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From: "Ann Whiting" <>
Subject: Re: St. Croix Lookups
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 10:26:16 -0800


Dante,
Thank you, I turn-up from time to time, but I am always lurking:), As to
Alton, I can't get past Alton, Julien and Edna . Do you know who their
parents were?
Another question is, was Alton and Anton related, I think they were cousins?
As to my elusive grandparents, Caroline Quetel nee Benjamin of St. Johns/St.
Thomas, and Isidore Quetel of St. Barts/Alsace Lorraine, France, do not show
up in the 1917 census, there are pages missing from that census, so it is
possible they are listed on that page. My grandfather may have died that
year or the year before.
In 1930 my grandmother is not listed, so she might have died just prior to
the census. I found their marriage records in the Catholic records, but
there is a problem with dates, based on his age at the time of marriage, he
would have been 9 years older than his oldest child, I thank it was a
transposition of numbers.
Caroline was related to the family of Luther(Contractor), Mabel(Midwife) and
those downstreet Benjamin's, who all originated from the Coral Bay, St.
Johns, I think that Guy Benjamin, was a nephew or cousin of hers also.
So that is the skinny on my phantom grandparents.
I'll send you what I have on Adams.
Ann

>From: Beretta <>
>Reply-To:
>To:
>Subject: Re: St. Croix Lookups
>Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2003 23:28:33 -0600
>
>Ann,
>
>A couple things.. Number one, good to see you back online!
>
>Send me your snail mail address off list and I'll get you a good map of
>street addresses in Charlotte Amalie. It makes wading through the census
>much better.
>
>Which Adams family are you looking at? I'm interested in the maternal
>ancestors of Alton Adams (the Bandmaster).
>
>Tell us more about your search for your paternal grandparents- perhaps I
>can find a clue for you in my info..
>
>Dante
>
>On Tuesday, March 18, 2003, at 04:00 AM, CARIBBEAN-D-
> wrote:
>
>>Subject: Re: St. Croix Lookups
>>Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed
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>>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
>
>
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