The Fay Family: Jonathan, Francis and Daniel of Michigan
THE FAY FAMILY HOMEPAGE

GENEALOGIES
   
   
FAYS IN MICHIGAN
   
JONATHAN FAY (1/30/1795 - 12/15/1883)(OPF #830)
   
AND HIS DESCENDANTS
   
   
Compiled from Various Sources
   
   
John of Marlborough
John (OPF #2) married Elizabeth Wellington
John (OPF #25) married Hannah Child
Jonathan (OPF #60) married Joanna Phillips
David (OPF #131) married Patience Harvey
Jonathan (OPF #830)
  
MICHIGAN LINES
Jonathan Fay 1795 Nathan Fay 1772 Nathan Fay 1797 Joshua Fay 1800 Daniel Fay 1865
four of the children of William and Temperance (Clark) Fay:
William W. Fay 1804 Corydon Fay 1813 Napoleon B. Fay 1822 Vicenia Fay 1807
MICHIGAN RECORDS
Royal Oaks Cemetery (Corydon) Carleton Cemetery (Jonathan) Huron Cemetery (Jonathan)
Deaths Obituaries Marriages Land Records Census Lists
Southern Michigan, by Henry S. Tanner, 1836
image copyright � 2003 by Cartography Associates
used with permission
   
Jonathan was born 1/30/1795 in Westboro, MA, and died 12/25/1883 in Exeter, MI. He was the eighth of twelve children.
   
In 1826, he went to Michigan, where all but the first two of his sixteen children were born. The first five children are by his first wife, Lois King (5/31/1803 - 4/12/1834). His second marriage was to Fanny Swap (8/15/1818 - 8/4/1885) on 10/22/1835. Eleven children were born to that marriage.
1. Rufus b. Westboro, MA, Apr. 20, 1823.
m. Amelia (3/1847)
Left home when 18 yrs old. By 1870 he is in Kansas and married to Amelia. One source claims that he had three wives and four children. Only Amelia has been found in the census so far, and there is some doubt about Alice. Anson has not been found. No child named Arcosta has been found, but Incersia is in 1880 and Incertia in 1900.
1. Alice Fay (1876). Written as "Alices" by the indexer in 1880; marked as female and 'son' by census taker, interpreted as 'sister' by indexer. Is this Anson? This is the same census taker who writes "Amelia" as "Ameealia".
2. Anson Fay
3. Villa or Villia Fay (10/1869)
4. Arcosta or Incersia or Incertia Fay. Born 1879. Her name remains a mystery; she is not found after 1900.
2. Austin Fay b. Westboro, MA, Mar. 21, 1825. Probably died between 1910 and 1920.
m. Almira Burke (b: 1830). In 1889, he married his second wife, Mrs. Rosanna Randal.
1. Austin Fay b: 9/25/1859 d: 5/1920. He seems not to have married.
2. Wilmer Fay b: 4/1866. Wilmer may have married twice, first to an unknown, second to Alta.
................1. Isabell Fay b. 1917
3. Francis Fay (9/14/1828 or less likely 9/14/1829-7/30/1915)
m. 3/19/1854 Charlotte D. Brown (8/1839-1922). Ten children, two of whom died in infancy.
1. Orion Jonathan Fay b: 1855 d: 1922. He was married about 1905, divorced before 1920.
2. William Edward Fay (1863 - 5/17/1908) m. Anna Harriman (6/1858 - 1/17/1918) [Note the spelling of her name - Harryman - in the obit]
1. Charlotte M. b: 12/1876    m. _____ Gifford
2. Leo F. (8/1881 - 5/18/1945) married Anna, b. about 1882, in 1905. Three children:
........1. Frances, b. 1912, m. Mallie W. Payne, b. 1907
................1. Jean D., b. 1930
........2. Mildred, b. 1915, m. William Bigler
........3. Wilson Charles Fay, b. 1919
3. Ethel N. b: 3/1886 m. _____ Rayner or Ethelyn R. Rayner of Detroit..
3. Lucretia Mary Fay (1859)
m. John Pryor (1846)--no children
4. Charles F. Fay (1862 - 4/16/1945)
m. Minnie (1884)
....................1. Frances Fay (1914) m. ______ Williams
5. Lois Lavina Fay (1864)
m. Jerome D. Hamilton (1863)
....................1. Marie Hamilton b: 1906
....................2. son?
   
