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(In 1821, the entire parish of
Birstall contained 21,217 inhabitants.)
Joshua Moore, s/o Thomas and Hannah Moore, was born on 10 Jul 1802 in Birstall Parish, near Leeds, Yorkshire,
and he was christened on 8 Aug 1802. In 1821, he is living in
Morley Wapentake in Yorkshire.
Joshua married Elizabeth (Betsy/Betty) Calvert,
d/o Thomas and Hannah Calvert, who was born 23 Dec 1801 in the
same parish, and christened 21 Feb 1802.
Hannah died 23 Feb 1876 in Sibley, Sibley
County, Minnesota and is buried east of there in Aspden Cemetery,
Chanhassen, Carver County, Minnesota. Joshua died 16 Jan 1881 in
Sibley and is buried with Hannah in Chanhassen.
When their daughter Harriet Matilda was 15, the
Moore family left Birstall Parish, near Leeds, Yorkshire,
immigrating to Minnesota. Their youngest daughter Mary Jane
Moore, christening on 22 Apr 1838 in Birstall, married Samuel
Stead in 1857 in Butler County, Ohio.
An aunt Mary Booth evidently followed them in
the early 1860s. Born 30 June 1796 in Birstall, she also died in
Sibley, Minnesota on 13 February 1870, and is buried in
Chanhassen.
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William Selby was born in 1811 in Belfast and married Marie Caton (Keating) there on 21 May 1836. About 1861, William and Marie left Belfast, bringing their family to Ansonia,
New Haven County, Connecticut. William and Marie's children were:
Thomas Selby (Selbie) (1 Aug 1848-21 Jan 1911)
Fannie Selby (-)
Eliza Selby (-)
William was naturalized on 18 Mar 1871 in Ansonia, and later died there and was buried in Pine Grove
Cemetery, Ansonia, New Haven, Connecticut.
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William Bowen, born on 30 Nov 1822 in Dolan,
New Dock, Llanelly, Wales was a blacksmith in the shipbuilding
trade. He married Sarah Jones on 19 Aug 1842 in Llanelly,
Carmarthen, Wales. Sarah had been born in Seaside in Llanelly.
William and Sarah left Wales, bringing their family to Ansonia,
New Haven County in Connecticut. Their children were:
Kittie Bowen (18 Dec 1863-23 Mar 1897)
Mary Bowen (17 Nov 1854-17 Jul 1883)
William Bowen (14 Nov 1856-17 Jul 1921)
Edward Bowen (18 Feb 1865-12 Sep 1956)William died on 11 Nov 1870 and is buried in Pine Grove Cemetery in Ansonia.
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Joseph Maurer's wife Frances was born in
France, immigrating between 1870-1885.
The Maurer and Fox families both immigrated from Germany betwee 1850-1871. Olga Kauffman folowed her sister,
immigrating in the early 1900s.
Both Jan Golembiewski and Tekla Gdula immigrated from Europe in the early 1900s. They are most often identified as having been born in Austria Poland.
Tekla was from Galicy in Poland. Galicy (Galicia in English) was in the southernmost territory of Poland. It extended from just west of Krakow to Lviv (Lwow) which is today in Ukraine. It was a part of the old Austrian Empire from the 1770's until 1920.
In one record, Jan's birthplace is listed as "Lision"; that may be "Lysiny" in the Silesia region of southwestern Poland. However, another possibility is that he is the same as Jan Golembiewsky who immigrated on S.S. Barbarossa in 1901 from Piotrskowo, Russia (see Family History). Piotrk�w was in the Russian empire and was later occupied by Austria-Hungary and eventually became part of Poland.
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