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NCHS Bulletin April 2013
tion on only one document or piece of evidence is not only
unwise, but can lead to many false conclusions and wasted
hours (and even years) of research time.
Using every surviving record group available for the
decades a person lived gives us a variety of records and
documents that will enable us to come to a conclusion when
there is no “smoking gun.”
What the 1940 Census Did Not Tell
William T. George (known as Will T.) was born in St.
Austell, Cornwall, England on October 5, 1873. He came to
Grass Valley with his mother in 1885 to join his father when
he was twelve years old. His father, William H. George had
left Cornwall only three days after his marriage to Louisa
Ann Jewell and before he even knew of his son’s conception, and his parents had a long separation of thirteen years
before Louisa decided to leave her family and finally join
her husband in Grass Valley. This family information is
probably unusual and not typical for most Cornish families
living in Nevada County at the time.
Years before William’s birth, his grandfather, John
George, had left Cornwall to join his brother Samuel,
who had been mining in Nevada County as early as 1852.
The George brothers would have been two of the earliest
Cornish miners in Nevada County. Generally speaking, as
a group the Cornish arrived later to work underground in
the quartz mines, and continued through the 20th Century
until the mines closed in the 1950s. In the 1850s not many
of the thousands of gold seekers who came to California
had any experience in mining. The Cornish brought expertise from centuries of working underground in tin and coal
mines in Cornwall.
Harry Hooper’s Grass Valley Concert Band at Sacramento, ca. 1916-17. Front row (left to right): Walter Hyatt, Charlie
Carveth, A. E. Hooper, H. W. Hooper, Harold J. George, Will T. George and Norton Penrose. (Nevada City Nugget photo.)