Wow, what an offer, wish I knew of something in that year I needed looked up...Guess i will go searching tonight. Janet ----- Original Message ----- From: Tom Krakow To: IADUBUQU-L@rootsweb.com Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2003 4:16 AM Subject: [Dub'que] The Dubuque Daily News for 1876: free lookups Hi gang, I currently have on loan, "The Dubuque Daily News" for all of 1876. I would be glad to do lookups for anyone, but only with a specific date. Each issue is eight pages long. Luckily the local news is almost exclusively on the last page. Just send me a name and a date. I plan on doing this for other years as time goes on. Tom in Chapel Hill ________________________________________________________________ Sign Up for Juno Platinum Internet Access Today Only $9.95 per month! Visit www.juno.com ==== IADUBUQU Mailing List ==== ~*~*~*~ The Resources in the USGenWeb's Parade of States Awaits! ~*~*~*~ -- Table of all States: http://www.usgenweb.org/statelinks-table.html ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237

How about 1876 C.R.Anderson a cigar maker. Has a son Charles. Thanks June ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tom Krakow" <tomkrakow@juno.com> To: <IADUBUQU-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2003 9:16 PM Subject: [Dub'que] The Dubuque Daily News for 1876: free lookups > Hi gang, > > I currently have on loan, "The Dubuque Daily News" for all of 1876. I > would be glad to do lookups for anyone, but only with a specific date. > Each issue is eight pages long. Luckily the local news is almost > exclusively on the last page. Just send me a name and a date. I plan on > doing this for other years as time goes on. > > Tom in Chapel Hill > > ________________________________________________________________ > Sign Up for Juno Platinum Internet Access Today > Only $9.95 per month! > Visit www.juno.com > > > ==== IADUBUQU Mailing List ==== > ~*~*~*~ The Resources in the USGenWeb's Parade of States Awaits! ~*~*~*~ > -- Table of all States: http://www.usgenweb.org/statelinks-table.html > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >

Hi gang, I currently have on loan, "The Dubuque Daily News" for all of 1876. I would be glad to do lookups for anyone, but only with a specific date. Each issue is eight pages long. Luckily the local news is almost exclusively on the last page. Just send me a name and a date. I plan on doing this for other years as time goes on. Tom in Chapel Hill ________________________________________________________________ Sign Up for Juno Platinum Internet Access Today Only $9.95 per month! Visit www.juno.com

Would someone know what grocery store[s] there were in Cascade in 1930? I'm looking for one that was run or owned by Jennie WATSON. This is my g-grandmother. She would have been about 64 at this time and had her 2 youngest children living with her. Thank you for any help given. Donna

Thank you. This is a whole new name for me to get started on. Sure looks like young Sarah could be one and the same. Merry Christmas! Ellen -----Original Message----- From: Hcounter@aol.com [mailto:Hcounter@aol.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 24, 2002 4:49 PM To: IADUBUQU-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [Dub'que] FARRELL, Sara Catherine of Dubuque In a message dated 12/24/02 1:47:04 PM Central Standard Time, eelliott@elliottadvertising.com writes: << I am looking for Sara(h) Catherine FARRELL age 48 in 1911 (born 1862-1863). >> 1880 Census Place: Dubuque, Dubuque, Iowa Source: FHL Film 1254338 National Archives Film T9-0338 Page 114D Relation Sex Marr Race Age Birthplace Thomas FARRELL Self M M W 52 IRE Occ: Police Man Fa: IRE Mo: IRE Sarah FARRELL Wife F M W 47 IRE Occ: Keeping House Fa: IRE Mo: IRE Sarah FARRELL Dau F S W 18 IA Occ: At Home Fa: IRE Mo: IRE Julia FARRELL Dau F S W 16 IA Occ: At Home Fa: IRE Mo: IRE Patrick FARRELL Son M S W 14 IA Occ: At Home Fa: IRE Mo: IRE John FARRELL Son M S W 12 IA Occ: At Home Fa: IRE Mo: IRE Maria FARRELL Dau F S W 11 IA Occ: At Home Fa: IRE Mo: IRE ==== IADUBUQU Mailing List ==== ~ SUBJECT LINES ~ Think about it!! A picture's worth 1000 words; a Subject Line more! The 4 W's: Who? What? When? and Where? Don't leave home without 'em! ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237

