Ruth Hulme Shallcross

The maternal ancestors of William Hulme Grundy, were also among the earliest English settlers in bucks county. George Hulme and his son George Hulme, Jr. came from England prior to 1700 and settled in Middletown township. George, Jr. married, in 1708, Naomi Palmer, daughter of John and Christain Palmer, who came to Bucks county from Cleveland, Yorkshire, arriving in the Delaware, 9 mo. 10, 1683. Naomi only survived her marriage a short time. George Jr., married (second) her sister, Ruth Palmer, contrary to the rules of Middletown, Friends’ Meeting, which forbid marriage with a deceased wife’s sister, and he was disowned by the Meeting. John Hulme, son of George and Ruth, married Mary Pearson, daughter of Enoch and Margaret (Smith) Pearson, of Buckingham, and their son, John, was the founder of Hulmeville, which still bears his name. He married Rebecca Milnor, daughter of William Milnor, of Penn’s Manor, and lived for a number of years in the Manor. In 1796 he exchanged his Manor farm with Joshua Woolston for the "Milford Mills," as Hulmville was at that time known, and subsequently purchased several hundred acres of land adjoining, and with his sons: Willliam, John, Joseph, George, and Samuel established several new industries there and laid out and developed the town. The family were the originators of the Farmers Bank of Bucks county, now located at Bristol, which had its inception at Hulmeville. John Hulme was one of the most prominent business men of Bucks county and a pioneer in the rapid development that began in the first quarter of a century after the Revolution. His eldest son William was a carpenter and cabinet maker and was associated with his father in the varied industries of the town and assisted materially in its development. He married, 4 mo. 17, 1794, Rachel Knight, and died in 1809, leaving one son Joseph K., and two daughters, Susanna, and Rebecca. The later was born in 1803, and became the wife of Edmund Grundy. She outlived all of her generation, dying at her country residence in Bristol township, October 26, 1895, at the advanced age of 92 years. Of her five children only one survived her, Mrs. Susan G. Harrison. William Hulme and Mary (Ridgway) Grundy were the parents of two children, Joseph R., and Margaret R. Mrs. Grundy is still living in Bristol, though much of her time is spent in traveling in Europe and elsewhere.

Text taken from page 365

Davis, William W. H., A. M. History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania [New York-Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1905] Volume III

Transcribed June 2002 as part of the Bucks Co., Pa., Early Family Project, www.rootsweb.com/~pabucks/bucksindex.html

Published July 2002 on the Bucks County, Pa., USGenWeb pages at www.rootsweb.com/~pabucks/

• "The maternal ancestors of William Hulme Grundy, were also among the earliest English settlers in bucks county. George Hulme and his son George Hulme, Jr. came from England prior to 1700 and settled in Middletown township. George, Jr. married, in 1708, Naomi Palmer, daughter of John and Christain Palmer, who came to Bucks county from Cleveland, Yorkshire, arriving in the Delaware, 9 mo. 10, 1683. Naomi only survived her marriage a short time. George Jr., married (second) her sister, Ruth Palmer, contrary to the rules of Middletown, Friends’ Meeting, which forbid marriage with a deceased wife’s sister, and he was disowned by the Meeting. John Hulme, son of George and Ruth, married Mary Pearson, daughter of Enoch and Margaret (Smith) Pearson, of Buckingham, and their son, John, was the founder of Hulmeville, which still bears his name. He married Rebecca Milnor, daughter of William Milnor, of Penn’s Manor, and lived for a number of years in the Manor. In 1796 he exchanged his Manor farm with Joshua Woolston for the "Milford Mills," as Hulmville was at that time known, and subsequently purchased several hundred acres of land adjoining, and with his sons: Willliam, John, Joseph, George, and Samuel established several new industries there and laid out and developed the town. The family were the originators of the Farmers Bank of Bucks county, now located at Bristol, which had its inception at Hulmeville. John Hulme was one of the most prominent business men of Bucks county and a pioneer in the rapid development that began in the first quarter of a century after the Revolution. His eldest son William was a carpenter and cabinet maker and was associated with his father in the varied industries of the town and assisted materially in its development. He married, 4 mo. 17, 1794, Rachel Knight, and died in 1809, leaving one son Joseph K., and two daughters, Susanna, and Rebecca. The later was born in 1803, and became the wife of Edmund Grundy. She outlived all of her generation, dying at her country residence in Bristol township, October 26, 1895, at the advanced age of 92 years. Of her five children only one survived her, Mrs. Susan G. Harrison. William Hulme and Mary (Ridgway) Grundy were the parents of two children, Joseph R., and Margaret R. Mrs. Grundy is still living in Bristol, though much of her time is spent in traveling in Europe and elsewhere.

Text taken from page 365

Davis, William W. H., A. M. History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania [New York-Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1905] Volume III

Transcribed June 2002 as part of the Bucks Co., Pa., Early Family Project, www.rootsweb.com/~pabucks/bucksindex.html

Published July 2002 on the Bucks County, Pa., USGenWeb pages at www.rootsweb.com/~pabucks/