Ancestors of Giovanni Roberto Ruffini

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Ancestors of Giovanni Roberto Ruffini

First Generation

1. Giovanni Roberto Ruffini [1], son of Giulio Laurenzo Ruffini [2] and Charlotte Ann Quinlan [3], was born on 12 Jul 1974 in Oakland, California. Another name for Giovanni is Nino. Giovanni married Yelena Mikhailovna Sorokina [826] [MRIN: 300], daughter of Mikhail Arkadyevich Sorokin [827] and Tatyana Borisovna Filippova [830], on 22 Jul 2007 in Westbury, Long Island.

Second Generation (Parents)

2. Giulio Laurenzo Ruffini [2], son of Giovanni Ruffini [376] and Maria Theresa Meloni [377], was born on 17 Aug 1937. Another name for Giulio is Julio.

Giulio married Charlotte Ann Quinlan [3] [MRIN: 1] on 17 Aug 1967.

The child from this marriage was Giovanni Roberto Ruffini

3. Charlotte Ann Quinlan [3], daughter of Harold Edward Quinlan [4] and Leona Jane Neer [5], was born on 6 Jul 1938.

Charlotte married Giulio Laurenzo Ruffini [2] [MRIN: 1] on 17 Aug 1967.

Third Generation (Grandparents)

4. Giovanni Ruffini [376], son of Giovanni Maria (Giomaria) Ruffinu [378] and Pietruccia Lai [379], was born on 11 Oct 1887 in Ossieri, Sardinia and died on 5 Mar 1961 in San Francisco, CA at age 73.

General Notes: His birth records are entry 228 under year 1887 on the Mormon Ozieri microfilm roll 1805474. They say that his birth was reported to the mayor of Ozieri at 11 AM on the 14th of October by Giovamaria Lai, a 30-year-old housewife living in Ozieri. He is reported to have been born "nella casa posta in Corralzu al numero 1 da Lai Pietruccia."

His death certificate gives his birthday as October 9, 1888. (See more, below.) Luigi confirms that he always thought 1888 was his birth-year. It seems possible from this that he had his own birth-year wrong. His gravestone gives his birthday as October 9, 1887. His naturalization records give his birthday as October 9, 1886.

Luigi says that Giovanni worked in the vineyards as a kid, and says that the family were share-croppers.

Luigi says that Giovanni went to Buenos Aires first, before going to Panama, and that he may have stayed in Buenos Aires as long as a couple of years. We do not know what he was doing in Buenos Aires. In Panama he got fever, and took quinine.

He worked on the canal around the First World War, after it was first built but when work had to be continued on it, including working to clear the jungles on the sides, where he got malaria. Luigi reports that he worked in a lock called Miraflores. This lock was under the Pacific Division of the canal building. It is the western entrance to Miraflores Lake, one of the two artificial lakes forming a major part of the canal. It was finished in May 1913.

Apparently he did not settle in South San Francisco right away; Luigi says he went to Dixon Mills and Casadero in Russian River, maybe working on a railroad, immediately after Panama. Luigi says that Giovanni used to mention a railroad, but he is not sure.

Giovanni Ruffini appears in the 1920 Federal Census as a trackman and boarder in someone else’s home. This shows as inaccurate the item in his death certificate giving (in 1961) his length of stay in California as only 40 years. Luigi says that there were not really any other Sards in South San Francisco, but they all remember lots of other Italian families.

Giovanni was married to Maria Theresa at the age of 33, on July 25, 1921, at Ss. Peter and Paul church in San Francisco. According to Luigi, in May 2009, "When my mother came to US she lived with my father and they married only because my aunt kept calling my mother a whore, so they got married."

Luigi says that the picture of Giovanni’s wedding with Maria Theresa was destroyed, burned, accidentally by the latter when she was cleaning. The photo had been taken out of its frame to be used in his headstone upon his death.

A record search request filed with DHS on November 11, 2008 returned a successful search for file number C-2765756, a record from Naturalization Court at the Superior Court of San Mateo County, Redwood City, dated April 24, 1928.

He appears in the 1930 census on Olive Avenue as John Ruffini, head of household. Luigi says that he bought the house, re-oriented it 180 degrees, and built the garage with Luigi’s help, and built additional room in the house.

Giovanni’s death certificate indicates time of death as 2:30 AM in the Kaiser Foundation Hospital on Geary Street in San Francisco. His residence was 705 Olive Avenue, his spouse Theresa Ruffini, his occupation a Burner at Bethlehem Pacific Steel Company for 38 years. (So, dating back to circa 1923.) He was buried in the Italian Cemetery. Cause of death listed as a carcinoma of the tongue with widespread metastases. An operation had been performed on 2/3/56. Luigi notes that Giovanni had lead poisoning and anemia as well, passing the latter onto his daughter Mary. Giulio remembers him as being very sick, particularly with respiratory problems.

Leaves Sardinia. Age 16

Giovanni married Maria Theresa Meloni [377] [MRIN: 2] on 25 Jul 1921 in Ss. Peter and Paul Church, San Francisco, CA.

Children from this marriage were:

Giulio Laurenzo Ruffini;

John Ruffini was born on 24 Jun 1924 and died in 2003 at age 79.

Luigi Ruffini was born on 30 Mar 1923.

Mary Ruffini was born on 9 Jan 1922 and died in 2001 at age 79.

Pierina Ruffini died in 2006.

Rosie Ruffini was born circa 1930 and died in Sep 2004 (in Turlock?) at age 74.


5. Maria Theresa Meloni [377], daughter of Giovanni Maria (Mimmia) Meloni [381] and Antonia Luigia Corrozu [380], was born on 13 Apr 1902 in Ossieri, Sardinia and died on 6 Jul 1983 at age 81.

Searches for ’Maria Meloni’ in Ellis Island records:

An entry left completely blank for a passenger on board the S.S. Duca Degli Abruzzi leaving Genoa and arriving USA December 2, 1920.

The S.S. Ferdinando Palasciano left Genoa in February 1921 carrying Antonia Ruffinu, her children Giovanni and Mattia, Matteo Lai and Maria Meloni. She lists her nearest relative at home as her mother Antonia Corosu and her mother’s residence as Ozieri. They arrive in Philadelphia. All of them are described as born in Nughedu, and all of them are listed as going to stay with "Giovanni Ruffinu", who is expressly described as the "betrothed" of Maria. Luigi says that he remembers her saying that when she arrived in New York, she was sea-sick and cold.

1920s: She was married to Giovanni first in a civil marriage, and then later, by a year or so, in the church, due to Antonia’s pressure. Giovanni was married to Maria Theresa at the age of 33, on July 25, 1921, at Ss. Peter and Paul church in San Francisco.

Luigi on one occasion noted that he was born at home through a mid-wife, but everyone else was born in the hospital. Maria Theresa almost died with Mary, who was going to be born at home through a mid-wife, but was so difficult that they had to go to a hospital. On a later occasion Luigi said that Maria Theresa’s first three children were all born through a mid-wife, and her last three at the hospital. She walked to the hospital to have Giulio.

Luigi says that Giovanni and Maria Theresa always spoke Italian to each other.

1930: She appears as ’Teresa Ruffini’ in the 1930 census at the age of 28.

She appears in the Social Security Death Index as Maria Ruffini, SSN 558-72-6682, issued 1963, deceased July 1983. She appears in the California Death Indexas Teresa Ruffini, deceased 6 July 1983.

Maria married Giovanni Ruffini [376] [MRIN: 2] on 25 Jul 1921 in Ss. Peter and Paul Church, San Francisco, CA.


6. Harold Edward Quinlan [4], son of Edward William Quinlan [7] and Anna Monroe [8], was born on 1 Jan 1909 in Kansas and died on 13 Feb 1960 in Kern County at age 51. Other names for Harold were Bob, Robert.

Harold E Quinlan: So attested in the 1920 federal census.

Harold Quinlan: So attested in the 1910 federal census.

Robert Quinlan: So attested in the 1930 federal census.

Bobby Quinlan

Birth: His California Death Index record gives his birth date as January 5, 1909.

1910: He appears as Harold in this census entry, living with his family in Rossville, Shawnee, Kansas.

1920: He appears again in this census, living in the same town as in 1910.

1930: In the 1930 federal census, he appears in Bakersfield with his parents and brothers. There, he is called "Robert" and listed as a laborer.

c. 1936: The certificate of marriage between Robert Edward Quinlan and Leona Jane Neer is in our possession, but I have not yet entered its details. The marriage took place in 59 Rico Way, the home of Charlotte George and Michael Levy.

Selective Service: 23 May 1944, San Francisco, CA. A copy of his registration card is in my possession.

Employment: Matson Navigation Company, 29 Mar 1943, San Francisco, CA. A letter in our possession signed by Peter B. Kyne recommends him to George Nickel, manager of the Repair and Maintenance Division, for employment by virtue of his journeyman burner’s union card. We also have a letter Kyne wrote to him about this recommendation on the same day.

Harold married Leona Jane Neer [5] [MRIN: 3] circa 1936 in San Francisco, CA. The marriage ended in divorce.

Marriage Notes: The wedding took place at 59 Rico Way, in San Francisco, where Charlotte George and Michael Levy were in attendance. Leona Jane later told her daughters about a nice old French-speaking woman she remembered attending the wedding. Lee now has the wedding book, which includes the guest registry. Signatures include Charlotte, Michael, Edward and Ann Quinlan, "Bell Quinlan Grandma" et al.

Children from this marriage were:

Charlotte Ann Quinlan

Lee Quinlan was born on 18 Jun 1943.


7. Leona Jane Neer [5], daughter of Lee Neer [10] and Charlotte George [9], was born on 5 Jun 1909 in Douglas, AZ, died on 3 Sep 1971 in Bakersfield1 at age 62, and was buried in Greenlawn Memorial Park.1

Leona Jane Neer.

Jane Neer. So attested in various newspaper clippings about her singing.

Jane L. So attested in Floyd Manning’s 1920 census entry.

Her birth: Leona Jane’s birth certificate gives June 5, 1909, as her date of birth in Cochise County, Douglas, Arizona. It does not specify a given name. It gives her parents as "O.L. Neer, Jr.", and "C.R. George."

1920: She appears as "Jane L" under Floyd Manning’s 1920 federal census entry in Washington State. Her birth-state is given there as Arizona.

1923-1927: Jane is in high school in Douglas.

1925: Jane won a preliminary singing contest in March, 1925, which meant she advanced to Nogales on April 3rd and 4th. (Lee Neer’s diary, 3/17/1925) We have a newspaper clip of this preliminary competition. Her daughter Charlotte describes her as accomplished on the piano.

Peggy has a xerox of a newspaper clipping without newspaper name visible, dated 5 April 1925. Under the title "Douglas High Third in Music Contest" the front-page article reads "Jane Neer, 15 year old Douglas high school girl, and a member of the Sophomore class, who won the soprano solo had keen competition, but the judges graded her above any of the contestants." On the next page it states: "Girls’ soprano solo--Jane Neer, Douglas, first." Lee says she has her mother’s singing trophy.

She is listed as the lead in "Once in a Blue Moon" and appears in a picture of the cast on the front page of the Douglas Daily Dispatch, December 6, 1925.

c. 1936: The certificate of marriage between Robert Edward Quinlan and Leona Jane Neer is in our possession, but I have not yet entered its details.

1940: We have a letter to Jane from a friend of hers named Florence, in Santa Monica, mentioning Bob, Raymond and mama, and commenting on Jane’s child Charlotte.

Leona married Harold Edward Quinlan [4] [MRIN: 3] circa 1936 in San Francisco, CA. The marriage ended in divorce.

Leona next married Harry Bradfield [557] [MRIN: 500919639].

Fourth Generation (Great-Grandparents)

8. Giovanni Maria (Giomaria) Ruffinu [378], son of Giuseppe Salvatore Ruffinu [558] and Mattia Culeddu [498], was born on 7 Aug 1857 in Ozieri, Sardinia and died 1921 ? at age 64.

General Notes: In 1877 Giovanni Maria was subjected to his military fitness exam. The records for that exam can be found in the Sassari state archives, and are the only source so far for his exact birth date. These records confirm the names of his parents as attested elsewhere. They list his assigned military enlistment date in 1878, and give the name of his assigned unit, which appears to be the 57th Infantry division. His height is given as 156.5 cm, which would have made him roughly 5 foot 1 and a half inches.

On July 1, 1883, his marriage to Antonia Mouschitta Ruzzone or Buzzone was reported. Antonia was the daughter of Francesco and Giovanna Maria. Giovanni Maria is listed as a contadino, aged 26, his father Giuseppe Salvatore dead but his mother Mattia Culeddu living. Both their names are attested therein.

His signature is in a different hand from the text drawn up by the recording official, apparently the same hand in his 1886 signature: he could sign his own name. Put this in context: in light of a 79% illiteracy rate among children at age 6 in Ozieri in 1881: Cabizzosu Chiesa e Societa nella Sardegna centro-settentrionale (1850-1900), Ozieri 1986: 31, citing a June 13, 1890 page 1 article in L’Unione Sarda called L’istruzione elementare in Sardegna.

Giulio Ruffini recalls that Giomaria was said to have a small vineyard, but is not sure that this vineyard was his sole source of livelihood, and suspects that he may have been a tenant farmer as well. Phylloxera devastated the Sardinian vineyards, destroying over 42,000 hectares from 1883 to 1912.

In October of 1884, Giomaria, then aged 27 and listed as a bracciante, reports the birth of his child Antonio Ruffinu Muschitta, daughter of Antonia Muschitta, and signed again, in his distinctively tiny cursive. The witnesses include an Antonio Satta, bracciante, and a Giusseppe Dessie, facchino.

What puzzles me here is that he next reports the death of a daughter named Antonia, aged just a few days, in Nughedu, in 280 Sant’ Antonio. Why wasn’t Antonia’s birth declared in either Ozieri or Nughedu? Antonia Muschitta must have died in or because of child-birth, as she is described as dead in the death report of her daughter Antonia. But she does not appear in the death rolls in either Ozieri or Nughedu. If there were indeed two children, Antonio and Antonia, perhaps she died in complications from birthing twins.

On August 15, 1886, was reported his marriage to Pietruccia Lai, aged 27, a domestica. He is listed as a bracciante, as is Lorenzo Culeddu, one of the witnesses, whom I take to be a maternal cousin of his. In the pubblicazione of this marriage, Lorenzo again witnesses, as does Giovanni Brundu (sp.?). Giomaria may appear therein as Giovamaria, and appears clearly therein as a "Ruffino" in three different places. Giuseppe Salvatore and Mattia Culeddu as his parents are both verified therein. In his son’s marriage records in San Francisco, CA, his name is given as Giovanni Ruffini.

On October 14, 1887 Giovanna Lai reported the birth of Giovanni Ruffinu at 1 Corralzu in Ozieri, the house of Pietruccia Lai, "moglie di Ruffinu Giommaria bracciante entrambi d’Ozieri."

On June 4, 1890 he reported the birth of a daughter named Antonia in a house on Sant’ Antonio belonging to his wife Pietruccia Lai in Nughedu. Antonio Puddino witnessed the declaration. Again, his signature there clearly reads "Giovanni Maria Ruffino." He is described therein as a contadino. No house-number is given.

Births of other children of a Ruffinu Lai marriage are reported in the Ozieri birth indices, almost all of them matching with subsequent deaths of the same name. I have not researched these entries, but suspect they may all be forgotten siblings of Giovanni and Antonia.

One of them, a Matteo Rufinu, is strangely described as the son of Giommaria Ruffinu and Francesca Lai, rather than Pietruccia. I assume this to be an error. He is reported as dying at Vignazza 72. This is perhaps to be taken as the Ruffinu family home. (See picture under Giovanni Ruffini.) Giovanni Maria’s mother died there in 1891. It cannot now be located. The home in Nughedu is equally unplaceable, although comparison of the maps in 1920 and 2007 allow a determination that it was once located on what is now Via Asproni, or perhaps the apparently now unnamed street next to it.

The book on Nughedu published by its Amministrazione Communale includes a picture I have attached to this entry. I propose, although I cannot prove, that the man shown in this picture in 1900 is Giovanni Maria.

I see no indication in the Ozieri death indices of this man, and cannot establish his place of death. I have only checked the Ozieri death indices through 1905. I had originally indicated his year of death to be circa 1902, based on an old note that said "Approximate from T. Fregosi." I had further originally believed that his son left after his death. But Tommy says he has no information on his death date, and we now know him to have been alive as late as 1921.

The February 1921 manifest of the S.S. Ferdinand Falasciano, detailing the arrival of Antonia Ruffini, her husband and his children, and Maria Meloni, lists the nearest relative of Antonia and of her step-children as Gio Maria Ruffinu in Nugheddu S Nicolo, Sassari. Nugheddu is given as the birth-place of both Antonia and her step-children. If Pietruccia Lai did not leave Sardinia while her husband lived, we might guess that Giovanni Maria died between the departure of the Ferdinand Falasciano in late 1920 / early 1921 and the departure of the Caberta in mid-1921, on which Pietruccia went to America.

Discussing this Nugheddu connection in October, 2006, Julio Ruffini volunteered that he could remember his parents talking about walking to Nugheddu from Ozieri. On personal experience, this would have been a 45 minute walk at a leisurely pace.

Giovanni married Pietruccia Lai [379] [MRIN: 218] on 15 Aug 1886 in Ozieri.

Marriage Notes: The documentation for this marriage is in entry 36, 1886, on Ozieri roll 1805476.

Witnesses to the reporting included Lorenzo Culeddu, a bracciante in his 20s, and a Giovanni (?) Brussido, age 24, no occupation given. The husband appears to have signed in his own hand.

Children from this marriage were:

4 i. Giovanni Ruffini [376]
  ii. Antonia Ruffini [415] was born on 4 Jun 1890 in Nughedu and died 1972 ? in Alameda? at age 82.
  iii. Matteo Ruffinu [804] was born on 17 Oct 1891 in Ozieri and died on 15 Mar 1893 in Ozieri at age 1.
  iv. Maria Ruffinu [859] was born on 12 May 1896 in Chiaramonte.
  v. Mattia Ruffinu [860] was born on 7 Mar 1895 in Ozieri.
  vi. Matteo Ruffinu [861] was born on 7 Oct 1898 in Ozieri and died in 1898 in Ozieri.
  vii. Luigi Ruffinu [862] was born on 16 Feb 1893 in Ozieri.

Giovanni next married Antonia Mouschitta [464] [MRIN: 256], daughter of Francesco Mouschitta [465] and Giovanna Maria Ruzzone [466], on 24 Jun 1883 in Ozieri.

Children from this marriage were:

  i. Antonio Ruffinu [467] was born in Oct 1884 in Ozieri.
  ii. Antonia Ruffinu [806] was born in 1884 and died in 1884 in Nughedu.


9. Pietruccia Lai [379], daughter of Francesco Lai [412] and Maria Ledda [497], was born in 1859 in Ozieri and died early 1930s in America at age 71.

General Notes: In the entry registering her marriage, she is listed as a domestica, nubile. The names of her parents come from this document. In the report of the birth of her daughter, Antonia, the house in Nughedu on Sant’ Antonio in which Antonia was born is described as belonging to Pietruccia. Were these Lai from Nughedu? To complicate the picture, in the report of the birth of her son Giovanni, it is stated that the birth took place "nella casa posta in Corralzu al numero 1 da Lai Pietruccia casalinga."

According to Luigi, Pietruccia was with Antonia Ruffini, Maria Meloni, et al., on the crossing to America, despite her absence from the manifests I have located them on. Luigi was also shocked to hear that Pietruccia’s husband, Giovanni Maria, was still alive in Nugheddu when she came to America. He said that he did not understand why he stayed and she came, and said that he did not remember anyone ever talking about it.

But strangely, she appears on the manifest of the S.S. Caberta arriving in Philadelphia from Genoa on 12 May 1921, going to her "son Tuffinu Giovanni-224 Box | S Francisco Cal," and leaving behind her brother-in-law "Felice Girolamo." Did she make two trips, or was Luigi mistaken, and she in fact came later? This is more likely to be the case.

She appears in the 1930 census as Patricia Ruffini, the mother-in-law under Matteo, Antonia, Matea, and John Lai. Her estimated year of birth derives from the census entry.

Luigi says Pietruccia she was a heavy drinker, and died of cirrhosis of the liver. She and her son Giovanni used to get drunk together. She used to "sit there with her jug" and tell the kids all the scary Sardinian folk stories. He remembers her also being a heavy snuff-user. He recalls that she lived with the Lai family until she could no longer take care of the kids. Then one day, according to his story, they got their grocer to take her back to the Ruffini house, where they left her propped up against the door in the back alley, and it was there that she died, when Luigi was around ten years old. He remembers her burying cats under his father’s compost pile. He also remembers that "the kids" - him, Mary, et al. - used to tease her a lot, slide around her feet, etc.

Today, there are over 3000 attestations of the Lai name in Sardinia, 30 of which are in Ozieri: http://elenco.libero.it/elencotel/public/RicercaOmonimie.jsp

Leaves Sardinia.

Pietruccia married Giovanni Maria (Giomaria) Ruffinu [378] [MRIN: 218] on 15 Aug 1886 in Ozieri.

10. Giovanni Maria (Mimmia) Meloni [381], son of Giacomo Meloni [382] and Teresa Pinna [383], was born on 19 Dec 1870 and died on 1 Feb 1905 at age 34.

General Notes: Tommy Fregosi had this information from his mother’s documents. Noting the death-year to be identical to that of his father, I double-checked the information in the Ozieri microfilm rolls. He does appear in the 1905 death index for Ozieri, entry 25. He died a contadino at the age of 35, with a person I read as Salvatore Biddau and one other reporting. His parents’ names, Giacomo Meloni and Teresa Pinna, although read with difficulty, are confirmed therein, as is the name of his wife.

Giovanni married Antonia Luigia Corrozu [380] [MRIN: 219] on 23 Aug 1899.

Children from this marriage were:

5 i. Maria Theresa Meloni [377]
  ii. Rosalia Meloni [500] was born on 14 Apr 1900 in Ozieri and died on 2 Nov 1912 in Ozieri at age 12.
  iii. Giovanna Maria Meloni [499] was born on 22 Feb 1905 in Ozieri and died on 22 Feb 1905 in Ozieri.


11. Antonia Luigia Corrozu [380], daughter of Matteo Corrozu [384] and Rosalia Carraca [385], was born on 13 Jan 1875 and died on 29 Jan 1938 at age 63.

General Notes: Her birth-date comes from one of the documents requested in 1954. But another document in the same bunch lists her birth-date as 19 January, 1875.

The Corrozu name can still be found in Ozieri, in 9 instances of Corosu, according to http://elenco.libero.it/elencotel/public/RicercaOmonimie.jsp

Antonia married Giovanni Maria (Mimmia) Meloni [381] [MRIN: 219] on 23 Aug 1899.

Antonia next married Giomaria Comboni [441] [MRIN: 248].

Children from this marriage were:

  i. Maria (Zia) Comboni [442] was born in 1909 and died on 30 Jan 1975 in Ozieri at age 66.
  ii. Luigi Comboni [443]
  iii. Unknown Comboni [444]


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(Early 1939?) ]

12. Edward William Quinlan [7],2 son of William Quinlan [283] and Margaret Isabelle (Belle/Bell) Guyette [284], was born on 11 May 1885 in St Marys, Kansas3 and died on 17 Jun 1951 in San Francisco, CA at age 66.

General Notes: Edward Quinlan: So attested in the 1910 Federal Census entry.

Edward William Quinlan

His birth, c. 1885: The birth-date but not the year given here was written in his own hand on his Social Security application, a copy of which is in my possession. The same date but 1886 as the year is given in "A Journey Westward," a book on the Guyette family. The same book is the source for his death date, yet includes his death-age as 66, suggesting 1885 as a birth year. The 1900 and 1910 census entries would suggest something later, 1886 or 1887. His baptismal certificate, issued in 1949, indicates that he was born on May 24, 1885, in St. Marys and baptised on June 21 of the same year, with Edward Guyott and Catherine Clarkin as his sponsors.

His parents’ family: The 1930 census entry states Edward William’s mother’s birth-place as "Canada French," which is only partly accurate, and his father’s birth place as "Northern Ireland."

Oral tradition via Leona Jane remembered that Harold Edward had French Canadian ancestry on one side. She remembered Harold Edward’s parents at their wedding, as well as an elderly French woman, presumably his grandmother. Charlotte Quinlan remembers having dinner at Harold Edward’s parents’ home in San Francisco when she was a child. Peggy remembers going to HEQ’s parents’ home near California or Sacramento street.

1895: Edward’s father dies when he is roughly 9 or 10 years old.

1900: Edward is listed as a 14 year old farm laborer in St Marys, in a federal census entry with his mother, Margaret, as head of household.

1907: George Quinlan is born.

1909: Harold Edward Quinlan is born.

1910: Edward’s family appears in the federal census in Rossville, Shawnee, Kansas, including Anna, George E., Harold, Thomas J. (Edward’s brother), and Belle. His occupation is given as farmer. This entry gives his father’s birth-place as English Canada.

1911: Raymond Francis Quinlan is born.

1910s, c. 1912: The 1930 federal census entry gives their marriage ages as 27 and 21 respectively, which means that the first children must have come before their marriage, if this is correct.

1915: The 1915 Kansas state census lists Edward and Anna’s son George living in Shawnee, Topeka with Anna’s parents, George and Ellen. Why was he not with his parents? Where were Edward and Anna?

c. 1916: William Quinlan is born.

1920: Edward’s name is partially illegible in his federal census entry from Rossville. His occupation is given as a farmer. The entry lists Edward, Anna, George E., Harold E., Raymond and William.

1920s: Judging from the family census entries, he and his family moved from Kansas to Bakersfield between 1920 and 1930. This conflicts with his wife’s death certificate, which suggests 1918 based on the stated length of residency in California. If John’s age in the 1930 census entry is correctly read as 10, then they moved in 1920, as he is born in California.

1925: The 1925 Kansas state census places the Quinlan family in Shawnee County, Rossville, and lists Edward as a farmer. The entry lists only George, Harold and Raymond as children, leaving out William.

The 1930 federal census entry is proof of this man’s paternity over Harold Edward. It lists in District 27 of Bakersfield, Kern County, a 45 year old Edward Quinlan, a 39 year old Anna (or perhaps Anne) as wife, and four sons, in order: George, Robert, Raymond, and what is very faded, but perhaps John. (So I gather from Charlotte’s recollection of the names of her uncles. George and Raymond are a match here. The online index reads "Jamie" for John.) Their ages are 22, 21, 19, and perhaps 10 respectively. All of these except the last are listed as born in Kansas. The last was born in California.

Edward’s occupation is listed in this entry, but hard to read from the overexposure: Station Engineer? This suggests a connection to his father-in-law, George Monroe, who was in similar line of work.

Edward’s age in this entry if accurate can only mean that Edward got his own birth-year wrong when filling out his Social Security application, on which he wrote 1887.

1930s? 1940s? Edward William Quinlan later moved to San Francisco, where, according to his Social Security Registration form, he lived at 3099 Washington Street, and worked at the Hotel Henry at 106 Sixth Street.

Charlotte Quinlan vaguely remembers that after he retired, he and Anna went to work for a Catholic church, where he took care of the place, and she cooked. Charlotte reports from Georgia and Colette that Edward worked on the San Francisco / Oakland Bay Bridge, which was constructed in 1936, and that he "could recite long passages of Irish poetry."

1950: According to Belle Guyette’s obituary, she died in San Francisco visiting her son Edward in 1950.

Edward William Quinlan’s SSN was 572-07-9010.

His death: Colette Quinlan reports it to be June 16, 1951, but a copy of an obituary in our possession gives June 17. His death certificate states his time of death as 12:05 AM on June 17, which early hour presumably explains the discrepancy in the sources. His wife Anna, the informant on the death certificate, gives his length of stay in San Francisco as 20 years and his occupation as janitor. His cause of death was bronchogenic carcinoma in the right lung. His memorial mass was held at the Lady Chapel, St. Dominic’s, on June 20, at Steiner and Bush, in San Francisco, with the rosary the prior evening at Gray’s, on Divisadero at Post, also in San Francisco. He is buried in Bakersfield’s Greenlawn Cemetery.

