Studio photo of James Jeremiah Pilkington and Clara Elizabeth (Scriven) Pilkington. Clara Elizabeth is the daughter of Alfred Scriven and Mary Jane (Vallis) Scriven. Clara was born in the Millwall area of Poplar, Middlesex County, UK. James Jeremiah Pilkington, born in Liverpool UK, is the son of William Pilkington. Clara and James Jeremiah raised their two sons, born in 1913 and 1917, in Nebraska USA.
Clara Elizabeth Scriven Pilkington was born in 1876. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Clara Elizabeth Scriven Pilkington.
The 1920s Changed Our Daily Lives & Not How You Might Think . . .
In the 1920's life changed drastically for the average American and for people all over the world. Airplanes began to be a mode of transportation and communication. Automobiles, rather than horses, ...
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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.