Re: Dun/Graham Connection (Elizabeth Dun Kilvert)
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Dun/Graham Connection (Elizabeth Dun Kilvert)
Elizabeth Vanasse 1/12/03
Hi Betsy,
I would like to add the following to your"loose strings".
1. In a letter from Charles A Kilvert(b.1918 and grandson of Samuel W Kilvert Jnr.) to Cory Kilvert(b.1930 and grandson of Francis Edwin Kilvert - former mayor of Hamilton, Canada). on July 13, 1990, Charles wrote the following:- "Thomas Kilvert(b.c 1780-England)appears to have been a principal in the formation of the Rhode Island Malleable Iron Co. which was located in Warwick, R.I. The street in which the company was located was and still is called Kilvert St".
2. In the History of the town of "Kilvert" on the web, it says:- "In it's hey-day, thanks to the bustling coal and iron ore industry, Kilvert, like so many which sprang up along the rail system, was a boisterous, wide-open, wild western, no-holds-barred, type of town, according to a 1938 article published in the "Athens Messenger". Kilvert boasted saloons, nemerous houses, a blacksmith's shop and a watering station for the railroad. The Marietta and Cincinnati railroad, in operation from 1857-1876, connected to the B & O system along Federal Creek and passing right through Kilvert. The name "Kilvert" is attributed to a southern plantation owner, Kilvert, who moved his slaves to the area to work the mines when he himself got in on the boon and became a coal operator".
3. Samual W. Kilvert Jnr. moved to Chillicothe, which is only 50 - 60 miles away from the Town of Kilvert.
Now if Samuel W Kilvert Jnr. was managing a foundry, in or near Chillicothe, no doubt they were obtaining the iron ore and coal(for the furnaces) from the Kilvert area, as there was a railway line for the transportation. Possibly, when this iron was produced into "pigs", it was railed out to the Malleable Iron Co. at Rhode Island.
I think it would be too big a coincidence, that there were two Kilvert families in the area. I would think that the plantation owner story might not be right. I therefore tend to believe that Kilvert might have been named after the Kilvert mining company. In a similar way that Kilvert Road in Warwick was the road to the Kilvert Iron Co. so named Kilvert Road.
But there-again, this is purely guesswork, and might make those loose strings longer, but hopefully easier to tie-up.
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