Hoping to find info on my great-great-grandfather, William Essex Smyth, Sr., who moved from England to possibly Canada first, then on to the United States. He lived in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and several locations in Michigan (the last being in Cheboygan, Michigan). Newspaper obit indicated he had been an Oddfellow since 1848. So possibly he joined before he left England. I have tried writing several Oddfellow locations to find out about his membership and have no luck whatsoever. Suggestions anyone? Unfortuately, I do not know where in England he was from.