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the Kuykendall Genealogy IndexEGGAR FAMILY HISTORY
Ten generations of Eggar ancestors of FRANK GEORGE and ARTHUR EGGAR and four generations of their descendants.
(Note: The County of Hampshire used to be called Southampton. Its abbreviation is Hants.)
EGGAR HISTORY
The first Eggar was THOMAS of Froyle, whose will was proved at Winchester, in Hampshire, England in 1548. His children were:
1. Richard, who married Elizabeth
2. Henry
3. Alys
4. Chrystyer
5. Joan, who married Smyth
*6. John (2), who married Mary
Note: In the Hampshire Lay Subsidy Rolls 1586, in Froyle, John Eggar is listed Goods.
From these children two lines descend ... those of Richard and Elizabeth and those of John and Mary. Richard had six sons and one daughter. His fifth son, John, who married an Anny Baglye, was the founder of the Eggar school. Eggar's Grammar School was founded in the year 1641 by Mr. John Eggar, of Moungomeries (now called Montgomerys, see map) in the parish of Crondall, not far from Farnham, Surrey. By an act of Parliament which was passed in the sixteenth year of the reign of King Charles I, entitled "An Act for John Eggar's Free School within the parish of Alton, in the County of Southampton" (now Hampshire) it was provided that within this parish a suitable school should be built. It is an interesting fact that the Act of Parliament referred to was the last public document signed by Charles I before he was beheaded. This school remained in Alton until 1968 when it moved to a new school building in Holybourne.
John (2) and Mary, the line of our Eggars, had seven children:
*1. Thomas, buried in 1600, Bentley, of whom further.
2. Rose, 1548, married a Knight
3. James, 1549 ... four children.
4. John, 1554, known to be living in 1604.
5. William, 1563, buried 1620, married Agnes Buckle
6. Alice, married W. Eyre
7. Jean, born 1568, married Cowie
The oldest Thomas (3) married an Elizabeth. This family Thomas (3) Eggar was the first of a long line of Eggars in the village of Bentley. In fact as recently as 1978 there was a Miss Mary Eggar living near Bentley. She had written a little book on the history of the Church, St. Mary's, in Bentley and it was like a history of the Eggar family. In 1840, Bentley was described as a village in the County of Hampshire, "4 miles W.S.W. of Farnham, containing 766 inhabitants. This place is situated on the river Wey, which rises at Alton, and flowing through the valley with a beautifully meandering course, separates this parish from that of Binsted. The surface is finely varied, and the scenery pleasingly picturesque; the hills on the opposite side of the river are covered with the royal forest of Alice Holt and add greatly to the richness of the country, which is enlivened by numerous gentlemen's seats. The parish comprises about 2280 acres of richly cultivated land, of which nearly 200 acres are planted with hops, which adjoining the Farnham hop district, are similar in quality and greatly esteemed. The village is pleasantly situated on the north side of the turn-pike road from London to Southampton, and consists of well-built houses, which, being detached from each other, with neat gardens in front, and situated on a green open to the south, have a pleasing rural appearance."
Thomas (3) and Elizabeth Eggar had six children, all baptized in Bentley:
1. Henry, will proved at Winchester 1667
*2. William "the Elder", born 11 Jun 1598, buried 05 May 1669 of whom further.
3. Mary, 1586
4. ?
5. ?
6. A son
Thomas (3) was buried at Bentley in 1600. His son William (4) Eggar the Elder was born 11 Jun 1598 in Bentley and buried there 05 May 1669. He married an Ann, who died in 1657. They had five children, all baptized in Bentley:
1. John, 1612, married Elizabeth, buried 1662.
2. Thomas, 1618, married Elizabeth Preston 1649.
3. Anna, 1628, buried 1655.
4. Amy, 1631
*5. Robert, 02 Jul 1623, of whom further.
6. Henry, (in 1685 he surrendered land to William, son of his brother John, on the condition he pay his sister Ann 30 pounds and Elizabeth 10 pounds).
According to his will William (4) left to his son Robert (5): Edwyns, Smyths and Palmers, properties at Bentley and to his son Thomas, Cheeks and Welches - all farms in Bentley (see map).