The copies of Anna Monroe’s baptismal certificate and her marriage license to Edward were issued on June 18, 1951, which indicated that she had to gather this paperwork after his death, presumably to prepare for his interment.

Occupation: Worked at the Hotel Henry, 1 Jul 1937, 106 6Th St., San Francisco.

Edward married Anna Monroe [8] [MRIN: 5] circa 1912 in Kansas.

Children from this marriage were:

6 i. Harold Edward Quinlan [4]
  ii. George Quinlan [548] was born on 2 Nov 1907 in Kansas.
  iii. Raymond Francis Quinlan [547] was born on 15 Nov 1911 in Kansas and died on 25 Jan 1983 in Alameda at age 71.
  iv. John Quinlan [546] was born 1920 ? in California (Bakersfield?).
  v. William Quinlan [821] was born circa 1916 in Kansas and died before 1925.


13. Anna Monroe [8], daughter of George N. S. Monroe [543] and Ellan Smith [542], was born 1 Feb 1890 ? in Kansas, died on 1 Feb 1967 in Livermore, California at age 77, and was buried on 4 Feb 1967 in Greenlawn Cemetery, Bakersfield.

General Notes: Anna: as read with certainty in the 1910 and 1920 federal census records.

Anna or Anne: as doubtfully read in the 1930 federal census records.

Ann: We had initially taken her name to be Ann as the basis for Charlotte Ann Quinlan’s middle name.

Annie: Sic on the copies of her marriage license issued in 1945 and 1951.

Monroe: we learned her maiden name from Harold Edward Quinlan’s entry in the California death registry.

Munroe: Sic on the copy of her marriage license issued in 1945.

Her birth: The 1930 federal census records suggest an approximate birth-date near 1891, although her death records give 1894. This, if correct, would have made her just 13 or 14 at the birth of her first child. The 1910 federal census records suggest an approximate birth-date near 1889. I thus opt in favor of the average year for the census entries, in preference to the year supposed from her death records. Her certificate of baptism, issued in 1951, indicates that she was born on February 1, 1888 in Burlingame, Kansas.

Her birth-place: Clearly stated as Kansas in the 1910 federal census entry. This challenges the information given in her parents’ 1920 census entry that they only arrived in 1895.

Charlotte Quinlan’s cousin Colette reports that "Anna’s sister Janet [sic] was born in Scotland but Anna was born in the states as were sisters Francis (Fanny) and Margaret, and brother Bill Monroe."

Her father’s family: In August 2003, Lee said she remembers Leona Jane claiming that her daughters were descendants of President Monroe. She presumably made this statement by virtue of Ann’s last name, further circumstantial evidence that I have determined the correct mother for Harold Edward Quinlan. When I presented to Lee evidence suggesting that such a descendancy was impossible, she stressed that "mother always said we were related to President Monroe."

1907: Anna is baptized in Assumption Church in Topeka, Kansas, on January 31, with Ellen Quinlan serving as her sponsor. She is married to Edward (with her name stated as Annie) on February 11, according to a marriage license issued by the probate court of Shawnee County under judge R. F. Hayden. A Catholic Priest named F. M. Hayden performed the marriage ceremony on February 12.

Colette Quinlan reports that "Hazel, Colette’s mom, knew all of Anna’s sisters and her brother Bill, because they traded at her dad’s (Rhine Henry Stapel) store. Colette remembers Janet as a great seamstress who made a number of dresses for her when Colette was a child in Topeka." Charlotte reports from Colette and Georgia that Anna "was very quiet and never said a word. Whenever anyone said something to her, she would say, ’Hmm.’" Colette also remembers visiting Anna in the later years of her life, when she was living alone in Livermore after her husband died. Colette’s side of the family was living in Livermore too, and Colette would go by for lunch. She remembers Anna apologizing for serving her nothing but a lettuce and mayonnaise sandwich, but she also remembers thinking it was delicious.

1910: She appears with her husband in the 1910 federal census, in Rossville, Shawnee, KS, her occupation given as none.

1918: I had initially thought that she and her husband probably moved to California circa 1918, as her death certificate (discussed below) gives her length of stay in the state as 49 years in 1967.

1920: However, the family appears in Kansas in the 1920 federal census.

1930: She is attested in the 1930 federal census records for Bakersfield, which records that both of her parents were born in Scotland.

1940: Her father’s probate documents give her address as 2706 California Avenue, San Francisco, CA.

A copy of an envelope addressed to her from a photographer’s store in Bakersfield in March 1952 gives her address as 618 Monterey Street, Bakersfield, CA. Written on the slip is the phrase "Save these put in Bible."

Her death: She died of arteriosclerotic heart disease, and also had pernicious anemia. The California Death Index provided the main lead, but the 1894 birth-date listed therein may be wrong. It lists Kansas as her birth place, Alameda as her death place, and her SSN as 577-07-9010. This death certificate is the basis for her birth and death dates, and the names of her parents. Although there is a mild conflict with a guesstimated birth-year derived from the census entry mentioned above, we certainly have the right woman: widowed, with a George Quinlan informing, born in Kansas, and buried in Bakersfield.

Anna married Edward William Quinlan [7]2 [MRIN: 5] circa 1912 in Kansas.

14. Lee Neer [10], son of Oliver Lee Neer [11] and Ida Jane Johnson [387], was born on 21 Jul 1885 in Garrison, Montana and died on 24 Jul 1951 in Fresno at age 66.

General Notes: Lee Neer: So attested in all primary source documents but the following.

O.L. Neer, Jr.: So attested in the birth certificate of his daughter Leona Jane.

His birth: Evidence on his birth year and place is somewhat confused. Peggy Rein’s notes give the year as 1886, the place as Garrison, Montana. (In 2004 she tells me she guessed at this.) My original notes had indicated Ohio. The information as it currently stands comes from his fraternity initiation card. The birth certificates of both of his daughters give only "Montana" as his birth place. Leona Jane’s 1920 census record indicates that her father was born in Iowa, but this is likely nothing more than confusion for Floyd Manning, listed in that entry as her father, and born in Iowa.

His father’s family: His daughter Peggy remembers him talking about "Uncle Nah", whom I take to be his father’s half-brother Uriah. Lee would have been ten when Uriah died. I asked Peggy if Lee knew his grandfather Eden, and she said, "He never mentioned him."

His mother’s family: He seems to have retained some contact with his mother’s family. Peggy recalls that Lee did not like Amelia Niehardt (b. Johnson) and thought she was a mean old lady. Amelia was his mother’s half-sister. His diary records on September 24, 1925 a visit from Kim Johnson and his wife, who he has not since since he was in Angola. Peggy’s marginal note on our copy of this entry records memories of him talking about Angola, and her suspicion that he went to school there.

I take Kim Johnson to be Lee Neer’s cousin, both of them grandsons of Luther Hunt Johnson. By Angola, presumably Angola, Ohio, is meant. Yet, if his birthplace is correct, this means the family returned to Ohio from Montana before heading onwards. I assume that Angola, Ohio, is meant, because it is perhaps thirty miles from Lima, Ohio, where his grand-father Eden owned land. In 2004 Peggy says he attended Angola Normal School, and that she wrote and found out it was a mining school.

1890s/1900s: He attended Denver Normal High School.

1900s: Lee was a member of the Sigma Nu fraternity at the Colorado School of Mines, where he was enrolled in the 1910 class of Mining Engineering. Charlotte remembers a family story that he had the fraternity’s letters branded on his stomach. Peggy confirms seeing this, and says that they were blindfolded during this process.

Sigma Nu national confirms that he was a member of the School of Mines Gamma Eta chapter, badge number 50, initiated on September 14, 1906. On his initiation card, it indicates that badge number 49 went to his brother Paul. This sequence might support Peggy’s assertion that Lee knew that the branding was coming, because his brother had gone first.

1906: Lee Neer marries Charlotte George.

1906 (?): Family mining in the "Owa Prieta" mining area near Nogales, Arizona.

Lee worked at the Old Dominion Mine in Globe, Arizona. This was a copper shaft located about 8 miles from Globe, in Gila County. (Globe itself was founded as a mining community in 1876, and copper and turquoise are still mined there. )

1909: Leona Jane Neer born to Charlotte and Lee Neer.

1914: Lee and Charlotte Neer divorce. (Records might be in Phoenix. Peggy threw the originals away). Lee and Charlotte have joint custody of Leona Jane with Leona Jane spending six months of the year with one parent and six months of the year with the other until she reaches high school.

1919: Lee and Margaret Buchanan Reid were married on 11 October 1919 in Globe Arizona. Peggy was born in 1925. She thinks her mother may have had a prior miscarriage, but is not sure. When she was born, the Neers were still going to Mexico, as Peggy says that her mother had been to camp there. Her birth certificate gives his occupation as "Mining Engineer."

1920s-1940s: He kept diaries. I have seen five year volumes, from 1925, 1926, 1935, the late 1930s, and the early 1940s.

1925: The December 20, 1925 issue of the Douglas Daily Dispatch gives his address on page four as 1119 Eleventh Street, the same address as his brother Claude. This is the same address given in Peggy’s birth certificate for Lee Neer and his wife four days prior.

c. 1927: In about 1927, Oliver, Ida, Lee, Margaret, and Peggy moved to Awahnee to work the Enterprise Mine. As Peggy put it, "they went broke with that mine and were always broke after that." (Peggy later attributed that quote to Lee, in the first-person plural.) Lee stayed in Ahwahnee, near Yosemite, where Charlotte says he worked. Peggy remembers him saying that he could not get a job in this period because he was a registered Republican. Peggy’s uncle Dave had land, Lee and Margaret getting part of it, a 20-acre plot where the house was.

1930: Listed in the federal census as a gold miner in Madera, Township 4, District 11, with wife Margaret and daughter Margaret.

1932: Lee Neer and family went to Long Beach shortly after the Long Beach earthquake. They lived with the Reid family. They had heard that there were jobs available there. Peggy doesn’t know what Lee Neer did for work while in Long Beach.

1934: Peggy wrote a letter to Leona Jane from Bear Valley on April 18, saying that "We went to the wild flower show at Ahwahnee Sunday and I got prize for my wild flowers. They had a dance at the school house here and had a lot of drunks."

1934: Peggy wrote a letter to Leona Jane from Long Beach on June 14. Was Lee with her? Maybe he was visiting his father Oliver. Peggy wrote that "Daddy went to Bansburg to look for a job. The other mine closed down."

1935 (?): Lee, Margaret, and Peggy Neer move back up to Awahnee at approximately this time. Lee Neer had difficulty finding work and said it was because he was the only Republican in the area. Lee starts working at the Yosemite Mountain Lodge. Margaret became a cook at the lodge.

He became a caretaker of a vacation lodge, the Yosemite Mountain Ranch, with his second wife as cook. Charlotte remembers him building a boat at his house and putting it on nearby Bass Lake. He and Margaret would ran the Ranch during the summer, and live up there while keeping the place in Ahwahnee. They would open it up in late May depending on the snow. She did the cooking on an old wood stove. Peggy remembers that Lee learned to ski, figuring he’d have no problem as he had skated as a kid, and used to ski down from the Ranch. Once, in a rush when a cow was calving, he took a turn too fast and had a long fall.

When asked if Lee drank, Peggy said that he did not often, but sometimes had a "coffee royale" in the morning. A friend of his once introduced him to cognac, which he enjoyed, and when someone finally delivered him a bottle and called it COG-nack, he pronounced it that way in amusement from that point on. Peggy: "He used to say he would hold it until his plates start to smoke," by which he meant his false teeth, which she says he’d had since the age of 21. He rolled his own cigarettes, but never licked them when he was done rolling them. He smoked a pipe as well, which Peggy eventually threw out, a Mearsham.

When discussing the issue of Catholicism with Peggy and Charlotte Quinlan, Peggy relates that Lee Neer used to say that he had a Methodist minister as an ancestor or other male relative. Charlotte added that she thought Lee may have had some anti-Catholic feeling. When I asked if he was a Methodist himself, Peggy nodded after Charlotte’s assertion that he may have been more of an atheist.

His house in Ahwahnee burned when the Harlow Fire came through in the early 1960s.

Peggy has in her possession State of California Department of Agriculture branding records from the late 1930s and early 1940s, one of which is addressed to Lee Neer. Peggy says he kept 2 or 3 cattle. His brand was ’49’ which she says was "his lucky number." I suggest that this was his fraternity initiation number, and that Paul and Lee got swapped in the fraternity records. Peggy says that he won his first cow with the number 49 from a rancher who had a lot and was giving one away in a contest. His five-year diary with entries dating from 1941 to 1944 includes in the back his own cattle breeding notes from 1940 to 1947.

1951: A funeral notice in our possession dates to July 27, 1951, Lisle Chapel, Fresno, California. Peggy has the death certificate dated to July 24: she was the informant, as her mother had died in 1944, after an operation for a varicose vein. (Peggy has the legal bills incurred in the process.) His occupation was listed as a laborer. He died in the Fresno Community Hospital of a ruptured aneurysm, for which he had had an operation on July 23.

Lee married Charlotte George [9] [MRIN: 4]. The marriage ended in separation.

The child from this marriage was:

7 i. Leona Jane Neer [5]

Lee next married Mary Buchanan Reid [398] [MRIN: 228] on 11 Oct 1919 in Globe.

The child from this marriage was:

  i. Mary Margaret (Peggy) Neer [399] was born on 16 Dec 1925 in Dougas, AZ.

15. Charlotte George [9], daughter of Goodwin George [12] and S. Izetta (Isettia) Davis [13], was born on 20 Apr 1887 in Colorado, died on 8 Jul 1964 in Bakersfield? at age 77, and was buried in Colma, California.

General Notes: Charlotte George: so attested in the 1900 federal census.

C. R. George: so attested in her daughter’s birth certificate, 1909.

Charlotte Rogers George: a version of her name given by Charlotte Quinlan in the mid-1980s.

Charlotte Rogers George Neer: presumptive expansion of the abbreviation of her initials engraved on family silverware (c. 1906-1914).

When helping me compile my earliest notes, Charlotte gave her grandmother’s name as "Charlotte Rogers George," but fifteen or more years later, no longer had any recollection of the Rogers name, or what it signified. Its existence receives some support from the family silverware, some pieces of which are engraved "CRGN", which I take to be for Charlotte Rogers George Neer, which would provide a fairly narrow date range for the engravings. The name receives further confirmation from Leona Jane’s birth certificate, which gives her mother’s name as "C.R. George".

Her birth: Her birth and death dates derive from a funeral pamphlet in our possession. Her daughter’s birth certificate gives her place of birth as Colorado.

1890: The letter to Izetta from Izetta’s mother-in-law indicates that Charlotte spent some time with her grandmother in Chicago in 1890. They called her Lottie. If I read this letter correctly, Charlotte’s father Goodwin brought her to Chicago while Izetta stayed behind.

1900: Charlotte and her mother appear as lodgers in the Bulter (sic) household in Denver in the federal census of that year.

1900s: Charlotte recalls that Izetta sent Charlotte to a finishing school with connections to the Colorado School of Mines, and that she became quite good on the piano. It is while there that she met Lee Neer, whom she married, at some point presumably prior to 1909, when their only child, Leona Jane Neer, is born.

c. 1914: One of Charlotte’s pictures from Douglas, Arizona is labeled "your daughter", which presumably means she was in touch with her mother, Izetta, in this period. Izetta also comes to Arizona in this period, as shown by her picture with Jane. Charlotte and Leona Jane leave Douglas, Arizona.

1915: A series of photographs (one of which is attached here) which appear to be labeled "Kelton Ariz" and dated to 1915 show Leona, Charlotte, the Levys, and various others, on and around a swing in a yard near a rail line. Respondents from the Cochise County listserv provide a picture and map of Kelton, which show it to be nothing more than a rail stop, not a mile north to south. This is presumably the "whistle stop railroad crossroads" Charlotte Quinlan remembers being mentioned.

The train in the background in the photographs is labeled "El Paso and Southwest". That line ran towards Douglas. This permits us to determine the orientation of the pictures, and from there guess our place on the map, between the Joint Station and the Agent’s Dwelling. I believe the Joint Station visible in one respondent’s picture is also visible in one of ours.

Kelton was situated in Sulphur Springs Valley, which heads north-northwest from Douglas. It was halfway to Cochise, near Gleeson. Another respondent from the Cochise listserv notes that when one of the lines stopped running, the buildings were sold and moved around Sulphur Springs. If my reading of online material from the 1933 Railway Age is correct, authorization of the abandonment of the branch line from Douglas to Cochise took place before that year.

1915: Charlotte married Floyd Manning in El Paso, Texas, on September 2, 1915. Pictures from that same year show her camping in Tucson. The marriage certificate is in our possession, and her name is given therein as Mrs. Charlotte George Neer. We have a number of Floyd Manning’s baby pictures from Marshalltown, Iowa in our possession, and two pictures of his early adulthood labeled "I.M. Stoops - Perry, Iowa."

1915-1920? We have a photograph in our possession labeled "Grandma and mother Seattle" which I take to refer to the period after Charlotte went to Washington, but before Izetta died. We also have a picture labeled "Janey in Tacoma" which is probably from this period as well.

c. 1920: Charlotte appears in a postcard picture with her brother Colbert. We have two copies in our possession; Lee may have a third. On one, she wrote a letter to Belle, which she requests Belle send back to her. (She presumably did so, or it was never sent.) Charlotte’s statement in the letter that Colbert is "almost forty" dates the picture and the letter to circa 1920. She says that it was taken in Columbus. Columbus, New Mexico was, I think, a site for the First Aero Squadron.

1920: Charlotte appears in the 1920 census as Charlotte Manning in Washington State, Pierce, Fairfax, ED #198. This entry confirms her birth place, indicates that she did not know her father’s birth state ("United States"), and confirms her mother’s birth state. Floyd was a master mechanic in a coal mine. "Jane L" is listed as the daughter, her own birth state Arizona, her father’s Iowa, her mother’s Colorado.

Her death: Charlotte died July 8, 1964, in Bakersfield. She was buried in Colma, California. Her birth and death dates were established via the funeral pamphlet in our possession. Her California Death Index record lists Kern County as her place of death, and her mother’s maiden name as Rogers.

Research Notes: Birth Certificate: The state of Colorado does not keep birth certificates before 1910, although may have them for "some" counties. Arapahoe County birth records go back to 1876.

Death Certificate: I am unable to find any official record of her death online.

Married also Floyd Manning: 2 Sep 1915, El Paso, Texas.

Camping: 1915, Tuscon. Pictures in our possession.

Charlotte married Lee Neer [10] [MRIN: 4]. The marriage ended in separation.

Charlotte next married Michael Levy [425] [MRIN: 243] In or after 1934.

Charlotte next married Floyd Manning [793] [MRIN: 275] in 1915 in El Paso, Texas.

Fifth Generation (Great Great-Grandparents)

16. Giuseppe Salvatore Ruffinu [558], son of Unknown, died before 1 Jul 1883.

General Notes: According to the family legend, his ancestors fled Bourbon France during the Revolution. If this is true, it is obvious that the name’s spelling had to have been changed at some point. I had always assumed that it had been Ruffini or Ruffino before the change, but, unprompted, Barbara said that it had been Ruffin, and that it had been changed to avoid being caught. Luigi could not confirm or deny this, but did say that his mother had repeated the story of French origin at later points.

Giuseppe Salvatore is named as Giovanni Maria’s father in the publication of the latter’s marriage to Pietruccia Lai. The presence of other Ruffinu in Ozieri with a connection to Luigi Ruffinu the muratore (born in Nule, 1789) leads us to expect a connection between Giuseppe Salvatore and Luigi. Luigi could be this man’s uncle or father: Luigi’s two children from his first marriage, who would be Giuseppe’s contemporaries, also end up in Ozieri.

I cannot find Giuseppe Salvatore in the Ozieri death indices, which indicates that he died before 1866, or did not die in Ozieri. Indeed, I see no adult male Ruffinu dying here at all, only children. Could he have died in Nughedu? I did not find him in the cemetery there.

I am including in this genealogy records of a son named Antonio Francesco that this man possibly had, but I cannot confirm the link. Everything descending from this proposed link should be considered unproven.

Antonio Francesco is listed as the son of Mattia Culeddu and Giovanni Ruffinu: is Giuseppe Salvatore another name for Giovanni, or did his wife marry another Ruffinu after his death? For some of the complications in the evidence, see the entry on Mattia Culeddu.

Antonio Francesco had at least six children, Giovanna, Matteo, Pietro, Caterina, Pietro and Pietruccia. The latter’s daughter married Achille Deledda, whom we met in Ozieri in March, 2007. Achille’s children may therefore be ancestors of our ancestors, but this cannot be firmly established until the Giuseppe Salvatore / Giovanni Ruffinu and Mattia Culeddu confusion is clarified.

Giuseppe married Mattia Culeddu [498] [MRIN: 222].

Children from this marriage were:

8 i. Giovanni Maria (Giomaria) Ruffinu [378]
  ii. Antonio Francesco Ruffinu [805] was born circa 1855 in Ozieri.

17. Mattia Culeddu [498], daughter of Antonio Culeddu [496] and Giovanna Maria Biddau [495], was born circa 1813 in Ozieri and died on 23 Aug 1891 in Ozieri at age 78.

General Notes: Julio Ruffini thinks that the Culeddu name means "little ass," although possibly "little hill." Today, the name appears in Sardinia 39 times, twice in Ozieri: http://elenco.libero.it/elencotel/public/RicercaOmonimie.jsp

Mattia Culeddu’s name is certain: she appears in both of Giovanni Maria Ruffinu’s marriage entries as his living mother. But much else of her life remains confusing.

Mattia Culeddu appears only once in the Ozieri death index. That entry, August 23, 1891, gives Mattia’s age as 78, implying a birth-date in circa 1813. If this is the same woman, it in turn implies an age at maternity of 44 years for the birth of her son Giovanni Maria. That death entry also lists her as the widow of Giovanni Ruffinu, not the Giuseppe Salvatore Ruffinu known to be the father of her son Giovanni Maria. However, Mattia Culeddu is also listed as the mother of an Antonio Francesco Ruffinu Culeddu, whose father’s name was given as Giovanni Ruffinu.

In short, the possibilities:

1) that Giuseppe Salvatore and Giovanni Ruffinu are the same people referred to variously.

2) that Mattia Culeddu married two Ruffinu men and had at least one son by each, in circa 1855 and 1857 respectively.

3) that two Ruffinu men married two different women named Mattia Culeddu.

4) that some combination of errors has entered these documents.

In passing, I should note that 78 appears as settantotto, and the first double-t could easily be a double-s but for the stroke through the tops. Could it be an error for the more reassuring age of 68, hence maternity at 34, not 44?

I include in this file research on the ancestors of Mattia Culeddu. This material is based on the names of her parents as listed in her death record, item 160 under 1891 on the roll 1805477. I am confident that this ancestry is a reasonable conclusion, but the complications noted above should be taken into account.

In that death entry, Giuseppe Craba, 29, bracciante, and Antonio Francesco Polo, 47, bracciante, report that she died at 7 AM in Vignazza 72. This is the same address given in the birth report of a child Matteo Ruffinu two years later of Giommaria Ruffinu and Francesca Lai. Assuming Francesca is another name for Pietruccia, Mattia died in what may have been her son’s house.

Mattia married Giuseppe Salvatore Ruffinu [558] [MRIN: 222].

18. Francesco Lai [412] died before 15 Aug 1886.

General Notes: I have searched the Ozieri indices for indications of Francesco’s death, and found none. The terminus ante quem for his death comes from his daughter Pietruccia’s marriage registry, wherein some connection to Sassari for the family is indicated. Did her father perhaps die in Sassari, not Ozieri? Should I look in Nughedu instead, if his daughter had a house there?

Searching from 1875 on, I have not yet found his death in Nughedu, if it indeed took place there. I have however found a wide number of Lai there. They include:

1. Margherita Lai (death entry 33, 1877), daughter of Antonio and Maria Antonia, both of whom were born and live in Ozieri;

2. Giomaria Lai (death entry 17, 1888), a muratore whose parents, Lorenzo Lai and Mariangela (?) Mundula, were from Ozieri; he died at the age of 66 in 287 Sant’ Antonio;

3. Giovanni Lai (death entry 57, 1892), an 8 year old son of the muratore Lorenzo and the casalinga Salvatorina (Salvatorice?) Uda who died in a house on Sant’ Antonio;

4. Rosalia Lai (death entry 60, 1892), a 2 year old daughter of the same who died in a house on Sant’ Antonio;

5. Luigi Lai, a year old son born in Benetutti of an unknown father and a Maria Lai, also of Benetutti; he died in 1893 a house on Sant’ Antonio;

6. Salvatore Lai (death entry 36, 1904), a 4 year old son of Lorenzo and Salvatorice (?), died in a house on Sant’ Antonio.

Pietruccia Lai’s daughter Antonia was also born in a house on Sant’ Antonio.

Francesco married Maria Ledda [497] [MRIN: 234].

Children from this marriage were:

9 i. Pietruccia Lai [379]
  ii. Unknown2 Lai [413]
  iii. Giovanna Lai [535] was born circa 1857.

19. Maria Ledda [497] .

General Notes: Maria appears to have been still living when her daughter Pietruccia married in 1886. Of the five women with that name I find in the Ozieri death indices, none appear to be a match. Perhaps, as with her husband, she did not die in Ozieri. I have so far found no Ledda in Nughedu either, with the exception of a Maria Filomena Culeddu Ledda, a duaghter of Salvatore and Ciccia who died there in 1877.

Checks on post-1905 death indices show a Mariantonia Ledda dying in 1906 who does not appear to be her either, unless she re-married. Did she die after 1910?

Today, there are 1270 Ledda attestations in Sardinia, 9 of them in Ozieri: http://elenco.libero.it/elencotel/public/RicercaOmonimie.jsp

Maria married Francesco Lai [412] [MRIN: 234].

20. Giacomo Meloni [382], son of Giovanni Maria Meloni [447] and Caterina Lai [448], was born 1830s? in Ozieri and died in 1905 in Ozieri at age 75.

General Notes: Giacomo was a contadino. His name and his wife’s name I take from the documents Rosie requested in the 1950s. The rest comes from his death records in the Ozieri microfilm, under 1905 entry 48. His age at death was hard to read, but was probably 70-something. So he could equally have been born in the late 1820s. The only weakness in matching this document with the name we already had is a slight difficulty reading Pinna as the name of his wife in the death record. I am almost certain of the reading.

Various Meloni die in Nughedu as well: Mimmia Meloni, 1880; Antonio Meloni, 1890; Maddalena Meloni, 1897.

Giacomo married Teresa Pinna [383] [MRIN: 220].

The child from this marriage was:

10 i. Giovanni Maria (Mimmia) Meloni [381]

21. Teresa Pinna [383] died after 1905?.

General Notes: She appears to be still living in 1905, judging from her husband’s death record in the same year. I am unable to locate her in the annual indices from 1905-1910.

Today the Pinna name appears over 4700 times in Sardinia, 32 of them in Ozieri: http://elenco.libero.it/elencotel/public/RicercaOmonimie.jsp

Teresa married Giacomo Meloni [382] [MRIN: 220].

22. Matteo Corrozu [384], son of Gioi Andrea Corosu [795] and Giuseppa Chijna [794], was born circa 1838 in Ozieri and died in Dec 1893 in Ozieri at age 55.

General Notes: He appears in the Ozieri death indices at 1893 entry 249, where a match is confirmed by the name of his wife, Rosalia Carraca. If I read the entry correctly, his age at death was 55, and his parents, both dead, were Gioi Andrea Corosu and Giuseppa Chijna. (I had originally read Pioi Andrea.)

His name is spelled Corosu herein. His occupation does not appear to be given.

