Gilbert RICHARDS

   Research Notes:

In 1871, Gilbert Richards (27) of Camborne, tin miner under surface, single, was at home with his widowed mother in Wesley Street, Camborne, Cornwall.

Note there was another Gilbert Richards of approximately same age, born in Redruth, miner, boarding with widow Eliza Ham (27) in 2 Burtons Court Redruth in 1871. A Gilbert Richards born in 1845 in England was with his wife Eliza in Michigan in 1900, having emigrated there around 1873. However, the Census shows they had been married for 33 years (i.e. since about 1867), and neither of the above Gilberts were married in 1871 (and there are no UK records indicating a marriage of a Gilbert Richards and an Eliza between 1861 and 1881). Furthermore, Findagrave shows the birth, death and burial of Gilbert Richards in Michigan—born 1 Jun 1845 in Camborne, Cornwall and died in 1912. However, the birthplace given seems unlikely, as the only Gilbert Richards who appears in the UK Censuses, born in Camborne, was Gilbert son of Gilbert and Jane, who, as indicated above, was single in 1871. Moreover, his birth was registered in 1844. The second Gilbert Richards (of Redruth) may have married widow Eliza Hall and migrated to Michigan, USA. ²