Wilton Byer

Source Information:                                                                                        

Year: 1920; Arrival: New York, New York, USA; Microfilm Serial: T715, 1897-1957; Line: 1; Page Number: 307

Ancestry.com. New York, New York, Extracted Marriage Index, 1866-1937 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014.

Ancestry.com. New York, State Census, 1925 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012.

Year: 1940; Census Place: New York, New York, New York; Roll: m-t0627-02651; Page: 61A; Enumeration District: 31-1139

     Wilton Byer was born on the 3rd of November 1896 in Port of Spain, Trinidad, a colonial island of the British West Indies near the coast of Venezuela.  He sailed from Port of Spain on the 4th of December 1920 arriving  in New York on the 23rd.  He made his way from Ellis Island to the house of his cousin, Ebenezer Brathwaite.  Also staying with the Brathwaites' was their niece, Mary Harrison, who in 1927, would become Wilton's wife.  Mary was also an emigree from Port of Spain, Trinidad.

Wilton is described as being 5 feet 5 inches tall, with a dark complexion, brown hair, brown eyes, and having a scar on the left forehead.  Over the years he worked as a porter in a department store, a construction laborer, and a house painter.

 As of the 1940 US Census, there is no record of any children being born to Wilton and Mary Byer.  

Wilton died at the Florence Nightingale Nursing Home in Manhattan on the 30th of April 1982 and was buried on Hart Island on the 14th of June 1982.