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US Lookup Requests / Re: Sir Robert Peel
« on: Wednesday 30 June 10 13:08 BST (UK) »
Thanks for your response jorose.
Thomas Greener Smith married Elizabeth Watson (nee Peel) a widow on 28th November 1857 at Witton Gilbert, Durham, England after they met when she got work in the offices at the colliery where he worked.
She had previously been married to William Walter Watson in 1854 and had a son John Watson in 1855.
Following their wedding in 1857 the couple seem to disappear from the records.
They only reappear in 1863 when they emigrated to America where on 23rd November 1863 he and Elizabeth arrived at Ellis Island, New York, aboard the SS. W. Rathbone.
They settled in Illinois.
Thomas Greener and John Watson became co owners of the Smith Watson coal mine in Eaton, Weld County, Colorado.
I don't know which Robert Peel is alleged to be linked here but assumed it to be the Prime Minister and founder of the Bow Street Runners and therefor the more famous.The suggestion that there is a link to him has been a thorn in my side for some time now and I too was coming to the conclusion that Stone had no actual proof.
It does seem an audacious claim if it is based on nothing more than a family's folk lore.
Thomas Greener Smith married Elizabeth Watson (nee Peel) a widow on 28th November 1857 at Witton Gilbert, Durham, England after they met when she got work in the offices at the colliery where he worked.
She had previously been married to William Walter Watson in 1854 and had a son John Watson in 1855.
Following their wedding in 1857 the couple seem to disappear from the records.
They only reappear in 1863 when they emigrated to America where on 23rd November 1863 he and Elizabeth arrived at Ellis Island, New York, aboard the SS. W. Rathbone.
They settled in Illinois.
Thomas Greener and John Watson became co owners of the Smith Watson coal mine in Eaton, Weld County, Colorado.
I don't know which Robert Peel is alleged to be linked here but assumed it to be the Prime Minister and founder of the Bow Street Runners and therefor the more famous.The suggestion that there is a link to him has been a thorn in my side for some time now and I too was coming to the conclusion that Stone had no actual proof.
It does seem an audacious claim if it is based on nothing more than a family's folk lore.