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Mildred May Regester was born on 24 October 1894 in Cranston, Providence, Rhode Island. Joseph B. Rush and she were married on 14 February 1916 in Warwick, Rhode Island. She died on 3 August 1941 at age 46 in Shawomet, Warwick, Rhode Island. She was buried in Cranston, Providence County, Rhode Island.

Bertha Frances Luther was born on 17 July 1871 in Providence, Providence County, Rhode Island. Joseph Henry Regester and she were married on 22 September 1890. She died on 15 September 1947 at age 76 in Bristol, Bristol County, Rhode Island.

Also listed as Steere. According to the 1900 Census, her father was born in MA and her mother in RI.

William R. Regester was born on 2 March 1818 in Sheffield, Yorkshire, England. He and Charlotte Bower were married on 6 May 1839 in Sheffield, Yorkshire, England. He died in December 1893 at age 75 at 134 Arundel St. in Sheffield, Yorkshire, England.

He was listed as a stone grate filer in the 1841 Census. Wife is listed as Jane. Family was living in Brightside Bierlow. Ages don't quite match. Charles W. was born while William and Charlotte were living at Snow Lane in the Crofts District of Sheffield. The family was listed in the 1851 Sheffield Census as living on Shepherd Street, Sheffield, which is where William was living when they married.. The suspicion is that they moved to Derby for economic reasons and moved back before Eliza's death in 1854. Eliza, mother, 60, was living with the family in 1851. After returning to Sheffield, William worked as a steel burnisher.

Charles William Regester of this line was born in 1840 while William and Charlotte were living at Snow Lane in the Crofts District. Charles William is listed as William, 6 mos. Other families living nearby: Thomas Pawlis, Thomas Tomlinson.

The 1861 Census shows William and Charlotte, their children Edward, Walter, Charles W. and his wife Harriet and their son Ernest William all living a 22 court, house no. 1, Ebenezer St., Sheffield, where William was a steel burnisher and Charles was a silver chaser.

In the 1871 Census, William and Charlotte were living on Ebenezer St., St. Philip's Parish, Sheffield. Son Walter was living at home and was a groom. The 1891 Census has Charlotte and William living at 134 Arundel Street, Sheffield and was listed as a steel blade finisher. Their son Edward was living with them. In researching parish registers before 1837, John Register found that the name was spelled Redchester. In the 1891 Census, William spelled his name Register.

A William Regester, 76, died in Sheffield in the 4th quarter of 1893 (Vol. 9c, page 331).

There's a loose end line: in the 1891 Census, Tom Regester, 38, head, Elizabeth, 34, wife, Annie, 9, Arthur, 8, Wilfred, 3, and Alfred, 10 mos., were living in Brightside Bierlow.

Another Geoge b. 3 Feb 1801 d. 1861 Sheffield? William R. Regester had person sources.¹

Charlotte Bower was born before 17 August 1818 in Bradfield, Yorkshire, England. William R. Regester and she were married on 6 May 1839 in Sheffield, Yorkshire, England. She died after March 1893 in Sheffield, Yorkshire, England.

She was christened August 17, 1818 (IGI #6909557).

A Charlotte Regester died in Ecclesall Bierlow in the 2nd quarter of 1876 (vol. 9c, page 201).

Edward Regester was born in 1848 in Sheffield, Yorkshire, England. He died in March 1916 at age ~68 in Sheffield, Yorkshire, England.

At the 1881 Census, he was living at 126 Arundel Street, St. Peter's,Sheffield, a hammer forger, 30, with a housekeeper, Olive Stevenson, 50, and her daughter, Marsha, 20.

At the 1891 Census, he was living with his parents at 134 Arundel Street, St. Peter's, Sheffield. He was a hammer maker. In the 1911 Census, he was single, living with the Hardy family at 26 Cumberland St., Ecclesall Broomhall, Sheffield, and was single and a general laborer. There is no indication he ever married.

Mona Emily Regester was born June 1872 or 1873 in Kings Norton, Warwickshire, England. Nicholas Sarah and she were married on 1 September 1898 in Providence, Rhode Island. She died in 1913 in Los Angeles, California.

Lilly Ethel Regester was born on 1 September 1876 in Kings Norton, Warwickshire, England. William Frederick Bischoff and she were married on 1 June 1893 in Rhode Island. She died in 1964 at age ~88 in Rhode Island. She was buried at Cemetery WK142 in Warwick, Rhode Island.

Laura Elsie Regester was born on 25 August 1883 in Providence, Rhode Island. Ernest Garfield Allen and she were married on 9 January 1902 in North Attleboro, Massachusetts. They were apparently divorced about 1905. She died on 10 May 1909 at age 25 in Providence, Rhode Island. She was buried on 13 May 1909 at Lot 233, Willow Avenue, in Locust Grove Cemetery, Elmwood Ave., Providence.

According to records, cause of death was strangulation - homicide. She was living at 18 Pleasant Street and working as a telephone operator.

