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I am trying to find if the above person had any siblings and am getting nowhere. He was born in Dudley and the earliest I can find him is on the 1871 census aged 77 and blind, living with his son and family. The stange thing on the census is the spelling of his surname - it looks like Promow??, but I wondered if it could be Troman as that seems to be a common name in the area he was born in, (apparently they were makers of Jews Harps!). Troman is also a middle name used in my father's family for quite a few generations. There are lots of Jewkes's in Dudley and yet I cannot link any of them to my paternal line. Any ideas what I can do next, please?

Just adding for ref.


1871 census transcription details for: Dock Lane, Dudley
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National Archive Reference:
RG number: RG10
Piece: 3012
Folio: 125
Page: 16
Reg. District: Dudley
Sub District: Dudley
Parish: Dudley
Enum. District: 20
Ecclesiastical District:
City/Municipal Borough: Dudley
Address: Dock Lane, Dudley
County: Staffordshire
Name Relation Condition Sex Age Birth Year Occupation Where Born
JEWKES, Daniel Head M 45 1826 miner, b Dudley Worcestershire
JEWKES, Ann Wife F 43 1828 Dudley, Worcestershire
JEWKES, Thomas Son M 18 1853 Dudley Worcestershire
JEWKES, Ezekiel Son M 10 1861 Dudley Worcestershire
>>PROMOW, Ezekiel Father M 77 1794 Dudley Worcestershire blind


Not sure what the name is but I would say it does begin with a P.

1871 for reference

JEWKES, Daniel Head M 45 1826 Worcestershire VIEW
JEWKES, Ann Wife F 43 1828 Worcestershire VIEW
JEWKES, Thomas Son M 18 1853 Worcestershire VIEW
JEWKES, Ezekiel Son M 10 1861 Worcestershire VIEW
PROMOW, Ezekiel Father M 77 1794 Worcestershire VIEW

Piece: 3012

Folio: 125

Page: 16

Registration District: Dudley

Civil Parish: Dudley

Municipal Borough: Dudley

Address: Dock Lane, Dudley

County: Staffordshire

Wonder if this could be him??


1861 England Census about Ezekiel Truman
Name: Ezekiel Truman
Age: 66
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1795
Relation: Head
Spouse's Name: Hannah Truman
Gender: Male
Where born: Stourbridge, Worcestershire, England

Civil parish: Dudley
County/Island: Worcestershire
Country: England


Registration district: Dudley
Sub-registration district: Dudley
ED, institution, or vessel: 23
Neighbors: View others on page
Household schedule number: 149
Piece: 2057
Folio: 114
Page Number: 32
Household Members:
Name Age
Ezekiel Truman 66, basketmaker
Hannah Truman 68 b Stourton




England & Wales, FreeBMD Death Index: 1837-1915 about Ezekiel Tromans
Name: Ezekiel Tromans
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1795
Date of Registration: Jul-Aug-Sep 1872
Age at Death: 77
Registration district: Dudley
Inferred County: Staffordshire
Volume: 6c
Page: 112

Daniel and Ann?? With the Dukes (Jewkes?)


1851 census transcription details for: Upper High Street
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National Archive Reference:
RG number: HO107
Piece: 2035
Folio: 27
Page: 1
Reg. District: Stourbridge Union
Sub District: Stourbridge
Parish:
Enum. District: 1B
Ecclesiastical District: Oldswinford
City/Municipal Borough:
Address: Upper High Street
County: Worcestershire
Name Relation Condition Sex Age Birth Year Occupation , Disability Where Born
DUKES, George Married M 44 1807 Cheese & Bacon Factor
Hoidton, Devonshire
DUKES, Sarah Wife Married F 37 1814 Cheese & Bacon Factors Wife
Stourbridge, Worcestershire
DUKES, Elizabeth Daughter Unmarried F 15 1836 Dressmaker
Stourbridge, Worcestershire
DUKES, Isabella Daughter Unmarried F 13 1838 At Home
Stourbridge, Worcestershire
DUKES, Henry Son Unmarried M 11 1840
Stourbridge, Worcestershire
DUKES, Edwin Son Unmarried M 6 1845
Stourbridge, Worcestershire
DUKES, George Son Unmarried M 4 1847
Stourbridge, Worcestershire
DUKES, Mary Daughter Unmarried F 2 1849
Stourbridge, Worcestershire
>>TRUEMAN, Daniel Visitor Married M 26 1825 Sword Cutler
Stourbridge, Worcestershire
>>TRUEMAN, Ann Visitor Married F 26 1825 Sword Cutlers Wife
Dudley, Worcestershire
TRUEMAN, Ellen Visitor Unmarried F 0 (2 MOS) 1851
Birmingham, W


EDIT No this one is Trueman all the way through the census.

