Iiib Bawden Harriet Comes to the US to Be a Nanny

By Bawden4 November 28, 2011 1303 views 1 comments

Harriet BAWDEN was born/christened 5 Mar 1815 in Redruth, Cornwall, UK, dtr and second child of Stephen and Elizabeth JELBERT/GILBERT BAWDEN. She has 4 brothers [1812 Stephen before her], and 3 sisters.

In the June 1870 US census for Franklin Twp, Naughton County, Michigan (Upper Peninsula mining area), she is a housekeeper for 23-year-old miner Matthew H. DENNIS, 22-year-old wife Eliza Jane and their 1-mo-old son William John.

Matthew DENNIS and Eliza Jane were laborer and housekeeper for Harriet's brother, Stephen and Mary Bawden, who brought them to Rockingham Township in 1860 (see census).

It is not known when Harriet emigrated from Cornwall or where or when she died.

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Online references for her include Cornish sites and OPC (Online Parish Clerks)
She was not enumerated in Stephen and Rebecca Jelbert/Gilbert BAWDEN's family in the family study done in 1986 nor was this generation named.
US Federal Census 1880.