Robert (5) Eggar married Eliza Eyre. He was baptized in Bentley 02 Jul 1623 and buried 20 Sep 1700 as "Robert the Elder". He and Eliza Eyre were married 16 Nov 1652. The baptism of Eliza Eyre is not recorded in Bentley. She lived to be 89 years, buried in Bently 12 Nov 1727. They had six children, baptized in Bentley:
1. Elizabeth
2. Ann, 1656
*3. John, 1658 of whom further.
4. William, 1661, living in 1729.
5. Robert, 1664
6. James, 1667 (Twins, buried
7. Mary, 1667 (in 1667
John (6) Eggar was baptized 26 Nov 1658 and a John was buried 27 Oct 1737. John (6) Eggar married Elizabeth Woodman on 25 Sep 1688. She was the daughter of Stephen and Margaret Woodman, baptized 27 March 1663. There was an Elizabeth Eggar buried on 17 Apr 1742 and another on 11 Apr 1756, but neither entry states whether wife of widow of John. John (6) Eggar inherited from his father Robert (5) Eggar: Smyth's Edwyns, Palmers, Mansfield and Redclose, all fields around Bentley.
John (6) and Elizabeth Woodman Eggar had seven children baptized in Bentley:
1. Elizabeth, 1690(?), married Robert Wamsham (?).
2. Anna, 1692
3. Mary, 1696
4. John, 1697, married Mary Hunter, died 1770
5. Robert, born 1700, married Mary
*6. Thomas, born 1702 of whom further.
7. Ann, married R. Othen
John (6) left a will at Winchester dated 1729 leaving Smyth's, Edwins, Redclose, Mansfield and Palmers to his son John. This son died in 1770 without children. In 1760 he bought Idlefield of Thomas Preston and other lands in 1761. By his will dated 1769, he left this property to his brother Thomas (7). But Smyth's, Edwins and other lands he inherited from his father, he left to his brother Robert. Robert left no grandchildren.
Thomas (7) Eggar was baptized 29 November 1702 at Bentley and buried as Thomas the Elder on 05 Aug 1785. His marriage to Mary Winslade is not recorded at Bentley. A Mary Winslade, daughter of James Winslade, was baptized at Bentley on 29 May 1706, and a Mary Eggar, wife of Thomas, was buried on 29 Nov 1779, age 68.
Thomas (7) and Mary Winslade Eggar had eight children, all baptized in Bentley. His will left to his son John all lands deeded him by his brother John called Prestons. To his eldest son, Thomas (8), he left forty acres called Upper Mid Born, Orchard Close, which he had bought in 1739 of John Hawkins. Also Great and Little Harold bought of Sam Winslade in 1749. Also Stints and Philpotts. Because it was traditional to name children after parents, one may wonder if Mary Winslade's father was the Sam Winslade Thomas bought property of. Their second son was named Sam and when he died a later one was named Sam. None were named James. Their children were:
1. Thomas (
2. Sam (twins - 1738. Both must have died in infancy.
3. Mary, 1740, married Thomas Buddle who bought a large estate at Aldershot and devised to nephew John Eggar in 1808.
4. Ann, 1743
*5. Thomas, 1742 of whom further.
6. Henry, 1745, died young.
7. John, 1748, married Ann Baigent of Froyle, she was buried Bently 1833, he bought a farm at Worldham. In 1786 on the death of his father he was admitted to Idlefield and Prestons. He had five daughters.
8. Samuel, 1751, married Martha Funter, buried Bentley 1823. No children. He bought Jenkins Place and devised it to nephew Sam. Also Blanchard, Hicroft, Great and Little Hill, Island Close, Allhold.
