June Ross Cornish American Collection
Collection Scope and Content Summary
Collection, undated, of Cornish American records amassed by June and Richard Ross of Redlands, California. . Includes an eleven volume index of information documenting the Cornish diaspora in America. Information was culled from around the United States in newspapers, court records, census records, vital records, passenger lists and mining company records.
Dates
- 1885
Access
Available for use in the Michigan Technological University Archives and Copper Country Historical Collections.
Biographical Note
Lillian June Jennings, born on September 9, 1920, grew up in Houghton and graduated from Houghton High School in 1938. Her mother, Lillian (Nappa) Jennings, was of Nordic extraction, and her father, William Jennings, had an English heritage that would be very important to his daughter later on in her life.
June met Richard Albert ("Dick") Ross in California and married him in 1947. After Dick's retirement in 1975, the Rosses became passionately invested in genealogical research, and they devoted the years from 1977 through 2004 to national and international research trips. Guided primarily by June's background, the couple traveled to Cornwall and the American mining districts that had welcomed Cornish miners, collecting and indexing genealogical data along the way. Their immense research files included vital records, church documents (such as baptismal information), newspapers, immigration and travel data, local directories, and an extensive slate of other published and unpublished materials.
Dick died at age 84 on February 16, 2005. June passed away six years later on August 10, 2011.
Extent
4.18 cubic feet (5 boxes)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
Collection, undated, of Cornish American records amassed by June and Richard Ross of Redlands, California.
Processing History
Elizabeth Russell, 10/14/2010 Revised by Emily Schwiebert, 6 Mar 2024
- Birth certificates
- Census records
- Cornish Americans
- Cornish Americans -- Census
- Cornish Americans -- Genealogy
- Cornish Americans -- Obituaries
- Houghton County (Mich.)
- Keweenaw County (Mich.)
- Newspapers
- Passenger lists
- Records (Documents)
- Registers (Lists)
- Registers of births, etc.
- United States
- Vital statistics records
- Title
- June Ross Cornish American Collection
- Author
- Elizabeth Russell, 14 Oct 2010 Revised by Emily Schwiebert, 6 Mar 2024
- Date
- 10/14/2010
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Description is in English
Repository Details
Part of the Michigan Technological University Archives and Copper Country Historical Collections Repository