William Grenfell born 18745 Cornwall England 344

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Thanks for looking Di.

In fact, I've made excellent progress over the last day or two in locating William Grenfell in England. a lot of very useful information including a list of baptisms at the St Just Weslyan Chapel - see From this I've been able to discover that my William was born on 3-9-1873 to William and Mary Grenfell. The date and the Weslyan connection leave me in no doubt that this is the correct William.

I've also been able to discover their other children and this has enabled me to track the family back through the 1851, 1861 and 1871 English censuses and discover previous generations on both sides. Interestingly (but sadly not so unusual), William and Mary had two children called William, the first dying in 1871 - they also had two Marys.

But the family are nowhere to be found in 1881 or 1891 in England. I've now discovered from the Ancestry immigration records, however that they appear to have travelled to New York in the mid 1870s. William the father travelling first in June 1876 and then Mary and the children following in November 1879. I buttume they travelled on from NY to a mining town in North America but so far I've been unable to locate them. William Junior clearly returned to the UK sometime after 1891 since I have his marriage certificate to Jane Osborne in 1895. As I mentioned earlier, William then returned with Jane and their young son Andrew to the Copper mining country of Michigan in 1899.

Whether William Snr and his family also made their way to Michigan in the late 1870s I don't know. None of the records I've been able to find shed any light on this. One thing seems clear however, the family don't seem to have travelled to Australia and so I guess this ends the matter from the point of view of this new group.

Many Thanks Des