William Field Lockyer1849 migrated to Alton, Illinois from Middlezoy, Somerset, England in 1872. In 1884 his younger brother Richard Field Lockyer1860 joined him. William married Jane or Jennie Reader, Richard married her sister Emma Reader. More details of the above mentioned persons passages to USA from UK are dealt with at http://dbown100.tripod.com/Illinois.htm . For anyone with ancestors also from Somerset, there are thumbnail albums of pictures of many of the villages at http://dbown100.tripod.com/album.htm
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