My Great x3 Uncle Frederick (1863 - 1943) was a naturalised American citizen, farm labourer, step-father of one, and a younger brother of my Great Great Grandfather William Edworthy (1852 - 1911).
Frederick was born on 3rd April 1863 in East Worlington, Devon, to William Edworthy (about 42), a farm labourer, and Mary Edworthy (nee Harris) (about 39), a housewife.
On 26th April 1863, Frederick was baptised in East Worlington.
Frederick was the eighth of eleven children (four daughters and seven sons):
- Ann 1841 - 1882 (41)
- John 1844 - 1910 (65)
- Elizabeth 1849 - 1917 (about 68)
- William 1852 - 1911 (about 59)
- George 1854 - 1876) (22)
- Samuel 1856 - 1920 (64)
- Ellen 1858 - 1934 (75)
- Lewis 1861 - 1943 (82)
- Frederick 1863 - 1943 (79)
- Frank 1866 -
- Mary Harris 1869 -
1871 Census:
As a young man, Frederick worked as a farm servant.
1881 Census:
In late 1886, when Frederick was 23, his mother Mary passed away, aged about sixty-two, in East Worlington. She was buried on 15th December 1886 in East Worlington.
Frederick's widowed father William stayed on at Oddisleigh with his son (Frederick's older brother) Lewis and his family. William passed away in his seventies, sometime in the late 1890s or very early 1900s, in the district of Crediton.
Frederick went to America!!! And at some point became an American citizen.
Aged 27, he travelled on the ship the Majestic from Liverpool on 11th Mar 1891, arriving on 18th Mar 1891 in New York.
On the 5th October 1898, Frederick (33), a labourer, married divorcee and mother of one Angeline 'Bell' McBride (27), in Carsonville, Sanilac, Michigan. At the time, Frederick was living in Flint, Michigan, whilst Bell was living in Carsonville. A Joseph McBride acted as witness - most likely Bell's younger brother.
Bell's father was Irish and her mother English.
On 29th June 1890, Bell (19) had previously married Cornelius Mahana (24), in Washington, Sanilac, Michigan. They had one child - a daughter called Nina Belle Mahana, born in 1891. She was granted divorce and custody of their daughter, on the grounds of desertion, on 20th May 1897.
Sadly, Bell collapsed following an abdominal operation and passed away - only five months after she and Frederick had married. She passed away, aged 27, on 31st July 1899, in Flint. She is buried in Sanilac cemetery, Sanilac, Michigan.
After Bell's death, her daughter Nina went to live with her maternal grandparents (Bell's parents) and is listed on the 1900 and 1910 censuses with the surname McBride.
On 29th June 1890, Bell (19) had previously married Cornelius Mahana (24), in Washington, Sanilac, Michigan. They had one child - a daughter called Nina Belle Mahana, born in 1891. She was granted divorce and custody of their daughter, on the grounds of desertion, on 20th May 1897.
Sadly, Bell collapsed following an abdominal operation and passed away - only five months after she and Frederick had married. She passed away, aged 27, on 31st July 1899, in Flint. She is buried in Sanilac cemetery, Sanilac, Michigan.
After Bell's death, her daughter Nina went to live with her maternal grandparents (Bell's parents) and is listed on the 1900 and 1910 censuses with the surname McBride.
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| Bell's gravestone in Sanilac cemetery, Sanilac, Michigan |
Frederick never remarried and had no children.
He travelled back to England at least once.
He arrived in Southampton on 15th July 1920 from New York, on board the Olympic. The Olympic was a sister ship of the more famous Titanic.
After seemingly staying back in England for nearly three years, he travelled back on the Majestic, travelling from Southampton to New York, and arriving on 29th May 1923.
It gives a physical description: he was only 5'1'', had brown hair and eyes, and a dark complexion.
He had $300 on his procession. He gives his person in England as Mrs Wright (sister-in-law), living at 112 Regent Street, Exeter. Mrs Wright is Anne 'Annie' Tryphena Wright (nee Trigger), the sister of William Isaac Trigger (husband of Frederick's sister Ellen) and Samuel Trigger (husband of Frederick's niece Edith).
He is travelling back to Flint, Michigan. He had been in hospital in England, but was now discharged; however, he seems to go straight to another hospital on arrival in America.
On the 1925 Census, Frederick is a widower, living at an 'Old People's House' in Lamoni, Decatur, Iowa. Otherwise known as 'Saint's Home' or 'Liberty House', it was the former residence of Joseph Smith III, the president and prophet of the Reorganised Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, and was one of two church homes for aged members of that church.
On the 1930 Census, he is living at the Holden Home for the Aged in South Olive Street, Holden, Johnson, Missouri.
At 9am on 13th Mar 1943, Frederick passed away aged 79 (his 80th birthday would have been in a few weeks). He had been living back at Saint's Home for nine years, in Lamoni. His cause of death was stomach cancer, which he had had for five years.
He outlived his wife Bell by 44 years!
He was buried at Lamoni Rose Hill Cemetery, in Lamoni, Decatur, Iowa.
He travelled back to England at least once.
He arrived in Southampton on 15th July 1920 from New York, on board the Olympic. The Olympic was a sister ship of the more famous Titanic.
After seemingly staying back in England for nearly three years, he travelled back on the Majestic, travelling from Southampton to New York, and arriving on 29th May 1923.
It gives a physical description: he was only 5'1'', had brown hair and eyes, and a dark complexion.
He had $300 on his procession. He gives his person in England as Mrs Wright (sister-in-law), living at 112 Regent Street, Exeter. Mrs Wright is Anne 'Annie' Tryphena Wright (nee Trigger), the sister of William Isaac Trigger (husband of Frederick's sister Ellen) and Samuel Trigger (husband of Frederick's niece Edith).
He is travelling back to Flint, Michigan. He had been in hospital in England, but was now discharged; however, he seems to go straight to another hospital on arrival in America.
On the 1925 Census, Frederick is a widower, living at an 'Old People's House' in Lamoni, Decatur, Iowa. Otherwise known as 'Saint's Home' or 'Liberty House', it was the former residence of Joseph Smith III, the president and prophet of the Reorganised Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, and was one of two church homes for aged members of that church.
On the 1930 Census, he is living at the Holden Home for the Aged in South Olive Street, Holden, Johnson, Missouri.
At 9am on 13th Mar 1943, Frederick passed away aged 79 (his 80th birthday would have been in a few weeks). He had been living back at Saint's Home for nine years, in Lamoni. His cause of death was stomach cancer, which he had had for five years.
He outlived his wife Bell by 44 years!
He was buried at Lamoni Rose Hill Cemetery, in Lamoni, Decatur, Iowa.
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| Frederick's gravestone in Lamoni Rose Hill Cemetery, Lamoni, Decatur, Iowa |
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