Is there any other source one can check on ancestors born and married in Bladen County then, Sam. Terrell Johnson ----- Original Message ----- From: "sam.west" <sam.west@ncmail.net> To: <ncrobeso@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, February 03, 2007 4:42 PM Subject: Re: [NCROBESO] Bladen County Courthouse Fires > Hi, > > As to records after 1900, I don't think that they are missing. In my > research in Bladen some of the books starts either in 1892/3. > > Deeds are intact after 1800 with minimum loss. Reconstruction of early > deeds was done in the 1700s by people bringing their deeds back to be > rerecorded. > > Wills I don't know, but I do know that there was major loss in the 1800s. > > Estates/Intestates were lost. > > Marriages before 1892/3 are all lost. > > -----Original Message----- > From: ncrobeso-bounces@rootsweb.com > [mailto:ncrobeso-bounces@rootsweb.com]On Behalf Of Steve E. > Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2007 5:26 PM > To: ncrobeso@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [NCROBESO] Bladen County Courthouse Fires > > > According to statements in the Cumberland County court minutes of 1804 > that I myself read, the Bladen County courthouse burned in the 1760s. It > burned again in 1800 and then in 1893. A prominent man I met in > Wilmington recently who is originally from Bladen County said that > records dated after 1900 are also missing and he was told there was yet > another fire early in the 1900s that claimed some records. > > In the early days, court clerks would work by candlelight. As you can > well imagine, it wouldn't take much of an accident to get a fire > started. Interior stoves and fireplaces, forest fires, lightening, > tobacco pipes, etc all had their opportunities to start a blaze. > > After such fires, people would bring their original deeds and wills etc > back to the newly built courthouse to have them re-recorded. But later > fires consumed the re-recorded deeds as well, and in the ensuing period > between fires such original records in the hands of the people would be > lost through house fires and civil war, etc, or the family would throw > them away. I believe the court clerk Maturin Colville, for whatever > strange reason, took some records in the 1770s and refused to give them > up. I don't know the entire story of this event, though. > > All sorts of things were at play to tempt fate into eliminating the > Bladen records. > > > > Terrell Johnson wrote: > >>Just read a post about three separate Bladen County Courthouse fires which > I find odd that any people should let their Courthouse Records be > destroyed > by fire 3 times. Didn't they take care of the peoples property? >> >>Anyway, this could be why I'm having so much difficulty researching one of > my ancestors born in Bladen in the very Late 1700 or early 1800's. >> >>How long did it take to rebuild them after each fire and what years are > reasonably safe to check records for or must all records be physically > searched at the NC Archives in Raleigh and why would anything be there if > the records all burned. >> >>Lot's of questions I know. But 3 fires seems to indicate a lack of care by > the Bladen County residents. I'm sorry. >> >>Terrell Johnson >> >>------------------------------- >>To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > NCROBESO-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 > NCROBESO-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 > NCROBESO-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Terrell --- I'm not Sam, but, we have been to the CH --- No other place for those records. Sam has told you what is available. Sorry -- we too would like to find others - not so. Allen Betty & Allen Johannes abelj@htcomp.net ----- Original Message ----- From: "Terrell Johnson" <terelmann19@carolina.rr.com> To: <ncrobeso@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2007 5:47 PM Subject: Re: [NCROBESO] Bladen County Courthouse Fires > Is there any other source one can check on ancestors born and married in > Bladen County then, Sam. > > Terrell Johnson > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "sam.west" <sam.west@ncmail.net> > To: <ncrobeso@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Saturday, February 03, 2007 4:42 PM > Subject: Re: [NCROBESO] Bladen County Courthouse Fires > > >> Hi, >> >> As to records after 1900, I don't think that they are missing. In my >> research in Bladen some of the books starts either in 1892/3. >> >> Deeds are intact after 1800 with minimum loss. Reconstruction of early >> deeds was done in the 1700s by people bringing their deeds back to be >> rerecorded. >> >> Wills I don't know, but I do know that there was major loss in the 1800s. >> >> Estates/Intestates were lost. >> >> Marriages before 1892/3 are all lost. >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: ncrobeso-bounces@rootsweb.com >> [mailto:ncrobeso-bounces@rootsweb.com]On Behalf Of Steve E. >> Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2007 5:26 PM >> To: ncrobeso@rootsweb.com >> Subject: Re: [NCROBESO] Bladen County Courthouse Fires >> >> >> According to statements in the Cumberland County court minutes of 1804 >> that I myself read, the Bladen County courthouse burned in the 1760s. It >> burned again in 1800 and then in 1893. A prominent man I met in >> Wilmington recently who is originally from Bladen County said that >> records dated after 1900 are also missing and he was told there was yet >> another fire early in the 1900s that claimed some records. >> >> In the early days, court clerks would work by candlelight. As you can >> well imagine, it wouldn't take much of an accident to get a fire >> started. Interior stoves and fireplaces, forest fires, lightening, >> tobacco pipes, etc all had their opportunities to start a blaze. >> >> After such fires, people would bring their original deeds and wills etc >> back to the newly built courthouse to have them re-recorded. But later >> fires consumed the re-recorded deeds as well, and in the ensuing period >> between fires such original records in the hands of the people would be >> lost through house fires and civil war, etc, or the family would throw >> them away. I believe the court clerk Maturin Colville, for whatever >> strange reason, took some records in the 1770s and refused to give them >> up. I don't know the entire story of this event, though. >> >> All sorts of things were at play to tempt fate into eliminating the >> Bladen records. >> >> >> >> Terrell Johnson wrote: >> >>>Just read a post about three separate Bladen County Courthouse fires >>>which >> I find odd that any people should let their Courthouse Records be >> destroyed >> by fire 3 times. Didn't they take care of the peoples property? >>> >>>Anyway, this could be why I'm having so much difficulty researching one >>>of >> my ancestors born in Bladen in the very Late 1700 or early 1800's. >>> >>>How long did it take to rebuild them after each fire and what years are >> reasonably safe to check records for or must all records be physically >> searched at the NC Archives in Raleigh and why would anything be there if >> the records all burned. >>> >>>Lot's of questions I know. But 3 fires seems to indicate a lack of care >>>by >> the Bladen County residents. I'm sorry. >>> >>>Terrell Johnson >>> >>>------------------------------- >>>To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> NCROBESO-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 >> NCROBESO-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 >> NCROBESO-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 > NCROBESO-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >