ELIAS PICKAVANCE Miner St Helens Lancs UK. immigrated to US 1898
Found in Ellis Island website a ELIAS PICKAVANCE age 42 widower miner from St Helens Lancs England on his way to Pittsurgh Pa...to a friend's house...
Found a Elias Pickavance in the 1881 UK census that might be him with his wife and children
Brown Edge Back House
Sutton Lancs England
RG11 3740 / 72
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Elias Pickavance Head M 26 coal miner br Billinge Lancs
ElizabethWifeM 25housewifebr St Helens Lancs
Mary Ellendaug U04Scholarbr St Helens Lancs
Jamesson U 02br Sutton St Helens Lancs
Elizabeth Anndaug U 6mbr Sutton St Helens Lancs
Proberly nothing but thought it was interesting that he was going to Pittsburgh Pa as my Holdens were living in a town near Pittsburgh Pa in 1898 and Charleston WV is not that far away from Pittsburgh where the Samuel and Kate Pickavance nee Holdenfamily I am looking for in the US came to from St Helens in the early 1900's...wonder if he was already there and they came to him?
Just strange that someone in the UK would know to go to Charleston WVback then....without knowing more about it and having someone to go to...people just don't pick up and move over the Pond without knowing where to go back then would they?
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