Midsummer 1818: Theft of oats by James Robinson from Benjamin Whitehouse, Dudley: Witnesses Thomas Fryer, servant, Joseph Cooke, saddler, & Joseph Jewkes, Asst. Constable. 1/1/634/99a&b [n.d.]


Midsummer 1819: Theft of pewter measure from Jolly Collier Public House by Edward Fellows, Dudley: evidence of Joseph & Elizabeth Morris & Constable, Joseph Jewkes. 1/1/638/184-185 [n.d.]


Epiphany 1820: Examination of Philip Fellows, Dudley, labourer, charged with stealing cheese says not guilty. Michael Halford, Birmingham, huckster, missed cheese: heard that Joseph Jewkes, Constable, had found cheese in Fellows' bed on search. 1/1/641/64-65 [n.d.]


Midsummer 1821: Theft of frock from William Hand, servant to Benjamin Leech, Kingswinford, farmer, and suspected John Hill, Dudley, labourer, who had left Leech's employ without notice: Joseph Jewkes, Asst. Constable, took Hill, who said Mary Leech gave him the frock, which she denies. 1/1/648/222-223 [n.d.]


Michaelmas 1821: Charles Bonas, servant to John James, pork butcher, Birmingham, selling meat on Dudley Market, saw Harriet Pittaway steal bacon from his stall but pass it on to an accomplice who ran off: watched her & when she stole bacon from Michael Harford's stall took her with the bacon under her apron: Joseph Jewkes, Asst. Constable involved. Pittaway says she found the bacon on the ground. 1/1/649/186-187 [n.d.]


Easter 1822: John Willies, Dudley, fendermaker, missed brass & heard of brass being sold to Chinner's shop in Dudley & the seller's description tallying with Joseph Tonks, his apprentice: Joseph Brookes, apprentice to Chinner identifies Tonks, who confesses to Constable, Joseph Jukes. 1/1/652/67 [n.d.]


Easter 1824: Thomas Marsh, Dudley, Fire iron maker, found that Joseph Hancox, his employee for 10 years, had been making fire irons on his own account using Marsh's iron & moulds: 11 articles found by Constable Joseph Jewkes in Hancox's house. 1/1/662/134 [n.d.]


thought you might find the above interesting - taken from the Worcestershire Archives as follows:

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1698-9. 1 1 Will. III. cap. 2.

An Act for granting an Aid to His Majesty by Sale of the forfeited
and other Estates and Interests in Ireland and by a Land Tax in
England for the severall Purposes therein mentioned.
32 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WORCESTERSHIRE,

For the County of Worcester

, Samuell Jewkes, Gentlemen,

1713. 12 Anne, Stat. ii. cap. 3, Priv.

An Act for repairing the Highway or Road from the City of Wor-
cester to the Borough of Droitwich in the County of Worcester.

" Whereas the greatest Part of the Highway or Road leading from the
" City of Worcester to the Borough of Droitwich in the County of Wor-



ACTS OF PARLIAMENT. 43

"cester being in Length about Six Miles by the Reason of the Great
" and many Loads and Carriages of Salt and other goods which Daily
" pass through the said Road and almost impassable for the Space of Nine
" Months in every Year ..."

Trustees are here appointed for executing the Act.

1713. 13 Anne, cap. i.

An Act for granting an Aid to Her Majesty to be raised by a
Land Tax in Great Britain for the Service of the Year One thousand
seven hundred and fourteen.
., Samuel Jewkes, Gent.,


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Coming To America
Samuel & Sarah Jewkes


Samuel Jewkes, steelmaker, soldier, saw and grist mill operator, and musician of early Sanpete County and pioneer of Castle Valley, was born in Tipton, Staffordshire, England on March 23 1823. He was the son of William and Jane Woodward Jewkes of Dudley, Worcestershire, England. Tipton and Dudley are both suburbs of the huge industrial city of Birmingham. YY



Samuel Jewkes was born March 23, 1823, at Tipton Staffordshire, England where he lived until after he was 20 years old. His father William, died when he was nine years old. At the age of six, he commenced working in the coal mines, picking up the small lumps of coal that fell off the cars, later laboring there as a coal miner. SJH



He had a good common school education. He could read and write well and was good at figures. He was a good singer and could read music readily.... When he was nineteen years old, he married Sarah Knight at Kingswinford, Staffordshire, England at St. Margies Church, by Edward Addison, Vicar. SJH



Samuel's early training was in the field of engineering and his work experience in the iron works and heavy industry in Birmingham. In the mid 1840's, England was exporting its technology to other countries and so it was that Samuel Jewkes, his young wife, Sarah and baby daughter arrived in Mount Savage, Maryland in 1848, the place where the first steel rails for the emerging railroad industry were made in the United States. Edward Adds, Vicker, performed Samuel's and Sarah's wedding ceremony YY



Other children were born to Sarah and Samuel in Mount Savage and later in Norristown, Pennsylvania and Cincinnati, Ohio, none of whom survived childhood ["all six of them before reaching the age of two" SJH]. The cruelest blow fell when Samuel's wife Sarah died in St. Louis, Missouri in 1850. YY Their children were Nanah Maria, Joseph Richard, Sarah Jane, Mary Ann, Richard and Sarah.








