In Search of Ellen Ankers v4

In Search Of Ellen Ankers
4th Edition, March 2012

The few facts that I knew of my paternal grandmother had always intrigued me but it wasnt until my mother became i! and subsequently passed away in 2008 that I started to look into my family history. Like a! amateur genealogists I have gaps and missing information about people but the story of my grandmother remains the most elusive and the one that I most want to know.
The Oral History

The brief story that my father had told me was that his father, a Scot by the name of James Kinloch Paul, travelled the country working as a demolitions expert blowing up old chimneys and factories. By 1931 he had arrived in Chesterton, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staordshire where he met Ellen Ankers. They soon married and had a son, my father, and also named James Kinloch Paul. Soon after my father was born his mother Ellen died and father and son moved on. They ended up in Penarth near Cardi where James Kinloch Paul (senior) stayed until his death in 1968 and my father lived until his death in February 2012. Two other stories come from that time; rstly that she was in some way connected with Mexico and secondly that her husband destroyed all the certicates and photographs after her death.
2008 - 2012 Helen J Walker!
Initial Research
I was quickly able to obtain copies of my fathers birth certicate, my grandparents marriage certicate and my grandmothers death certicate. Taking these together I could establish that Ellen was born between 25th December 1910 and 17th July 1911, that on 24th December 1932 she was living at 1 Dixons Row, Apedale Road, Chesterton. She probably moved in with her husband James at his lodgings at 19 Apedale Road, Chesterton after they were married. Her fathers name was Thomas Ankers, a coal hewer in the mines and he was already deceased at the time of the wedding on 24th December 1932. Ellens occupation was given as a roong tile presser. However I could nd no birth certicate for her, nor could I nd a marriage certicate for her parents. Our search came to a stop.
Private Investigations
In my research I had noticed that the Staordshire Records Research Service provide searches of records they hold for a small fee and given my lack of progress I decided to see if they could discover anything more. Malinda Law did the research and wrote back conrming our ndings and was also unable to nd the marriage certicate of a Thomas Ankers, nor the birth certicate of an Ellen Ankers. She did however note one or two possible matches that could be followed up including: I then searched for any marriage of any Thomas Ankers in Staordshire around 1911 and found only marriage of a Thomas which [] was of Thomas aged 20 to Martha Lilian Pessol in 1909 at Knutton. This took place on Dec 25 1909 and the father of Thomas was given as George
Ankers, a miner. This may be an error as George Ankers witnessed the marriage, and Thomas born in 1890 had a brother George, though his father was John. I searched the General Register Oce index of births between 1910 and 1912 inclusive and found no relevant birth recorded. As a(er June 1911 baptisms give the mothers maiden name I also searched as far as 1914 but found no child born to Ankers/Pessol I looked up the information but there was nothing that would allow a more positive identication. I also decided to contact the cemetery oce at Newcastle-under-Lyme and ask if they had any burial details for Ellen Paul. Lynn Sharples at the cemetery oce came back with a prompt reply. An Ellen Paul was buried in grave number C2 of Chesterton Cemetery, Loomer Road, Newcastle-under-Lyme on 20th July 1936. There was no grave marker. This was the correct name and three days after her death just two miles away.
