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From: "Mark Echelberger" <>
Subject: Re: [PABEAVER-L] how they wound up in Beaver Falls in 1849?
Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 22:35:16 -0400
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I have had that same question--How did they end up in Beaver Falls or New
Brighton? What drew a new imigrant there in 1849 or 50?

In 1849 a girl about 13 years old came to the U.S. from England. Hannah
Marshall, age 14, is living with the William Boyd family from PA. The 1850
census says she was born in PA so I'm not totally sure that this is her but
I think it is.

Why would she end up here after coming from England?

Where are her parents?

There is a Jane Marshall, age 8, living with the Rowan family nearby. I
realize I could be barking up the wrong tree but my dad said before I found
this that he thought this family had come up from PA to CT and I found CT
church records that confirmed that she transfered her membership from New
Brighton, PA. Her husband was a knifemaker in 1870 in the Northfield Knife
Shop in Litchfield Township, CT. He, too, was from England and I am guessing
that he met Hannah in PA and married about 1857, but where? Their first
child, Nettie Jane SENIOR was born in CT according to later censuses.

Thanks for listening to my story. Any answers are welcome.

Ginny Echelberger

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