| The 19th century was a
period
in which many thousands
of people decided to
improve
their lives by making
a fresh
start in a
distant new
country. My family tree
and
particularly
that of my
wife
reflect
this. |
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| SWISS
EMIGRANTS:
ORIGINS
OF THE
WIDRIGS
; ABOUT BAD
RAGAZ ;
BRITISH
WIDRIGS
; WIDRIG FAMILY
TREE |
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| STONEHAM:
Quite
a number of
STONEHAM family members left
for the New
World and Stoneham
descendants
are
living
today
in
Canada, USA,
Australia and
New
Zealand. |
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| RICHARDSON:
The
family of LOT & MARY ANN RICHARDSON
disappears from the records
in
its entirety in the
early
1870's. The family seems
to
reappear
in
the
US
1880
(having emigrated
around
1872/3)
and subsequent
censuses for Newport,
RHODE
ISLAND. There
are some
small
discrepancies in some of
the dates of
birth,
but Lot's
work as a
cabinet-maker is consistent
with
his family's
carpentry
skills.
The family
is joined
by an
Edward WILSON and his wife, which is also
significant as that was
Mary's
maiden name. The
balance
of probability would
have it that the
Richardson
family
of Newport, Rhode
Island is the
same family
which
emigrated
from
Shillington,
Bedfordshire,
England.
Click
here to view
the
RHODE ISLAND
RICHARDSONS. |
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| THOMPSON:
There
are 20th century Thompson
emigrants in both New Zealand
and Canada. One 19th
Century
Thompson - WILLIAM
THOMPSON
b.
1868 in
Lancaster,
is known to
have emigrated to
New
York in
1892. He returned home
periodically. On a
weekly basis he
dispatched
illustrated
post
cards
to his
family, but
these
give
little
away in
terms of
his life
in
New York. What is
known about
his family
is given in
the
chart below.
He travelled out to New York in 1892 with his brother Edwin who seems
to have returned home. Both were (house) painters.
Willie married a widow
Elizabeth Kirk ( nee
Cairns)
who had 4
children from her
first
marriage.
William
later
became a
photographer and he
and
Elizabeth had a
daughter
Jane. The
latter
seems not to have
married and
died
in Connecticut in
1984.
It
looks as though she
did
not maintain any contact
with her English
family.
Only
one of
Willie’s
stepchildren
seems to
have
married, namely
Ida Kirk
who
married Rudolph Dyckman in
1907. They
had
only
one child
Frederick
born 1910
who was still
unmarried at the
time of
the
1930 US
census
which is
currently the
last
available
census
data.
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