Discover Staordshire
In August 2008 my husband and I travelled up to Staordshire, with a view to seeing Apedale Road where my grandparents had lived, visiting the local Apedale Heritage Museum and paying our respects to my grandmother. The visit to Apedale Road helped to give us a historical context to the area and we even met the current resident of 19 Apedale Road who had lived there since the 1950s and had also lived in Dixons Row before that. The house at 1 Dixons Row where my grandmother lived has long since gone, but it stood half way down Apedale Road on the corner immediately opposite 19 Apedale Road where my grandfather lived. It is easy to imagine him seeing a young lady walking up the slight hill to work each day and fancying his chances. At the top of the hill and the start of Apedale Road is a brick factory. The company has changed hands many times and was one of a number in the area so there is no certainty that she worked at this
particular site. Other people in the area worked in the mines. Apedale and the surrounding district was built and revolved around the businesses that powered the industrial revolution where coal, ironstone and clay were mined and manufactured into everything from bricks and tiles to ne porcelain. It was at the cemetery however that the next breakthrough occurred. We stood and paid our respects before walking slowly back through the graveyard. It occurred to me that most of the graves had more than one person in so the next day we went back to the Cemetery Oce in Newcastle-under-Lyme. Lynn Sharples, the lady that had responded to our enquiry by letter was there to help us and conrmed that there were two other people buried in the plot. The rst person was a Thomas Pessol of 1 Dixons Row on 1st June 1926. The second person was a Sarah Ann Pessol of 1 Dixons Row on 8th March 1937. However I were cautioned that since the plot had not been purchased it was possible that unrelated people had been buried there. The co-incidence is too much. Thomas Pessol and Sarah Ann Pessol lived at 1 Dixons Row, as would Ellen Ankers before her marriage in 1932. Thomas Pessol and Sarah Ann Pessol had a daughter called Martha Lillian Pessol. Thomas Ankers married a Martha Lillian Pessol in 1909. Ellen Ankers, born around 1911, was buried with Thomas Pessol who died before her and Sarah Ann Pessol who died after her. Therefore I believe that Ellen had been living with her grandmother at the time of her marriage in 1932 but where was her birth certicate? Knowing the names of all the people in the plot we arranged for a marker to be placed there.
Meet The Pessol Family

The Pessol name starts to appear with John Pessol (b 1790s) and his son Thomas Pessol (b.1822, Shifnal, Staordshire). Thomas Pessol had three wives Sarah Clay whom he married 5 May 1844 and bore him ve children, Emma Clay whom he married on 25 Oct 1855 and bore him seven children and Eliza Ball whom he married on 8 Jan 1866 and bore him three children. I also believe that Sarah and Emma were sisters. In the 1851 census he is known as Pessall, but on the marriage certicates of 1855 and 1866 the name is given as Pessol. The 1871 census has the name Pepoll (but this looks like a mis-transcription) and by 1881 the entire family is using Pessol consistently. In total there are 41 births with the name Pessol between 1837 and 2005 that I am aware of. The family seems to stay around the Shropshire and Staordshire area.
Ancestral Hints
Throughout this process I have been using Ancestry.co.uk to maintain a copy of the family tree. Occasionally I would copy the family tree from Ancestry.co.uk into FamilyTreeMaker that uses Ancestry.com for searches. Now that I had added Martha Lillian Pessol I got a surprise hit from the hint feature that searches multiple sources of information for possible matches. The US Immigration passenger lists for those travelling from Liverpool to New York showed a Martha Lillian Ankers on the Mauritania sailing of 29 October 1910 and listing Mrs Pessol of High Street, Knutton, Staordshire as her next of kin. It also says that her nal destination was Brodhead, Colo. (Colorado). She appeared to be travelling alone. My assumption had to be that Thomas has probably travelled out before her because he was not listed as the next of kin at the point of departure and it would have been unusual for a woman to travel out rst. My initial search found nothing and then I searched ndmypast.com and this produced a British Out-going passenger list for Thomas Ankers on the Carmania sailing from Liverpool to New York on 6 September 1910. His destination was also given as Brodhead, Colo. (Colorado) and he appeared to be travelling out with a James Blair, also of Chesterton and a miner. The matching US Immigration passenger list conrms these details but has a mis-spelling of the surname as Aukers in the transcription. Thomas Ankers left England with a friend, James Blair for a new life in Brodhead, Colo. (Colorado) on 6 September 1910, leaving behind a wife who was (assuming a normal pregnancy) between 3 and 32 weeks pregnant. She followed him to New York and presumably Brodhead, Colorado on the 29 October 1910. The SS Carmania, the ship Thomas sailed on, would serve as the Armed Merchant Cruiser HMS Carmania between August 1914 and July 1916 and sank the German Merchant Cruiser SMS Cap Trafalgar before becoming a troop transport ship bringing Canadian soldiers to the western front.
