[WED]Re: Wedmore to Iowa

[julieharding]

Hello Mary,
Greetings from Wedmore.
I am wondering if you can help me. I am taking up research on my husband's
family tree. A distant relative has researched the family tree way  back to
the 1600's but I am trying to fill in  few gaps, and am particularly
interested in three brothers who emigrated to America. I have photos of
them, and a letter that came from Syracuse. Is this Onondaga County? WHat is
theconnection to Dyersville that I read a lot about?
I really would appreciate your help
The family name is Harding
Regards
Julie Harding
----- Original Message -----
From: Mary Jackes <mjackes@telusplanet.net>
To: <wedmore@lists.tutton.org>
Sent: Friday, February 14, 2003 11:54 PM
Subject: Re: [WED]Re: Wedmore to Iowa


> 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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