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If you had an English ancestor who migrated to Wisconsin, here are two excellent articles on the Potters' Emigration Society which sent down-on-their-luck potters from England to Columbia and Marquette counties in Wisconsin from about 1848-1852. They were sent out to start new lives as farmers. The colonization scheme was not a total success. There were a lot of financial problems and life was tough for people who were inexperienced at farming in England, let alone on undeveloped, not very fertile land in North America.
Two of my great aunts married descendants of the potters' migration - the Bennetts and the Watsons. Despite the hardships, they had managed to become modestly successful farmers. Both families had settled in Moundville Twsp, Marquette County about a mile north of Twigg's renowned 'Emancipation Ferry.'
https://content.wisconsinhistory.org/digital/collection/wmh/id/11238/rec/3https://content.wisconsinhistory.org/digital/collection/wmh/id/50441/rec/1
Wiltshire: Banks, Taylor
Somerset: Duddridge, Richards, Barnard, Pillinger
Gloucestershire: Barnard, Marsh, Crossman
Bristol: Banks, Duddridge, Barnard
Down: Ennis, McGee
Wicklow: Chapman, Pepper
Wigtownshire: Logan, Conning
Wisconsin: Ennis, Chapman, Logan, Ware
Maine: Ware, Mitchell, Tarr, Davis