Brodhead, Colorado
A search of Google Maps revealed two Brodheads, a Brodhead, Wisconsin and a Brodhead Canyon, Colorado. This is near the township of Aguilar, Las Animas County in Colorado. There are census records for both 1910 and 1920 (where the Brodhead is spelt Broadhead). Unfortunately the census was taken early in 1910 and therefore before the Ankers had arrived in America. The 1920 census show no trace of them however I did nd James Blair living with his mother in Aguilar, Colorado. Brodhead is just 35 miles away from New Mexico. On the 6 January 1912 New Mexico became the 47th State; it had previously been a territory. Could this be the reference to Mexico that had come from my father? Further searches of Colorado and New Mexico have produced nothing. Once again my search has stalled.
Early Death
Thomas Ankers had passed away by the time of Ellen Ankers marriage in 1932. He was a miner, a dangerous profession now and then. Is it possible he died in a mining accident and that this prompted Martha Lilian to return to England? There were many mines both documented and undocumented. There are several lists of casualties in mining accidents but no Thomas Ankers that we have found between 1911 and 1936. Other possibilities are that he was a victim of the 1918 inuenza epidemic or that he took part in the First World War. He could have returned to England to enlist or joined the US Army but again the available lists for the period do not have his name!
Brodhead Research
My contact with the Aguilar History website suggested a researcher by the name of Robert Ramero in Trinidad, Las Animas County, USA, not far from Brodhead. I contacted him and paid for a search of the Carnegie Library records. Robert found many interesting documents about the area but nothing that gave any indication of Thomas and Martha Lilian Ankers ever being in Brodhead. He also mentioned just how close Ludlow, Co was. This mining town is famous for The Ludlow Massacre, and the violent deaths of 20 people, 11 of them children, during an attack by the Colorado National Guard on a tent colony of 1,200 striking coal miners and their families at a Rockefeller owned mine in Ludlow, Colorado in the U.S. on April 20, 1914. These deaths occurred after a day-long ght between strikers and the Guard. Two women, eleven children, six miners and union ocials and one National Guardsman were killed. In response, the miners armed themselves and attacked dozens of mines, destroying property and engaging in several skirmishes with the Colorado National Guard.
More Shipping
On 25 October 2008 Ancestry.co.uk announced the availability of UK inbound passenger lists between 1878 and 1960. This covered the period I was interested in I immediately started searching. There was no Ellen Ankers. What next? I tried Ankers on its own but with a birth year between 1910 and 1912. This threw up just one record Holin Ankers returned from the USA to the UK in 1916.
Not expecting much I looked at the record and things immediately became more positive. Holin was a transcription error for Helen, a 4-year-old female who travelled as an unaccompanied minor on the SS California of the Anchor Line. It left New York for Glasgow via Liverpool and arrived on 15 Mar 1916. Helen was originally scheduled to disembark at Liverpool but for some reason this is crossed out and replaced by Glasgow. Her nal destination on the manifest is given as Chesterton in Staordshire and her citizenship is given as USA. The country of intended future permanent residence is given as England or USA. Once again the coincidence is too much Helen or Ellen came home in 1916 as a child alone on a ship that crossed the Atlantic threatened by the German submarines that regularly destroyed shipping on the route. Why a child was put in this position can only be guessed at. Helen went on to Glasgow why? James Kinloch Pauls family came from this area and they were to meet fteen years later but was there already some family connection between the two areas that drew James Kinloch Paul to the Chesterton area in the rst place? This also means that Ellen Ankers date of birth was probably between 11 March 1911 and 17 July 1911 assuming a normal pregnancy and that the information on the records is correct.