Samuel Jewkes' Siblings


Samuel's siblings were Richard, Mary Ann, William, John and Jane. All of them may have immigrated to America in 1855. Much of the following information comes from Donna Kemsley, but not all...



Richard, was born on 22 March 1816 in Todsend, Worchester, England; married Mary Crowther (b. 1821, East Hope Shropshire, England) about 1840 in Shropshire; married Harriet Lee after Mary's death in 1847; according to the 1870 US census, Richard Jewekes, age 54, had a household of 2 in Fountain Green, Utah, and was a coal miner; he died about 1879.

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Mary Ann may have come to America. A "Jewkes, Mary Ann (Lapworth)" sailed on the ship "Samuel Curling" on Apr. 22 1855. This may have been Samuel's sister.



John was born on 13 April 1829, Tipton, Staffordshire, England, married Elizabeth Kingdon on 29 Dec 1863, came to America and eventually died 2 August 1903 in Cullon, Livingston, Illinois. Elizabeth died on 1 May 1919 also in Cullon, Livingston, Illinois.



Jane was born 2 April 1832, Kateshill, Worchesershire, England about seven months after her father was killed in a mine accident; married Mr. Price in England; they two children, Richard (b. 1851) and Mary Ann (b. 9 March 1854); Mary Jane died 26 March 1854, only 17 days old; they were divorced; Jane came to America about 1855; she wed Thomas Crowther in Cedar City, Utah in 1855 (or 1896); her son Richard died 25 Jan 1856 in Cedar City, Utah; Jane died in 2 May 1896 in Colorado. Thomas died 2 Oct 1898, Sanford, Conejos, Colorado.





Thomas Crowther and Jane Jewkes


An interesting and complex twist about the Crowthers and the Jewkes. After the death of James Crowther in 1861, his wife Rebecca Thornton Crowther and their daughter, Mary, came to America using the Perpetual Emmigration Fund in 1862. Rebecca was Samuel Jewkes's sister-in-law because his sister, Jane, was married to Thomas Crowther, the brother of Rebecca's deceased husband. Rebecca left England in April 1862 and arrived in Utah in October, having lost her daughter Mary at Winters Quarters in Florence, Nebraska (she was only 1 year old). Even more interesting, Rebecca married Sophia's son, Samuel's adopted son, John Lewis Jewkes in December 1862, a few months after she arrived. Thomas Crowther and his wife, Jane, also eventually moved to Fountain Green (by 1872).



Nothing is known about William at this time.



Did all of Samuel Jewkes' siblings come over with Mary Ann in 1855 after he came over in the 1840's?

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The Adams Family of Dover, Kent England


Mary Nash Adams (b. 13 Feb 1787) bore her husband, John Adams (b. 17 Jan 1796), a son, William Henry Adams on 4 June 1817. Thirteen years later, after John's death, Mary bore William Gardner a daughter, Mary Gardner -- Samuel Jewkes' future wife. It appears that William and Mary were not married (which Lisa Ratzlaff confirms):



On 19 February 1830 when her son William Henry was 13, Mary gave birth to a baby girl she named Mary Gardner. Mary's father, William Gardner, educated and provided for young Mary until his death when she was in her teens. [YY p. 283]



An interesting and confusing side issue is Mary's name -- perhaps irrelevant to Mary Gardner's life story, perhaps not. Throughout Yesteryears and in the FamilySearch archives, Mary Nash Adams' daughter, whom she named Mary Gardner, is referred to by several names: the indirect "Mary Nash Adams and her daughter" as well as Mary Adams, Mary Gardner, Mary Nash Gardner and even Mary Nash Gardner Adams.



