Henry Soare 1838 -1921England to California
Henry Soare, my mother's grandfather, was our last immigrant ancestor to arrive on the American continent. He came to the States by way of Canada. Henry sailed out of Liverpool, England on the "Spain" with his wife, Jane Seymour Smith and 7 children. They arrived in Canada about 1874.
Henry had retired from work at the East India Company in London and was doing very well until he suffered financial losses in an investment. He left England to join his brother in Canada, looking for a new start.
He is known for having produced the first wheat crop in Manitoba. In 1881 he moved his family of, now, 11 children to St. Paul, Ramsey, Minnesota. Jane died there in 1886, in childbirth, with their 12th child, William.
Henry married Abby Lewis Drew in 1888 and they moved to Montana, then to California . Helen Soare, my maternal grandmother, and Frank Littleton Soare were their two living children.
See Henry's parents below and our cousin, Michael Joyce, a descendent of Anne, Henry's sister.