Matteo married Rosalia Carraca [385] [MRIN: 221].

The child from this marriage was:

11 i. Antonia Luigia Corrozu [380]

23. Rosalia Carraca [385], daughter of Salvatore Carraca [449] and Luigia Seu [450], was born 1820s? in Ozieri and died in 1897 in Ozieri at age 77.

General Notes: She was a casalinga. Her name comes from the documents Rosie sent for in the 1950s. I found what is a certain match in the Ozieri microfilms, 1897 death entry 42, from which the rest of the information herein derives. Her age is difficult to read therein, but is perhaps 70-something.

Carraca is an exceptionally rare name. There are no longer any in Sardinia, and only four total in Italy, according to http://elenco.libero.it/elencotel/public/RicercaOmonimie.jsp

Rosalia married Matteo Corrozu [384] [MRIN: 221].

24. William Quinlan [283], son of Unknown and Unknown [423], was born in 1849 in Ireland and died on 26 Aug 1895 in St. Marys, Kansas at age 46.

General Notes: William Quinlan

His birth-place: His son Edward’s 1910 federal census entry gives his father’s place of birth as "Can - English." Edward’s 1920 federal census entry gives his father’s place of birth as Ireland. Edward’s entry in the 1930 federal census gives his father’s birth-place as Northern Ireland.

His birth-year: Barbara Harvey’s book on the Guyettes gives as the source of his birth-year (about 1849) "1880 and 1900 Kansas census records." (Sic; he would not appear in the latter census.) Affirmation of this birth year comes from his Mt. Calvary Cemetery grave-stone, which reads: "William Quinlan / Died 1895, aged 46 yrs".

The 1880 census entry, found through searching for "Wm Quinlan", reads as follows:

Wm. QUINLAN Household

Male

Birth Year <1850>

Birthplace IRE

Age 30 Occupation Farmer Marital Status M <Married>

RaceW <White>

Head of Household Wm. QUINLAN RelationSelf

Father’s BirthplaceIRE Mother’s BirthplaceIRE

Source Information: Census Place Washington, Jackson, Kansas

Family History Library Film1254383 NA Film NumberT9-0383 Page Number88D

According to this entry, William and his wife lived in Washington Township, Jackson County, Kansas, where he was a farmer. (Jackson County borders Jefferson County.) His wife’s name is given as M. Belle. Here their children George and Elinor appear. The other five, including my ancestor Edward, are not born yet.

This 1880 census entry is underneath three other Quinlans: Jeremiah, Bridget age 63 (or perhaps 65), and a Mary aged 23.

Crucial is how to read Jeremiah’s age. Ancestry.com’s index reads his age as 72 (b. c. 1808), Bridget’s as 65, and says that these three are a husband, wife, and daughter, although the entry does not so specify. An easier reading is 92 (b. c. 1788). The author of the entries is capable of making crisp, open 7s, nothing like 9s. But the digit admittedly does not look like his 9s either. If Jeremiah was Bridget’s husband, ancestry.com’s reading of his age in 1880 is probably correct, which means that the online index to his gravestone cannot be.

Is Jeremiah William’s father? The entry specifies Ireland as the birth-places of Jeremiah, Bridget and their parents. Mary, aged 23, was born in Canada. Jeremiah and Bridget should therefore have been in Canada circa 1857.

Jeremiah also appears in the online index to Mt. Calvary Cemetery, St. Marys (http://skyways.lib.ks.us/kansas/genweb/pottawat/potcem7c.html#NAME), which lists, under the Quinlan surname, Alice M. (1891-1920), Bridget (1813-1893), Jeremiah (1800-1892), Margaret Bell (1861-1950), Mary (1854-1946), William (1849-1895), and William E (1915-1923). (The card index from the county library lists only five of those seven, lacking the first and last. According to Barbara Harvey’s book on the Guyette family, Michael and Lenora Guyette are buried there as well, with an inscription she herself purchased a century later.)

I conclude from William’s association with Jeremiah in both census and cemetery that there is an unknown relationship between them. William may therefore have entered the US via Canada, and should perhaps be sought there in the 1850s.

I do not find Jeremiah Quinlan with any certainty in Kansas in the 1870 census, nor do I see him in the 1860 census. (One does appear in Kansas with a circa 1810 birth year, in the company of a James, born circa 1845; both are in Walnut, Atchison, KS. This is a poor match.) I do find a Jeremiah about the right age (50) arriving in February 1849 aboard the Columbus, from Liverpool, with five female Quinlans, including one Mary. I also find a Jeremiah of not the right age with a Bridget, a William, and a large number of others aboard the America, arriving in 1851 from Liverpool.

According to the St. Mary’s Journal, Saturday, August 24, 1895: "William Quinlan living east of town fell into his cellar Thursday morning, and at last report was still unconscious." On Wednesday, August 28, 1895, the front page of the same paper reported, "William Quinlan who fell into his cellar last Thursday morning, died at his home Monday afternoon, not having regained consciousness since his fall." Burial was at Mt. Calvary Cemetery, St. Marys, Kansas.

William married Margaret Isabelle (Belle/Bell) Guyette [284]4 [MRIN: 180] on 28 Feb 1876 in Shawnee County, Kansas.

Children from this marriage were:

12 i. Edward William Quinlan [7]
  ii. George Quinlan [545] was born in 1877 in Kansas.
  iii. Elinor Quinlan [544] was born in Jan 1880 in Kansas.


25. Margaret Isabelle (Belle/Bell) Guyette [284],4 daughter of Michel Goyette [251] and Lenora Jette [285], was born on 7 May 1861 in Kankakee, Illinois and died on 5 Apr 1950 in San Francisco, CA at age 88.

General Notes: Margaret Isabelle Guyette

Belle Guyette: Attested as such in the 1920 federal census.

Belle I. Guyette: Attested as such in the 1910 federal census.

Her birth: her 1920 federal census entry gives her place of birth as Ohio, contrary to material I have from elsewhere. Her 1880 census entry supports an Illinois birth.

Considerable information on Belle Guyette can be found in Barbara J. Harvey’s "A Journey Westward: The Guyette and Gregg Families." This book includes eye-witness descriptions of Belle, and an obituary, cited without source, which notes that Belle was "a charter member of the Royal Neighbors Hope Camp at St. Marys. Recently she was presented a fifty-year pin."

As a child she lived in Douglas, Iroquois County, Indiana, before the family moved to Kansas in 1870. They settled in Jackson County, where she was one of the students in the early days of St. Marys Mission School. She was married to William Quinlan before she turned sixteen.

1880: She appears as M. Belle in William Quinlan’s 1880 federal census entry. She is described as keeping house. Her birth-place is given as Illinois, that of both parents Canada.

1900: After her husband died, Belle appeared in the 1900 Kansas census as head of the family, taking care of six children: Elinor, Isabelle, Thomas, Edward, Margarette and James. This census entry gives her birth place as Illinois, that of her father New York, and that of her mother, French Canada.

Colette Quinlan reports that "Belle was widowed early and left alone to raise a bunch of rowdy boys. She gradually sold off the farm in order to feed her growing boys. Belle was known to enjoy a glass of wine, a rare thing in Kansas of that day."

1903: The September 4, 1903 issue of the St. Marys Journal mentions her in passing: "Miss Isabel Quinlan returned to Topeka Sunday after a visit with her mother" (Belle).

1910 and 1920: appears with her son’s family in the federal census records for Kansas.

c. 1936: She attended the wedding of her grandson Harold Edward Quinlan to Leona Jane Neer in San Francisco, and her signature is preserved in the guest registry.

Her death: She died in San Francisco at her son Edward’s home, but was buried at Mt. Calvary Cemetery, St. Marys, Kansas, next to her husband and near her parents, Michael and Lenora.

Margaret married William Quinlan [283] [MRIN: 180] on 28 Feb 1876 in Shawnee County, Kansas.


26. George N. S. Monroe [543],5 son of Robert Monroe [781] and Unknown, was born on 16 Dec 1864 in Glasgow, Scotland, died on 11 Mar 1939 in Topeka, Shawnee, KS at age 74, and was buried on 13 Mar 1939 in Topeka, Shawnee, KS. Ancestral File Number: 3KB0-Q3.

General Notes: George Monroe: Attested as such on his daughter’s death certificate and the 1915 Kansas state census.

George N.S. Monroe: Attested as such on his own death certificate.

George Munroe: Attested as such in his probate documents.

His birth: His death certificate gives his birth place as Glascow and his birth date as December 16, 1864. Online material stated 16 December 1863, but I now incline to 1864 on the combined evidence of his death certificate, and the 1915 Kansas state census, which gives his age as 50.

1870s?: Charlotte Quinlan’s cousin Colette reports that "George Monroe played bagpipes and trumpet and played before queen Victoria."

1880s: If I have discovered the right set of children for him, and their birth-places and dates are accurate, George Monroe came to America in 1886/1887. His 1930 census entry states 1888 as his year of citizenship. His death certificate specifies his residence in Topeka as 50 years, which means he came there circa 1889. Note however the conflicting data from the 1920 federal census.

1890: His daughter Anna is born.

1895: This would appear to be the year given in his 1920 federal census entry for his immigration to America, which conflicts with a later entry from 1930.

1900: I am unable to find George Monroe in the 1900 census. If I read the 1920 federal census entry correctly, he was naturalized in this year, as was Ellen.

1909: This would be the approximate year he started working on the Santa Fe Railroad, according to the information from his death certificate.

1910: I am unable to find George Monroe in the 1910 census.

1915: He appears with Ellen, Francis and his grandon George Quinlan in the Kansas state census, in Shawnee, Topeka.

1916: Judging from his death certificate, he started working for the railroad in 1916.

1920: The 1920 federal census in District 157, Topeka Ward 2, Shawnee, KS gives what may be the same possible match: a George Monroe, aged 56 and born 1863, married to an Ellan, both from Scotland, his occupation being an engineer on the Santa Fe Railroad.

1929: When his wife dies in 1929 he is living at 412 Monroe Street.

1930: The 1930 federal census gives a possible "George Monroe" match in Shawnee County, Topeka, District 19, a man 69, born in Scotland, living with a daughter Margaret Thranger and four grandchildren, Georgie, Helen, Albert, and Betty. His wife, though absent from this entry, was also born in Scotland, as the daughter’s parental-birthplace entries indicate. He is listed as a labourer at the power house. 1888 is given as the year of his citizenship. The online transcription gives his age as 63, arriving at an 1866 birth-year. I think it really must be 69.

1937: According to his death certificate, he stopped working as a Santa Fe Engineer in 1937 after 28 years on the job.

1939: When he dies in 1939 he is living at 423 Monroe Street. His death certificate, from which I derive his father’s name, his residence, and his birth place, indicates a cause of death as chronic myocarditis and influenza. He was buried in the "Mem Pk. Cem." in Topeka on March 14, 1939.

This person can be found on familysearch.org, as George S. Monroe (MUNROE) born 16 Dec 1863 in Scotland, died 11 and buried 13 March 1939, in Topeka, married to Ellen Smith. By virtue of her maiden name, present on daughter Anna’s death certificate, I think this must be a match. One of the daughters is Maggie, married to Albert Fahringer: this name is illegible in the 1930 census entry. These two entries are the same people.

We have in our possession copies of probate documents concerning the settlement of George’s estate. A letter from George E. Sinning, George’s estate administrator, to D. Hadsell, an attorney in San Francisco, dates to April 15, 1940, and includes a copy of the Petition For Final Settlement of the estate. The estate - a few hundred dollars - is divided between Jeannette Garrett, Frances Hartline, Anna Quinlan, and W. E. Monroe (his children: one-fifth each) and Helen Payen, George Fahringer, Bert Fahringer, Betty Fahringer, and Estella Coyne (his grandchildren: one-25th each).

George married Ellan Smith [542]5 [MRIN: 500919641].

Children from this marriage were:

13 i. Anna Monroe [8]
  ii. Jeannette S Monroe (Munroe) [493] was born on 21 Jul 1884 in , , Scotl. Ancestral File Number: 7B46-QX.
  iii. Annie Monroe (Munroe) [492] was born about 1886 in , , Scotl. Ancestral File Number: 7B46-R4.
  iv. William E Monroe (Munroe) [491] was born on 21 Mar 1887 in Burlingame, Osage, KS and died on 11 Nov 1968 at age 81. Ancestral File Number: 7B46-S9.
  v. Maggie Monroe (Munroe) [490] was born on 1 Sep 1895 in Burlingame, Osage, KS. Ancestral File Number: 7B46-TG.
  vi. Fannie (Frances) Munroe (Monroe) [494] was born on 18 May 1901 in Topeka, Shwn, KS, died on 28 Feb 1973 in San Bernardino, Sbdno, CA at age 71, and was buried on 2 Mar 1973 in Bloomington, Sbdno, CA. Ancestral File Number: 3KB0-LD.

27. Ellan Smith [542],5 daughter of William Smith [782] and Unknown, was born on 17 Feb 1873 in Scotland, died on 5 Dec 1929 in Topeka, Shawnee, KS at age 56, and was buried on 9 Dec 1929 in Topeka, Shawnee, KS. Ancestral File Number: 3KB0-R8.

General Notes: Ellan Smith: I obtained her maiden name from her daughter’s death certificate. Absence of her mother’s name and maiden name from her own death certificate means that her husband did not know this information. (George knew her father’s name.)

Ellen S. Monroe: So on the 1915 Kansas state census. Is the S. for Smith?

Ellan: So the 1920 federal census.

Her birth: Her death certificate gives her birthplace as Basely (for Basley?) Scotland. I am unable to find this on any Scottish website, nor in the Mormom catalogues. Charlotte Quinlan’s cousin Colette reports that "Anna’s mom (we don’t know her name) grew up in a Catholic orphanage in Scotland and married George Monroe."

Searching for Ellen/Ellan Monroe/Munroe turns up (only) an "Ellen Monroe" under ancestry.com’s New York passenger lists, 1851-1891, which it says comes from the index to National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) microfilm, M237, rolls 95-580. This entry may include nativity information.

1889? 1899?: Her death certificate indicates 30 years of residence in Topeka, which means she arrived in 1899. Her informant on this certificate was her own husband. Yet, how can this be correct if she was having children (Anna) there before that? Is the entry simply an error for 40 years? This would match with the arrival information on his death certificate. Her 1920 federal census entry states arrival to the U.S. in 1895 and naturalization in 1900.

1915: Appears with George, Francis and her grandson George Quinlan in the Kansas state census.

Her death: Her residence at death was 412 Monroe Street, her cause of death chronic myocarditis.

Ellan married George N. S. Monroe [543]5 [MRIN: 500919641].

28. Oliver Lee Neer [11], son of Eden (Edon, Eaton) Neer [15] and Phebe Neer [411], was born on 15 Jan 1858 in Williams County, OH, Milburn and died in 1935 in Los Angeles, CA at age 77.

General Notes: Oliver Neer: Attested so in the 1870 federal census entry (mis-indexed under ’Nees’).

Oliver L Neer: Attested so in various census entries.

Oliver L. Near: Attested so in the 1880 census.

1860: Oliver Lee Neer first appears in the 1860 census of Williams County, Ohio, at the age of one, listed under Eden and Phoebe, who was born in Pennsylvania.

1878: We have a copy of the certificate of his marriage to Ida J. Johnson in our possession, dating to 1878 in Ohio. If my analysis of Paul Neer is correct, they must have gone on to Wyoming quite shortly thereafter.

1879/1880: Oliver’s first son Paul is born in Wyoming in 1879 or 1880.

1880: I did not find Oliver Neer and his family in the 1880, 1890 or 1900 census records, which led to searches for alternate spellings. He appears as "Oliver L. Near" in the 1880 census, where he appears as a "school teacher" with Ida and Paul in Laramie, Wyoming. He does not appear under this spelling in later years, which means I do not find him in a census again until 1910.

1882: Oliver’s second son Claude Neer’s World War I draft registration card gives his date of birth as 5 October in this year, in Denver, Colorado. But Claude’s 1920 census entry gives his birth place as Wyoming. The latter is sequentially more likely.

1885: Oliver’s third son is born in this year, we believe in Garrison, Montana. If Garrison, Montana, is in fact the birth place of Lee Neer, they then left Wyoming and went to Montana before 1885, with an unlikely attested stop in Denver in between.

1890s: Since Lee makes reference in his diary to Angola, which I take to be Angola, Ohio, they then must have gone from Montana back to Ohio in perhaps the 1890s.

1900: I am unable to find Oliver in the 1900 census under any search variation, but I do find Paul Neer in Bisbee, Cochise County, AZ, alone, listed as a copper miner.

1909: Oliver and Ida Neer were living in Douglas, Arizona. Oliver visited the mines in Mexico every now and then.

1910: Oliver Lee Neer next appears in the 1910 federal census in Douglas Arizona, where he is listed as a promoter and engineer, and his mother’s birth-place is given as Pennsylvania.

1920: Oliver Lee Neer appears again in the 1920 federal census listed as a mining company promoter in Chicago’s Third Ward. In this period, Claude is living with his family in Denver.

1925: The December 20, 1925 article I’ve described under "Agnes Neer" gives Oliver’s address as 1104 Ninth Street.

Charlotte thinks that in this period, the Neer family under Oliver was well off economically, perhaps due to income from mining in Mexico. After the attack in Mexico, apparently those activities ceased. Oliver then moved the family to Ahwahnee, near Yosemite, in California, for work on a new mine he had heard about. This was the Enterprise mine. Peggy says they were looking for gold, and recalls, "Daddy always said, ’We went broke and been broke ever since.’"

1927: Peggy says they moved to Ahwahnee when Leone Jane had graduated in 1927, when Peggy herself was only two.

Charlotte thinks this may have been the start of an economic downturn. Lee Neer stayed at Yosemite, but Oliver ultimately moved to Los Angeles after living in Ahwahnee for a brief period of time. Ida became ill, and he hired a nurse for her. Ida died in 1928 and was buried in Douglas. Oliver eventually married the nurse.

1930: The 1930 census supports this outline. Oliver L. Neer appears in District 975 of the Glendale, Los Angeles, California census. His age is given as 72, his wife Mabel E., who is 49 years old at the time. Her parents were living with them; they were a year or two older than him. Therein his birth place and that of both his parents is given as Ohio. His occupation is that of "Mining Promoter" and he "Owns Mines".

Peggy remembers going to visit him in Los Angeles, even describing it (perhaps erroneously) as going to see her grandparents. "When we went to see them, it was in a huge house, with a spiral staircase... with a fish pond in the back." Is it possible that this was Mabel’s parents’ house?

His death certificate lists his profession as miner, stating he held that occupation for fifty years. But what period would that refer to? 1885 on? This death certificate also lists his mother’s name as Saba Trugan, born in Ohio. I believe this to be adequately contradicted by the combined evidence of the 1860 and 1910 census entries. Charlotte Quinlan’s notes from conversations with Peggy indicate Oliver’s cause of death as "black lung" disease. Check this against the death certificate. Peggy believes he died a pauper.

Leona Jane Neer, who lived with him during her youth, used to tell Charlotte that he would alternatively go by "von Neer" or "van Neer" depending on the context, that he used to wear full-length silk shirts, and was a skilled marksman, shooting bottles he had thrown in the air. CAQ recalls Lee Neer saying that Oliver always looked well dressed, even when he was working hard.

Peggy reports that she was unable to find his burial place, but she assumes it was in Los Angeles. She went to Cypress Lawns but did not find it there. Her records say that it was a crematory. Failure to find a burial place was one reason why Peggy thinks Oliver died a pauper. Peggy believes that he shipped Ida back to Arizona to be buried because he had already purchased plots there, but by the time he died, there was no money to return him there to be buried with her.

Moved to Colorado.

Census: Listed as a promoter: roll T625.312, page 73, ED #142, 1920, Chicago, Cook County, IL.

Lived in Douglas, AZ: 1920s, Dougas, AZ. Leona Jane Neer lived with them attending high school in this period. This date-range is based on the years LJN would have been the right age.

Moved to Los Angeles.

Married also Mabel (Trugan?): Bef 1935.

Death: of chronic myocarditis, 1935.

Oliver married Ida Jane Johnson [387] [MRIN: 7] on 16 Mar 1878.

Children from this marriage were:

14 i. Lee Neer [10]
  ii. Claude (Claud) Neer [394] was born on 5 Oct 1882 in Wyoming and died on 7 Aug 1925 at age 42.
  iii. Paul Neer [397] was born circa 1879 in Wyoming and died on 16 Nov 1924 in Guanacevi, Mexico at age 45.

Oliver next married Mabel Neer [410] [MRIN: 232].

29. Ida Jane Johnson [387], daughter of Luther Hunt Johnson [17] and Mary Jane Bowlby [16], was born in 1859 in Ohio and died on 17 Dec 1928 at age 69.

General Notes: Ida Jane Johnson.

Ida A Johnson: Attested so in the 1870 federal census, presumably a misheard response.

Ida Jane Neer: Attested so in her death notice.

Ida Near: Attested so in the 1880 federal census.

Her birth, 1859: I do not have textual evidence for Ida’s birth-date, but Peggy asserts that she and Oliver Lee were married on her birthday, 16 March, 1878. Her birth place, Ohio, is attested in the 1880 federal census entry.

1865 or 1866: Ida’s mother Mary Jane dies.

1870: Ida Jane is not to be found in the federal census entry for Emanuel Bowlby, but instead is in the custody of Noah and Amelia Neidhart, ages 28 and 20 respectively. This means that when Mary Jane died, Ida (then aged 6 or 7) ultimately joined the family of her half-sister. Peggy reports remembering that Ida thought Amelia was mean.

1878: A copy of the marriage certificate is in our possession.

1880: She appears in the federal census with Oliver Lee Near (sic) in Laramie, Wyoming, listed as keeping house. The place of birth of her father is given as Pennsylvania. The place of birth of her mother is not given.

Charlotte reports a number of stories her mother Leona Jane told about Ida, with whom she lived for periods during high school. Ida could reportedly go into the local department store, presumably in Douglas AZ, look at the most expensive dress, go home, and replicate it. Ida made the dress Leona Jane is wearing in her posed high school graduation picture. She always spoke of Ida with affection, and Charlotte states it was Ida who put the articles about Leona (and presumably Agnes Neer) in the local newspaper.

Peggy remembers Lee saying that Ida belonged to the WCTU. She remembers seeing an article from the Douglas Dispatch describing how Ida went to a meeting in Tucson.

Her death: Evidence of her death comes from the California Death Index, state file number 62969. Peggy’s letter describing that entry says the place code is Los Angeles. I do not find this online at ancestry.com, where searches for Ida Neer turn up absolutely nothing. Peggy has a xerox of the December 19, 1928 Los Angeles Times with the following entry: "NEER. December 12. Ida Jane Neer, beloved wife of Oliver L. Neer, and loving mother of Lee Neer. Remains at Pierce Brothers." This date conflicts with what I have recorded, but it is likely to be right. It appears to provide further confirmation that two of the three sons were dead.

Her burial: Ida is buried in Douglas AZ without a headstone. They must have returned her from Los Angeles when she died. Peggy says that "the one who ruptured his appendix in LA" is buried next to her. Peggy reports that there were five plots, but only two were used. Oliver must have bought five plots and not used them all. Peggy thinks that Ida was shipped to Arizona to be buried because Oliver had already paid for the plot. But, by the time he died there was no money to get him back there.

Ida married Oliver Lee Neer [11] [MRIN: 7] on 16 Mar 1878.

30. Goodwin George [12], son of Unknown Male (Charles?) George [393] and Unknown Female George [392], was born circa 1850 in Missouri.

General Notes: Goodwin George: attested as such in the 1880 federal census.

His birth: His birth place as Missouri and his approximate age come from the 1880 census.

1860: I do not see him in the 1860 census, although that is now online and indexed. Nor does searching for "G. George" in Missouri turn up anything plausible, if our birth-year is right.

1870: A Goodwin George appears in the 1870 federal census, Missouri, St. Louis County, Township 3 W. St. Louis Subd. 7, page 251. This entry is probably not a match: it gives an 1845 birth-year and a KY birth place. This should not necessarily be ruled out completely. Charlotte George’s 1900 census entry lists her father’s birth place as Kentucky. However, information in her mother’s entry above appears erroneous.

1880: Goodwin must have moved from Missouri to Iowa before 1880, since Colbert is born in Iowa in circa 1880. (Izetta’s family had made the same move, but presumably something like 4 to 14 years before.) Goodwin George, Izetta, and "infant" (Colbert) appear in the 1880 census: Iowa, Fremont, Other Townships, District 68. He is listed as 30, she 18, the child 1/12. Goodwin is listed therein as a grain dealer. His birth-place comes from this entry, as do his parents’ birth places. This entry contradicts his son Colbert’s 1930 Federal Census entry, which indicates Colorado as his father’s place of birth. Izetta’s family appears immediately above them in the census record.

1880s: He does not appear to be in the Colorado 1885 census, but the family is there in 1887, as Charlotte is born there in that year.

According to the family story, Izetta’s husband was a "military man" and not around all that often. Does this mean that he joined the military after ending a career as a grain dealer at the age of 30? Is this why they left Missouri for Colorado? Specifically, Charlotte recalls Leona Jane asking Charlotte George about whether she had known her father well, and Charlotte replied, "No, he was in the military."

1890: Did Goodwin bring his daughter Charlotte back to Chicago in 1890, to visit his "Mama George"? This is how I read the letter (page 1 & page 2) from Charlotte’s grandmother to Izetta. This is his last attestation. He is not listed in the 1890 Denver City Directory.

We have an unlabeled picture of two unknown women standing in front of a sign that says "Forest Preserve of [...]k County". On a pure guess, is this two of Goodwin George’s relatives (therefore unrecognized by later family members) in Cook County, Illinois?

His death: he does not appear with Izetta and Charlotte in their 1900 census entry, where they are lodgers with another family in Denver. Nor does he appear with Izetta when she is in Massachusetts in the 1910 census entry. In both entries, Izetta is listed as widowed. This prseumably means he died at some point between 1890 and 1900.

Military Service.

Goodwin married S. Izetta (Isettia) Davis [13] [MRIN: 6].

Children from this marriage were:

15 i. Charlotte George [9]
  ii. Colbert C. George [14] was born circa 1880 in Iowa. Another name for Colbert was Bertie.

31. S. Izetta (Isettia) Davis [13], daughter of Joseph T. Davis [391] and Caroline (or Celia) Kimer Davis [556], was born circa 1862 in Missouri. Other names for S. were Izetta George6 and S Izetta George.7

General Notes: Isetta Davis: Attested as such in the 1870 federal census record, although the online indexing is inaccurate, and she cannot be found directly therein. Izetta is perhaps an alternate reading here.

Izetta Daves: Attested as such on one of the pictures from her youth.

Izetta George: Attested as such in a few Denver public sources; see below.

Isetta S. George: A possible reading of her name in the 1910 federal census.

Izetta S. George: The more likely reading of her name therein.

S. Izetta George: Attested as such in most of her official correspondence and charity work; see below.

Izett S. George: Attested as such in the 1900 federal census.

Izetta Rogers: Not attested, but implied in her daughter’s California Death Index entry, stating her mother’s maiden name to be Rogers.

Her name is consistently given as "S. Izetta George" in attestations of her in official capacity in the 1900s. Her maiden name I take from her childhood picture, which I had originally taken to read Daves instead of Davis. I identified her family therefore only after seeing the Davis family just after her census entry with Goodwin George in 1880.

Her birth: S. Izetta Davis is born circa 1862 in Missouri, on the strength of multiple different census entries (1880, 1900, 1910). The 1870 census entry dissents, giving her birth place as Iowa.

c. 1866: Her family moves to Iowa before she is four, since her next youngest sibling, Rowena, is born there in 1866.

1870: Izetta appears in the 1870 census in Hamburg, Fremont, Iowa, at home at the age of 8. I found the entry through searching for her sister Rowena. Her birthplace therein is given as Iowa.

Before c. 1880: Izetta marries Goodwin George.

