Thomas Wilce

1829 -

• Name	Thomas Wilce  [1]
  Birth	1829	Monmouth, Monmouthshire, Wales, UK   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Emigration	Est Jun 1851	Monmouth, Monmouthshire, Wales, UK
  	to New York, USA
  Occupation	Butcher  [2]
  Person ID	I4516	Our Tree | Wilce, John (I-1396)
  Last Modified	26 Jan 2014

  
  

  Father	James Wilce,   b. Est Sep 1803, Ruardean, Gloucestershire, England, UK d. May 1831, Monmouth, Monmouthshire, Wales, UK (Age 27 years)
  Mother	Sally Tippins,   b. Est May 1797, Monmouth, Monmouthshire, Wales, UK d. May 1882, Monmouthshire, Wales, UK (Age 85 years)
  Marriage	26 Oct 1825	Walford, Herefordshire, England, UK   [3]
  Notes	James Wilce moved to Monmouth and opened a butchers shop in Monnow Street. Either before he left the Forest or after he married Sally they had 3 children Ann, Thomas and Richard. Richard the yougest died as a baby and soon after his death James died. Both James and Richard are buried in Monmouth. Sally then continued to run the butchers shop and married William Clark, man she employed in the shop. Ann continued to run the butchers shop and later married the lodger. Thomas - who was by now a trained butcher - left on a sailing ship for America with his wife Elizabeth who was the daughter of a greengrocer in Monnow Street.
  Family ID	F1884	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Elizabeth Yeates,   b. Bef 1833, Monmouth, Monmouthshire, Wales, UK d. Bef 1860 (Age < 27 years)
  Marriage	Est Mar 1851	Monmouth, Monmouthshire, Wales, UK   [4]
  Notes	Thomas & Elizabeth emigrated to USA c1851, arrived in New York and in due course took to the Oregon Trail in a covered wagon. The young Wilces first child was a son they called Thomas Harold who was born on the Oregon trail. they later had another son they called Charles. Sometime after the birth of Charles. Elizabeth died and at the age of about 9 young Thomas was taken by his father back to Monmouth to live with his Maternal Grandmother. Thomas, the father, then returned to the US and re-married. [1]
  Children	+ 1. Thomas Harold Wilce,   b. 1852, Illinois, USA d. 1916, Monmouth, Monmouthshire, Wales, UK (Age 64 years)   2. Charles Wilce,   b. 1855, Illinois, USA
  Family ID	F1885	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	15 Oct 2010

  
  

  Family 2	Annie Gordon,   b. Abt 1840, New York, New York, USA
  Marriage	Bef 1864	USA
  Children	1. Richard Wilce,   b. 1864, Kendal County, Illinois, USA
  Family ID	F1886	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	27 Jul 2014

  
  

• Sources

  [S228] Robert Wilce, Wilce - Robert, (Genes Reunited, 2007). [S190] Emil Eidenbenz (1877-1968), Eidenbenz Stammbuch, (Oktober 1935, Z). [S19] Forest of Dean Family History, FoD BMD, (http://www.forest-of-dean.net). [S10] FreeBMD, FreeBMD, (http://freebmd.rootsweb.com), reg. Monmouth; Mar Qtr 1851.