Joan- what is your ancestor's name and place of birth? Have you found her in any census? Maybe we can work backwards. Kathy ----- Original Message ----- > From: <rolfes@comcast.net> > To: "Baltimore" <MD-BaltimoreCity-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Friday, January 26, 2007 6:28 PM > Subject: [MD-BALTIMORECITY] brick wall > > >> >> The first of my relatives to arrive in Baltimore from Ireland was an 18 >> year old single girl arriving in 1902. She came through the Philadelphia >> port to go to her cousin with name unable to read living on 219 W. Centre >> Street. Arriving in 1903 and 1904 were 2 others also going to the Centre >> St. Address. Big question who lived at this address? The name of cousin >> may be ?Donald but no match found in 1901. I found 200 block of Mulberry >> which should be about a block away and searched page after page in both >> directions with no luck finding Centre. Any one know a way to find a >> certain house in the 1901 census? Joan >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> MD-BALTIMORECITY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without >> the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2007 00:20:34 +0000 > From: rolfes@comcast.net > Subject: Re: [MD-BALTIMORECITY] brick wall > To: md-baltimorecity@rootsweb.com > Message-ID: > <012820070020.7664.45BBEC520007A83700001DF022064244139C0A0004019D@comcast.net> > > > Thanks the map I saw left a few streets out. But I should have known > that. I know the two streets. I guess I did not walk the census far > enough. Will have another go. They live on Chase St. In 1910. In fact > they seemed to move every 2 to 3 years. Sorry I said the 1901 census in > first message but I do more searching in Great Britain then Balto. I do > not know the cousins name and we were always told we had no cousins of > that generation in Baltimore. > I am interested in your name I was a Herman and know the spelling changed. > I have info on them but limited as I do not know any of my Herman family > except my generation down. Some names found often are Balster, Nicklas, > Jacob, Barbara and Caroline. Joan > > > > > > > > -------------- Original message ---------------------- > From: "Dave Herrmann" <davidh411@mchsi.com> >> Joan, >> >> Centre Street is about 5 blocks North of Mulberry Street. they both run >> East/West. >> There is a map of 1890 Baltimore on www.davidrumsey.com that shows the >> election >> districts. I believe Centre Street is in ED 11. That said it is possible >> the >> districts were >> changed prior to the1910 census. If your people came in 1902 - 1904 I >> would >> check >> out the 1910 census to see if they are there plus the 1900 census for the >> cousin. >> >> Dave >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: <rolfes@comcast.net> >> To: "Baltimore" <MD-BaltimoreCity-L@rootsweb.com> >> Sent: Friday, January 26, 2007 6:28 PM >> Subject: [MD-BALTIMORECITY] brick wall >> >> >> > >> > The first of my relatives to arrive in Baltimore from Ireland was an 18 >> > year old single girl arriving in 1902. She came through the >> > Philadelphia >> > port to go to her cousin with name unable to read living on 219 W. >> > Centre >> > Street. Arriving in 1903 and 1904 were 2 others also going to the >> > Centre >> > St. Address. Big question who lived at this address? The name of >> > cousin >> > may be ?Donald but no match found in 1901. I found 200 block of >> > Mulberry >> > which should be about a block away and searched page after page in both >> > directions with no luck finding Centre. Any one know a way to find a >> > certain house in the 1901 census? Joan >> > >> > ------------------------------- >> > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> > MD-BALTIMORECITY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' >> > without >> > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> > >> >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> MD-BALTIMORECITY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without >> the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > ------------------------------ > > To contact the MD-BALTIMORECITY list administrator, send an email to > MD-BALTIMORECITY-admin@rootsweb.com. > > To post a message to the MD-BALTIMORECITY mailing list, send an email to > MD-BALTIMORECITY@rootsweb.com. > > __________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > MD-BALTIMORECITY-request@rootsweb.com > with the word "unsubscribe" without the quotes in the subject and the body > of the > email with no additional text. > > > End of MD-BALTIMORECITY Digest, Vol 2, Issue 25 > *********************************************** > >