My name is John Schelleng and I live just outside Alexandria, Virginia. I am searching for my English roots. My Mother came over with her Father and Sister just before the First World War - in fact they came on the Lucitania on her last passage before being sunk. I have traced our family tree back through three principle names: WARREN, GROUT and DAWES and would like help pushing things further.
WARREN: My great-great-grandfather was named Charles WARREN. He was (at least by avocation and probably by vocation) an artist, living in Chelsea in the period around 1825-1835. He was good enough to exhibit in the 1833 Royal Academy Exhibition and the 1835 Royal Society of British Artists. He had a wife and daughter both named Caroline (b. 1832). We are fairly sure that he was the brother of Henry WARREN, a much better known artist and president of the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours. We know nothing of Charles or Henry's birth or parents and nothing about Charles's death.
GROUT: They are on the other side of my mothers ancestry. My great-great-grandfather there was John GROUT (b. 1804). He married twice and we have happily made contact with Jackie (n. GROUT) Ades of Polegate, one of step relatives. Beyond John GROUT the picture becomes murky. There is a Thomas there, but just where we aren't sure. Family myth has an ancestor that was a clergyman in Edgeware known as the "Bard of Edgeware".
DAWES: Are connection here is twofold. Grandpa GROUT was married to his cousin Jesse DAWES. They were married at St Athanasius, Kirkdale, Lancashire as was a one of Jesse's sisters, suggesting a connection there. Other than that, we have not idea.
Any help would be welcome.
