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Research in Other Countries => Immigrants & Emigrants - General => Topic started by: Gibby1968 on Friday 17 August 12 13:24 BST (UK)
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For some time now I have been trying to find out what happened to my 2x great grandfather William Henry Mellor after the 1881 census as he is nowhere to be found. He doesn't appear on any other census (have looked for him many times :-\).
Yesterday I was looking at the passenger lists on ancestry and found a William Mellor (born about 1860) who arrived in New York in 1892.
How would I find out if this is him?
My William Henry was born on 6 August 1858 in Scarborough, North Yorkshire.
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Can you tell me his wife and parents names so I can have a look Take Care Lynette
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Hi
In the 1881 census he is married to Hannah (b 1856 Sealand, Flintshire) with children Fredrick, Florence & John and living with his parents William & Jane Mellor
Marriage, St Mary's church, Eastwood, Keighly
22 Dec 1894
Edward Thomas Buckley, 34, bachelor
Hannah Mellor, 38, Widow
Buriel, Honley
17 Dec 1882
William Henry Mellor, 24, Honley
In the 1891 census Hannah listed as head and married(i think she should be widowed) and with 2 of her children (Fredrick & Florence) and Thomas Buckby/Buckley is a boarder.
Kevin
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His parents were William and Jane Mellor.
I have also lost William senior after 1881.
William Henry's wife was Hannah. I have followed the women until the end of their lives.
Jane died in 1902. In 1891 she was living in Huddersfield and worked as a housekeeper for a man called Elias/Ellis Senior.
Hannah was back in Keighley in 1891. She was living at Pitt Street, Keighley with her two children and a lodger called Edward Thomas Buckby whom she married in 1894.
Jane said she was widowed in 1891 and Hannah said she was still married.
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I have both of Hannah's marriage certificates, death certificate and the same for her children.
Also got Jane dc.
I know the family were in Clitheroe in 1881 but after that time the men vanish ??? :-\
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The Honley burial is not for my young William.
I went down this road a while back and found that I had stumbled on another family with the same names as my 2x and 3x great grandfathers.
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I got a death certificate some years ago which I thought was for young William and thought that was sorted. Then I found the Honley burial on FindMyPast but thanks to some help I got from another website I realised I had made a mistake and had to start again.
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He did not die on 15 December 1882.
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The passenger list on ancestry shows a William Mellor travelling alone.
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The passenger list says that he was a weaver who last lived in Yorkshire and was going to Massachusetts.
This may be a long shot, but there is a Massachusetts death record for a William H. Mellor of about the right age -
https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-267-11596-80946-94?cc=1463156
I see an 1895 Boston passenger list for a William H. Mellor, age 40, married, machinist, going to New Bedford, Mass., and it says he had been in New Bedford before. There is a possible date when he was there previously, but I can't really read it.
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His occupation made me think he could be my guy.
In 1881 he was 23 years old and a carder in a worsted mill.
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I see what you mean about the death certificate. I wonder if it is him?
There are no parents or wife listed to help me figure out if it is him and it doesn't explain why he's not on the UK 1891 census ???
Why would he have been missed off that one?
I'll check out the other passenger list and the cemetery where this William is buried.
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Joseph Mellor who was travelling with William says he is his brother-in-law.
William Henry only had one sister, Selina who lived into adulthood. She married Walter Grange in Huddersfield about 1894.
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I have found another William H Mellor on an ancestry passenger list.
This one says that he was 34, born about 1856 in England and travelled to Boston on 2 July 1890.
He was a labourer but doesn't say whether he was single or married.
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Looked at both of these records again this morning.
Either one could be him ???
Couldn't find any details of the cemetery online either.
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I think I have found three men now with different dates, any of them could be my guy.
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Please can someone delete this thread? Thanks.
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Have you sorted out which is your correct William Henry Mellor born Scarborough 6 Aug 1858.
Notice that his father on the 1871 census was a Mariner,does this have any bearing on the missing men.Have I found the right family 1871.William H Mellor 46,b Scarborough
Jane 39 born Windsor.William H, 12,John 4 [at Castlegate Scar]
Did William Henry Jnr perhaps become a Morman. Just a thought,Brionne.
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I am still looking for William.
I wonder if someone could help out with this and also merge the other thread I have about him into this one so things don't get confused?
Thanks.