Sometimes during family history we hold things our parents have told us in our minds, to look at at some future time. My mother believed her grandparents may have travelled as passengers to New York to see relatives before continuing the trip to Australia and spoke of family connections in America. For a time we thought she must have been referring to her Hooper side grandfather, however we also had a suspicion that perhaps her widower maternal great grandparent Jeremiah Taylor may have visited relatives there with his little daughter. her grandmother Emma Jane Taylor, before coming to Australia.
We haven't been able to find Jeremia or Emma on the shipping lists at all, so in the name of 'cluster research', I opened up Jeremiah's family branch on ancestry.comto see if in fact any evidence of his siblings or children migrating to the United States. I revisited the valued work on the Taylor family by Keith Taylor, who had corresponded with me and encouraged me, through his research, to locate Jeremiah with his family in Tattershall and Boston localities in Lincolnshire. Keith already had Jeremiah living in Australia when I found his tree and had used old church records for St Botolph's and other BDM records to develop the list of Jeremiah's siblings as well as his 'families of procreation' to spouses Hannah Padlay and Jane Jackson. I remembered that some of his latest work has involved putting 'flags' for destinations of relatives, with a David Taylor, younger brother of Jeremiah, having a USA flag with a destination state listed as Illinois, and Jeremiah's son Charles, also having a USA flag, with a destination state listed as Indiana. It seemed it was time to look into brother Jeremiah and son Charles a little more closely. Perhaps this would throw some light on Jeremiah and Emma's 'passage to Australia'...as we have kept having 'black holes' when searchng passenger and migration lists. To be continued.... |
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