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Montgomeryshire / Re: Mary Ellen Lewis b April1842 in Guilsfield area.
« on: Thursday 23 March 23 14:14 GMT (UK)  »
Yes I agree with you but James wife was just Mary [Dickin] & Richard's was Mary Ann [Hotchkiss] so the scribe could've/should've only heard Mary for James wife & possibly Mary Ann so Marian for Richard's.

I'm just revisiting a note from Sandra re the death of Richard & Mary & about to work on that so watch this space I'm forever optimistic it'll all get sorted.

Thanks again, Amberly

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Montgomeryshire / Re: Mary Ellen Lewis b April1842 in Guilsfield area.
« on: Thursday 23 March 23 13:49 GMT (UK)  »
For DCB.   I'm still searching off & on with your ideas & have found 10 children for Richard & Elinor [Eleanor[ of Broniarth, Guilsfield but NO James, on FindMyPast.  I do agree that the signatures of James that you sent are pretty identical & probably are from the same person.   However when I go back to Family Search the 1860 census with Richard & family has his wife as Marian & in fact his wife's name was Mary Ann so I don't feel that it's our Mary that's living with him.   When I look at the names on FindMyPast in the Guilsfield area there are so many names the same so this Richard could easily have used the same names as James & Mary.   I haven't given up but it's so time consuming that I never seem to have long enough to get it finished, so it's onwards & upwards!
I must say I haven't found deaths for James or Mary or any other census for them, nor anything for Sarah & Charles either, but as I said I haven't given up yet.   Watch this space as I'll tell you in due course what else I come up with.
Thanks for all your suggestions,   Amberly.

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Montgomeryshire / Re: Mary Ellen Lewis b April1842 in Guilsfield area.
« on: Sunday 05 March 23 16:33 GMT (UK)  »
Reply to MABEL BAGSHAWE on page 3.
I've been trying to sort out your info for at least a week now & I keep getting interrupted however today seems to be a free day, I'm pleased to say, & I've sorted the following out.
There are a lot of W's in this family, Willets, Whitney's & Wilkes but I think I've got it straight now.  I didn't know that Lamaire [Lamira] was Mary Ellen's step daughter for a start, I only knew of Mary E 1860/1954 & she married Adelbert [Edelbert] B Whitney.  On their marriage cert I found the witnesses were Eugene & Samira [Lamira] Wilks 1855/1931 & then found that her parents were Martin [Morton] Willets & Martha C Jackson who was Morton's 1st wife & she died in 1863 & he remarried to Mary Ellen in 1864.
The spelling of names was pretty bad but often of course the person couldn't read & write so it was left to the scribe to write it as he heard it!!
So thanks very much for that info it enabled me to sort quite a bit out.

Amberly.

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Montgomeryshire / Re: Mary Ellen Lewis b April1842 in Guilsfield area.
« on: Friday 03 March 23 13:50 GMT (UK)  »
DCB fascinating info & what a lot of work you've done to find all that.  Thanks.  I shall pursue it all eventually, but we've had a death in the family this week & life is busier than usual, but I'll get back to this before long.
Thanks again.   Amberly.

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Montgomeryshire / Re: Mary Ellen Lewis b April1842 in Guilsfield area.
« on: Tuesday 28 February 23 14:06 GMT (UK)  »
SANDRA Mary Lewis death in 1890 in Kalamazoo showed her parents incorrectly as Hotchkiss & her birth as 1814. 
DCB & SANDRA I'm not yet convinced she married a Richard Lewis as
a] I haven't yet found James' death,
b] also haven't found a marriage of Mary to Richard,
c] it's a little odd that she married another Lewis, although not impossible considering the # of Lewis' living around that area!
No time for more at the mo but will get back to this later today.
Thanks again guys,   Amberly

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Montgomeryshire / Re: Mary Ellen Lewis b April1842 in Guilsfield area.
« on: Monday 27 February 23 17:03 GMT (UK)  »
GADGET- thanks this looks good too.   He'd be 21 or so by 1874.   Will do more myself after I've had my lunch.    Amberly.

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Montgomeryshire / Re: Mary Ellen Lewis b April1842 in Guilsfield area.
« on: Monday 27 February 23 15:20 GMT (UK)  »
DUNDEE & MADDYs52  thanks for all these.  I do think Dundee's 3 census are correct but sorry Maddys52 not yours.

I have to go out now but will investigate all further when I get back for lunch.

You guys are all great I'm now getting somewhere I believe with all your help.    I spent a couple of hours last night searching & found nothing, so well done to all of you.
Amberly

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Montgomeryshire / Re: Mary Ellen Lewis b April1842 in Guilsfield area.
« on: Sunday 26 February 23 22:08 GMT (UK)  »
SANDRA have now had time to look at the passenger lists you sent & I'm pretty sure it's them with father James going ahead of the family.    Well done for finding them, it sure was a search!
Now they arrived in NY but where did they go after that I wonder & where do I start looking??  Mary Ellen didn't marry Morton H Willets until 1864 in Knox, Ohio. She had 20 years to live somewhere & I'm not really au fait with the US censuses so don't know where to start.  Any ideas anyone please??
Thanks, Sandra for your efforts.
Amberly

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Montgomeryshire / Re: Mary Ellen Lewis b April1842 in Guilsfield area.
« on: Sunday 26 February 23 15:08 GMT (UK)  »
To GADGET & DCB all you've said re the family is correct.  On one of my trips home, I live in Canada now, I went to Worthen Hall, & to Guilsfield cemetery & took photos of the graves & to Trawscoed House & St Chad's in Shrewsbury & stayed in Elmsmere where brother Edward had had a grocer's shop after he went bankrupt in London & died there.

Here is the Dickin & Cureton info:
Wm Dickin b Worthen 1744 m 1. Mary Beddows 1748 b Westbury, Shrops d 1773.   He m again in 1775 in Worthen to Mary Furmstone 1748/1819.
They had John Dickin 1776/1855 m 1814 at St Chad's Shrewsbury Mary Ann Cureton 1785/1847.  This is where the Edwards come into it, Mary Ann's father was Edward Cureton 1756/1796 m Henrietta Bill 1760/1818 in London & they had a son Edward 1789/1849 unmarried.   I mentioned these 2 Edwards in my original email because I saw that Mary Ellen Lewis had named her last son Edward Cureton Willitts & this jumped out at me.  In 1816 John Dickin lived at Worthen Hall & by 1841 was living at Trawscoed House in Guilsfield.
Mary Dickin 1816/1872 who m James Lewis had a brother Charles Robert 1823/1846, a sister Sarah Maria 1825/1886 who m into the maternal side of my Roberts family in Guilsfield & then a stillborn in 1827. Once I found Edward Cureton Willitts on a tree from the US I contacted the owner who said her father was born a year before Mary Ellen died but was too young to remember her & they had nothing to go on other than what US censuses told them.   So it's definite that it was Mary Dickin who m James Lewis, NOT Mary Chester.

DCB I've learned a lot of history through following the Cureton's in the Indian Army, fascinating stuff.  The General Chas Rbt Cureton who died in Ramnagar, his wife was given a grace & favour apartment in Hampton Court when he died.
AFN, will do more as the day goes by. 
Thank you all again, Amberly

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