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From: "Isabel Morse Maresh" <>
Subject: Re: Waldo County: Newbie to the list
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 18:40:27 -0500


----- Original Message -----
From: "Nicole La Rue" <>
To: <>
Sent: Monday, January 19, 2009 6:00 PM
Subject: Re: Waldo County: Newbie to the list



Thanks very much for the responses. There were also 18 Heal
households in
Lincolnville in 1840, with at least 8 of them having girls under 5.
Initially I ran a search looking for John but this morning I
remembered that
there's a paper in the Civil War pension claim for my subject, Caroline
(Heal) Stevens, that points to a second marriage for her mother
Francis. The
page was from an Albert Norton who said he was Caroline's half
brother. That
made me think that perhaps John died earlier than I thought and
when I went
back to ancestry.com today I ran a search for Heal households in Waldo
County and there she was. Frances Heal in Lincolnville, spelled
differently
than the one record that I have of her existence, but with 3 boys
all under
15, one girl under 5, and herself under 40. No adult male living
with them.

So far this fits in pretty well with what little info I had already
obtained, but made me wonder about the inheritance laws in Maine at the
time. If Frances was already a widow by the 1840 enumeration, and
is in fact
head of the household at that time, does this mean that she
inherited her
husband's estate outright? Or could she have been designated as
guardian for
her eldest son, rather than a male relation? How can I persue the
events
that would have occurred following John's death if all I know is
that he
must have died sometime between 1836 and 1840?

Thanks all for your feedback!
Nicole LaRue


--- On Mon, 1/19/09, Tom Elliott <> wrote:

From: Tom Elliott <>
Subject: Re: Waldo County: Newbie to the list
To: ,
Date: Monday, January 19, 2009, 1:05 PM

At 12:48 PM 1/19/2009, you wrote:
>Hi Nicole, try the census records of MA. At that time I believe
>Maine was MA. Look under Lincoln county or other serounding areas.
>You can go to roots web for your research and its a big help!! I
>hope this helps. Kimmi
>------Original Message------
>From: Nicole La Rue
>Sender:
>To:
>ReplyTo:
>ReplyTo:
>Sent: Jan 19, 2009 7:51 AM
>Subject: Waldo County: Newbie to the list
>
>Hello all, I just joined the list in the hopes that I can find some
>tips on my search for the family of Caroline (Heal) Stevens. Her
>parents were John Heal and Francis ? and she was born in
>Lincolnville, ME around 1838-ish. All I know at this point has been
>gathered from a marriage announcement in a Boston newspaper, the
>record of her second marriage, and her son's birth record. I would
>like to try to confirm some of this information, and expand upon it
>as well if possible, but I have no idea where to start. Any tips or
>suggestions about getting started with Maine research in the 1830s
>would be greatly appreciated.
>
>Thanks all!
>Nicole LaRue


For the record, the census for Maine has always been categorized as
Maine. Also, Maine became separated from Massachusetts in 1820,
Waldo County incorporated on February 27, 1827 with Lincolnville
included in the lists of towns. Prior to that Lincolnville would
have been in Lincoln County.

Sincerely,
Tom
MSG, USA (Ret.)
Waldo County, Maine USGenWeb Coordinator
Freedom, Waldo County, Maine USGenWeb Volunteer
http://www.rootsweb.com/~mewaldo/

http://www.waldo.megenweb.org/Waldotomme09/
.
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Whose Civil War pensions records do you have? Is it for the John
Heal who
married Frances Morris? No, I have his death as 1840, which must
be from a
gravestone. I'll see if I have a photo of the stone. I have that she
married 2] 10 Jan. 1841 to Henry Norton, married by Ingraham
Duncan, Esq. I
have from the census, what you apparently have. There was a female
born 1830
to 1835. There is a Mary Jane Heal that I haven't found parents
for; Male
born 1825 to 1830; Male born 1830 to 1835, Caroline S. Heal born 13
Nov.
1838; Elbridge Heal, born ca 1839, who was aged 11 years old in
1850, living
in the household of Gideon town and wife, Frances (Heal) Tower. I
have the
1840 Census of Frances, a female 30 to 40 years, with the children
mentioned
above. Have you found anything relating to Henry Norton? I don't
recall
any more, but as I've written before, I haven't worked on this for some
time, and when I was working on it, I was looking for facts of all
Lincolnville Heals. God bless, Isabel




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