Providence Evening Bulletin - May 11, 1909:

WOMAN IS BRUTALLY KILLED NEAR CEMETERY
Mrs. Laura E. Regester, 32 Years Old, Found Dead Off Reservoir Avenue - Body Shockingly Maltreated - Had Just Left Dressmaker's, Where She Tried on Dress to be Worn on Day of Wedding - Divorced from First Husband Four Years Ago - Cries Heard at House Nearby.

Laura E. Regester, 32 years old, when returning from being fitted for a wedding dress in preparation for her marriage on the 12th of next month, was waylaid and murdered last night behind the Jewish Cemetery on Reservoir Avenue, almost within sight of her father's home. The body was found at an early hour this morning, and bore evidences of the perpetrator of the crime having been actuated by horribly brutal vengefulness.

The throat bore the imprint of fingers, indicated that the woman had been strangled, there were marks of vicious blows on eyes, nose, and forehead, and further examination showed that the body had been fiendishly cut and mutilated.

The victim of the crime was the daughter of Charles W. Regester, a Gorham Company employee, and she kept house for her father at 15 Pleasant Street, just over the boundary in the town of Cranston. She also worked in the factory of the D. & W. Fuse Co. She was the divorced wife of Ernest Allen, a jeweler, the decree separating them having been granted four years ago. She was engaged to marry Charles Douglass, a jeweler who lives on Dudley street in this city (Providence).

The police have been unable to ascertain anything concerning the whereabouts of Ernest Allen, the divorced husband.

Charles Douglass is employed by A. A. Greene & Co., manufacturing jewelers at 94 Point Street. He went to work at the usual time this morning, but later left there, saying that Mrs. Regester's folks had sent for him to go out to the house on Pleasant Street. The police say he had not appeared at the house up to early this afternoon.

She left her father's home last evening at 7:40 o'clock to visit a dressmaker on Public Street who had been engaged to make her wedding gown.

The body was found at 7:15 this morning by Joseph Rosen, an employee of Sherwood Ice Company. The sight that met his eyes was too much for him and without stopping to investigate he ran to the nearest telephone and called up his foreman, William Lowrey, who on the ground within a few moments.

POLICE RUSH TO SCENE

He in turn notified the police of the Seventh Precinct, and Capt. Peter B. Cannon, Inspector Armstrong, Sgt. Duffy, Mounted Patrolman Edward Maguire, Patrolmen Shea, Carmody and Gilloughly, all of the Potter Avenue station, who rushed to the scene.
She visited Mary Hondo, who lives with her sister-in-law, Mr. August Hondo of 674 Public street. Her sister-in-law, Mrs. Emma Regester, wife of Horace W. Regester, saw her board a Reservoir Avenue car, which was waiting at the city line at 7:40 o'clock last evening.

She got off the car at the corner of Earl street, near the junction of Reservoir Avenue and Elmwood avenue, where she was to meet a girl, whose name is not known, and which whom she was to have gone to dressmaker.

She reached Miss Hondo's house about 8 o'clock and was there for nearly two hours trying on her wedding dress. Miss Hondo says Mrs. Regester left about 9:45, saying he was going straight home and had just time enough to get the 10:20 Reservoir avenue car.

WAS ALONE, SAYS CARMAN

Conductor William Wells of the car which reaches the Reservoir avenue end of the line at 9:41, says he is sure she rode out to the terminus with him and got off there. He said she was alone.

Harry C. Whitman, motorman on this car, who says he knows Mrs. Regester personally, also says she was a passenger on that car.

Until last Christmas Mrs. Regester was employed as a saleswoman at Kirby's 5 and 10 cent store on Westminister Street, where she was held in high respect by all her companions. Miss Lena Greene, who is at present assistant floor manager in the store, worked at the same counter with Mrs. Regester, and she said this morning that she was a reserved, companionable and lovable woman. Mrs. Regester confided in Miss Greene and told her that she secured a divorce from her husband on account of his treatment of her.

MADE MANY FRIENDS

Miss Greene said Mrs. Regester worked on the counter with her in the store at Christmas time 1907. She was a good sales-girl and made many friends. Miss Greene said Mrs. Register had many acquaintances who came into the store and she always seemed cheerful. At that time she boarded with a woman on Public street, but Miss Greene did not know her name. Mrs. Regester said she divorced her husband but was going with another man. Mrs. Regester came into the store occasionally after that and at one time showed a ring indicating her engagement to the second man, but Miss Greene did not know this man's name. The last time Mrs. Regester came in was last week. At that time she was well dressed and was in her usual spirits.

From another source it was learned that, although Mrs. Regester secured a divorce from her husband nearly four years ago, he still continued to see her, and the week before last Christmas had visited her at the Westminister street store. She informed him, however, at each of their interviews that she would have nothing to do with him and that she was engaged to be married to another man.

Did she also marry a man named Richardson?

William Walter Smith was born on 27 May 1869 in England. He and Clara Alice Regester were married about 1887 in Rhode Island. He died on 14 February 1922 at age 52 in Los Angeles, California.