Dixons Row and Apedale Road

Two addresses have played an important part in this story. The rst is 1 Dixons Row, Chesterton where Caleb Boote (b. 1889) lived with his wife Edith Boote (nee Pessol), who was the sister of Martha Lilian Ankers (nee Pessol). They moved there sometime between July 1914 and March 1922 and lived there until at least March 1936. Two of their three children, Ivan Thomas and Mavis, were born there. I also know that between at least Jun 1926 and March 1937 Ediths parents Thomas Pessol and Sarah Ann (Annie) Pessol (nee Mould) lived with them. I have discovered that when Ellen Paul (nee Ankers) got married in December 1932 she gave 1 Dixons Row as her address and she listed it as the place of birth for her son James Kinloch Paul in October 1933. Caleb Boote had an Aunt Mary who married William Clarke in 1878. At some point William and Mary emigrated to America and went to live in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. In 1907 they travelled together with two of their six children (Howard and Ethel) from Liverpool to New York. However on that voyage they are already listed as US Citizens and it is likely that this is not the original emigration voyage but a visit home. From the census I know that the Clarkes were living in Brook Street, Knutton, Staordshire in 1881 but do not appear to be on the 1891 census. Could the Clarkes, living in the Philadelphia between 1911 and 1932, and if so have helped in the repatriation of Ellen? There are no obvious naturalization records for any Ankers, Boote or Pessol. There are too many Clarkes to be sure that it is the right one 19 Apedale Road is directly across the road from 1 Dixons Row and as already mentioned it was the home James Kinloch Paul when he married Ellen Ankers. It is unlikely that as a demolition journeyman he was anything more than a lodger at the house and it is unsurprising that Ellen went across the road to her grandmothers to give birth to their son. Dixons Row has subsequently been demolished however the place where it was can still clearly be seen. 19 Apedale Road is still there, the current owner having lived in it since the 1950s.
E!en or Helen?
My father knew my grandmother as Ellen and yet it is possible that her parents knew her as Helen and in her journey home this became abbreviated to Ellen. My mother and father had intended to call me Ellen and had told a pregnant neighbour about their choice of name. The neighbour had liked the name and so when their daughter was born before me the neighbour had used it. My parents therefore decided to use Helen instead. Fate may have meant that may parents succeeded in naming me after my grandmother who started life as Helen and became Ellen whereas I was planned to be Ellen but became Helen.
More Ankers
My investigations lead me to Liverpool University Library to see if there were any records from the Anchor Line about this voyage. Cunard purchased the Anchor Line and all of its records subsequently added to the collection at Liverpool University. I contacted the research department there and whilst they could nd no useful records one more coincidence arose. The researcher, who had only started at the library the week before was called Katie Ankers! She doesnt know if she has any Staordshire connections but this story is so strange that you never know.
Genes Reunited
My research so far had concentrated on using Ancestry.co.uk and whilst I had visited the GenesReunited site the searches did not oer any new information. However on 10 November 2008 I uploaded my family tree to see if there were any matches with other family trees. This has produced a number of new leads including
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signicant matches for three trees with Ankers in it, two trees with Pessol in it and one tree with Boote in it. None have much detail on Thomas and Martha but from my initial contacts with these leads I have identied Margaret Thom, one of the other tree owners as third cousin once removed. My research moved on. I had found out a lot about my grandmother but there didnt seem to be many new places to search. I had also made contact with some other third cousins from the Scottish side which oered an new and challenging branch to investigate. I wrote up the initial version of this document, put it on the web and put the search to one side.
You Have Mail!

In the August 2010, two years after my original trip to Staord my family returned home from a weekend away. My husband was icking through the pile of post and one caught his attention, he opened it, read a little, then sat me down and then started read it aloud from the beginning: Dear Helen, I am writing in response to the genealogical research into your grandmothers life in the capacity of being a distant relative. Several days ago I decided it was time again to google the name Pessol, to update myself on whats new with the family history in general. Ive been too busy to do this for a few years and I discovered your site quite by chance. My late mother, Mavis Tinsley (nee Boote), was E!ens rst cousin, and they a! lived together as a complete family at 1, Dixons Row, Chesterton. E!en (your grandmother, known as Ne!ie) was brought back to England on behest of her own grandmother, Sarah Ann Pessol. She was shipped back when E!ens parents sadly died of a mysterious infection, possibly typhoid. My mother, therefore, was lucky to be brought up with Ne!ie who was like a glamourous older sister to her.
