More followup
While doing more of my own family research I found a newspaper article for Jul 4, 1951 about a Bagshaw Family Reunion in Sunderland, Ontario, Canada. Under a photo of all those in attendance was this statement: “ First member of the Bagshaw family to come to Canada was William, a horse-soldier who fought under Wellington at Waterloo.”
I realize you can't believe everything you read in a newspaper, however it does coincide with what my grandparents told me about the sword-that it had been used in the Battle of Waterloo.
William Bagshaw had emigrated to Canada in 1817 when he was 44. He settled near Sunderland.
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