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From: "Ann Whiting" <>
Subject: Re: St. Croix Lookups
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2003 14:32:15 -0800


Yo Richard,
The 1917/20 census is the one that the Danish completed for the transfer of
the islands, the US did not recount for the 1920 census, they just
incorporated it. There are some missing pages for St. Thomas.
The 1930 is very useful. I found Uncle Dully and Aunt Annette, and the
children, my parents and the three oldest children, Cousin Aarona's first
son, and her sister, I found several Brewsters, but cannot make a familial
connection with them. I have been able to fill in quite a bit of my
Benjamin(paternal) branches, the Degraff's, the Adams, Christians,
Lockharts, Bonelli's Venzen, Simmons, Francis, Newton, McGovern, and that
is just St. Thomas. If I knew my way around St. Croix, I could do much
more. It is hard on the eyes to look at pages and pages of handwriting of
old fountain pen that makes the lettering run together.
I am trying to find street maps so I can compare street name to census and
know where I am.
Have you any idea what/where the "Irish Free State" is? It shows up as a
place of birth in the census.
Edie/Ann

>From: (Richard Bond)
>Reply-To:
>To:
>Subject: St. Croix Lookups
>Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2003 22:32:43 -0500 (EST)
>
>Hi Ann,
>
> The two census dates would have been just before and just after the
>first great exodus of St. Croix's residents to Harlem and other places
>in the States. There had previously been Cruzan emigrants Statesward
>and also to Puerto Rico the Dominican Republic and Panama.
>
> The loss of the rum business to Prohibition under the Volstead act
>10/28/1919 caused an island depression in which caused many to go after
>1920. After the labor riot of 1878 fewer down islanders wanted to move
>to St. Croix. The Dominican Republic restricted immigration in 1924.
>
> This anti-immigration act by the D.R. caused the best opportunity for
>Cruzans to be N.Y.C. It also made Puerto Ricans who might previously
>have gone over there welcome jobs in St. Croix when a federal subsidy
>reopened the principal sugarmill at the end of the 1920s. By then a lot
>of St. Croix's native cane cutters were janitors and freight movers up
>north.
>
>Anything listed for our kin?
>
>
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