They apparently lived in California, moving there before the 1920 Census. Charles W. Regester used to visit them there after he retired, according to his obituary. William Walter Smith was born in July 1869 in Saint Asaph, Birmingham, England. He lived in Aston Manor, Aston, Warwickshire, England, in 1871. He lived in Aston, Warwickshire, England, in 1881. He lived in District 2 Providence city Ward 6, Providence, Rhode Island, in 1900.

William Frederick Bischoff was born in 1873 in Massachusetts. He and Lilly Ethel Regester were married on 1 June 1893 in Rhode Island. He died on 22 December 1949 at age ~76 in Providence, Providence County, Rhode Island. He was buried at Cemetery WK142 in Warwick, Rhode Island.

They were living in Warwick, RI, in the 1920 Census. In the 1930 Census, they were living near Atlantic Avenue in Lakewood, Warwick, and he was a plumber. No children were living at home in 1930. Cemetery is an unknown lot, Post Road at Cowesett Road, 150 feet west. Name is spelled Bishoff in Rhode Island Deaths, 1630-1930. William's parents were born in Germany.

Was there a fourth daughter, Esther A., who married John Millar July 1, 1933 (Prov. VR 38:268)?

Ernest Garfield Allen was born on 2 August 1881 in Worcester County, Massachusetts. He and Laura Elsie Regester were married on 9 January 1902 in North Attleboro, Massachusetts. They were apparently divorced about 1905. He died in 1968 at age ~87 in Massachusetts.

He appears to have remarried -- Mildred A. b. 1898 -- and living at 1 Knowlton Ave., East Providence, in the 1920 Census. He was an automobile repairer.

Charles Alfred Regester was born in January 1873 in Birmingham, Warwick, England. He and Paulina Schwarz were married on 16 December 1899 in Providence, Rhode Island. He died in 1921 at age ~48 in Grand Rapids, Kent County, Michigan.

According to the 1900 Census, he was a silver chaser, and he came to America in 1879 (2 years before his father, when he was 6 years old?). The Census gives his birthdate as 1873, not 1871. He graduated from Rhode Island School of Design in 1893 and worked for Gorham Manufacturing Co., as did other members of the family.

In the 1920 Census, her parents were living in Grand Rapids and were supervisors in a funeral home.

Paulina Schwarz was born in May 1883 in Bohemia. According to the 1920 Census, she spoke German as a native language and was born in Bohemia. Her father was born in France and her mother in Bohemia. Charles Alfred Regester and she were married on 16 December 1899 in Providence, Rhode Island.

She ran a boarding house for orphans. According to family lore, there was a fire in the house, and several orphans died. Pauline was blamed. After that, they left Los Angeles and went back to Grand Rapids, MI.

Emma Frances Regester was born on 25 May 1894 in Rhode Island. Norman Winfred Marble and she were married on 11 March 1920 in Providence, Rhode Island. She died on 30 January 1984 at age 89 in Giddings, Lee County, Texas.

Norman Winfred Marble was born on 16 February 1893 in Fall River, Bristol County, Massachusetts. He and Emma Frances Regester were married on 11 March 1920 in Providence, Rhode Island. He died on 8 January 1974 at age 80 in Providence, Rhode Island.¹

James Peckham was born on 13 November 1721 in Middletown, Rhode Island. He and Sarah Greene were married on 28 January 1746 in Middletown, Newport County, Rhode Island. He died on 7 May 1785 at age 63 in Newport, Newport County, Rhode Island.

#45 in Peckham Genealogy. They lived in Newport.

Sarah Greene was born in 1725 in Newport, Newport County, Rhode Island. James Peckham and she were married on 28 January 1746 in Middletown, Newport County, Rhode Island.

According to the Peckham Genealogy, Sarah was the dau. of John Greene and Frances Weeden.

A Francis Weeden m. fnu Paul -- from will of Jeremiah Clark of Newport, dtd. June 13, 1728. His daughter, unnamed, married Weeden. RI Genealogical Register -- on CD.

There was a Sarah Greene, dau. of William and Desire Greene, b. Dec. 27, 1723, d. Feb. 20, 1797, m. Barker. Desire was dau. of John Bacon and Mary Hawes.

Chaddus Browne was born in 1605 in High Wycombe, Buckingham, England. He and Elizabeth Sharparowe were married on 11 September 1626 in High Wycombe, Buckingham, England. He died on 2 September 1650 at age ~45 in Providence, Rhode Island.

Chaddus Browne was also known as Chaddus Brown. Arrived in Boston in the ship Martin before July 13, 1638, accompanied by his wife and his 8-year-old son John. He went to Providence, where he was associated with Roger Williams, and signed the compact which denied religious interference in civil affairs. In 1642 he was ordained as pastor of the First Baptist Church of Providence. He had person sources.¹

Elizabeth Sharparowe was born in 1604 in Melchbourne, Bedfordshire, England. Chaddus Browne and she were married on 11 September 1626 in High Wycombe, Buckingham, England. She died in 1672 at age ~68 in Providence, Providence County, Rhode Island.

Or was her death date 10 Nov 1710 (at an age of 105)?

Elizabeth Barton was born in Warwick, Rhode Island. Thomas Greene and she were married on 30 June 1659. She died on 20 August 1698.