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At this point my husband had to stop reading as I was in tears, a couple of tissues later he continued ... You can only imagine my delight at nding this wealth of precious information on a part of my family that I had thought had disappeared altogether, since we never knew what happened to baby James Paul, who was adored by the family. I can only give you my heartfelt thanks for giving this information to the world. Having spent much of the last few days trying to nd a contact for you, I decided that asking Lynn Sharples at the cemetery oce was my only reasonable chance of success. She kindly oered to forward my letter to you, so I am indebted also to her. If you would like to contact me [...] please feel ,ee: I would be delighted. I have some information about the family and, while some of it wi! be hearsay, most of it wi! be true. There are a few photos which you may nd interesting, too. In the meantime I wi! try to nd whatever I can loca!y. I am also in contact with Ivan Bootes daughter, my cousin Gi!ian. Between us we make it our business to know everything that went on, as a! good women should! I look forward to hearing ,om you. P.S. The photo I have of E!en certainly seems to conrm the glamour part of the story. Yours Sincerely Sue Wa!ey Wow! a photo, a relation and conrmation of much of what we had discovered. It also meant that there was the possibility of more information or at least more oral history. It took a day to brace myself before responding by e-mail but the following weekend having exchanged a few e-mails we were heading up to Newcastle for Sunday lunch with my new relative - Sue Walley - my second cousin once removed!
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Sunday Lunch
Our trip up to Newcastle was a huge success - we met Sue, her husband Nigel and daughter Jayne (we subsequently also met her son Robert). She told us more about her mothers glamourous older sister who was always beautifully presented, used 4711 eau de cologne and decorated the home with cushions and nice drapes. Sue also gave me three photographs, one of my great great grandmother Sarah Ann Pessol, my father as a baby James Kinloch Paul and the ultimate reward a photo of my grandmother Ellen Ankers. I then had the unusual task of showing my father a picture of his mother for the very rst time. He said it wasnt what he had expected her to look like but then it must be very dicult to imagine someone you only knew as a small child does look like.
Dad Passes Away

In February 2012 my father, James Kinloch Paul, passed away almost exactly four years to the day after my mother. They had been married for 50 years and watched both me and my two children grow up. I was able to show him a picture of his mother and will use some of the money he left me for some more research and possibly a trip to Colorado and New Mexico where I am sure more of the answers I am looking for will be found.
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More Questions Than Answers

I am amazed about how much I have been able to discover about my grandmother but I still want to know more. The questions I would like to answer include: Where in Colorado/New Mexico did the the family live? Did Thomas Ankers wait in New York for Martha Lilian Ankers to arrive or did she travel to meet him alone? When and where was Ellen Ankers born? When, where and how did Thomas Ankers die (was it Typhoid or something else) ? When, where and how did Martha Lilian Ankers die (was it Typhoid or something else)? How was Sarah Ann Pessol able to arrange Ellen Ankers repatriation to England? Why did Ellen Ankers go on to Glasgow and who met her there? Why did the Ankers decide to go to Brodhead, Colorado? Did the Ankers have any more children and if so what happened to them? When did James Kinloch Paul arrive in the Chesterton area? I would also like to discover more about the Blairs and their relationship to the Ankers and why they travelled to Colorado
Can You Help ?

