Tag: Surname: Welbourn/e

 Four years after the original research into the adventures of the Welbourn(e)s in America, I revisited the story to see if I could find any further information.

After identifying everyone on the postcard, I spent some time looking for more information on the  American Welbourn(e)s. 

Long after the discoveries in part 2, I was checking out the Family Search website and noticed that it had a new feature where one could see scans of original birth and death certificates. Curious, I entered Albina’s name and after some fiddling around with various settings found her death certificate.

[Part 1 of this story can be found here.] I spent some time trying to trace Albina the elder, and eventually located her and her youngest daughter Eliza on the passenger list of a ship that had arrived in Philadelphia from Liverpool in January 1892.

One afternoon several years ago when I was visiting my husband Mike’s late great-aunt and great-uncle, the conversation turned to family history and they brought out their collection of old photographs. Nestled among the pictures of people we recognized, pictures of people we didn’t recognize, and the pictures of people who neither great-aunt nor great-uncle… Continue reading The “Amarican” Postcard (Part 1)