In a message dated 12/24/02 1:47:04 PM Central Standard Time, eelliott@elliottadvertising.com writes: << I am looking for Sara(h) Catherine FARRELL age 48 in 1911 (born 1862-1863). >> 1880 Census Place: Dubuque, Dubuque, Iowa Source: FHL Film 1254338 National Archives Film T9-0338 Page 114D Relation Sex Marr Race Age Birthplace Thomas FARRELL Self M M W 52 IRE Occ: Police Man Fa: IRE Mo: IRE Sarah FARRELL Wife F M W 47 IRE Occ: Keeping House Fa: IRE Mo: IRE Sarah FARRELL Dau F S W 18 IA Occ: At Home Fa: IRE Mo: IRE Julia FARRELL Dau F S W 16 IA Occ: At Home Fa: IRE Mo: IRE Patrick FARRELL Son M S W 14 IA Occ: At Home Fa: IRE Mo: IRE John FARRELL Son M S W 12 IA Occ: At Home Fa: IRE Mo: IRE Maria FARRELL Dau F S W 11 IA Occ: At Home Fa: IRE Mo: IRE

I am looking for Sara(h) Catherine FARRELL age 48 in 1911 (born 1862-1863). I found her in the 1911 Dublin Ireland Census living with George Noble Count PLUNKETT and his wife Josephine CRANNY PLUNKETT. It says she is a cousin from Dubuque Iowa and is single, and a Roman Catholic. Could anyone with FARRELL relatives from Dubuque please e-mail me? Thanks. Ellen

Guess it depends to whom you talk... I called Des Moines and asked if I could pay less for a non-certified copy and they said no. $10 for the search whether they find anything or not. -----Original Message----- From: JeanR92237@aol.com [mailto:JeanR92237@aol.com] Sent: Friday, December 06, 2002 12:08 AM To: IADUBUQU-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [Dub'que] Dubuque marriage records You send for them through the IA Dept. of Public Health in Des Moines. I can't find the address now (sorry; I am moving shortly). I have paid $10 ea. for them, but recently I heard that for a photocopy (not a certified Death Cert., for example) it's only $2. ==== IADUBUQU Mailing List ==== ~~ The List's GOLDEN RULE ~~ Keep to genealogy, history, anything ancestors! Keep it clean & cool. Treat others as you want them to treat you...Positively *NO* selling! ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237

You send for them through the IA Dept. of Public Health in Des Moines. I can't find the address now (sorry; I am moving shortly). I have paid $10 ea. for them, but recently I heard that for a photocopy (not a certified Death Cert., for example) it's only $2.

I replied to the wrong letter and it went to the list. Then I sent another letter to you and guess what here is your letter. Getting old excuse is getting old tooooooooooo. June ----- Original Message ----- From: <JeanR92237@aol.com> To: <IADUBUQU-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, November 27, 2002 10:40 PM Subject: Re: [Dub'que] Dubuque marriage records > Tom, there is an excellent chance that you would find the maiden name of the > mother! I have a Dubuque Birth Record from 1882, and there are: date of > birth, Name of child, Sex, No. of child of this mother, Race, Date & Place of > birth, Name of County, if born in another Cty., Nationality and Place of > birth of Father & Mother; Also, mother's age, full name, Maiden name & > Residence of mother; Full name of Father & Occupation; Name & address of > medical attendant, Name & address of person making Certificate, & "Returned > by". > A lot of info for this early time. > > > ==== IADUBUQU Mailing List ==== > ~~ The List's GOLDEN RULE ~~ > Keep to genealogy, history, anything ancestors! Keep it clean & cool. > Treat others as you want them to treat you...Positively *NO* selling! > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >

Hi Jean How does a person get into these records? My grandfather who we never knew lived there with his family and 2 of his siblings were born in Iowa not sure if it was Dubuque. thanks June----- Original Message ----- From: <JeanR92237@aol.com> To: <IADUBUQU-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, November 27, 2002 10:40 PM Subject: Re: [Dub'que] Dubuque marriage records > Tom, there is an excellent chance that you would find the maiden name of the > mother! I have a Dubuque Birth Record from 1882, and there are: date of > birth, Name of child, Sex, No. of child of this mother, Race, Date & Place of > birth, Name of County, if born in another Cty., Nationality and Place of > birth of Father & Mother; Also, mother's age, full name, Maiden name & > Residence of mother; Full name of Father & Occupation; Name & address of > medical attendant, Name & address of person making Certificate, & "Returned > by". > A lot of info for this early time. > > > ==== IADUBUQU Mailing List ==== > ~~ The List's GOLDEN RULE ~~ > Keep to genealogy, history, anything ancestors! Keep it clean & cool. > Treat others as you want them to treat you...Positively *NO* selling! > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >

