Brummiebell
master brummie
Hello, I am trying to help a relative of mine from America with his search for an ancestor. His G Grandmother Sarah Ann Montgomery from Aston Birmingham emigrated to America in the late 1800s and married a mystery man called Charles (chas) Chamberlain. The family are unsure of his background other than his being English and that shortly after her arrival she gave birth to a boy. He was not allowed to live with them however although children from Charles first marriage did. He appears to have been quite wealthy but is a bit of a mystery man. I did find a Charles Chamberlain listed as a border in Witton Hall school when Sarah's elder sister worked there as a matron and wondered if it were he but this Charles is later found in census so unless he travelled back and forth between the two countries it can't be can it. Sarah was a lady's maid and a domestic and the whole family were working class but all emigrated virtually together between 1886 and 1888 noone knows how they afforded it and it seems a bit of a strange pairing between her and Chas. The family ended up heading for the prairies of Nebraska and the Rocky mountains even though Sarah's mother Jane and father Samuel were quite advanced in age. Samuel did not survive the journey and died on the trek, any ideas how I can find out more about Charles, or has anyone got a missing ancestor of the same name. Regards Maria