Ethel Lamb's grandmother on her father's side was Mary Ellen Grace Williams, born Feb. 13, 1861 and died Dec. 5, 1932. Mary Ellen's father was Joseph Williams who died from pipe cancer at the age of sixty-two.
Her mother died of pneumonia at the age of fifty-nine. She had 3 brothers and 2 sisters. Her grandparents lived in Wales and she never saw them. She lived in England, at Shooters Hill, Kent, and at the age of forty-one weighed 140 pounds and was five feet five inches tall.
As to Ethel's grandfather Lambs and Booths side of the family, I shall quote from a letter written by Ethel's father, Frank, to his sister, Elinda on December 7, 1948;
"My only knowledge of the family genealogy is the recollections of the talks of Father, many of them growing dim. I have no recollections of any connection with the Salvation Army Booths. An uncle of Father's was a prominent evangelist of his day. His name as I remember it was Clement Booth. He preceded the days of General Booth and the Salvation Army. The Lambs are descended from a large family scattered about the north of England and on across the Scottish border. They were originally adherents to the House of York as so were the Booths. After the War of the Roses, the family lost most of it's influence and prestige, and became scattered because of their Protestant leanings and many of them were driven north into Scotland.
English history records the persecution of the family, and the burning at the stake of one Sir John Lamb, and the confiscation of the family estate in the 15th century. Since that time it appears that the Lambs mostly followed a military career with a great many of them immigrating to Australia and the U.S.A.. Father was the youngest of a family of eleven, and his parents died in his ninth year. He stayed with his grandparents near Dewsbury in Yorkshire until he was eleven, and then left them to work as a parcel boy on the London and Northwestern R.R. He remained with that company becoming a brakeman, guard, etc. until he enlisted in the army. He was in the army nine years, seven of them spent in India. He married in the last year of service at the age of 29. He returned to the railroad as a station master for a time. Then he had a grocery at Millum in Kent for a short time, coming to the U.S. in 1887. He lost all trace of his brothers and we wrote to his sister, Ann, about his death, but never received a reply.
The Booth family (his mothers') were a Yorkshire family and all I remember him saying of them was that his mother was a cousin of Sir Edwin Booth, a Shakespearian actor, and his brother John Wilkes Booth, the assassinator of Abraham Lincoln."
Ethels' grandparents, John Booth Lamb, (1852-1902) and Mary Ellen Williams (1861-1932) were married on March 2, 1883 at Parish Church at Mirfield, County of York, England. Mary Ellen's mothers name was Jones.
They left England by the way of Liverpool on the "Duke of Richmond" on September 16, 1887, arriving at Newport News, Virginia on Sept. 30. They boarded their train on Oct. 1 early in the morning, arriving at Center Junction, Iowa on October 3rd. He started to work at Oxford on October 21st. From then on he had many various jobs, never working over a week or two at any one of them, until he started railroading.
They had come to this country 1889 on the strength of a letter to Mary Ellen from a cousin, that had preceded them to America, inflating his position and stories of the promise land. They had brought with them, their two small children, Beatrice and Frank (Age 3) who were born in England.....then Dad goes on and on about their life there...I am in process of typing this thing up, but don't think I will get it done by June 14. I have typed this rather quickly so please excuse the typos....I only remember my Grandfather Lamb's sister, Mable and slightly Elinda (when she came to visit from Hawaii one time) and his brother John who was in the navy.
This life story is all in long hand and covers most of 80 some years so it's is a task, though handwriting is good. Dad (Leslie Earl Seaney, Jr.) lived a very good life and was such a good story teller.
Another idea....Shirley Lamb (Russell's Girl) husband, William Wantz has done a whole book on the Lambs and Brittons, but has very little on the Lambs. I'm sure he would be willing to share what he has. I have a printed copy here I would loan you, but he may have gotten more in recent years. This was given to me at memorial service for Mildred Lamb (Russ is still living). His name is William Wantz and his email is [email protected].
Her mother died of pneumonia at the age of fifty-nine. She had 3 brothers and 2 sisters. Her grandparents lived in Wales and she never saw them. She lived in England, at Shooters Hill, Kent, and at the age of forty-one weighed 140 pounds and was five feet five inches tall.
As to Ethel's grandfather Lambs and Booths side of the family, I shall quote from a letter written by Ethel's father, Frank, to his sister, Elinda on December 7, 1948;
"My only knowledge of the family genealogy is the recollections of the talks of Father, many of them growing dim. I have no recollections of any connection with the Salvation Army Booths. An uncle of Father's was a prominent evangelist of his day. His name as I remember it was Clement Booth. He preceded the days of General Booth and the Salvation Army. The Lambs are descended from a large family scattered about the north of England and on across the Scottish border. They were originally adherents to the House of York as so were the Booths. After the War of the Roses, the family lost most of it's influence and prestige, and became scattered because of their Protestant leanings and many of them were driven north into Scotland.
