Forest of Dean FHT Forum - Frostburg, USA families from Forest of Dean & Wales

Frostburg, USA families from Forest of Dean & Wales (reply)

rookancestrybest — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 19:53:00 +0000

IT's also worth seeing if the travelled to Canada and then crossed the border or arrived at some other part of the USA before settling there. Try ships leaving Liverpool, Glasgow and London too.

Frostburg, USA families from Forest of Dean & Wales (reply)

Llangrove — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 03:03:09 +0000

I searched all possible departures, and couldn't find a record for any of them. I tried the more unusual names of Moses, Lewis, Augusta and Edith...and nothing seems to fit! Thanks anyway!

Frostburg, USA - (reply)

rookancestrybest — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:43:14 +0000

The town is only a small place. Sadly my USA friends, though they lived close to Maryland only know of Frostburg due to it having a state university there.

It looks as though those with Forest of Dean and Welsh roots was, and still is, well represented in its population!

Frostburg, USA - JENKINS prior thread (reply)

slowhands — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 06:12:45 +0000

http://www.forum.forest-of-dean.net/index.php?id=8785

Frostburg, USA families from Forest of Dean & Wales (reply)

Llangrove — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 02:40:11 +0000

Thanks for the lead on "the Cosmo"...I'll check it out this week.

My STEPHENS were originally from Mitcheldean and then later Berry Hill.

Frostburg, USA families from Forest of Dean & Wales (reply)

rookancestrybest — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 15:32:06 +0000

There was a Henry Stevens (son of Benjamin) who was from Whitecroft who married Ann or Anneth Vaughan on Nov 28th 1840. She is related to the ones who went to Frostburg, is there any connection here? I haven't traced them beyond their marriage yet, but it says Henry was under 21 when he married but Ann was born/baptised in 1822 at Parkend.

Frostburg, USA families from Forest of Dean & Wales (reply)

rookancestrybest — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 14:57:14 +0000

Try a ship called The Cosmo which is the one which my relatives were on.

Frostburg, USA families from Forest of Dean & Wales (reply)

Llangrove — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 02:46:40 +0000

Interesting! My entire STEPHENS clan, eleven in all, also emigrated in 1846, to Mt. Savage, Allegany County, Maryland which is four miles from Frostburg! The men were involved in the iron industry in the Forest and went to America to work at the newly built blast furnaces. The first iron rails made in the United States were produced by the Mt. Savage Iron Works.

I've been trying, without success for some time to find the ship's records...it never occured to me that they could have sailed from Bristol.....Thanks!

Frostburg, USA families from Forest of Dean & Wales

rookancestrybest — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 21:18:02 +0000

I have found that a probable first cousin four times removed (!) emigrated with her husband to the mining town of Frostburg, Maryland in 1846. (Other members of my family, who I definitely know were related, also emigrated to the USA in this decade too, it appears on the same ship sailing from Bristol). When looking at the composition of the population of Frostburg a substantial number appear to have originated from the same area and South Wales. Not surprising considering the industry. But it may interest others to know that names like Gunter, Morgan, Williams, Vaughan, Vaughn crop up frequently among less familiar ones of German origin. The town is only small and appears to have a Welsh Church there still. The families appear to have stuck together though many married people of German origin too. I used to live in the United States, not far from there, and have asked my friends if they know anything more of the town and its people. I will keep you all posted if they do.