The Hale family in Roslyn, WA, USA (General)

by lesleyr , London, Tuesday, April 02, 2013, 15:08 (4260 days ago) @ lesleyr

Hello
I have been researching what happened to some of my coal mining Hale ancestors from the Forest of Dean after they disappeared from the UK censuses. I discovered that they left England to find a better life in the USA and have added their names to the Emigration database on this website.
They settled first in Streator, Illinois, then moved across the country to the small town of Roslyn in the state of Washington. I visited Roslyn in 2012 and continued my research there. I found out more about what happened to them and have written an article, 'The Hales in Roslyn', which the administrators of this website have kindly added to the Documents and Articles section. Not all of the people in the story found a better life, two of them being killed in the Roslyn Mine Disaster of 1892. But others survived and raised families. The article includes some old photographs. The people in the story are:

Thomas Hale (1832 - c1905) of Coleford
His daughter Agnes Hale Steel (1857 - 1902) and her husband Winyard Steel (1849 - 1892) of Whitchurch
His son Thomas Mitchell Hale (1860 - 1892)
His daughter Emily Hale Blakemore 1862 - 1937) and her husband George Blakemore (1858 - 1924) of Cliffords Mesne
His daughter Sarah Hale Brockhouse (1864 - 1943)
His daughter Lillian Hale Sheldon (1846 - 1940)

Thomas William Hale (1855 - 1845)of West Dean, great nephew of Thomas Hale above.
His wife Edith Townsend Hale( 1857 - 1900) of English Bicknor.
Their daughters:
Lillian Hale Speir (1880 - 1901) of West Dean
Lavinia Hale Sciutto (1887 - 1980)
Edith Hale Wallace (1889 - after 1941)
Ellen Hale (1894 - c 1898)

I hope the information will be of use to some other researchers.
Regards
Lesley Rahamin