Harold, and others, Approximately 100 years ago the Milwaukee River was apparently safe for swimming. Photos at the Milwaukee historical society show many swimming clubs along the shores of the river north of downtown but in the city. This may have been before the North Avenue dam went in, which was removed a few years ago. Perhaps contacting the historical society would turn up information about these business places and their names. They probably offered some refreshments, a washing up place, and maybe music to customers. If someone has access to city directories, the name may appear there. Ashley ----- Original Message ----- From: HJ & PJE Spurgeon To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2005 6:42 PM Subject: Re: [WiMilwau] ROLL CALL ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mary R. Frank" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2005 5:07 AM Subject: Re: [WiMilwau] ROLL CALL Hello Mary Thank you for contacting me. I am going by memory about information my grandmother talked about 50 years ago. She thought the "New Lido" was either a new swimming complex or a beach on the shores of Lake Michigan. Cyril drowned there at the age of 16 and he was born in 1900. I have a photo of Nellie with twin daughters who were in their mid 20's at the time, about 1948, but I don't know where it was taken. Unfortunately my grandparents are long since dead, together with all their children, so I have nobody to ask. If I cannot get any clues from your side of the world, I'll leave that side of the family to history. Best wishes, Harold > What information are you looking for? What is "New Lido"? I haven't > heard of that--does anybody else on the list know what this is? > > mrf > > > HJ & PJE Spurgeon wrote: > >> Hi Bob >> I have hit a brickwall with my GRIMES family. They emigrated to >> Milwaukee from Gillingham in Kent about 1915. >> John was born in Pembrokeshire Wales, 1854. >> Wife Sarah in Staffordshire, 1857. >> There was also James,1879, Henry,1886, Nellie 1889, George,1892, >> Thomas1894 and Cyril 1900. >> I was told by my grandmother,(one of the above family that did not >> emigrate,) that Cyril was drowned at the (New Lido,) in 1916. >> >> I would greatly appreciate any help or advice you could give me. >> >> Best wishes, >> >> Harold Spurgeon, Auckland, New Zealand. >> >> ==== WIMILWAU Mailing List ==== For subscribe/unsubscribe and other general list information, please see http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~sewis/wimilwau.htm ============================== Census images 1901, 1891, 1881 and 1871, plus so much more. Ancestry.com's United Kingdom & Ireland Collection. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13968/rd.ashx

Perhaps check old newspapers like the Milwaukee Journal. Here's part of my family's Milwaukee River story. John was my grandmother's oldest brother. July 27, 1914: "Mother Sees Her Boy Drown While swimming in the river at the foot of Wright Street Sunday, John Orzechowski, 11, 915 Bolton St., was seized with cramps and drowned. The boy's mother and five smaller brothers and sisters stood upon the bank, unable to assist. The mother, with her six children, walked to the river to spend Sunday afternoon and John begged permission to go in swimming. When this was granted he joined other boys and dived off a springboard. His body did not come to the surface. Police began dragging the river Monday. Several of the youth's swimming companions risked their own lives in efforts to recover the body." "The body of John Orzechowski, 11, 915 Bolton St., who drowned while swimming in the Milwaukee river at the foot of Wright St, was recovered Tuesday. The police dragged the river throughout Monday, but were unable to find the body. The body, discovered floating down the river by John Padjewski, 916 Dousman St., was taken to the home of the parents." Karen Duffy ----- Original Message ----- From: "ashley tiwara" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2005 11:21 PM Subject: [WiMilwau] Milwaukee river swimming > Harold, and others, > Approximately 100 years ago the Milwaukee River was apparently safe for swimming. Photos at the Milwaukee historical society show many swimming clubs along the shores of the river north of downtown but in the city. This may have been before the North Avenue dam went in, which was removed a few years ago. Perhaps contacting the historical society would turn up information about these business places and their names. They probably offered some refreshments, a washing up place, and maybe music to customers. > If someone has access to city directories, the name may appear there. > > Ashley > ----- Original Message ----- > From: HJ & PJE Spurgeon > To: [email protected] > Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2005 6:42 PM > Subject: Re: [WiMilwau] ROLL CALL > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Mary R. Frank" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2005 5:07 AM > Subject: Re: [WiMilwau] ROLL CALL > > Hello Mary > Thank you for contacting me. I am going by memory about information my > grandmother talked about 50 years ago. She thought the "New Lido" was either > a new swimming complex or a beach on the shores of Lake Michigan. Cyril > drowned > there at the age of 16 and he was born in 1900. > I have a photo of Nellie with twin daughters who were in their mid 20's at > the time, about 1948, but I don't know where it was taken. > Unfortunately my grandparents are long since dead, together