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United States of America / Re: Albert Pope 1890 in California
« on: Wednesday 22 October 25 22:35 BST (UK)  »
FamilySearch is free.  It has 1730 US data sets, including all of the censuses up to 1950 and 73 sets specific to California.

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The Lighter Side / Othering
« on: Monday 06 October 25 02:19 BST (UK)  »
Gosh, my grandfather has been publicly accused of capital 'O' "Othering."  Too bad he's not around to defend himself.

"One such object is an Angolan basket that had no spiritual value to its collector, a Reverend Merlin Ennis, who in 1939 donated it to the Peabody Museum. The authors infer that the basket was important to this Christian missionary only through identification with a named tribe, the Chokwe, and with the Benguela Highlands whence it came. By contrast, to the Chokwe people, the fifty-four items inside the basket were a means to perceive the past and future. In the hands of their diviner, the basket became a gateway to the unknown.77 By failing to record the identity of this individual, Ennis arranged the forgetting of the power that it had held. The basket therefore represents the Othering of its original owner by Ennis, as is clear from what little documentation of it survives in the Museum’s records."

DOCTORAL THESIS,  Colonial Objects in Northern Ireland, Author Widdis, Briony
https://pure.ulster.ac.uk/ws/portalfiles/portal/78969810/2020WiddisBMRPhD.pdf

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US Lookup Requests / Re: NYC Address search on 1900 US Federal Census
« on: Sunday 05 October 25 18:05 BST (UK)  »
208 w 113th street is between 7th ave and 8th ave.

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United States of America / Re: What became of Edgar Roy Arbuckle?
« on: Thursday 18 September 25 16:16 BST (UK)  »
"Per the obituary for Edgar & Barbara's son, Barbara was Barbara A. Stewart. "

On the other hand, the California birth index says that his mother's surname was McIntire.

Name   Stephen Wade Royer
Sex   Male
Mother's Name   Mcintire
Mother's Sex   Female
Event Type   Birth
Event Date   22 Sep 1955
Event Place   Los Angeles, California, United States
Event Place (Original)   Los Angeles, California, United States

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United States of America / Re: What became of Edgar Roy Arbuckle?
« on: Thursday 18 September 25 14:25 BST (UK)  »
Good grief - there were nine brothers with a total of six surnames plus four sisters with one additional surname. It sounds complicated.

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United States of America / Re: What became of Edgar Roy Arbuckle?
« on: Thursday 18 September 25 05:28 BST (UK)  »
I was wrong.  She didn't marry Fred Arlen Brummett.  She married Edward Leroy Brummett in King County, Washington on 25 June 1945.

https://digitalarchives.wa.gov/DigitalObject/Download/c386103d-424f-4b6a-b34e-f583569c4ec0

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United States of America / Re: What became of Edgar Roy Arbuckle?
« on: Thursday 18 September 25 04:17 BST (UK)  »
I found Edgar's marriage [in Los Angeles in 1947] to Yvonne Andre Brummett.  Incredibly, she was a widow aged 16!  I think her first husband was probably Fred Arlen Brummett who died of liver cancer on 21 May 1946, aged 22.  He was recorded as single on his death certificate but all of the other Brummett deaths in that time period were oldsters.  I haven't found any record of Yvonne's marriage to anyone named Brummett - maybe it was a "common law" arrangement.

http://www.rootschat.com/links/01u0o/
http://www.rootschat.com/links/01u0n/

Whether Edgar remained married to Yvonne is doubtful.  On the 1950 census, he was living in Los Angeles with a wife named Barbara who was born in Colorado.

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United States of America / Re: What became of Edgar Roy Arbuckle?
« on: Wednesday 17 September 25 22:09 BST (UK)  »
Thanks, RJ, that settles it.

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