Weobley to Illinois USA

[pedroparker]

Hi,

I'm trying to find out if possible when a relative of mine left Weobley to go to America.

Her name was Mary King Lawrence. She was born in Byford, Hereford on 13th October 1835. She was baptised in Byford, Hereford on 18th October 1835. Her 1st marriage was to John Wilson in Hereford 1857. They had 9 known children before John Wilson died in Weobley, Hereford in 1872. She married her 2nd husband George Jones in Preston on Wye, Weobley on 6th March 1873. We believe they had 2 children, possibly more. One possibly George and another Ella. We know nothing of these 2 children nor her 2nd husband George Jones. Between 1873 and 1922 we know many of her children and herself went to Illinois USA. She died in Illinois USA on 17th December 1922.

Any help in finding when she arrived in America and left the UK would be greatly appreciated. It would also be nice to find out what happened to George Jones and/if what happened to any children they had from this 2nd marriage.

Kind regards.

[CaroleW]

Were the 2 children born in the USA as there are no Jones/Lawrence births found on GRO online in Hereford

Have you looked for them on the 1880 USA census?

https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/1417683

1890.  https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/1610551

1900 https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/1325221

Have you bought a copy of the 1873 marriage cert to see what info is given re George - was he also a widower?  What was his occupation?  What was his fathers name & occupation?

[pedroparker]

Hi CaroleW,

Thank you for your time and help.

I've looked in Hereford for these children but also have had no luck finding. Have tried Jones/Wilson (1st marriage name) for Hereford also but again hit blanks. As of yet nothing jumping out at me from the USA. Though my skillset in researching census's outside of the UK is very amateur at best.

I'll take another look through via your links. Thanks for sending.

For some reason I have in my mind that I saw something in my research previously that George Jones had died in the UK before they went over but can't be sure of this nor find any evidence to suggest he did.

[oldohiohome]

Do you know where she died in Illinois? Do you know when George Jones was born?
Could this be them:

1910 Census La Prairie Township, Marshall County, Illinois

George Jones, 68, married 1 for 38 years, born in England, parents also, arrived 1873, naturalized, farmer, general farm, he rented the farm but worked on his own account
Mary Jones, 74, married 2x, this time for 38 years, 12 children, 10 alive, born in England, parents also, no arrival date,

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MK6L-LS3

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Do you have the names and birth years for Mary's children by John Wilson? Finding them in the US might help you find Mary. Or do you know what part of the US they lived in? Illinois also?

[pedroparker]

Hi, oldohiohome. Thanks for helping and your time too.

I don't know the exact place unfortunately or how old George Jones was.
I had come across this record just recently from CaroleW's link to family search. This does seem to be a very likely match.

I do have information on 9 of her children:

All born Hereford.

Alice Maud Mary King Wilson b. 1858-d.1928 USA - Wife of Charles Arndt
Ada Anne Wilson b.1859-d. ?
Charles John Wilson b.1860-d.1944 Boone Iowa USA
Clara Elizabeth Wilson b.1862-d.1939 Idaho wife of John Leopold Beager.
Annetta Caroline Nellie Wilson b.1864-d.1932 South Dakota wife of John Estelle
John Uredale Wilson b.1866-d.1928 Illinois
Leah Nora Wilson b.1868-d.1958 Illinois wife of William Henry Enoch Predmore
Herbert Edward Wilson b.1870-d.1950 Illinois
Gertrude Sarah Wilson b.1872 -d. Date n.k. wife of unknown Clarke.

... So the information that she had 12 children, 10 still living could well be correct. These 9, a possible George and Ella Jones and one unknown.

Hope this is of help.

[oldohiohome]

ok, thanks, I've turned a few them up but not all.

Son John was of La Prairie when he married in 1889 and is there in 1900 to at least 1920.

There is a George Jones age 35, married but with no family, a farm laborer in La Prairie, in 1880.

Immigration years for the children so far are 1875 and 1876 for John, 1880 for Annette. But those are just what they say on the censuses years later and are often wrong.

Will keep looking for Mary and George's children - nothing so far.

[shellyesq]

Gertrude Sarah Wilson b.1872 -d. Date n.k. wife of unknown Clarke.

This looks like it may be Gertrude's marriage record to Drincy D. Clark - https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K8F4-KFH  She was a widower and in California. 

Where did the information about Mary's death date come from?  I don't see her on the Illinois death indexes.

[oldohiohome]

Gertrude Sarah Wilson b.1872 -d. Date n.k. wife of unknown Clarke.

This looks like it may be Gertrude's marriage record to Drincy D. Clark - https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K8F4-KFH  She was a widower and in California. 

Gertrude S Wilson, age 18, dau of John W Wilson and Mary K Lawrence, m 9 December 1890, Custer County, Nebraska, to Allen O Marsh. Both were of "West Union."

obituary for Gertrude Sarah Marsh 27 May 1954 in Cambell, Nebraska

[oldohiohome]

I didn't find George and Mary Jones on the images of the 1900 Census of La Prairie Township, Marshall Co, Illinois.