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From: Dana Edgecomb <>
Subject: Re: [ME-CENSUS] Kennebec/1860/Richards
Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2002 14:31:06 -0500
In-Reply-To: <00de01c19488$19869cc0$a771fea9@lingu.uniwuppertal.de>


Hi Jeff;
Maine Cemetery Inscriptions:Kennebec County were published in 1999.
Here is a John, probably the father:

p. 356 Forest Grove Cemetery in Augusta
Richards, John A. 30 Nov. 1821-9 Feb 1872 [51]
Lucia Bradford, his wife, 10 June 1825-25 Sept. 1898.

I believe that the no. [51] in the square brackets indicates
the lot number in the cemetery.
Best wishes,
Dana Edgecomb
Standish, Maine



At 07:45 PM 1/3/02 +0100, you wrote:
>Could some kind soul out there (and I know there are many of you) check
>the 1860 Maine census for Kennebec county for John A. Richards.
>
>Here is the continuing story of my attempt to break down a brick wall: I
>found a marriage record from the IGI for a John A. Richards and a Nancy E.
>Allard from 7 Dec 1863. I suspect that this John A. Richards might be the
>father of my great-grandfather who was also John A. (for Albert) Richards,
>who was born on 25 Oct 1864 (or '65). The John A. Richards who got
>married in 1863 was born in Hallowell, Kennebec County, in 1848 and was
>the son of -- yes -- John Richards, himself born in 1818 in Hallowell,
>Kennebec County, Maine (this would make three John Richards in a row....or
>brick wall to the third power...), so perhaps there is some census listing
>in 1860 in Hallowell for a John Richards (Number 1) who was 42 with a son
>named John Richards (Number 2) who would have been 12 in 1860.
>
>All this numbering reminds me a little of the Twelve Days of Christmas.
>
>Besides the IGI marriage record, I have found no other record for John
>Richards and his wife Nancy, nee Allard. I am assuming that both were
>very, very young, that perhaps Nancy died in childbirth, and that John
>Albert Richards (if indeed he were their son) took off for parts west,
>landing in California in the 1880s.
>
>Thanks for any help you kind souls out there might give and best wishes
>for a Happy New Year from a cold and snowy northwest Germany,
>
>Jeff Richards
>Muenster, Germany
>
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