Photo of Clara Matilda Vallis, daughter of Samuel Vallis and Sarah (Taylor)Vallis. In 1847, Clara was born in Millwall, Poplar, Middlesex County, UK. Clara is sister to John Vallis (b. 1849) who immigrated to the United States in 1872, and, who in 1887 married Louisa Ann Palmer in Lincoln, Nebraska.
The 1800s where the end of the industrial revolution and the birth of scientists.
The Industrial Revolution began around 1760 and ran through the 1840's. Then began the birth of the profession of science. Louis Pasteur, Charles Darwin, Michael Faraday, Thomas Edison, and Nikola Te...
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*** 18th & 19th century Middlesex and Buckinghamshire England family roots. Surnames include, VALLIS, TAYLOR, PALMER, CUTLER, PICKERING, HEDGES and SCRIVEN. Known 1800's Middlesex roots are specific to Poplar/Millwall. Buckinghamshire connections include the areas of Winslow, Swanbourne, Stewkley, Wing and Leighton Buzzard.
*** U.S. family roots include ROSS and ROMAINE families from New York who went westward to settle in Kansas and Missouri.
***German Russian family roots include BOHL, KAHLER, HUCK, SPREIER, SCHULDEIS, SCHULTHEIS, FEUERSTEIN,GAS, JAEGER, EIKMEIER surnames. Our family immigrated from Russia; some family members came to the U.S., settling in the midwest. Other family members immigrated to Argentina.