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From the First Industrial City to the Wisconsin Frontier: William Scholes (1814-1864), Ann Mills Scholes (1814-1875), and Their Family
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Abstract
William Scholes and wife Ann Mills Scholes (daughter of Samuel Mills and Alice
Stocks) emigrated from Oldham, Lancashire, England to Marquette County, Wisconsin,
US, in 1849, with their six children, with the help of the mutual-aid Potters’ Emigration
Society. Five more children were born in Wisconsin. William was a cotton carder in
England, a farmer in Wisconsin, and a Civil War soldier who died at Vicksburg,
Mississippi, in 1864. Seven of their eleven children are believed to have living
descendants. Surnames: Audiss, Dixon, Hull, Hume, Mills, Mozley, Park(e)s, Scholes,
Sherwin, Stocks, Smith.
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Cite as: Harold A. Henderson, "From the First Industrial City to the Wisconsin Frontier: William Scholes (1814-1864), Ann Mills Scholes (1814-1875), and Their Family," Annals of Genealogical Research Vol. 1, No. 2 (2005) at http://www.genlit.org/agr/viewarticle.php?id=5
Subject areas: Scholes family; Mills family; Wisconsin; Lancashire
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