Thank you for looking Jim. JAnet ----- Original Message ----- From: Jim Neiers To: IADUBUQU-L@rootsweb.com Sent: Thursday, November 28, 2002 3:55 AM Subject: Re: [Dub'que] English immigrants in Iowa, especially Dubuque County in 1876 -1877 Sorry Janet, No BISGROVE, CHUBB, TOOMER, or WALTER entires. Nothing close enough to be considered a spelling variation either. Jim ----- Original Message ----- From: "Terry & Janet" <strftrvlrs@yahoo.com> To: <IADUBUQU-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, November 27, 2002 2:58 AM Subject: Re: [Dub'que] English immigrants in Iowa, especially Dubuque County in 1876 -1877 > What a kind and generous offer Jim. thank you. Could you look for the TOOMER, BISGROVE, CHUBB, Joseph WALTER. Sorry for a laundry list, but they are all from England and were in that area at the times you gave. If you would like I could include first names but I thought I would try to make it a bit simpler for you. Thank you for your time. > > Janet > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Jim Neiers > To: IADUBUQU-L@rootsweb.com > Sent: Saturday, November 23, 2002 12:40 AM > Subject: [Dub'que] English immigrants in Iowa, especially Dubuque County in 1876 -1877 > > > I have a copy of the reprinted diary of James L. Broderick from Swaledale, England. He visited Dubuque, spent a lot of time in the western Dubuque and Centralia area, but also surrounding towns, as far as Wintrhop and an excursion into Wisconsin. This was in 1876 and 1877. He addresses mostly families with origins in England, especially the Swaledale area. The book is indexed. There are many, but usually not very detailed, references to family relationships. I will be glad to look-up and respond with what is contained in the book for requested names. > > jiminal > > > ==== IADUBUQU Mailing List ==== > ~*~*~*~ The Resources in the USGenWeb's Parade of States Awaits! ~*~*~*~ > -- Table of all States: http://www.usgenweb.org/statelinks-table.html > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > > ==== IADUBUQU Mailing List ==== > *** Tired of this LIST? Going on vacation, a business trip? *** > Send an email with one word, UNSUBSCRIBE, in the Subject and Message > area to: IADUBUQU-L-request@rootsweb.com. Digest? Replace "L" with "D". > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > ==== IADUBUQU Mailing List ==== ----------> ALL CAPS or UPPER CASE Letters Permissible Use <---------- When typing a surname? YES! Absolutely! A must! For general text? NO! It's shouting, bad manners (Netiquette) and hard to find surnames. ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237

