Anne, I saw your little message, on the Milwaukee boards. I have a very strong "English side", from my Mother's father. They seemed to marry German, Luxembourg women, but the first couple to the Milwaukee area, were true English. My G-G- Grandfather came from Yorkshire, his wife, came from a town very close to where he was from, in Yorkshire. I am finding clues, that they married in New York state. Her family seemed then to move to Walworth County, WI. The HASLAM's stayed in Buffalo, N.Y., I surmise for Naturalization, although I have g-g-grandfather James' 1st papers from New Hampton, Chickasaw, Iowa. He was an engineer, or must have worked to that position. So, the Iowa thing makes some sense, there was a line from Chicago, to New Hampton, put in about the time of the signing. Also, in the family we have photos of the HASLAMs visiting Lancaster, WI. I surmise some of the mother's side(WOGAN), may have gone to that area, possibly as miners in the early days. The courthouse in New Hampton, would have been the closest, for the beginning, of the process. After New York, James and family went to Charlevioux,?, MI., they are found living next to a family name of WOGAN, in the census. Then they show up in Milwaukee, on some census, 2 more children born, including my g-grandfather Alfred "Wesley". The train connection still stays in the family. I have found more WOGANs listed in the Milwaukee census, but not sure of the connection to the "older" family. So my "ideas" on the English in Milwaukee, would have been family related, also English, Welsh, and Irish, were the working class, laborers, miners, "train engineers", They all had a part of building early Milwaukee. My relation seemed "partial" to the Germans, they seem to be the only ones my Englishmen married!