Mary Nash Adams and her daughter were baptized (into the LDS church) in Dover, Kent, England, 29 April 1848. They attended the Dover London England Conference. [YY p. 283]



About their conversion, Joseph Hyrum Jewkes, son of Mary and Samuel Jewkes, related:




My mother often told that when the Latter Day Saint Elders first came to their home in England her family recognized their teachings as gospel truths. The three of them -- Grandmother (Mary Nash Adams), her son William Henry Adams and mother (Mary Gardner) were soon baptised and William went to Zion to prepare the way for his mother and sister to come on. Mother had to shoulder the responsibility of providing and caring for the home and her blind mother. She was a skilled seanstress and was able to save enough to pay their passage across the Atlantic and to transport them to St. Louis, Missouri where she again took up sewing and gained means to continue the journey. [YY, p. 283]



William Gardner died when Mary Gardner was 16 (according to Lisa Ratzlaff). According to the Liverpool Emigration Records, on 25 November 1850 both Mary's signed onto a ship heading for America -- using the same name:



In early January 1851, Mary Adams and her daughter (listed as Mary Adams, age 63, and Mary Adams, age 21) were among a group of 281 converts who borded the George W. Bourne, a 663 ton US ship... [YY, p. 283]



They were travelling with John and Sarah Kenny (a 36 year old butcher and his 31 year old wife of 4 Biggin Court, Biggin Street, Dover). The 291 Mormon converts on this voyage were to set sail for New Orleans, Louisiana on 9 January 1851.



On Jan. 11 the ship was "towed into the river to be ready for a fair wind," but because of contrary winds they were not able to put out to sea for 12 days. In the meantime the passengers organized a branch of the LDS church with Elder William Gibson, a native of Scotland, as branch president, and dealt out provisions. [YY, p. 284]



During the first two days at sea, the wind blew trememdously and some of the passengers were greatly frightened.... Later the wind calmed and porpoises played around the ship while the passengers sat on deck "enjoying the view of a smooth sea in a warm sunshine." [YY, p. 284]



They passed the Bahamas on 9 March and reached the Gulf of Mexico on the 12th. On 19 March 1851, a steamer took them up the Mississippi to New Orleans.



An additional variation of Mary's name is found in Yesteryears (p. 281) next to photos of Samuel's wife and children, bearing the caption:




Wife---Mary Nash Gardner Adams [YY, p. 281]



Mary Gardner's Pedigree: Reconstructing history from scant, confusing and often contradictory records makes the genealogist's task difficult. It is therefore quite understandable that genealogy researchers have seemingly submitted erroneous and duplicate information to the LDS's church's FamilySearch archives. Mary's Individual Record lists both William Gardner and John Adams as fathers married to the same mother, Mary Nash (at different times). An extensive, though incorrect, lineage is presented using John Adam's pedigree, while little is recorded of her true lineage through her real father, William Gardner's pedigree.

If that weren't enough, to increase this confusion the IGI records that Samuel Jewkes married both Mary Adams (m. 4 Jun 1855; a duplicate listing) and Mary Gardner (m. 23 Nov 1861), but this Family Group Record lists the true marriage of Samuel Jewkes to Mary along with their children. Additional confusion arises from two Individual Records which record her name as both Mary Gardner and Mary Nash Gardner, while both point to the same Family Group Record listed above -- which lists her name as Mary Nash Gardner. Ugh!



Notwithstanding this confusion, Yesteryears is quite clear that Samuel Jewkes married Mary Nash Adam's daughter, whom she named Mary Gardner. (Thanks to Donna Kemsley, Lisa Ratzlaff and a better reading of YY for clarifying this confusion)








Sophia & John Lewis (her son) also of Dover, Kent England


Sophia Lewis, my paternal great great grandmother, was born on 19 February 1822 (or 1825) in Dover, Kent, England. She was just 2 months shy of 19 years old when she gave birth to John Lewis, my great grandfather, on 14 December 1840. Sophia was baptized into the LDS church 29 Jan 1844 in Dover, Kent England when John was 4 and before Mary Gardner was baptised in 1848. Mary and Sophia knew each other in Dover. It seems logical that Sophia may have also attended the same Dover London England Conference Mary did.



On 26 December 1850, Sophia Lewis (age 29) and John Lewis (age 10), among many others, signed on to the ship Ellen Maria, captained by A. Whitmore, due to set sail for New Orleans on 29 January 1851. On 2 February 1851 (one month after John turned 10) they set sail from Liverpool, England along with 378 other Mormon emigrants led by G. Watt. After 63 days on the high seas they arrived in New Orleans, Louisiana on 6 April 1851. SS



Some Kemsley and Jewkes family legends reflect what my father, John Irven Kemsley, recorded:




My great-grandfather... Samuel Jewkes, was born in England and was converted to the gospel and joined the Mormon church there. He came to the United States about 1850 and went on out to Utah. When he left his sweetheart in England, he promised her that as soon as he got established he'd build a house for her, save some money and send for her.

When he sent the money to his parents back in England... he didn't know that his sweetheart had died in the mean time. His parents thought it would be a shame to disappoint him completely, so they gave the money to another woman, Sophia Lewis... (whom he had known there) and sent her to America along with her 10 year old son, John Lewis -- my grandfather.

