1880 census Kansas, Riley, Bala Robert Schenk--age 47--farmer--Russia Wilhelmina wife---age 42---Russia Robert son--age13--work on farm--Wisconsin Levis son--age 11-----Illinois Rhonna dau--age8---Kansas--question on spelling her name. Josephine dau--age 6---Kansas Henry son---age 3----Iowa Joseph son--age 8/12 months----Kansas June 23, 1880 Page No. 29 Census begin June 1, 1879 and end May 31, 1880 Hope this helps Jerrald lloyd ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, April 28, 2006 10:39 AM Subject: [WIGRANT] Re: Grant County available info > This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > > Surnames: Schenk Schenck Prawn Braun > Classification: Query > > Message Board URL: > > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/lEC.2ACE/1081.1.2 > > Message Board Post: > > Hi Curtis, > > Does your plat map have Ellenboro? > > I'm trying to locate my ancestors. Robert H Schenk, son of Michael, > (Schenck sometimes) married Wilhelmine 6 Dec 1856. On county marriage > license, she is listed as Wilcena Prawn, daughter of George and Christiana > Prawn. However, I cannot find a George or a Prawn that fits the spelling > or variation of spelling in the 1860 Grant County census. Other county > 1860 census on Ancestry.com did not yield results. If the county clerk > misunderstood Wilhelmina for Wilcena, what was the original name that > would have been guessed as Prawn? Could it be Braun? > > I'm hoping that George and Christiana stayed in Grant County, but they may > have moved shortly after the marriage of their daughter. Robert and > Wilhelmina stayed in/near Ellenboro for a few more years until they moved > to Illinois (sometime before 1869). > > I've looked in so many places for siblings or variations of spelling of > Prawn (census records state Wilhelmina was Prussian/German), but no luck. > > Thanks. > Diane > > > ==== WIGRANT Mailing List ==== > Neither HTML nor RTF is acceptable for mailing lists. It causes > problems for Rootsweb servers and for certain email programs. Please turn > these functions off. > > ============================== > Find your ancestors in the Birth, Marriage and Death Records. > New content added every business day. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13964/rd.ashx >