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The message below was sent as a follow-up to a query at the Maryland Genealogy Forum. Pertains to descendants of Joseph John Biggs, b ca 1815 NC, a descendant of John Biggs of Edgecombe Co NC and a cousin of Kader Biggs, b ca 1815. This Kader was a son of Joseph II and a grandson of Joseph and Margaret (Eastwood) Biggs of Martin Co NC.
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World War I draft registration card filled out by Walter Biggs Wilson at Chicago on 12 Sep 1918. Home address: 4543 Clifton Ave., Chicago. Age 34. Born Nov. 19, 1883. Insurance agent, John Hancock Life Ins. Co., 2373 Lincoln Ave., Chicago. Nearest relative: Mary M. Wilson, 4543 Clifton Ave., Chicago. He was of medium height and build, grey eyes, dark hair, slightly bald. No physical deformities.
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1910 CENSUS, BALTIMORE MD
WALTER B. WILSON 26 MD SC VA, clerk, city hall
First marriage, married 2 yrs
Mary M., 25 MD MD MD
Second mrg; 1 child, 1 living
Walter B. Jr., 1 yr 2 months MD MD MD
+ two boarders
Dist. 328
FORT E. WILSON 61 SC SC SC
Alice B., wife, VA NC PA
They were married 35 yrs. She was the mother of 3 children, 3 living.
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1920 CENSUS, CHICAGO, COOK CO, IL
4543 Clifton Ave.
WALTER B. WILSON 36 MD SC VA, clerk, motor bus co.
Mary M., 35 MD MD MD
Walter B. Jr., 10 MD MD MD, newspaper sales boy
Mary R. BOARMAN, mother-in-law, 60 widow MD GER MD
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1900 CENSUS, BALTIMORE MD
Ward 9
MARY BOARMAN, b Dec 1860, MD MD MD, seamstress
Widow, 5 children, 4 living
George (middle initial R?), son Mar 1882 MD MD MD day laborer
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1900 CENSUS, BALTIMORE MD
Ward 20
----? E. WILSON, head, male, b Mar 1849 SC
Alice B., wife, Jun 1855 VA
Married 25 yrs, 3 children, 3 living
Isabela L., dau, Aug 1879 MD
Walter B., son, Nov 1883 MD
Isabela BIGGS, sis-in-law, Mar 1868 VA
Jennie C. WOODS, cousin, Aug 1882 MD
Walter G. WOODS, nephew, Jul 1883 MD
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1880 CENSUS, BALTIMORE MD
7th Precinct, 19th Ward, 7 Jun 1880
JOS. J. BIGGS 65 NC NC NC cotton broker
Isabella J., wife, 46, PA PA PA
Jas. M., son, 30 VA NC PA clerk in store
Richard J., son, 21 VA NC PA clerk in store
William D., son, 18 VA NC PA clerk in store
Bessie, dau, 14 VA NC PA at school
Belle, dau, 12 VA NC PA at school [Isabela L.]
Lena?, dau, 10 VA NC PA at school
+ black servant Lizzie, 18, last name undecipherable
13th District, 25 Jun 1880
RICHARD BIGGS 28 head PA NC PA clerk in store
Alice 24 wife MD MD MD
Fort WILSON 28 (relationship not given) SC SC SC clerk, B&O RR
Alice WILSON 23 ("sife", should be "sister" of Richard) VA NC PA (suffering from dysentery)
Richard BIGGS 3 son (of Richard) MD PA MD
Allen WILSON (no relationship shown) 4 MD SC SC
Bell WILSON (no rel shown) 10 months MD SC SC, b Aug
+ three black servants
See the ancestry of Fort Evans Wilson at Rootsweb's WorldConnect Project, and also presented at
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~cummingsofscgen/NathanE5a.html
Descendants of Evan ap Evans.
Fort would seem to be descended from Dr. James Pliny Wilson because of a Jamison family connection. See
http://bellsouthpwp.net/j/a/jamison_clan/p49.htm#i2524
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1870 CENSUS, BALTIMORE MD
18th Ward, 6 Jul 1870
JOSEPH J. BIGGS 55 NC com. merchant $9000
Isabella J. 39 PA
James M. 21 PA, clerk to comm. merchant
Richard J. 19 PA
Alice 15 VA school
Frank S. 12 VA school
Walter 11 VA school
William D. 9 VA school
Bessie 5 VA
Bella 2 VA
Laura 2 months MD (born in March)
Lizzie WARD 20 VA h. servant
Jane WIGGINS 14 black, h. servant
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1860 CENSUS, NORFOLK CO VA
City of Norfolk, 14 Jun 1860
(The first four lines of this household are partially obscured on the microfilm copy. Judging from the 1870 census these four names would be Joseph J., wife Isabella and sons James and Richard. Birthplaces on the first four lines are NC, PA and two dittos for PA. The personal estate for the head of household was $10,000.)
Alice Biggs 5 VA
Frank Biggs 3 VA
Walter S. Biggs 1 VA
Next door to this household are:
KADER BIGGS 45 NC merchant. Real estate value $20,000; personal estate $50,000.
Lucy 30 NC
Mary J. 16 NC
Walter 8 VA
Lu 6 VA female
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1850 CENSUS, WAKE CO NC
Raleigh, 13 Aug 1850
J. J. BIGGS 36 NC merchant tailor
Isabella 20 PA
James 1 NC
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See the writings of Francis Sexton "Frank" Biggs, son of Joseph J. Biggs, in Joan Spiker's message at
http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/read/BIGGS/1998-09/0905907010
It states there that Joseph John Biggs was a cousin of Kader Biggs, with whom he was in partnership at Norfolk in the 1850's and '60's.
See
http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/read/BIGGS/1998-09/0905203632
Says Joan Spiker is great-great-great-granddaughter of James Biggs of Edgecombe Co NC. He moved to Tennessee late in life and died there on the farm of his son Davis Biggs in 1859. James' son Joseph John Biggs wrote some of his remembrances of his father James and said he was the son of John Biggs of Edgecombe Co who died in 1789.
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