Re: Edwin Demaray
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Re: Edwin Demaray
Linda Lew 10/04/06
Hello Linda,
You've got my curiosity going in high gear. I can see an image of the 1870 US census for Speaker Twp, Sanilac Co, MI, (page 11), and the words I see do not match your transcription of this page. In fact, they are so different that I am tempted to think we are talking about completely different documents! But how would that be possible?
Particularly, I see family 79 in the 79th household headed by Simeon Demarry. These spellings are distinct; it is definitely not "Simon" and definitely not "Demary." (The fact that this person actually IS Simon does not alter the fact that the enumerator wrote "Simeon.")
Next, I see a female named Janette, and I see a numeral for her age in which the first digit is ambiguous. The numeral could be interpreted as either "85" or "35." It is emphatically NOT "44." (Once again, although other evidence implies Simon's spouse Janet Willer Demaray was neither 35 nor 85 at the time, one of these two numerals is what the enumerator actually wrote on the page.)
Finally, directly beneath Janette, I read "George," age 21, male, white, farm laborer, born Canada, both father and mother born foreign. George is absent from your transcription.
Can you clue me in on how your transcription can be so different from what appears to me to be the actual census page?
I will add here that, after analyzing this and other censuses, I propose that the census enumerator became confused and that "Janette Demarry" on this 1870 census is an amalgamation of Simon's spouse, Janet, and his mother, Jane, who was indeed 85 at the time.
Of course, I would be extremely interested to know where your value of age 44 for Janette came from.
Regards, martin
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