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Surnames: Birchall. Rivett, Revett, Knight
Classification: Query
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I am trying to decifer the link between the James Revett who arrived in De Kalb County in
1845. I have seen him in the 1860 census and also in the latter ones. There is a history
of him at:
www.rootsweb.com/~indekalb/dcibp/dcbio/1885/revett-james.txt
I am trying to find the connecting family members between the '1806 James' and a
later born James Revett who was located in Toledo, Lucas Co, Ohio in 1904. There was a
John Birchall who left Ellis Island (1904) to meet his 'cousin' James Revett at
1627 Main Street, Toledo. There also was a younger Henry Birchall who, after Ellis Island,
was going to meet his older brother John, who was in Butler, De Kalb County then, in 1908.
These are per the Ellis Island manifests.
John Birchall's mother was a Mary Jane Rivett. She had an ancester John Rivett also
born abt 1811 in Kenninghall, Norfolk. Thus John and James must have been brothers, with
John staying in the UK and James leaving Norfolk for the USA in 1824.
So, I am trying to find the intervening connections between the 1806 James Revett and the
James Revett who was in Toledo in 1904 (probably born around 1870-1880, of a decendent of
the elder James).
Thanks
Mike