Hi,I'm looking for help please.
In our family we have a few lost souls in the US over the years, where we've been really struggling to find useful information about them or access US records, so any help would be appreciated on the following:
1. Alice (Mary) Howell - Looking for any immigration/death/burial/obit records
Born around August 1870 in UK (to James and Alice Howell), and is on April 1871 UK census, but her parents moved the family to USA in around April to August 1871.
She died at some point in the US (a letter refers to her having been ‘left behind’ in Kansas), between April/August 1871 and early 1875.
Other references (to relations out in US with them) would indicated that they have been in the Lawrence area of Kansas.
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2. Juliett Harriet Annie Howell (sister to above) – Looking for any birth/baptism/emigration records.
Born early 1873 in the US (all later UK censuses just refer to US, not to a state)
She returned with family to UK sometime between early 1873 and early 1875.
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3. Thomas (or James Thomas) Finn – Looking for any immigration/marriage/children/death/obit records
He was born c. 1849 in Kent, England.
We know that he moved to US sometime after 1870.
He married a lady called Emma Test (though spelling not 100% sure on Test) in Chicago in April 1892, but died there in 1893.
4.Emma Test – Looking for any child/marriage records.
We think she was born c. 1856 in Indiana or Kentucky
She is shown on 1900 and 1910 censuses in Chicago, and we think she died c.1913.
We're looking to find out if he’d been married before her, if they/she had kids (we believe a son aged 18 is shown on 1900 census, but if he is a son he predates their marriage)
We have been trying to get some information on these family members for such a long time now so we would be very grateful for any information that might be found.
Thanks very much.
Barbara.