Thomas (8) Eggar, son of Thomas and Mary, was baptized at Bentley 19 Jan 1743 and buried 26 Mar 1808, age 66. The burial is recorded at both Bentley and Holybourne. Perhaps his funeral service was at Holybourne where he lived and the burial was at Bentley (the Holybourne date is 19 March, so that must be the death date). He married, (by license witnessed by William Eggar and Sarah Eggar, John Eggar, yeoman of Bentley, bondsman, minister was L. Decker) Jane Towers 08 Jun 1769 in Alton (her baptism is not in Bentley, Holybourne or Alton). Jane Towers was the daughter of James and Jane Towers. In her father's will, Archdeaconry Court 1784, he left everything first to his wife Jane, and then after her death to his daughter Jane Eggar. In the 1758 poor rate assessment of Holybourne, James Tower is rated for three properties: his own, Browns and Dickets. Jane was buried in Holybourne 21 Oct 1800 where Thomas was a farmer. Thomas rented Holybourne. On the death of his father in 1786 he was admitted to Bentley property at Mansfield, Upper Mid Born and Orchard Closes, Great and Little Harold, Philpotts, Stints. He was of "Crocks", perhaps the farm name (the map shows farm names that still exist today. Some are not there.) Thomas (8) and Jane Towers Eggars had eight children, all baptized in Holybourne:
1. Mary, 13 Aug 1771, perhaps died in infancy.
2. John, 30 Dec 1773, married Jane Whorood, inherited the Aldershot estate from his uncle Thomas Buddle and Mary (3 above). He sold different pieces of it to different people at different times. His brother Samuel (8) bought the Manor Farm.
3. Thomas, 01 Dec 1775, married Elizabeth Cooper. He was buried in Holybourne 19 Jul 1845. Lived at Crocks and Fishers. Steward to the Duke of Buckingham. He left two sons and one daughter.
4. James, 05 Dec 1777, married Sarah Bacon. He was buried at Binsted 1840. He had four sons and daughters, all baptized in Holybourne where he was a yeoman. His son James, born 22 Jul 1812, died 1882, married Emily Susan, born 07 Aug 1821, Holybourne, daughter of Thomas (3) and Elizabeth Cooper Eggar ... cousins marrying. They inherited the family properties from their Uncle Samuel (5 below). James died in 1884 and Emily Susan in 1899. They lived at Jenkins Place. In 1895 she enfranchised all copyholds bequeathed by Uncle Samuel. In 1879 they bought Swanthorpe. They had eleven children. There were six sons, the youngest, Douglas had four sons and one daughter, Mary, the author of the book on the church in Bentley. Two unmarried daughters of James and Sarah Bacon Eggar, both baptized in Holybourne: Sarah, baptized 27 Oct 1808 and Martha, baptized 13 May 1818, were living at "the Cottage" in Bentley in the 1891 census.
5. Samuel, 26 Oct 1779, married Emily Hannah Cooper, no children. In the death of his father in 1808, he was admitted to Upper Mid Born, Orchard Closes, Great and Little Harold, Stints, Philpotts, etc. He devised all to his nephew James (see above) but left his Aldershot property, purchased from his brother John (2 above) to his nephew Frederick. He was buried in Bentley in 1835. Emily H. Eggar was living at Cedar Cottage in Bentley in the 1871 census.
*6. George, 25 Mar 1782, of whom further.
7. Jane, 20 Jul 1784, married H. J. Buckle.
8. Martha, 13 Jan 1787, married John Edwards.
George (9) Eggar, son of Thomas (8) and Jane, was baptized in Holybourne, 25 Mar 1782
and buried in Alton, 21 Jul 1857. He married, (by license witnessed by John Chalcraft, farmer of Amery Farm, and Ann Eggar, Minister was A. B. Docker) Mary Chalcraft, 25 June 1807, in Alton. The Chalcrafts were a farming family of Woolbeding, West Sussex, from the 1630's. Mary's father, John Chalcraft, was born in Woolbeding 07 Aug, 1758. John Chalcraft and his wife Mary had four children baptized in Woolbeding: (John Chalcraft remarried a widow, 52)
1. John, 02 Jun 1783
*2. Mary, 25 Apr 1785, married George Eggar, 25 June 1807 in Alton
3. Elizabeth, 30 Jul 1787
4. Thomas, 14 May 1789, married Elizabeth (of Hartley Maudit), had daughters, Mary born in Reigate, and Susan, and was a farmer of 900 acres in 1851, employing 30 men, 22 boys, 10 women and girls, according to the 1851 census of Alton.
One wonders why the Chalcrafts moved from West Sussex to Hampshire. There were Chalcrafts farming around Alton until 1920.
