Re: Unwin-Clark m. 5-1-1869 Pittsmoor, York
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Re: Unwin-Clark m. 5-1-1869 Pittsmoor, York
Murray Lennox 2/01/03
Thank you very much Murray. It seems that finding descendants from the Unwin -Clark marriage has reached a dead end. That is good to know.
What afamily catastrophe for all, but especially for Eliza and Kathleen! I know that Benjamin Machen Unwin married (bigamy) a well bred, Irish, Roman Catholic woman named Kathleen Kenny, from Kilkenny in August, 1875 in Brooklyn , New York.I have no idea how they ever got together. They had 6 children including my grandfather, who nevertold of the bigamy, but my grandma did.
The family returned to Workington about 1886, poor and about to face disgrace. My great grandmother was left to raise six illegitimate children there. Letters remain that attest to her good character, suggesting it was attacked. Apparently there was some help provided by BMU's brothers. My grandfather immigrated to the US in 1905 and eventually brought several family members to theAmerica.
Benjamin Machen does appear on the 1901 census according to a friend, Phil Unwin of the Sheffield area. I think he is posted under Ben or Benja or something other than Benjamin, as the data is difficult to find.
Lo and behold BMUmarried again, to Martha (probably Stringer), probably about1892 and produced three daughters and a son, ranging in age from one to eight years in 1901. He was 53 and she was 35. I would like to find theson's descendants (Cecil Unwin born about 1900). Since family names are carried along in Englane . I sent a "shot in the dark letter" to four Cecil Unwin's in England recently. I will post that search on the internet.
My seventh great gradmother is ElizabethFearon, married RichardDickinson, in 1695, in Beckfoot Quaker Meeting House. She wasborn in Allonby in Cumbria.
Nancy Unwin
Farmington Hills , Michigan
USA