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One of those things we'll probably never know. Would there be any benefit for them to marry in the US rather than in England?

There seem to be quite a few trips for him prior to that date (On Familysearch).

hi suzanne yes in those days we certainly could not believe all that was written on any documents/census papers... sometime during the...

That must be her future husband bringing her over, he is listed as Walter rather than George on the 1891 & 1901 censuses.

Some years later but the husband of my great aunt left her and when she wanted to re-marry she put a notice in the newspapers in the...

Looks as if it might be her as I have an immigration list which puts her last City of residence as Birmingham. Headed for Cleveland...

There is a Mary Bannister listed as a dressmaker b abt 1883 who sailed on 25 May 1904 on board the Teutonic bound for New York. Sadly...

Not a parade, but a line of recruits in front of the Town Hall in 1914

Yes, there are lots of them born around the same time. It wouldn't surprise me that she listed herself as a widow without knowing if...

Mary Bannister's cousin Wilfred, the son of Matthew Bannister, married George Walter Wilson's sister Florence and emigrated to Utah...

I have recently acquired a booklet produced by the church in 1995 and written by Bill Sanders, describing it's history, and this is...

Sorry - yes I should have put that. It just goes to show that we can't always believe what certificates say.

True but we (strongly) suspect that that was a lie with Luciano being alive and in Shropshire in 1911.

What would you like to know? The 1910 US census gives her year of emigration as 1904 but I can't see anything else. Her first husband...

I think without further records becoming available online then your Italian ancestry is probably at a bit of a dead end atm. It would...