Brick Wall. HILL High Ham Somerset

[ShaunJ]

So now just have to work out what happened to
Simon Peter HILL

There's a possible marriage in Bedminster in 1862. Peter Hill, 25, father George, married Ann Thomas.

https://www.ancestry.co.uk/imageviewer/collections/61686/images/engl0082d_p-st-pbed-r-2-a_m_00104

In the 1870 US census there's a Peter (35)  and Ann Hill (30), both from England, in the township of Grand Blanc, Genesee County, Michigan. He's a farmer.

Just possibilities!

[c more]

Thanks Shaun.
I will check that out that Peter HILL.
I found a marriage certificate on a tree for Charles BEDFORD aged 29 to Kathleen JONES on the  28 Nov 1900 Registry Office, Oamaru, New Zealand. Certificate shows his father as George BEDSON Organ Builder and mother Esther GORGAN formerly BEDFORD Maiden name HILL.
So definitely the correct Charles BEDFORD.
But still no luck with what happened to Esther/Hester.

[ShaunJ]

There are quite a few references to Charles Bedford in the NZ papers. Here are a couple

https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZTIM19200910.2.29

https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/TDN19151207.2.51

[ShaunJ]

John and Esther Grogan were en route to New Zealand in June 1883:

https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/ESD18830723.2.23?items_per_page=10&phrase=2&query=esther+grogan&snippet=true&sort_by=byDA

[c more]

WOW thank you.

[rosie17]

You have done well Shaun with this family they have been very hard to find
There is a death for a Esther Grogan 1898 Dunedin  New Zealand
Age 52 years birth year 1846
Also probate record on www.familysearch.org

Rosie

[c more]

Thank you.
Probate links her to son Charles BEDSON.
So its the correct Esther GROGAN
 

[rosie17]

So now just have to work out what happened to
Simon Peter HILL

There's a possible marriage in Bedminster in 1862. Peter Hill, 25, father George, married Ann Thomas.

https://www.ancestry.co.uk/imageviewer/collections/61686/images/engl0082d_p-st-pbed-r-2-a_m_00104

In the 1870 US census there's a Peter (35)  and Ann Hill (30), both from England, in the township of Grand Blanc, Genesee County, Michigan. He's a farmer.

Just possibilities!

Wonder if this is him Shaun he appears on the 1880 census with a middle name Peter J Hill
There is this death for a Peter James Hill 22/11/1899
Detroit Wayne  Michigan
Birth Year 1837 England
Father George Hill
Mother --Markey
Probate record mentions 2 sisters residing in London
Phobe Hill and Jennie

Rosie

[c more]

It could be him.
Fathers name correct.
Mothers maiden name MARKEY close to MEAKER
Sisters in London Phebe Yes, Jennie could be Jane/Lucy.
Checked the marriage to Ann THOMAS. No other info on there that helps.
I have checked for a Peter HILL ba 1834/37 with father George on the 1851 and 1861 census and the only one that comes up is the one in High Ham.