Desendant of Mary Trumble

My name is Joyce Marie (Deegan) Marot, born 8 June 1941 in Walworth County, WI; parents’ names Frank Wilbert Deegan and Marion Ethel nee Boyer. I am the oldest of their 4 children, siblings are Laurence Martin, Cynthia Marion and Frank Brian. Grew up on farms in Jefferson County, WI which is between Madison and Milwaukee. Attended a rural one-room elementary school for grades K-8. Active in 4-H for 9 years. After high school graduation, I attended Lutheran Hospital of Milwaukee School of Nursing and graduated with an RN diploma. I married Louis Todd Marot on 10 November 1962. Over the years, we have lived in Minnesota, Illinois, Iowa, and in 1973 we moved to south-central Michigan. We have 3 daughters: Penny in 1965, Leslie in 1967, and Margi in 1969; and 2 grandchildren David and Alyssa. I worked part-time at intervals while our daughters were at home, and have also served as a literacy tutor and as treasurer of the Coldwater (MI) Community Schools Band Boosters. Since 1991, I have been employed fulltime as a nurse at the Battle Creek Veterans Affairs Hospital working with mentally ill veterans.

My interest in genealogy began during my elementary school years. In the l940s and l950s, Jefferson Co, WI still had many persons who had immigrated there from Germany. My father and others would relate stories concerning the experiences of these 19th century settlers; also those of his Irish ancestors to this same area. What these storytellers did not know was exactly where most of these immigrants had been born in Germany and Ireland. My mother knew almost nothing about her ancestry beyond the names of her great—grandparents except that they were Pennsylvania Dutch on her father’s side and New England Yankee on her mother’s side of the family tree.

I read several how-to-do-it-yourself genealogical research books in the 1980s, and began active research on my ancestors (and those of my husband)

in 1988 after our youngest daughter had left for college. The fact that I live 1 hour from the State of Michigan Library & Archives in Lansing and 2 hours from the Allen County Public Library in Fort Wayne, IN, two excellent sources of family history research materials, has proven most fortunate and convenient.

A hired researcher found the probate record of my fourth-great-grandfather Ezra Kent II (26 Aug 1768-23 Nov 1833) in Hampden Co MA; this document stated that his wife’s maiden name was Mary Trumble. Further research showed her to be a descendant of John and Elinor (?Chandler) Trumbull who immigrated from Newcastle-on-Tyne circa l64O to Rowley, Essex Co, MA. (see ANCESTORS & DESCENDANTS OF MARY TRUMBULL MULLINS, MELINDA A. CAMPBELL, & JEROME TERRILL OF HUDSON, MICHIGAN 1630 - 1994 by Donna Terrill-Northius.) I have not done any research into the ancestry of the above-mentioned John Trumbull, but given the closeness of Newcastle-on-Tyne to the English-Scottish border, his ancestors may well have been from Scotland.

I have another surname on my family tree which may have originated in Scotland. I have traced a third-great-grandfather Henry Elliott back to the eastern shore of Canandaigua Lake in New York cal8lS. His family may have moved there from Beverly, MA but I have yet to find proof of this possibility.

Stone in house of the Tumbulls

History of Peeble shire
By William Chambers of Glenontriston, William & Robert Chambers, Edinburgh and London 1864

Copied by Ann Stirling Weller, National Library
Edinburgh, Scotland, June 1985

Pg. 284 Peebles

Stone in house of the Tumbulls Ancient tenements, which was for many generations occupied by a family named Tumbull, bakers, who were more particularly renowned for baking shortbread and gingerbread, for which they gave the town some degree of celebrity. These Turnbulls are mentioned in the oldest existing records of the burgh. On the front of the building is a stone with carvings emblematic of the profession of the proprietors, with an inscription and date represented in fig. 34, but the whole considerably defaced.