The Perry Page
Contents: Ancestors of Henry Perry, English Origins, Emigration to America, Nebraska
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Ancestors of Henry Perry
This table is a summary of the ancestors of Henry Perry, who was born in Bristol, England, on 5 February 1864, married Elizabeth Matilda Gregory on 5 February 1864, and died in Bristol on 4 January 1866..
| George Perry |
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Henry John Perry England 1842-1866 |
| Maria Frances Thomas |
English Origins
Henry Perry died at the age of only 24, less than two years after his marriage. He left a son, Francis Henry Gregory Perry (sometimes known as Frank Perry). Frank's mother Elizabeth remarried (xxx Blacklock).
Emigration to America
Frank visited America with a friend in 1892, and decided to stay.
Francis Perry in America
In 1894 Frank married Nellie Closs in Nebraska.
Preacher and businessman
Frank and Nellie lived in a variety of cities up and down the midwest.
Daughter Elsé Perry wrote about their travels in a series of children's stories that appeared in the Diller (Nebraska) Record and other newspapers.
For more
on Elsé Perry, her husband C. C. Barnett, and their children, see the Barnett
page.