Name: 08042009 -- Elkingtons of Coventry to North America

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Family
Marriage: Children:

  1. William Edward Elkington: Birth: 22 Dec 1881 in Mt. Veeder, Napa County, California, USA. Death: 21 Mar 1948 in San Francisco, California, USA

  2. Francis Elkington: Birth: 21 Jun 1885 in San Francisco, San Francisco County, California, USA. Death: 29 Oct 1886 in San Francisco, San Francisco County, California, USA

  3. Arthur George Elkington: Birth: 9 Aug 1887 in San Francisco, California, USA. Death: 26 Jun 1966 in Carmel, Monterey, California, USA

  4. James Ervine Elkington: Birth: 13 Dec 1898 in San Francisco, San Francisco County, California, USA. Death: 22 Oct 1976 in Hillsbough. San Mateo, California, USA


Sources
1. Title:   1860 Federal Census of America
Page:   Roll: M653_89; Page: 403; Image: 410
2. Title:   1870 Federal Census of America
Page:   Roll: M593_75; Page: 58; Image: 116
3. Title:   1880 Federal Census of America
Page:   California; Roll: T9_76
4. Title:   1900 Federal Census of America
Page:   Roll: T623_102 Page: 11A; Enumeration District: 98.

Notes
a. Note:   obably born in London or in Longdon, Gloucestershire.
  His age was given as 1 1/2 in the Shipping list of Sep 12 1856 **. Declared aged 5 in the 1860 Federal Census. His parents settled firstly in New London, Connecticut, and in 1865 migrated to California. He went to San Francisco about 1879. In the census of 1900 he declared that his wife was the mother of five children, three of whom had survived. One
  Correspondence from Cecelia M. Setty nee Elkington Setty in April 2009 -
 "James was born 3 Feb 1855, according to church records." ***
 "According to family records and death certificate James Edward was born 3 Feb 1855 in London."
 "All I have for the birth of James Edward is from his death certificate and newspaper accounts of his death."
  "James and Anna (Rice) had another son named Francis born 21 Jun 1885 and died 29 Oct 1886 in San Francisco. We have no record of other children." "He moved to San Francisco in or around 1879 (the year he married my grandmother Anna Louise Rice)..I think James (1855) moved to San Francisco because he wasn't into the strain of farming and his father and mother had deeded their property to him, which he later (1883) deeded back to them. He was working at making furniture in Napa and S.F. After the turn of the century he and my father went into tire vulcanizing business which they lost with the San Francisco earthquake and fire, (1906) they lived for a while in Golden Gate Park in a tent."
  * see notes of his parents.
 ** In the census of 1900 he declared his year of immigration as 1859, and his date of birth as Feb 1856.
 *** of the Advent Christian Church in Napa."
Note:   His birth has not been traced in church or civil registration records in England *. He was pr

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