Sophia and John arrived in New Orleans about 1851 and went across the planes foot pushing a handcart all the way to Utah. When they finally arrived and Samuel went out to meet his sweetheart he still did not know that someone else had been substituted for her. When he found out that it was Sophia, he wrote in his journal, "I had to marry her to protect my investment!"

Unfortunately, Yesteryears contradicts some of this family history. Moreover, the handcart companies travelled the plains from 1856-1860, after Samuel and Sophia Jewkes were in Utah. However, by combining the accounts of my father John Kemsley with Donna Kemsley (Jesse Reuben Kemsley's ggdaughter by his son, Lewis) and Yesteryears we begin to get a clearer picture of how Sophia and John came to America.



Donna Mae Kemsley's family legends corroborate some of my father's recollections: Samuel Jewkes (or possibly John Lewis Jewkes) sent money to the Mormon missionaries back in England to bring Samuel's widowed (and remarried) mother, Jane to America (she married William Price Dunn after Samuel's father, William Jewkes was killed in a mine accident in 1831). Unfortunately, his mother, Jane Dunn, was too old and unhealthy to travel to America.



The missionaries in charge decided that the money would be used to send Sophia Lewis and her son, John, to America. It seems clear that had Samuel expected his mother to arrive in St. Louis, he would have been suprised and disappointed over the substitution of Sophia and John. "I had to marry her to protect my investment!" was a natural precursor to Donna's family tradition of Samuel stating that Sophia never did repay him for the passage, to which Sophia replied, "If you haven't been repaid for what I've done for you in the last few years you'll never get paid."






Gathering to Zion


A Family Gathering, Saint Louis, Missouri


Samuel and Sarah Jewkes arrived in America in 1848 and ended up on St. Louis, Missouri by 1850, where Sarah died -- wife and one time mother to their six previously deceased children -- leaving Samuel totally alone.



Mary Gardner and her mother, Mary Nash Adams, arrived in America (New Orleans) on 19 March 1851 and Sophia less than one month later on April 6th. Mary, and probably Sophia, traveled from New Orleans, Louisiana to Saint Louis, Missouri on the 499 ton side-wheeler riverboat Concordia, commanded by William H. Cable. The 1200 mile, 7 day journey cost "10s 5d. each adult; children under twelve and over two years old, half price; infants and baggage, free." Once in St. Louis, Mary resumed sewing to raise the funds necessary to bring her and her mother to the Great Salt Lake Valley.



In late April or early May 1851, two months after Mary arrived, she ran into Sophia at church. They had been friends back in Dover, England, and had been born on the same day of the year, 19 February, 8 years apart (Sophia in 1822, Mary in 1830. Yesteryears records that Sophia was born in 1825). When Mary asked when she was starting for the mountains of Salt Lake City, Sophia responded "next week." Mary explained that whe would have to stay in St. Louis until she earned enough money to make the trip.



The next Sunday, when Sophia was again at church, she said, "You see, I did not get started for Zion, I got married instead. Come and let me introduce you to my husband, Mr. Samuel Jewkes." Sophia and Samuel were married by Elder James Simkins on Sunday, 11 May 1851 in Saint Louis, Saint Louis, Missouri. Samuel later adopted John who took the Jewkes surname.

At the time of their meeting, Mary did not realize that she would later marry this same man, Mr. Samuel Jewkes, at Sophia's request and Mary's children would learn to love "Aunt Sophie" as Sophie's children loved "Aunt Mary".









Crossing the Plains


Samuel Jewkes, Sophia Lewis Jewkes, Mary Gardner and her mother, Mary Nash Adams, started to cross the plains in covered wagons between May 1851 and July 1852 -- about 5-6 years after Brigham Young made the original trek from Navoo to Utah in 1846 and 4 to 5 years before the wagons started being replaced by the more economical handcarts in 1856.



Mary and Mary Cross the Plains with the Abraham O. Smoot Company

(June - Sept 1852)



Mary Gardner and her mother remained in St. Louis for about a year to raise enough money to resumed their journey to Utah, through Kansas City where they joined the Abraham O. Smoot Company.



The Abraham O. Smoot Company was the first company to travel from England to the Great Salt Lake Valley with the assistance of the Perpetual Emigration Fund, designed to aid those who did not have the funds to make the journey. On 28 January 1852 they left England on the ship Pacifica and landed in New York and proceeded to Utah, going through Kansas City where they met up with Mary. Of the approximately 250 people traveling in 33 wagons, 220 were funded by the Perpetual Emigration Fund and 26 by their own savings. They also had 55 yoke of cattle and 50 cows. We don't know if the Mary and her mother needed to use the Perpetual Emigration Fund.