The following is an interesting account of a wagon train to the California Gold Rush. I do not know the author nor the newspaper which printed the article. I received a typed copy of the story from a document owned by Mrs. Laura Weitz. The beginning of the article is an obituary for my G- Grandfather Andrew Bahl who died in 1906 at age 83. The Bahl family arrived in Dubuque County from the Blue Alsatian Mountains when Andrew was 11 years old. I'm a little confused by the dates of 1851 and 1857 so am not sure if he went in 1851 or 1857. I'm leaving out the funeral description which precedes and ends the account of the trek to California. "......In 1851 deceased when less than 18 years of age joined one of he parties which in that year organized at Dubuque to make the overland tour to California. The train was made up of four horse teams and quite a number of the gold seekers were mounted on horses. They assembled on South Locust Street and halted there a couple hours, that its members might bid their friends farewell which in many cases proved a last farewell. A trip to California nowadays where the traveler may sit comfortably in an coach, look at the time card, and know about to a moment when the train will pull into the depot at San Francisco or elsewhere in that distant state, naturally excites about as much enthusiasm in one about to make the trip as would a call to breakfast. But in those days it was different. The trip to California was beset with peril from the start to the finish. The boundless prairies, the great desert, the trackless mountain wastes, the difficulties of providing man and beast with food and water, the ferocious wild beasts, and worse, the savage red man. All in all placed the wayfarer's life in the balance with the chances in that particular year (57) decidedly against him. Those who made the venture were men of nerve, determination an! d enterprise. The starting of one of those trains was to Dubuquers an event of the season, and would attract at least one-half of the population of the town, to witness its departure. The writer well remembers seeing the train with which Andrew Bahl was connected pull off to the south followed by the best wishes of the many friends and relatives of its members. The year 1857 was a very wet year, which made the trip across the state of Iowa arduous and trying to man and beast, swollen streams, water-soaked prairies, and vast sloughs menaced the traveler and jaded the horse. It was the most disastrous year in the history of the overland route, owing to the vast number of trains that had made the journey that year, feed had become so scarce that enough could not be obtained to keep the animals alive. Horses died, wagons were abandoned. Parties reorganized in effort to reach the land of promise, and have been told by Mr. Bahl and by others who crossed the plains that year, that the route down the Humboldt was strewn with dead animals, all manners of vehicles, furniture musical instruments and wearing apparel. The late Dr. John P. Quigley who went in the same train with Mr. Bahl, told me that he counted as many as seven unfortunates in one day floating down the Humboldt, they had sought relief from their misery in the clear rolling ! torrent. Andrew Bahl was young, endowed with great endurance, he in time reached the Eldorado and the first piece of gold he picked out of the earth was worth fifty dollars. He secured considerable gold in California and finally returned to his old home near Lore, this county, where he has remained through all these intervening years........" Betty ----- Original Message ----- From: Bill Archer Sent: Sunday, November 24, 2002 9:34 AM To: IADUBUQU-L@rootsweb.com Subject: RE: [Dub'que] Dubuquers in the California Gold Rush? My gg-gf, Aaron Archer, and his two twin older brother's, John and William, went to the Gold Rush from Dubuque. They took an ox-cart for a six-month trek to CA. We aren't sure what year they went, somewhere in 1851 - 1852. I'd love to find out what gold-rush trains left the Dubuque area in that time frame. Bill > -----Original Message----- > From: Kortenkamp, Daniel [mailto:dkortenk@uwsp.edu] > Sent: Sunday, November 24, 2002 8:10 AM > To: IADUBUQU-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: [Dub'que] Dubuquers in the California Gold Rush? > > > Does anyone have info about Dubuquers who went to California > during the Gold Rush? The family story is that an immigrant > ancestor -- Leonard BERG (b. 1823, Bensheim, Hesse-Darmstadt) -- > traveled from Dubuque to California in 1850. I have no > documentation for this trip to California. The story continues > that after 18 months he returned to Dubuque and operated both a > bakery and saloon ("Lager Beer Saloon", 731 Clay St.). He was a > baker by trade. > > Daniel J. Kortenkamp > Stevens Point, WI 54481 > http://www.uwsp.edu/psych/dk/danielpg.htm > > > > > > ==== IADUBUQU Mailing List ==== > ROLL CALLS? Not permitted unless instituted by the List Admin. But post > your interests and areas of search often. New members join every day. > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy > records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > ==== IADUBUQU Mailing List ==== Have you visited the *NEW* RootsWeb/Ancestry Message Boards yet? 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Sorry Kathy, There are no CLARKE, McMULLEN, or McGINTY references. The closest is CLARKSON There are very few references to non-Enlish names.. Jim ----- Original Message ----- From: K11m17s@aol.com To: iadubuqu-l@rootsweb.com Cc: neiersj@hiwaay.net Sent: Thursday, November 28, 2002 12:04 PM Subject: Broderick Diary Jim, Are there any references in the diary to McMULLEN, McGINTY or Clarke (James and Ann)? Thanks for looking. Kathy Stoneberg http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~kstoneberg/ourfamily.htm

Sorry Kathy, There are no CLARKE, McMULLEN, or McGINTY references. The closest is CLARKSON There are very few references to non-Enlish names.. Jim ----- Original Message ----- From: <K11m17s@aol.com> To: <IADUBUQU-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, November 28, 2002 12:04 PM Subject: [Dub'que] Broderick Diary > Jim, > Are there any references in the diary to McMULLEN, McGINTY or Clarke (James > and Ann)? Thanks for looking. > > Kathy Stoneberg > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~kstoneberg/ourfamily.htm > > > ==== IADUBUQU Mailing List ==== > Have you visited the *NEW* RootsWeb/Ancestry Message Boards yet? Take a > tour soon & learn how time-saving those "Gateway" messages are compared > to trying to find the *new* ones on your own. > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >

Jim, Are there any references in the diary to McMULLEN, McGINTY or Clarke (James and Ann)? Thanks for looking. Kathy Stoneberg http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~kstoneberg/ourfamily.htm

