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Shropshire / Re: Thomas Roderick LETSOM (1792-1880)
« on: Tuesday 17 February 09 05:47 GMT (UK)  »
Thank you very much!  I will accept "Letsham" as "Letsom" as just another misspelling of a name.  It was misspelled in the records in USA any number of ways.

Also, it appears that the birthdate I had for Thomas (the son) was actually his baptismal date, perhaps because that was what was written in a family Bible originally.

Thank you very much!

Ken in California

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Cornwall / Re: William BAWDEN
« on: Tuesday 17 February 09 01:42 GMT (UK)  »
Ahhhhh!

Thanks,

Ken

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Cornwall / Re: William BAWDEN
« on: Tuesday 17 February 09 01:25 GMT (UK)  »
So he is either mistaken about his birthplace or his birthdate?  I am assuming Redruth is a different place than Camborne.

I got both from his responses on his military draft card information for WWI.

I see Kris has posted arrival NYC 1908, so I guess he was off a year there.

Maybe he made errors in other places too.

Thanks both.

Ken

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Shropshire / Thomas Roderick LETSOM (1792-1880)
« on: Tuesday 17 February 09 00:43 GMT (UK)  »
Thomas Roderick LETSOM, my gggrandfather, was reportedly born in Shropshire in 1792.  He married before 1821 in Oswestry, Shropshire, Margaret DAVIES, born 1790 in either Wales or Cornwall.

They had four children - Thomas William, b. 1821; Mary, b. 1823; John Thomas, b. 1828; and Edward N., b. 1830.   All births were in Oswestry.

The family emigrated in 1845 - first to NY, then on to Racine, Wisconson (except for my ggrandfather, John Thomas, who took a ship around Cape Horn to California goldfields before ending up in Oregon.

Can anyone help me find another generation - the parents of Thomas and/or Margaret?

Thanks, Ken Rob (California)

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Cornwall / William BAWDEN
« on: Tuesday 17 February 09 00:20 GMT (UK)  »
William was born 5 Oct 1887 in Camborne, Cornwall.  The 1891 census shows two different William BAWDENs born in Camborne.

My William says he emigrated 1907 to US, but I am unable to verify that on NY Passenger Lists.

How do I determine WHICH William is mine?

My William later died 31 Mar 1936 in Silver Bow Co., Montana.

Thanks,  Ken Rob (California)

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Alderney, Guernsey, Jersey, Sark / Re: Jane LE GRESLY (1823-
« on: Saturday 05 April 08 17:21 BST (UK)  »
Hi Stewart,
I first noticed the fact that only one son was the farmer in census reports, and others would be "carpenters, shoemakers, fishermen" and the like.
It makes sense, in a way, because dividing property in ever smaller sizes each generation would ensure no one would have income sufficient to raise a family.
I also notice that a lot of the daughters were listed as "dressmakers."  Was that really an industry for export or were they merely making clothes for their own families?
Deeding land to one descendant made sure that others ended up making sufficient incomes to support a family by emigrating.
In Mexico the law keeps land in some sort of communal ownership which resulted in a lot of poor farmer families in the rural areas, and those parts are where most of the Mexican emigration to the States derives.
The United States has for years had the result of decreasing farm populations at the same time as increasing farm size where the work is done by machines (very expensive ones.)
All four of my grandparents were the children of farmers.  Today, I know of only one farmer of all the descendants of my grandparents' 15 children.
Ken

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Alderney, Guernsey, Jersey, Sark / Re: Jane LE GRESLY (1823-
« on: Saturday 05 April 08 01:22 BST (UK)  »
Thanks to Stewart's work, I was able to discover Jeanne LE GRESLY's family in the census and follow their history for a generation or two.

Jeanne was one daughter of 4 and she had four brothers as well.  One brother, Philip Francis LE GRESLY, born 1829- apparently received control if the family farm - 12 acres in 1851 census - and built it to 30 acres in 1871.  Philip was one of 8 and he had 10 children of his own - just one was a son, named Philip Francis also, born 1865.

Question - Was primogeniture in effect in reality, even if not legallly in the Channel Islands?  Was the property divided evenly (as a general rule) among the surviving children?

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Alderney, Guernsey, Jersey, Sark / Re: Jane LE GRESLY (1823-
« on: Wednesday 02 April 08 20:13 BST (UK)  »
Wow!  ( I have seen sometimes that Jane is like a nickname for Jeanne - perhaps because it sounds more English.)

Thank you, Stewart.

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Alderney, Guernsey, Jersey, Sark / Re: Laffoley family
« on: Tuesday 01 April 08 22:08 BST (UK)  »
Thank you, Stewart.

As soon as I get LAFFOLEYs back that far, I will look elsewhere.

Ken in California

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