Yet another update on the Beck Family of St. Helier...
On a passenger of list 1833 arriving in New York, there are a number of Becks - Sarah, John & Ann and their spouses & children.
Richard Beck & Betty Palfrey had at least 9 children.
#1 child Sarah Beck b1796 Chard, married John Thorn in 1820, Chard,and in 1826 moved to Jersey, Channel Islands. I think they had 8 children there. In 1833 they appear on the manifest to NYC.
#2 child was John Beck b1798 Chard. He married Mary Ingram in Jersey, Channel Island, 1833. He also appears on the same manifest. Interestingly, in his will of 1862 in Busti, Chautauqua, NY, is mentioned Richard (brother) and William ...could this be William & Mary Moles? along with other relatives such as Sally Thorn and John & Richard Barnecott, 2 of Anne Beck's children....and others who are likely married children of his siblings. No other siblings were mentioned so does that mean they weren't living or weren't living in USA?
#5 child was Anne Beck b1806 Chard. She married John Barnecott 1826, Jersey, C.I. They had 3 children. John Barnecott died in 1833, Jersey, C.I. but widow Anne sailed with her 3 children along with her brother and sister in later that year. I think she re-married in NY to a man named Rowe.
I haven't found the emigration documents for Richard and Betty Palfrey, nor for William and Mary Moles. However in an 1860 Census for NYC, Richard appears and there is a gravestone for he and Betty (Elizabeth) in Busti, Chautauqua, NY, USA.
Meanwhile, the son of William Beck & Mary Moles - John James Beck a.k.a. Thomas Beck b1833 St. Heliers is elusive. Every census, every marriage certs for himself and his children and every baptism certs for his children has his name being Thomas.
Sometime between Aug. 1899, when he signed the marriage cert. for his son John George, and the 1901 Battersea census where his wife Lydia is a widow - he died. But I cannot find his death record anywhere. Not on Ancestry, FindMyPast, GRO.
I did find a Thomas Beck that died in 1900, Croydon, but it wasn't him.
It appears from what I have found though is a number of the Richard & Betty's children moved to St. Heliers around 1826. Some left in 1833, others around 1850's and many went to New York, USA
Deb