1880: Izetta appears in the 1880 census with her husband Goodwin George in Hamburg, Fremont, Iowa. She is listed as keeping house, aged 18. This entry is the source for the birth-places of her parents; her family as a whole appears next to them in this census entry. Colbert is born in this year. (Note that in the online version, she is mis-indexed as Izatta.)

1880s: Presumably, she moved with Goodwin to Denver at some point between 1880 and 1888, if my following guess about the dating of her work in Denver is correct.

1887: Charlotte is born in this year. In the same year, Denver’s Charitable Organization Society was founded. Much external information is available on this organization, including short studies of the people active in it, many of whom would have worked with or been familiar to Izetta. See for example the career of Frances Wisebart Jacobs, president of the Hebrew Benevolent Ladies Aid Society in Denver and active in the establishment of Denver’s National Jewish Hospital in 1899. Her particular interest in this regard was in tuberculosis, a repeating theme in Izetta’s life as well.

See also the Social Welfare Forum and all the other associated organizations annual meeting report for 1892. Beginning on page 90 is a report by Rev. Samuel A. Eliot, who I think was one of the founders of it, about consumptives, men with TB, and how sad a story it was that thousands of them came to Colorado from the East, sent there by people who thought the climate would help them, but in fact by the time they arrived they were weakened and they could not find "light work," as the frontier requires strong men, so they could find no employment, they ended up in poor boarding houses and were too weak and poor to go home to die with their loved ones. He writes how saw it was as a minister to be summoned to the "undertaker’s shop," to say prayers and he and the undertakers are the only ones there, except "perhaps the keeper of the boarding-house where the lad died or an officer of the Charitable Organization Society." (emphasis mine - I bet that would be Izetta!)

A collection of letters details Izetta’s career from the 1880s to the 1910s.

1888-1892: Izetta began her service as Secretary of the COS. Since the Charitable Organization Society was founded in 1887, since one of the letters refers to her 21 years of service as assistant secretary and secretary, and since a 1909 letter from Judge Lindsey to a third party shows that service to be ongoing, she did not served the COS from its inception, but could have been Secretary as early as 1888. (If her 1913 activity in Massachusetts means she was no longer with COS, then she was Secretary at the latest by 1892.)

1889: This is the year given in a later source (see below s.n. 1902) for the founding of the COS Denver chapter.

c. 1889: If the picture we believe to be of Charlotte George and labeled "Mama at Two" is accurately identified, then Charlotte must have been in St. Louis Missouri in this year, presumably with her parents.

1890: We have a letter (page 1 & page 2) to Izetta written in Chicago, dated 10 June 1890. Since the author of the letter describes Charlotte ("Lottie") calling her "Mama George" then the letter is from Izetta’s mother-in-law. When Charlotte herself labeled this letter and gave it to her daughter, she refered to the author as "Grandma George." The letter mentions that Charlie is living with the author, and Bertie (presumable Colbert) with Izetta. If Lottie was correct in calling Charlie "Pa Pa" then this suggests Charles as Goodwin’s father’s name. We presume that the son mentioned in the letter is Goodwin himself. This is his last attestation.

1890: The 1890 census is in fragments. In the 1890 Denver, Colorado City Directory she appears as Mrs. Izetta George, living at r. 341 Prospect Avenue. Goodwin appears to be absent.

Family stories from Leona Jane Neer recall that Izetta would cut off the welfare of anyone who was caught drinking in a bar. Izetta’s caricature reportedly appeared in the Denver Post encased in a block of ice. In August 2003, Lee showed me a slip of paper she claimed to have been carrying in her purse for 35 years, which read "Ben Lindsey / Denver / 1900 to 1927." This is the name and the exact tenure of the judge who founded America’s juvenile justice system. As Lee put it, "He’s the one who got Izetta into that block of ice." What precisely that means remains unclear, but it was the only lead pointing towards the Library of Congress discoveries outlined below. Ben Lindsey worked with a number of other people on juvenile justice, including Molly Brown, suffragist, Senate candidate and Titanic survivor, who most likely would have known and worked with Izetta George as well.

According to family stories, Izetta was a Christian Scientist. Christian Science, ’discovered’ by Mary Baker Eddy in 1866, did not receive its first church until 1875, in the northeast, but had spread to Chicago by the 1880s.

1892: Mrs. Izetta George appears as "registrar Charity Organization Society" in Denver City Directory for 1892, with the address given as "32 Court House r 1000 Ogden." Goodwin, Charlotte, and Colbert are not present.

1893: Izetta’s article published the following year describes the consequences on charity work of the collapse of silver prices and the subsequent social crisis in Denver.

1893: The Proceedings of the National Conference of Charities and Corrections at the 20th Annual Sesssion Held in Chicago, Ill., June 8-11, 1893, lists on page 440 "Miss Izetta George" from Denver as a member of the Committee on Time and Place. I suppose this to be a committee formed to plan the location of the next conference, but I am not sure.

1894: The Social Welfare Forum, the Proceedings of the National Conference of Charities and Correction at the 21st Annual Session Held in Nashville, Tenn., May 23-29, 1894, includes a short article by Izetta George called "Denver’s Plan." This article is also cited in summary form in the 1908 "A Guide to the Study of Charities and Correction by Means of the Proceedings of the National Conference of Charities and Correction," compiled by Alexander Johnson. A related publication I find only in partial form online, undated and without full citation, is the National Bulletin of Charities and Correction, published by the National Conference on Social Welfare, which reads, in part, "One session was devoted to Municipal Charity Works, the principles of which were laid down by Mrs. S. Izetta George, Secretary of the Charity Organization Society of Denver."

1895: Secretary: Charity Organization of Denver: Denver, Colorado. The Denver City Directory, 1895, lists her as Secretary of the COS.

1895: Dangerous Illness, 2 Feb 1895, Denver, Colorado. <sources.htm> The Rocky Mountain News reported her as dangerously ill on this day.

1895: Nat’l Convention of Charities, 21 May 1895, New Haven, Connecticut. The Rocky Mountain News reported her attendance of this event.

1896: The Charities Review, A Journal of Practical Sociology, volume 5 number 5 (March, 1896), lists Mrs. Izetta George of Denver Colorado as a member of the Standing Committee on Charity Organization (page 236), in its section announcing the 23rd National Conference of Charities and Correction.

1899: Mrs. S. Izetta George is listed as the President of the Board of Control of the State Industrial School for Girls in "Laws passed at the Twelfth Session of the General Assembly of the State of Colorado."

1900: I was first unable to find her in the 1900 census, but see now that she appears listed as "George Izett S" born in 1862 in Missouri. In that entry her father’s birth-place is given as Missouri and her mother’s as Kentucky. This conflicts with information from previous entries. Her occupation is given as "Clerk [?] Charity organization," and she and her daughter are listed without Goodwin as lodgers with the family of an attorney named Fred Bulter. She is listed as widowed in this census entry.

1900: School for Girls: Resignation from the Board of Control, State Industrial School for Girls., 21 Aug 1900, Denver, Colorado. The following day she received a letter from the governor <../pictures/letter1900.jpg>, accepting the resignation. No reasons for the resignation are given.

1900: The Colorado Medical Journal, Denver, December 1900, Vol. VI, Number 12, page 555, News Items, lists Mrs. S. Izetta George as the secretary for St. Clair’s Orphanage, home to 115 children.

1900: The 1900 conference proceedings of all those organizations, page 376:

"Mrs [note the Mrs this time] George, of Denver, described the method of raising money in Denver for charitable purposes. The Charitable Organization Society there receives $9,000 annually from the city. That does not go to the central office but to the office of charities. The Charitable Organization Society controls the city charity work. The money for the seventeen charitable societies is raised once a year, and not a bit of politics enters into it."

1901: February 20; a letter from Izetta George to Ben Lindsey on this date is cited as being in box 80, file for 1901, in the BBL Papers, by Elizabeth J. Clapp, _Mothers of all Children_, 1998, Penn State Press. I did not find this letter when at the Library of Congress, so I will need to check this reference to see if it refers to that or another collection, and get the letter.

1901: Izetta George is listed on page 236 of the Charities Review published by the COS of New York. The full text is not available online; consult original.

1902: A book by Elizabeth Clapp, 1998, Mothers of All Children: Women Reformers and the Rise of Juvenile Courts in Progressive Era America, in its discussion on Judge Lindsey, states in footnote 77:

"Lindsey refused to employ women as probation officers in the early days of his juvenile court. Letter to Mrs. Izetta George, April 1, 1902, box 82, folder 4, BBI. Papers; Letter from Izetta George, April 2, 1902, box 82, folder 3, BBI. Papers."

1902: The Proceedings of the National Conference of Charities and Correction, ed. Isabel C. Barrows, Boston, transcribes remarks made at the 29th Annual Session held in Detroit from May 28 to June 3, 1902. Mrs. Izetta George’s remarks appear therein on pages 518-520.

1902: In the article "Philanthropy, Charity and Social Problems," Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Vol. 20. (Sep., 1902), pp. 150-161, Mrs. S. Izetta George is listed as one of the assistant secretaries due to attend the "next session of the National Conference of Charities and Correction... [to] be held in Atlanta, Ga., in the spring of 1903." She is also listed in the 20th Annual Report of the Charity Organization Society of the City of New York as the Corresponding Officer of the Denver chapter of the COS, listed here as founded in 1889. Her address is given as 1420 Champa Street.

1902: August 1; she addresses a handwritten letter to Judge Lindsey hoping that he will find her friend Mrs. Sales capable of managing her own affairs and of being guardian of her own children. The letter is on COS stationery, on which she appears as secretary, and of which the address is Room 35, Court House, Denver. The original letter can be found in the Benjamin Lindsey Collection, Box 1, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress.

1903: Albert Shaw’s "The American Review of Reviews" in its annual collection of the publication (Radcliffe Library, 1903: 701) quotes a Francis S. Kinder as follows: "The Secretary of the Denver Charity Organization Society, Mrs. Izetta George, who during many years’ work has had unusual opportunities for becoming acquainted with the actual conditions, has held the belief that a sanatorium or system of sanatoria, planned on a scale which only the national government could undertake, is required to adequately meet the needs of the time. This idea has also been indorsed (sic) by most of the physicians with whom I have discussed it." The article is entitled "The Consumptives’ Chances in Colorado", and is part of a larger collection of pieces on tuberculosis.

1903: February 11; she addresses a typewritten letter to Judge Lindsey in response to some earlier communication, affirming the accuracy of his remarks, and discussing her opinion that the Working Boys’ Home is "absolutely worthless." While she signs the letter as Secretary of the COS, the letter is on letterhead labeled "Eight Colorado Conference of Charities and Correction." Both her and Judge Lindsey appear therein as members of the Executive Committee. (The Working Boys’ Home was one of the charities appearing under the COS coalition in 1902/1903.) The original letter can be found in the Benjamin Lindsey Collection, Box 1, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress.

1903: February 14; she addresses a typewritten letter to Judge Lindsey on COS letterhead. The letter makes positive reference to a number of interactions between the two, including one dating back two years (to 1901?). The letter covers a number of topics, including a Parental School, the Night School, the Parental School Bill, and the Golden School. She has other issues regarding the Bill she would like to discuss with him, but will wait until she sees him. The original letter can be found in the Benjamin Lindsey Collection, Box 85, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. Most interesting: her reference to the Parental School as an institution which "will take the place of parents who are incapable of managing their children properly (which would include most t of US.)" Does she have her own case in mind?

1903: February 23; V.A. Gindra writes to Judge Lindsey asking him to confirm his ex-wife’s assertion that he could pay $300 to eliminate his obligations to her, per Lindsey’s agreement, and making his case for custody of their child. The original letter can be found in the Benjamin Lindsey Collection, Box 1, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress.

1903: June 10; she addresses a typewritten letter to Judge Lindsey on COS letterhead, on which she still appears as Secretary. The letter asks about the cases of the three Hefflinger orphans and Mrs Leora Gindra. Izetta refers to Mr Gindra’s offer of $350 (sic) and the court’s rejection of that offer, and asks for assistance on Leora’s behalf. The original letter can be found in the Benjamin Lindsey Collection, Box 1, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress.

1904: Izetta George is thanked in passing by Judge Lindsey on page 138 of his _The Problem of Children and how the State of Colorado Cares for Them_, a report of the juvenile court of Denver, wherein Lindsey describes her as the secretary of the Associated Charity organization (sic).

1906: San Francisco Earthquake: Sent to provide assistance to affected Denver natives, 1906, San Francisco, CA. We have a letter <../pictures/letter1906.jpg> in our possession mentioning this trip. Recognition: Denver Chamber of Commerce and Board of Trade thanks Izetta George., 19 Sep 1906, Denver, Colorado. The letter thanks Izetta George for accepting, in her capacity as Secretary of the Charity Organization Society of Denver, the appointment as personal representative of the Chamber of Commerce to San Francisco after the earthquake and fire. Is she in San Francisco when her father dies?

1907: Izetta George appears in the American Monthly Review of Reviews, page 701, by Albert Shaw. The full text is not online; consult the original.

1908: Recommendation: The Chamber of Commerce writes her a general letter of recommendation., 14 Dec 1908, Denver, Colorado. The letter her describes her as secretary of the Charity Organization Society "for many years", but given the following evidence, this should not be taken to mean that she was no longer serving in that capacity.

1908: The _Preliminary Announcement of the International Congress on Tuberculosis_ held in Washington DC from September 21 to October 12 lists a Mrs S Izetta George from Denver on page 180.

1909: June 14; Judge Lindsey writes a letter to a Mrs. Helen W. Rogers of Indianapolis in which she describes "Mrs. Izetta George" as the Secretary of Denver’s charities association, and states that he will ask her to forward literature to Mrs. Rogers. The original letter can be found in the Benjamin Lindsey Collection, Box 20, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress.

1909-1913? Lee Quinlan has a tea set inscribed in her honor by the COS. This was presumably the gift which accompanied an undated letter <../pictures/letterundated.jpg> to her acknowledging 21 years of service as assistant secretary and secretary of the COS, and regretting her resignation for reasons of health. The letter’s signatories are difficult to read: a Reverend .... Ryan (?), a Mrs. A.M. Donaldson, and a Frank Graff (?).

Undated: Izetta George appears on pages 406 and 663 of "The Survey" by Survey Associates (1952) of v. 22-29, no. 7, April 1909-1913, published by the COS of the City of New York. Full text is not online; consult the original.

In 1910, she appears as a single entry under Izetta George in the federal census in Malden, Massachusetts, where her occupation is given as "secretary" of "Ass. Charities", her birth place as Missouri, and those of her parents as Missouri and Iowa. This census entry also indicates her as widowed.

1911: Philip P. Jacobs, _A Tuberculosis Directory_, published this year in New York, lists Mrs. S. Izetta George as the secretary of the Malden Massachusetts Committee on Tuberculosis of the Associated Charities. She does not appear in the 1916 edition of the same book.

1913: General Secretary: General Secretary of the Associated Charities, Malden Mass., May 1913, Malden, Massachusetts. We have a letter <../pictures/letter1913.jpg> thanking her for her work in Malden in this capacity, and implying that she is moving on.

Circa 1914? We have two pictures of a young girl on a porch, one of which labels her Janey. In one picture, she is with Oliver Lee Neer, the other Izetta. Was Izetta George therefore in Douglas, Arizona in 1914? This is presumably after she has left Massachusetts.

1914: December 24; a letter from Judge Lindsey’s office but signed "B. Palmer" is addressed to Izetta George at "257 South Hill St., Los Angeles, California." The letter seems to make reference to an inquiry regarding possible openings in Judge Lindsey’s staff, but the context is not clear. The original letter can be found in the Benjamin Lindsey Collection, Box 48, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress.

She died of uterine cancer, in the care of her daughter. Charlotte Ann Quinlan says that her mother told her this was when Charlotte George moved to Washington State with Floyd Manning. By her absence from Floyd Manning’s census entry in 1920, should I conclude she had died by then?

Research Notes: Birth Certificate:

Marriage License:

Death Certificate: Sent away for her death certificate from the Washington State CHS. They report finding no death certificate durnig the years 1914-1924.

Secretary: Charity Organization of Denver: Denver, Colorado. The Denver City Directory, 1895, lists her as Secretary of the COS.

Lee Quinlan has a tea set inscribed in her honor by the COS. This was presumably the gift which accompanied an undated letter to her acknowledging 21 years of service as assistant secretary and secretary of the COS, and regretting her resignation for reasons of health.

Dangerous Illness: 2 Feb 1895, Denver, Colorado.8 The Rocky Mountain News reported her as dangerously ill on this day.

Nat’l Convention of Charities: 21 May 1895, New Haven, Connecticut. The Rocky Mountain News reported her attendance of this event.

San Francisco Earthquake: Sent to provide assistance to affected Denver natives, 1906, San Francisco, CA. We have a letter in our possession mentioning this trip.

Cause of death: cancer, 1914 or later.

School for Girls: Resignation from the Board of Control, State Industrial School for Girls, 21 Aug 1900, Denver, Colorado. The following day she received a letter from the governor, accepting the resignation. No reasons for the resignation are given.

Recognition: Denver Chamber of Commerce and Board of Trade thanks Izetta George, 19 Sep 1906, Denver, Colorado. The letter thanks Izetta George for accepting, in her capacity as Secretary of the Charity Organization Society of Denver, the appointment as personal representative of the Chamber of Commerce to San Francisco after the earthquake and fire.

Recommendation: The Chamber of Commerce writes her a general letter of recommendation, 14 Dec 1908, Denver, Colorado. The letter her describes her as secretary of the Charity Organization Society "for many years", which may mean that she is such no longer.

General Secretary: General Secretary of the Associated Charities, Malden Mass, May 1913, Malden, Massachusetts. We have a letter thanking her for her work in Malden in this capacity, and implying that she is moving on.

She married Goodwin George [12] [MRIN: 6].

Sixth Generation (3rd Great-Grandparents)

34. Antonio Culeddu [496] died before 23 Aug 1891.

General Notes: From his daughter’s death records, we know he was a contadino from Ozieri, and dead when she died in 1891. With a daughter born in 1813, we might expect someone born in the 1780s.

Attempts to look for an Antonio Culeddu in the death indices turn up only 1872 entry 60 and 1874 entry 241, both of which proved to be a Giovanna Antonia on closer inspection. Perhaps he died before 1866.

There are Culeddu in Nughedu as well; a Giovanna Maria, a daughter of Francesco and Maria died there in her 40s in 1884; a Maria Filomena Culeddu Ledda, daughter of Salvatore and Ciccia, died there in 1877; and a Francesco Raimondo Culeddu, died there in 1909.

Antonio married Giovanna Maria Biddau [495] [MRIN: 500919656] Before 1813?.

The child from this marriage was:

17 i. Mattia Culeddu [498]

35. Giovanna Maria Biddau [495] .

General Notes: From her daughter’s death records, we know that she was a housewife in Ozieri. We might expect someone born in the 1780s.

Today, the name appears in Sardinia 183 times, 13 of them in Ozieri: http://elenco.libero.it/elencotel/public/RicercaOmonimie.jsp

Attempts to find her in the death indices produced no results. Did she die before 1866?

I have found no Biddau in Nughedu.

Giovanna married Antonio Culeddu [496] [MRIN: 500919656] Before 1813?.

40. Giovanni Maria Meloni [447] died before 1905.

General Notes: He was a contadino, listed as deceased in his son’s 1905 death record. Several possible matches in the 1866-1905 death indices: 1873: 269, 1885: 151, and 1885: 1. Only the last one can be excluded, as his age was one at death. The others do not appear to give age or name of wife, but need to be revisited. Death before 1866 is possible here.

Giovanni married Caterina Lai [448] [MRIN: 250].

The child from this marriage was:

20 i. Giacomo Meloni [382]

41. Caterina Lai [448] died before 1905.

General Notes: She was a casalinga, dead before filing of her son’s death record in 1905. I find no possible matches in the 1866-1905 death indices. Death before 1866 is possible here.

Refer to my patrilineal Lai notes for information on Lai in Nughedu.

Caterina married Giovanni Maria Meloni [447] [MRIN: 250].

44. Gioi Andrea Corosu [795] died 1872? in Ozieri.

General Notes: Reading his son’s death certificate, I had originally taken this man’s name to be Pioi Andrea, but found no matches for him in the Ozieri death indices from 1866-1905. Gioi Andrea is almost certainly the prefered reading. A Gioi Andrea, at 1872 entry 19 in the death records, may be a match, but needs to be revisited.

1872 death entry 19: Giovanni Andrea Corosu Mundula. If this is the right Corosu, he was born circa 1782. His parents were Angelo and Antonia. In my notes I wrote "widow of Rosalia Mundula." Who did I mean? Giovanni Andrea? Nicolo Mundula reports his death. In any case, I cannot confirm that this person is a match until I revisit the rolls, so the 1872 death year remains highly questionable.

Gioi married Giuseppa Chijna [794] [MRIN: 276].

The child from this marriage was:

22 i. Matteo Corrozu [384]

45. Giuseppa Chijna [794] .

General Notes: Her name I take from her son’s death record. I do not find her in the death indices of Ozieri from 1866-1905, although she is indicated as dead by the time of her son’s death. A death before 1866 is certainly possible here. Look for other Chijna deaths to see if she’s involved in the reporting, and extrapolate from there. I only find one Chijna death, spelled Chijina, at 1866 entry 76, a Maddalena Chijina Culeddu, age perhaps 28 (so born c. 1838?) reported dead perhaps by Giovanni Chijina Culeddu, both perhaps children of Antonio. Siblings? They would not be Giuseppa’s siblings, but perhaps Antonio would be.

Entries possibly read as Chijna in the Nughedu rolls are perhaps better read as Chijsa or Chejsa, although none of the options are certain. These entries include a Giuseppa Francesca (age 2?), a daughter of Cicia and a ’padre incerta’, who died in 1876; an Antonia, daughter of Giovanni and Francesca, who died in 1877 .

Giuseppa married Gioi Andrea Corosu [795] [MRIN: 276].

46. Salvatore Carraca [449] died before 1897.

General Notes: He was a contadino, listed as dead at the time of his daughters death in 1897. I do not find him in the 1866-1905 death indices. A death before 1866 is plausible here.

Salvatore married Luigia Seu [450] [MRIN: 251].

The child from this marriage was:

23 i. Rosalia Carraca [385]

47. Luigia Seu [450] died before 1897.

General Notes: She was a casalinga, listed as dead at the death of her daughter in 1897.

I had originally read the surname as Sau, but only Seu appear in the death indices from 1866-1905 and re-inspection verified that reading. Possible matches are 1873 or 1875 entry 226 and 1876 entry 174. The latter is definitely not a match; the former is difficult to read, but the husband’s name does not appear to be anything close. A death before 1866 is plausible here.

Luigia married Salvatore Carraca [449] [MRIN: 251].

49. Unknown [423] .

Unknown married someone.

Her child was:

24 i. William Quinlan [283]


50. Michel Goyette [251],9 son of Francois Goyette [247] and Marie-Martine Balthazor [246], was born on 7 Apr 1826 in Marieville, Canada,9 was christened on 12 Nov 1910 in Immaculate Conception Cememtery St Marys, KS,9 and died on 10 Nov 1910 in St Marys, KS9 at age 84.

General Notes: Tremendous amounts of primary source material on Michael’s life, including land deeds, obituaries, newspaper ads, and so forth, are all chronicled in Barbara Harvey’s book on the Guyette family. Also with that book is a copy of a picture of him with his family, circa 1899.

Cross-reference these with the "Canadian Genealogy Index" entry for Michel Goyette, living in Marieville in 1871: he appears as a blacksmith in John Lovell’s "Lovell’s Province of Quebec Directory for 1871." This is probably not the same man, as Harvey’s book appears to indicate that he had left Canada by then.

It is presumably only a mistake that Belle Guyette’s 1920 federal census entry records her parents’ birth-places as France. However, her 1900 federal census entry does record his birth-place as New York.

Michel married Lenora Jette [285] [MRIN: 181] on 7 Oct 1845 in St. Athanase Parish, St. Gregoire, Iberville, Quebec.

The child from this marriage was:

25 i. Margaret Isabelle (Belle/Bell) Guyette [284]

51. Lenora Jette [285], daughter of Amable Jette [541] and Marguerite Chalaux [540], was born in 1825 and died on 15 Jun 1891 in St Marys, Kansas at age 66. Another name for Lenora was Leonine.

General Notes: Barbara Harvey’s book on the Guyettes includes Lenora’s marriage certificate, which is the source for her parents and brothers, and gives her name as Leonine.

It is presumably only a mistake that Belle Guyette’s 1920 federal census entry records her parents’ birth-places as France.

Lenora married Michel Goyette [251]9 [MRIN: 181] on 7 Oct 1845 in St. Athanase Parish, St. Gregoire, Iberville, Quebec.

52. Robert Monroe [781] .

General Notes: Robert Monroe: Attested as such on George N. S. Monroe’s death certificate.

Robert married someone.

His child was:

26 i. George N. S. Monroe [543]

54. William Smith [782] was born in Basley, Scotland.

General Notes: William Smith: His name and birthplace I derive from Ellen Monroe’s death certificate.

William married someone.

His child was:

27 i. Ellan Smith [542]

56. Eden (Edon, Eaton) Neer [15], son of John Neer [767] and Sarah [792], was born on 15 Dec 1807 in Loudoun Co., VA, died on 17 Apr 1890 in Kendallville, Indiana at age 82, and was buried in Lick Creek Cemetery, Melbern OH.

General Notes: Eden Neer. So attested in the County of Williams history.

Eden Near. So attested in the Williams County illustrated historical atlas.

Eden Nier. So attested in the 1860 federal census.

Edon Neer. So attested on Phebe’s tombstone.

Edon Near. So attested in the 1850 federal census. (Note however that the entry is actually indexed as ’Eden Near’.)

Eaton Neer. So attested in the 1870 federal census (mis-indexed as ’Nees’).

His birth: I have it listed here that Eden was born in Virginia, December 15, 1807. This was presumably obtained by counting backwards from his age as given at death on his tombstone in 1890. It is contradicted by the evidence of the 1860 federal census, which gives his age as 59. But the 1850 federal census appears to give his age as 40. If both numbers are accurately read, his age must have been misreported in at least one instance.

1831: Eden married at least twice, first to Marabah or Mary B. (Beth?) Thompson. They married on 9/25/1831. She was the mother of, consecutively, Henry, Lewis, Uriah, and John, born circa 1835, 1836, 1838 and 1838 respectively. I once believed Seba Trugan (listed in Oliver Lee Neer’s death certificate as his mother) and born in Ohio, to have been Eden’s next wife, and that she died by the July 1860 census entry. I now dismiss this as a phantom marriage. See below under "Oliver Lee Neer" for more thoughts.

1837: The next hints do not come until 1837, in two land-sale records from Ohio. On March 18 of that year, an Eden Neer sold 160 acres of land in a sale registered in Lima, Williams Co., Ohio. Two weeks later, on April 2, he sold 80 acres of land in a sale registered in Bucyrus, Wyandot Co., Ohio.

Peggy has a typed transcription, duplicated below, of an entry for Eden Neer from Jacob Neihardt’s Account Book:

August the 13th AD 1850

August 13th Eden Neer Dr.

To helping to thrash 0.75

To having the horses to thrash .50

.25

1830s & 1840s: Eden’s son Uriah’s obituary (Kendallville, Indiana, April 26, 1895) helps provide details of this period. After selling the land in Lima or Meigs and Crawford Counties, the family appears in Portage County, where Uriah was born in 1838. According to the obituary, the family moved to Williams County in 1843/4, where they stayed at least until the census of 1860. The obituary’s statement that Uriah was survived by four brothers is a puzzle. Presumably, these four brothers were all half-brothers, as his three full brothers are, I assume, the ones who died in the Civil War. Uriah, however, had six half-brothers, which means that two of them must have died by 1895.

