Re: Looking for these Beach anchestors
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Re: Looking for these Beach anchestors
6/09/99
Hello Eugene
I thought I had a match but than I hit a few snags ... maybe we can clear things up.
My Line is Ida E Place > Ada Jane Kidd > Betsy Jane Beach
I don't have any information on sibs or parents for Betsy.
Betsy Jane m. Robert W Kidd before 1850 ... Robert and Betsy are in the 1850 Census - Orleans, Ionia, Mich. It's page 10 of 12 on Ancestry.com but I think it's page 49 for the census. Betsy is 22 in 1850. In the home with Robert and Betsy is a Helen Beach, age 14, relationship uncertain.
This is where I thought I had a match, despite the ages for both Betsy and Helen being off by a year. Then I noticed that Helen is listed in 1850 living with Ransom. (note ... the Ionia Census was enumerated in August - the Clinton Census in September - so in theory Helen could have been visiting her sister and then back home to be listed in both)
In 1850 Betsy's pob is listed as New York. But in 1880 Ada Jane's mother's pob is listed as Michigan. Ada might not have been sure and guessed wrong.
I can't find Robert or Betsy after 1850 ... you listed Betsy's dod as 1856.
It just seems too coincidental to me that 2 diffent Betsy Jane Beaches would be born within a year of each other - both in New York - both with younger sisters named Helen - who also are born in New York within a year of each other. And all 4 relocate to Michigan before 1850.
Hope you can help
Andy