Elizabeth French Bartlett

Elizabeth French Bartlett (27 January 1877-24 October 1961)[1] was an American genealogist.

Career

In 1908, Bartlett joined the New England Historic Genealogical Society's Committee on English Research.[2] In 1920, Bartlett was elected as a member of the Cambridge Historical Society.[3] In her lifetime, she was also a member of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania and the British Record Society.[4] In her research, she specialized on American immigrants from England; the New England Historic Genealogical Society wrote that she amassed a valuable collection of research "regarding English Homes of American Settlers (hitherto unknown), including Brackett, Cheney, Child, Eggleston, Frost, Gridley, Grover, Kingsbury, Mellowes, Newcomb, Patten, Potter, Rouse, Sikes, Vinal..."[4] She contributed the English-background research for Eleanor D. Crosby's genealogical volume Simon Crosby The Emigrant: His English Ancestry and Some of His American Descendants, for which more contemporary researcher Eugene Aubrey Stratton called her "highly respected."[5]

Personal life

Bartlett was married to fellow American genealogist J. Gardner Bartlett around 1917. They had no children.[2]

References
  1. "Elizabeth French Bartlett". Find A Grave. Retrieved 14 January 2019.
  2. Thompson-Stahr, J. (2001). The Burling Books: Ancestors and Descendants of Edward and Grace Burling, Quakers (1600-2000). p. 1169. ISBN 9780961310400.
  3. Cambridge Historical Society (Mass.) (1920). Publications, Issues 11-14. The Society. p. 116.
  4. New England Historic Genealogical Society (1922). The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Volumes 76-77.
  5. Aubrey Stratton, Eugene (1986). Plymouth Colony, Its History & People, 1620-1691. Ancestry Publishing. p. 274. ISBN 9780916489182.
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