In message <e3915a87-861e-497f-9901-722f0fc122c7@e23g2000prf.googlegroups.com> keith345@hotmail.com wrote: > On Feb 7, 3:28 am, Graeme Wall <Gra...@greywall.demon.co.uk> wrote: > > Trying to trace a Constantin Baranoff, last heard of in Sacramento, probably > > around 1900.  Anyone got any ideas on how to find him? > > > > He was born in Russia about 1857, moved to England where he became a > > naturalised British citizen.  Some time in the 1880s he may have gone to New > > York and then by sea to California. > > > > -- > > Graeme Wall > > > > My genealogy website <www.greywall.demon.co.uk/genealogy> > > 2-8-2008 > > What other information, if any, do you have about Constantin? Names > of his parents, brothers and/or sisters, I have no information on any of the above. > wife if he was ever married, He had a wife, Ruth Mary Ann Wall, and son, Constantin William, that he appears to have abandoned in London. Marriage was 1881, soon born 1882. > his occupation, In the UK 1881 Census he's listed as a commercial clerk. > why he would have wanted to move to the US? That I don't know. His wife ran off to New York with another man in 1887 so she may have abandoned him rather than the other way round. Constantin may have gone after her. The child appears to have been left with his grandmother either way. > In the 1930's and after there are entries with this surname in the > Sacramento area and I'm speculating that they might be his son or some > other namesake relative, but I was trying to find out if you might have > information that might tie it all together. > Tantalising :-) -- Graeme Wall My genealogy website <www.greywall.demon.co.uk/genealogy>