1984-03-26 o o o o Carole Halliday Bitting "Cary" 32.222
1965-03-27 o o o +Charles Horton Lownes "Charlie" 32.32
1953-03-29 o o o Nelson Harry Howe, II "Nelson" 12.33
1996-03-31 o o o o Charlotte Capen Jones "Charlotte" 31.231
1981-04-01 o o o o Matthew Delafield Melford "Matthew" 11.142
1922-04-02 o o Nancy Scudder Armistead "Nan" 12.2
1992-04-02 o o o o Frances MacColl Jones "Frances" 31.221
1971-04-03 o o o Charles Haskell Clifford "Charlie" 63.33
1991-04-04 o o o o Michael Erling Seeger "Michael" 11.151
1984-04-05 o o o o Diana Maxwell Kelly "Diana" 12.312
1959-04-09 o o o David Cutts Jones "David" 31.22
1943-04-10 o o Claire Capen Foster Evans "Claire" 63.4
1950-04-14 o o o +Arthur Garfield Hailand, III "Arthur" 12.34
1977-04-14 o o o o Ashly Niedringhaus Melford "Ashly" 11.141
1977-04-15 o o o o Courtney Capen Trueblood "Courtney" 11.121
1984-04-17 o o o o Whitney Ward Melford "Whitney" 11.143
1970-04-23 o o o Harlan Stuart Foster "Stuart" 63.14
1950-04-28 o o o Thomas Hare Powel Bitting "Tom" 32.22
1995-04-28 o o o o Torrey Foster Evans, Jr. "Foster" 63.422
1970-04-29 o o o o +Karine Behr Sommer "Karine" 12.111
1950-05-02 o o o +Christopher Davis Cunningham "Chris" 32.41
1981-05-02 o o o o Christopher Guild Haffenreffer "Chris" 14.111
1988-05-07 o o o o James Nangle Bitting "Jamie" 32.223
o 3rd generation Capen;
o o 4th gen.;
o o o 5th gen.;
o o o o 6th gen.
+ spouse; "o" to match partner.
Use the numbers after each nickname and the below links if you want to see how the birthday person fits into one of the 7 families headed by 6 of the granddaughters and the only grandson of Geo D & Frances P Capen.
(A detailed description of the number code is at the bottom of this document.)
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A brief summary of the Capen family number code: the purpose is to allow the reader to quickly identify to which branch and immediate family a person belongs.
Each digit represents the birth order of a Capen ancester within his or her family, descending from Geo D. The last digit is the birth order of the individual within his or her immediate family. For example, Sam D Capen (10) is the 1st born of George D Capen; Geo H Capen (30), the 3rd; Charles P Capen (60), the 6th. The other children of George D are not included here as none of them had children, with the possible exception of Jeanne, who remains the "mystery lady" to me.
While 10 looks like the number ten, here it is better thought of as a 1 followed by a zero, or 1 0. George Dunn and Frances Pond Capen had 8 children: Sam, Frances, Geo H., Mary, Wallace, Charles, Jeanne and Ethel. They are, therefore, 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 & 8. The zero after each of those numbers is a "place holder" for their children. Thus Marjorie Capen Foster Sheldon, as the 3rd child of CPC, converts the place holding zero to a 3. So 60 becomes 63, representing the 3rd child of the 6th child of Geo D & Frances Capen. We are not dealing with the number 63, but rather with 6 and 3.
To make the "code" easier to read I've used a "dot" after the numbers for the 3rd generation (George Dunn Capen being the 1st genertion). So, instead of 63422, the number is written 63.422. Go to April 28, 1995, on the roster and you'll find that 63.422 is Torrey Foster Evans, Jr.. Reading the number for Torrey back to George D. Capen, in other words from right to left (backwards) he is the 2nd child of the 2nd child of the 4th child of the 3rd child of the 6th child of Geo D & Frances Capen. Of course, we know him as the great grandson of Marj Sheldon, grandson of Claire and Marshall Evans, and son of Torrey and Noelle Evans. /;-)