This material was prepared
by Anne Broomall Wiegle.
1. ISAAC BROOMELL (BROOMALL) (DANIEL 3, JOHN 2, JOHN 1) was born August 27, 1762,. He married LYDIA NEAL January 11, 1792 in Concord Meeting, daughter of JOHN NEAL and SUZANNE JAMES . Isaac was a farmer. In 1800 Isaac, Lydia and their three sons moved from Lower Chichester Twp. Delaware Co. to the Village of Doe Run in West Marlborough Twp., Chester Co. In 1828 Isaac bought land in Upper Oxford Twp. on which is the present day Village of Homeville. Isaac died December 08, 1834. Lydia died on September 2, 1853 and is buried at Homeville meeting, which was founded after the death of Isaac. During Isaac's lifetime, he adopted the variant spelling of his surname BROOMELL, after a clerk wrote out a lengthy document spelling it that way several times. Many of his descendants kept the variant spelling.
Children of ISAAC
BROOMALL
and LYDIA
NEAL
are:
i. JOHN
BROOMELL , b. January 10, 1794.
ii. DANIEL BROOMELL , b. April 14, 1796..
iii. JAMES BROOMELL (BROOMALL) , b. October
18, 1799. d. July 15, 1838, Natchez Mississippi.
2. iv. CIDNEY BROOMELL , b. September
24, 1802.
v. MARTHA BROOMELL
, b. June 26, 1804.
vi. SUSANNA BROOMELL, b. Oct. 6, 1806.
(found
in a family bible belonging to Nancy Gottshall)
3. vii ELIZABETH BROOMELL , b.
January 18, 1809.
viii. ANN BROOMELL
, b. August 18, 1811.
ix. ISAAC
BROOMALL , b. November 23, 1813.
2. CIDNEY
BROOMELL
(ISAAC 4 , DANIEL
3 BROOMALL, JOHN 2, JOHN
1) was born September 24, 1802. She
was married to WILLIAM PRESTON of West Marlborough
on July 1, 1819, by Townsend Lamborn Esq.,
magistrate of West Bradford.. She died January 17, 1882, and is buried.
Homeville Meeting House Burial Ground.
Child of CIDNEY BROOMELL and
WILLIAM PRESTON is:
i. KERSEY PRESTON , b. about 1819;
d. January 12, 1855.
3. ELIZABETH BROOMELL (ISAAC
4, DANIEL 3 BROOMALL, JOHN
2, JOHN 1) was born January 18, 1809. She married JAMES DAVIS . According
to an obituary, "She possessed uncommon energy of action and force
of purpose. Her kind, affectionate, and motherly disposition endeared her
to all with whom she came in contact. In the performance of household duties
she was both cheerful and skillful. Every act required of a neighbor was
done by her with alacrity."
Children of ELIZABETH BROOMELL and JAMES DAVIS are:
i. ISAAC B. DAVIS , b. about 1831;
d. January 01, 1900.
ii. MARY DAVIS
, d. before. 1850, died age 3 years.
iii. ANN DAVIS
, b. about 1837.
iv. RACHEL
DAVIS , b. about. 1840.
v. EMILY H.
DAVIS , b. January 14, 1842.
vi. MARTHA
B. DAVIS , b. June 07, 1843; m. (1) BALDWIN SPEAKMAN ; m. (2) SOLOMON TEMPLE
, June 14, 1867.
vii. SARAH
M. DAVIS , b. January 25, 1845; m. TALBOT M. RUMSEY , October 10, 1872.
viii. ELLEN
DAVIS , b. March 22, 1847; m. EMMOR BROWN , June 01, 1871.
ix. MARY E
DAVIS , b. November 29, 1848; m. MIFFLIN RIGG .
x. ABIGAIL
C. DAVIS , b. October 31, 1850; m. JAMES P. BUNTING .