If you think you can help with any of these questions then please:
E-Mail us at: [email protected] Contact me via Ancestry.Com: helenwalker138 Telephone 0118 321 5930 from within the UK and leave a message for Helen Walker Telephone +44 118 321 5930 from outside the UK and leave a message for Helen Walker
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The Timeline
Entires in the timeline relate to documented events Date 24 Dec 1909 4 Sep 1910 - 13 Sep 1910 Event Thomas Ankers marries Martha Lilian Pessol Thomas Ankers sails on the Carmania from Liverpool to New York Martha Lillian Ankers sails from Liverpool to New York on the Mauritania Possible Birth of Ellen Ankers Probable Birth of Ellen Ankers Helen Ankers (aged 4) sails from New York to Liverpool and Glasgow on the California Caleb Boote known to be living at 1 Dixons Row Edith Boote nee Pessol known to be living at 1 Dixons Row Ivan Thomas Boote born at 1 Dixons Row Mavis Boote born at 1 Dixons Row Thomas Pessol of 1 Dixons Row dies Thomas Pessol buried at Chesterton Cemetery Ellen Ankers living at 1 Dixons Row Ellen Ankers marries James Kinlock Paul and moves to 19 Apedale Road James Kinlock Paul born at 1 Dixons Row Ellen Paul nee Ankers dies at Apedale Oces, Chesterton Ellen Paul nee Ankers buried at Chesterton Cemetery Sarah Ann Pessol nee Mould of 1 Dixons Row dies Sarah Ann Pessol nee Mould is buried at Chesterton Cemetery
28 Oct 1910 - 3 Nov 1910
24 Dec 1910 - 16 Jul 1911 10 Mar 1911 - 16 Jul 1911 10 Mar 1916 - 14 Mar 1916
17 Mar 1922 - 18 Mar 1937 17 Mar 1922 - 22 Dec 1925 17 Mar 1922 7 Dec 1925 1 Jun 1926 5 Jun 1926 23 Dec 1932 24 Dec 1932
26 Oct 1933 17 Jul 1936 20 Jul 1936 8 Mar 1937 11 Mar 1937
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Appendices
BMD Certicates
Birth Certicates
Gender

Name of Name of Father Mother James Ellen Paul Kinloch Paul Maiden Name Occupation of Father Address of Father of Mother Ankers Acetylene Welder 19 Apedale Road (Dismantling) Chesterton Name of Informant Ellen Paul (Mother) Address of Informant Date of Registration 19 Apedale Road 4 Chesterton Dec 1933 Person Name Age Condition Rank or Profession Residence Fathers Name Male Female Male Female 21 Spinster RooWing Tile Presser 27 Bachelor Acetylene Welder 23 Spinster None Knutton 19 Apedale Road Chesterton 1 Dixons Row Apedale Road, Chesterton Thomas Ankers 20 Bachelor Miner Knutton George Ankers Thomas Pessol James Kinloch Paul Thomas Ankers (Deceased) Rank or Profession of father Miner Miner Acetylene Burner Coal Hewer Martha Lilian Pessol James Kinloch Paul Ellen Ankers Name Thomas Pessol Male 77 Coal miner (hewer) Gender Age Occupation Cause of Death 1 Senile decay 2 Myocarditis 1(a) Hepatic Carcinoma 1(b) Gastric Carcinoma Name of Informant Caleb Boote Description of Informant Son-in-Law Residence of Informant 1 Dixons Row Apedale James Kinloch Paul Widower of deceased Apedale OfWices Chesterton Ellen Paul Female 25 Date of Registration 1 Jun 1926 18 Jul 1936 Sarah Ann Pessol Female 85 Wife of James Kinloch Paul Dismantling Companies Foreman Widow of Thomas Pessol (coal hewer) 1(a) Myocarditis 1(b) Osterio Sclerosis 2 Senility Caleb Boote Son-in-Law 1 Dixons Row Apedale 9 Mar 1937
Registration District Wolstanton Staffordshire
Place of Birth
Name
Date of Birth 26 Oct 1933
1 Dixons Row Chesterton
James Male Kinloch Paul
Marriage Certicates
Registration District
Date of Marriage
Place of Marriage
Wolstanton Staffordshire
25 Dec 1909
Knutton Parish Church
Stoke and Wolstanton Staffordshire
24 Dec 1932
Registry OfWice
Death Certicates
Registration District
Place of Death
1 Dixons Row Apedale
Date of Death 1 Jun 1926 17 Jul 1936
Apedale OfWices Chesterton
8 Mar 1937
1 Dixons Row Apedale
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Ship Manifests
UK Immigration & Emigration Manifests

Date 3rd 3rd 3rd 3rd Female None USA Chesterton Female Wife English New York 31 Male Miner English New York 20 Male Miner New York Ticket Number Class Name Age Gender Occupation Destination