The company departed Kansas City on 1 June 1852 and were escorted into Salt Lake City on 2 September 1852 by the First Presidency of the Church (including the Prophet Brigham Young), some of the Twelve Apostles, Capt. Pitt's band and many of the citizens on horseback and in carriages.



Despite the large crowd at the celebration, they were greatly disappointed that William Adams, who had previously come to the valley to prepare they way for his mother and sister, was not there to greet them. When the celebration was over and nearly everyone had left, a man came calling for the mother and sister of William Adams. To the elderly Mary he said, "Your son would have come but his wife died just as he was ready to leave." They joined William and his three motherless children in Pleasant Grove. For several years they lived with him, caring for his two sons and daughter.

Samuel & Sophia Jewkes Cross the Plains on a "Freight Train"

(July - Nov 1852)



Samuel Jewkes and Sophia Lewis Jewkes left for Salt Lake City on an unknown date (the records of that period are incomplete). If our records are correct, they moved to Utah between 11 May 1851 (when they were married in Missouri) and 22 Aug 1853 (when Sophia bore Samuel Richard Jewkes in Salt Lake City -- let's hope she wasn't pregnant during the journey).



Some Kemsley and Jewkes family legends reflect what my father, John Irven Kemsley, recorded:



Sophia and John arrived in New Orleans about 1851 and went across the planes foot pushing a handcart all the way to Utah.



Unfortunately, Yesteryears and historical evidence contradicts this: the hand cart companies travelled the plains from 1856-1860, after Samuel and Sophia Jewkes were in Utah.



While certainly not definitive, we can narrow the possibilities down by using ancillary information provided by the known histories and legends. By combining the accounts of my father John Kemsley, with the legends of Donna Kemsley, Yesteryears and other historical documents we may get a clearer picture of their trek.



Samuel and Sophia seem to have been part of a "freight train" (of covered wagons) transporting sugar manufacturing equipment across the plains from July to November 1852. This freight train (as well as many others) is not included on the official lists of emigrant companies (e.g., those listed at Pioneer Companies that Crossed the Plains 1847-1868).



The Jewkes family history, Yesteryears records:




Samuel had made quite a stay in that city [St. Louis, Missouri] so as to assist his old friend Elias Morris buy cattle for the sugar company, which was no doubt the pioneer factory at Lehi, which was built under the direction of Brigham Young, who sent John taylor to England to buy equipment for the manufacturing of sugar. [p. 245, written by Samuel & Mary's son, Joseph Hyrum Jewkes]

While engaged in buisness with his old friend Elias Morris in St. Louis, Samuel married Sophia Lewis on May 11, 1851... [p. 277, written by Movell Jewkes, son of Joseph Benjamine Jewkes, son of Joseph Hyrum Jewkes son of Samuel and Mary Jewkes]



Donna's family legends corroborates this theme: Samuel was part of a freight train bringing machinery for grist mills and factory equipment from New York City to Utah (he later had grist mills in Fountain Green and Orangeville). This could explain why he and Sarah moved from Mount Savage, Maryland in 1848, to Norristown, Pennsylvania and Cincinnati, Ohio and finally to St. Louis, Missouri in 1850, where Sarah died and he met and married Sophia. From there, they went on to Utah.



The Deseret News Centinnial Utah project's article, How sweet it was! Sugar plant in Utah got off ground in 1891 provide further "official" corroboration:




Colonizer Brigham Young had promoted sugar production and had distributed seeds for sugar beets among his followers. He created the Agricultural and Manufacturing Society to prod such enterprises but died before a practical method was found to process sugar beet syrup.

In 1852, Young's successor, John Taylor, joined Elias Morris and other pioneer entrepreneurs to bring equipment from France in hopes of refining sugar. But the open kettle method that worked in France did not work in Utah.

The Daughter's of Utah Pioneers' "Hidden Treasures of Pioneer History" elaborates on this freight train. The section "Sugar Machinery Brought To Utah, 1852" (Vol. 1, pp. 450-453) is taken from the History of Capt. Philip DeLaMare. The section was written by Thoman DeLeMare and constantly refers to "father." I've made the assumption that "father" was Capt. Philip DeLaMare, and have modified the original text accordingly.

Two years after the first settlement of Utah, 1847... Brigham Young ordained certain men to perform missions in different parts of the world. Among these was John Taylor... called to go to France.... Brigham Young, realizing the necessity of bringing to Utah new ideas, new enterprises and new establishments to develop and build up the waste places of Deseret, advised his bretheren who were to travel in foreign lands to keep their eyes open to enterprises that could be orgainzed in Utah.

....

after securing the machinery necessary to make sugar On the 11th of January 1852, [Capt. Philip DeLaMare] left Liverpool on the ship Kennebec for America -- his destination being St. Louis, Missouri where he was to secure the necessary wagons, etc., to haul the machinery across the plains to Utah.