George (9) Eggar and his wife Mary moved around. They had children baptized in three parishes. He was a baker and miller in Holybourne in 1813, a farmer in Anstey, a suburb of Alton later. He lived in Herriard in 1825 when his son William was born. In the 1851 census of Alton #23, P. S., George Eggar is listed at Anstey Mill, a retired farmer, 68, born in Holybourne, his wife Mary, 75, born in Woolbeding, and a granddaughter Mary A. Eggar, age 8, born in Hambledon, Surrey, is there. She would be the daughter of John and Ann (3 below). There was one servant, Eliza Knight, 16 years old. George Eggar died 31 Jul 1857 at Alton at the Eggar Grammar School. His son Frederick signed the death certificate. I don't know where he was buried, or when Mary died. At that time daughter Emily Taylor Eggar was married to John Atkinson Plow who was the Head Master at the Alton Free Grammar School (the Eggar School). In the 1851 census, at the Alton Free Grammar School are listed:
John Atkinson Plow - Head, 43 yrs. Master. Born in Shadwall, Middlesex.
Emily - wife, 42. Born in Bentley.
Charlotte Plow - niece, 6. Born in Portsmouth, Hants.
John Edwards - cousin, 27. Tea Merchant. Born in East Wordham (son of Martha Eggar - Emily's aunt).
*William Eggar, brother-in-law, 27 (Second Master of Alton School) Born in Herriard.
Caron de la Brette - visitor, 45. Professor of French and German. Born in France.
John Eggar, pupil. )Probably sons of John and Ann
Frederick Eggar, pupil )Born in Aldershot
The children of George (9) Eggar and Mary his wife, were:
1. Emily Taylor, 25 Oct 1809, baptized Holybourne, married John A. Plow. No children.
2. Thomas, 16 Sep 1810, baptized Holybourne, married Elizabeth Smith. No children.
3. John, 09 May 1813, baptized Holybourne, married Ann Cobden, died 1890. In census 1851 he is listed as Steward to Sir H. Mildsap, Dogmersfield at Flood's Farm. His wife Anne, 58, born in Herriard. His daughter, Catherine Jane, 18, born in Alton, and grandson Arthur Eggar Birch, son of Mary Anne, who married William Birch.
4. Samuel (no baptism found). No children.
5. Arthur, 21 Aug 1818, baptized in Bentley, 15 Oct, 1820. No children.
6. Elizabeth, baptized in Bentley, 15 Oct 1820, married Walls. No children.
7. Frederick, 1822, no baptism found, married Anna Lydia Birch. He died in 1889, age 67. He inherited the Aldershot property from his Uncle Samuel.
1. Henry George Eggar - "Sir Harry" - knighted in 1910, married Emilie Mary Hughes. (Fred visited them in 1919 at "Strawberry Hill" near London. He was very tall and had a wart on his nose. He had 2ndly married his housekeeper - Fred describes her, "Lady Eggar" was a 'codfish aristocrat"). He had two sons, Frederick Henry (who married Amelia Fanny Aldons and had a son, Kenneth) and Arthur. One was a barrister and the other a lawyer. His daughter, Ethel, married Alfred Boight - children, Walter, Francis, Sylvia.
2. Catherine Annie (Kitty), married 1900 J. O. Banks of Aldershot. He was a retired admiral. They lived at Chard, near Axminster in Dorset. Her sisters, both unmarried, Lucy and Helen, were living with her when Fred visited them in 1918-1919.
3. Lucy Harriet
4. Charles Plow
5. Margaret, married George Greenish - three children.
6. Jessie, married James Hull, two children.
7. George William, married Florence Greenish, no children.
8. Helen Maud
*8. William (10), baptized in Herriard 02 Dec 1825 of whom further.
