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Henry Metcalf

Birth
Lancashire, England
Death
1850 (aged 27–28)
Burial
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S/O Arthur and Isabell[Lady Levens]Metcalf

Henry was baptisted 10~13~1822
From the Bishop's Transcript of Cartmel Parish Records which includes the Church of St Paul's at Lindale England

Henry was about 7 years old when he sailed with his family to America from Liverpool to NY.NY. on the ship named ENVOY on 7~June~1830 and settled in Jackson Co. Ohio.

Sometime after the 1850 census Henry joined his two brothers William and Tom in Neosho Mo. They may have made a trip or two with Tom to California to sell horses or mules to the gold rush miners, but, according to family tradition, because Tom's wife's superstition about making a third trip, William and Henry departed form California, leaving Tom in the bosom of his family. The two brothers William and Henry were never heard from again, and it is believed they were killed by Indians. No record exists.
S/O Arthur and Isabell[Lady Levens]Metcalf

Henry was baptisted 10~13~1822
From the Bishop's Transcript of Cartmel Parish Records which includes the Church of St Paul's at Lindale England

Henry was about 7 years old when he sailed with his family to America from Liverpool to NY.NY. on the ship named ENVOY on 7~June~1830 and settled in Jackson Co. Ohio.

Sometime after the 1850 census Henry joined his two brothers William and Tom in Neosho Mo. They may have made a trip or two with Tom to California to sell horses or mules to the gold rush miners, but, according to family tradition, because Tom's wife's superstition about making a third trip, William and Henry departed form California, leaving Tom in the bosom of his family. The two brothers William and Henry were never heard from again, and it is believed they were killed by Indians. No record exists.


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