Ship
Sailing From
Sailing To
Carmania
New York USA 6 Sep 1910 28188
Nationality and Race English
Carmania 28910
New York USA 6 Sep 1910 28188
Thomas Ankers James Blair

Martha L 24 Ankers Helen Ankers 4 Name Age Gender Marital Status Married US Citizen Occupation Literate Nationality and Race Last Permanent Residence Next of Kin Destination William Clarke Mary Clarke Ethel Clarke Howard Clarke Thomas Ankers 20 Male Married Miner Yes 11 Male Single 15 Female Single US Citizen 54 Female Married US Citizen 53 Male US Citizen England English Chesterton England James Blair31 Male Single (?) Miner Yes England English Chesterton England Martha L Ankers 24 Female Married Housewife Yes England English Chesterton England Wife Brodhead Mrs. Ankers Colorado 7 Cooper St Chesterton Staffs Mother Brodhead Mrs. Blair Colorado 51 Mount Skip Chesterton Staffs Mother Brodhead Mrs. Pessol Colorado 7 High Street Knutton Newcastle Staffs
Mauritania
California
Liverpool England Liverpool England Liverpool England New York USA
New York USA 29 Oct 1910 Glasgow 11 Mar Scotland 1916
US Immigration Manifests
Ship
Sailing From
Sailing To Date
Ticket Number
Campania
Liverpool England
Campania
Liverpool England
Campania
Liverpool England
Campania
Liverpool England
Carmania
Liverpool England
New York 21 USA Sep 1907 New York 21 USA Sep 1907 New York 21 USA Sep 1907 New York 21 USA Sep 1907 New York 6 USA Sep 1910
28188
Carmania
Liverpool England
New York 6 USA Sep 1910
28188
Mauritania
Liverpool England
18190
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New York 29 USA Oct 1910
The UK Immigration Record For Helen Ankers
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Resources & Bibliography Photo Credits

The photos in this document have come from various sources as outlined below. Photos are credited left to right, top to bottom. Page 1 Apedale Brick http://www.penmorfa.com/bricks/apedale.jpg Apedale Pit Wheel (Flickr, Charlie Owen, March 2010) http://farm4.staticickr.com/3662/4557293901_06d95a536d_z.jpg Watermills Chimney, Apedale (Flickr, Martn Wright, March 2011) http://farm6.staticickr.com/5053/5494841442_64a4fd7091_z.jpg J.K. Paul & Co Demolitions c.1950 Family photograph Page 2 Apedale Road c. 1910 http://www.search.staspasttrack.org.uk/engine/resource/default.asp?resource=4323 Front of Dixons Row c. 1959 Staordshire Library Rear of Dixons Row c. 1959 Staordshire Library Page 3 Staordshire Map c.1848 http://www.heatons-of-tisbury.co.uk/images/maps/lewissats.jpg Apedale or Minnie Pit Rescue Team 1918 http://www.exploringthepotteries.org.uk/nof_website1/local_history_static_exhibitions/ industrial_sites/industrial_sites_images/apedale.jpg Apedale Colliery, The Burley Pit c.1900 http://www.staspasttrack.org.uk/exhibit/coal/images/collieries/burley-pit-apedale-colliery.jpg Page 4 Grave marker of Thomas & Sarah Ann Pessol and Ellen Ankers Family Photograph
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Page 5 RMS Mauritania c.1907 http://www.maritimequest.com/liners/mauretania/01_mauretania_1907_tyne.JPG SS Carmania http://www.clydesite.co.uk/clydebuilt/viewship.asp?id=2212 Cunard Postcard of SS Mauritania arriving in New York http://www.kirchgraber.name/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/ss_mauritania2.jpg Page 6 Google Maps, Brodhead Canyon, Co http://maps.google.com/maps?client=safari&rls=en&q=brodhead +co&oe=UTF-8&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hl=en&sa=N&tab=wl Aguilar Colorado c. 1910 http://www.trinidadco.com/Main-Photos/Aguilar/WaterTankPhoto.jpg Carnegie Library, Trinidad, Co. Build 1904 http://www.trinidadco.com/WalkingTour/Photos/carnegie2.jpg Luigi Gianella Building, Aguilar State Bank, 1912 http://coloradopreservation.org/programs/endangered-places/endangered-places-archives/ gianella-building/ Page 7 Aftermath of the Ludlow Massacre http://libcom.org/les/ludlow-camp-attacked.jpg Inuenza Center 1918 http://designyoutrust.com/2009/04/28/inuenza-pandemic-worlds-history-1918/ SS California http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T.S.S._California Page 8 SS California in New York Harbour http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2d/SS_California_(1907).jpg/300pxSS_California_(1907).jpg Liverpool Harbour 1920 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1355388/Britains-iconic-landmarks-90-yearsdevelopment-seen-air.html
