Henry van Wart

1836), whose niece in turn was called Rosalinda Irving van Wart (b.

Henry and Sarah met when he was employed by her family's New York City company, Irving & Smith, and they moved to England when he was tasked with opening a Liverpool branch of the firm.

After that enterprise failed, they moved to Birmingham, and he set up a profitable business, exporting the city's goods to America.

Henry van Wart was also great friends with fellow American Samuel Aspinwall Goddard, US Consul to Birmingham.

Goddard was a gunmaker, LBSC director, owner of the Church "Surprise" railway locomotive 1840, author and pamphleteer, exhibitor of guns at Great Exhibition of 1851 and co-patentee with Dr. William Church (inventor) of a breech-loading canon presented to the British parliamentary ordinance committee in 1853.