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From: " Craig" <>
Subject: [MAWORCES] FW: 1870 or 1880 census index
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 21:24:0 -0400


Found him!!!! After many years of research, I finally decided to ask for
some help! In a matter of about an hour, I found a long lost ancestor. In a
very old family bible, I have the record of John B. Warren and his first
wife Susannah Grigg and their children. This is a family record that has
been with us since the mid 1800's. The record stated that John was born in
1802 but does not specify where. The births of his children are recorded in
the bible as Cambridgeport and Malden MA. Several years ago, I discovered
that John and his first wife were both born in Hampshire England. John was
re-married in 1851 to an Irish woman, which took me a long time to find in
the Massachusetts records because of his common name, after his first wife
died in Malden and is also listed in the family bible and I found her death
record at the archives. I decided to search for his re-marriage purely on a
hunch. Without this information, I would have been searching for a widow
named John B. Warren, not a married man with a wife from Ireland. There is
also a pencilled date of May, 26 1883 written in a later hand, above the
ink record for John B. Warren which I assumed to be his death although not
recorded as any particular vital record. I could never find a death record
in Massachusetts for him and the reasons are now clear. He must have moved
to Maine between 1870 and 1880 (census recorded in Maine) and died there.
Hopefully I can find the death record in the Maine archives.
Anyway, after years of genealogical research, this may have been one of my
most exciting finds because of the time I have been searching but the very
simple way in which the results were found. Thanks to online census records
and help from other researchers indexes. Never give up!!!!!
Thanks everyone,
Craig


> [Original Message]
> From: Craig <>
> To: <>
> Date: 6/20/02 5:31:36 PM
> Subject: 1870 or 1880 census index
>
> Does anyone have access to the 1870 or 1880 census index and wouldn't
mind searching for John B. Warren? I am not sure where he lived, possibly
Boston. I have access to both census years on Ancestry.com, but no index
> Thanks,
> Craig
>
>



Craig Crowell Baker
18 Oak St. #1
Plymouth, MA 02360




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