Stephen, This is great - I actually had 2 Williams listed on my database. I think the next time I go to the Archives, I will look up Ransom Van Norman's civil war pension - he served from Wisconsin and his mother (Elmira filed for his pension in 1871) This might give the information if she was divorced. Linda Noggle On Nov 2, 2010, at 9:34 AM, Stephen Wood wrote: > Hi! > > While "playing" with the Civil War Pension records that Linda > shared with us the other day, I was side-tracked for many hours by the > discovery of a couple of marriage records that caught my attention. > > I have asked before about William R. Van Norman, born ca. 1806 in > Massachusetts on this mailing list, as he appeared to have separated > from his first wife Elvira / Almira Perrine, born ca. 1809 NY. In the > 1870 census, he appears in Aurora, Waushara Co., Wisconsin with what > appears to be a new wife Eliza, and [step] daughter Harriet, while his > first wife is listed in the same town enumerated with their daughter > Abbie (Abigail) Eldred and her young family. > > I found a marriage record for a William Vannorman to Eliza Cady > (nee Fairfield) on 21 Nov. 1868 in Green Lake, Wisconsin which matches > the 1870 census information. [plus found 1860 census for Alvin & Eliza > "Cody" with a daughter Harriet the right age] > Found on: beta.familysearch.org - The index to Eliza's 1898 death is also there. > > The interesting part was that his parents were listed as Jacob & > Lydia Vannorman. > > This has to be Jacob Truman Van Ornum & his wife Lydia Sawyer. The > original information that I had for their son William, has turned out > to be in error, mixed up with William R.'s son Lyman's information. > (so someone had obviously made the connection before me) > > Someone had originally stated that William R's parents were Isaac > & Agnes Van Norman - but I have never uncovered any evidence to this, > and my query to this list brought nothing about his parentage either. > > So, unless someone else has a better idea, I'm now adding William > R. to the Jacob and Lydia (Sawyer) Van Norman / Van Ornum etc. family! > > Stephen > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to VANNORMAN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Hi! That would be a great help Linda - with luck it will confirm everything for us! Thanks, Stephen On 11/3/10, Linda Noggle <lindanoggle@verizon.net> wrote: > Stephen, > > This is great - I actually had 2 Williams listed on my database. > I think the next time I go to the Archives, I will look up Ransom Van > Norman's civil war pension - > he served from Wisconsin and his mother (Elmira filed for his pension in > 1871) > This might give the information if she was divorced. > > Linda Noggle