Dear Listers,
Having just joined the List a minute ago, I want to explain my interest.
My ggf, Charles Augustus Fiske, was b. in R.I. in 1828 but went with his
father, (Peleg Fiske) to New Albany. His stepmother, Mary Berkley Graves
Fiske and several half brothers and sisters may have been with him. I don't
know when they arrived but Charles married a German lady, Rosanna Paul, in
New Albany in 1857. Charles was a mechanic, engineer and steamboat pilot on
the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers, based in New Albany until he went across
the River to Louisville in 1866.
In the past several New Albany Fiskes were genealogists, but the bug seems
to have died out as they died out. I would like to find some kind soul who
has access to the 1850 or 1860 census for the area who is willing to look up
Peleg & Mary Fiske (in 1850 or 1860 to see where their children were born.
That would tell me about when they got to New Albany. Here are the kids'
ages in 1860:
Caroline A. abt 25
Mary O. abt 20
Eliz R. abt 18
Sam'l H. abt 16
Peleg abt 13
Josephine E. abt 10
Ada abt 9
Anna L. abt 4
Julia S. abt 3
I was raised in Louisville but spent most of my adult life in other places
and now live in Southern CA where access to censuses is not convenient at my
age.
Thomas S. Fiske
Arcadia, CA
Author of Four on the Floor, The Courage Place, A Time to Heal &
A Time to Judge