A suggestion when submitting information, such as the recent CURRAN/CURRENT information: capitalize all of the surnames. People routinely get volumes of information most of which is not pertinent. But who knows a related name may ring true. If I could scan a large document and pick out those joice bits, I might reply. As it is, I just look at the main name, current, and disregard the entire document. Thanks, Dick At 10:03 AM 5/23/01 -0700, you wrote: >MIINGHAM-D Digest Volume 01 : Issue 26 > >Today's Topics: > #1 [MIINGHAM] James Curran/Current [[email protected]] > >Administrivia: >If you'd like to post a message so everyone on the mailing list receives it, just send it to [email protected] > >------------------------------------------------------------ > >To unsubscribe from MIINGHAM-D, send a message to > > [email protected] > >that contains in the body of the message the command > > unsubscribe > >and no other text. No subject line is necessary, but if your software requires one, just use unsubscribe in the subject, too. > >______________________________X-Message: #1 >Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 14:23:18 EDT >From: [email protected] >To: [email protected] >Message-ID: <[email protected]> >Subject: [MIINGHAM] James Curran/Current >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" > >James CURRENT/CURRAN (& Saliarh GREEN); ON, CAN >IA, USA>MI,USA > >I live in Michigan, and have been researching my husband's family since 1987 >but am against a brick wall, which is very discouraging.  Here's the story: > >The descendants of James Current and Saliarh Green, of Canada, (my husband's >g-g-grandparents): >Joseph Nelson Currrent  (our g-g-grandfather) was born 26 Jan. 1844, in >Canada.  Some sources give Lockport, some Cullins, and some Welland.   He had >four brothers, George O., born Oct. 30, 1844, Anson (nfd), Hugh Sherin (nfd), >and Thomas David, born 1850.  We don't know the birth order, except that >David was the youngest.   According to what Nels told his children, their >parents died and left them orphaned at a young age.  They were raised by two >maiden aunts, within earshot of Niagara Falls.  These aunts may have been >older than his parents, and part German.  One of my father-in-law's cousins >thinks they were the father's sisters, and slow and methodical in nature, >passing that trait on to Nels.  There was a settlement next to Crowland, >originally called New Germany, and later called Snyder.  Maybe the German >relatives lived there?  Would there be any records in New >Germany/Snyder/Crowland that might give a clue to what became of James and >Saliarh, or a record of the children's births? > >There was a large family of Currents in the Niagara area in the late 1700's >through the 1800's- mainly the township of Crowland.  They were descended >from William Current and Esther Lemon, Loyalists.   I have been unable to >connect us to this family.  Some of the family thinks our name was originally >Curran, and some even changed their name to that.  But, the name Curran is >Irish, whereas Current is English, passing through northern  Ireland before >coming to N.J. in the early 1700's.  Nels always listed his ancestrage as >English.   Curran would most likely be Irish Catholic, whereas the Currents >were always Protestant, as was our Nels.  Plus, the names of Nels' siblings >and children reflect the given names of the Current family in Crowland.  I >have located one grandson of William and Esther Lemon, youngest son of their >eldest child, Joseph Current and Mary McDuffy.  His name was James Bales >Current, born 1 or 11 June 1821, possibly died 21 June 1902 or 1909.  All of >his siblings are accounted for, with wives and children.  But I cannot locate >the wife or children for James Bales.  When his nephew Mark W. Current went >to Iowa, James B. Currant accompanied him, and even took some land in >Maquoketa (04 Dec. 1855 Book page 550, 04 Dec. 1855 Book page 549, 02 Mar. >1857), but he didn't stay.  It is thought he returned to Canada, but this >isn't known for certain.  I have an idea this is our ancestor, but cannot >prove it.  For one thing, the Current family tradition gives his death as >1902 or 1909, Thorold Twp., but with no documentation to prove it. This would >be well into the adult lives of Nels and his siblings- hardly accounting for >their tradtion of being left orphaned at a young age!   > >The only documentation I have found, which has proven very confusing, are the >cemetery records of Doan's Ridge Cemetery for the unmarked graves, no. 100 >being an Elijah Bales Current, who died 21 June 1909, age 75 y., 3m., 21d, at >Thorold, married.  Eliza .E. Current making return, buried in old yard, N. >side of his mother.  Counting back, that would make him born 28 Feb., 1834, >long after the death of Joseph Current (in 1827).  James' next older brother >was Elijah/Elisha Barton Current, married to Eliza Clothier.  But he moved to >Iowa as a young man, and remained there, dying 18 June 1884, and is buried in >the Smithtown Cemetery, near Lost Nation, IA.  His common-law wife, Eliza, is >buried there with him.  (and her middle initial is A., not E.)  I would like >to know who this Elisha Bales Current is that was buried beside his mother in >Doan's Ridge Cemetery, who his mother was, who his wife was, and who Eliza >was that returned his body for burial!  He isn't the son of Elijah Barton >Current, of Iowa as his children are all accounted for.  I would like to find >out if James Bales Current actually died in Thorold Twp on June 21, 1902 or >1909, as the Current tradition says, and who his wife and children were, and >where he lived during the years following his buying land in Iowa. > >I can find no record of a Saliarh Green, the mother of Nels Current, in the >Green families of that area.  She was supposed to have been born in either >N.Y. or Canada, the different sons recording different info on her.  There >was a Green family in the Niagara area, interacting wiht the Current family. > It is my understanding that the first Green in the area, Charles Green, came >from N.J., where he married to a Rebekah Scritchfield, of German descent >(could be where the German blood came in).   they settled in Lundy's Lane, >near Crowland.  Of their children, all are accounted for except Henry, whose >wife and children are not known.  Maybe Saliarh was Henry's daughter, or a >cousin of this family? > >I haven't been able to locate James in the 1851 census.  Maybe they weren't >living in Crowland, but in another county at that time?  In the 1861 census >Joseph was listed in Humberstone twp living in the home of the widow Sarah >Pound and her children, a Quaker, age 16, a laborer.  His brother Thomas D. >was living in Crowland Twp, with the Alexander McKinney family, age 11, no >church, a laborer.  I can't find George, Anson, or Hugh in the 1861 census. > I would like to locate James in the 1851 census, and George, Anson, and Hugh >Sherin in the 1861 census.  Could be in a wide circle away from Crowland. > They may even be going by the last name of Curran, since George took on that >last name when he moved to Michigan. > >In 1862 Nels moved to Michigan, Saginaw Co, and married Jane Pine in 1867. > In 1875 George O. moved to St. Claire Co., MI, and married Margaret Burgess >in 1877. They had 3 children born in this area, but one died. I haven't been >able to find any of these vital statics.  He later moved to Cadillac, >Wexford Co, and went by the name of Curran. Thomas David was a travelling >repairman of the huge lumbermill saws. In the 1870 census he lived in >Berrien Co., MI. I need to locate him in subsequent censuses. George told >the family they had cousins in the Detroit area, as well, who went by the >spelling, Curran. I found a Wm. A. Current living in Saginaw in the late >1800's to early 1900's, but later his wife is listed as a widow, and there is >no death record. I need to find out if this is Anson, since at least two of >the brothers went by their middle name among family. I located a James >Curran of the right age to be the boys' father living in Inghan Co., MI in >the 1870 census, working on the railroad. I would appreciate more >information about him. > >If there is anything that you are in a position to easily look up for me, or >have an idea of who or where I could get help from, I would greatly >appreciate it! > >Marilyn Current of Whitehall, MI > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Dick Hills' [email protected]