1838-1845: By 1860, and presumably prior to Walter Neer’s birth circa 1845, Eden had must have married Phoebe (Hammon? Fritz?). She was the only woman in the household in July 1860 according to the Williams Co., OH, census, where she is listed as aged 40, born in PA in 1820.

1850: Eden appears in the 1850 census with a $1700 real estate value. This amount has doubled to $3500 in the 1860 census.

1860: According to the Williams Co., Ohio 1860 Federal Census records, between those land sales in 1837 and the census in 1860, he had eight children, including Uriah (born 1838) and Oliver (born 1858).

1870: He is listed as "Eaton" in the 1870 federal census. In the 1870 census Eden’s wife is spelled "Phebe", and listed there as "keeping house". She died two years later. Therein, Eden’s property value is listed as $6000. They are living in Center Township, Williams County.

1871: According to the "County of Williams, Ohio, Historical and Biographical," (Goodspeed and Blanchard, eds., Chicago, 1882), "In October, 1871, Eden Neer laid out an addition to Melbern, consisting of three lots on the south side of the railroad, and on the west side of the wagon road."

1874: His land in Centre Township, Williams Co., can be found in the map included in the Illustrated History Atlas of Williams Co. OH, published by Andreas and Buskin, Chicago, IL, 1874, wherein his name is spelled "Near."

Prior to his death, Eden must have gone to Kendallville, Indiana. His son Uriah had been there since at least 1870, when he appears there in the federal census. Presumably, Eden went to stay with Uriah.

Eden died April 17, 1890. His death is mentioned on page 4 of the Bryan Democrat, and in the Kendallville Standard. The Bryan Democrat entry reads: "Eden Neer who formerly owned a farm and lived on it near Melborn died at Kendallville Friday. The remains were brought here Saturday afternoon. The funeral took place Sunday from the residence of Mr. Hannum, and the remains were buried in the cemetery at the Lick Creek church."

According to Eden’s second obituary, "He had four sons in the Union army during the war of the Rebellion, three of whom were sacrificed on their country’s altar… Another of the pioneers has gone."

Kendallville is in Indiana, so he must have been taken back to Lick Creek Cemetery after he died. Eden’s gravestone in Lick Creek Cemetery, Williams Co., OH, reads: "Neer Eden d. Apr.11, 1890, ae 82 yrs, 3m, 26 days". Next to him are: "Nier [?] Sarah M., w/o ___ d.Aprl.1. 186_ 41 yrs __m 23 days" (stone flat on groudn and covered with grass, almost unreadable) and "Neer Phebe, w/o Edon Neer, d. Sept. 15, 1872, ae 50 yrs, 8m, 29 days".

Proving the identity of Eden’s parents has been so far impossible. We know only that he was born in Virginia, and presume him to be part of the Loudoun County Neer family which moved from Virginia to Ohio in the 1810s. He is therefore presumably descended from Conrad Neer (born in Germany in 1710), but through which of his sons and grandsons? Since all possible lines seem to go through one of three daughters of David Potts and Ann Roberts, we might also consider Eden Neer to be a descendant of the Potts line.

The following pieces to the puzzle might help:

Since Eden’s funeral took place at the resident of Mr. Hannum (see below), Eden might be taken as the brother of the Nancy Neer who married Mr. Hannum. Emails in Vicky Toler’s collection assert that explicit evidence exists for the fact that they are siblings, but I cannot tell what this evidence is. Nancy’s parents are known from the "County of Williams" history to be John and Sarah Neer, born in Virginia, who settled in Trumbull County in the fall of 1815. This John could be taken as the son of Henry Neer and Susannah Potts were it not for the fact that John supposedly stayed in Virginia. I have in this tree attached Eden to John Neer, son of Henry Neer and Susannah Potts, merely for sake of convenience, to link him in some way to his putative ancestors as explained above. His parents and grandparents must still be considered unproven.

One further line of possible research is through Samuel J. Neer, born in Urbana Ohio on February 8, 1855, of Joseph Neer and Margaret S. Monroe, the former of whom was born in Virginia. Samuel died in Phoenix Arizona on June 1, 1931. As a piece of wild speculation, since the only other Neers I have found in Arizona are Oliver Lee Neer and descendants, I wonder whether Samuel might not be a cousin of his.

Eden sells 160 acres: 18 Mar 1837, Lima, Ohio.

Eden sells 80 acres: 2 Apr 1837, Bucyrus, Crawford County, Ohio.

Moved to Williams County: 1843-1844, Williams County, OH.

First Marriage: Married Marabah or Mary B. (Beth?) Thompson, 25 Sep 1831.

Eden married Phebe Neer [411] [MRIN: 233].

Children from this marriage were:

28 i. Oliver Lee Neer [11]
  ii. Walter Neer [432] was born circa 1845.
  iii. Adam Neer [433] was born circa 1847.
  iv. Hiram Neer [434] was born circa 1848.
  v. Emery Neer [435] was born circa 1850.
  vi. George Neer [436] was born circa 1852.
  vii. Sarah Neer [437] was born circa 1853.

Eden next married Mary Beth Thompson [427] [MRIN: 245] on 25 Sep 1831 in Portage, Ohio.

Children from this marriage were:

  i. Henry Neer [428] was born circa 1835.
  ii. Lewis Neer [429] was born circa 1836.
  iii. Uriah Neer [430] was born circa 1838 and died in 1895 in Kendallville, Indiana at age 57.
  iv. John Neer [431] was born circa 1838.

57. Phebe Neer [411] was born on 17 Jan 1822 in Bradford County, Pennsylvania, died on 15 Sep 1872 in Town Center, OH at age 50, and was buried in Lick Creek Cemetery, Melbern OH.

General Notes: Phebe. So attested on her tombstone and the 1870 federal census.

Phoebe.

Phoeba. So attested in the "Eden Nier" entry in the 1860 federal census.

I originally had some difficulty establishing the identity of Oliver Lee Neer’s mother. His death certificate gives his mother’s name as Saba Trugan, born in Ohio. This certificate would appear to be contradicted by his 1910 census entry (stating his mother’s birth place as Pennsylvania) and his 1860 census entry, which lists no Saba Trugan in the household, and Phebe as the only woman old enough to be his mother, when he is just a year old.

Who was Phebe? Rick Bergman made the following argument to propose Fritz(h) to be her maiden name. He looked at the 1850 census records page with Eden’s family and picked out Pennsylvania-born adults old enough to be her parents who were also Eden Neer’s neighbors. This led him to the Fritz(h) families, two of which appear on the page.

The first man of both of those families was born in Germany, with the rest born in Pennsylvania. Bergman then guessed Phebe’s father’s name to be Walter, as this was the name of her first son by Eden. He then proposed looking for Walter Fritz(h) in the 1820 Pennslyvania census. No Fritz(h) can be seen in censuses that early. Jacob Fritz is the male on that census page most likely to be her father. More than one Jacob Fritz in the 1840 Pennsylvania census is recorded as having a daughter the right age to be Phebe.

Elsewhere in my notes I record that Phebe may have been a Hannum. Explore this possibility. The name ’Phebe’ is also attested in Eden’s 1850 census page in the Niehart family.

Peggy Reins says that she has the cause of Phebe’s death in her possession, as well as a photograph of her gravestone.

Eden’s gravestone in Lick Creek Cemetery, Williams Co., OH, reads: "Neer Eden d. Apr.11, 1890, ae 82 yrs, 3m, 26 days". Next to him are: "Nier [?] Sarah M., w/o ___ d.Aprl.1. 186_ 41 yrs __m 23 days" (stone flat on ground and covered with grass, almost unreadable) and "Neer Phebe, w/o Edon Neer, d. Sept. 15, 1872, ae 50 yrs, 8m, 29 days".

Phebe married Eden (Edon, Eaton) Neer [15] [MRIN: 233].

58. Luther Hunt Johnson [17]10 was born circa 1824 in Ohio? (Pennsylvania? Connecticut?) and died on 29 May 1862 in Corinth, Missisippi at age 38. Another name for Luther was Luther H. Johnston.11

General Notes: Luther Johnson: His 1850 federal census entry.

Luther H. Johnson.

Luther Hunt Johnson.

L. H. Johnson: His 1860 federal census entry.

Luther’s date of birth: 1824, an approximation from his entry in the 1850 federal census.

Luther’s birthplace: Contradictory evidence is available. His 1850 federal census entry is obscure. Its online indexing took the entry to record his birthplace as Ohio, but the entry itself only includes a " to indicate the preceding birthplace, which itself may read either O for Ohio, or be another " for its preceding birthplace, which is New York.

1830: The federal census entries list only two Johnson heads of household in Ohio in 1830, neither with a male of the right age to be Luther.

Finding Luther in 1840: I might look for Johnson families in the counties that would become Morrow County, which include Crawford and Richland, the two counties in which Luther would marry. Crawford had only one Johnson head of household in 1840, a Henry Johnson in Jackson who had a male son in the 10-15 year age range. Richland, however, had 29 Johnson heads of household. See Louisa’s entry: there appears to be no way to narrow from these 29 to Johnsons in Richland that lived near Jarrards.

Only two Luther Johnsons appear in Ohio in 1840. The one in Streetsboro, Portage County, is head of household without any male children in the right range so is presumably neither him nor his father. The same is true of the Luther Johnson in Delaware, Harmony, but his entry is followed immediately by a Nathan Johnson with a male child in the 15 to 20 range. Is this convergence of age and name in a male relative a potential link?

1846: Luther marries Louisa in Richland County.

1850: A federal census entry for Mount Gilead, Morrow County (immediately southwest of Richland) , Ohio records the family of a 26 year old teamster named Luther Johnson, with Louisa, Elizabeth and Amelia.

1857: Luther’s first wife dies.

1858: Luther marries Mary Jane Bowlby in Galion, Crawford County, Ohio. Crawford is the county immediately west of Richland.

1860: A federal census entry for Washington, Morrow County, Ohio records the family of a 37 year old laborer named L H Johnson, with Mary J, Amelia A (?), Francis, Delbert and Ida J. All of them are described as born in Ohio.

Ida’s 1880 census entry reports his birthplace as Pennsylvania. I had originally placed Luther’s birth-place in Pennsylvania on mere guesswork, an impression emerging from the body of documents relating to his life collected by Peggy Reins. The following facts are relevant: The Bowlby family, including his second wife Mary Jane, came from Pennsylvania. After his death, the guardian of the minor children from his first marriage filed pension claims in Beaver County, Pennsylvania. Note the information I’ve filed in this regard under Delbert Johnson as well. Blood relatives of his first wife are also attested in the same county of Pennsylvania.

Delbert L. Johnson’s 1930 federal census entry implies that Luther was born in Connecticut. This is a late and therefore weak attestation, and should not be pushed too far. But this does not seem to be an erroneous reference to a later step-father, either; Delbert’s 1870 federal census entry shows that his head of household then was born in Pennsylvania.

Of the 10 Luther Johnsons in Connecticut censuses from 1790 to 1860, eight of them are consecutive entries through 1860 in the same county, which I would bet means those are not him. The other two are in Middlesex County, Stafford, and Tolland County, Tolland. The 1830 Tolland entry shows a Luther Johnson as head of household with 1 male member under 5, and 1 in the 10-15 year range.

1862: According to the "Widow’s Claim for Half-Pay Pension," Luther enlisted at Chicago on or about the 14th day of February 1862 as a private in the Chicago Light Artillery. Other documents give his unit as the 2nd Illinois Light Artillery, D Company or Battery. That unit was organized at Camp Douglas and mustered on February 28. They moved to Camp Benton, St. Louis, MO, on March 11. We have in our possession a copy of a letter he wrote home to his family shortly thereafter, which was on file at the National Archives as part of his pension file.

The letter for help his wife wrote on June 1 says that Luther has not been heard from in a month, when he was at "Pittsburg Landen" (sic?).

An online battery roster (http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilcivilw/acm/art-2l.htm) gives a Luther H. Johnson as an artificer in the 2nd Illinois Light Artillery, Battery L. Battery L proceeded to Pittsburg Landing, Tennessee on April 8. There, the 2nd Illinois Light Artillery L Battery fought in the battle of Shiloh in April of that year (see their regimental history online at http://www.civilwararchive.com/Unreghst/unilart2.htm). The Adjutant General’s Office records indicate that he died of "disease" or "camp diarrhea" in the field near Corinth on the day given. He and his unit would have been participating in the siege on Corinth, which began in April, and ended with the secret evacuation of the Confederate army the night he died.

Some Union casualties of Corinth buried at the Corinth National Cemetery, but I do not see Luther Johnson in the transcribed list.

Military: : The Civil War.12

Cause death. camp dysentery

Luther married Mary Jane Bowlby [16]13 [MRIN: 9] on 28 Mar 1858 in Galion, Crawford Co., OH.12

Children from this marriage were:

  i. Eve Johnson [280] was born on 11 Dec 1860 and died in 1862 at age 2. Another name for Eve was Eva.
29 ii. Ida Jane Johnson [387]

Luther also married Loisa Or Louisa Jarrard [386] [MRIN: 223] on 4 Aug 1846 in Richland County, Ohio.

Children from this marriage were:

  i. Delbert Johnson [388] was born on 25 Feb 1856 in Ohio.
  ii. Francis Johnson [389] was born on 17 Nov 1853 and died on 11 Jul 1864 at age 10.
  iii. Amelia Johnson [390] was born on 11 Sep 1849.
  iv. Elizabeth Johnson [825] was born circa 1848.

59. Mary Jane Bowlby [16],13 daughter of James Bowlby [183] and Sarah Gross [184], was born in 1834 in Pennsylvania14 and died 12 or 14 AUG 1865 OR 22 AUG 1866.12

General Notes: Mary Jane Bowlby.

Mary A. Bowlloy: So indexed online under Ohio marriages.

1858: The marriage certificate is in our possession.

1860s: We have a considerable collection of documents in our possession relating to the life of Mary Jane Bowlby, particularly after the death of her husband. Some of these were kept in the family since that period, and others have been collected by her descendant, Peggy Reins. The most notable of these documents is a letter written on her behalf by an Elizabeth Courtride, asking for assistance in raising Amelia, and relaying remarks about Delbert, etc. It is not immediately obvious why we should still have this letter, if it had been sent. Did Ida Jane get it because it ended up in the hands of the person who became her guardian? Would this have been Emanuel Bowlby?

Peggy says that he went looking for her place of burial, and that she thinks it was in this plot now under a high school in Galion, where perhaps Frances and Eve were buried as well. Consider asking the Bowlby group about this.

Mary married Luther Hunt Johnson [17]10 [MRIN: 9] on 28 Mar 1858 in Galion, Crawford Co., OH.12

60. Unknown Male (Charles?) George [393] was born in Ohio.

General Notes: His origins in Ohio we take from his son Goodwin’s 1880 census entry.

At some point prior to 1850, he moved from Ohio to Missouri, where his son Goodwin was born. Was he still in Missouri during the Civil War, as an adult? Missouri had two state governments, one Union and one Confederate.

From the letter Charlotte George’s grandmother wrote Izetta, we guess that he is in Illinois by 1890, but this cannot be certain.

Try looking for a Colbert George, the name his son gave his first son: but no Colbert George appears in any census prior to 1910. Also try looking for a Charles George; the letter his wife wrote to their daughter-in-law mentions Charlotte George calling "Charlie" as "Pa Pa". Could Charlotte have been named for Charlie?

Unknown married Unknown Female George [392] [MRIN: 225].

The child from this marriage was:

30 i. Goodwin George [12]

61. Unknown Female George [392] was born in Ohio and died after 1890.

General Notes: Her origins in Ohio we take from his son Goodwin’s 1880 census entry.

The letter from Charlotte George’s grandmother to Izetta George is from a woman Charlotte George called "Mama George" when she was two years old. This may I suppose be Goodwin George’s mother, this woman. She describes meeting Charlotte and her son at the train, and her son calling "Mama George". Is the son in question Goodwin?

If this indeed her in this letter, she must have been alive in 1890. In Illinois?

Try looking for a Charlotte Rogers, a possible explanation for Charlotte George’s first name and mysterious but attested middle name / claimed maiden name. Consider this death entry:

GEORGE, CHARLOTTE R 12/25/1896 CHICAGO 88 YR U     00006665 COOK

I have obtained a copy of this death report. The woman in question is reported to have been born in Charleston, Massachusetts. This cannot therefore be the right woman if Goodwin’s 1880 census entry is correct. Nonetheless, it is striking that she is reported as being buried in St. Louis, MO after having lived in Illinois for 18 years, ie since 1878. This would match well her son’s departure from Missouri prior to 1880.

Unknown married Unknown Male (Charles?) George [393] [MRIN: 225].

62. Joseph T. Davis [391], son of Thomas Davis [797] and Unknown Female Davis [798], was born on 4 Aug 1834 in District of Columbia and died on 29 Aug 1906 in Denver, Colorado at age 72.

General Notes: J. T. Davis. So attested in the 1860 census entry.

Joseph T. Davis. So attested in the 1870 census entry.

His birth-place: According to information his son provided for his death certificate, Joseph T. Davis was born in the District of Columbia on the date given. Some previous census entries affirm the birth place (e.g. 1860), others state Maryland. Evidence dissenting from this picture includes Izetta George’s 1910 census record, which lists her father’s birth place as Missouri.

1850: Joseph should appear in this federal census. Searching for Joseph T. Davis gives no obvious matches. Searching for Joseph Davis alone gives over 1300. Narrowing that group to those born in the District of Columbia returns only one in the right decade, a black man aged 18. Narrowing it instead to Maryland, possible matches include a 15 year old Joseph in Howard, Missouri, with parents born in Maryland and Kentucky; a 15 year old black man in Baltimore.

Before 1860: Joseph moves to Missouri prior to 1860, judging from census entries described below. Was he moving with his parents? If Joseph’s father’s name was Thomas, does Joseph’s middle initial stand for Thomas?

1860: J.T. and Caroline appear together in the 1860 federal census in Missouri; Atchison Co.; Buchanan. His age is perhaps given as 25, although the reading is doubtful, and his occupation "Merchant" with a personal estate valued at $1500. His birthplace there appears to be listed as "D.C." although this reading is also doubtful. (It appears elsewhere on the page.)

1862-1866: Since J.T. Davis and Caroline had Izetta in Missouri in 1862, he must have moved to Iowa between 1862 and 1866, when Rowena is born there. Perhaps the family went to Iowa to be near Caroline’s family, as she was born there. On a pure guess, did they leave Missouri after his parents had died?

1870: The 1870 federal census for Iowa; Fremont; Hamburg lists a Joseph T. Davis in "Dry Goods Sales" by profession, having real estate worth 29,000 and personal estate worth 5,000. His birth-place is given as MD, and his age 36. (This entry shows him with "Celia" [sic], Isetta, Rowena, Alma, and James [?], the latter not otherwise known.)

1880: I first discovered him and Caroline through the 1880 Hamburg, Fremont, Iowa federal census, where he is listed as J.T., appearing with his family immediately above Goodwin and Izetta George. Since J.T. has Izetta’s maiden name, and he and his wife have the same birth-places as those listed for Izetta’s parents (Missouri and Iowa respectively), I assume this family to be Izetta’s.

However, this birthplace for Izetta’s father (Missouri) contradicts earlier census records, which give DC and MD respectively. Unfortunately, no place of birth is given for either of his parents.

I do not find Joseph or J.T. Davis in the 1885 Iowa census. Nor does he appear in the 1895 census. (The 1890 federal is fragmentary.)

1900: Joseph T. and his son Joseph E. appear in the 1900 federal census living alone together in Denver. His occupation is given as a ’peddler’. His birthplace and that of his parents are both explicitly indicated as ’D of Columbia’. 1835 is given as his year of birth. His exact death date and particulars come from a Denver, Colorado, death certificate, in which his son, Joseph E., gives Joseph T.’s occupation as a ’chemist’. He died of ’senility’ with ’cystitis’ as a contributory cause. He had been living with his son at 325 NiHassan (sp.?) Avenue. He died at St. Anthony’s Hospital. Joseph T. was buried at River Side on August 31, 1906.

Research Notes: Birth Certificate: Washington DC’s DOH reports birth certificates on record only since 1874.

Death Certificate: Attempt to order his death certificate from the State of CO, 12/12/04, resulted in a response stating I need to "submit documentation to establish my legal interest in obtaining" the document. I resubmitted the application and received a copy on 6/10/05. Death records are available for the entire state from 1900 on.

Joseph married Caroline (or Celia) Kimer Davis [556] [MRIN: 224].

Children from this marriage were:

31 i. S. Izetta (Isettia) Davis [13]
  ii. Rowena Davis [555] was born circa 1866 in Iowa.
  iii. Alma? Anna? Davis [554] was born circa 1868 in Iowa.
  iv. Amelia Davis [553] was born circa 1874 in Iowa.
  v. Matty? Davis [552] was born in 1876 in Iowa.
  vi. Joseph E. Davis [551] was born circa 1878 in Iowa.
  vii. James Davis [822] was born circa 1870.

63. Caroline (or Celia) Kimer Davis [556] was born circa 1846 in Iowa and died in 1886 in Madison, Iowa at age 40.

General Notes: Celia K. Davis: Attested as such in the 1870 federal census.

Caroline Davis. Attested as such in the 1860 and 1880 federal census.

Caroline Kimer Davis. Attested as such on her gravestone.

The family details match so conclusively in the 1870 and 1880 census entries that we assume we are dealing with the same person throughout. The presence of Izetta in the Davis family entry in 1870 and then in the subsequent George family entry in 1880 establishes Caroline’s maternity over Izetta.

Caroline’s birth year: we dated it to circa 1846 on the basis of consistent ages given in consecutive census records.

Her birth-place: Iowa, according to the 1860, 1870 and 1880 federal census entries. Kentucky, according to Izetta’s 1900 federal census entry.

Her father’s family: The 1880 federal census record gives Kentucky as the place of birth of both her parents. She is born in Iowa. Between c. 1846 and 1860, did her family move to Missouri, where she is next attested? How do we find her ancestors? Note under "Charlotte George" my inability to account for the Rogers I believe to have been Charlotte’s middle name. Could Rogers have been Caroline’s maiden name or her mother’s maiden name, handed down by her daughter to her grand-daughter? Equally, Kimer could be her maiden name or mother’s maiden name.

1846: Iowa becomes a state on December 28, 1846.

1850: Caroline / Celia should appear in this federal census, but I do not know how to find her, since I lack a maiden name. Caroline Kimer does not appear in the 1850 federal census. Caroline Rogers appears frequently in the 1850 census, but there are none in Iowa. There are three in Kentucky, but I do not expect her there in 1850. There are several in Missouri, but none are plausible matches.

1860: Caroline appears with J.T. in the 1860 federal census in Missouri; Atchison; Buchanan, where her age is given as 14 and her birth-place confirmed as Iowa.

Before 1862: The 1880 census entry gives "Ky" as the place of birth for both of Caroline’s parents. They must have moved from Kentucky to Iowa at some point before 1846, when Caroline was born, and she must have moved from Iowa to Missouri at some point after her birth and before the birth of her first daughter Izetta.

1862-1866: She then must have moved back to Iowa before the birth of her second daughter Rowena. Perhaps she and her husband and Izetta went to be with her family?

1870: I find her family in the 1870 federal census in Iowa by searching for Rowena Davis. But Caroline’s name appears therein as "Celia K." She is the right age (25) and birth (Iowa) and listed as keeping house.

In 1880 they are still in Iowa; Fremont; Hamburg. She is listed therein as Caroline.

Her death: Searching for "Caroline Davis" in Iowa between 1880 and 1900 I find a Caroline Kimer Davis who died in 1886 and was born in 1847, listed in Mt. Olive Cemetery, Madison town, from the Fremont County Grave Records: the middle initial is correct, the county is correct, and the birth year is off by only a year. But requesting from the state of Iowa a death certificate for a C. Davis in Fremont County, 1886, retrieves no records.

Research Notes: Death Certificates: Available for Iowa from 1880. Application for hers currently outstanding.

Caroline married Joseph T. Davis [391] [MRIN: 224].

Seventh Generation (4th Great-Grandparents)

100. Francois Goyette [247],9 son of Francois Goyette [286] and Catherine Monty [287], was born on 30 Jun 1799 in St Mathias, Canada9 and died WFT Est 1830-18909 at age 31.

Francois married Marie-Martine Balthazor [246]9 [MRIN: 137] on 7 Feb 1820 in St Mathias, Canada.9

Marriage Notes: Reference Number:319709

Children from this marriage were:

  i. Francois Goyette [248] was born on 4 Sep 1822 in St Mathias, Canada,9 was christened in St Rose Cem. Kankakee, IL,9 died on 10 Oct 1906 in Kankakee, IL9 at age 84, and was buried on 4 Sep 1822.9
  ii. Augustin Goyette [249] was born WFT Est 1820-18269 and died WFT Est 1824-19159 at age 4.
  iii. Joseph Goyette [250] was born WFT Est 1820-18269 and died WFT Est 1824-19159 at age 4.
50 iv. Michel Goyette [251]

101. Marie-Martine Balthazor [246],9 daughter of Michel-Amable Balthazor Dit St Martin [234] and Marie-Catherine Kinseler [235], was born on 29 Jan 1806 in St Mathias, Canada,9 was christened on 30 Jan 1806,9 and died on 7 Apr 1826 in Marieville, Canada9 at age 20.

Marie-Martine married Francois Goyette [247]9 [MRIN: 137] on 7 Feb 1820 in St Mathias, Canada.9

102. Amable Jette [541],15 son of Louis Jette [650] and Marie Davignon [648], was born on 21 Dec 1788 in Longueuil.

baptised: 21 Dec 1788, Longueuil.

Amable married Marguerite Chalaux [540]16 [MRIN: 500919642] on 13 Nov 1810 in Ste.Marie DE Monnor(Marieville), Rouville Co., PQ, Canada.

Children from this marriage were:

51 i. Lenora Jette [285]
  ii. Francois Jette [635]
  iii. Louis Jette [539]
  iv. Alexis Jette [538]
  v. Oliver Jette [537]
  vi. Marguerite Jette [634] was born between 1810 and 1815.
  vii. Marcelline Jette [633] was born between 1810 and 1828.

103. Marguerite Chalaux [540],16 daughter of Andre Chalaux [536] and Marie-Agathe Balthazor [267], was born between 1780 and 1797. Other names for Marguerite were Marguerite Chalou, Marguerite Chalou, Marguerite Chareau,17 Marguerite Charoux,18 and Marguerite Charreau.

General Notes: There is a potential error here. An ancestry.com family tree lists Marguerite Chalaux’s mother as Marie-Agathe Balthazor dit St. Martin. I simply assume this is the same one I already had listed in my other Balthazor dit St. Martin line, and linked them without checking.

Under this interpretation, Lenora and Michel Goyette are cousins of sorts, both with the same great-grandfather, Martin Balthazard.

Marguerite married Amable Jette [541]15 [MRIN: 500919642] on 13 Nov 1810 in Ste.Marie DE Monnor(Marieville), Rouville Co., PQ, Canada.

112. John Neer [767], son of Henry Neer [770] and Susanna Potts [774], was born 1789? in Loudon Co, VA and died in Loudon Co, VA.

General Notes: I take John Neer to be Eden’s father only as an unproven theory: he and Sarah were the parents of Nancy Neer, in whose house Eden’s services were held. The only John Neer I see in Ohio is the one whose gravestone puts his life-span from 1771 to 1849. The only John Neer born in Loudoun County within a decade of 1771 is the son of Henry Neer and Susannah Potts. The chief problem with that theory is that all references to that John Neer found online put his birth at 1774 or 1775, and give no evidence connecting him to any children at all. The only family tree posted online connecting John to Eden is that of Richard Rhoads, whom I’ve emailed to ask for further information. Another complicating factor is the fact that Henry and Susannah appear according to some sources to have had a son named John in the late 1780s, which seems to me to be a bit too late to be the same man, still less the father of Eden. To make matters more complicated, the John Neer who died in Ohio in 1849 was married to a Mary, and left minor children, which makes a match still less likely. I have listed the John born in 1789 as the father by speculation, as it is true while he stayed in Loudoun County, he is known to have three children who went to Ohio. This may explain why he has been so hard to pinpoint. But other online sources have him marrying a woman named Elizabeth, so this may not work either.

