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Ok this might sound daft, but what evidence do you have to tie in the people we have found to the people in the will?

How sure are you these people are English and not American?



T x

Tracey, I think Celia knows that the brother (who made the will) is her own grandmother's brother, and Laura Mary (or vice versa) was their sister.

I assume she's checked emigration records for the brother, or maybe the will is in her possession. ??

Could this be the brother; born England

. World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942
about Samuel George Ross
Name: Samuel George Ross
Birth Date: 6 May 1894
Birth Place:
Residence: Chicago, Illinois
Race: White
Roll: 30955_165943

there were 8 siblings 4 went to america
i am in contact thanks to help from someone on genes to decendants in usa
i have seen census which brings them together also i knew
some of them and from my mother

When/where did Samuel die in the States?
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he died in illinios county of cook
the money from him was given out in april 1958 so he could have died a year before

I know aht you are saying MM, but sometimes assumption has been the devil in disguise!

T x

This him

Cook County, Illinois Death Index, 1908-1988
about Samuel G Ross
Name: Samuel G Ross
Death Date: 5 Mar 1957
Death Location: Cook County, IL
File Number: 16365
Archive collection name: Cook County Genealogy Records (Deaths)
Archive repository location: Chicago, IL
Archive repository name: Cook County Clerk

Grrr Ginny was just gonna do that!


T x

sounds right
but why are you searching him , its mary im trying to trace

Celia

It's very clear we cannot find her, so you go further out and see if she pops up somewhere!

It's very unlikely he'd leave anything to a relative he was no longer in constant communication with.... and this makes her more likely to be in America with him?


T x

His daft registration card states his brother James Ross was living in Texas in 1942.

T x

Celia, it helps us get the right person if we get as full a picture as possible of the family. Just in case something has gone wrong along the way.

my mother and her uncle inthis country received money
im wondering if she changed her name they hated their father

I got the impression she only inherited because her father had died. I know nowt about the law regarding wills and certainly not in the USA (JANEY!!!!). So I gathered he had left money to his father (why would anyone do that?), and she inherited as his next of kin (one of).

Hmmm good thinking MM, i do wonder then when did the father die?

This would indicate the age of the will?


T x

james
george
beatrice
lena
went to the states
i dont know about mary or william
but ida
ernie
were in this country

Where was Lena born?

T x

Celia says her mother and uncle inherited. That sort of implies that it WAS left to the father, and by his will it went to his children, which sorts out the Uncle (presumably Ernie).

So I assume Celia's grandparents were dead, hence their money came down to the next generation, her mother. Does that sound right Celia? Don't answer if it is sensitive information, I'm not being nosey.

But I do know of instances in my own family where money was left to a specific individual (my mother) and she chose to dish it out amongst other relatives who weren't legally entitled, she just felt it was right.

None of that helps to find Laura/Mary and how she came to be a Jones - if indeed she did.

OK, found her,

Births Jun 1875
ROSS Lena Maude Stoke D. 5b 306

Marriages Jun 1896
BAWCOMBE Janie Maria Liskeard 5c 80
Littleton Frederick Congdon Liskeard 5c 80
Oliver Charles Ernest Liskeard 5c 80
Ross Lena Maude Liskeard 5c 80