Jefferson County AlArchives Photo Document.....Didlake Family Bible Slave Births 2019
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Mike Rediker mrediker@rumberger.com July 11, 2019, 2:02 pm

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Slave Births
1841 DIDLAKE FAMILY BIBLE (Perry County, Alabama)
Transcription of Recorded Family Events
And
Facts Concerning the Bible Itself

I.  About the Bible
*	Publication date: 1841
*	Publisher and edition: H. & E. Phinney's Stereotype Edition (Cooperstown, 
N.Y.)
*	Owner: John Michael Rediker, Birmingham, Alabama
*	Owner’s relationship to Didlake Family:  James Didlake (b 1816, d 1863 in 
Perry County, AL), oldest entry in the bible, is Owner’s 2nd Great 
Grandfather. 
*	Last prior owner, from whom current Owner received the Bible, is Owner’s 
grandmother, Lillian Roden Bowron (b. 15 Nov1879 in Birmingham, d. 2 
Nov 1970 in Birmingham). Lillian’s mother, listed in this Bible, was Ella 
Lee Didlake (b. 1850 at Marion, AL, d. 1919 in Birmingham), and her 
grandfather, listed in this Bible, was James Didlake (b. 1816 in Perry 
County, AL, d. 1863 in Perry County AL).
*	As shown in an internal reference below, the probable first owner of this 
1841 Bible was the current Owner’s second great grandmother, Dorcas 
Cunningham Dorroh Didlake (i.e., wife of James Didlake), who was born 22 
Jul 1824 and married 24 Nov 1842, i.e., the year following publication of 
this Bible by H & E Phinney. This Didlake Family Bible has been in 
continuous possession of the family, down to my Grandmother (Lillian 
Roden Bowron, supra), then to me (with consent of my Mother) since it was 
purchased in or about 1842 and has continuously resided in Alabama (even 
through the Civil War). 

*	In the second of the "Family Record" pages for "Births" [where the family 
slave births were recorded]:
      Emoline a negro girl was borned [sic] on 22nd Dec 1848
      Joe a negro boy was born on the 1st day Dec 1850
      Young a negro boy was born on 27 day December 1851
      Charles a negro boy was born on the 10 of November 1852
      Billy a negro boy was Boy [sic] was born on 7 of July 1854
      Wite [sic] Henry was born November 1856
      Black Henry was born on 16 Nov 1857
      Edmon was born the 26 of February 1861
      Minna was born the 26 of March 1859
      Anderson was born Oct the 4th 1860
      Rosa was born May the 9 1860
      Willis was born May the 1 1859
      Lucy was born on the 8th of April 1869
      Mary Florence (?) was born on the 1st of April 1870
      William (??) was born on the 7th of Dec 1872

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