My nan had told me before she died that some of her family had emigrated to America.
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I did some digging and asked a few questions on the boards of Family Tree Forum and someone kindly found a Frederick Caley, my great uncle, on the 1930 US census with his family living in Pennsylvannia.
I checked out the Ellis Island website and sure enough I found Frederick sailing from the UK on ‘The President Polk’ in 1923 and staying with his brother-in-law George Shearman in Annapolis. I then found out that his wife Alice (whose sister Marie had married George Shearman) had sailed out there the previous year.
I have checked further into the records and found that George had gone out to America because his older brother Charles (Chas) had moved out there as well.
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On the 1930 US census in Pennsylvania, Frederick is noted as a steam engine fitter and his daughter Dorothy May, a dancer, in Vaudeville.
Littlemoo
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