User:Eleanor W
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My great-grandmother was Jane Whitney, born in Shrewsbury, England in 1830, the daughter of Sophia Carline and James Whitney. While on a trip to Australia with her family, she nursed a friend (who was there looking for gold) to health and married him in Melbourne, Australia, in 1853. He preceded her to England and she and the baby returned a little later. Some years later when her husband died, she was left a young widow with seven children. She came to the U.S. some time after her eldest son had settled in Kentucky in 1873. (My tree is on rootsweb.com, database #10350.) Her sister, Anne, who also immigrated, was widowed,separated or divorced from her first cousin, George Smith Whitney. Jane had many descendants, but of course no male Whitneys. Her brother, John Whitney, sold Calver Hill in Norton Canon at auction and moved to his wife's property in Tipperary, then emigrated to New Zealand. There he was director of the Colonial Ammunition Company. His son, Cecil Arthur Whitney, was later managing director of CAC and was knighted. He had sons and there are possibly male descendants who would be able to participate in the y-chromosome search. There is another Whitney in my database who is not related to me or to this Whitney line (as far as I know) It is George Whitney who married my great-grandmother's half sister, America Innes, in Fayette Co., Kentucky.
Photographs of James Whitney and Jane Whitney with her children are posted.
