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From: "Edward Crawford" <>
Subject: Re: St. Croix Lookups
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2003 23:01:54 -0000
References: <F59i7Qf4vKhBxT18j7n00000689@hotmail.com>


The Irish Free State is the present Irish republic, the 26 southern counties
that voted for Home rule. I think the Free State became a republic in 1947
though in fact there was not much change. The Free State was technically a
British dominion, like Canada and New Zealand but remained neutral during
the war. Indeed De Valera, the then Prime Minister visited the German
embassy in April 1945 to celebrate Hitler's birthday and on VE day the Union
Jack was burnt by a group in the middle of Dublin.
Edward Crawford
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ann Whiting" <>
To: <>
Sent: Monday, March 17, 2003 10:32 PM
Subject: Re: St. Croix Lookups


> 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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