with all their > children, so I have nobody to ask. > If I cannot get any clues from your side of the world, I'll leave that side > of the family to history. > Best wishes, > Harold > > > > > > What information are you looking for? What is "New Lido"? I haven't > > heard of that--does anybody else on the list know what this is? > > > > mrf > > > > > > HJ & PJE Spurgeon wrote: > > > >> Hi Bob > >> I have hit a brickwall with my GRIMES family. They emigrated to > >> Milwaukee from Gillingham in Kent about 1915. > >> John was born in Pembrokeshire Wales, 1854. > >> Wife Sarah in Staffordshire, 1857. > >> There was also James,1879, Henry,1886, Nellie 1889, George,1892, > >> Thomas1894 and Cyril 1900. > >> I was told by my grandmother,(one of the above family that did not > >> emigrate,) that Cyril was drowned at the (New Lido,) in 1916. > >> > >> I would greatly appreciate any help or advice you could give me. > >> > >> Best wishes, > >> > >> Harold Spurgeon, Auckland, New Zealand. > >> > > >> > > > > ==== WIMILWAU Mailing List ==== > For subscribe/unsubscribe and other general list information, please see > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~sewis/wimilwau.htm > > ============================== > Census images 1901, 1891, 1881 and 1871, plus so much more. > Ancestry.com's United Kingdom & Ireland Collection. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13968/rd.ashx > > > ==== WIMILWAU Mailing List ==== > For subscribe/unsubscribe and other general list information, please see > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~sewis/wimilwau.htm > > ============================== > 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 > >

When my mother and aunt were in their 90's they still talked about the fun they had at the Rohn Swimming School and how the Milwaukee River was a center of activities. There was also a very active canoe club, of which they were members. That canoe was over 50 years old when I "lived in it" on Lake Keesus in the 1940's. I found reference to the swimming school at http://mptv.org/iremem32.htm -- a 2000 Milwaukee Public Television program. Perhaps someone might do a look-up on this. Liz AZ ----- Original Message ----- From: "ashley tiwara" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2005 10:21 PM Subject: [WiMilwau] Milwaukee river swimming > Harold, and others, > Approximately 100 years ago the Milwaukee River was apparently safe for > swimming. Photos at the Milwaukee historical society show many swimming > clubs along the shores of the river north of downtown but in the city. > This may have been before the North Avenue dam went in, which was removed > a few years ago. Perhaps contacting the historical society would turn up > information about these business places and their names. They probably > offered some refreshments, a washing up place, and maybe music to > customers. > If someone has access to city directories, the name may appear there. > > Ashley > ----- Original Message ----- > From: HJ & PJE Spurgeon > To: [email protected] > Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2005 6:42 PM > Subject: Re: [WiMilwau] ROLL CALL > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Mary R. Frank" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2005 5:07 AM > Subject: Re: [WiMilwau] ROLL CALL > > Hello Mary > Thank you for contacting me. I am going by memory about information my > grandmother talked about 50 years ago. She thought the "New Lido" was > either > a new swimming complex or a beach on the shores of Lake Michigan. Cyril > drowned > there at the age of 16 and he was born in 1900. > I have a photo of Nellie with twin daughters who were in their mid 20's > at > the time, about 1948, but I don't know where it was taken. > Unfortunately my grandparents are long since dead, together with all > their > children, so I have nobody to ask. > If I cannot get any clues from your side of the world, I'll leave that > side > of the family to history. > Best wishes, > Harold > > > > > > What information are you looking for? What is "New Lido"? I haven't > > heard of that--does anybody else on the list know what this is? > > > > mrf > > > > > > HJ & PJE Spurgeon wrote: > > > >> Hi Bob > >> I have hit a brickwall with my GRIMES family. They emigrated to > >> Milwaukee from Gillingham in Kent about 1915. > >> John was born in Pembrokeshire Wales, 1854. > >> Wife Sarah in Staffordshire, 1857. > >> There was also James,1879, Henry,1886, Nellie 1889, George,1892, > >> Thomas1894 and Cyril 1900. > >> I was told by my grandmother,(one of the above family that did not > >> emigrate,) that Cyril was drowned at the (New Lido,) in 1916. > >> > >> I would greatly appreciate any help or advice you could give me. > >> > >> Best wishes, > >> > >> Harold Spurgeon, Auckland, New Zealand. > >> > > >> > > > > ==== WIMILWAU Mailing List ==== > For subscribe/unsubscribe and other general list information, please see > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~sewis/wimilwau.htm > > ============================== > Census images 1901, 1891, 1881 and 1871, plus so much more. > Ancestry.com's United Kingdom & Ireland Collection. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13968/rd.ashx > > > ==== WIMILWAU Mailing List ==== > For subscribe/unsubscribe and other general list information, please see > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~sewis/wimilwau.htm > > ============================== > 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 > >