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Descendant's report for Jemima Ashby [Cooper]
Generation No. 1
  1. Jemima Ashby [Cooper] She was born 1808; emigrated 20th Sep 1831 to New York, USA, arrival of Jemima Ashby, F, age 23, on board SS Hudson; died 27th Jul 1887 at Illinois, USA, aged 76 years 8 months
  She married William Ashby, miller on 24th May 1828 at St. John the Baptist, Croydon, Surrey. He was born 21st Jan 1805 at Frant, Sussex; christened 7th Mar 1805 at Union Street Wesleyan, Maidstone, Kent, son of Wm. Ashby and Susannah Ashby, ceremony performed by Thomas Dowty; emigrated 20th Sep 1831 to New York, USA, arrival of William Ashby, M, age 26, millwright, on board SS Hudson; died 13th Jun 1869 at Tazewell County, Illinois, USA. They had the following children:
  iEliza who was born 20th Apr 1829 at Westerham, Kent, daughter of William Ashby (millwright) & Jemima Ashby; died 20th Mar 1832 New Jersey, USA
2 iiLucy L. who was born 27th Sep 1830 at England; died 18th Feb 1910; buried after 18th Feb 1910 USA
  iiiEmily who was born 5th Dec 1832 at Burlington, New Jersey, USA
  ivJemima who was born 29th Aug 1834 at Burlington, New Jersey, USA
  vJohn William who was born 6th Nov 1836 at Burlington, New Jersey, USA; died 10th Aug 1917 Illinois, USA
  viElizabeth Scott who was born 3rd Jan 1844 at Illinois, USA
  viiSusan llen who was born 1st Apr 1854
   
Generation No. 2
  2. Lucy L. Cavell [Ashby] was the daughter of William Ashby, miller and Jemima Ashby [Cooper]. She was born 27th Sep 1830 at England; emigrated 20th Sep 1831 to New York, USA, arrival of Lucy Ashby, F, age 1, on board SS Hudson; died 18th Feb 1910; buried after 18th Feb 1910 at Newton Union Cemetery, Newton, Jasper County, Iowa, USA
  She married William Butler Cavell, farmer on c 1850. He was born 1825 at England; died 1899. They had the following children:
  iJohn Franklin who was born 1854 at Illinois, USA; died 1930
  iiFannie B. who was born 1861 at Illinois, USA
  iiiArthur M. who was born 1863 at Illinois, USA
  ivHarry who was born 1867 at Illinois, USA
  vJessie who was born 1872 at Illinois, USA; died 1914
   

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