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George Saunders Bonfield
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Gender: Male

Father: Joseph Bonfield
Mother: Eliza Collins {Bonfield}

Born: 8 Feb 1842, Swanage, Dorset, England [1812] gb.gif

Christened: 10 Apr 1842, Swanage, Dorset, England [1811] gb.gif

Occupation: Stone Mason, 1851 [2030]

Census: 1851, Swanage, Dorset, England [2030] gb.gif

Census: 1861, Swanage, Dorset, England [1810] gb.gif

Married: Sarah Barnes Harris {Bonfield}, 23 Jun 1862, Wareham, Dorset, England [1809] gb.gif
Children: George Bonfield, Elizabeth Bonfield {Mitchell}, Hester Bonfield, Esther Ann Bonfield {Swales}, Georgina Bonfield, Alice Bonfield {Robinson}, Eliza Bonfield {Sickler}

Census: 1871, Swanage, Dorset, England [1808] gb.gif

Census: 1881, 6 Railway Terrace, Brotton, Yorkshire, England [2024] gb.gif

Emigrated: C.13 Jun 1888, Liverpool,Lancashire,England [1959] gb.gif

On board: From C.13 Jun 1888 to 22 Jun 1888, White Star steamship Adriatic, North Atlantic [1959]

Immigrated: 22 Jun 1888, New York, NY [1959] 38star.gif

Resided: Between 1889 and 1890, 310 Meridian, Scranton, Lackawanna County, PA [1807] 38star.gif

Resided: 1890, 310 Meridian, Scranton, Lackawanna County, PA 38star.gif

Census: 1891, 53 Chatham Road, Battersea, London, England [2010] gb.gif

Resided: Between 1896 and 1899, 1118 Rock Street, Scranton, Lackawanna County, PA [1836] 44star.gif

Census: 7 Jun 1900, 1117 Dewey Court, Scranton, Lackawanna County, PA [2146] 45star.gif

Occupation: Stone Mason, 1900 [2146]

Census: Apr 1910, Scranton, Lackawanna County, PA [2113] 46star.gif

Died: 5 Mar 1913, 1116 Rock Street, Scranton, Lackawanna County, PA 48star.gif

Buried: 9 Mar 1913, Washburn Street Cemetery, Scranton, Lackawanna County, PA 48star.gif


1842 Birth Record
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1851 UK Census
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1851 UK Census
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1861 UK Census
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1862 Marriage
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1871 UK Census
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1876 Newpaper
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1876 Newpaper
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1876 Newpaper
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1881 UK Census
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1888 Ships Manifest
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1888 Ships Manifest
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1888 Ships Manifest
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1890 Map
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1891 UK Census
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1891 UK Census
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1900 US Census
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1910 US Census
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1913 Death Notice
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Notes:
 Born at 11 PM.
 His birth was registered on the 8th of March 1842.
 His middle name is found in a number of places, including the Vital Records Index, British Isles, FHL Number 1239249.  This
 is the family name of his paternal grandmother, Jane Saunders (Bonfield).
 1861 census extract, Swanage, Dorset, England
 Joseph  BONFIELD Head     Married 48 Stone Quarryman     Dorset Swanage 6-5
 Eliza   BONFIELD Wife     Married 47                     Dorset Swanage 6-5
 George  BONFIELD Son      Single  19 Stone Quarryman     Dorset Swanage 6-5
 Joseph  BONFIELD Son              14 Stone Quarryman     Dorset Swanage 6-5
 Charles BONFIELD Son              10 Stone Quarryman     Dorset Swanage 6-5
 Jane    BONFIELD Daughter          7 Scholar             Dorset Swanage 6-5
 Jane    BONFIELD Mother   Widow   72 Stone Mason's Widow Dorset Swanage 6-5
 Their marriage, which was performed at the Register Office of Wareham, was witnessed by
 Thomas Best, and Martha Harris.  Martha was Sarah's sister.

 In 1871, George is listed as George B. Saunders, with his middle and last
 names reversed.  I found the listing purely by luck.

 Birth records for the daughters show him as Iron Miner in 1873/1875, but
 stone mason again by 1877.

 It appears that in March of 1876, George was tried and convicted of a "murderous assualt"
 on a man named Richard Goldsworthy.  He was sentenced to 18 months in prison,
 but was pardoned in October, following another man's confession to the crime.
 It is not certainly the same George, but there was no other George Bonfield in the area
 at that time (except his son, who was only 12).  His age in the newspaper was listed as
 30, though he would have been 34.

 In 1881 census, both father and son (George Jr.) are listed as
 Ironstone miners
 George came to the US 22 Jun 1888, with Georgina, on board the White Star
 Steamship Adriatic, to be with his oldest daughter Elizabeth
 and her husband, James W. Mitchell, who had come a year earlier.  He
 appears in the 1890 directory of Scranton as a stone mason, boarding
 at 310 Meridian St. with his son-in-law, James W. Mitchell.  The rest of
 his family may have been living with Sarah's parents, who lived in Surrey
 in 1881.  However, he (and Georgina) are back in England (London) and he
 is employed as a stone mason, with his family in the 1891 census.
 Georgina and the remainder of George's family came, to stay this time,
 on 20 Sep 1893, on board the steamship Teutonic.  It is still not clear
 when George himself returned, but it was some time between 1891 and 1900.
 The 1891 census says born in Herston, Dorset. Herston appears to be a district of Swanage.

 The address in the 1910 census is 1116, some Court. The street name is unreadable,
 but does not appear to be Dewey Court.  The current map of Scranton does
 not show either Dewey Court, or any other Court parallel to Rock
 Street.  Rock Street is the next street on the census with very
 similar numbers, so possibly the name of this street changed
 to Rock Street.  The burial permit for George lists
 their address as 1116 Rock Street.
 Burial lot 1, Third Ave. Section O, permit no.7723, depth 7ft.

 In 1687 there was a George Bondfield from Swanage who signed a
 declaration of certain Marblers and Stone Merchants... is this
 an ancestor?