George Allen Wadsworth - Pilley to Panaca

I am preparing a second edition of the award-winning  history, George Allen Wadsworth – Pilley to Panaca, for the Lafe and Dollie Wadsworth reunion Jul 2012 in Panaca, Nevada.
New historical materials include a description of  life on the ship “Horizon” in 1856 and charts showing how the Wadsworths learned to tame their part of the early American West. A chapter on the life of “Uncle James” Wadsworth will amaze.

Another new section provides some historical information on some of George Allen Wadsworth’s siblings and Aunts and Uncles with pictures of tombstones and towns of interest in Yorkshire, England.

I invite all to send new, updated, differing, but always documented data to be added to this one and only 2^nd edition of the book.

When the book is completed it will be available for sale at www.itsallrelatives.net. Please contact me at itsallrelatives@sfcn.org.  Helen LaRae Free Kerr M ED.

The following two paragraphs are part of the research report contained in the 2nd edition of the George Allen Wadsworth book:

I then began a search for a John Wadsworth born by or before 1735 [since he married in 1755 and was probably old enough to do so], and found several, some in Penistone. But one transcription of the parish registers said he was from Bradfield, Yorkshire, England. Bradfield is very close to Kirkburton.  There was a christening there of a John Wordsworth 1 Oct 1727 son of a William Wordsworth.

There was a William Wordsworth who married Anne Stead in that parish. After a great deal of research, it appeared that William Wordsworth and Anne Stead were our John’s parents. However, the wills of the Stead grandparents made it very clear that William and Anne’s third child was NOT John but was another William. So no matter what has been published anywhere at any time, William Wordsworth and Anne Stead are NOT ancestral. These wills are fully transcribed and in Box 43.

Note that the above is fully documented which just goes to show how one additional document can change previous research.  And that is a genealogist's job - to make the changes new research discloses and to make those changes available to all.

One of our researchers, after a careful perusal of the Penistone parish records, read the place of origin for John Wadsworth as Bradford. That information is also in the Wadsworth research report in the George Allen Wadsworth book. So please delete anything you have beyond the marriage of John Wadsworth to Hannah Mitchel. WE DO NOT KNOW WHERE OR WHEN HE WAS CHRISTENED OR TO WHOM - YET. Perhaps you have the skills and interest to do 1700 British research. If so, please contact me.

I will reiterate that because of my poor eyesight and failing health, I would like new and devoted researchers to take over the Wadsworth work. Everything needed to continue can be found in the research report in the 2nd edition of the book.