Son of James Elvin (1823-1851)(who died seven days after his son's birth from pneumonia as a result of climbing a flagpole in frigid weather to celebrate) and Eliza Vashti Athway of Lincolnshire, England.
Eliza was the daughter of John Athway and Mary Armstrong of Louth,Lincolnshire,England and the sister of Mary Foster who married Bartholomew White, thereby establishing the close relationship between the Elvin and White families in the United States.
!Baptised per St James Church records.
Trained to be a school master At St. John Training College at Battersea England.
He and his wife,married in 1879 went to Kent Englnd together to teach in the Town of Minster on the Isle of Sheppey at the mouth of the THames River
Arrived in the United States aboard the Richmond Hill on 27 April 1887 out of London with his wife and six children.
settled in Pendleton, Indiana-moved to Anderson, Indiana in 1889.
Naturalized on 22 September 1896 in Madison County, Indiana
Licensed as Lay Reader for Trinity Church in Anderson by the bishop of ,Indianapolis 18 Feb 1925.
James married second Charlotte Cottrell, widow of Bartholomew White Jr. on 11 November 1899 in Madison County,Indiana. They had a son, Roy H. who died after 6 days.
Eliza was the daughter of John Athway and Mary Armstrong of Louth,Lincolnshire,England and the sister of Mary Foster who married Bartholomew White, thereby establishing the close relationship between the Elvin and White families in the United States.
!Baptised per St James Church records.
Trained to be a school master At St. John Training College at Battersea England.
He and his wife,married in 1879 went to Kent Englnd together to teach in the Town of Minster on the Isle of Sheppey at the mouth of the THames River
Arrived in the United States aboard the Richmond Hill on 27 April 1887 out of London with his wife and six children.
settled in Pendleton, Indiana-moved to Anderson, Indiana in 1889.
Naturalized on 22 September 1896 in Madison County, Indiana
Licensed as Lay Reader for Trinity Church in Anderson by the bishop of ,Indianapolis 18 Feb 1925.
James married second Charlotte Cottrell, widow of Bartholomew White Jr. on 11 November 1899 in Madison County,Indiana. They had a son, Roy H. who died after 6 days.
Son of James Elvin (1823-1851)(who died seven days after his son's birth from pneumonia as a result of climbing a flagpole in frigid weather to celebrate) and Eliza Vashti Athway of Lincolnshire, England.
Eliza was the daughter of John Athway and Mary Armstrong of Louth,Lincolnshire,England and the sister of Mary Foster who married Bartholomew White, thereby establishing the close relationship between the Elvin and White families in the United States.
!Baptised per St James Church records.
Trained to be a school master At St. John Training College at Battersea England.
He and his wife,married in 1879 went to Kent Englnd together to teach in the Town of Minster on the Isle of Sheppey at the mouth of the THames River
Arrived in the United States aboard the Richmond Hill on 27 April 1887 out of London with his wife and six children.
settled in Pendleton, Indiana-moved to Anderson, Indiana in 1889.
Naturalized on 22 September 1896 in Madison County, Indiana
Licensed as Lay Reader for Trinity Church in Anderson by the bishop of ,Indianapolis 18 Feb 1925.
James married second Charlotte Cottrell, widow of Bartholomew White Jr. on 11 November 1899 in Madison County,Indiana. They had a son, Roy H. who died after 6 days.
Eliza was the daughter of John Athway and Mary Armstrong of Louth,Lincolnshire,England and the sister of Mary Foster who married Bartholomew White, thereby establishing the close relationship between the Elvin and White families in the United States.
!Baptised per St James Church records.
Trained to be a school master At St. John Training College at Battersea England.
He and his wife,married in 1879 went to Kent Englnd together to teach in the Town of Minster on the Isle of Sheppey at the mouth of the THames River
Arrived in the United States aboard the Richmond Hill on 27 April 1887 out of London with his wife and six children.
settled in Pendleton, Indiana-moved to Anderson, Indiana in 1889.
Naturalized on 22 September 1896 in Madison County, Indiana
Licensed as Lay Reader for Trinity Church in Anderson by the bishop of ,Indianapolis 18 Feb 1925.
James married second Charlotte Cottrell, widow of Bartholomew White Jr. on 11 November 1899 in Madison County,Indiana. They had a son, Roy H. who died after 6 days.
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