By Linus Joseph Dewald Jr., Editor
Spring 2001 and Revised 14 Jan 2011
We are helping William Prentice in his efforts to trace the ancestry of his great-grandfather, William Prentice. Here is what we have so far:
1. William Prentice was b. c. 1890-1900 in England. At an unknown later date date, before 1920, William emigrated to Guayaquil, Ecuador. By email of 2 Feb 2001 William Prentice relates the following additional information:
- My great grandpa went to Ecuador alone , he meet my great grandmother there!,
but they didn't get married, he stayed in ecuador a few years but he left as he
came alone! My greatgrandma and my granpa and a brother stayed in Ecuador and
since then we don't know anything else about my great grandpa!
He was the director of a foreign commercial business with other people, including Adolfo Poppe and Karl Grimmer. William has a photo of his great-grandfather taken in 1920 in which he is identified as "Guillermo Prentice". "Guillermo" is Spanish for "William."
William/Guillermo had at least one son, William's grandfather, was born in Guayaquil, Ecuador as was William's father.
On 1 Feb 2001, William Prentice posted a query on Prenticenet reading, in part, as follows:
- I am living
in Miami right now, but I am from Ecuador (South America), my grandpa was born there but his father
named William came form England if anybody knows something about a William Prentice that went to the
City of Guayaquil in Ecuador it will be helpful to find where I came from. My family in Ecuador is the only
family with the Prentice last name in Ecuador!
If you have any information about the folks mentioned in this article, please contact us at dewald@prenticenet.com and please include the title and date of this article.
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