Born on the sea aboard the SS Edinburgh traveling from Liverpool to New York as his mother and father and siblings emigrated from England to the USA. Named for Captain Francis of the ship & the SS Edinburgh itself, he was known by all affectionately as Cap'n.
His parents, Elizabeth Shelton & George Filby/Philby met and married and raised children in Dukinfield, Cheshire, England. George was a coal miner in England and brought his family to Allegheny, PA where they lived about ten years before heading to Brazil, IA and establishing their own mine known as the Star Mine.
He appears on the 1900 Bellair Township, Appanoose, IA census as HH with wife Alta or Alba whom he had been married to for 10 years. In 1910 he is widowed and living with his sister Margaret's family also Bellair Twp. Family has told me he died in Brazil
His parents, Elizabeth Shelton & George Filby/Philby met and married and raised children in Dukinfield, Cheshire, England. George was a coal miner in England and brought his family to Allegheny, PA where they lived about ten years before heading to Brazil, IA and establishing their own mine known as the Star Mine.
He appears on the 1900 Bellair Township, Appanoose, IA census as HH with wife Alta or Alba whom he had been married to for 10 years. In 1910 he is widowed and living with his sister Margaret's family also Bellair Twp. Family has told me he died in Brazil
Born on the sea aboard the SS Edinburgh traveling from Liverpool to New York as his mother and father and siblings emigrated from England to the USA. Named for Captain Francis of the ship & the SS Edinburgh itself, he was known by all affectionately as Cap'n.
His parents, Elizabeth Shelton & George Filby/Philby met and married and raised children in Dukinfield, Cheshire, England. George was a coal miner in England and brought his family to Allegheny, PA where they lived about ten years before heading to Brazil, IA and establishing their own mine known as the Star Mine.
He appears on the 1900 Bellair Township, Appanoose, IA census as HH with wife Alta or Alba whom he had been married to for 10 years. In 1910 he is widowed and living with his sister Margaret's family also Bellair Twp. Family has told me he died in Brazil
His parents, Elizabeth Shelton & George Filby/Philby met and married and raised children in Dukinfield, Cheshire, England. George was a coal miner in England and brought his family to Allegheny, PA where they lived about ten years before heading to Brazil, IA and establishing their own mine known as the Star Mine.
He appears on the 1900 Bellair Township, Appanoose, IA census as HH with wife Alta or Alba whom he had been married to for 10 years. In 1910 he is widowed and living with his sister Margaret's family also Bellair Twp. Family has told me he died in Brazil
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