Our American connection
On Grandfather Samuel Broome’s family through his mother, Hannah Hollinead we find Joseph Wilde and Jenny Whitehead.
When finding their information I stumbled across a lady in America, Bette Fuller who was researching her husband’s family, and discovered that they too were descended from Joseph and Jenny.
Joseph and Jenny’s grandson John Wilde (son of Randolph) married a Lancashire girl Nancy Cocker, who was a member of the Church of Latter Day Saints. They had 5 children – Joseph, John, Matthew, Sarah, , though two boys Joseph and John died in England before the family moved to the states.
John Wilde went to USA in 1854, promising to send for his wife and children, but he never did. Whilst on the trail to Utah, he met and married Mary, a widow with 13 children. The marriage was polygamous (which in that faith was allowed in those times). Times were hard so it is presumed that the pressures on him to keep his new family meant that he never got to send for Nancy and the children.
Sarah Jane went to USA and married William Burnett and had quite a few children.
15 years were to pass before Nancy remarried, this time to Thomas Buckley. Nancy, Matthew and her other children went to America, staying with the Burnett’s.
Bette Fuller kindly sent me some of the histories of these family members and I am including them here, along with a photograph of Sarah Jane Burnett Wilde’s family.
But before I do, I will try and explain this family by inserting a chart linking it to the Hollinhead family who are linked to the Wilde’s and the Broome’s by marriage.
John Wilde m Jenny Whitehead
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Randall Wilde Rachel Wilde m James Hollinhead
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John Wilde m Nancy Cocker James Hollinhead m Mary Thomas
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Hannah Hollinhead m Samuel Broome
When finding their information I stumbled across a lady in America, Bette Fuller who was researching her husband’s family, and discovered that they too were descended from Joseph and Jenny.
Joseph and Jenny’s grandson John Wilde (son of Randolph) married a Lancashire girl Nancy Cocker, who was a member of the Church of Latter Day Saints. They had 5 children – Joseph, John, Matthew, Sarah, , though two boys Joseph and John died in England before the family moved to the states.
John Wilde went to USA in 1854, promising to send for his wife and children, but he never did. Whilst on the trail to Utah, he met and married Mary, a widow with 13 children. The marriage was polygamous (which in that faith was allowed in those times). Times were hard so it is presumed that the pressures on him to keep his new family meant that he never got to send for Nancy and the children.
Sarah Jane went to USA and married William Burnett and had quite a few children.
15 years were to pass before Nancy remarried, this time to Thomas Buckley. Nancy, Matthew and her other children went to America, staying with the Burnett’s.
Bette Fuller kindly sent me some of the histories of these family members and I am including them here, along with a photograph of Sarah Jane Burnett Wilde’s family.
But before I do, I will try and explain this family by inserting a chart linking it to the Hollinhead family who are linked to the Wilde’s and the Broome’s by marriage.
John Wilde m Jenny Whitehead
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Randall Wilde Rachel Wilde m James Hollinhead
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John Wilde m Nancy Cocker James Hollinhead m Mary Thomas
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Hannah Hollinhead m Samuel Broome
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