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Brummies who moved to the USA

Mary Bannister's cousin Wilfred, the son of Matthew Bannister, married George Walter Wilson's sister Florence and emigrated to Utah. George and Florence's mother Ruth Wilson became a Mormon and they lived in Utah.

Other Wilson siblings also emigrated.
 
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 the passenger list has no addresses
 
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We might need a new thread for Mary Bannister
3rd entry on page 2 is their marriage.
 

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I'm really grateful to you, MWS and Janice, for picking up the baton and providing all that information about my great-aunt, Mary Bannister/Wilson/Semon. Up to now she had just been a name on a family tree and a few family notes and now I know far more. I wonder if my father remembered her from early childhood - he was just four when she disappeared from his family home in Summer Lane at the age of 21. But he took the trouble to seek her out when he was in the USA in 1935. I have been trying to recall family Christmas cards my parents used to receive, during the war and a bit later. There were one or two from the USA - definitely including people who shared his table on the Queen Mary in 1938 (a Mrs. Schwarz I remember especially) - but "from Mary" unfortunately draws a blank.

You are right - this needs a separate thread, for various reasons. I'll create one shortly and provide the link here.

Chris

PS Just unearthed another family photograph - a studio image of Mary during her time in the USA. 1920s perhaps.
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ChrisM said:
I'm really grateful to you, MWS and Janice, for picking up the baton and providing all that information about my great-aunt, Mary Bannister/Wilson/Semon. Up to now she had just been a name on a family tree and a few family notes and now I know far more. I wonder if my father remembered her from early childhood - he was just four when she disappeared from his family home in Summer Lane at the age of 21. But he took the trouble to seek her out when he was in the USA in 1935. I have been trying to recall family Christmas cards my parents used to receive, during the war and a bit later. There were one or two from the USA - definitely including people who shared his table on the Queen Mary in 1938 (a Mrs. Schwarz I remember especially) - but "from Mary" unfortunately draws a blank.

You are right - this needs a separate thread, for various reasons. I'll create one shortly and provide the link here.

Chris

PS Just unearthed another family photograph - a studio image of Mary during her time in the USA. 1920s perhaps.
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hi chris i am sure we have members happy to help you with mary bannister...looking back on this thread i think you need to move all the posts from post 114 to your new thread..just pop it under surname interests..i will also try to help but i am not as good as some of our members are...fingers crossed

lyn
 
Have started a new thread here:

https://birminghamhistory.co.uk/forum/threads/bannister-mary-and-martha.59443

It is a re-write, including the information generously supplied here by MWS and Janice who have already added so much to my knowledge of what happened. Have left this thread intact because I didn't want to risk moving - and possibly losing - some of the valuable contributions made.

If any other member wants to make a comment on this little family saga in the future, could you go to the new thread please.

Thanks for all the interest.

Chris
 
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