My United States progenitor, the immigrant, is my Great-Great-Great Grandfather, Bartholomew Bracewell who was born c1775 in Burnley, Lancashire, England. He married in England Sarah Simpson. His ancestry began in Kerkby Malham, Yorkshire [late 1600s], then to Burnley, Lancashire, and also Skipton, Yorkshire. Bartholomew Bracewell emigrated to the United States on the ship Bengal from Liverpool, arriving at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 7 August 1826. He went to Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania where her farmed. His wife and 7 children followed the next year on the ship Nimrod from Liverpool, arriving at New York 9 January 1827. Among the children, I will mention Charlotte and John. Charlotte married in the U.S. James Gale Heslop who was born in Manchester, England. This Heslop family survived the famous Johnstown, Pennsylvania Flood of 31 May 1889. John, my Great-Great-Grandfather, left Pennsylvania and found work as a coal miner in Western Virginia, now part of the State of West Virginia, before 1838 where he married Minerva Lewis. The Lewis family was from Northern Ireland known in the U.S. as Scotch-Irish who were in the Valley of Virginia by 1746. They were pioneer Colonials and Revolutionary War soldiers. John and Minerva soon moved to Middleport, Meigs County, Ohio. All 7 of John'€™s children migrated to Danville, Vermilion County, Illinois, my birthplace, around 1866, after some of the brothers had fought for the Union for the North in the American Civil War. All were coal miners.