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Surrey Completed Look up Requests / Re: William Nevard
« on: Thursday 02 July 09 19:02 BST (UK) »
In regards to Maud Nevard Parslow...
Maud is my great-grandmother. She and her three children arrived at Ellis Island in 1907. Her children were Charles Jr., Amy and Thomas Parslow. Thomas is my maternal grandfather. Maud was hesitant about leaving her father William, who by this time was a widower. My grandfather related how he and his grandfather would arrive at the armory nearby their house (William was living with Maud and family) and the soldiers standing guard would salute the old Crimean veteran (17th Lancers). They moved to Hackensack, New Jersey. She never saw him again. The Nevard/Parslow family were all bricklayers. Maud's brother William (not mentioned in census) and Ernest were already established in the states and sponsored their brother-in-law Charles in getting work. Charles died in 1925/6 and Maud lived on to 1955/6. There is a photo of she and I (8 months-old) on the back porch of our brick built home (naturally) in the winter of 1955 that hangs in my home along with formal portraits of her parents taken in the late 1890's.
In 1989 I visited my grandfather's old home in Kingston. The house stood at the end of the block on Kings Street (if I remember right). His description of the street and its surroundings was still accurate after 80 years.
Do you happen to know where William is buried?
I hope this has been of help. Thanks
Maud is my great-grandmother. She and her three children arrived at Ellis Island in 1907. Her children were Charles Jr., Amy and Thomas Parslow. Thomas is my maternal grandfather. Maud was hesitant about leaving her father William, who by this time was a widower. My grandfather related how he and his grandfather would arrive at the armory nearby their house (William was living with Maud and family) and the soldiers standing guard would salute the old Crimean veteran (17th Lancers). They moved to Hackensack, New Jersey. She never saw him again. The Nevard/Parslow family were all bricklayers. Maud's brother William (not mentioned in census) and Ernest were already established in the states and sponsored their brother-in-law Charles in getting work. Charles died in 1925/6 and Maud lived on to 1955/6. There is a photo of she and I (8 months-old) on the back porch of our brick built home (naturally) in the winter of 1955 that hangs in my home along with formal portraits of her parents taken in the late 1890's.
In 1989 I visited my grandfather's old home in Kingston. The house stood at the end of the block on Kings Street (if I remember right). His description of the street and its surroundings was still accurate after 80 years.
Do you happen to know where William is buried?
I hope this has been of help. Thanks