This is a woman for whom a myriad of family legends exist. Many of her descendants have heard stories in their families about her, her beginnings, and her trek to Guernsey Co., Ohio, where she died. There was even an article written about her in The Daily Jeffersonian (Cambridge, Ohio) a number of years ago.
A hand-written family document notes that Narcilla was born in England and crossed over to America in 1801, from Edinburgh, Scotland. Another family member tells that she came to America with two women servants and many fine belongings. Someone else has noted that she was born in Maryland. (A great, great, great, great, great grandson of Narcilla's who has been researching her background is convinced that she WAS born in Maryland based on census records of several of her children who noted that in their census responses. 9/2017)
Nevertheless, she married William Arnold at First Methodist Episcopal Church in Baltimore, Maryland on January 1, 1808. (The record that appears online notes her name as "Ursula" - probably a transcription issue.) She was the mother of ten children (William, Samuel, Burgess, Anthony, John, Rachel, Mary, Rebecca, Owen, and James.) In her husband's will, written in 1832, he refers to her as Nurcilly, Nurcilia, and Nurcilla and notes that she was pregnant. Narcilla shows up in the 1860 and 1870 Guernsey Co., Ohio census (in 1870 as "infirm") living with her son, James. She is not in the 1880 census and her death isn't recorded in Guernsey Co. The monument beside her husband, William, is now illegible, but when the cemetary was transcribed, Alice Morton of Freeport, Ohio, who did the transcription (and whose husband was a descendant of Narcilla's) noted that she believed it to read: "Lady Pricilla Buckingham Arnold, Wife of William." In the summer of 2018, a family researcher noted that there are remnants of a monument base next to William's, but no monument could be found. A record found on Family Search in November, 2022, indicates Narcilla died in 1880. There is no source.
May her soul rest in peace and light perpetual shine upon her.
A hand-written family document notes that Narcilla was born in England and crossed over to America in 1801, from Edinburgh, Scotland. Another family member tells that she came to America with two women servants and many fine belongings. Someone else has noted that she was born in Maryland. (A great, great, great, great, great grandson of Narcilla's who has been researching her background is convinced that she WAS born in Maryland based on census records of several of her children who noted that in their census responses. 9/2017)
Nevertheless, she married William Arnold at First Methodist Episcopal Church in Baltimore, Maryland on January 1, 1808. (The record that appears online notes her name as "Ursula" - probably a transcription issue.) She was the mother of ten children (William, Samuel, Burgess, Anthony, John, Rachel, Mary, Rebecca, Owen, and James.) In her husband's will, written in 1832, he refers to her as Nurcilly, Nurcilia, and Nurcilla and notes that she was pregnant. Narcilla shows up in the 1860 and 1870 Guernsey Co., Ohio census (in 1870 as "infirm") living with her son, James. She is not in the 1880 census and her death isn't recorded in Guernsey Co. The monument beside her husband, William, is now illegible, but when the cemetary was transcribed, Alice Morton of Freeport, Ohio, who did the transcription (and whose husband was a descendant of Narcilla's) noted that she believed it to read: "Lady Pricilla Buckingham Arnold, Wife of William." In the summer of 2018, a family researcher noted that there are remnants of a monument base next to William's, but no monument could be found. A record found on Family Search in November, 2022, indicates Narcilla died in 1880. There is no source.
May her soul rest in peace and light perpetual shine upon her.
This is a woman for whom a myriad of family legends exist. Many of her descendants have heard stories in their families about her, her beginnings, and her trek to Guernsey Co., Ohio, where she died. There was even an article written about her in The Daily Jeffersonian (Cambridge, Ohio) a number of years ago.
A hand-written family document notes that Narcilla was born in England and crossed over to America in 1801, from Edinburgh, Scotland. Another family member tells that she came to America with two women servants and many fine belongings. Someone else has noted that she was born in Maryland. (A great, great, great, great, great grandson of Narcilla's who has been researching her background is convinced that she WAS born in Maryland based on census records of several of her children who noted that in their census responses. 9/2017)
Nevertheless, she married William Arnold at First Methodist Episcopal Church in Baltimore, Maryland on January 1, 1808. (The record that appears online notes her name as "Ursula" - probably a transcription issue.) She was the mother of ten children (William, Samuel, Burgess, Anthony, John, Rachel, Mary, Rebecca, Owen, and James.) In her husband's will, written in 1832, he refers to her as Nurcilly, Nurcilia, and Nurcilla and notes that she was pregnant. Narcilla shows up in the 1860 and 1870 Guernsey Co., Ohio census (in 1870 as "infirm") living with her son, James. She is not in the 1880 census and her death isn't recorded in Guernsey Co. The monument beside her husband, William, is now illegible, but when the cemetary was transcribed, Alice Morton of Freeport, Ohio, who did the transcription (and whose husband was a descendant of Narcilla's) noted that she believed it to read: "Lady Pricilla Buckingham Arnold, Wife of William." In the summer of 2018, a family researcher noted that there are remnants of a monument base next to William's, but no monument could be found. A record found on Family Search in November, 2022, indicates Narcilla died in 1880. There is no source.
May her soul rest in peace and light perpetual shine upon her.
A hand-written family document notes that Narcilla was born in England and crossed over to America in 1801, from Edinburgh, Scotland. Another family member tells that she came to America with two women servants and many fine belongings. Someone else has noted that she was born in Maryland. (A great, great, great, great, great grandson of Narcilla's who has been researching her background is convinced that she WAS born in Maryland based on census records of several of her children who noted that in their census responses. 9/2017)
Nevertheless, she married William Arnold at First Methodist Episcopal Church in Baltimore, Maryland on January 1, 1808. (The record that appears online notes her name as "Ursula" - probably a transcription issue.) She was the mother of ten children (William, Samuel, Burgess, Anthony, John, Rachel, Mary, Rebecca, Owen, and James.) In her husband's will, written in 1832, he refers to her as Nurcilly, Nurcilia, and Nurcilla and notes that she was pregnant. Narcilla shows up in the 1860 and 1870 Guernsey Co., Ohio census (in 1870 as "infirm") living with her son, James. She is not in the 1880 census and her death isn't recorded in Guernsey Co. The monument beside her husband, William, is now illegible, but when the cemetary was transcribed, Alice Morton of Freeport, Ohio, who did the transcription (and whose husband was a descendant of Narcilla's) noted that she believed it to read: "Lady Pricilla Buckingham Arnold, Wife of William." In the summer of 2018, a family researcher noted that there are remnants of a monument base next to William's, but no monument could be found. A record found on Family Search in November, 2022, indicates Narcilla died in 1880. There is no source.
May her soul rest in peace and light perpetual shine upon her.
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