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From: "Janice Gower" <>
Subject: Re: [MAINE] Sob story
Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 16:25:03 -0400
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Hi,
How old was this William Ferguson in the 1840 census? Do you know the names
of his children?
In the 1850 USC the only William Ferguson in Eastport is a seaman, age 28,
born in Sweeden. No Sarah Ferguson in Eastport either.
Good Luck,
Janice Gower

----- Original Message -----
From: "LeRoy Ferguson" <>
To: <>
Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2001 3:27 PM
Subject: [MAINE] Sob story


> I say "sob story" because I'm looking for a census lookup, but not because
I'm too lazy to do it myself. Let me explain.
> I live in Europe, but last August I visited the National Archives regional
office in Waltham, Massachusetts, for an intense search of census records.
It was near the end of the seven hours that I spent there, that I came to a
volume with an index for the 1850 census for Maine. There was my
gt-gt-grandfather William FERGUSON living in Eastport (I knew it was him
from a few cross-references to Eastport in other documents.) I got the
microfilm and searched it twice but couldn't find William (who by then had
a wife, Sarah, and some of his 6 children).
>
> Since then I bought the Ancestry CD for 1840 and can see that he is listed
there also, for Eastport, page 267. If anyone has an easy library access to
the census, I would be most grateful if they would have another peek for me.
I'd love to know what it says about gt-grandad and his family, and still
can't understand why I couldn't find them.
>
> Regards,
> LeRoy Ferguson
> Madrid, Spain
>
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