Immigrants to Missouri from England
(Note: Webpage in preparation)
Owen and Elizabeth Grimshaw were recorded on the passenger list of the ship Jersey, arriving in New Orleans with their daughter, Frances, on May 10, 1851 from Liverpool. The 1860 U.S. Census found the family living in Clay County, Missouri. Owen may have been recorded in the 1870 Census in Palmyra County, Missouri. The couple then may have been in Illinois for the 1880 Census. However, if it is the same people recorded in 1870 and 1880, they may have been fibbing about their ages by about 10 years.
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| Louisiana Archives ship passenger list |
http://www.sos.louisiana.gov/ARCHIVES/gen/shippassenger.txt
Ver. 08/07/02
IMMIGRANT SHIPS ARRIVING AT THE PORT OF NEW ORLEANS JANUARY 1 THRU JULY 7, 1851
IN ORDER BY SHIP AND LISTING PASSENGERS
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Ship |
Arrival Date |
Port of Departure |
Captain |
Reel# |
Last Name |
First & Middle Name |
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JERSEY |
5-10-51 |
LIVERPOOL |
DAY |
34 |
GRIMSHAW |
ELIZH |
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GRIMSHAW |
FRANCIS |
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GRIMSHAW |
OWEN |
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| 1860 U.S. Census |
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69 |
Grimshaw |
Owen |
Liberty |
Clay |
MO |
48 |
1811 |
England |
M |
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70 |
Grimshaw |
Elizabeth |
Liberty |
Clay |
MO |
50 |
1809 |
England |
F |
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71 |
Grimshaw |
Frances E |
Liberty |
Clay |
MO |
13 |
1846 |
England |
F |
| 1870 U.S. Census? |
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144 |
MO |
Grimshaw |
Owen |
47 |
1822 |
England |
White |
Palmyra |
Marion |
Male |
| 1880 U.S. Census? |
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80 |
GRIMSHAW, Owen |
Self |
1824 |
56 |
M |
W |
ENGL |
IL |
IL-13 |
Family |
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81 |
GRIMSHAW, Elizabeth |
Wife |
1820 |
60 |
F |
W |
TN |
IL |
IL-13 |
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From Family Search:
Household:
| Name | Relation | Marital Status | Gender | Race | Age | Birthplace | Occupation | Father's Birthplace | Mother's Birthplace |
| Owen GRIMSHAW | Self | M | Male | W | 56 | ENGLAND | None | ENGLAND | ENGLAND |
| Elizabeth GRIMSHAW | Wife | M | Female | W | 60 | TN | Keeping House | SC | SC |
| Laura MATTOX | Niece | S | Female | W | 22 | MO | Works Out | IL | IL |
| Sarah GAITTY | Niece | S | Female | W | 8 | MO | At Home | MO | MO |
| Census Place | Ashley, Washington, Illinois | |
| Family History Library Film | 1254256 | |
| NA Film Number | T9-0256 | |
| Page Number | 383D |
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| Apparent Civil War Service Indication |
Sheriff Thomason... Clay Countians owe him 'a debt they will never be able to pay'
By: Jack "Miles" Ventimiglia, Editor July 01, 2004
JOHN THOMASON, SHERIFF, AND RELATIVE OF OUTLAW JESSE JAMES
To understand the first in a family line of Liberty law enforcers requires a foundation in local history, starting with the Civil War and harsh times endured by Clay Countians as Union militia ran roughshod over residents in the "Little Dixie" county.
A local historian, the late Sonny Wells, a few months back shared a story he had come across about an incident involving Union treatment of Clay Countians...
A Confederate soldier named Thatcher proved too weak for long marches and the Union commander at Liberty let him go home as "a neutral." But a new commander, Col. William Ridgeway Pennick, ordered Thatcher hanged as a traitor. Pennick's men took Thatcher from his wife and children and carried out the order along the road outside the family home.
Union militia were not the only ones robbing and killing. William Clarke Quantrill and his band of Southern raiders also murdered and pillaged, with Bradley Y. Bond called out of his house May 31, 1864 and gunned down by Quantrill's men for being a Yankee. The next day, June 1, another man, Alvis Dagley, died for the same reason. Four days later, June 6, a man listed only as a slave belonging to Abijah Withers of Liberty took a bullet. The article describing Quantrill's actions concluded: "The murderers and robbers must be driven out or Clay will go down, down, until the waves of destruction close over her as they have over Jackson and Cass counties."
Such actions were nothing new, with Quantrill and about 40 men having ridden into Liberty on March 14, 1862, briefly taking back the town from the Union. In the process, they were said to have shot a federal soldier, Owen Grimshaw, for not giving them information, but Grimshaw, in a letter to the Liberty Tribune on March 28 said that at gunpoint he told "the secesh villains" everything they wanted to know.
From a website on Thomas A Alvis:
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~mysouthernfamily/myff/d0055/g0000055.html
My Southern Family
Thomas A. ALVIS
4 May 1851 - 23 Mar 1933
ID Number: I28569
RESIDENCE: Shelby Co.Nacogdoches, TX
BIRTH: 4 May 1851, Shelby Co. TX
DEATH: 23 Mar 1933, Haslam, Shelby, TX
BURIAL: Brookland Cem. Shelby, TX
RESOURCES: See: [S315]
Father: William Carter ALVIS
Mother: Mary Elizabeth AIKEN
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Webpage posted February 2007