Hello everyone.
(sorry this message is late - I sent the first version via "illegal" html
format and have had to resend it today)
I had my first census film visit last night and finished the first roll for
Noble County (a second still to go). I will of course revisit it - I'm sure
I missed stuff.
Many of you had asked for lookups. I made side notes as I was going along
the film for these other surnames. Those notes follow here, in this one
email to the discussion list, rather than emailing everyone separately.
No matter which county anyone asked me to look in, I checked the surname for
each county I was looking at - in this case Noble. I note that some of the
names found were those requested by Wabash researchers. Perhaps there are
connections.
Anyway here is what I wrote on the side for the first night of review:
Fisher Edan H 40 OH PA PA Loans Money
Martha J 34 OH OH OH Housewife
[Milan?](m) 14 IN OH OH Grocery Clerk
Mable 6 IN OH OH
Bulah 4 IN OH OH
Shaw Jesse B 28 OH OH OH Farmer
Maggie 23 In Switzerland Switzerland Housewife
Clarence M ?? IN OH IN
Shaw Thomas 48 OH OH OH farmer
Rachael 36 IN PA PA
David 20 IN PA PA Teacher
Jones George 48 NY VT NM butcher
Hannah E 49 OH NJ NJ housewife
Bu(s?)(r?)ey (f) 21 IN NY OH
Jones Carlton 45 NY NY NY Engineer
Maria 36 NY Germany NY
Francisca 11 IN NY NY
?estez (m) 9 IN NY NY
Charlie 3 IN NY NY
Given James 58 OH PA MD Farmer
Martha 54 PA NJ PA
John 25 IN OH PA
Weaver Samuel 55 OH MD PA farmer
Caroline 52 OH ?? MD housewife
Weaver Joseph 52 OH PA MD farmer
Lucinda 44 IN OH OH
Louisa 21 IN OH IN school teacher
Albert 14 IN OH IN
Joseph A 12 IN OH IN
John F 8 IN OH IN
Grace 1 IN OH IN
Scott David 58 OH PA PA Druggist
Amanda 47 PA NY? PA
Eugene 17 IN OH PA
Frank 9 IN OH PA
Fischer Ke??uth 30 OH PA PA Baker
Bertha 25 OH Switzerland Switzerland
Renna? 1 IN OH OH
Ruse Edwin 49 NY NY NY somekind of "dealer"
Julia 37 Canada England England
Allice 17 IN NY Canada
Marrion 16 IN NY Canada
Minnie 13 IN NY Canada
Mary 10 IN NY Canada
Henry 8 IN NY Canada
Frederick 6 IN NY Canada
Edith 2 IN NY Canada
Robert 21/31 IN NY Canada
(whew! Busy couple! Or should I say busy wife!)
Also, though I didn't write them down, there are a load of FRICKs, a big
load of HEFNERs and a number of WOLFs in this first roll from Noble - these
seem to be the most numerous, though I wasn't paying perfect attention, and
some stuff was just unreadable. In some cases, I think they picked the worst
writer in the county to do the writing - some is pretty bad - and I'm not
talking "methods of the times" - just crappy handwriting.
I will be going back soon. Stay tuned - same bat-time, same bat-channel.
Kerry Butler
Kbutler(a)biztech.net
(please address any comments to my personal address - not the genweb board -
except of course accolades, which are always welcome, spread as far and wide
as humanly possible)