English Home

My great-grandparents, Frederick and Harriet (Barlow) Sayles, immigrated with their three children to the United States about 1889. Both of their families came from the area around Sheffield, Yorkshire.

• Index of English relatives
• Pedigree of Ellen Smelter Sayles
• Descendants of Henry Barlow
• English Families Calendar

• ...altho we be absent from each other in body the mind is not far separated and altho a waste of water divides our dwellings and a different country and a different climet be our sets yet the mind traverses the mighty deep and reached the furthest corner of the globe in fanciful imaginations and in visions of thought...— Alexander Russell, letter, 1842
• We may perhaps never see each other on this side time But the river Jordan is before us both and it is but a little and we shall be oblidged to pass over— Alexander Russell, letter, 1842

This website is a work-in-progress, and includes my speculations and tentative conclusions.
Additions? Corrections? Questions? Contact me: Lauren Snellgrove