John married Sarah [792] [MRIN: 500919616].

The child from this marriage was:

56 i. Eden (Edon, Eaton) Neer [15]

113. Sarah [792] .

Sarah married John Neer [767] [MRIN: 500919616].

118. James Bowlby [183],19 son of John Bowlsby [129] and Mary Lanning [131], was born on 11 Sep 1796 in Hunterdon Co., NJ, died 22 NOV 1870 OR 23 NOV 1870 in Crawford Co., OH20 at age 74, and was buried in Fairview Cem., Just North Of Galion, Crawford Co., OH..21

Cause death.22 apoplexy, falling in the Navad

James married Sarah Gross [184]19 [MRIN: 102] in Somerset Co., PA.22

Marriage Notes:

The census of 1820 of Milford Twp., Somerset Co., PA. lists a "BOWLSPREY, James" as a family of four: 1 male between 15-26; 1 female between 16-26; 1 male under 10; and 1 female under 10. James BOWLBY and wife, Sarah, were in Somerset Co. 15 MAR 1828, when they disposed of two parts of his grandfather’s estate, one part having been released to him previously by his brother, Henry BOWLBY. James and Sarah moved from PA. to OH. in 1831. They raised most of their family in Stark Co., then in 1852 moved to Crawford Co., and lived somewhere near Galion and Bucyrus, both are given as their address. They are said to have had 14 children, 13 of whom they raised to maturity, one died as an infant. Nine of the 13 children were living in 1884. Mrs. Cordelia KELLY writes: "We do not know James’ wife’s maiden name but they called her Aunt Sarah. Her weight was 300 and James had a carriage made for her and a ladder to get in and out of the carriage. My father and his brother, Samuel CARBAUGH, visited them in 1849." Later Mrs. KELLY gives Sarah’s last name as "GROOSE". Her companion in family research, Mrs. GRIZZELLE, gives Sarah’s last name as "CROSS". THE HISTORY OF WYANDOT COUNTY, OHIO, published by Legett, Conaway & Company, in 1884, gives three biographies of members of this family.

Children from this marriage were:

  i. Joseph Bowlby [185] was born in 1818 in Somerset Co., PA and died after 1884.23
  ii. Rachel Bowlby [186] was born before 182023 and died before 1884.
  iii. Emanuel Bowlby [187] was born on 19 Sep 1821 in Somerset Co., PA, died on 19 Oct 1905 in Antrim Twp., Wyandot Co., OH24 at age 84, and was buried in Nevada Cem., Eden Twp., Wyandot Co., OH.24
  iv. John Bowlby [188] was born in 1823 in Pennsylvania, died on 19 Dec 185825 at age 35, and was buried in Lutheran Ridge Cem., Ridge Twp., Wyandot Co., OH.25
  v. Jacob A. Bowlby [189] was born on 20 Dec 1824 in Somerset Co., PA and died on 18 Aug 1907 at age 82.
  vi. Hannah Bowlby [190] was born in 1826 in Pennsylvania.26
  vii. Elizabeth Bowlby [194] was born in 1828 in Pennsylvania,27 died on 2 Feb 1890 in Shiocton, WI28 at age 62, and was buried on 5 Feb 1890 in Oak Hill Cem., Neenah, WI.28
  viii. Maria Bowlby [191] was born in 1830 in Somerset Co., PA Or Ohio,29 died on 3 Oct 1886 at age 56, and was buried in Nevada Cem., Eden Twp., Wyandot Co., OH.30
  ix. Squire James Bowlby [192] was born on 8 Dec 1831 in Wayne Co., OH, died on 27 Jan 1913 in Carey, Wyandot Co., OH31 at age 81, and was buried on 29 Jan 1913 in Lutheran Ridge Cem., Ridge Twp., Wyandot Co., OH.32
59 x. Mary Jane Bowlby [16]
  xi. Catharine Bowlby [195] was born in 1836, died on 29 Mar 1919 in Neenah, WI33 at age 83, and was buried in Oak Hill Cem., Neenah, WI.33
  xii. Samuel Bowlby [193] was born in 1838 and died before 1884.
  xiii. Sarah Bowlby [196] was born in 1841 in Ohio.26

119. Sarah Gross [184],19 daughter of Unknown and Unknown, was born on 1 Apr 1801 in Somerset Co., PA, died on 12 Mar 1859 in Crawford Co., OH20 at age 57, and was buried in Fairview Cem., Just North Of Galion, Crawford Co., OH..20

AKA.34 Mary Grose

According to the death certificate for son, James A. BOWLBY.

Sarah married James Bowlby [183]19 [MRIN: 102] in Somerset Co., PA.22

124. Thomas Davis [797] was born in the District of Columbia.

General Notes: Thomas: I know Thomas to be the name of Joseph T.’s father from the latter’s birth certificate.

Birth-place: Given as the District of Columbia in Joseph T.’s 1900 census entry.

Research Notes: His name and birth-state come from Joseph T. Davis’s death certificate.

Thomas married Unknown Female Davis [798] [MRIN: 278].

The child from this marriage was:

62 i. Joseph T. Davis [391]

125. Unknown Female Davis [798] was born in the District of Columbia.

General Notes:

Birth-place: Given as the District of Columbia in Joseph T.’s 1900 census entry.

Research Notes: Her birth-state comes from Joseph T. Davis’s death certificate.

Unknown married Thomas Davis [797] [MRIN: 278].

Eighth Generation (5th Great-Grandparents)

200. Francois Goyette [286], son of Jacques Goyette [288] and Louise Laporte-Lebonte [289], was born on 3 Sep 1777.

Francois married Catherine Monty [287] [MRIN: 182].

The child from this marriage was:

100 i. Francois Goyette [247]

201. Catherine Monty [287] was born circa 1780.

Catherine married Francois Goyette [286] [MRIN: 182].

202. Michel-Amable Balthazor Dit St Martin [234],9 son of Martin Balthazor Dit St Martin [259] and Marie-Marguerite Joubert [260], was born about 1768,9 died on 31 Aug 1832 in St Mathias, Canada9 about age 64, and was buried in St Mathias, Canada.9 The cause of his death was cholera.9

Michel-Amable married Marie-Catherine Kinseler [235]9 [MRIN: 87] on 25 Oct 1790 in Notre Dame DE Montreal, Canada.9

Marriage Notes: Reference Number:99446

Children from this marriage were:

  i. Antoine Balthazor [238] was born about 17919 and died WFT Est 1792-18819 about age 1.
  ii. Marie-Desanges Balthazor [239] was born on 11 Apr 1793 in St Mathias, Canada,9 was christened on 12 Apr 1793,9 died on 6 Aug 1794 in St Mathias, Canada9 at age 1, and was buried on 7 Aug 1794 in St Mathias, Canada.9
  iii. Michel-Amable Balthazor [241] was born on 28 Sep 1794 in St Mathias, Canada,9 was christened on 29 Sep 1794,9 died on 16 Jan 1796 in St Mathias, Canada9 at age 1, and was buried on 17 Jan 1796 in St Mathias, Canada.9
  iv. Joseph Balthazor [242] was born on 14 Jul 1796 in St Mathias, Canada,9 was christened on 14 Jul 1796,9 and died WFT Est 1826-18879 at age 30.
  v. Marie-Catherine Balthazor [243] was born on 4 May 1798,9 was christened on 5 May 1798,9 and died WFT Est 1799-18929 at age 1.
  vi. Amable Balthazor [244] was born on 10 May 1800 in St Mathias, Canada,9 was christened on 11 May 1800,9 died on 18 Apr 1802 in St Mathias, Canada9 at age 1, and was buried on 20 Apr 1802 in St Mathias, Canada.9
  vii. Francois B. Balthazor Dit St. Martin [233] was born on 28 Feb 1802 in St Mathias, Canada,9 was christened on 1 Mar 1802,9 died in 1886 in Kankakee Co, IL9 at age 84, and was buried in Cath Ch Of Bl V Mary, Bourbonnais, IL.9
  viii. Victoire Balthazor [245] was born on 23 Mar 1804 in St Mathias, Canada,9 was christened on 24 Mar 1804,9 and died WFT Est 1826-18989 at age 22.
101 ix. Marie-Martine Balthazor [246]
  x. Marie-Lucie Balthazor [252] was born on 3 Feb 1808 in St Mathias, Canada,9 was christened on 3 Feb 1808,9 and died WFT Est 1830-19029 at age 22.
  xi. Jean-Baptiste Balthazor [253] was born on 11 Feb 1810 in St Mathias, Canada,9 was christened on 12 Feb 1810,9 died on 26 Jan 1819 in St Mathias, Canada9 at age 8, and was buried on 27 Jan 1819 in St Mathias, Canada.9
  xii. Amable Balthazor [254] was born on 4 Dec 1811 in St Mathias, Canada,9 was christened on 4 Dec 1811,9 died on 18 Jan 1812 in St Mathias, Canada,9 and was buried on 20 Jan 1812 in St Mathias, Canada.9

Michel-Amable next married Marguerite Davignon Dite Beauregard [255]9 [MRIN: 138] on 15 Jul 1814 in St Mathias, Canada.9

Marriage Notes: Reference Number:319926

Children from this marriage were:

  i. Cesarie Balthazor [256] was born on 26 Jun 1815 in St Mathias, Canada,9 was christened on 27 Jun 1815,9 and died WFT Est 1837-19069 at age 22.
  ii. Flavie Balthazor [257] was born on 19 Feb 1817 in St Mathias, Canada,9 was christened on 20 Feb 1817,9 died on 9 Jan 1821 in St Mathias, Canada9 at age 3, and was buried on 11 Jan 1821 in St Mathias, Canada.9
  iii. Damase Balthazor [258] was born on 18 Sep 1818 in St Mathias, Canada9 and died WFT Est 1843-19099 at age 25.

203. Marie-Catherine Kinseler [235],9 daughter of Antoine Kinseler [236] and Marie-Josephte Jalteau [237], was born in 1772 in Ste-Marie-DE-Monnoir, Rouville, Quebec,9 died about 12 Aug 1813 in Montreal, Quebec9 about age 41, and was buried on 15 Aug 1813 in Montreal, Quebec.

General Notes: Source: David W. Agar, Genealogical Researcher, Orleans, Ontario (19 Jun 1997): Marie-Catherine KIENCELAR (daughter of Antoine KIENCELAR and Marie-Josephte JALTEAU), aged 18 years, married 25 October 1790, in Notre-Dame-de-Montreal, Quebec, Amable BALTAZAR (son of Martin BALTAZER and Marguerite JOUBERT). (Daniel Bergeron, "Mariages de la Paroisse Notre-Dame de Montreal (1642-1850)" (Montreal: Roger et Jean Bergeron, 1974))

Source: David W. Agar, (16 Sep 1997) Catherine KINSLER, spouse of Amable BALTAZAR, was buried 15 August 1813. (Index Relie, Sepultures Catholiques, Notre-Dame-de-Montreal: 1642-1850 (ANQ microfilm #MFM1697))

Fact 1: : S. Ftm Vol 1, Tree #0238.

Fact 3: 19 Jun 1997, S. David W. Agar, Genealogical Researcher.

Fact 4: 19 Jun 1997, Orleans, Ontario.

Fact 1: 15 Aug 1999, (Afn: 1Q1x-Wh8) Www.Family.Search.Org.

Fact 22: : S. (10 Sep 2000) (Internet) Database Of Jacques And Robert L’heureux; Reached Through Http://Freepages.Genealogy.Rootsweb.Com/~Lheureux.

Marie-Catherine married Michel-Amable Balthazor Dit St Martin [234]9 [MRIN: 87] on 25 Oct 1790 in Notre Dame DE Montreal, Canada.9

Marie-Catherine next married Amable Balthazar [89] [MRIN: 55], son of Martin Balthazar Dit St Martin [96] and Marie Marguerite Joubert [97], on 25 Oct 1790 in Notre-Dame-DE-Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

Children from this marriage were:

  i. Antoine Balthazar [103] was born about 1790 in Ste-Marie-DE-Monnoir, Rouville, Quebec and died on an unknown date in Unknown.
  ii. Marie-Martine Balthazar [101] was born about 1792 in St-Mathias-Sur-Richelieu, Rouville, Quebec and died on an unknown date in Unknown.
  iii. Joseph Balthazar [99] was born about 1798 in St-Mathias-Sur-Richelieu, Rouville, Quebec and died on an unknown date in Unknown.
  iv. Amable Balthazar [230] was born about 1799 in St-Mathias-Sur-Richelieu, Rouville, Quebec and died on an unknown date in Unknown.
  v. Victorie Balthazar [102] was born about 1799 in St-Mathias-Sur-Richelieu, Rouville, Quebec and died on an unknown date in Unknown.
  vi. Francois B. Balthazor [98] was born in 1802 in Ste-Marie-DE-Monnoir, Rouville, Quebec and died about 1886 in Kankakee County, Illinois about age 84.
  vii. Lucie Balthazar [100] was born about 1803 in St-Mathias-Sur-Richelieu, Rouville, Quebec and died on an unknown date in Unknown.
  viii. Jean-Baptiste Balthazar [231] was born on 11 Feb 1810 in St-Mathias-Sur-Richelieu, Rouville, Quebec and died on 26 Jan 1819 in Quebec at age 8.
  ix. Amable Balthazar [232] was born on 4 Dec 1811 in St-Mathias-Sur-Richelieu, Rouville, Quebec and died on 18 Jan 1812 in Quebec.

204. Louis Jette [650],35 son of Nicolas Jette [674] and Marie-Francoise Benoit [657], was born on 3 Mar 1753 in Longueuil, Chambly Co., PQ, Canada, died on 28 Dec 1799 in St.Mathias, Pointe-Oliver at age 46, and was buried on 29 Dec 1799 in St.Mathias, Pointe-Oliver. Other names for Louis were Louis Chetay,36 Louis Chete,36 Louis Chette,36 and Louis Gette.36

baptised: 4 Mar 1753, St.Antoine-DE-Pades, Longueuil, Chambly Co., PQ, Canada.

Louis married Marie Davignon [648]37 [MRIN: 32497] on 28 Jan 1788 in St.Antoine-DE-Pade, Longueuil.

Children from this marriage were:

102 i. Amable Jette [541]
  ii. Louis Jette [638] was born on 6 Jun 1790 in Longueuil, Chambly Co., PQ, Canada. Another name for Louis was Louis Chette.36
  iii. Alexis Jette [645] was born on 24 Jun 1792 in Chambly. Another name for Alexis was Alexis Jete.36
  iv. Marie Jette [639] was born on 11 Feb 1794 in Longueuil, Chambly Co., PQ, Canada.
  v. Anonyme Jette [640] was born on 9 Dec 1795 in Longueuil, died on 9 Dec 1795 in Longueuil, and was buried on 9 Dec 1795 in Longueuil.
  vi. Toussaint Jette [643] was born on 29 Oct 1796 in St.Mathias, Pointe-Oliver. Another name for Toussaint was Toussaint Chete.36
  vii. Marie-Anne Jette [644] was born on 16 Aug 1798 in St.Mathias, Pointe-Oliver.
  viii. Augustin Jette [632] was born between 1787 and 1799.

205. Marie Davignon [648],37 daughter of Amable^ Davignon [642] and Marie^ Lamoureux [641]. Other names for Marie are Marie Beauregard Dit Davignon, Marie Beauregard Dit Davignon,18 Marie Cavignon,36 Marie Darignon,36 and Marie Davignon Dit Beauregard.35

Marie married Louis Jette [650]35 [MRIN: 32497] on 28 Jan 1788 in St.Antoine-DE-Pade, Longueuil.

206. Andre Chalaux [536] .

Andre married Marie-Agathe Balthazor [267]9 [MRIN: 144] on 3 Mar 1783 in St Mathias, Canada.9

Marriage Notes: Reference Number:321418

The child from this marriage was:

103 i. Marguerite Chalaux [540]

Andre next married Marie-Agathe Balthazor [267]9 [MRIN: 500919643].

The child from this marriage was:

103 i. Marguerite Chalaux [540]

207. Marie-Agathe Balthazor [267],9 daughter of Martin Balthazor Dit St Martin [259] and Marie-Marguerite Joubert [260], was born on 24 Jul 17679 and died WFT Est 1789-18619 at age 22.

Marie-Agathe married Andre Chalaux [536] [MRIN: 144] on 3 Mar 1783 in St Mathias, Canada.9

Marie-Agathe next married Andre Chalaux [536] [MRIN: 500919643].

224. Henry Neer [770], son of Conrad Neer [776] and Nancy Neer [775], was born about 1748 in VA Or Germany and died on 3 Feb 1828 in Catawba, Clark Co, OH about age 80.

Henry married Susanna Potts [774] [MRIN: 342] in 1774.

Marriage Notes: _STATMARRIED

Children from this marriage were:

112 i. John Neer [767]
  ii. Ann (Nancy Ann) Neer [766] was born in 1776 in Loudoun Virginia.
  iii. David Neer [765] was born about 1778 in Loudoun Virginia.
  iv. Henry Neer [764] was born on 19 Sep 1779 in Loudoun Virginia and died on 8 Feb 1853 at age 73.
  v. Barbara Neer [763] was born about 1782 in Loudoun Virginia.
  vi. Nathan Neer [762] was born on 17 Mar 1784 in Loudoun Virginia and died on 19 Aug 1865 at age 81.
  vii. Amos Neer [761] was born on 3 Mar 1787 in Loudoun Virginia and died on 25 Apr 1843 in Catawba, Clark Co, OH at age 56.
  viii. Catherine Neer [760] was born about 1792 in Loudoun Virginia.
  ix. Enos Neer [759] was born on 25 Nov 1796 in Loudoun Virginia.

225. Susanna Potts [774], daughter of David Potts [630] and Ann Roberts [629].

Susanna married Henry Neer [770] [MRIN: 342] in 1774.

236. John Bowlsby\Bowlby [129],38 son of Samuel Bowlsby [132] and Elizabeth Dunn [133], was born about 1760 in Imlaydale, Sussex Co., NJ and died in 1800 in Mansfield Twp., Sussex Co., NJ39 about age 40.

John married Mary Harriman [130]40 [MRIN: 90] in 1781.41

Marriage Notes: Early family historians, and DAR lineages concur in that he was born in or near Imlaydale, Sussex County, New Jersey, around 1760. His father’s prerogative count records establish that he was the eldest son, that he lived until his death upon a farm owned by his father. Depositions given in 1825 indicate that he may have died as early as 1800, but certainly before 10 December, 1819, when the farm upon which he lived was leased to his son, John S. BOWLBY. William J. HILL and other family historians accept that John was first married in 1781 to MARY HARRIMAN, daughter of John and Sarah (PRICE) HARRIMAN, born 29 December, 1765, Rockaway, now Denville, New Jersey. "Harriman Family History in New Jersey," and DAR lineages indicate that a child, Samuel Barker, was born of this marriage in 1782. The above historians say that Mary died and was buried at Rockaway, but give no date. Counter to this is the fact that "Mary BOWLSBY, wife of John BOWLSBY" appears in the settlement of John HARRIMAN’s estate, administration granted 19 June, 1806, establishing that Mary (HARRIMAN) BOWLSBY was living at that time. Yet, John is said to have married secondly MARY LANNING, born in 1760 at Imlaydale, New Jersey, before their first son was born in 1786. John could not have had two wives living at the same time. Cordelia KELLY, family historian, and a descendant of this line, gives the names of eight children born to John and Mary LANNING excluding Samuel, who she indicates was the son of Mary HARRIMAN: Joseph Lanning, Henry, James, John S., Martha, Elizabeth, Jamina, and Mary. As heirs apparent through son John, deceased, five sons are named in Samuel BOWLBY’s prerogative court records in the following order: Joseph L., John S., Henry, Samuel, and James. This may not indicate order of birth, because the first three were living in New Jersey, whereas Samuel and James were probably living in Pennsylvania at the time of their father’s death. Though John’s first marriage may be disputable, the fact that John had a son, Samuel, is not, because Samuel and his wife, Hulda, were living in Turkeyfoot Township, Somerset County, Pennsylvania, 15 March, 1825, when they disposed of his part of his grandfather’s land. The names of John’s nine children remain intact.

The child from this marriage was:

  i. Samuel Barker Bowlby [128] was born on 5 Jul 1782 in Sussex Co., NJ, died in 1846 in Murphysboro, Jackson Co., IL at age 64, and was buried in Halladay Cem., Murphysboro, Jackson Co., IL.

John next married Mary Lanning [131]40 [MRIN: 91] about 1786.42

Children from this marriage were:

  i. Joseph Lanning Bowlby [182] was born on 24 May 1787 in New Hampton, Hunterdon Co., NJ, died on 10 Jul 1873 in New Hampton, Hunterdon Co., NJ at age 86, and was buried in Musconetcong Valley Presby. Church, NJ.
  ii. Henry Bowlby [198] was born in Sussex Co., NJ and died in Somerset Co., PA.
  iii. John S. Bowlby [197] was born on 29 Jun 1792 in Sussex Co., NJ, died on 6 Apr 1862 at age 69, and was buried in Musconetcong Valley, Warren Co., NJ.
118 iv. James Bowlby [183]
  v. Martha Bowlby [199]
  vi. Elizabeth Bowlby [200] was born in Sussex Co., NJ and died in Somerset Co., PA.
  vii. Jemina Bowlby [201] was born in Sussex Co., NJ.
  viii. Mary Bowlby [202] was born in Sussex Co., NJ and died in Ohio.

237. Mary Lanning [131]40 was born in 1760 in Imlaydale, Sussex Co., NJ.

Mary married John Bowlsby [129]38 [MRIN: 91] about 1786.42

Ninth Generation (6th Great-Grandparents)

400. Jacques Goyette [288], son of Jacques Goyette [291] and Madeleine Plouffe [290], was born on 30 Nov 1741.

Jacques married Louise Laporte-Lebonte [289] [MRIN: 183].

The child from this marriage was:

200 i. Francois Goyette [286]

401. Louise Laporte-Lebonte [289] was born circa 1742.

Louise married Jacques Goyette [288] [MRIN: 183].

404. Martin Balthazor Dit St Martin [259],9 son of Jean Balthazard [272] and Margurite Daille [273], was born in 1730 in St Maurice, France,9 died on 29 Sep 1797 in St Mathias, Canada9 at age 67, and was buried on 1 Oct 1797 in St Mathias, Canada.9

General Notes: Robert Knight (RobertK464@aol.com) reports: "I also trace my ancestry back to Martin Balthazar dit Saint Martin who came to French Canada with the Army of France in 1755.  He sailed on the ship Actif.  He fought in the Battle of the Plains of Abraham (Quebec, Montcalm and Wolfe) and along with many soldiers settled in French Canada."

Martin married Marie-Marguerite Joubert [260]9 [MRIN: 127] on 30 Jun 1761 in St Denis, Canada.9

Marriage Notes: Reference Number:318976

Children from this marriage were:

  i. Martin-Hyacinthe Balthazor [264] was born on 10 Mar 1763 in St Denis, Canada,9 was christened on 11 Mar 1763,9 died on 17 May 1763 in St Denis, Canada,9 and was buried on 17 May 1763 in St Denis, Canada.9
  ii. Marie-Marguerite Balthazor [265] was born on 25 Jun 1764 in St Hyacinthe, Canada,9 was christened on 1 Aug 1764,9 and died WFT Est 1787-18589 at age 23.
  iii. Jean-Baptiste Balthazor [266] was born on 6 May 1766 in St Hyacinthe, Canada,9 was christened on 25 Dec 1766 in St Denis, Canada,9 died on 8 Apr 1824 in St Mathias, Canada9 at age 57, and was buried on 10 Apr 1824 in St Mathias, Canada.9
207 iv. Marie-Agathe Balthazor [267]
202 v. Michel-Amable Balthazor Dit St Martin [234]
  vi. Marie-Rose Balthazor [268] was born in 1770,9 died on 12 Jun 1784 in St Mathias, Canada9 at age 14, and was buried on 13 Jun 1784 in St Mathias, Canada.9
  vii. Louis Balthazor [269] was born on 9 Jan 1779 in St Mathias, Canada,9 was christened on 10 Jan 1779,9 and died WFT Est 1803-18709 at age 24.
  viii. Marie-Charlotte Balthazor [270] was born on 10 Sep 1780 in St Mathias, Canada,9 was christened on 11 Sep 1780,9 and died WFT Est 1805-18749 at age 25.
  ix. Martin Balthazor [271] was born on 11 Mar 1785 in St Mathias, Canada,9 was christened on 12 Mar 1785,9 died on 5 Jul 1795 in St Mathias, Canada9 at age 10, and was buried on 8 Jul 1795 in St Mathias, Canada.9 The cause of his death was drowned.9

405. Marie-Marguerite Joubert [260],9 daughter of Pierre Joubert [261] and Agathe Jarry [262], was born on 6 Mar 1743 in St Denis, Canada,9 was christened on 7 Mar 1743,9 died on 16 Apr 1809 in St Mathias, Canada9 at age 66, and was buried on 18 Apr 1809 in St Mathias, Canada.9

Marie-Marguerite married Martin Balthazor Dit St Martin [259]9 [MRIN: 127] on 30 Jun 1761 in St Denis, Canada.9

Marie-Marguerite next married Jean Labouri Dit Laroze [263]9 [MRIN: 140] on 24 Feb 1800.9

Marriage Notes: Reference Number:321367

406. Antoine Kinseler [236],9 son of Urbain Kinseler [364] and Marie Jacob [365], was born about 1746 in Metz, Moselle, France,9 died about 11 Sep 1809 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada9 about age 63, and was buried on 14 Sep 1809 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

General Notes: Source: David W. Agar, Orleans, Ontario, genealogical researcher, (16 Sep 1997)

Antoine KINSLER was buried 14 September 1809. (Index Relie, Sepultures Catholiques, Notre-Dame-de-Montreal: 1642-1850 (ANQ microfilm #MFM1697))

Source: David W. Agar, (16 Sep 1997) In Loiselle’s index, the marriage entry for Antoine KINSELER appears as follows: Kinseler, Antoine (Urbain (Metz en Lorraine) Marie Jacob), Jalteau, Jalotte (Jacques, Josephte Robidoux) 1768 - 30 / 5 Montreal N. D.

Fact 4: : Urbain M. Jacob.

Fact 5: : DE St-Avaux Dioc. Du Mets En Lorraine (France).

Fact 6: 4 May 1997, S. David W. Agar, Orleans, Ontario, Genealogy.

Fact 7: 4 May 1997, Researcher.

Fact S.: 9 Jul 1999, (Afn: 1H4x-Wvc) Www.Familysearch.Org.

Fact 1: 15 Aug 1999, (Afn: 1Q1x-Wcf) Www.Family.Search.Org.

Fact 12: : (1H4x-Wvc) Www.Familysearch.Org (2 Oct 1999).

Fact 22: : Zs. (26 Aug 2000) (Internet) Database Of Jacques And Robert L’heureux; Reached Through Http://Freepages.Genealogy.Rootsweb.Com/~Lheureux.

