Bristol Records for Isaac Nation Reeves c. 1831 - 1837

[davbarkay]

Was also trying to find if Isabella remarried since George Nation died 1831.  Perhaps the stepfather was Reeves, and the children took his name?  No luck on that search yet, but could also be a plausible explanation.

[avm228]

Oooh - sister Mary seems to have gone too!

https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/F85V-N8K

I response to your question, I'm afraid I know absolutely nothing about LDS re name changing etc.

[avm228]

Isabella Nation (b abt 1792 Stogumber) was still a widow in 1861, in Bristol (Clifton district) with married daughter Mary Kelsen, 29. RG9/1735/35/15.

Isabella seems to have died in the name Nation in Mar qtr 1865 Clifton.

[avm228]

Oooh - sister Mary seems to have gone too!

https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/F85V-N8K

Mary Nation, born Somerset 10 Jun 1830, was baptised in the LDS Church in Bristol on 20 Sep 1848. 

Her husband appears to have been John Hezekiah Kelson, who died in Salt Lake City in 1921.

The 1900 census shows their immigration date as 1861.

From passenger lists it looks as though they arrived in New York on the SS Underwriter on 22 May 1861, travelling to Utah (as was everyone else on the page).

See also http://user.xmission.com/~nelsonb/ship_list.htm for reference to the ship.

[davbarkay]

Yes, saw Mary (briefly) as well.  Lots to research!

Thanks for looking at Isabella again Re: remarriage.  Was hoping for an easy "fix" to the "name game"!  Haven't found Isaac Reeves on any immigration/passenger lists to date, and searches for Isaac Nation today haven't yielded anything (yet). 

I still think this is the right connection though.  I will try to upload Isaac's picture, (if I can figure it out), just to "put a name with a face".

[avm228]

Some interesting Nation and Kelson entries on this site, including one for Isabella Nation:

http://mormonmigration.lib.byu.edu

Suggest you look at the images where available for the identity of the travelling group, as entries where the surname is dittoed (rather than written out in full) do not appear in the search results.

Oddly the younger women are referred to as spinsters - this seems to apply even to Mary when she is travelling with husband John H Kelson in the spring of 1861, shortly after their marriage (Clifton, Mar qtr 1861).

I still can't see (1) any sign of how/when Isaac crossed the Atlantic or (2) any of the emigrants in the 1870 census.

[davbarkay]

Interesting that Isabella went over, in addition to the other entries.  JH Kelson was an Elder, I see.  I wonder, (assume), how much influence he had on the other members of the family and their oversears journey?

As an aside, Georgian May K. Reeves, daughter of Isaac & Susan E., was supposed to be Georgiana May Kolsom (sounds like Colsom) Reeves, as per my father.  I never saw a notation for what the "K" stood for, but now I wonder if it could actually have been Kelson, (propably mispronounced through out Brooklyn accents, LOL!).  Food for thought anyway, I light of these recent findings.