Calling all Genea-Musings Fans:
It's Saturday Night again
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Time for some more Genealogy Fun!!
Randy Seaver’s assignment for us tonight on Genea-Musings is to:
1) Where did your ancestors live or reside in the year 1900? List them by generation. Show their birth and death years, and the place they were living.
Here's mine:
We did this on 24 Feb 2018 and I listed my ancestors. https://mytrailsintothepast.blogspot.com/2018/02/saturday-night-genealogy-fun-where-were.html. This time I will list my husband’s ancestors and where they were living in 1900. His paternal ancestors are in blue and his maternal ancestors are in red.
Grandparents
His grandparents were married in 1900. I was able to locate Matilda “Pearl” Davey
in Kansas City, Missouri. Tillie Davey was found living at the
Washington Hotel. She was twenty years old and worked as a stenographer.[1]
The previous page stated the Washington Hotel was located on Washington Street,
nos. 1201 through 1207. I also found a Matilda
Davy in a 1900 city directory where she was listed as a maid at the Washington
Hotel and rooming at 1221 Broadway.[2]
Are these two the same women? Tillie was Matilda’s nickname and the name used
on the marriage record later that year.[3]
However, Joseph Norman Gorrell was not found in the 1900 census. A 1900 city directory in St. Joseph, Missouri, lists him living at the Hesse House, which was located at 4-5 South 6th Street.[4] But when I located the Hesse House, a hotel, in the 1900 census, there were 104 boarders but none were Joseph. He worked as a lineman for the Missouri & Kansas Telephone Company and may have been away when the enumerator came.
Nils Arthur Nathaniel Nilsen was born on 15 March 1894 in Youngstown, Ohio, but he was living with his parents in Cromwell, Middlesex County, Connecticut in 1900.[5]
Agnes Hilma Carolina Lundquist was living with her parents in Scott township, Montgomery County, Iowa.[6]
Great-Grandparents
Amos Gorrell and
his wife, Catherine Elizabeth Shotts,
were living on their farm in Lamine Township, Cooper County, Missouri.[7]
Matilda’s mother had died in 1885, so only her father, Frederick Henry Davey, was alive. However, he has not been found in the 1900 census. After doing a global search in the city directory database on Ancestry for Fred H. Davey between 1895 and 1905, a possible entry came up from Galena, Kansas for the year 1900. “Fred Davy” was a machinist at Galena Iron Works and resided in Joplin.[8] I had not found this previously and since the image is in color, it might be new to the collection. Galena, Kansas is just over the border from Missouri and not far from Joplin. Fred Davey was a pattern maker, so could be this machinist. He was not found in the 1900 census, but his third wife, Anna, and his son, Edward were, living at 1026 Wall Street. She was listed as head of the household and married but Fred was not in the household.[9]
Nils Malkom Nilsen was living in Cromwell, Connecticut with his wife, Hulda Charlotte Anderson-Carlson.[10]
Pehr Alfred Lundquist was living in Montgomery County, Iowa with his wife, Mathilda Lovisa Ericksson-Holm.[11]
2x-Great-Grandparents
Philappina Margaretha
Voehringer, who married Ludwig Wilhelm Wollenweber (Ludwig died in
1873), lived in 1900 at 310 Illinois Avenue in Jeffersonville, Clark County,
Indiana, with a grandchild, Julia Young.[12]
Jonas Nilsson and Marta Larsdotter, Nils Malkom’s parents, lived in Ingarp Södegârd, Åsenhöga, Jönköping län, Sweden.[13]
Karl Johan Ericksson and Stina Maja
Samuelsdotter, Mathilda Lovisa Ericksson-Holm’s parents, lived in Tidersrum,
Östergötland län, Sweden.[14]
Conclusion
My husband had sixteen (16) ancestors alive in 1900. I had
twenty-four (24).
[1]
1900 U.S. census, Jackson Co, Missouri, Kansas City Ward 3, ED 30, sht 1b,
family 36, Tilley Davey.
[2] Hoye’s
City Directory of Kansas City, Missouri (Kansas City, Mo.: Hoye Directory
Co, 1900), p. 271, Matilda Davy; citing “U.S., City Directories, 1822-1995, Ancestry
(https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/2469), image 160 of 734.
[3] Jackson
County, Missouri, marriage record, v. 26, p. 528, no. 21336, Joseph N. Gorrell
to Tillie Davey, 1900; FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-8989-3ZZ1),
citing IGN 007515712, image 345 of 716.
[4] 1900
Directory of St. Joseph and Buchanan County (St. Joseph, Mo.: Combe
Printing Company, n.d.), p. 355, J N Gorrell; citing “U.S., City Directories,
1822-1995,” Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/2469)
> Missouri > St Joseph > 1900 > St Joseph, Missouri, City
Directory, 1900 > image 200 of 557. For Hesse House, see ibid, p. 491, Hesse
House.
[5] 1900
U.S. census, Middlesex Co, Connecticut, Cromwell, ED 272, sheet 6A, dwelling
111, Niels M. Nielsen.
[6] 1900
U.S. census, Montgomery Co, Iowa, Scott, ED 115, p. 149 (stamped), dwelling
247, Alfred Lundquist.
[7]
1900 U.S. census, Cooper Co, Missouri, ED 44, p. 15 (stamped), dwelling 49,
Amos Gorrell.
[8] Hoye’s
City Directory of Galena and Empire City, Kansas (Kansas City, Mo: Hoye
Directory Co, 1900), p. 48, Fred Davy; citing “U.S., City Directories,
1822-1995,” Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/2469) “Kansas
> Galena, Empire City > 1900 > Hoye’s City Directory of Galena and
Empire City, Kansas, 1900 > image 24 of 142.
[9] 1900
U.S. census, Jasper Co, Missouri, Joplin, ED 46, sht 20b, dwelling 264, Anna Davey.
[10] 1900
U.S. census, Middlesex Co, Connecticut, Cromwell, ED 272, sheet 6A, dwelling
111, Niels M. Nielsen.
[11] 1900
U.S. census, Montgomery Co, Iowa, Scott, ED 115, p. 149 (stamped), dwelling
247, Alfred Lundquist.
[12]
1900 U.S. census, Clark Co, Indiana, Jeffersonville, ED 8, p. 100 (stamped),
dwelling 138, Philipena Woolenweber.
[13] "Åsenhöga,
Jönköping, Folkräkning (census)," database, SVAR, Riksarkivet
(http://www.svar.ra.se), 1900, Åsenhöga, Jönköping; Ingarps Södregård; Jonas
Nilsson.
[14]
Karl died in 1912 and Stina Maja in 1927. I have the source but need to re-search
for it.
Aha! I was right. I thought I remembered doing this challenge! Your husband's family members were all over the place.
ReplyDeleteWhen I think we've done this before, I always search in my blog for a keyword. No point in doing it twice.
DeleteI also remembered doing this when I saw Randy's post, but what was interesting is that we did two versions of it, both in 2018: where our ancestors were living in 1900, and which ancestors we had found in the 1900 census, not quite the same question. I don't have a husband to use as an alternative for research results, however. But I do think I had 21 ancestors alive in 1900!
ReplyDeleteYeah, I saw that one about the 1900 census, too.
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