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I am slowly tracing my American Churchill relations, but perhaps someone in the US or Canada can help fill in the last few gaps, or maybe recognises these people? I live in hope!!
William Henry Churchill b Feb 1846, W Teignmouth, Devon emigrated to Quebec Province in Canada around 1870. He was recorded on the Canadian census in 1881 at Ely South, Shefford, Quebec with his English born wife Sarah (surname unknown, as I think they married in Canada) and their 6 children, Bessie L, Samuel, William Henry, Charles Frederick, Annie D and Jessie M, all born in Quebec.
He entered the US ca 1887/9 according to census information, but his family may have joined him later, in 1891/3. Sarah is recorded in the US census in 1900 as having had 7 children, of which 6 were alive, but I know nothing of the one who died.
I have not located William Henry in the 1890 US census, and I do not have access to the Canadian census for 1891. Can anyone help here, or with locating his marriage to Sarah?
William Henry was located in Fitchburg, Worcester County, Massachusetts from 1900 - 1930, his wife Sarah having died between 1920 and 1930. I imagine that William Henry would have died shortly after 1930, as he was in the infirmary at Fitchburg aged 86 in 1930. Is there anywhere I can locate his death? Can anyone help?
William Henry's son Charles Frederick Churchill was born in Canada, probably Quebec, in 1881, married in 1902 to Florence (surname unknown) and lived in Fitchburg with his wife and son Basil in 1910, but by 1920 he was with his parents whilst Florence and Basil were at a different address, also in Fitchburg. I have not managed to locate any of them in 1930, but I am aware that Charles Frederick was alive.
Photographs dated 1939 were sent to his English cousins of him, his wife Jennie (possibly Annie - the writing isn't clear) and his sister Bessie Beckwith. They were sent by his daughter Ruth Mary Churchill, who has written the names of the subjects on the reverse. Judging by other photos, Ruth would appear to have been born around the mid 1920s, but I am unable to find her or her parents Charles Frederick and Jennie in 1930, or a marriage for Charles Frederick and Jennie (possibly Annie?).
Ruth married a Mr Jurlinden or Gurlinden ca 1945, but wedding photos do not seem to show either of her parents, so I wonder if Charles Frederick and Jennie were dead? Can anyone tell me how I could check this and the date of Ruth Mary's wedding? Ruth's wedding photos simply show the bride and groom with the groom's mother and 'Eleanor', whose identity is a mystery. Finally, although all the former family information relates to Fitchburg, MA, we also have a photo of what is believed to be CFC's home in Schenectady, NY. Whether CFC left his first wife and escaped the family in Fitchburg and settled in Schenectady, I have no idea. If anyone can shed any light on this family I should be delighted, and only too happy to share all English info on this family.
Besides William Henry Churchill, his sister Jessie Fanny Ellen Golby (nee Churchill) b 1850 Teignmouth also emigrated to the US and settled in Fitchburg with her children from her first marriage, Florence Amy Hutchings and William Harry Hutchings, b 1875 and 1879 respectively at Teignmouth, Devon. The former married her English cousin, Herbert Walter Whiteways in Fitchburg, and it is believed that 'Uncle Herbert' Whiteways and Ruth Churchill sent the photos to England.
If anyone in the US or Canada has access to the information I require, and wishes me to do a reciprocal look up in the 1851-1901 censuses for the England and Wales for them, I am happy to oblige.
Chris Hope