English history records the persecution of the family, and the burning at the stake of one Sir John Lamb, and the confiscation of the family estate in the 15th century. Since that time it appears that the Lambs mostly followed a military career with a great many of them immigrating to Australia and the U.S.A.. Father was the youngest of a family of eleven, and his parents died in his ninth year. He stayed with his grandparents near Dewsbury in Yorkshire until he was eleven, and then left them to work as a parcel boy on the London and Northwestern R.R. He remained with that company becoming a brakeman, guard, etc. until he enlisted in the army. He was in the army nine years, seven of them spent in India. He married in the last year of service at the age of 29. He returned to the railroad as a station master for a time. Then he had a grocery at Millum in Kent for a short time, coming to the U.S. in 1887. He lost all trace of his brothers and we wrote to his sister, Ann, about his death, but never received a reply.
The Booth family (his mothers') were a Yorkshire family and all I remember him saying of them was that his mother was a cousin of Sir Edwin Booth, a Shakespearian actor, and his brother John Wilkes Booth, the assassinator of Abraham Lincoln."
Ethels' grandparents, John Booth Lamb, (1852-1902) and Mary Ellen Williams (1861-1932) were married on March 2, 1883 at Parish Church at Mirfield, County of York, England. Mary Ellen's mothers name was Jones.
They left England by the way of Liverpool on the "Duke of Richmond" on September 16, 1887, arriving at Newport News, Virginia on Sept. 30. They boarded their train on Oct. 1 early in the morning, arriving at Center Junction, Iowa on October 3rd. He started to work at Oxford on October 21st. From then on he had many various jobs, never working over a week or two at any one of them, until he started railroading.
They had come to this country 1889 on the strength of a letter to Mary Ellen from a cousin, that had preceded them to America, inflating his position and stories of the promise land. They had brought with them, their two small children, Beatrice and Frank (Age 3) who were born in England.....then Dad goes on and on about their life there...I am in process of typing this thing up, but don't think I will get it done by June 14. I have typed this rather quickly so please excuse the typos....I only remember my Grandfather Lamb's sister, Mable and slightly Elinda (when she came to visit from Hawaii one time) and his brother John who was in the navy.
This life story is all in long hand and covers most of 80 some years so it's is a task, though handwriting is good. Dad (Leslie Earl Seaney, Jr.) lived a very good life and was such a good story teller.
Another idea....Shirley Lamb (Russell's Girl) husband, William Wantz has done a whole book on the Lambs and Brittons, but has very little on the Lambs. I'm sure he would be willing to share what he has. I have a printed copy here I would loan you, but he may have gotten more in recent years. This was given to me at memorial service for Mildred Lamb (Russ is still living). His name is William Wantz and his email is [email protected].
Ethel Lamb's grandmother on her father's side was Mary Ellen Grace Williams, born Feb. 13, 1861 and died Dec. 5, 1932. Mary Ellen's father was Joseph Williams who died from pipe cancer at the age of sixty-two.
Her mother died of pneumonia at the age of fifty-nine. She had 3 brothers and 2 sisters. Her grandparents lived in Wales and she never saw them. She lived in England, at Shooters Hill, Kent, and at the age of forty-one weighed 140 pounds and was five feet five inches tall.
As to Ethel's grandfather Lambs and Booths side of the family, I shall quote from a letter written by Ethel's father, Frank, to his sister, Elinda on December 7, 1948;
"My only knowledge of the family genealogy is the recollections of the talks of Father, many of them growing dim. I have no recollections of any connection with the Salvation Army Booths. An uncle of Father's was a prominent evangelist of his day. His name as I remember it was Clement Booth. He preceded the days of General Booth and the Salvation Army. The Lambs are descended from a large family scattered about the north of England and on across the Scottish border. They were originally adherents to the House of York as so were the Booths. After the War of the Roses, the family lost most of it's influence and prestige, and became scattered because of their Protestant leanings and many of them were driven north into Scotland.
English history records the persecution of the family, and the burning at the stake of one Sir John Lamb, and the confiscation of the family estate in the 15th century. Since that time it appears that the Lambs mostly followed a military career with a great many of them immigrating to Australia and the U.S.A.. Father was the youngest of a family of eleven, and his parents died in his ninth year. He stayed with his grandparents near Dewsbury in Yorkshire until he was eleven, and then left them to work as a parcel boy on the London and Northwestern R.R. He remained with that company becoming a brakeman, guard, etc. until he enlisted in the army. He was in the army nine years, seven of them spent in India. He married in the last year of service at the age of 29. He returned to the railroad as a station master for a time. Then he had a grocery at Millum in Kent for a short time, coming to the U.S. in 1887. He lost all trace of his brothers and we wrote to his sister, Ann, about his death, but never received a reply.
The Booth family (his mothers') were a Yorkshire family and all I remember him saying of them was that his mother was a cousin of Sir Edwin Booth, a Shakespearian actor, and his brother John Wilkes Booth, the assassinator of Abraham Lincoln."
Ethels' grandparents, John Booth Lamb, (1852-1902) and Mary Ellen Williams (1861-1932) were married on March 2, 1883 at Parish Church at Mirfield, County of York, England. Mary Ellen's mothers name was Jones.