"MONDAY, JAN. 22 (1877) We went down the town and called at the Railway Station for the California Wine which had arrived; it had been more than three weeks in coming. In the afternoon we went to Horseford & Watters' store to meet John Clarkson who we heard was likely to be there. He is looking thinner, but quite healthy. He says his wife is not well. He buys wheat and hogs, a quantity of which he had brought into Dubuque for sale. He speaks highly of the land about Marcus, near LaMars, & Cherokee near the Missouri, which he says can be bought for from $6 to $25 per acre. We had heard that his mother and family were coming but John says he does not know whether she is or not. He returned last night. In the Evening we went to sit with Mr. and Mrs. Coates. They told us that her brother, John R. Waller, is going to be married to a Catholic young lady on Wednseday; they would rather have had him marry a Protestant." NOTES "John Clarkson was born in England and emigrated to Dubuque in 1850. He owned a 162-acre farm three miles southwest of Centre Grove. Childs, Dubuque County History, 925; Dubuque County Directory, 47. "Marcus is in Cherokee County, midway between LeMars and the town of Cherokee. In 1876 and 1877, William B. and Fred Close, 2 brothers from England, organized a land development company and purchased thousands of acres in Plymouth County near Denison, in the late 1870s and early 1880s. It is possible that John Clarkson had some connection with their speculative enterprise. Andreas, Atlas, 100; Jacob Van Der Zee, The British in Iowa, (Iowa City: The State Historical Society of Iowa, 1922), 57-119."

Tom, there is an excellent chance that you would find the maiden name of the mother! I have a Dubuque Birth Record from 1882, and there are: date of birth, Name of child, Sex, No. of child of this mother, Race, Date & Place of birth, Name of County, if born in another Cty., Nationality and Place of birth of Father & Mother; Also, mother's age, full name, Maiden name & Residence of mother; Full name of Father & Occupation; Name & address of medical attendant, Name & address of person making Certificate, & "Returned by". A lot of info for this early time.

FRIDAY, JAN. 19 (1877) We went to Rockdale; the scenery is fine going down the Railroad. Some of the rocks stand detached, with several blocks supporting each other, with their beds apparently undisturbed. At Rockdale we saw where the houses stood that were taken away by the great flood last Summer, on the 4th July in which 39 persons were drowned. Watters, Pratt, and Manson's Mill (now belonging to Dickey Waller, Nanny Watters and son Thos., and Myers & Deggendorf, shares being respectively 3/8, 1/8, 1/8, 3/8) was more elevated being on the skirt of the hill and took no harm. We spent the day with Mr. Manson and wife, he is a Scotchman. He sends (pound) 20 to his sister in Scotland every year. He told us all the particulars about his coming here with nothing, losing his brother of cholera in Canada, soon after arriving, &c. I should think he is now worth $50,000, most of which is invested in three new stores in Dubuque. His first wife was John Coates' (blacksmith! ) sister. The present one was a servant girl living with Mrs. James Pratt. They have two children, a boy and a girl." NOTE "Rockdale was located just south of Dubuque in the southeast corner of Table Mound township. On July 4, 1876, a torrential rain fell on the village for several hours. The resulting flodd of Catfish Creek killed 42 people and destroyed all the buildings on the bottom lands. The loss was estimated at more than $60,000. The raiload bridge and a half mile of track road bed were also washed away. The Rockdale Mills, built on high ground, survived. The flour mill was built in 1840 by James Pratt and Walter Manson. In 1876, it was operated by A. W. Hosford and Thomas Watters and had been renamed the South Dubuque Mills. John H. Deggendorf and Henry Meyer were bakers at 1908 Jackson Street in Dubuque. Dickey Waller was Richard Waller, father-in-law of Hosford, who owned a 660-acre farm just south of Rockdale. Mrs. James Pratt lived on her deceased husband's 160-acre farm, 3 miles southwest of Rockdale. Andreas, Atlas, 38; Childs, Dubuque County Directory, 100, 120, ! 280; Wolfe, Dubuque City Directory 78 158; Hawley, City Directory, 65, 133." jiminal

EB, There are no BANKSON or variation entries. Surprisingly, there is only one SMITH entry. That is for Plott SMITH and also Mrs. Plott SMITH. If you like, I can post those entries. Jim ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ellen Blackstone" <ellenb@123imagine.net> To: <IADUBUQU-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, November 27, 2002 9:47 AM Subject: [Dub'que] Diary look-up > Thanks for doing this! > > Any SMITH or BANKSON/BANKSTON? (I'm seeking more info about Morinda > BANKSON or BANKSTON SMITH.) > > Thanks! EB > -- > --------------------------------------------------------- > Ellen Oehler Blackstone Everything connects... > Seattle Washington absolutely everything. > mailto:ellenb@123imagine.net --Hazel Wolf, 1898-2000 > > > ==== IADUBUQU Mailing List ==== > ~ SUBJECT LINES ~ > Think about it!! A picture's worth 1000 words; a Subject Line more! The > 4 W's: Who? What? When? and Where? Don't leave home without 'em! > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >