Clara Evelyn Rawson
Ben’s great-great-grandmother, from a Halifax weaving family.
Descent: Benjamin James Weber ← Virginia Anne Kelble ← Mary Dolores Bedesem ← Ida Mary Greenwood ← Clara Evelyn Rawson
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Family
Children
- Arthur Greenwoodb. March 12, 1894, in England · d. June 1, 1975m. Mary Jane Walker, April 29, 1916
- Florence E. Greenwoodb. March 17, 1900, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA · d. July 11, 1962, at Albert Einstein Medical Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania due to stomach cancerm. LeRoy W Stone, October 5, 1921
- Evelyn Greenwoodb. Abt. 1903, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA · d. March 27, 1905, due to Meningitis
Siblings
- Sarah Ann Rawsonb. Abt. 1875 in Halifax, England
- b. Abt. 1877 in Halifax, England
In brief
1870s
Born 30 August 1872 on Stead Street, Halifax, West Yorkshire, into a family of weavers.
1890s
A worsted weaver herself by 1891. Emigrated to Philadelphia with James Greenwood in 1896.
1900s–1930s
Raised the Greenwood family in Philadelphia.
1940s
Died at home on East Thayer Street, Philadelphia, on 13 October 1941.
Life story
Halifax to Philadelphia
Clara Evelyn Rawson was born on August 30, 1872, on Stead Street in Halifax, West Yorkshire, the daughter of James Rawson and Mary Ellen Widdop, and like her future husband James Greenwood went to work in the local worsted-weaving trade, recorded as a weaver in 1891. She emigrated to the United States with James in 1896, and the two were married soon after.
A Philadelphia Household
Clara and James raised their family in Philadelphia over the following decades, moving through a series of rented and later owned homes — her sister Sarah, who had followed them from England, lived with the family for a time after her own arrival around 1910. Clara died at home on East Thayer Street on October 13, 1941, at nine-ten in the morning, aged sixty-nine.
At a glance
Sources (12)
- U.S. census, Philadelphia Ward 33, Pennsylvania, population schedule, enumeration district 858, sheet 15-B, Clara E Greenwood; NARA microfilm publication T623.
- 1910 U.S. census, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, population schedule, Philadelphia, Ward 33, enumeration district 810, sheet 5-A, dwelling 94, family 95, Clara Greenwood, NARA microfilm publication T624.
- “Pennsylvania, U.S., Federal Naturalization Records, 1795-1931,” Ancestry.com (https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/2717/images/31311_137337-00038 : accessed 9 September 2023), digital image, Petition for Naturalization for James E. Greenwood, Circuit Court, Roll 29, Petition Number 13, Page 38-39.
- 1920 U.S. census, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, population schedule, Philadelphia Ward 33, enumeration district 1101, sheet 10-B, dwelling 180, family 185, James E Greenwood Family; NARA microfilm publication T625, roll 1625; Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/6061/images/4384845_00932 : accessed 10 September 2023).
- 1940 US Census, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, population schedule, Philadelphia City, enumeration district 51-1064, Sheet 13-B, dwelling 286, James E Greenwood family; NARA microfilm publication T627; Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/2442/images/M-T0627-03721-00377 : accessed 10 September 2023).
- 1930 US Census, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, population schedule, Phialdelphia City, enumeration district 51-964, Sheet 15-A, dwelling 279, family 287, James E Greenwood family; NARA microfilm publication T626; Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/55950393:6224 : accessed 10 September 2023).
- “Pennsylvania and New Jersey, U.S., Church and Town Records, 1669-2013,” images, Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/2083456308:2451 : accessed 10 September 2023), funeral director’s report for Evelin Greenwood, William H. Battersby Funeral Director, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 27 March 1905.
- Polk’s Philadelphia City Directory (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: R. L. Polk & Co. of Philadelphia, 1930), 661; “U.S., City Directories, 1822-1995,” digital images, Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/2469/images/2945691 : accessed 10 September 2023); (1930) 268.
- Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, death certificate no. 86154 (1941), Clara Greenwood; Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Department of Health Bureau of Vital Statistics.
- “1891 England Census,” database, Ancestry.com (https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/6598/images/WRYRG12_3591_3593-0039 : accessed 31 August 2024), entry for Mary Rawson family, District 33, Halifax, Halifax, Yorkshire, p. 21, no. 160.
- “1881 England Census,” database, Ancestry.com (https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/7572/images/WRYRG11_4401_4404-0431 : accessed 31 August 2024), entry for James Rawson family, District 26, Halifax, Halifax, Yorkshire, p. 18, no. 103.
- England, birth register for Clara Eveline Rawson, born 30 August 1872; registered December quarter 1872, Halifax District 9a/436; General Register Office.