They left England by the way of Liverpool on the "Duke of Richmond" on September 16, 1887, arriving at Newport News, Virginia on Sept. 30. They boarded their train on Oct. 1 early in the morning, arriving at Center Junction, Iowa on October 3rd. He started to work at Oxford on October 21st. From then on he had many various jobs, never working over a week or two at any one of them, until he started railroading.
They had come to this country 1889 on the strength of a letter to Mary Ellen from a cousin, that had preceded them to America, inflating his position and stories of the promise land. They had brought with them, their two small children, Beatrice and Frank (Age 3) who were born in England.....then Dad goes on and on about their life there...I am in process of typing this thing up, but don't think I will get it done by June 14. I have typed this rather quickly so please excuse the typos....I only remember my Grandfather Lamb's sister, Mable and slightly Elinda (when she came to visit from Hawaii one time) and his brother John who was in the navy.
This life story is all in long hand and covers most of 80 some years so it's is a task, though handwriting is good. Dad (Leslie Earl Seaney, Jr.) lived a very good life and was such a good story teller.
Another idea....Shirley Lamb (Russell's Girl) husband, William Wantz has done a whole book on the Lambs and Brittons, but has very little on the Lambs. I'm sure he would be willing to share what he has. I have a printed copy here I would loan you, but he may have gotten more in recent years. This was given to me at memorial service for Mildred Lamb (Russ is still living). His name is William Wantz and his email is [email protected].
Her mother died of pneumonia at the age of fifty-nine. She had 3 brothers and 2 sisters. Her grandparents lived in Wales and she never saw them. She lived in England, at Shooters Hill, Kent, and at the age of forty-one weighed 140 pounds and was five feet five inches tall.
As to Ethel's grandfather Lambs and Booths side of the family, I shall quote from a letter written by Ethel's father, Frank, to his sister, Elinda on December 7, 1948;
"My only knowledge of the family genealogy is the recollections of the talks of Father, many of them growing dim. I have no recollections of any connection with the Salvation Army Booths. An uncle of Father's was a prominent evangelist of his day. His name as I remember it was Clement Booth. He preceded the days of General Booth and the Salvation Army. The Lambs are descended from a large family scattered about the north of England and on across the Scottish border. They were originally adherents to the House of York as so were the Booths. After the War of the Roses, the family lost most of it's influence and prestige, and became scattered because of their Protestant leanings and many of them were driven north into Scotland.
English history records the persecution of the family, and the burning at the stake of one Sir John Lamb, and the confiscation of the family estate in the 15th century. Since that time it appears that the Lambs mostly followed a military career with a great many of them immigrating to Australia and the U.S.A.. Father was the youngest of a family of eleven, and his parents died in his ninth year. He stayed with his grandparents near Dewsbury in Yorkshire until he was eleven, and then left them to work as a parcel boy on the London and Northwestern R.R. He remained with that company becoming a brakeman, guard, etc. until he enlisted in the army. He was in the army nine years, seven of them spent in India. He married in the last year of service at the age of 29. He returned to the railroad as a station master for a time. Then he had a grocery at Millum in Kent for a short time, coming to the U.S. in 1887. He lost all trace of his brothers and we wrote to his sister, Ann, about his death, but never received a reply.
The Booth family (his mothers') were a Yorkshire family and all I remember him saying of them was that his mother was a cousin of Sir Edwin Booth, a Shakespearian actor, and his brother John Wilkes Booth, the assassinator of Abraham Lincoln."
Ethels' grandparents, John Booth Lamb, (1852-1902) and Mary Ellen Williams (1861-1932) were married on March 2, 1883 at Parish Church at Mirfield, County of York, England. Mary Ellen's mothers name was Jones.
They left England by the way of Liverpool on the "Duke of Richmond" on September 16, 1887, arriving at Newport News, Virginia on Sept. 30. They boarded their train on Oct. 1 early in the morning, arriving at Center Junction, Iowa on October 3rd. He started to work at Oxford on October 21st. From then on he had many various jobs, never working over a week or two at any one of them, until he started railroading.
They had come to this country 1889 on the strength of a letter to Mary Ellen from a cousin, that had preceded them to America, inflating his position and stories of the promise land. They had brought with them, their two small children, Beatrice and Frank (Age 3) who were born in England.....then Dad goes on and on about their life there...I am in process of typing this thing up, but don't think I will get it done by June 14. I have typed this rather quickly so please excuse the typos....I only remember my Grandfather Lamb's sister, Mable and slightly Elinda (when she came to visit from Hawaii one time) and his brother John who was in the navy.
This life story is all in long hand and covers most of 80 some years so it's is a task, though handwriting is good. Dad (Leslie Earl Seaney, Jr.) lived a very good life and was such a good story teller.
Another idea....Shirley Lamb (Russell's Girl) husband, William Wantz has done a whole book on the Lambs and Brittons, but has very little on the Lambs. I'm sure he would be willing to share what he has. I have a printed copy here I would loan you, but he may have gotten more in recent years. This was given to me at memorial service for Mildred Lamb (Russ is still living). His name is William Wantz and his email is [email protected].
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