Looking for more details on two Henry MEREDITH individuals, a father and his son. 1. The father was Henry Pitt MEREDITH, born about 1819 (christened in 1825 in Clodock, Herefordshire, England, with two other siblings). 2. On the 1851 British census his parents and a brother who never married were at Redlay Farm, Cusop, Herefordshire, England. On that same census taken in March, Henry Pitt MEREDITH (spelled MERIDETH) was at Liverpool, England with an emigration agent as were several others. 2. Henry MEREDITH arrived at Castle Gardens in New York City in the United States on 30 April 1851. 3. He apparently went to the gold mining area of California in the United States, but have details. 4. The 1860 U. S. census shows Henry MERIDITH, miner, with his wife Margaret and three young children at La Porte, Sierra County, California. One more child was born in California, then apparently his wife died and he returned to England and Wales. 5. This is my FIRST QUESTION: Does anyone have access to passenger records or similar accounts that would show when this family went from California in the United States to the United Kingdom? It would be between 1862 and 1869. Cannot find them on sites I have access to. The father seemed to have done well in gold mining as later census records show him of independent means. Did he return because of the death of his father in 1867? Family would include: a. The father Henry Pitt MEREDITH, born about 1819 in England b. Ellen BUCKLEY or MEREDITH (it appears from later records that he adopted her) born about 1855 in California c. Mary Ann MEREDITH, born about 1858 in California d. Henry James MEREDITH, born about December 1859, just before 1860 census in California e. William Thomas MEREDITH, born about 1862 in California 6. The widowed father Henry Pitt MEREDITH (of Cusop) married spinster Ann HAMER (of Hay) 12 January 1869 in Hay, Breconshire, Wales (a town his deceased elder brother had lived in). Both were of full age. Her father was William HAMER, a laborer. I cannot find her for sure earlier, though she might be the Ann HAMER that was a servant in Hay on the 1861 census. 7. SECOND QUESTION: Can you find any of these individuals on the 1871 census, the father, his second wife, or the four children? They are NOT with his widowed mother at Cusop, Herefordshire. 8. THIRD QUESTION: Also cannot find death of second wife Ann HAMER MEREDITH. 9. Henry Pitt MEREDITH married a third wife, Ann EVANS, in 1872 in Abergavenny, Monmouthshire and they had two children. 10. Have not found the son Henry James MEREDITH on British Census records at all. (Did find his sister Ellen in 1881 and 1891 plus his brother William Thomas in 1881, 1891, 1901, and 1911.) He went to Australia and married in Sydney, New South Wales on 3 October 1885 shortly after his arrival. He apparently remained in the Sydney area until his death in 1921. FOURTH QUESTION: Just when did he leave the United Kingdom and on what ship? Looking forward to hearing from some of you. Ruth Ann in the United States ____________________________________________________________ Nutrition Improve your career health. Click now to study nutrition! http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL2141/c?cp=up_NcA8Un1mR6jK6z-OzGwAAJ1DVfZOYra9yp8dW1uuPS9s0AAYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAADNAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASQwAAAAA=