If anyone has access to a 1910 Black Hawk county census, could I ask a big favor? I have a copy of a 1900 census for East Waterloo Township on which my grandmother Anna BECKER, wife of John BECKER, with children of Joseph and Marie is listed. It shows that John is naturalized, but not Anna. I know they moved from Iowa to Wisconsin early in the 1900's. The 1930 census for Wisconsin shows her as being naturalized. I am hoping that if I can find her naturalization records, I can find out from where she came. I would appreciate any help I can get. Thanks. Florence

hi Florence, I seached the 1910 Federal Census for Iowa and only found one John Becker in Blackhawk County, IA. However, other family names do not match. Becker, John B., Head, Male, White, 49 yrs old, Married (once for 21 yrs), Birthplace is NY, Becker, Mary A., Wife, Female, White 44 yrs old, Married (once for 21 yrs), had four children - three still living, Birthplace is Germany Becker, Hilda Daughter, Female, White, 19 yrs old, single, Birthplace is IA Becker, Anna, Daughter, Female, White, 17 yrs old, single, Birthplace is IA Becker, Fred, Son, Male, White, 14 yrs old, single, Birthplace is IA JEB ----- Original Message ----- From: "peloquin" <floralpx@nc.rr.com> To: <IABLACKH-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, March 03, 2006 11:22 AM Subject: [IABLACKH] BECKER/census > If anyone has access to a 1910 Black Hawk county census, could I ask a big favor? I have a copy of a 1900 census for East Waterloo Township on which my grandmother Anna BECKER, wife of John BECKER, with children of Joseph and Marie is listed. It shows that John is naturalized, but not Anna. I know they moved from Iowa to Wisconsin early in the 1900's. The 1930 census for Wisconsin shows her as being naturalized. I am hoping that if I can find her naturalization records, I can find out from where she came. I would appreciate any help I can get. Thanks. > > Florence > > > ============================== > Census images 1901, 1891, 1881 and 1871, plus so much more. > Ancestry.com's United Kingdom & Ireland Collection. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13968/rd.ashx >

To all who helped me with looking up John and Anna BECKER in the iowa censuses, I offer a belated "Thank You." My husband is in the hospital and I spend a lot of time there. I feel sure that the Beckers you found in Ramsey Township, Kossuth County is the correct family. It seems like, if Anna did become naturalized on her own, it was in Kossuth County. I know that women usually became a citizen upon their husband doing so, but I have heard of some doing it on their own. They married in LeMars, Plymouth County in 1897. I have been told that Anna came by herself to America as an older teenager. I will write to the County Clerk in Kossuth County to try to get a naturalization record. I would really like to find where she was born - her marriage license says Heinen, Sillesia, but since I can find no Heinen in Silesia but do in West Prussia, I am baffled. Someone with her mother's maiden name HETTWER shows Silesia in one place and Prussia in another. Anna and John married in the Catholic Church in LeMars, but the Diocese that serves Heinen has no record of the family. She might have converted to Catholicism. Any ideas? Thank you again for your past help. Florence From: "peloquin" <floralpx@nc.rr.com> To: <IABLACKH-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, March 03, 2006 12:22 PM Subject: [IABLACKH] BECKER/census > If anyone has access to a 1910 Black Hawk county census, could I ask a big > favor? I have a copy of a 1900 census for East Waterloo Township on > which my grandmother Anna BECKER, wife of John BECKER, with children of > Joseph and Marie is listed. It shows that John is naturalized, but not > Anna. I know they moved from Iowa to Wisconsin early in the 1900's. The > 1930 census for Wisconsin shows her as being naturalized. I am hoping > that if I can find her naturalization records, I can find out from where > she came. I would appreciate any help I can get. Thanks. > > Florence > > > ============================== > Census images 1901, 1891, 1881 and 1871, plus so much more. > Ancestry.com's United Kingdom & Ireland Collection. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13968/rd.ashx >