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1860 -
Name: Adelade Tortlough
Age in 1860: 8
Birth Year: abt 1852
Birthplace: Belgium
Home in 1860: Brussels, Door, Wisconsin
Gender: Female
Post Office: Chicatock
Ajan Tortlough 38, BELGIUM - farmer
Mary Tortlough 37, BELGIUM
Gustoph Tortlough 16, BELGIUM
Gerard Tortlough 14, BELGIUM
Octavia Tortlough 13, BELGIUM
Madeline Tortlough 9, BELGIUM
Adelade Tortlough 8, Belgium
Mary Tortlough 3, WI
Marianne?? 2 months, WI
1870 -
Name: Etienne Tordeur
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1818
Age in 1870: 52
Birthplace: Belgium
Home in 1870: Belleview, Brown, Wisconsin
Race: White
Gender: Male
Post Office: Green Bay
Etienne Tordeur 52, Belgium
Thearasse Tordeur 49, Belgium
Adell Tordeur 18, Belgium
Mary Tordeur 12, WI
Malina Tordeur 10, WI
Hortense Tordeur 8, WI
Grigori Tordeur 7, WI
Flora Tordeur 3, WI
Oliver Tordeur 9/12, WI
RE: name changes
Many family names were change simply to adapt to the American way of spelling. In other words - trying to blend into American life. Also, census takers were not that great at spelling foreign names. So, they wrote what the "ear" heard thus appearing to change the name. Many immigrants could not rear or write so they could not verify the correctness of what the census taker wrote.
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