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From: "Patrick T." <>
Subject: [MCF-ROOTS-L] Chruch and county records: Thompson - Marion to Union County, KY
Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 09:24:01 EST
Hello all...
I'm a new subscriber to this list; I rejoined the "Maryland Catholics to
Kentucky" list the other day too. I found it very informative but had to
leave to concentrate on grad school. I'm still at the University of
Kentucky, so if you need anything looked up, I might be able to help.
I would like to know, if there's anyone out there who knows about these
county records enough to tell me, what the records are like in Marion
County. I believe the courthouse there (was) burned in 1863 or so?
Here's my 'problem' in a nutshell:
My ancestor, John Thompson, was born in 1826 in what was then (I think)
Washington County but is today Marion County, allegedly near a place called
"St. Charles." I say allegedly because his 1907 obituary (of which I have
only a loosely transcribed version)says so; it goes on to say that his
family left that area for Union County when he was around 10 years old (ca.
1836) and his father died there. His mother returned to what in the
meantime had become Marion County, where she too died and John returned to
Union County "around his twentieth year" (ca. 1846).
I have been unable to determine any link to John's parents. Does anyone
have any ideas? I am aware that obituaries should be read with an eye to
caution, as they obviously weren't written by the deceased, but by his
family or newspaper staff. I also realize that folks back then did not move
(in my case from Washington/Marion County to Union County) unless they had
friends or more likely family already there.
I have been told there was a St. Charles Church near this area called "St.
Charles" but whatever records that existed there were burned in a fire. If
John's father died in Union County, there is no will or settlement that I'm
aware of; if his mother died back in Marion County, any courthouse records
there were lost in 1863.
Another clue: John remarried in 1880's, when the marriage documents were
more detailed: in these, he doesn't name his parents but states that they
were both born in Maryland, and that his own birthplace is Marion County.
I will send this to the "Maryland to Kentucky" group too, just in case. Any
advice or encouragement anyone may have is greatly appreciated!!
Patrick Thompson
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