William (10) Eggar, eighth child of George and Mary (Chalcraft) Eggar, was baptized in St. Mary's Parish, Herriard, Hampshire, 08 Dec 1825. In the 1851 census he was listed as Second Master of the Alton Grammar School. He probably attended that school himself as a student earlier. On 12 Aug 1854 he married, by license, Mary Lillywhite, daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth (Langrish) Lillywhite, baptized in Holybourn 08 Dec 1824, where her father was a miller at Neatham, a small tything of Holybourne. They were married at Trinity Church, in the Parish of St. Mary, Southampton. William was a surveyor living in Romsey. His father, George (9) Eggar, is listed as a farmer. The marriage was witnessed by Thomas Lillywhite, Junior, Mary's brother, and by Elizabeth Lillywhite, which could be her sister or her mother. William (10) Eggar moved from Romsey to Bramshaw to Ower to Fawley, as his jobs changed, rebuilding and overseeing different properties (according to his son Frank's record). They had two sons, both born in Romsey:
1. Frank George (11), 02 Dec 1855, married Amalia F. Overdick, 01 Nov 1891, Minneapolis, MN, who was born in Germany 19 May 1865. He died accidentally, falling into an open elevator shaft when he was a night watchman for the Naegle Company, 26 Aug 1919, Minneapolis, MN.
2. Arthur Henry (11), 05 May 1859, married Mary Frances Bennett 11 May 1886 in Fawley, Hampshire, died 21 Mar 1935 in St. Paul, MN, of pneumonia.
Frank George (11) Eggar wrote the following account, just before he died:
"I was born in Romsey, Dec. 2nd, 1855. My Father was county surveyor at the time. When about five years old, we moved to a village named Bramshaw, and Father took charge of an estate belonging to a Mr. Eyre of Eyre and Spolliswood, printers in London. We lived there about four years in a comfortable, old fashioned farm house with pleasant surroundings, and among the woods and heather. We then moved to a village four miles from there, named Ower and Father took charge of a valuable estate named Paultons, belonging to Mr. Stanley, a rich land owner, and county magistrate. He rebuilt the farmhouses belonging to it, and improved the estate considerably, dredging the lake, clearing out the timber, and fencing in the property. It was a pretty place and full of game of all kinds. We lived there about twelve years.
When I was ten years old, I went to my uncle's school at Alton, a town forty miles south of London and stayed there about five years. Then I left there for Kings College, London, and was there a year. After leaving there, I was apprenticed to Pasker and Sons, Foundry and Machine Shop at Andover, thirty miles south of London for about four years and received about 50 cents a week, and my folks paid $3.00 a week for my board. After leaving there, I stayed home about two years, helping my Father on the Paulton Estate. In 1877, we left the Paulton Estate and went to a Farm called Rollestone, near Fawley, about eight miles from Southampton, on the border of the New Forest.
About this time, a panic struck the country and the weather was so unreasonable, that for two or three years, the Farmers lost all their crops and consequently many of them had to give up their farms, and lost heavily.
I went to work for a Mr. Sutton at Shirley near Southampton, an Agricultural Implement Agent, and traveled to the neighboring towns selling farm machinery and harvesting machines. After working here two years and not seeing much prospect ahead, left on the 13th of April 1880 for Quebec, Canada.
After an eventful voyage of nearly a month on a big steamer, being caught in the ice flows of Newfoundland, and partially wrecked, eventually landed at Quebec, and then went to Montreal, and from there to St. Paul, Minn. Was laid up about a month in St. Paul with erysipiles and the grip, caused by the sudden changes of climate in so short a time. After recovering, left for Stephen, a small town in the Red River Valley about 300 miles north of St. Paul.
When we got there, nothing in sight but a water tank and section house. They fired our trunks out in the ditch and left us to shift for ourselves. We had a small tent and slept on the ground with a blanket, and went to the shack in the morning for breakfast, pork, bread and syrup, out of a tin dish. Then we were sent to get some oxen out of a corral and hitch them up to a plow, for breaking. Then we fixed up a small blacksmith shop, to get the plows in shape and slept in one end of it, and kept a small smudge in the forge to keep the mosquitoes out. We put up with this for about six months, then we returned to St. Paul, and got a job in a machine shop at Eau Claire, Wisconsin. Worked there for a winter, had all my clothes stolen and quit and went to Boston.
