The Lincolnshire Farmers: What happened afterwards at Rosario?

Introduction     Tom Shrewsbury     The Shrewsbury Family tree
Annie Kennett's memories     Kennett and Godward family photos
Emma and I. Edwards     Arrival at Rosario     What happened afterwards?
Article by Andrew Nickson

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Supplementary notes on some of the ‘Lincolnshire Farmers’ in Rosario

Joseph and Mrs Bailey; children: George, Anne and Susan the family is mentioned in Annie's memories; Anne and Susan attended St Bartholomew's School in 1875.
Henry and Isabel Brownlow from Nottinghamshire; children: Clara, Adela, Lottie and Mary the family is mentioned in Annie's memories; they stayed in Rosario; Clara married, aged 16, in 1880 in St Bartholomew's Church.
William and Elizabeth Brownlow William died of fever on 2 May 1874, aged 39 and was buried in the Antiguo Cementerio de Disidentes, Rosario, #180.
John and Sarah Carpendale; children: Alazon and George; (Alazon appears to be corrupted form of an English name) Reuben, son of J. Carpendale, aged 1 month, died on 14 December 1874 from dysentry and was buried in the Antiguo Cementerio de Disidentes, Rosario, #196; the family moved to Córdoba, where John became an engine driver. John and Sarah had two more boys in 1876 and 1878.
William and Clara Clayton; children: George and Rosalie George, born in London, attended St Bartholomew's School in 1879-80, and Rosalie in 1879.
Henry and Catherine French; children: Henry and Grace the family is mentioned in Annie's memories; Henry and Catherine had four more sons, born in 1875, 78, 80 and 84. Henry found employment on the Central Argentine Railway, at first in Rosario and by 1880 in Correa, 58 kilometres west of Rosario on the line between Rosario and Córdoba; by 1884 he was the station master there; their eldest son, Henry Thomas, born 1870, attended St Bartholomew's School in 1875, 1878-9; he later died in Correa on 18 Feb 1881 and was buried in the Antiguo Cementerio de Disidentes, Rosario, #316. There was another French family in Rosario at that time.
Thomas and Jane Godward née Price; children: Charles, (Annie) Elizabeth (the author of Annie's memories) and Lillie (born 1869) Thomas found employment in the Central Argentine Railway; of their children, Charles attended St Bartholomew's School in 1875, 1878-9; his behavour described as naughty; Annie and Lillie attended St Bartholomew's School from 1875-1878; Jane Godward died of tuberculosis in Rosario 27 Apr 1878, aged 39 yars and was buried in the Antiguo Cementerio de Disidentes, Rosario, #255; immediately afterwards, Annie and Lillie were sent back to England to the care of relatives; at that time they resumed taking their family name Kennett. In time, Thomas Godward moved to Barracas, Buenos Aires, where he married Isabel Gillies from England at St John's Church on 17 April 1886; they had three sons, Charles, John and Daniel; Charles was born in Paraná, Daniel in Rosario.
John and Elizabeth Goodman; children: Mary, Emily, Elizabeth and James (Jane?) the family stayed in Rosario, where John found employment as a bricklayer; Elizabeth attended St Bartholomew's School in 1878; John and Elizabeth had a further son in 1877; of their daughters, Amelia married, aged 18 in January 1884, Elizabeth, aged 16 in March 1886 and Jane, aged 15 in November 1886.
Edwin H. Harvey; child: William William attended St Bartholomew's School in 1875, 76 and 78.
George Henry and Harriet Hollidge; children: George and Harriet A., (born in London in 1864) at some time later they were joined by their son Charles, born 1856; George found employment on the Central Argentine Railway; Harriet attended St Bartholomew's School 1875-77; George Hollidge (Snr.) died of tuberculosis in Rosario on 4 August 1880 and was buried in the Antiguo Cementerio de Disidentes, Rosario, #299. There was another Hollidge family living in Rosario at that time.
William Morris; children: Harriet, William and Henry William Morris's wife had previously died in England; he stayed in Rosario and died there on 12 April 1896; his elder son, William Case Morris, born in Soham, Cambridgeshire in 1864, subsequently went to Buenos Aires in 1886 to find work; he became deeply involved in the Methodist Church's mission in La Boca; he then became a member of the Anglican Church, was ordained and served as a missionary of the South American Missionary Society, working among poor immigrants in Palermo, Buenos Aires, from 1897-1932; he founded schools, industrial schools and orphanages; he is still given a place of honour in the history of Buenos Aires and commemorated by a statue of him in Palermo Park; the one remaining thriving institution founded by Morris is the El Alba Home, Longchamps, Greater Buenos Aires. He died in his native Soham in 1932.
Joseph Nash Joseph Nash married Petrona González (1849-1922), and later established himself as a farmer at the Estancia Los Corralitos, Bell Ville, Province of Córdoba. See Juan Delius' website.
Mrs Scoffield; children: Cecil, Mary, Walker, Adam and Naonvon(?) The family stayed in Rosario.
Edwin Sealey Lilly Sealey attended St Bartholomew's School in 1875; it is not known when she arrived in Rosario.
George and Anne Slater; children: Elizabeth, William, Sarah, Alfred and Edwin the family is mentioned in Annie's memories; George and Annie had three more children, born in 1875, 77 and 79; George found employment on the Central Argentine Railway.
Sources

Annie Godward's memories.

George, Rvdo. David M. Historia de la Iglesia Anglicana de la Argentina, 1825-1994, Buenos Aires, 1999, 124 pp., illus. 8 pp. Chapter on William Case Morris, pp. 75-84.

Register of Burials of the Antiguo Cementerio de Disidentes, Rosario.

Register of Baptisms and Marriages celebrated in St Bartholomew's Church, Rosario.
Available online on this website.

Attendance Register of St Bartholomew's School, Rosario, 1875-80.
Available online on this website.

Other Anglican Church registers—St John's Church, Buenos Aires and St Paul's Church, Córdoba.
Available online on this website.


© The form of presentation is the copyight of Jeremy Howat, February 2007

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