I have bought the three month world deluxe package and I have to say that I'm very happy I did. However I'm having trouble tracing back a woman who was born in 1833. I know her first name is Lucy and her middle initial is A. And from the 1880 census I know that both her parents were born in New Hampshire as was she. She was married to a man named Charles F. Waite (my great great great grandfather) who served in the civil war on the union side. I know he was born in Massachusetts as were his parents. And their residency during the census was in Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts. Can Someone please help me find out her last name, or more importantly where her family came from?
And for additional information they had 5 children by 1880. And all but one were born in New York.
2007-07-30 10:42:32 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Genealogy
I wasn't able to find Lucy's last name, but I did find out she was born in about 1833 in NEW HAMPSHIRE, like you said. It was listed on ancestry.com in the 1880 census (I had to look up Charles' name first, then I put in LUCY A WAITE and the information came up. Their children's names were Alice (b.about 1856, NY), Irving (b. about 1859, NY), Elemor E (b. about 1861, NY), Charles P (b. about 1866, MASS.) & Philip (b. about 1869, NY. I even tried putting in the children's names--thinking on any birth records it would give the parents' names, but had no luck. So, I also tried the other sites listed below. You might put a message in on the boards at http://genforum.genealogy.com (they have a page for people doing research on the Waite name). It's a bit tedious to go through them all, unless you know specifically what you want, because some of the requests go back to 1999.
2007-07-30 19:36:19 · answer #1 · answered by jan51601 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Charles from Hatfield or Charles from Charlton?
We need to figure out which year they were married, then use the state census records from NH and Massachusetts (not the federal censuses in the decenniel, but the mid-decade state censuses) to figure out where they were probably married. Then we start looking locally for marriage records.
If you want to email me, I'd be happy to snoop around tonight and see what NEHGS has, in addition to Ancestry.
2007-07-30 20:03:13 · answer #2 · answered by GenevievesMom 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
TO BE TOTALLY HONEST WITH YOU ,YOU ARE NOW INTO THE DIGGING PART OF THE TREE .YOU HAVE TO GO TO THE MARRIAGE RECORDS OF THE HUSBANDS NAME SEEINGS THAT IS THE ONLY NAME YOU HAVE ,YOU HAVE MOST OF WHAT YOU NEED ,OR TRY BIRTH RECORDS OF THEIR CHILDREN THAT WILL MOST LIKELY HAVE HER MAIDEN NAME ON IT. BEST OF LUCK JUST KEEP DIGGING YOU WILL FIND THE ANSWERS
2007-07-30 19:47:06 · answer #3 · answered by shelly 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