The machinery was left in the care of Elias Morris and the Nuttall brothers. They left Liverpool on the ship Rockaway, January 16, 1852. Two months later the cargo arrived in New Orleans, and it required $5,000.00 in gold to pay the tarriff duty to the United States government. Two months later May 1852 the machinery arrived in St. Louis, where it was transferred to small boats and taken to Fort Leavenworth, up the Mississippi River, Indian Terriroty at that time.

[Capt. Philip DeLaMare], who had come direct to Fort Leavenworth from St. Louis, was out in the country buying oxen when the machinery arrived. Captain Russell, who had accompanied [Capt. Philip DeLaMare] from England, was busily engaged in securing wagons at St. Louis. The wagons and cattle were to be used in transporting the machinery to Salt Lake Valley. [Capt. Philip DeLaMare] and Russell brought the cattle and wagons to Fort Leavenworth, where the machinery was loaded and preparations made to commence the journey west.

In securing the cattle, [Capt. Philip DeLaMare] had traveled on foot, or the best way avaliable, over 1,000 miles. Hidden in a belt that he fastened about his waist was $5,000.00 in gold, with which he was to buy cattle. After he had been successful in this he saw before him a task that looked to be almost beyond the power of man to accomplish. A thousand miles of uninhabited plains lay before him and beyond rose great chains of almost unexplored mountains. This was his first experience in this class of work. He had experienced but little of the hardships that entered into a frontiersman's life. The home where he had been reared to manhood was a community where civilization had existed for centuries. His little family was comprised of a wife and three children, and all three of his little ones were seriously sick with the cholera; the eldest of whom died and was buried in St. Louis.

The first fifty wagons that Captain Russell secured, were made from unseasoned timber after the great St. Loius fire, 1851, and proved to be absolutely worthless for heavy loads, breaking down under the great weight of the machinery, of which one copper boiler weighed 33,000 lbs. As a result, [Capt. Philip DeLaMare] was compelled to discard them. He gave them to poor families who were on their way to Utah.

July 4, 1852, saw the beginning of the great journey across the plains from Fort Leavenworth to Utah. [Capt. Philip DeLaMare] direct his caravan -- which in addition to his own wagons now consisted of a large number if emigrant families who had joined them at Fort Leavenworth and along the way. He was looked upon as another Brigham Young at that time, drawing the longest train that had ever crossed the plains to the Rocky Mountains in the U.S.A. at that time.

Out into the great uninhabited plains they traveled. Each day they drew further away from civilization. The first beet sugar refining machinery that had ever been brought to the Western Hemisphere was being transported across the great western plains in forty-two Sante Fe wagons, each drawn by four to eight yoke of oxen and carrying 33,000 to 50,000 pounds each of iron and copper machinery. Days, weeks, and months passed and still they travelled. The long, hot days of summer were now drawing to shorter and cooler and the falling of the leaves from the trees predicted winter.

At Sweetwater River, Wyoming, they experienced their first severe snowstorm. Snow fell to the depth of two feet and the thermometer dropped below zero. The night of the storm many of the cattle got away and ran in every direction. Most of them were rounded up but some were never found.

The commissary got low and they were compelled to kill some of the remaining cattle. Necessarily they were forced to travel far more slowley. While travelling through Wyoming they were met by Joseph Horne, who had been sent by John Taylor to meet them. The provisions and articles he brought were of great assistance to the almost famished emigrants. At Greer River in southwestern Wyoming they purchased some cattle from two trappers -- Deschamps and Garnier -- to replace some they had lost. At Fort Bridger some assistance was received. Abraham O. Smoot brought from Salt Lake City a load of flour.

After a few days rest Mr. Smoot began his return journey, taking with him a number of emigrants.... Their destination was at last reached and their journey almost ended. The families who had accompanied the train stopped off in Salt Lake City and the machinery was taken to Provo City, fifty miles south. It was now the latter part of November, 1852; five months having been spent in the making of the journey from Fort Leavenworth, a distance of 1,200 miles to Salt Lake City.

Samuel Jewkes History confirms that Samuel did, in fact, know the Nuttalls:




He Samuel Jewkes received the Priesthood under the hands of John Nuttall and was the President of the First Quorum of Elders in the Emery Stake. He owned the first molasses mill in the county. He helped to build the roads and bridges, to lay out the townsites and roads and used his means for the benefit of others.



There are several interesting facts contained and possibilities implicated in this account.





