Thank you for this information!!!!!! It only makes my search more confusing. This is what I have actual documentation for:
William Ward's marriage liscense in Wisconsin Lists John Ward and Charlotte Pinder as his mother and father.
I have the census from Waukesha on their first arrival.
I have William Wards obituary (A large article in the paper, since he was a major contributor to the community) that gives his home/birth place as Louth, Lincolnshire.
I have letters from John to Charlotte while he was traveling out to Oregon. He was a glass dealer and died in Troy New York, on a job (He was the dealer who helped furnish wealthy customers from New York building their Victorian mansions, with glass windows, etc - story is longer, but shortening it up here). He died in Troy, before returning home.
Thats what we know.
The date you gave me of the ward pinder marriage is the same as what I have.
My only question is where is William? He was definitely born in 1835? Is there a reason his baptism wasnt recorded? What about the children following him? Could they have been in different locations and we just got the Louth wrong? Any ideas!
