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Henry Heath (November 22, 1828 – April 4, 1908) was a Latter-day Saint (Mormon) pioneer, explorer, settler and lawman in the frontier Utah Territory, United States. == Family and early childhood == Henry Heath was born in Hanley, Staffordshire, England on November 22, 1828, the second of five children〔The 1841 census lists John, Barbara, four children and Nicholas Thomas Silcock, a boarder who would marry the oldest daughter, Jane, that same year. Another daughter, Sarah Jael Heath, was born in 1834, but died as a child before this census was taken.〕 of John Heath and Barbara Hulme.〔Census of England and Wales, 1841, Hope Street, Stoke Upon Trent, Shelton Stoke upon Trent, HO107 piece 992 folio 7/19 page 31〕 Henry’s father was a decorator of fine china. Hanley, commonly known as “the Potteries” was the center of china industry in England and Henry’s occupation in the 1841 census suggests that he may have been headed into his father’s trade. His mother, Barbara, was a cook early in her marriage, and undertook training to become a doctor, but practiced medicine for only a short time. Shortly after Henry’s birth in 1828, his father, John, became gravely ill with typhoid fever. The disease was not fatal in John’s case, but it left him debilitated so that he no longer had the dexterity to apply intricate designs to pottery and fine china. Barbara’s income as a doctor was not sufficient to support their family and so she embarked on a daring business venture for a woman in the mid-nineteenth century—she bought a bakery.〔 Largely due to Barbara’s industry and business acumen the bakery was a commercial success. Barbara ran the bakery from Henry’s infancy and so Henry was cared for during the day by his father and by his older sister Jane. In 1834, when Henry was six years old, Nicholas Thomas Silcock (1819–1906) came to live with the Heaths. Silcock’s mother, Ann died when he was about 10 years old and his father, John Silcock was a carpenter who was in and out of work until his death in 1847.〔Banner, p. 23-24.〕 Aside from the Heaths’ pure charity, it is unclear what circumstances led to Nicholas attaching himself to their family. Silcock would have a significant influence on Henry Heath's life. Silcock, who went by Thomas in the family, was apprenticed to a master carpenter and would have been well on his way to journeyman status when he married Henry’s older sister, Jane on April 14, 1841.〔Banner, p. 125.〕 It is likely that Thomas passed on at least some skills to Henry. The 1841 Census of England and Wales lists Henry (age 12) as working in the potteries and Thomas Silcock as a “joiner.”〔 Henry’s father, John, weakened by typhoid, contracted tuberculosis and died on September 8, 1841.〔Death Records, Public Records Office, Stoke on Trent, vol. XVII, p. 101. (See (FreeBMD.org ).)〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Henry Heath (Mormon pioneer)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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