Good afternoon again all you helpful Family Tree Forum members.
I'm hoping there are a few American record experts out there that might be able to help me.
I am trying to trace the fates of a father and son: -
William Tilden Crossingham born 2nd Feb 1844 in Dallington Sussex (my 2nd cousin 4 x removed)
and
Leonard Crossingham born Q1 1865 in Ticehurst Sussex (my 3rd cousin 3 x removed).
Rumour has it that William left his wife Mary (nee Barden) and family and took himself off to America, where he ended up in the hotel trade in Chicago. If this is true then it must have happened sometime between 1871 and 1881; as the family are together in the 1871 census in Tower Street Heathfield. But in the 1881 census Mary and children are shown at the Old Half Moon, Heathfield as Housekeeper and lodgers with no sign of William..... As the youngest child, Ada, was born in 1880, I'm guessing the William's alleged departure happened during the period 1879/1880.
This 1881 census is also the last time that their eldest son Leonard appears in UK records too.. I have found a passenger list for the Allan Line ship Phoenician dated 1886; sailing to Quebec with one L Crossingham, labourer, age not shown, as a passenger; who's final destination is given as Chicago.. Sooo. Does this support the rumours? or is it perhaps the source of them?
Anyway. The above are the last traces I can find of father and son and I'm wondering whether any one can help or point me in the right direction.
Thanks in advance and best regards
Paul...
I'm hoping there are a few American record experts out there that might be able to help me.
I am trying to trace the fates of a father and son: -
William Tilden Crossingham born 2nd Feb 1844 in Dallington Sussex (my 2nd cousin 4 x removed)
and
Leonard Crossingham born Q1 1865 in Ticehurst Sussex (my 3rd cousin 3 x removed).
Rumour has it that William left his wife Mary (nee Barden) and family and took himself off to America, where he ended up in the hotel trade in Chicago. If this is true then it must have happened sometime between 1871 and 1881; as the family are together in the 1871 census in Tower Street Heathfield. But in the 1881 census Mary and children are shown at the Old Half Moon, Heathfield as Housekeeper and lodgers with no sign of William..... As the youngest child, Ada, was born in 1880, I'm guessing the William's alleged departure happened during the period 1879/1880.
This 1881 census is also the last time that their eldest son Leonard appears in UK records too.. I have found a passenger list for the Allan Line ship Phoenician dated 1886; sailing to Quebec with one L Crossingham, labourer, age not shown, as a passenger; who's final destination is given as Chicago.. Sooo. Does this support the rumours? or is it perhaps the source of them?
Anyway. The above are the last traces I can find of father and son and I'm wondering whether any one can help or point me in the right direction.
Thanks in advance and best regards
Paul...
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