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Research in Other Countries => Other Countries => Topic started by: michaelcharles on Sunday 20 June 21 23:25 BST (UK)
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In 1871, the following boys attended Appleton Academy, Widnes, Lancashire. I am intrigued to find out why they would be at school in a northern England industrial town. What was their family background and what became of them?
1) Santiago Ymas (Imas) b. 1854 in Mexico, son of Santiago Ymas (Imas) (1836-1882)
2)Jose Gomez b.1854 in Havana, Cuba. Oossible full name Jose Rafael Julian Miranda y Gomez, from Cayetano, Pinar del Rio, Cuba.
3) Brothers Camilo Menchaca (b. 1855) and Baltazar Menchata (b.1858), possibly from the Sonora area, Mexico.
As the town of Widnes is close to the port of Liverpool, I suspect the boys' parents may have had something to do with trade.
Any information gratefully received.
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Here's a tree for the Menchaca family. I haven't looked at it yet.
https://www.familysearch.org/tree/pedigree/landscape/GSGT-XWS
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This is possibly the Imas family:
https://www.familysearch.org/tree/pedigree/landscape/KN41-QT8
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Are any of the parents on the 1871 census?
Did that Academy specialise in any particular type of education? 2 of the boys were 16 & 17 which was quite old for a schoolboy in those days
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I don't have access to Ancestry, but there's a tree there for Jose Rafael Julián Miranda y Gómez, born 1854 in Pinar del Río, Cuba. Wife's name was Vicenta Ramona Piedra y Rivera.
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CaroleW. Appleton Academy was a Roman Catholic boarding school (c.1830-90), though not run by the church.
Erato. Great information. Thank you very much. Muchos gracias!
Mike.
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Contemporary engraving https://tinyurl.com/b6ennd5t
"It was a boarding school that catered for students from all over the world. Appleton was a stronghold of Catholicism at the time. This fine terrace has survived and is now known as Appleton Villas"