There are many “strays” in my genealogy files, folks I’ve come across w/o any connection to other Plimley families. Most of the earliest Plimley’s are guesses with only a small chance of belonging to my family branch. There are no facts to back up those included as small possibilities of being in my tree. Later ancestors were more reliable with many reference sources such as UK census and UK church records. The following genealogy files are without stories, events, facts, and notes, for brevity. Adding these items back, plus an index, will require a book of hundreds of pages. Plimley’s primarily reside in the UK, but some emigrated to USA, Canada, and New Zealand.
My Mom’s Dolson file is much larger with beginnings in New Amsterdam, early 1600's. Some court and church records have been translated from the Dutch and reside in the Albany,NY library. History books, census, and NYS county court records provided other references. We have visited the National Archives to search census and ship arrival manifests on 35mm filmed reels, and via microfische. Research rooms at Latter Dat St churches also provided fische and reel viewers. Original property xfer docs were seen at several NYS county court houses.
Some useful reference material, publications, and personal genealogy contributors to be added later.
Salmson is a French engineering company. Initially a pump manufacturer, it turned to automobile and aeroplane manufacturing in the 20th century, returning to pump manufacturing in the 1960s, and re-expanded to a number of products and services in the late 20th and into the 21st century.[1] It is headquartered in Chatou and has production facilities in Laval.[2] It has subsidiaries in Argentina, Italy, Lebanon, Portugal, South Africa and Vietnam.[2]
History
It was established by Émile Salmson (1858-1917) as Emile Salmson, Ing. as a workshop in Paris (1890), making steam-powered compressors and centrifugal pumps for railway and military purposes. Subsequently, joined by engineers George Canton and Georg Unné, it was renamed Emile Salmson & Cie, building petrol-powered lifts and motors (1896).
The company became one of the first to make purpose-built aircraft engines, starting before World War I and continuing into World War II.
After World War I the company looked around for other work and started making car bodies and then complete cars.
Car production finished in 1957. Wikipedia contains more detailed history.
A 1962 Renault Caravelle was my 1st new car purchase in Queens, NYC. A bargain for a convertible with removable hardtop at $2,300. Very economical at 40+ MPG. Tiny 4 cyl 28HP engine looked more like a Griggs&Stratton in the rear engine compartment. It replaced my 1958 Renault Dauphine(sold to my brother). Once children arrived these small cars had to go.
My personal cars included a mix of great, good, and very bad choices. The Cobra, Porsche,
Mazdas, Peugeots were all reliable fun drivers. The others had woes or left me stranded.