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My 3xgreat grandfather went to America in 1886, and came back to the UK for about a year then left for America in April 1892, this time for good. He is on the 1900 US census, by then retired aged 72. Not mill works but mining. He was taken in by his daughter and her husband, and is with them in Allegheny, Pennsylvania in 1900 and died sometime after that. All from County Durham originally.
Sharon's ancestors went to America thinking it was the American dream but it wasn't. So Thomas O'Donnell and his eldest came back to England. It did seem they were enticed and worked in cramped dirty conditions. I would have taken the first boat back to England as well.
Researching:
LONDON, Coombs, Roberts, Auber, Helsdon, Fradine, Morin, Goodacre
DORSET Coombs, Munday
NORFOLK Helsdon, Riches, Harbord, Budery
KENT Roberts, Goodacre
SUSSEX Walder, Boniface, Dinnage, Standen, Lee, Botten, Wickham, Jupp
SUFFOLK Titshall, Frost, Fairweather, Mayhew, Archer, Eade, Scarfe
DURHAM Stewart, Musgrave, Wilson, Forster
SCOTLAND Stewart in Selkirk
USA Musgrave, Saix
ESSEX Cornwell, Stock, Quilter, Lawrence, Whale, Clift
OXON Edgington, Smith, Inkpen, Snell, Batten, Brain