In the early 1920's, Alvin Scott Ormsby, the 9th gneration of Ormsby's in America, began this geneology.
He traveled throughout New England searching musty archives and reading tombstone inscriptions in old church yards. All the credit for this work is his, a he had no professional help from the so called 'experts' who will furnish "Your Geneology for Ten Dollars".
It is our hope that this record will be of sufficient interest to this, and future generations of Ormsbys, to keep it up to date and pass the information on to their children.
December 5th, 1969
RO Sr.
RICHARD ORMSBY (born about 1612) is supposed to have come from Lincolnshire England. He first appears at Saco, Maine in 1641. Later he lived in Salisbury, Mass. and Haverhill, Mass. In 1663 he moved to Rehoboth, Mass.' where he died in 1664. By his wife Sarah (Upham?) he had three children, all sons, the first being
JOHN ORMSBY born about 1641 (probably at Saco) went to Rehoboth with his father and was prominent in town affairs. He was with Sir William Phips on the expedition against the French in Canada. By his wife Grace Martin he had twelve children, the second being
JOHN ORMSBY, born at Rehoboth on April 12, 1667. He lived at Rehoboth next at Windham, Conn., and finally at Norwich, Conn., where he died in 1728. By his wife Susannah he had eight children, the seventh being
SAMUEL ORMSBY, born at Windham, May, 8, 1708. He lived at Windham, then at Norwich, and again at Windham. By his wife, Dinah Fisher, he had ten children, the second being
NATHANIEL ORMSBY, was born inNorwich, November 7, 1734. He was in the Revolutionary War, was wounded at the Battle of Albany, and died of his wounds October 25, 1777. By his wife Elizabeth Perkins, he had seven children, the seventh being
SAMUEL ORMSBY, who was born at Norwich on August 30th, 1775. Later he lived at Chester, Mass., and Westhampton, Mass. By his wife, Rachel Day, he had twelve children, the seventh being
LYSANDER ORMSBY, who was born at Westhampton, July 5th, 1815. He went to Michagan in 1837, and died at Deerfield, Mich., January 23, 1911. By his wife, Olive Clarinda Burnham, he had six children, the third being
ALVIN LYSANDER ORMSBY, born in Summerfield, Mich., June 5, 1847. He served int the Civil War, and was with Sherman on "The March to the Sea". In 1872 he moved to Iowa, were he died in 1900. By his wife, Rose Evermont McGroty, he had four children, the first being
ALVIN SCOTT ORMSBY, born in Emmetsburg, Iowa, July 21, 1873. He moved to San Marino (South Pasadena) Calif., in 1908. In 1918 he moved to Washington, D.C., to serve in the Intellegence Service during World War I with the rank of Captain. It was he who compiled this geneology. He died in Iowa City, Iowa, in 1934. By his wife, Grace Pullen, he had three sons. Alvin Lysander Ormsby, Bradford Scott Ormsby, and Richard Reed Ormsby.
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