Jan - I can't tell you where they were in 1920, not yet anyway, but, I can tell you that in 1930, Helen and Dorothy are listed as daughters, but are in fact granddaughters, as they are both living with Horace's parents, William and Mary in the 1930 census. I can't imagine why, but, it's possible that the 1918 flu epidemic took both parents, but noone ever told the girls that it took their mother as well. We have a set of parents in our line who both died of TB in the 1920's. One of the children was taken in, but never legally adopted by a brother of the mother who died, one of them was legally adopted by a local doctor, but never told this, so she never knew that Bacon was not her birth name, and as for the two boys, well, the older generation can't recall their names or what happened to them. That's why I say, I can't imagine why they weren't just told that their mother and father died. Who knows why people did what they did back then, and even now. I'll keep looking in 1920 to see it they are with their grandparents then also. Take care - Deb >From: "SHAFFERJAN@aol.com" <SHAFFERJAN@aol.com> >To: NJCAMDEN-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: [NJCAMDEN] Firths of Camden >Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 11:20:06 -0500 >MIME-Version: 1.0 >Received: from lists5.rootsweb.com ([207.40.200.41]) by mc7-f41.hotmail.com >with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.6713); Thu, 11 Dec 2003 08:22:22 -0800 >Received: (from slist@localhost)by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id >hBBGK3Kb016741;Thu, 11 Dec 2003 09:20:03 -0700 >X-Message-Info: jkbvkEKEB2WWWwaCQF7R9W1sU1BHt9aF >Resent-Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 09:20:03 -0700 >X-Original-Sender: SHAFFERJAN@aol.com Thu Dec 11 09:20:02 2003 >Old-To: NJCAMDEN-L@rootsweb.com >Message-id: <3FD89935.CF61DBF9@aol.com> >X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.8 (Macintosh; U; PPC) >X-Accept-Language: en,pdf >X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.38 >Resent-Message-ID: <KKbLU.A.PFE.zkJ2_@lists5.rootsweb.com> >Resent-From: NJCAMDEN-L@rootsweb.com >X-Mailing-List: <NJCAMDEN-L@rootsweb.com> archive/latest/5520 >X-Loop: NJCAMDEN-L@rootsweb.com >Precedence: list >Resent-Sender: NJCAMDEN-L-request@rootsweb.com >Return-Path: NJCAMDEN-L-request@rootsweb.com >X-OriginalArrivalTime: 11 Dec 2003 16:22:22.0919 (UTC) >FILETIME=[F4FCED70:01C3C002] > >I would appreciate information about my Firths. The 1880 census shows in >Precint 1, Camden: Frederick S. Firth Male, White, Age 35, England >Isabela >Firth, Wife, Age 37, England and Samuel Firth, Son, Age 12, England. > >Samuel Firth, born about 1867 in England, a shoemaker by trade, married >Mary >R. Cottrell from Canada, born about 1874. > >The 1910 District 1 renumeration 369 Ward 20 2049 N. Ninth Street Phila >indicates: > >Samuel and Mary (Cottrell) lived at the above address and had three >children: > >Mary age 16, Anna (Annie) age 14 and son John C. Age 12. DOB 3/27/1898 >SS199-01-7024 DOD 7/24/75. > >Anna Firth born 8/8/1898 married Horace Finney about 1917 we think in >Camden, >Gloucester County. They lived with his parents, Willian and Mary Finney on >Bankcroft Street in Philadelphia. Anna Firth and Horace Finney had two >children: Helen born Oct 5, 1917 and Dorothy (my mother) born Feb. 4, >1919, died in >1994. Horace Finney died during the flu epidemic in Phila in 1918. > >I know this is long winded but I'm desparate to find any information >possible >about Anna (Firth) Finney before my Aunt Helen dies. She desparately wants >to know what happened to her mother. Jan > _________________________________________________________________ Our best dial-up offer is back. Get MSN Dial-up Internet Service for 6 months @ $9.95/month now! http://join.msn.com/?page=dept/dialup