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Jamaica Bridge Glasgow 1918 http://www.smythe.id.au/lestweforget/ch16.htm Anchor Line Passenger List 1903 http://www.gjenvick.com/images/AnchorLine/1903-08-08/PassengerList-ColumbiaSecondClass-FrontCover-250.jpg SS California http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~knappdb/ships_C.htm Page 9 Dixons Row Today Family photograph Apedale Road Today Family photograph Page 10 Helen Walker Family photograph Liverpool University Library http://copac.ac.uk/libraries/liverpool.html DNA strand http://photo-dictionary.com/photoles/list/644/1052DNA.jpg Page 11 Venexia & David Walker Family Photograph Helen & Alex Walker Family Photograph Letter and Envelope http://www.mcdodesign.com/downloads/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/Letter512px.png Page 12 Sarah Ann Pessol Family photograph with very special thanks to Sue Walley Ellen Ankers Family photograph with very special thanks to Sue Walley James Kinloch Paul as a baby Family photograph with very special thanks to Sue Walley
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Page 13 Default Photo 4711 http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/3a/4711_Eau_de_Cologne_(logo).jpg Sheila, James & Helen Paul c. 1968 Family photograph James Kinlock Paul (grandfather) with his son James Kinloch Paul (father) Family photograph
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Web Resources
Genealogy Tools
The Generations Network run by the Church of The Later Day Saints http://www.ancestry.co.uk http://www.ancestry.com http://www.rootsweb.com http://www.familytreemaker.com Find My Past http://www.ndmypast.com Genes Reunited http://www.genesreunited.co.uk UK Research Sites National Archives of the United Kingdom http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ The Birmingham & Midland Society for Genealogy & Heraldry: Staordshire Births, Marriages & Deaths http://www.bmsgh.org/ GenUKI: Staordshire Genealogy http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/STS/ US Research Sites Ellis Island, New York http://www.ellisisland.org/ Apishapa Valley Historical Society http://aguilarhistory.com/ Colorado Geological Survey History of Mining http://www.geosurvey.state.co.us/Default.aspx?tabid=237 Colorado State Archives http://www.colorado.gov/dpa/doit/archives/ US Gen Web Archives Colorado Las Animas - Broadhead http://les.usgwarchives.org/co/lasanimas/directories/1911-brodhead.txt
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New Mexico State Archives http://www.nmcpr.state.nm.us/archives/gencat_cover.htm GenDisasters.com http://www.gendisasters.com US Mine Rescue Association http://www.usmra.com
Other Resources
The Apedale Heritage Centre Loomer Road, Chesterton, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, ST5 7RR The Newcastle-under-Lyme Cemetery OfWice Lymewood Grove, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, ST5 2EH Staffordshire Records OfWice Eastgate Street, Stafford, ST16 2LZ Newcastle-under-Lyme Library, Staffordshire Library Service The Ironmarket Newcastle ST5 1AT
Bibliography
The History of the Brick and Tile Yards of Newcastle-under-Lyme Gordon Howle; Newcastle Instant Print 2008 Collieries in the North Staffordshire CoalWield Paul Deakin; ISBN 1-84306-138-4 A History Of Apedale And Chesterton David Dyble; ISBN 0-95421-990-2
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