William Eustis (1801-c1870+) was born
15 Apr 1805
in Camborne,
Cornwall
,
son of John and Mary (Goldsworthy) Eustis. He was married
9 Dec 1830
in Camborne to Mary
Vine, daughter of Joseph and Lucy (Eudey) Vine.
They had three children in Camborne and then sailed from
port
of
Falmouth
in
Cornwall
30 March 1837
and
arrived in
New York
Harbor
on May 6. They settled in British Hollow,
Potosi
Township
, Grant County, Wisconsin, where William worked in the lead mines. They had
six more children there, for a total of nine, and Mary died there in 1872.
It is not known if William died there or perhaps went west with his
children. By the 1880 census, one child was living in
California
,
two in
Minnesota
and one in
Utah
.
One son, William, died in the civil war and a set of triplets died in
infancy. |