Antoine married Marie-Josephte Jalteau [237]9 [MRIN: 128] on 30 May 1768 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.9

Marriage Notes: Reference Number:318983

Children from this marriage were:

  i. Marguerite Kinseler [88] was born in 1771 in Montreal, Quebec and died on an unknown date in Unknown.
203 ii. Marie-Catherine Kinseler [235]
  iii. Nicolas Kinseler [90] was born on 28 Feb 1777 in Montreal, Quebec and died on an unknown date in Unknown.
  iv. Marie-Angelique Kinseler [91] was born about 1779 in Montreal, Quebec, died about 15 Jan 1806 in Montreal, Quebec about age 27, and was buried on 18 Jan 1806 in Montreal, Quebec.
  v. Jean Kinseler [105] was born on 5 Apr 1782 in Montreal, Quebec and died on an unknown date in Unknown.
  vi. Marie-Anne Kinseler [92] was born about 1784 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada and died on an unknown date in Unknown. Another name for Marie-Anne was Marie-Anne Kenseler.
  vii. Elizabeth Kinseler [18] was born on 7 Aug 1784 in Montreal, Quebec, died on 23 Aug 1858 in Vaudreuil, Quebec at age 74, and was buried on 26 Aug 1858 in Vaudreuil, Quebec. Another name for Elizabeth was Isabelle Kinseler.
  viii. Francois Xavier Kinseler [93] was born on 31 Oct 1788 in Montreal, Quebec and died on an unknown date in Unknown.
  ix. Marie-Amable Kinseler [94] was born about 7 Oct 1790 in Montreal, Quebec and died on an unknown date in Unknown.
  x. Amable Kinseler [95] was born about 1792 in Montreal, Quebec and died on an unknown date in Unknown.

407. Marie-Josephte Jalteau [237],9 daughter of Jacques Jalateau [82] and Marie-Josephe Robidoux [83], was born on 10 Apr 1748 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada9 and died on an unknown date in Unknown.9 Another name for Marie-Josephte was Marie Jaltot.

General Notes: Source (19 Jun 1997) David W. Agar, Geneaological Researcher, Orleans, Ontario: Marie Joseph JANETTO was baptised 11 April 1748, daughter of Jacques JANETTO and Marie Josephe ROBIDOU. Marie Joseph was born 10 April 1748. The godfather was Etienne Girou, soldat; the godmother Francoise Jousse. (Notre-Dame-de-Montreal, B391, PRDH)

Fact 2: : A/K/A Josephte Jalteau.

Fact 3: : A/K/A Charlotte Jalteau.

Fact 4: : A/K/A Marie Julteau.

Fact 5: : Jacques M.-Jos. Robidoux.

Fact 6: 4 May 1997, S. David W. Agar, Orleans, Ontario, Genealogy.

Fact 7: 4 May 1997, Researcher.

Fact 11: : A/K/A Josephte Jalateau.

baptised: 11 Apr 1748, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

Fact S.: 9 Jul 1999, (Afn: 1H4x-Wrq) Www.Familysearch.Org.

Fact 1: 15 Aug 1999, (Afn: 1Q1x-Zhl) Www.Family.Search.Org.

Fact 22: : Zs. (26 Aug 2000) (Internet) Database Of Jacques And Robert L’heureux; Reached Through Http://Freepages.Genealogy.Rootsweb.Com/~Lheureux.

Fact 16: : S. (10 Sep 2000) (Internet) Database Of Jacques And Robert L’heureux; Reached Through Http://Freepages.Genealogy.Rootsweb.Com/~Lheureux.

Marie-Josephte married Antoine Kinseler [236]9 [MRIN: 128] on 30 May 1768 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.9

408. Nicolas Jette [674],36 son of Nicolas Jette [647] and Antoinette-Catherine Giard [685], was born on 8 Aug 1700 in Montreal, died on 21 May 1771 in Longueuil at age 70, and was buried on 22 May 1771 in Longueuil. Other names for Nicolas were Nicolas Chetay36 and Nicolas Chette.36

Nicolas married Marie-Catherine Richard [673]36 [MRIN: 38204], daughter of Unknown and Unknown, on 3 Feb 1728 in Longue-Pointe.

Children from this marriage were:

  i. Nicolas Jette [664] was born on 18 Jun 1729 in Longue-Pointe. Another name for Nicolas was Nicolas Chette.36
  ii. Joseph Jette [662] was born on 10 Mar 1731 in Longue-Pointe.
  iii. Jacques Jette [661] was born on 29 Aug 1732 in Longue-Pointe, died about 2 May 1733 in Longue-Pointe, and was buried on 2 May 1733 in Longue-Pointe.
  iv. Jean-Baptiste Jette [660] was born on 4 Aug 1734 in Longue-Pointe. Another name for Jean-Baptiste was Jean-Baptiste Chette.36
  v. Amable Jette [659] was born on 29 Feb 1736 in St.Antoine-DE-Pades, Longueuil, Chambly Co., PQ, Canada, died about 16 Feb 1799 about age 62, and was buried on 16 Feb 1799 in St.Antoine-DE-Pades, Longueuil, Chambly Co., PQ, Canada.
  vi. Francois Jette [658] was born on 8 May 1737 in Longueuil, Chambly Co., PQ, Canada, died on 3 Jun 1737 in Montreal, and was buried on 4 Jun 1737 in Montreal. Another name for Francois was Francois Jette.

Nicolas next married Marie-Francoise Benoit [657]36 [MRIN: 32348] on 6 Jun 1743 in Logueuil.

Children from this marriage were:

  i. Francois-Marie Jette [656] was born on 29 Mar 1744 in Longueuil, Chambly Co., PQ, Canada, died about 10 Jun 1744 in Longueuil, Chambly Co., PQ, Canada, and was buried on 10 Jun 1744 in St.Antoine-DE-Pades, Longueuil, Chambly Co., PQ, Canada.
  ii. Marie-Francoise Jette [655] was born on 15 Aug 1745 in Longueuil, Chambly Co., PQ, Canada. Another name for Marie-Francoise was Marie Jette.36
  iii. Antoine Jette [654] was born on 29 Nov 1746 in St.Antoine-DE-Pades, Longueuil, Chambly Co., PQ, Canada, died on 23 Dec 1771 in Longueuil, Chambly Co., PQ, Canada at age 25, and was buried on 24 Dec 1771 in St.Antoine-DE-Pades, Longueuil, Chambly Co., PQ, Canada.
  iv. Marie-Louise Jette [653] was born on 2 Mar 1748 in Longueuil, Chambly Co., PQ, Canada. Another name for Marie-Louise was Louise Chette.36
  v. Toussaint Jette [652] was born on 28 Oct 1749 in Longueuil, Chambly Co., PQ, Canada, died on 12 Aug 1750 in Longueuil, Chambly Co., PQ, Canada, and was buried on 13 Aug 1750 in St.Antoine-DE-Pades, Longueuil, Chambly Co., PQ, Canada.
  vi. Etienne Jette [651] was born on 24 Mar 1752 in Longueuil, Chambly Co., PQ, Canada. Other names for Etienne were Etienne Chetay,36 Etienne Chete,36 Etienne Chette,36 Adrien Jette, and Etienne^ Jette.
204 vii. Louis Jette [650]
  viii. Michel Jette [649] was born on 29 Sep 1756 in Longueuil, Chambly Co., PQ, Canada. Other names for Michel were Michel Chetay36 and Michel Chette.36

409. Marie-Francoise Benoit [657],36 daughter of Laurent Benoit [637] and Marie-Francoise Marguerite Tetreau [636], was born on 24 Apr 1716 in Longueuil. Other names for Marie-Francoise were Marie Benoist, Marie-Francoise Benoist,36 Francoise Benoit Dit Livernois, Marie-Francoise Benoit Dit Livernois,36 Elisabeth Levenois,36 Francoise Livernois,36 and Francoise Yvernoie.36

Marie-Francoise married Nicolas Jette [674]36 [MRIN: 32348] on 6 Jun 1743 in Logueuil.

410. Amable^ Davignon [642] .36

Amable^ married Marie^ Lamoureux [641]36 [MRIN: 42017].

The child from this marriage was:

205 i. Marie Davignon [648]

411. Marie^ Lamoureux [641] .36

Marie^ married Amable^ Davignon [642]36 [MRIN: 42017].

414. Martin Balthazor Dit St Martin [259],9 son of Jean Balthazard [272] and Margurite Daille [273], was born in 1730 in St Maurice, France,9 died on 29 Sep 1797 in St Mathias, Canada9 at age 67, and was buried on 1 Oct 1797 in St Mathias, Canada.9

(Duplicate. See Person 404)

415. Marie-Marguerite Joubert [260],9 daughter of Pierre Joubert [261] and Agathe Jarry [262], was born on 6 Mar 1743 in St Denis, Canada,9 was christened on 7 Mar 1743,9 died on 16 Apr 1809 in St Mathias, Canada9 at age 66, and was buried on 18 Apr 1809 in St Mathias, Canada.9

(Duplicate. See Person 405)

448. Conrad Neer [776] was born about 1710 in Germany Or PA and died about 1790 in Loudoun Virginia about age 80.

General Notes: Conrad Neer Sr and Jr purchased 96 acres of land in Shelbourne Parish in Loudoun County, VA in 1787. There is a crossroad village of Neersville, 5 miles from Harpers Ferry. Our late cousin, Warren Edger Everhart wrote that 17 families of Neers, all related, left Loudoun County, VA from 1805 to 1920 and settled in Champaign and Clark counties in OH. Information from "Neer Kindred" by James Roger Gammon, Natalie Neer Smith, Marain F. Case, Eric, Conrad, Mahlon Neer and others.

ancestry.com lists a marriage record for Conrad to Nancy (?) in Virginia, but cites a secondary source database, so this information still needs to be verified.

Als it is noted that Boyer’s Passenger list, p 40 lists:

Philipp Naher, wife Sophie Hujet, to America 1741

Philipp Nair, to America, 1742, in Rupp, p152

Phillipp Nair to America, 1741, Strassburger, 1,320

Conrad married Nancy Neer [775] [MRIN: 332] about 1745 in VA.

Children from this marriage were:

  i. Barbara Neer [773]
  ii. Elizabeth Neer [772]
  iii. Sarah Neer [771]
  iv. Philip Neer [778] was born about 1746 in Germany Or PA and died in Champaign, OH.
224 v. Henry Neer [770]
  vi. John Neer [769] was born about 1750 in Loudoun Virginia.
  vii. Conrad Neer [768] was born about 1752 and died on 26 Jul 1829 between 1815 And 1818 about age 77.

449. Nancy Neer [775] died in Neersville, Loudoun Co, VA.

Nancy married Conrad Neer [776] [MRIN: 332] about 1745 in VA.

450. David Potts [630], son of Jonas Potts [616] and Mary Unknown [615], was born in 1700 in Germantown, PA and died on 1 May 1768 in Loudon Co., VA at age 68.

General Notes: David POTTS was born about 1700 in Germantown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He d ied on May 1 1768 in Loudoun Co., Virginia. The Potts Family in American, 1901, T. M. Potts page 226 - was born about the year 1700, as nearly as can be estim ated. He was without doubt the son of Jonas and Mary Potts, of Philadelphia Cou nty, Pennsylvania, though no record of birth has been found. All the traditions and statements of aged members of differenet lines of the family point to that conclusion. These allegations, summed up, may be included in the following. Th e Potts family came to Pennsylvania from Wales - some allege, with William Penn . They lived at or about Pottsgrove, where their ancestor owned a plantation to which the Viriginia descendants were heirs. (NOTE: Jonas Potts owned and occup ied a farm in Gilberts Manor, which adjoined Pottsgrove. It is not certain that he ever secured a full title to this land, and no deed of conveyance from him or his legal representatives has been found. Such a tradition might easily grow from such a foundation). One tradition, in a collateral line, alleges that Jon ah or Jonas Potts came to Pennsylvania from Wales. Another tradition alleges th at the Potts’ were driven from Wales by reason of religious oppression.

The first notice of David Potts is as subscribing witness to the marriage certifica tes of the two daughters of Jonas Potts in 1719. (See pages 227 and 229, ante.) The "Pennsylvania Gazette," of May 27, 1731, contains the following advertisem ent.

"Run away from David Potts, as Socken above the Great Swamp, (NOTE: The Great Swamp was a marshy tract of land in the upper end of Bucks County, inclu ding the village of Quakertown. Saucon is the name of a creek emptying from the south-west into the Lehigh River, a few miles below Bethlehem. Before the year 1730, some Philadelphia speculators bought up large tracts of the rich lands i n the Saucon valley and sold it out in smaller parcels. It seems quite likely t hat David Potts was then living in the Saucon Valley, within limits of either t he present Lehigh or Northampton County). A Servant Boy named John Williams, ab out seventeen Years of Age, of swarthy complexion, has black Hair, and two Mold s on his Forehead. Had on a brown linsey-woolsey Jacket, Leather Breehes, a pai r of Shoe packs, and Stockings footed White. He is supposed to have with him a Big Bay Horse, with a Switch Tail, and a Star in the Forehead, a helf crop and a half penny in the Ear, and branded on the near Shoulder I P with a Dagger, ov er it. Whoever secures him and gives notice to George Shoemaker, Innkeeper, in Philadelphia, so that his Master may have him again, shall have Forty Shillings Reward, and Reasonable Charges paid, by DAVID POTTS."

The brand I P may have been the initials of Jonas Potts, who probably contributed to his son’s start in life.

David Potts removed to Virginia, but at what time is not clear. On e person gave the date as 1735. In 1881, Eliza (Potts) Neer, then above 80 year s of age, said that David Potts, her great-grandfather, on coming to Viginia, f irst settled in Jefferson County, where Cabletown now stands, and that his firs t wife died there. If this statement be true, then it is probable that the date named is substantially correct. It is however quite certain that he was in Fai rfax County in 1746, when he leased a tract of land from Catesby Cocke, for fiv e shillings in hand paid, with power to purchase. The lease was dated, November 16, 1746, and covered a tract of 866 acres on Kittockton Run, in Fairfax Count y. The annual rental was one ear of Indain corn. Subsequently Catesby Cocke and Mary, his wife, conveyed the same by deed to David Potts, who is therein descr ibed as yeoman. (Note: These abstracts have been taken from the Land Office rec ords of Fairfax County, Virginia.)

On June 9, 1747, David Potts leased for one year, 333 acres, part of this same tract, to William Williams, at an a nnual rental of one ear of Indian corn. Subsequen

David married Ann Roberts [629] [MRIN: 500919593].

Marriage Notes: _STATMARRIED

Children from this marriage were:

  i. Nathan Potts [631] died in 1909 in Loudon Co., VA.
  ii. Samuel Potts [628] died in 1801 in Loudon Co., VA.
  iii. David Potts [627] was born on 11 Apr 1738 in Loudon Co., VA and died on 17 Oct 1809 in VA at age 71.
  iv. Ezekiel Potts [626] was born on 8 Jan 1743 in Loudon Co, VA and died on 16 Jan 1809 in Loudon Co, VA at age 66.
  v. Jane Potts [625] was born in 1746 and died in 1788 at age 42.
  vi. Elizabeth Potts [624]
225 vii. Susanna Potts [774]
  viii. Rachel Potts [623]

David next married Elizabeth Jane Lane [622] [MRIN: 500919604].

Marriage Notes: _STATMARRIED

Children from this marriage were:

  i. Jonas Potts [621] was born in 1726 in Germantown, Philadelphia, PA and died on 15 Aug 1769 in Loudon Co., VA at age 43.
  ii. Jonathan Potts [620] was born in Germantown, PA and died in Loudon Co., VA.
  iii. Ann Potts [619] was born in Germantown, PA.
  iv. Mary Potts [618] was born in Germantown, PA.
  v. Christian Potts [617]

451. Ann Roberts [629] .

Ann married David Potts [630] [MRIN: 500919593].

472. Samuel Bowlsby\Bowlby [132],43 son of John M. Bowlby Sr. [134] and Mary Laning [135], was born in 1735 in Burlington, Burlington Co., NJ and died in 1823 in Imlaydale, Sussex Co., NJ at age 88.

General Notes:

Samuel was the first of three sons named in his father’s will signed 7 DEC 1779 and received a third of his father’s land when the will was probated in 1782. According to a history of the HARRIMAN family of New Jersey quoted in OUR BOWLBY Kin, Volume 1, compiled by June B. BAREKMA, Samuel was born in 1735, Burlington, NJ, died 12 1823, Imlaydale, Sussex Co., NJ, married Elizabeth DUNN prior to 1760, who died prior to 1823. On the other hand, PATRIOTIC INDEX of the D.A.R. gives: "Samuel BOWLSBY, 1730-1810, pvt., NJ, Rev. W., married Betsey DURAN." Adding to confusion, family historians, Cordelia KELLY and Eva Crumbaugh GRIZZELLE, give the name of Samuel’s wife as Elizabeth DAVIS, and state that he died in 1805 or 1810, and that he was buried in the graveyard that his father deeded to the Mansfield Presbyterian Church in 1765. Samuel’s father lived in Springfield Twp., Burlington Co., from 1727 to 1737, so Samuel probably was born there. TRADITIONS OF HUNTERDON by John W. LEQUEAR states that Samuel and his brothers all lived to be over 80 years of age. Samuel’s estate was introduced into the Prerogative Court, Sussex Co., 22 Nov 1823, at which time it was stated that Samuel "... died in the month of November last past intestate seized of land and real estate, lying on both sides of the Musconetcong creek." Therefore, Samuel must have died in Nov 1822, and was over 80 years old even if he were born as late as 1741 or 1742. That Samuel married Elizabeth _____, there is no doubt, because they both signed as grantors in Hunterdon Co. land deeds as late as 1816. Since his wife is not mentioned in the prerogative proceedings, she must have died between 1816 and 1822. The prerogative court proceedings make clear that Samuel and Elizabeth had six children, and that they were born in the following order: John, Mary, Hannah, Sarah, Ann, and Samuel.

At the time of his death, Samuel held land described as "... the farm in the counties of Hunterdon and Sussex on both sides of the Musconetcong River, containing two hundred and fifty acres more or less, and also the farm situate in the county of Sussex near the village of Washington, containing one hundred and seventy-five acres more or less..." A quitclaim on 3 Nov 1801, for 35 acres from Samuel BOWLBY (8) to Henry DUSENBERY reveals that at that time Samuel owned practically all of what is today New Hampton with exception to the six acres bequeathed in his father’s will to assorted grandchildren. These were the lands that fell in dispute in 1823. A manuscript map by D, Stanton HAMMOND of Hunterdon County drawn from early deeds shows that Samuel held a fifty acre tract before his father’s death that lay along the south bank of the Musconetcong River in the vicinity of New Hampton in Hunterdon County. The land inherited from his father is said to have included the family grist mill at Imlaydale on the north bank of the Musconetcong River in Syssex, now Warren County.

Information on Samuel’s life is not at all clear. There were several members of the BOWLBY family named Samuel living in the general area at the same time, and records as well as family traditions became confused. Samuel probably operated the family mill at Omlaydale until it was sold to Thomas STEWART, then later to Noab CRAMER. D.A.R. has accepted lineages of Samuel’s descendants under the service record of "Samuel BOWLSBY" who, according to Stryker’s OFFICIAL REGISTER OF OFFICERS AND MEN OF NEW JERSEY, served as a private in Captain Jacob STULL’s company, Second Regiment, Sussex Co., New Jersey militia, and the Continental line as a captain under Colonel Aaron HANKINSON. TRADITIONS OF HUNTERDON by John W. LEQUEAR states: "Samuel BOWLBY was an officer in the expedition that was sent to Wilkes-Barre after the massacre in Wyoming. The party had to cut their way through forests. Joseph H. BOWLBY had his father’s commission for a number of years." Since Samuel had no son named Joseph, the Joseph H. BOWLBY referred to in this quote, and later described, must have been Jospeh Lanning BOWLBY, son of Samuel’s son, John. The massacre at Wyoming, PA, occurred in July, 1778, when Samuel was around 43 years old. Samuel’s military record appears to be contradicted in an excerpt from NEW JERSEY AS A ROYAL PROVINCE by Edgar J. FISHER:

"County committees reported to the Provincial Congress those persons

who were unfriendly to the articles of association. Non-associates were

directed to be disarmed and give security for their future behavior. After

their refusal to join the association had led to their disarmament, they were

fined for not attending the military reviews properly accounted. Charges

were proffered against Christopher HARRISON by the committee of

Bethlehem, Hunterdon Co. His case was examined and considered by

the Provincial Congress, and HARRISON was ordered to pay costs, be

disarmed and give £50 security for good behavior. The county jail was to

be his abode until he complied with those conditions. Similar judgements

were returned against Samuel BOWLSBY and Dr. Andrew McCLINCY of

Sussex Co. ..."

This would indicate that Samuel was of Loyalist persuasion. Further doubt is cast upon Samuel’s reputation as a soldier of the American Revolution when a search of New Jersey records reveals:

"New Jersey Continental Line ... BOWLSBY, Samuel ... Newton ... Sussex ... MSS,

Number 3660 ... A list of the Recruits raised for nine months out of the Second

Battalion of Sussex Co. Militia Commanded by Col. Aaron HANKINSON raised by

order of the State New Jersey, that is to say, - Sixth Company, Commanded by

Captain STULL 5 Class, Newton - Name, Samuel BOWLSBY, 5 feet, 9 inches,

aged 25 years."

The pay records attached to this record were addressed to Morris Co. on 3 May, 1784. The Samuel BOWLBY considered here was around 33 years old in 1778, so it can only be concluded the above records were for Samuel’s cousin, Samuel BOWLBY, fifth son of George BOWLBY (7), whose estimated birth was after 1737, probably in the middle to late 1740’s.

An overview of Samuel’s attitude during the war is given in a biographic sketch of Joseph I. BOWLSBY of Neligh, NE, who is believed to be a grandson through Samuel’s son, Samuel. Several items given in the sketch are of doubtful validity, but in light of what is now known of Samuel’s life, this has the ring of truth:

"His grandfather, Captain Samuel BOWLSBY. .. served for some time in the

militia, which was organized for protection against the Indians. When the

Revolutionary War broke out he resigned his position as an officer in the militia,

as he was too old to enter the service had he been so inclined. His sympathies

were with the British, as the sympathies of his family, still he took no active part

either way."

The following was sent to Cynthia BOWLBY from Melva CALAMAN on 12 NOV 2000:

Found the Prerogative Court Petition of the heirs of Samuel BOWLBY dated Nov. 1824 in my back pocket--Ray BOWLBY sent me a copy . It says that Samuel (8) died "in the month of November, 1822 (no age given )..leaving heirs at law to whom it (property) hath descended, to wit, Samuel BOWLBY, his son, entitled to one share. Hannah PIATT, wife of Benjamin PIATT, his daughter, entitled to one share. Mary LACY, widow of John LACEY dec’d. his daughter, entitled to one share. Joseph L. BOWLBY, John S. BOWLBY, Henry BOWLBY, Samuel BOWLBY and James BOWLBY, sons of John BOWLBY his son who was entitled to one share. Sally Martin HESS, wife of John Martin HESS his daughter who was entitled to one share. Samuel LACEY, Elizabeth MORSE late LACEY, wife of Robert MORSE, and Mary LACEY, a minor, children of Ann LACEY deceased who was the wife of Garret LACEY and daughter of said Samuel BOWLBY deceased and entitled to one share of his said real estate." Also states that the property is "clear of all debt and that the said real estate is not depreciating in value".

The following was supplied by James LEMING on 23 AUG 2001:

Samuel BOWLSBY appears to have seen

military service in the New Jersey Militia, at least early on in the

Revolutionary War.

After reading your notes, I realize how difficult it is to get a clear

picture of Samuel BOWLSBY’S vital information and his involvement in

the War effort. As did his own family (in which he was a child and

grandchild), I can see where Samuel BOWLSBY might have had leanings as

a Loyalist--but at the same time being a Rebel.

Samuel BOWLSBY was the grandson of Thomas BOWLBY, born 1665. Three of

Thomas’ sons, John, George and Richard came to America. We know that

Richard remained a loyalist. I’m Not sure about George, but do know

that his sons Edward and Richard both fought for the British and that

his son John probably also sympathized with them.

The status of John BOWLBY, the father of our Samuel BOWLSBY, is not

clear, but although he may have been sympathetic toward the British,

he does not seem to have been active in supporting them as did his

brothers, Richard and George.

One account (source named later) which we believe is referring to

their brother, John, states: "Richard’s brother (name not stated),

although a Loyalist, remained in New Jersey throughout and after the

War with his wife and children, who were ’Rebels’." One of these

"Rebels" would have been my ancestor, Samuel BOWLSBY.

The information which I have presented here comes from the

publication, "The Loyalists of New Jersey in The Revolution," pp.

31-32, 88, 262-263. My apologies for at this time not providing a

more complete description of this publication. I made use of this

book in the Orlando Public Library at Orlando, Florida.

My purpose in writing you is hopefully to give a clearer picture of

Samuel BOWLSBY’S situation during the Revolutionary War and to more

accurately determine his War record. Might this also give us a lead

as to actually which was his wife’s family--DUNN, DURAN or DAVIS? Who

were the patriots bearing these respective names?

Cordelia Carbaugh KELLY goes as far as naming the father of Samuel

BOWLSBY’S wife. She states:

"He married Elizabeth DAVIS of Nottingham, Greewich, N.J. and she died

in Warren Co., N.J. Her father was Jonathan DAVIS." I’ve done no

follow up on this.

My BOWLBY ancestry descending from Samuel BOWLSBY is through his son

John and his first wife, Mary HARRIMAN; their son Samuel Barker BOWLBY

and through his daughter Mary Ann Bowlby CARBAUGH; continuing through

Martha E. Carbaugh RICHARDS, Ada Ann Richards WELCH and Viola Welch

LEMING, my mother.

Samuel married Elizabeth Dunn [133]44 [MRIN: 92] before 1760.

Children from this marriage were:

236 i. John Bowlsby [129]
  ii. Mary Ann Bowlby [177]
  iii. Hannah Bowlby [178] was born on 10 May 176545 and died on 30 Mar 184246 at age 76.
  iv. Ann Bowlby [180] was born about 4 Dec 1768,47 died on 18 Feb 181647 about age 47, and was buried in Bowlby Cem., Imlaydale, NJ.47
  v. Sarah Bowlby [179] was born in 1765 in Mansfield Twp., Sussex Co., NJ and died on 28 Dec 1851 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia Co., PA at age 86.
  vi. Samuel Bowlby [181] was born on 6 Mar 1770 in Sussex Co., NJ and died after 1827 in Fayette Or Somerset Co., PA.

473. Elizabeth Dunn\Davis [133]44 died between 1816 and 1822.

AKA.39 Betsey DUNN

AKA.48 Betsey DUREN

Elizabeth married Samuel Bowlsby [132]43 [MRIN: 92] before 1760.

Tenth Generation (7th Great-Grandparents)

800. Jacques Goyette [291], son of Jacques Goyette [293] and Catherine Foisy [292], was born on 12 Mar 1718.

Jacques married Madeleine Plouffe [290] [MRIN: 184].

The child from this marriage was:

400 i. Jacques Goyette [288]

801. Madeleine Plouffe [290] was born circa 1720.

Madeleine married Jacques Goyette [291] [MRIN: 184].

808. Jean Balthazard [272]9 was born WFT Est 1679-17089 and died WFT Est 1733-17939 at age 54.

Jean married Margurite Daille [273]9 [MRIN: 139] WFT Est 1705-1748 in St Maurice, France.9

Marriage Notes: Reference Number:321354

The child from this marriage was:

404 i. Martin Balthazor Dit St Martin [259]

809. Margurite Daille [273]9 was born WFT Est 1688-17119 and died WFT Est 1733-17999 at age 45.

Margurite married Jean Balthazard [272]9 [MRIN: 139] WFT Est 1705-1748 in St Maurice, France.9

810. Pierre Joubert [261]9 was born WFT Est 1692-17219 and died WFT Est 1746-18069 at age 54.

Pierre married Agathe Jarry [262]9 [MRIN: 141] WFT Est 1718-1761.9

Marriage Notes: Reference Number:321368

The child from this marriage was:

405 i. Marie-Marguerite Joubert [260]

811. Agathe Jarry [262]9 was born WFT Est 1701-17249 and died WFT Est 1746-18129 at age 45.

Agathe married Pierre Joubert [261]9 [MRIN: 141] WFT Est 1718-1761.9

812. Urbain Kinseler [364] was born in 1718 in Metz, Moselle, France and died in 1742 in Metz, Moselle, France at age 24.

Fact S.: 9 Jul 1999, (Afn: 1H4x-Wsx) Www.Familysearch.Org.

