Flag of St. Piron
Looking to purchase a flag of St Piron. Anyone have a reliable cost-friendly outlet?
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Search for Henry Symons in the USA
I am trying to trace where one of my ancestors, Henry Symons (1839-1911) went in the United States and when. He was born and lived in Camborne. Camborne is twinned with Calumet. He died in Camborne.
My ancestor (Great Great Grandfather) Henry Symons joined the freemasons on arrival in the USA from Camborne, Cornwall, England. He was a sawyer at a mine in Cornwall and then in the USA. He went to the USA and returned to Camborne between 1861 and 1881. He was also in Camborne between 1873 (he married then) and 1877 (his second child was born then).
His younger brother, James Symons, a blacksmith (1851-1904) went to Arizona in the 1880s. His uncle’s son went to Wisconsin in 1865 and I have traced and met his descendants.
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Celtic cross
I recently photographed this cross in the "Miners Cemetery" near Galena, Illinois. I'm hoping someone here can tell me the significance of "Ihs?" I think the cross is really beautiful....
Thanks, Silvia Pettem
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It's worth noting that my sweetheart's great great grandfather, Anthony Hosking Odgers, was a miner who died in a mine accident in Hibernia, N.J., in 1880, and was among a couple dozen miners unceremoniously interred in a marker-less potter's field on a margin of the cemetery at the First Presbyterian Church of Rockaway, N.J. Remarkably, a document was discovered, by the current church sexton, that indicated exactly where each miner was buried. It's a sobering spot to visit and points out the disregard miners and their families faced, due to their relatively low socio-economic status. You've gotten me thinking about a way in which I might be able to memorialize them with some sort of marker. Thanks for your posts!