A few insights. When the city consolidated in 1854 this whole area above Kensington was labeled as Aramingo. Most of that area now known as Harrowgate and Port Richmond. The area then mostly farmland. That when an older person like Mary Ross Welsh paid out of pocket for St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Aramingo, she was comfortable with the old geographic name even though the rising suburban bump on the Penna RR map labeled Harrowgate was not in her vision right in front of her. Also John Rowe had shown a post card of Frankford and Wheatsheaf Lane, the top of an old large farm house or "mansion" in view. Torn down post WWII for a gas station. I see on old maps the name Samuel D Sidebotham who in his day and Find a Grave info was a blacksmith. Further docs below Phila School Audit 1861 shows him on Section or Ward 25 local school board and with some further research his old maid sister Lizzie as third assistant to Principal working at Barton school on Buckius st. Her dod off by two years in Find a Grave, rough cut numbers misinterpreted on her granite gravestone in Cedar Hill. Just putting this docs here in case a name or two might be useful in further research for photos of the area, post cards etc.
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