John Evans and Mary Jones_parents of Henry Robert Bennett Jones

[miles_hagen_bown]

I am doing some research for my sister in law.
Her grandfather was Robert Henry Bennett Evans, he emigrated to Buffalo, New York, USA about 1909 and she would like to know more about his family.

We came up with the full name of Robert Henry Bennett Evans from his World War I draft registration card which states that he was British, that he was born July 4, 1883.

I think I found his birth in BMD registers, July-Sep 1883 in West Derby (Liverpool) Lancashire, England; in the index it is given as Robert Henry B Evans. His father is named as John. We think we found his name on a manifest list in 1909, Robert H Evans, which also lists his father's name as J Bennett Evans, Crest Bank, New Brighton, Ches

My sister-in-law wrote to me:

Thanks especially for the info on my grandfather, Robert Evans.  I know that he came to the US from Liverpool around the turn of the century, when he was 18.  He came by himself, but had a big family, originally from Wales.  I think his father's name was John, from a small town we visited on the coast of Wales ( Something like Pthwelly (sp?), and my great-grandmother [Robert's mother] was Mary, from the Isle of Anglesy.  He only corresponded with one brother over the years, and the trail ends there. 

I may post this on Liverpool site too...? or Cheshire??

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This looks like the family  in 1901

RG13/3479/5/1
5 Eden or Elm Bank, Everton
John B Evans, 44, living on own means, b, Pwllheli, Carnarvon
Mary E, , 42
Jane H, , 19
Robert H, 17
John E, 16
Annie M, 14
Mary G, 12
Herbert W, 10
Catherine A Ellis, 28, cook domestic, b. Dollgelly, Merioneth
Anne Thomas, 25, housemaid, b. Talisarn(?), Carnarvon

Others b. Liverpool

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In 1891


RG12/2957/110/24
3 Elm Bank, Walton Breck Road,  Everton
John Bennett Evans, 34, living on own means, b, Pwllheli, Carnarvon
Mary Elizabeth, 32
Jane Helena , 9
Robert Henry, 7
Annie Margaret, 4
Mary Grace , 2
Herbert W, 3 mths
and 2 servants
Others b. Liverpool

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Marriage Sept q, 1880, West Derby, 8b 682

John Bennett Evans and Mary Elizabeth Jones on the same page

(Lancashire BMD have the marriage at St Michael, Toxteth Park)

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from Liverpool Mercury, July 31 1880

Marriages: July 23 at St Michael's in the Hamlet, near Liverpool, John Bennett Evans of Pwllheli to Mary Elizabeth, third daughter of John Jones, Elm Bank, Liverpool and Alma Lodge, Anglesey

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Liverpool Mercury, May 1 1894

Births
Bennett-Evans - April 27 at Chadwick-mount, Everton-valley, the wife of John Bennett-Evans of a daughter

Deaths  - April 28 at Chadwick-mount, Everton-valley the infant daughter of John Bennett Evans

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Possible Deaths

John B Evans June q, Birkenhead, 1920 8a 660. Aged 63
John B Evans, June q, 1930, Liverpool 8b 10. Aged 75

From your information, the first one looks the most likely

[miles_hagen_bown]

Brevitas -

WOW it sounds right, the names, the places, some other little bit of family information that she knew.

It looks like Mary Elizabeth Jones Evans' father, John Jones, lived in two places, the second corresponding to where my sister in law remembered her Great Grandmother as being from.

Does it give the name of Mary Elizabeth's mother anywhere? I have found two family trees for this family, and the names are different for the mother, with different towns. That gives me an idea, I could see where the towns were located...

Thanks a bunch.

[Gadget]

I've not looked for the Jones family so far - Mary's birth place is consistently down as Liverpool. Will have a look now.