[WED]Re: Wedmore to Iowa

[Mary Jackes]

Thank you for the good information, Carol.  It gives us a first early date
for people going to Onondaga County, NY.

>>  So far the best guess seems to  be
>> the Radfords   

Radford was a name in the oaths of intention - that was the earliest of the
names I recognized as possibly from the right area of Somerset.  If anyone
were to have other possible names that could be checked, the list of oath
takers up to 1853 is still available to me.             

I should have expressed myself better:-  who was it among the Wedmore area
people who first went to Dubuque County, IA?  

In looking at the 1850 census, I could see the importance of mining around
Dyersville, and I could see that there were English born miners.  I did not
suppose that anyone from Wedmore had a connection with mining when I looked
at the 1850 census - but perhaps I was wrong.  There must have been mining
for all sorts of rocks and minerals in many parts of Somerset, and
certainly near Wedmore - limestone and so on.  

Lead and limestone in Dubuque County fairly near Dyersville/lead and
limestone fairly near Wedmore? (I've never been in Iowa, and I've not been
in Somerset for donkeys years, so I'm talking from ignorance here.)  Could
mining have provided the initial connection?
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Mary Jackes
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