Urbain married Marie Jacob [365] [MRIN: 214] about 1742 in Prob Metz, Moselle, France.

The child from this marriage was:

406 i. Antoine Kinseler [236]

813. Marie Jacob [365] was born in 1720 in Metz, Moselle, France and died on an unknown date in Unknown.

Fact S.: 9 Jul 1999, (Afn: 1H4x-Wt5) Www.Familysearch.Org.

Marie married Urbain Kinseler [364] [MRIN: 214] about 1742 in Prob Metz, Moselle, France.

814. Jacques Jalateau [82], son of Jacques Jalateau [84] and Claude David [85], was born about 1716 in France, Or Montreal, Quebec, Canada and died on an unknown date in Unknown. Another name for Jacques was Jacques Jalateaux.

General Notes: Source (19 Jun 1997) David W. Agar, Geneaological Researcher, Orleans, Ontario: Jacques JALETEAUX (son of Jacques JALETEAU and Claude DAVID) of the paroisse du Mais, diocese de la Rochelle, married 3 May 1741, in Notre-Dame-de-Montreal, Quebec, Marie Josephe ROBIDOU, born Longuieul, (daughter of Etienne ROBIDOU (deceased) and Madeleine LAROCHE). The witnesses were Jean Dumouchel, Etienne Balain, Charles Robidou, and Francois Binet. (Notre-Dame-de-Montreal, M391, PRDH)

Fact 2: : A/K/A B. In Montreal, Quebec.

Fact 3: 19 Jun 1997, S. David W. Agar, Genealogical Researcher.

Fact 4: 19 Jun 1997, Orleans, Ontario.

Fact 1: 15 Aug 1999, (Afn: 1Q1x-Zl7) Www.Family.Search.Org.

Fact 22: : S. (10 Sep 2000) (Internet) Database Of Jacques And Robert L’heureux; Reached Through Http://Freepages.Genealogy.Rootsweb.Com/~Lheureux.

Fact 1: : S. (20 Jul 2001) "Fayette And Emery Related Lines" Nancy Fayette Lamar; (Nancy_l_12972@Yahoo.Com) Taken From World Connect Project, Http://Worldconnect.Genealogy.Rootsweb.Com/.

Jacques married Marie-Josephe Robidoux [83] [MRIN: 51] on 3 May 1741 in Notre-Dame-DE-Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

Children from this marriage were:

  i. Jacques Jalateau [276] was born on 24 Mar 1742 in Montreal, Quebec and died on an unknown date in Unknown.
  ii. Pierre Jalateau [277] was born on 7 Apr 1743 in Montreal, Quebec and died on an unknown date in Unknown.
  iii. Jacques Jalateau [278] was born on 5 Nov 1744 in Montreal, Quebec and died on an unknown date in Unknown.
407 iv. Marie-Josephte Jalteau [237]
  v. Martail Jalateau [279] was born on 11 Apr 1748 in Montreal, Quebec and died on an unknown date in Unknown.

815. Marie-Josephe Robidoux [83], daughter of Etienne Robidoux [86] and Marie-Anne Laroche [87], was born on 21 Sep 1722 in Longueuil, Quebec, Canada, died on 3 Apr 1750 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada at age 27, and was buried on 4 Apr 1750 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Another name for Marie-Josephe was Josepte Rabideau.

General Notes: Source: David W. Agar, Orleans, Ontario, genealogical researcher, (4 Sep 1997)

Marie Josephe ROUBIDOU was baptised 22 Sept 1722, daughter of Etienne ROUBIDOU and Marie Anne LAROCHE. Marie Josephe was born 21 Sept 1722. The sponsors were Pierre COQUILLART and Marie LAROCHE. (S. St-Antoine-de-Longueuil, B102, PRDH)

Source: David W. Agar, (16 Sep 1997) Marie-Joseph ROBIDOU was buried 4 April 1750 (Index Relie, Sepultures Catholiques, Notre-Dame-de-Montreal: 1642-1850 (ANQ microfilm #MFM1697))

Fact 3: 19 Jun 1997, S. David W. Agar, Genealogical Researcher.

Fact 4: 19 Jun 1997, Orleans, Ontario.

Fact 5: : See Notes Under Jacques Jaleteaux.

Fact 1: 15 Aug 1999, (Afn: 1Q1x-Zpt) Www.Family.Search.Org.

Fact 22: : S. (10 Sep 2000) (Internet) Database Of Jacques And Robert L’heureux; Reached Through Http://Freepages.Genealogy.Rootsweb.Com/~Lheureux.

Fact 1: : S. (20 Jul 2001) "Fayette And Emery Related Lines" Nancy Fayette Lamar; (Nancy_l_12972@Yahoo.Com) Taken From World Connect Project, Http://Worldconnect.Genealogy.Rootsweb.Com/.

Marie-Josephe married Jacques Jalateau [82] [MRIN: 51] on 3 May 1741 in Notre-Dame-DE-Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

816. Nicolas Jette [647],49 son of Urbain* Jette [728] and Catherine* Charles [727], was born about 12 Oct 1663 in Montreal, was christened on 12 Oct 1663 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, died on 25 May 1733 in Montreal about age 69, and was buried on 26 May 1733 in Montreal.

Nicolas married Antoinette-Catherine Giard [685]50 [MRIN: 35952] on 20 Nov 1699 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

Children from this marriage were:

  i. Catherine Jette [684] was born about 10 Jul 1692 in Montreal.
  ii. Marie-Anne Jette [687] was born about 8 Aug 1694 in Montreal, died on 20 Aug 1766 in Montreal about age 72, and was buried on 21 Aug 1766 in Montreal.
  iii. Francoise Jette [689] was born on 1 Oct 1696 in Montreal.
  iv. Marie-Barbe Jette [646] was born on 1 Nov 1698 in Montreal.
408 v. Nicolas Jette [674]
  vi. Andre Jette [672] was born on 28 Aug 1702 in Montreal.
  vii. Anonyme Jette [671] was born on 24 Jan 1704 in Montreal.
  viii. Jean-Baptiste Jette [670] was born on 16 Jan 1705 in Montreal, died on 22 May 1778 in Montreal at age 73, and was buried on 24 May 1778 in Montreal.
  ix. Louis-Charles Jette [669] was born on 27 Feb 1707 in Montreal.
  x. Therese-Genevieve Jette [690] was born on 3 Apr 1709 in Montreal, died about 22 Sep 1742 about age 33, and was buried on 22 Sep 1742. Another name for Therese-Genevieve was Genevieve-Therese Jette.36
  xi. Pierre Jette [668] was born on 23 May 1711 in Montreal.
  xii. Etienne Jette [667] was born on 26 Feb 1713 in Montreal.
  xiii. Louis Jette [666] was born on 10 Jul 1714 in Montreal.
  xiv. Marie-Josephe Jette [665] was born on 31 Dec 1716 in Montreal.

817. Antoinette-Catherine Giard [685],50 daughter of Nicolas* Giard [683] and Claude* Prat [682], was born about 25 Feb 1670 in Montreal, died on 6 Oct 1755 in Montreal about age 85, and was buried on 7 Oct 1755 in Montreal. Other names for Antoinette-Catherine were Catherine Picard, Catherine Giard,51 Catherine-Antoinette Giard, Catherine Giart,36 Catherine Gyard,36 Catherine Gyart,36 and Catherine Picard.36

baptised: 25 Feb 1670, Montreal.

Antoinette-Catherine married Nicolas Jette [647]49 [MRIN: 35952] on 20 Nov 1699 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

818. Laurent Benoit [637],52 son of Paul Benoit [732] and Elisabeth Gobinet [731], was born on 2 Jan 1661 in Montreal, Montreal, PQ, died on 6 Dec 1728 in Longueuil, Chambly, PQ at age 67, and was buried on 7 Dec 1728 in Longueil. Other names for Laurent were Laurent Benoist36 and Laurent Benoit Dit Livernois.36

Laurent married Marie-Francoise Marguerite Tetreau [636]53 [MRIN: 12688] on 12 Nov 1691 in Ste-Famille, Boucherville, Chambly, PQ.

Children from this marriage were:

  i. Marie-Francoise Benoit [709] was born on 5 Apr 1693 in Longueil.
  ii. Marie-Marguerite Benoit [738] was born about 19 Sep 1694 in Montreal, Montreal, PQ and died between 1695 and 1788.
  iii. Joseph Benoit [697] was born about 1700 and died on 6 Feb 1746 in Longueuil, Chambly, PQ54 about age 46.
  iv. Francois-Louis Benoit [708] was born on 5 Apr 1704 in Longueuil, Chambly, PQ and died between 1705 and 1794. Other names for Francois-Louis were Francois Benoit and Louis-Francois Benoit.
409 v. Marie-Francoise Benoit [657]

819. Marie-Francoise Marguerite Tetreau [636],53 daughter of Louis* Tetreau [745] and Marie-Noelle* Landeau [695], was born about 1677 in Quebec, Canada and died on 28 Jan 1748 in Longueuil, Chambly, PQ about age 71. Other names for Marie-Francoise were Marie-Francoise Tetreau, Marie-Francoise Tetreault,36 and Marie-Francoise Tetro.36

Marie-Francoise married Laurent Benoit [637]52 [MRIN: 12688] on 12 Nov 1691 in Ste-Famille, Boucherville, Chambly, PQ.

900. Jonas Potts [616], son of Thomas Pott [607] and Elizabeth Unknown [606], was born in 1662 in Llangirrig, Montgomeryshire, Wales and died in 1719 in Philadelphia Co., PA at age 57.

Jonas married Mary Unknown [615] [MRIN: 500919609].

Marriage Notes: _STATMARRIED

Children from this marriage were:

450 i. David Potts [630]
  ii. Rachel Potts [614] was born in 1702 in Potts Grove, Philadelphia Co., PA and died in 1752 in Loudon Co., VA at age 50.
  iii. Elizabeth Potts [613] was born in Germantown, Philadelphia, PA.
  iv. Hannah Potts [612] was born in Germantown, Philadelphia, PA.

Jonas next married Mary Unknown [611] [MRIN: 500919610].

Marriage Notes: _STATMARRIED

Children from this marriage were:

  i. Deborah Potts [610]
  ii. Jonathan Potts [609]
  iii. Jonas Potts [608]

901. Mary Unknown [615] .

Mary married Jonas Potts [616] [MRIN: 500919609].

944. John M. Bowlby Sr. [134],55 son of Thomas Bowlby [136] and Martha Barker [137], was born before 19 Dec 1703 in Mansfield Woodhouse, Nottinghamshire, England,56 was christened on 19 Dec 1703 in Parish Of Barlborough, County Derby, England,56 and died between 7 Dec 1779 and 31 Dec 1782 in Mansfield, Woodhouse Twp., Sussex Co., NJ.56

General Notes: The maiden name of John’s wife Mary remains completely uncertain. To date, our efforts to uncover primary source information regarding her maiden name have led us only to historical researchers speculations. What we have seen are "best guesses" but nothing definitive, and backed by virtually no primary source material.

Perhaps our most prolific and accomplished historical researcher, Raymond Edwin BOWLBY, has left us his case for suggesting Mary LANING. He wrote:

John (7) married before 1735, the estimated birth of his eldest son. John’s will states that his wife’s name was Mary, but family historians disagree upon her maiden name. Some believed her name was Mary LANING, while others believed she was Mary, the daughter of Josiah MERCER of Burlington of whose will Thomas BOWLBY (6), John’s father, became executor in 1727. After carefully studying John’s will, Harriet STRYKER-RODDA, a leading expert on early New Jersey genealogical history today, wrote her opinion in a letter of 10 Nov. 1981, that the wife of John was Mary LANING: ’That will proves without a doubt his relationship and family name of his wife Mary, for the executors were wife Mary and friend Joseph LANING, witnesses Edward LANING, Isaac LANING and Altiye LANING. A wife’s interests in an estate in such a rural area as Mansfield-Woodhouse were normally protected by having her relatives party to its settlement if any were living nearby."

But, many other well respected historical researchers have also left us their opinions.

Perhaps a source of suggesting Mercer as Mary’s maiden name may have come from DOCUMENTS RELATING TO THE COLONIAL HISTORY OF THE STATE OF NEW JERSEY, VOLUME XXIII. CALENDAR OF NEW JERSEY WILLS, VOL. I. 1670-1730 page 316

1727 Aug. 26. MERCER, Josiah, late of Edmington, Co. of Middlesex, Great Britain, now of Burlington, gentleman; will of. Wife Sarah. Daughter Mary. Real and personal estate. Executor - Thomas BOWLBY, Witnesses - Tho: BARNES, Will’m ROBINSON, Daniel MESTAYER. Proved September 5, 1727.

1727 Sept. 5. Inventory of the personal estate, L60.5, incl. 18 moydores, 2 half moydores, 1/2 guinea, 2 small gold rings, in all 139 pwt. and 18 gr. at 5sh. 6 per pwt. L38.8.7 1/2, money in copper pennies L4, a silver watch and steel seal and chain L5, a silver tobacco box and pipe stopper L1.5; made by Thos. HUNLOKE and Tho. BARNES.

______ _____, MERCER, 1 _______. Part of will of , mentions a will executed in Great Britain and left in the Custody of wife Sarah. Leaves real property in America to the wife and daughter Mary and appoints Thomas BOWLBY as executor; used as wrapper of another (EDDINGTON, 1727) will.

1. Doubtless the Josiah MERCER whose will is given in the next preceding paragraph.

From: THE AMERICAN GENEALOGIST VOL. XXXIV (1958). Article written by Lewis D. COOK. F.A.S.G., of Philadelphia: BOWLBY OF MANSFIELD-WOODHOUSE, NOTTINGHAMSHIRE, ENGLAND OF BURLINGTON, MORRIS, HUNTERDON, AND SUSSEX COUNTIES N.J.: OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNA., AND NOVA SCOTIA

"iv. John BOWLBY, executor of father’s Will in 1731; is said to have m. one Mary LANNING, dau. of some Joseph LANNING, in 1734, but evidence is not found. The Joseph LANNING named a co-executor in the Will of John BOWLBY was probably the testator of Bethlehem Twp., Hunterdon Co., N.J., 1814, q.v. in NJ Archives, 42:248. John BOWLBY d. testate in Mansfield Twp., Sussex Co., Nj, between 7 Dec 1779 and 31 Dec. 1782, appointing he wife Mary BOWLBY and friend Joseph LANING executors, and devising his estate to his children..."

He further mentions that the baptisms of some of their children, by the Church of England minister in Sussex Co., N.J. are found in his register, published in the Penna. Magazine of Hist. and Biog., vol. 12.

But, on 23 Nov 1972, William M. LEFFINGWELL sent a draft of his article BOWLBY to Janis PAHNKE, (and she kindly has sent a copy to me...) From pg 3.

"...

3. John, b. m Mary (MERCER ?)

....

As executor of his father’s will, John BOWLBY was responsible for the family’s right to land in West Jersey. He probably returned to England after his father’s death, where he may have married Mary MERCER. He was back in the Province by 1735, when his first son, Samuel, was born."

We remain hopeful that we might yet uncover more definitive evidence by exploring both the LANING and MERCER genealogies. Other theories abound, such as Mary was first married to a MERCER or a LANING prior to her marriage to John, or that he was married to two different women by the name of Mary - first to a Mary MERCER, then to a Mary LANING. But, to date, none of these speculative theories are based upon any direct evidence that our Mary BOWLBY was related to either the MERCER or LANNING families.

Will: 7 Dec 1779.56

John married Mary Laning [135]57 [MRIN: 93] before 1735.56

Children from this marriage were:

472 i. Samuel Bowlsby [132]
  ii. Hannah Martha Bowlby [172] was born about 1736 in Mansfield Woodhouse, Nottinghamshire, England58 and died after 1810 in Rowan Co., NC.59
  iii. Martha Bowlby [173]
  iv. John Bowlby Jr. [174] was born between 1735 and 1744 in Imlaydale, Mansfield, Woodhouse Twp., Sussex Co., NJ56 and died on 20 Sep 1818 in Mansfield Twp., Sussex Co., NJ.56
  v. Sarah Bowlby [175] was born about 1738.56
  vi. Pvt. Thomas Bowlby Sr. [176] was born on 2 Apr 1744 in Hunterdon Co., NJ,60 died on 8 Jan 1827 in Hunterdon Co., NJ60 at age 82, and was buried after 8 Jan 1827 in Mansfield Woodhouse Cem., NJ.56

945. Mary Laning [135]57 died about 1799.61

Mary married John M. Bowlby Sr. [134]55 [MRIN: 93] before 1735.56

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2. Edward William Quinlan, FOIA Application filed for 572-07-9010.

3. Edward William Quinlan.

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5. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Ancestral File (R) (Copyright (c) 1987, June 1998, data as of 5 January 1998).

6. Personal Mention (February 3, 1895. Page 4.)

7. Inscribed Tea Set.

8. Personal Mention (February 3, 1895. Page 4.), Page 4.

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10. Giovanni Roberto Ruffini, Email <grr9@columbia.edu>, 09/03/2002. .... Giovanni Roberto Ruffini, Email <grr9@columbia.edu>.

11. Giovanni Roberto Ruffini, Email <grr9@columbia.edu>.

12. Giovanni Roberto Ruffini, Email <grr9@columbia.edu>, 09/03/2002.

13. Tom Johnson, Email <TomRJ99@aol.com>, 06/06/2000. .... Raymond Edwin Bowlby, B.A., M.A, Bowlby Families in England and America (Higginson Book Company, 1993 <http://www.higginsonbooks.com>), Page 34, Part 3. .... Giovanni Roberto Ruffini, Email <grr9@columbia.edu>, 09/03/2002.

14. 1910 Census, Douglas AZ.

15. Editor-Gaetan Morin, PRDH, RAB du - Population of Quebec Before 1799 (pub by the University of Montreal (data extracted by Tom Edworthy)). .... B.Pontbriand, Quebec, Canada 1969, Marriages de Marieville(1801) et Ste-Angele(1865) Comte de Rouville (data extracted by Tom Edworthy)), 179-180-126.

16. B.Pontbriand, Quebec, Canada 1969, Marriages de Marieville(1801) et Ste-Angele(1865) Comte de Rouville (data extracted by Tom Edworthy)), 179-126.

17. B.Pontbriand, Quebec, Canada 1969, Marriages de Marieville(1801) et Ste-Angele(1865) Comte de Rouville (data extracted by Tom Edworthy)), 179.

18. B.Pontbriand, Quebec, Canada 1969, Marriages de Marieville(1801) et Ste-Angele(1865) Comte de Rouville (data extracted by Tom Edworthy)), 180.

19. Raymond Edwin Bowlby, B.A., M.A, Bowlby Families in England and America (Higginson Book Company, 1993 <http://www.higginsonbooks.com>), Page 31, Part 3. .... Gordon Carleton, Email <Spacer1701@aol.com>, 12/11/2001.

20. Gordon Carleton, Email <Spacer1701@aol.com>, 12/11/2001.

21. Gordon Carleton, Email <Spacer1701@aol.com>, 08/24/2002.

22. Raymond Edwin Bowlby, B.A., M.A, Bowlby Families in England and America (Higginson Book Company, 1993 <http://www.higginsonbooks.com>), Page 31, Part 3.

23. Raymond Edwin Bowlby, B.A., M.A, Bowlby Families in England and America (Higginson Book Company, 1993 <http://www.higginsonbooks.com>), Page 32, Part 3.

24. Gordon Carleton, Email <Spacer1701@aol.com>, 08/22/2002.

25. Gordon Carleton, Email <Spacer1701@aol.com>, 09/21/2002.

26. Gordon Carleton, Email <Spacer1701@aol.com>, 09/21/2002 - from 1860 census for Crawford Co., OH, page 274.

27. Patricia J. Brownell, Email <wayside@cncnet.com>, 09/05/2002.

28. Patricia J. Brownell, Email <wayside@cncnet.com>, 09/04/2002.

29. Gordon Carleton, Email <Spacer1701@aol.com>, 09/06/2002 - from History of Wyandot Co., OH 1884: EDEN TWP. - 825. .... Gordon Carleton, Email <Spacer1701@aol.com>, 09/21/2002 - from 1860 census for Crawford Co., OH, page 274.

30. Gordon Carleton, Email <Spacer1701@aol.com>, 09/06/2002 - from History of Wyandot Co., OH 1884: EDEN TWP. - 825.

31. Gordon Carleton, Email <Spacer1701@aol.com>, 06/15/2001, 09/22/2002.

32. Gordon Carleton, Email <Spacer1701@aol.com>, 06/15/2001, 09/20/2002.

33. Patricia J. Brownell, Email <wayside@cncnet.com>, 09/18/2002.

34. Gordon Carleton, Email <Spacer1701@aol.com>, 06/15/2001.

35. Editor-Gaetan Morin, PRDH, RAB du - Population of Quebec Before 1799 (pub by the University of Montreal (data extracted by Tom Edworthy)). .... B.Pontbriand, Quebec, Canada 1969, Marriages de Marieville(1801) et Ste-Angele(1865) Comte de Rouville (data extracted by Tom Edworthy)), 179-120-145.

36. Editor-Gaetan Morin, PRDH, RAB du - Population of Quebec Before 1799 (pub by the University of Montreal (data extracted by Tom Edworthy)).

37. Editor-Gaetan Morin, PRDH, RAB du - Population of Quebec Before 1799 (pub by the University of Montreal (data extracted by Tom Edworthy)). .... B.Pontbriand, Quebec, Canada 1969, Marriages de Marieville(1801) et Ste-Angele(1865) Comte de Rouville (data extracted by Tom Edworthy)), 179.

38. Raymond Edwin Bowlby, B.A., M.A, Bowlby Families in England and America (Higginson Book Company, 1993 <http://www.higginsonbooks.com>), Page 10, Part 3. .... Cynthia Bowlby, Email <cynthia@bowlbyfamily.org>, 12/01/2000 - From NSDAR Volume 126, Page 238. .... Compiled by Blanche C. Ford Bowlsbey, Laverne Bowlsbey Abel and Raymond E. Bowlby, The Bowlsbeys of Maryland, Page 7.

39. Cynthia Bowlby, Email <cynthia@bowlbyfamily.org>, 12/01/2000 - From NSDAR Volume 126, Page 238.

40. Raymond Edwin Bowlby, B.A., M.A, Bowlby Families in England and America (Higginson Book Company, 1993 <http://www.higginsonbooks.com>), Page 10, Part 3.

41. Raymond Edwin Bowlby, B.A., M.A, Bowlby Families in England and America (Higginson Book Company, 1993 <http://www.higginsonbooks.com>), Page 10. Part3. .... Cynthia Bowlby, Email <cynthia@bowlbyfamily.org>, 12/6/2000 - Ray’s Final Edition.

42. Raymond Edwin Bowlby, B.A., M.A, Bowlby Families in England and America (Higginson Book Company, 1993 <http://www.higginsonbooks.com>), Page 10. Part 3.

43. Raymond Edwin Bowlby, B.A., M.A, Bowlby Families in England and America (Higginson Book Company, 1993 <http://www.higginsonbooks.com>), Page 8, Part 3. .... Cynthia Bowlby, Email <cynthia@bowlbyfamily.org>, 12/01/2000 - From NSDAR Volume 126, Page 238. .... Jim Leming, Email <jlleming@advant.com>, 08/23/2001. .... Compiled by Blanche C. Ford Bowlsbey, Laverne Bowlsbey Abel and Raymond E. Bowlby, The Bowlsbeys of Maryland, Page 6.

44. Raymond Edwin Bowlby, B.A., M.A, Bowlby Families in England and America (Higginson Book Company, 1993 <http://www.higginsonbooks.com>), Page 8, Part 3. .... Compiled by Blanche C. Ford Bowlsbey, Laverne Bowlsbey Abel and Raymond E. Bowlby, The Bowlsbeys of Maryland, Page 6.

45. Claude Swain, Email <nidaswa@t-online.de>, 10/19/2002 from <http://www.angelfire.com/ar/pyeatt/Wm1792.html>.

46. Cynthia Bowlby, Email <cynthia@bowlbyfamily.org>, 11/12/2000 - from Melva Calaman. .... Claude Swain, Email <nidaswa@t-online.de>, 10/19/2002 from <http://www.angelfire.com/ar/pyeatt/Wm1792.html>.

47. Cynthia Bowlby, Email <cynthia@bowlbyfamily.org>, 06/02/2001.

48. Edith Varga, Email <edithvarga@juno.com>, 12/16/2000.

49. Rene Jette, Dictionnaire Genealogique des Familles du Quebec des Origines A 1730 (1983, by University of Montreal- Fact imported to Family tree by Tom Edworthy of Minnesota, USA), 598-493. .... Editor-Gaetan Morin, PRDH, RAB du - Population of Quebec Before 1799 (pub by the University of Montreal (data extracted by Tom Edworthy)). .... Marriages of Notre Dame de Montreal 1642-1850 (ISBN: 1-58211-313-0 (data extracted by Tom Edworthy-Minneapolis,MN)), 418.

50. Rene Jette, Dictionnaire Genealogique des Familles du Quebec des Origines A 1730 (1983, by University of Montreal- Fact imported to Family tree by Tom Edworthy of Minnesota, USA), 493.

51. Rene Jette, Dictionnaire Genealogique des Familles du Quebec des Origines A 1730 (1983, by University of Montreal- Fact imported to Family tree by Tom Edworthy of Minnesota, USA), 598. .... Editor-Gaetan Morin, PRDH, RAB du - Population of Quebec Before 1799 (pub by the University of Montreal (data extracted by Tom Edworthy)). .... Marriages of Notre Dame de Montreal 1642-1850 (ISBN: 1-58211-313-0 (data extracted by Tom Edworthy-Minneapolis,MN)), 418.

52. Rene Jette, Dictionnaire Genealogique des Familles du Quebec des Origines A 1730 (1983, by University of Montreal- Fact imported to Family tree by Tom Edworthy of Minnesota, USA), 82-83-401. .... Editor-Gaetan Morin, PRDH, RAB du - Population of Quebec Before 1799 (pub by the University of Montreal (data extracted by Tom Edworthy)).

53. Rene Jette, Dictionnaire Genealogique des Familles du Quebec des Origines A 1730 (1983, by University of Montreal- Fact imported to Family tree by Tom Edworthy of Minnesota, USA), 82-83-401.

54. Rena Smith, Balboa, California, Ancestors/Relatives (Release date: March 31, 1997), Tree #3062.

55. Cynthia Bowlby, Email <cynthia@bowlbyfamily.org>, 01/17/2001, 10/08/2001. .... Bowlby Family Association, Working database <http://www.bowlbyfamily.org/>, OCT 2000. .... Compiled by Blanche C. Ford Bowlsbey, Laverne Bowlsbey Abel and Raymond E. Bowlby, The Bowlsbeys of Maryland, Page 2.

56. Raymond Edwin Bowlby, B.A., M.A, Bowlby Families in England and America (Higginson Book Company, 1993 <http://www.higginsonbooks.com>).

57. Bowlby Family Association, Working database <http://www.bowlbyfamily.org/>. .... Al Hudgens, GEDCOM 09/ 1999. .... Cynthia Katzman Bowlby, Email <katzman@alumn.com>, Web available GEDCOM 09/1999. .... Compiled by Blanche C. Ford Bowlsbey, Laverne Bowlsbey Abel and Raymond E. Bowlby, The Bowlsbeys of Maryland, Page 4.

58. Lauri Gray-Stoewsand <lgraysto@mail.win.org>, Descendant listing. .... Web site <http://www.krittersnkids.com/gen/Bowlby/RR_TOC.htm>.

59. Joy Gallagher, Email <gallagher@cafes.net>.

60. Lauri Gray-Stoewsand <lgraysto@mail.win.org>, Descendant listing. .... Raymond Edwin Bowlby, B.A., M.A, Bowlby Families in England and America (Higginson Book Company, 1993 <http://www.higginsonbooks.com>).

61. Lauri Gray-Stoewsand <lgraysto@mail.win.org>, Descendant listing.

Name Index

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