Stopped there about a week and then bought a ticket for Liverpool and returned to England. Stayed there about three months and then left for New York on the Anchor Line steamer "Victoria". When half way over, the engine broke down and we drifted for about two weeks with distress signals flying, but eventually got fixed up and headed for New York arriving there about a month overdue. Stayed in New York about two weeks, but could not get any work, so left for Pittsburgh, then went to work for the Pittsburgh Machine Works, and stayed there about six months. Got sick with the yellow jaunders and left for Minneapolis about the first of September. Went to work for a Carpenter in the city, repairing houses and general carpenter work. Bought a lot and built a house on it on 6th Ave. N and 13th St. Lived there one year, then sold out and moved to Mountain Lake, Minn. on a small farm. Lived there with the old Folks for two or three years, during which time I worked around at carpenter work, building farm buildings and elevators. Then moved to Minneapolis, went to work for the Glass Block, making picture frames, got married and moved to Great Falls, Montana and worked for the Great Northern Railway Co. in the shops for three years. Then occurred the big Railroad Strike (A R U) with the result that all hands got fired.
Returned to Minneapolis and lived at Chicago Ave. and 36th St. and worked in St. Paul with A. H. Eggar. Eventually moved out to White Bear Lake and lived there seven or eight years. Then moved back to Minneapolis, 1041-20th Ave. S. Worked on the Star Elevator, repairing same, for Ibberson. Then left for Florida for the winter. Worked down there three winters and returned to Minneapolis in the summer. After that, went to work for the Savage Facts Inc. and worked there 4 1/2 years. Then quit there and went to work as Night Watchman for the Northern Display Co. on 8th Av. and 4th St."
Frank's sons, William and Fred, believe this account was written shortly before he died. He accidentally walked off an open elevator and was killed.
Frank G. (11) Eggar, born 02 Dec 1855, England, died 26 Aug 1919, married Amelia F. Overdick (born May 1865, Germany, died 17 July 1930) on 21 Nov 1891 in Minneapolis, MN. In the 1910 Minnesota census index Vol. 44, ED 155 Sheet 7, Line 43. They had five children:
1. William George, born 01 Oct 1892 Great Falls, Montana, died 23 Feb 1976 Westfield, N. J.
2. Herbert C., born Oct 1893, Montana, died
3. Frederick Thomas, born 17 Oct 1895, Minneapolis, MN.
4. Anne Ruth Emma, born 21 November 1904, White Bear Lake, MN, died 06 May 2001.
5. Frank George, Jr., born 15 June 1909, White Bear Lake, MN, died 03 Jan 1979, Stillwater, MN.
The 1871 census of the Ansty Grammar School, in Alton, Hampshire, lists Arthur H. Eggar as a scholar. According to his account Frank George Eggar went to the Alton School when he was ten years old, so both sons returned to Alton for their schooling. While there, they no doubt came to know their Lillywhite cousins well. Canadian cousins tell us that they heard that Frank Eggar wanted to marry his cousin, Agnes Mary Lillywhite. Both families were against first cousins marrying. This is why they encouraged Frank to go to America.
It has been noted that Arthur Henry (Harry) and Frank Eggar left England 13 Apr 1880. They stopped in Canada, but opportunities were better in the U. S., so they came west and then worked in Minneapolis awhile and then Harry bought a farm in Mountain Lake. In 1884 he went back to England and brought his parents William and Mary over to America. They could raise vegetables and such on the farm while Harry was a carpenter. In 1886 Harry went again to England to marry his bride, Mary Frances Bennett, born 30 Aug 1854, Winterborne Abbas, Dorset, daughter of Henry Bennett and Elizabeth Masters. They were married by banns 11 May 1886 at Fawley. (Mary said that the congregation were all surprised when the banns were read in Hampshire the three Sundays before the wedding because they had all given up on Harry Eggar marrying her).
After a two week honeymoon on the Isle of Wight Harry brought his bride to Minnesota to the farm in Mountain Lake. The following February 1887, Mary gave birth to their first son, Frederick. Harry went in a terrible snowstorm to fetch the doctor but by the time help came the baby had died. With her next pregnancy they decided they should be in the city and so they moved to Minneapolis, where Dora Mary Eggar was born 28 Jan 1888.
