Hello all fellow researchers, Please note our change of email address. [email protected] I have been searching in vain trying to find 'our' Frederick PALMER. Frederick was born in the village of Easton on the Hill, Northamptonshire, England in 1832. The son of John PALMER, a Gamkeeper in Easton. In 1853, he sailed to America with his newly wed sister Susannah PALMER and her husband Charles WHITEHEAD. The newlyweds set up farming in Avon, Lake County, Illionois. Frederick was living with them in 1860 according to the census and working as a farm labourer. Has anyone on the newsgroup access to the 1870 census? Family tradition says he 'Died in the Civil War' and that he was not married. I have seached all the lists of soldiers etc. and have not been able to find him listed. There is widow of a Frederick R. PALMER listed applying for a pension, but I don't think this is 'our' Frederick as he did not have a middle Christian name. Did he die of illness and not as a fighting man? Did he die elsewhere? Did he die in Waukegan? The PALMER families of Lake County are confusing to sort out. There was another Frederick PALMER living in Waukegan. The two Frederick's were cousins. The Waukegan Frederick, born in 1843 in Barnack, Northamptonshire, England, was the son of Matthew PALMER who was also a Gamekeeper before going to America. I have searched the 'Find a Grave' list too. No Frederick PALMER listed. Has anyone any other suggestions of where to search please? Thank you for all your help. Jean in Victoria, B.C. Canada.