| Elizabeth Uren: from St Keverne to Salt Lake City |
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Page 5 of 5 Elizabeth’s journey was quite incredible, it was a journey which took her from The Lizard Peninsula in her native Cornwall first of all to South Africa and then the almost unbelievable trek across wild 19th century America with her small children to Utah followed by her further travels with her second husband. It has been suggested that in her later years she felt a sense of guilt for leaving her first husband in the way which she did. Certainly her eldest son, Emanuel’s son Thomas born in South Africa and taken by his mother to America felt a strong urge in his later life to seek out his father, a quest which was to prove unsuccessful. Subsequently one of his sons also took up the challenge to find Emanuel, but he too failed despite a lifelong search. One source points to the possibility that Emanuel returned to England, settled near Southampton, remarried and named his first son Thomas in memory of the son he had lost. Sad to say however that research through census and other records has, so far, failed to prove this theory. The search is ongoing. Much of the detail of the story of Elizabeth Uren comes from the research and writings of Elaine Olds Hagelberg, a grand daughter of Thomas Ould who took up the search for Emanuel and wrote down much of this story back in 1964. Her writings and permission to tell them here have been given to me by Dick Chamberlain of California whose late wife was a great-great grand daughter of William Theobald. To them, and to Elizabeth, the handcart pioneer, I am greatly indebted. Bob Richards, Cornwall Family Finders email: bobr.stkilda@dsl.pipex.com |
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