•Did Samuel's wife and some of his children die from the same cholera in St. Louis that Capt. Philip DeLaMare's child did?
•Did Samuel, Sophia and John travel on foot the 1,000 miles from St. Louis to Fort Leavenworth along side Capt. Philip DeLaMare in order to secure cattle with the $5,000.00 of gold hiden in his belt? Were they some of the "other pioneer entrepreneurs" involved?
•As noted above, Mary -- Samuel's future third wife and friend of Sophia -- left with the Abraham O. Smoot company when it departed Kansas City on 1 June 1852 and were escorted into Salt Lake City on 2 September 1852 -- shortly before Mr. Smoot backtracked to Fort Bridger to bring flour to this freight train company.
•If Samuel and Sophia travelled on this freight train (July - Nov 1852), Mary departed St. Louis one month before Samuel and Sophia left Fort Leavenworth, and she arrived in Utah two months before they did. They may even have passed each other somewhere along the way (did they join the first Smoot caravan?). Also, Samuel and Sophia could also have gone on ahead of the freight train with Mr. Smoot when he returned to SLC the second time.
•If true, Captain Russell and Capt. Philip DeLaMare were working with Elias Morris, the Nuttall brothers and Samuel Jewkes who were "busily engaged in securing wagons and cattle at St. Louis."


There are a few problems with this theory.



*The Jewkes family Yesteryears record state that Samuel was "engaged in buisness with his old friend Elias Morris in St. Louis, when Samuel married Sophia Lewis on May 11, 1851" -- a full year before the sugar machinery arrived in St. Louis.

*Hidden Treasures of Pioneer History seems to state that Elias Morris was in England in Jan 1852: "The machinery was left [in England?] in the care of Elias Morris and the Nuttall brothers. They left Liverpool on the ship Rockaway, January 16, 1852." Now, Samuel could have been "engaged in buisness" while in St. Louis while "his old friend Elias Morris" was in England for the entire time or part of the time. Elias could have returned to England (the trip took "only" one month) and returned again to Americain 1852.





Deborah Nuttall was kind enough to tell us a little about her ancestors, the "Nuttall brothers" Samuel evidentally knew:




Leonard John Nuttall, Sr. : President of the Kanab Stake of Zion from 1877 to 1844, is the son of William Nuttall and Mary Langhorn, and was born in Liverpool, Lancashire, England July 6, 1834. His early education was had at St. Brides School, Liverpool. At the age of 3 1/2 years he was bound an apprentice as a ship and boat builder. He and his parents and brother Joseph were Baptised in Liverpool October 8, 1850 by Apostle John Taylor, and Leonard was confirmed by Elder John Lindsay October 11, 1850, his elder brother William having been baptised one month earlier. The family composed of parents and children William, Leonard John, and Joseph emigrated to Utah in 1852. They sailed from Liverpool March 6, 1852, crossing the Atlantic in the ship "Rockaway" which arrived at New Orleans at the later part of April. This ship carried the machinery for the first Beet Sugar factory that landed in America. The machinery left the Missouri River in 52 wagons on the 6th of July and arrived at Salt Lake City in November. Leonard John arrived Oct. 10, 1852 and moved with his parents to Provo in November 1852 where they made their home and took part in the early development and buildup of that city.

In 1868 Brigham Young attended the Provo Pioneer Day Celebration. The program was held in a bowery on the Tabernacle Square. One of the numbers was a song by L. John Nuttall, written by Samuel S. Jones. President Young was well pleased with the theme, espically the stanza setting forth the superiority of the grain fields of Utah over the gold fields of California, and at his request, this stanza was repeated. It reflected his views and emphasized the things he preached to the saints.

The first dramatic performance given in Provo was in the log school house located on what is now the Provo Foundry and Machine Company block, in the winter of 1853-54. The players were W. E. Nuttall, J.H Ballard, John McEwan, L. John Nuttall, W.W. Allen, Henry White, Mrs. J.H. Ballard, Mrs. John McEwan, and Mrs. E. Smith. One of the plays presented in the Redfield house was "The Mormon Converts"

Leonard John Nuttall, Sr. was: Member 20th quorum seventies, missionary to Eng. 1874-75. High councilor of Utah Stake; Bishop of Kanab Ward 1875-77; President Kanab Stake 1877-84; Private Sec. to Pres. John Taylor 1879-87, and to Pres. Wilford Woodruff 1887-92; Probate Judge; County Clerk of Utah County; Provo City Recorder; Territorial Suprintendent of Schools 1881-87; Chief Clerk of Legislature. Colonel in Territorial Militia. Black Hawk Indian War Veteran.



Further research into the lives of the people mentioned in these stories could help us find out more about Samuel & Sophia Jewkes' trek across the plains

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I am overwhelmed! Thank you so much for all your help - I can now try and expand my tree further. Loved the bit about Constable Jewkes finding the stolen cheese in the suspects bed - oh, the age of innocence! Fascinating info about the trek to America and the references - will read in depth.
Thanks again,