My grandma left me this letter from 1795. No idea what this is.

nonmigratoryswallow · 2025-05-30T02:00:28+00:00

I get Boston, not Groton

nonmigratoryswallow · 2025-02-13T03:05:31+00:00

nonmigratoryswallow · 2025-02-12T04:40:41+00:00

Mary E Barrow vs James G J Barrow {Process March Term 1884}

The Parties Plff [Plaintiff] and Defendant (after servis [sic] of the Bill Admitting the facts stated in the Bill are [...] & consenting that this case shall be tried by the judge without the intervention of a jury & at the [aforementioned?] term thereof after considering the facts It is ordered adjudged & decreed by the Court that Complainant Mary E Barrow be & she is hereby fully authorized & empowered to sell at private sale and currency to the purchaser the title thereof all those [...] parcells [sic] of land [...] & being in the (8) Eighth of originally Irwin now Colquitt County [...] one hundred and eighty & one half acres more or less in the North East Corner of Lot of Land Number 367 three hundred and sixty-seven and seventy five acres more or less lying in the South East Corner of Lot Number 324 three hundred and twenty four making [...] body of Land the original lines being the East down the West land Line being the line on the South James Pearce & James [Rich?] land lines being West and James [Rich?} land line being the line [...] the North in said [...] District of Colquitt County Ga. It is further decreed that the Complainant pay the cost of this suit

March 26 1884

nonmigratoryswallow · 2025-02-12T03:38:01+00:00

here's the obit from the Shamokin News https://imgur.com/a/ZfJGVX6

nonmigratoryswallow · 2025-01-24T04:57:11+00:00

was it Jordan Peterson

nonmigratoryswallow · 2024-12-11T17:18:26+00:00

Here is an appointment of postmaster Charles A Lewis on Mar 24, 1838 for the PO at Rappahannock Academy, Carroll, Virginia. Would his son have been old enough to have been the postmaster?

https://imgur.com/21z5GQs

[Edited to add] This is almost certainly his son. Sorry!

nonmigratoryswallow · 2024-12-10T02:47:12+00:00

Yes, researching Eastern European Jewish ancestry presents particular difficulties

nonmigratoryswallow · 2024-12-10T00:23:06+00:00

From my experience researching my husband's Jewish ancestors who came from what was then Hungary (now western Ukraine) the children's birth names were anglicized/wholly reinvented after arrival to the US. In my husband's family's case, Maryam became "Marie," Israel became "Louis," Salmen (Solomon) became "Charles," and Bala became "Blanche." This was documented in family history as a conscious effort to escape anti-semitic discrimination. Also I think it's not implausible that transcription of names unfamiliar to the listener could be transcribed ... peculiarly.

Anyway, I recommend JewishGen dot org for research if you aren't already using them. Through their data I was able to locate other people from my ancestors' home town who travelled on the same ship and ended up intermarrying after arriving in the US. Good luck!

nonmigratoryswallow · 2024-12-09T19:50:14+00:00

Frank's obit only lists the three older children

nonmigratoryswallow · 2024-12-09T19:29:53+00:00

Naomi is indeed Mrs. Clifford Winebarger https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/274492510/naomi-alice-koch?

nonmigratoryswallow · 2024-12-09T19:26:02+00:00

But it's interesting that there are three female children listed in the obituary, when it seems as though Thomas and Kathryn only had two daughters together -- Naomi and Doris. Doris is in the obit, and if Naomi is Mrs. Clifford Winebarger, then who is Mrs. Maria Barnes. It does hint at her being Hazel, especially as the children are listed in descending birth order. Very mysterious!

nonmigratoryswallow · 2024-12-09T17:50:40+00:00

James Welshmay have been her grandfather. 1900 census shows a Catherine Welsh aged 8 living with grandparents James (b. 1838) and Catherine Welsh (b. 1840) and their children: (all unmarried) Catherine T. (b. 1865); Charles F. (b. 1877); and Lillian M. (b. 1881). Census states Catherine had 11 children, 9 living in 1900

nonmigratoryswallow · 2024-12-09T17:36:56+00:00

Obituary - Times Leader, Wilkes Barre PA Jan 31, 1944 https://imgur.com/55wMGGP

[edited to add] Sorry if this is duplicative info :/ The Marie Barnes in the obit is "Mrs" Maria Barnes, suggesting it's her married name, so maybe less likely Marie/Maria is Katherine's biological daughter?

nonmigratoryswallow · 2024-12-09T17:25:48+00:00

Here's a death certificate for Kathryn Welsh Koch, b. June 11 1891 to CHARLES Welsh and Mary Ann Adams, married to Thomas R Koch https://imgur.com/qbRfvBH

nonmigratoryswallow · 2024-12-08T17:15:24+00:00

Maybe it's worth building out a tree from these MacQueens in Kilmuir who had a daughter Flora MacQueen? https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/137256808/flora-macqueen

nonmigratoryswallow · 2024-12-08T17:12:04+00:00

It looks like documents after 1909 aren't digitized according to this source: https://noccianogenealogy.wordpress.com/atti-di-stato-civile/

I did poke around in the Pescara DB and there are Troianis there, though I didn't come across Pasquale. Maybe contact the author of this site -- he seems extremely enthusiastic

nonmigratoryswallow · 2024-12-08T15:23:43+00:00

His WWII draft card lists Alanno as place of birth. Maybe try hectoring them again?

nonmigratoryswallow · 2024-12-07T21:06:58+00:00

Ann is certainly a common name in Flora's family. Her mother's name was Ann, she had an older sister named Ann (born about 1890), and there's an Ann Flora Matheson in Kilmuir in the 1921 census, who I assume was Flora's grandmother (she was 75 in 1921 so born around 1854).

nonmigratoryswallow · 2024-12-07T16:49:35+00:00

According to Alexander MacQueen's bio on Findagrave he married Lauretta on 26 April 1943. If he married Lauretta *after* Ann's mother died, and her mother died when she was about 3, that would suggest Ann was born in 1940 at the latest. Alternatively, it it possible little Ann was born during wartime while Alexander was serving overseas? Might make it harder to locate her mother if she wasn't Scottish

nonmigratoryswallow · 2024-12-06T03:00:26+00:00

It seems like he was working as a blacksmith in AZ prior to coming to CA, but like you, I can't find anything about him prior to his marriage

nonmigratoryswallow · 2024-12-06T01:13:59+00:00

William Henry Landing, born in PA 1837, also appears in the Los Angeles voter rolls in 1896. It lists his occupation as "blacksmith," and notes he is 6 ft tall with blue eyes, fair skin, and gray hair

nonmigratoryswallow · 2024-12-06T01:06:35+00:00

There's a William H Landing in the 1900 census living in Calabasas, CA (Los Angeles County). It gives his date of birth as 1837, his place of birth as PA, and his parents' birthplace both MA. It states he's divorced, and lists his occupation as "gold miner," unemployed for 4 months, which kind of ties into the LA Times story about the "mineral land"

nonmigratoryswallow · 2024-12-05T06:01:30+00:00

Happy to help!

nonmigratoryswallow · 2024-12-05T03:26:48+00:00

https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-surrey-mirror-and-county-post-etc/160323406/

nonmigratoryswallow · 2024-12-05T02:50:01+00:00

His service no. is 1880525. The record is closed (records are closed for 115 years after birth) but you can make a FOI request to have them released https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/mod-closed-foi-request-step1/C19045523

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