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Research in Other Countries => United States of America => US Lookup Requests => Topic started by: Aussie possum on Tuesday 23 December 08 12:12 GMT (UK)
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I have had a couple of recent posts trying to sort out this Carrie Tanquary/Carey Townsend puzzle. Well I am making progress. The death certificate of my James Townsend arrived, and was all I hoped for. After 5 years of researching, I have finally found "my" James, and proved it beyond all doubt. The informant on the death certificate is Carrie Tanquary Sinclair, (his stepdaughter) so that proves she is still alive in 1923, and married.
Unfortunately I have not been able to find when and where the marriage took place, but I am hoping someone can find them on the US census and see if I can narrow down a timeframe.
Thanks
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Rather than having to look up my previous posts to get the background on this....
Carrie was born in about 1870 - 1872 in Illinois, and was living in Livingston county in previous census.
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1930 Census:
47 East North St., District 15, Galesburg, Knox County, Illinois
Sinclair, Ewan B. [poss. Evan], head; own home, $9000; has radio; 60; married at 35; b. Pennsylvania, father b. Pennsylvania, mother b. Wales; proprietor restaurant; not a veteran
Sinclair, Carrie, wife; 59; first married at 34; b. Illinois, father b. Canada-English, mother b. Illinois; cashier, restaurant
Sinclair, Barbara, daughter; 22; single; b. Illinois; no occupation
Sinclair, Elizabeth-gb, daughter; 23; single; b. Illinois; no occupation
I don’t know what Elizabeth-gb might mean.
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It won't let me attach a snippet image of "Elizabeth-gb"
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1920 Census:
47 East North St., District 15, Galesburg, Knox County, Illinois
Sinclair, Evan B., head; own home, no mortgage; 50; married; b. Pennsylvania, father b. Pennsylvania, mother b. Wales; partner, ice cream mfg.
Sinclair, Carrie, wife; 49; married; b. Illinois, father b. Canada-English, mother b. Illinois; nurse R.N., Family Hospital
Sinclair, M. Elizabeth, daughter; 13; single; b. Illinois; no occupation
Sinclair, Barbara E., daughter; 11; single; b. Illinois; no occupation
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1910 census [hard to read]
47 East North St., District 151, Ward 2, Galesburg, Knox County, Illinois
St. Clair, Evan B., head; 39; married 6 yrs; b. Pennsylvania, father b. Scotland, mother b. Scotland; manufacturer, ice cream; own home, mortgaged
St. Clair, Carrie L., wife; 39; married 6 yrs.; 3 children, 2 living; b. Illinois, father b. Canada-English, mother b. Illinois; no occupation
St. Clair, Margaret L., daughter; 3; b. Illinois
St. Clair, Barbara E., daughter; 2; b. Illinois
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Carrie T. Sinclair - possibly a nurse in WWI???
http://knox.ilgenweb.net/records/WWI_s-s.htm
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Yes, I think this is the right Carrie Sinclair:
Knox County, Illinois, the honor roll, 1917-1918-1919, being a record of what was done in Knox County in those three eventful ….
p. 323 – listed as member of the Red Cross
p. 335
Sinclair, Carrie T., Galesburg
Nursing. Chairman, Public Health and Child Welfare Committee, C.N.D.; Food and Conservation; Tubercular War Problem; Organization of Knox County Red Cross.
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1900 census
Marshall St., Cushing Hospital and Home of Friendless Families, District 101, Ward 6, Leavenworth, Leavenworth County, Kansas
[transcribed as] Taneray, Carrie L.; matron; 29, b. Aug 1870; single; b. Illinois, father b. Canada-English, mother b. Illinois; matron, trained nurse
the other residents of this establishment were nurses, patients or inmates
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Oooh, you have been busy while I have been asleep, Erato. What a wonderful collection of information..... far more than I expected.
I have a theory on the "gb".......
Given that the 1910 census lists "Margaret L", who is only one year older than Barbara E............ and then 1930 there is "Elizabeth" who is only a year older than Barbara.......... I reckon the "gb" stands for "goes by". I have inherited the same from my own parents, who always called me by my middle name!
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I think Carrie's husband might be the Evan Barker Sinclair mentioned in this biography: http://www.usgennet.org/usa/il/county/knox/1912_history_knox_co_il_bios_2.html#Robert_Gordon_Sinclair
The Illinois Death Index has Carrie T. Sinclair who died 11 Jul. 1942 at age 71 in Galesburg. http://www.ilsos.gov/GenealogyMWeb/idphdeathsrch.html Also, Evan B. Sinclair died 20 Jan. 1946 in Evanston, Cook Co.
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Thanks, Shelly. That first site was an excellent account of the family, and very informative.
I found those entries on the ilsos website a couple of days ago, and emailed the county clerk in Knox about obtaining the death certificates for Carrie and her mother. Unfortunately the "e-pay" facility is apparently not available to me, which is a pity as credit card would be the cheapest and quickest way to obtain them. Unfortunately I will have to get a US money order which will probably cost more than the amount I need to send! And I will have to wait till well after Christmas to be able to enquire here at our banks in Oz. I have not as yet investigated the procedure in Cook county. I probably will wait till I have the info from the other certificates before deciding if I need Evan's as well.
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You might want to see if you can get obituaries for them to verify you have the right people, before you pay for the certificates. There are people on raogk.org who do look-ups in Cook County, but there are none for Knox County at the moment. It looks like the public library in Galesburg charges, so that probably won't make things cheaper.
Here are some sites I found where people might be able to help:
http://geneasearch.com/lookups/il.htm
http://www.usgennet.org/usa/il/county/knox/look_ups_knox_co.html
If that doesn't pan out, you might want to try posting on boards specifically about Knox County on rootsweb.com, genealogy.com, genforum.com, etc.
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Thanks, Shelley. I have just emailed someone on the first of those sites, so I hope they are able to come up with something that will be helpful.
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Evan Barker Sinclair of Knox County, Illinois is my great uncle. I can assist with information that I have if you're interested.
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Thanks Michael,
I will send you a personal message.
Regards,
Possum
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New members must make at least three postings before being allowed to use the Personal Message facility, so Michael would need to post twice more to have full use of it. See Help-Page for further info: http://www.rootschat.com/help/pms.php
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Evan (pronounced even) Barker Sinclair was one of 5 children born to Alexander Sinclair and Margaret Griffith Sinclair. Alexander was born in Pennsylvania cand Margaret was born in Wales. Their children were Barbara b.1865, Robert Gordon (my great grandfather) b. 1866, Evan Barker b. 1870, Mary Flora b. 1871, and Irwin A. b. 1880.
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Evan married Carrie (Tanquary) and had two children, Elizabeth (Cady) b. 1 Jul 1906 and died 21 Jun 2006, and Barbara (Deckard) b. 1908? Evan was in business at one point with my great grandfather at Sinclair Brothers Ice Cream in Galesburg, IL. They manufactured ice cream and bottled soda. I found one thing on Carrie. She was a nurse and she, along with 4 other nurses from Galesburg, established the American Red Cross in that city in 1916.