Send your Rock Island brick walls to me and I'll post them here.
Ya never know somebody may know something and I'll help too if I can!
If anyone has any information or advice for Anne please contact me!
. I know that my Irish gggrandmother Kate Maher and gggrandfather Michael Downes of Adamstown, Co Wexford, married in Rock Island's Catholic Church in 1855. And that is all I know! Although their only child, a daughter was born in the USA in 1856 we know no more. Within a few years the widower and his daughter returned to Ireland. Is it likely that Rock Island was a staging post for migrants. I would love any clues to help search for Kate's burial or their daughter, Annie's birthplace.
Michael Downes was the youngest of a large family and may have gone overseas to seek his fortune. The family were relatively prosperous and so in spite of the tinning it seems unlikely to be an attempt to escape the famine. In earlier generations some of the family left for Canada. Could he have been using the Great Lakes for travel at the time?
Anne
annewakeham@yahoo.com
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I am searching for information on Lucy Skaggs Condon. She is listed on the 1860 census, Mercia & Illinois City , Drury, Rock Island , IL , as 77 yr old mother in law living with Judith Caroline and Andrew Howard. She is not with them in 1870 and she probably died during this time period. I cannot find where she is buried.
Lucy Skaggs married James M Condon in Monroe County , WV Sept 24, 1807 . In 1860 James M Condon is living in Fleming Co, KY. I believe this is Lucy's husband (or ex husband) but I have no proof. I believe she is the mother of Rev. John L Condon, my gr gr grandfather.
Jo Ann Collier
Joaco613@aol.com
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from Davenport Iowa Gazette June 2, 1844, Titus died age 62 year near Rock Island. I believe he was a minister in a Baptist Church at the time but can find nothing further. Any help would be appreciated.
Sincerely, Lorraine
lorjule@milwpc.com
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Seeking the ancestry and family members of Richard G. Brown-Rebecca Moore, my second great grandparents. Their children: Loammi Byron, b. 1840, Fairport, Muscatine, IA; Benjamin Franklin, b.1844 Illinois City, IL; Susan, b. ab.t 1846; and Richard Gibson, b.1848.
After Richard died or moved away (still don't know!), Rebecca married Platt Mott in 1854, Mercer Co., IL. thanks for any and all help.
Beth in NC
gramssearch4family@gmail.com
Searching for these families:
BROWN, BRAYTON, MOBLEY, BELL , KEY, MOORE , (NY, OH, IL, IA) and TURNEY,WALTER, LITTLE (IR, NY, PA, WV, MD) and associated lines.
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Looking for information on:
Great-grandfather ---- James Whitfield Ross (born in Vicksburg , VA , slave escapee and USCT corporal, 1st Kansas Colored
Great-grandmother --- Margaret Elizabeth Chapman Ross ( slave on Chapman farm in Morgantown , KY , slave escapee, brought to Mound City , Kansas by US Union Army)
Grandfather --- Thomas Chapman Ross (born in Mound City or Topeka , KS , druggist)
Grandmother -- Bessie Shepard Ross ???
Father -- Thomas Chatman Ross (miswritten on his birth certificate, should have been Chapman, born Rock Island , IL , postal superintendent)
Janice Elizabeth Ross Lorenz, (born Washington , DC , city planner)
Janice Ross Lorenz 7000 Nightingale Court Lanham , MD 20706
Phone: 202.352.6602, 301.552.2
janicerlorenz@aol.com
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