Davis Uriah I | Born 1707

WELLBOURNE, Isaac Welbon Or

Male 1839 - Yes, date unknown


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  • Name WELLBOURNE, Isaac Welbon Or 
    Born Aug 1839  Lincolnshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Died Yes, date unknown 
    Person ID I12319  Uriah Davis I - Genealogy
    Last Modified 21 Jun 2018 

    Father WELBOURNE, William,   b. England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Bef 1860, Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Mother FISHER, Rebecca,   b. Abt 1807, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown 
    Married Lincolnshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F3708  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family HENRY, Mary J.,   b. 11 Mar 1848, Bellechasse, Quebec Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown 
    Married 10 Mar 1869  Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. WELBON, Dolley,   b. Abt 1870,   d. Yes, date unknown
     2. WELBON, Frank G.,   b. Abt 1872,   d. Yes, date unknown
     3. WELBON, Hugh Hamilton,   b. 14 Jan 1874, Michigan Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 16 Nov 1943, Alameda County, California Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 69 years)
     4. WELBON, Ira W.,   b. Abt 1879,   d. Yes, date unknown
    Last Modified 24 Jun 2018 
    Family ID F3767  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • The large Welbon family -- 12 children actually made the trip with their parents.
      They arrived in Detroit from England in the spring of 1854, after a harrowing three-month voyage by sailing vessel, becalmed for days at a time in the Atlantic.

      Bread baked for the trip turned mouldy and fresh water ran dangerously low.
      When the pale and drawn family faced the American immigration inspectors, their mother pinched the cheeks of 14-year old Isaac and 13-year old Henry, to put a healthy color into them and lessen the possibility the family would be rejected as sickly.

      Once ashore, the Welbons proceeded by sailing vessel up the Hudson River to Albany, thence along the Erie Canal by mule-drawn barge to Buffalo, and finally by sail again to Detroit.
      There they were met by the two oldest sons, who had preceded the rest of the family by a year to prepare the way.

      Their first impression of Detroit was of a sea of mud, so different from the tidy lanes and hedgerows of Lincolnshire.

      Disaster struck at once. In a few days one of the older sons was killed in an accident on what is now the Grand Trunk Western Railroad. A few weeks later a cholera epidemic took the lives of the father and another of the older sons. The family bravely re-grouped and struggled on, living on Croghan Street, now Monroe, on the near east-side, and worshipping faithfully at St. John's Episcopal Church, at Woodward and Vernor, then High Street.

      Mrs. Welbon had learned midwifery in England and turned her hand to it again to help support the family. Life in the New World, with its sorrows and uncertainties, could not have seemed much better than the hard existence they had left as small tenant farmers in Lincolnshire, and more bitter experiences lay ahead.

      But Isaac and Henry grew to young manhood and by 1860 were working as waiters aboard a Great Lakes passenger steamer where their older brother was the steward. Isaac was 24, 5 feet 6 inches in height, and had a light complexion with light hair and blue eyes.
      Henry, a year younger, was 5 feet 8 ½ inches in height and had a light complexion with brown hair and brown eyes.
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      Isaac Welbon
      Residence: Detroit, Michigan
      Service Record:
      Enlisted as a Private on 29 September 1862 at the age of 22
      Enlisted in Company F, 16th Infantry Regiment Michigan on 29 September 1862.
      Reenlisted in Company F, 16th Infantry Regiment Michigan on 21 December 1863
      Promoted to Full Corporal on 01 May 1865
      Mustered out Company F, 16th Infantry Regiment Michigan on 08 July 1865 in Jeffersonville, IN
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      Corporal Isaac Welbon continued on to the end of the Civil War, cooking for his teamsters at the 1st Division headquarters. He participated in the Grand Review of the Army of the Potomac in Washington, D.C., on May 23, 1865, and on the 25th of July, in Jackson, Michigan, was paid off and discharged, having been promoted at the very end to Sergeant.
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      1870 census:
      Welbon, Isaac, 32, M, W, Laborer, $1000 R.E./$300 Peronal, b. England
      ", Mary J., 20, F, W, Keeping House, b. Canada
      ", Mary, 5 months, F, W, b. Feb. 1870
      9th Ward Detroit, Wayne Co., Michigan (Roll 715, Book 1, Pg. 308b).
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      1880 census:
      Isaac WELBON Self M Male W 41 ENG Works In Jewlery Store ENG ENG
      Mary J. WELBON Wife M Female W 31 CAN Keeping House IRE IRE
      Dolley WELBON Dau S Female W 10 MI At School ENG IRE
      Frank G. WELBON Son S Male W 8 MI ENG IRE
      Hugh H. WELBON Son S Male W 6 MI ENG IRE
      Ira W. WELBON Son S Male W 1 MI ENG IRE
      Minnie BLAMASTER Other S Female W 14 MI Servant GER GER
      Census Place 12th Ward, Detroit, Wayne, Michigan
      Family History Library Film 1254614
      NA Film Number T9-0614
      Page Number 482A
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