Harry Eggar was a carpenter and a builder of houses, and he would build a house, move his family into it, then build another and sell the first; so they moved many times. Matthew Charles was born 13 Jan 1890 in the Armstrong Street house, St. Paul, (the children were all born at home, attended by the doctor). Kathleen was born 13 Dec 1891 in the Louis Street house, St. Paul. Then they moved to 299 Dayton Avenue between Western and Virginia, St. Paul. Harry had a carpenter shop across the street from the house and just next to the old Aberdeen Hotel. The children enjoyed watching the carriages filled with St. Paul's finest, drive up to the hotel and drop off people for parties. Then the carriages would pull away and wait. After the party the doorman would call out names, and the proper carriage would come to collect its people. Both Harry's father, William, and his brother Frank worked with him from time to time at his shop on Dayton. Cyril Edward Eggar was born 28 Oct 1894. Sidney Beech, later Mrs. Kenneth Casselman, lived next door to the Eggars on Dayton Avenue. She had an older sister who played with Dora and that is how she and Kathleen became friends.
The family then moved to 530 Iglehart where Arthur William was born and then to 538 Marshall. Arthur William Eggar (Bud) was born there 22 Aug 1899. In the 1900 Minnesota census index Vol. 47, E D 118, Sheet 9, Line 7:
Arthur H. Eggar, 40 years old, born England, living in St. Paul on Iglehart
Mary Frances Eggar, born August 1858, England, 41 years old
Dora M., born June 1888
Matthew Charles, born Jan 1890
Katherine E., born Dec 1891
Cyril L., born Oct 1894
Arthur W., born Aug 1899
The Marshall house was home for many years. It was conveniently located close to both the Selby and Rondo Street cars. The children went to the old Webster Grade School downtown, where the Public Safety Building is now. As school children, they enjoyed watching the fire drills at the Fire Barn on Selby and MacKubin. The horses would come galloping out, the harness suspended from the ceiling would drop down, and the firemen would buckle it up and hop on to the horses. This old fire barn became the Engine House restaurant, but is now renamed Zelda's.
William (10) Eggar died in January 1909, residing in a house Arthur Henry (Harry) built for him at 1261 Selby. Mary, his wife, died twenty days later, 01 Feb 1909 residing at 538 Marshall, the home of her son Harry.
Harry (10) Eggar took his children to the lake every summer. They first rented a house at White Bear Beach and later on they went to Minnetonka. Kathleen finished her four years at the University while they lived on Marshall. The next move for the Harry Eggar family was a house on Broadway, which is now County Road "B", between Lexington and Hamline. The mailing address was Route 3, Merriam Park. They lived there until the summer of 1921 when Harry built his last house at 1508 N. Albert. He built a cottage in the back, which would later be the garage, and they lived there while the house was built.
It was finished just in time for Kathleen's wedding to Wesley Keys, 08 Sep 1921, and she and her brother Bud slept in it the night before she was married. When Bud married Julie Ernestine Hoemke, 21 Nov 1925, Harry made an apartment for them in the same house. Bud began with his father in the carpenter business but thought things didn't "set" right in the winter. Bud said he needed a twelve-month job, so he went to work for Keys Well Drilling.
Mary Bennett Eggar died there 12 Sep 1934. Harry Eggar and his son Bud both died there of lobar pneumonia the night of 21 Mar 1935. Harry and Mary Eggar's children:
1. Frederick, born Feb 1887, Mountain Lake, MN, died in childbirth.
2. Dora May, born 28 Jan 1888, Minneapolis, MN, a nurse, died 07 Dec 1919 of bronchial pneumonia.
3. Matthew Charles, born 13 Jan 1890, St. Paul, MN, died winter of 1911 of heart failure.
4. Kathleen Ethel, born 13 Dec 1891, St. Paul, MN, married Wesley Keys 08 Sep 1921.
5. Cyril Edward, born 28 Oct 1894, St. Paul, MN, died 03 Jan 1912 of septicemia, due to accidental injury to his toe.
6. Arthur William (Bud), born 22 Aug 1899, St. Paul, MN, married Julie Ernestine Hoemke, 21 Nov 1925, died 22 Mar 1935 of lobar pneumonia.