Francis Rolt Wheeler
Francis Rolt-Wheeler was born Francis William Wheeler, on December 16, 1876, in Forest Hills, England, to John Wheeler (1829-?), of irish descent and various occupations (shipbuilder, stone merchant, contractor) and Amina Cooke Taylor (1844-1923), wh
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Francis Rolt-Wheeler was born Francis William Wheeler, on December 16, 1876, in Forest Hills, England, to John Wheeler (1829-?), of irish descent and various occupations (shipbuilder, stone merchant, contractor) and Amina Cooke Taylor (1844-1923), whose sister's name (Freelove) suggests to me a Quaker background on the material side.
(The Rolt-Wheeler handle seems to have been a bit of vanity, used by both Francis and his sister Ethel, a poet, writer, reincarnationist and FTS. Their mother was related to the Rolfs, not any Rolts, but as many of the family sported a Rolf in one census or another, one suspects there was a legacy in play at some point prior to 1900).
Francis lives with his family, in England, until some time before 1901 (when he disappears from UK census records), He's crossed the Atlantic, living, I think, in Chicago (where he becomes a naturalized US citizen in 1903), working as a journalist, and spending a good bit of time in Canada. There, in Ontario, in 1907 (not, as reported in a lot of newspapers, 1901), and as Francis William Wheeler, he married Christine Gordon Neilson, the daughter of a Irish immigrant insurance agent.
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