Monday Is for Mothers: Adella "Della" E. Webb Earnshaw - 1864 - 1958

While my branch of the Webbs moved from Pennsylvania to Iowa and then Texas* there were some who chose to go no farther west than Ohio. Della Webb Earnshaw, one of my maternal second cousins, three times removed, may have made Ohio her home but that doesn't mean she didn't travel out of the state (and country) during her long life. This photo is from her 1923 passport.

[Found on an Ancestry.com public tree belonging to lisaraines2003_1]

Della married Joseph "Joe" Henry Earnshaw in 1887.

[12 Oct 1887, Page 4 - The Summit County Beacon at Newspapers.com]

In 1901 Joe's passport application included his wife Della.

[Ancestry.com. U.S. Passport Applications, 1795-1925 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2007.

Original data: Selected Passports. National Archives, Washington, D.C.]

We know they landed in Liverpool June of 1901 (since the application is dated May 31st). They had traveled in style as "Saloon" or first class passengers. I haven't found a record of their return home.

[Ancestry.com. UK, Incoming Passenger Lists, 1878-1960 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2008. Original data: Board of Trade: Commercial and Statistical Department and successors: Inwards Passenger Lists. Kew, Surrey, England: The National Archives of the UK (TNA). Series BT26, 1,472 pieces. Data imaged from the National Archives, London, England.]

Della and Joe's only child, Elizabeth Webb Earnshaw, was born in 1902 and the family traveled abroad several times.

Here's their return from England in 1906 aboard the S.S. Carmania:

[Ancestry.com. New York, Passenger and Crew Lists (including Castle Garden and Ellis Island), 1820-1957 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. Original data: Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving at New York, New York, 1820-1897

Microfilm Publication M237, 675 rolls. NAI: 6256867.]

[Ancestry.com. Passenger Ships and Images [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2007.

Original data: Various maritime reference sources.]

For their 1916 trip, the Earnshaws returned home just over a month after the beginning of World War I via Quebec, Canada, on the S.S. Laurentic** as we can see from this border crossing document:

[Ancestry.com. U.S., Border Crossings from Canada to U.S., 1895-1960 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. Original data: Records of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, RG 85. Washington, D.C.:

National Archives and Records Administration. ]

[GG Archives]

And here's the record of their return from London in 1923 on the S.S. Minnewaska.

[Ancestry.com. New York, Passenger and Crew Lists (including Castle Garden and Ellis Island), 1820-1957 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. Original data: Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving at New York, New York, 1820-1897.Microfilm Publication M237, 675 rolls. NAI: 6256867. Records of the U.S. Customs Service, Record Group 36. National Archives at Washington, D.C.]

[Ancestry.com. Passenger Ships and Images [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2007.

Original data: Various maritime reference sources.]

I've run of out time this evening to continue with the rest of the trips Della took but I promise I'll cover them in a later post.

Here's how Della and I are related:

[Ancestry.com]

*My great great grandfather Abner Webb who died there in about 1861.
**On January 25, 1917, the Laurentic, taken over by the British Navy to serve as a merchant cruiser, was sunk when it hit two German mines off the North Irish coast.


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