter, Kansas, and Salisbury, Maryland.1


 3i. Arthur Trumbull Trowbridge.
 4ii. _____ Trowbridge.

  1. Abbe-Abbey Genealogy, in Memory of John Abbe and His Descendants, by Cleveland Abbe and Josephine Genung Nichols. New Haven Connecticut: The Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Company, 1916. Pages 235, 236, 349, 350. Digitized copy available at Google Books.
  2. History of Windham County, Connecticut, Edited by Richard M. Bayles, W. W. Preston & Co., New York, 1889. Digitized copy available at www.archive.org. Pages 554-556, biographical sketch of Alexander Warner.