6.         Daniel Fay (10/10/1865-1/29/1936) and his descendants
   
7. Jane Fay, born in 1869, died in childhood
8. Jennie Fay b: 3/1873 d: 4/7/1873
9. Robert Fay b: 4/1876
m. Josephine, b. 1/1878, in 1893. Six children:
....................1. Robert E. Fay, b. July 1892
....................2. Blanche I. Fay, b. Dec 1893
....................3. Beulah R. Fay, b. April 1895
....................4. Rutherford Fay, b. Mar 1899
.........................m. Charlotte, b. 1902
..............................1. Robert Fay, b. 1926
..............................2. Donald Fay, b. 1927
..............................3. Lois G. Fay, b. 1928
....................5. Percy Fay, b. 1901
....................6. Alpha D. Fay, b. 1903
10. Perry C. Fay b: 10/1882 d: between 1910 and 1915
m. Maud (?) A. b: 1884
4 Julia Ann Fay, b. Feb. 2, 1831, d. 9/4/1900, m. July 6, 1851, Enoch Adrian Chamberlin. A farmer, b. Feb. 6, 1826 [d. June 29, 1898], res. Flat Rock, Mich. 5 chil.
..........1. Enoch Adrian Chamberlin, b 9/22/1852, d. Fla. 11/6/1893, m. 11/15/1877
            Deborah Livingston Downs, b. 11/8/1860
......................1. Enoch Adrian Chamberlin, b. Sept. 17, 1878 or 1879.
......................2. Permilia (Milley) Chamberlin, b. July 21, 1884.
......................3. Valora Chamberlin, b. Aug. 11, 1892.
Deborah Downs Chamberlin m. 2d, Apr. 14, 1897, John Potter of Vermontville, Mich. 1 child
......................1. Debbie Laura Potter, b. Jan. 18, 1898. [OPF 418]
For much more detailed information about this branch, see the page for Deborah Livingston Downs and her families.
..........2. Austin Chamberlin b. Feb. 13, 1857, d. Dec. 8, 1870 [aged about 23 years]
..........3. Lois Chamberlin, b Sept. 24, 1860.
            m. Gilbert M. Pennock, b. 1868
..........4. John Chamberlin, b. 2/5/1867
            m. Huldah Mildred Nearance, b. 9/[6]/1869.
......................1. Dom D. Chamberlin, b. Nov. 26, 1890.
......................2. Ruth M. Chamberlin, b. Nov. 3, 1892.
......................3. John Ray Chamberlin, b. Aug. 4, 1896.
......................4. Jay J. Chamberlin, b. 1906.
.........................m. Sadie E.
..........5. Jay Chamberlin, b. Feb. 22, 1869, d. Jan. 1, 1893 in Flat Rock, Mich.
5. Jonathan Jr, b. Nov. 1833, d. July 10, 1836. drowned in Huron River, Mich [ Aged about 3 years, 8 months]
Jonathan married Fanny Swap on October 22, 1835

