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By 1860 at the age of 35 he was living in Morvah, a village six miles north of his home town of St Buryan; here he worked as a grocer. 127 Florence Avenue in Essex, New Jersey with their first child James.
By 1930 James was working as a chemist in a dairy company, and ten years later when we look to the 1940 census it shows that he remained in this occupation and was taking home an income of just over $4,100 per year.
Deckhands average about $55,000 to $65,000 a season, which usually equates to six or seven months of work.
Plus, grease. It is John who we will follow next.
John was baptised in the St Buryan parish church, as mentioned above, in 1825; specifically on 27 Nov 1825. She arrived back in Lorain on May 16, 1981. He's a hulking man, fond of blue coveralls unzipped to the center of his chest because he works where it's hot.
"I've been gone from my family for a long time," he said.
Last week, all but two were men — the chief cook and an assistant.
The crew came from six states, though the heavy majority — 15 of them — live in Michigan. Crew members fix their own problems.
"You're not relaxed until you're on vacation for about a week," said Laksonen, who is the engine room's chief engineer.
He works in a tunnel where he can see the coal filtering down through the gates like water to an unplugged drain. Nellie Mae survived her husband by thirty years; she died in March 1955 aged 82.
We now turn to the life of John and Nellie’s middle son, James David Tregurtha; who was thirty years old when his father died.
"They're home having a good time and you're just … here.''
His wife, Kathleen (Sissy) Perkins jumped onto the boat this week at the Soo Locks to spend a week with him. The black stuff dumps into the silo like a rocky waterfall.
It's dark down where Perkins works on the belt, and he uses a flashlight to watch rollers that move the belt along.
Known as Jimmy to his class mates, James studied Agriculture at Cornell University, attending there for four years up until his graduation in 1918. "So there's really nothing. It is the eldest boy John that we follow next.
John Tregurtha, son of John and grandson of John Weymouth, had lived an adventurous life by the time he was 21; yet also one of tragedy.
Paul’s son Edward James Tregurtha, known to many as Ted, now carries on with much of what his father began and together they have been keen sponsors and supporters of the Tregurtha Project since its inception.
These are really just snippets of this particular Tregurtha branch; this tale of adventure and triumph, that began in the fields of St Buryan and crossed an ocean…is still being written today.
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Life on a Great Lakes freighter: Pay makes job worth it
Reporter Jim Schaefer and photographer Eric Seals sailed last week aboard the Paul R.
Tregurtha, the longest ship on the Great Lakes.
They call him "El Dirty."
He's Chris Perkins, for those of you not on the boat. The other two children do appear on the 1880 census; Bertwell was being cared for by the Mann family in Sidney, and young Dionysius was living with his aunt and uncle, William and Pheby Williams in Otsego.
At some point John and Jane made the decision to leave their native home and emigrate across the Atlantic to the United States of America. But they can be called at any time, if needed. Trustee Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association First lieutenant United States Air Force, 1958-1961. A passenger record is yet to be found to confirm the ship they sailed on, however by 1870 they were living in New York; specifically in Sidney, Delaware.