The descendants of Henry Jefferies and Martha Atkin.
I do not know how Henry & Martha met, perhaps she was working in Streatham but they were married in Martha's birthplace in Lincolnshire. Henry was a house painter & decorator and died of lead poisoning it is believed.
Henry & Martha had 6 children in Streatham and, on his death in August 1892, his widow and 5 children left to join his eldest son, Jonathan Henry Jefferies who had emigrated to Florida on 10 November 1888.
Jonathan Henry is said to have emigrated to Florida after correspondence with a family friend, Benjamin Smith from Bedingfield, Suffolk who emigrated to Canada and then Florida. I have not seen how these two families could have been connected except through his father's mother Harriet Button from Suffolk.
I hope to add more to this with input from the American cousins. July 2026