6. Harriet Elizabeth, b. July 26, 1837; d. Sept. 8, 1887
m. Homer Norton, b. 2/19/1829 d. 4/1/1880
..........1. Edwin Norton, b. 1856
..............m. Nettie Lowrain
....................1. Floyd
....................2. Vernie
..........2. Julia Anne Norton, b. 6/29/1858 d. 9/9/1950
..............m. Thomas Coleman Outhwaite, b. 3/9/1855 d. 4/25/1931
....................1. William Homer Outhwaite b. 11/5/1878 d. 11/27/1934
....................2. John Henry Outhwaite b. 9/6/1883 d. 10/24/1913
....................3. Nettie Rose Outhwaite b. 3/7/1886 d. 3/28/1943
........................ m. George John Laurain b. 11/6/1880 d. 9/12/1948
................................. 1. Julia M. Outhwaite
................................. 2. Mildred L. Outhwaite
................................. 3. Mable A. Outhwaite
................................. 4. Verna M. Outhwaite
................................. 5. Edith M. Outhwaite
................................. 6. Albert G. Outhwaite
................................. 7. Alva E. Outhwaite
................................. 8. Florence E. Outhwaite
................................. 9. Milton A. Outhwaite
................................. 10. Doris D. Outhwaite
................................. 11. Bernadene M. Outhwaite
................................. 12. Arline M. Outhwaite
....................4. Mabel Ann Outhwaite b. 3/27/1888 d. 5/9/1988
........................ m. Howard Mason
..........3. Fredrick Lorenzo Norton, b. 1871
..............m. Sadie, b. 12/1867
7. Laura Jane, b. July 14, 1840, m.. Isaac Burke, res. Carleton MI
..........1. Jennie
..........2. Elmer
8. Lorenzo, b. Oct. 10, 1842, m. Elma Julianna Mead, b. Cato, N.Y., May 29, 1848. Agent for sewing machines 1882, Union City, Mich. and in Coldwater, Mich, in 1883. In Quincy, Mich, 1898. 2 chil.
.....1. Eleanor Corea, b. Newark, N.Y., Aug. 27, 1873.
.....2. Clarence Lorenzo, b. July 8, 1878.
9. Clarissa M., b. July 9, 1844 or 1845 (tombstone). m. James Ryan.
10. John M., b. Mar. 17, 1847. President Home Insurance Co., Detroit, Mich., m. Lucy S. Monroe, b. 1850. She d. N.Y. City, Dec. 1892. He m. 2d [?]
.....1. Kittie May b: 1872
11. Emma A., b. 4/21/1849, m. Joseph B. Lorain(e)(b. 1844), res. Niles, Mich.
.....1. Flora Loraine, b. 1867
.....2. Frederic Loraine, b. 1871
.....3. Walter Loraine, b. 1876
12. Betsey Jane, b. 4/25/1851, m. William Laura (Lawrie, Laurie)
..........1. Carrie M. Laura, b. 1867
..........2. Edward Laura, b. 1869
..........3. John Laura, b. 1874
..........4. Robert Laura, b. 12/4/1874
..............m. Zoae Chene b. 2/17/1878
....................1. Cecilia Laurie, b. 10/3/1898
....................2. Frances Laurie, b. 11/25/1899 d. 1964
........................ m. George James Polzin b: 5/1894 d: 1968
................................. 1. James Polzin d: at birth
................................. 2. Laurence Joseph Polzin Sr b: 5/27/1918 d: 1/10/1976
...................................... m. Hattie Marie Hopkins b: 1/10/1948 d: 10/20/2000
................................................Donald E Polzin b: 6/8/1948
................................................Laurence Joseph Polzin Jr. b:10/6/1949
................................................Beverly Marie Polzin b: 3/16/1951
................................................Rose Ann Polzin b: 5/19/1952
................................................George Wiliam Polzin b: 3/26/1954 d: 8/12/1972
................................................Jean Marie Polzin b: 7/17/1955
................................................Mary Ann Polzin b: 10/3/1957
................................. 3. Margaret Polzin 1919
................................. 4. Irene Polzin 1922
................................. 5. Rosella Polzin 1924
................................. 6. Theresa Polzin 1926
................................. 7. George Robert Polzin 2/28/1927
...................................... m. Beverly Marie Smith
................................................seven children including
................................................Dennis Michaels Polzin
................................. 8. Helen Polzin 2/1930
................................. 9. Geneveve Polzin
................................. 10. Delores Polzin b: 1932
................................. 11. Geneveve Polzin b: 1933
....................3. David Laurie, b. 1903
....................4. Betsey Laurie, b. 1904
....................5. Florence Laurie, b. 1906
....................6. Abraham Laurie, b. 1907
....................7. Gertrude M. Laurie, b. 1909
....................8. Mable Laurie, b. 1912
....................9. Zoae Laurie, b. 1914
...................10. Joseph Laurie, b. 1919 [census has John]
13. Ann, b. 7/21/1853, d. Oct. 1853 [Infant +]
14. Albert Jonathan, b. July 11, 1854, m. Carrie Langston, res. Yipilanti, Mich.
..........1. Frank b. res. Belden, Mich.
..........2. Lester [corrected to Edith, OPF, 1898: p.418]
..........3. Jesse [corrected to Fannie, OPF, 1898: p.418]
15. Fanny Corea, b. May 6, 1857, m. Charles Outhwaite, b. 1854
..........1. Thomas Frank Outhwaite, b. 1875
..........2. Lester Outhwaite, b. 1877
..........3. Jesse Outhwaite, b. 1879
16. Elmer Amory, b. June 9, 1861.
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