Part 678d – Brunhammer Doherty Genealogy – 1864 Birth and Baptism – Great-Grandfather Gerald Doherty, Wilmington, Delaware

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Well the search for genealogy records, vital ones of the Doherty Family Line, has kept me reviewing the Parish Registers of St. Peter’s Church in Wilmington, Delaware.

Based on the discovery of the Marriage Registration of gg-grandparents Philip and Margaret Doherty dated 4 January 1863, see Part 674d, I decided that there may be a chance that some of gg-grandparents Philip and Margaret’s children may have been baptized at the same Church.

As chance would have it I was able find the Baptism Registrations of the first four of 11 children.

The first and the eldest was great-grandfather Gerald. I can read that he was baptized in December 1864, but the actual date of the baptism is not clear due to a close binding of the Register. According to the Register great-grandfather Gerald was born 28 November 1864.

I have downloaded the image of the page from Item 4 of the microfilm FHL [1787748], from the original 1796 – 1930 Church records at the Diocese of Wilmington in Wilmington and Dover, Delaware.

Here is my attempt at transcribing the Latin entry.

1864 December

Eadem die Baptizavi Geraldum filium Philapii
Doherty et Margareta Doherty natum 28 Novbre Sponsores
Davida Doherty et Ellena Doherty
P McSwiggan?

And my translation –

1864 December

On the same day baptized a son Gerald of Philip
Doherty and Margaret Doherty, born 28 November
Sponsors David Doherty and Ellen Doherty
P McSwiggan?

I will be revealing the pages of the St. Peter's Church Register that have the baptism registrations of the next family members in subsequent Posting at A Genealogy Hunt. Stay-tuned.

Enjoy,

Jim

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Part 677ps – Smith Groh Genealogy – The Mystery of Brayton C. Placeway – New Additions to BCP Timeline

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Well, Radar is under the weather and after spending the evening at BluePearl Animal Hospital last night, he has been prescribed for NO excitement and complete bed-rest. It appears that he must have twisted something or pinched a nerve in his neck… with all his bouncing and hyper-active stunts and bounds. Why is it that his prescribed meds are the same as mine?

The genealogy expedition continues into the life of ggg-grandfather Brayton C. Placeway. And just to make sure I am keeping up with the addition of key points and highlights, as I can, along the trail of his Life Timeline.

I have added his Marriage to ggg-grandmother Mary (née Seigel) dated 9 September 1908. (See Part 675ps.) Also in Part 675ps and as enumerated in the 1910 US Census of Wauwatosa City, Wisconsin, ggg-grandparents Brayton and Mary’s daughter is identified at 1 6/12 years of age.

From Family Search and the Pedigree Resource File, as provided by one D. Stenzel, I discovered a birthdate for gg-grandmother Edith (née Placeway). The information presented is 22 July 1909 at Pinckney Township, Livingston County, Michigan. I have added gg-grandmother Edith’s birth event to her father ggg-grandfather Brayton’s Timeline.

Here is the updated Timeline of key events of the life of ggg-grandfather Brayton C. Placeway

Please feel free to contact me with comments, ideas, thoughts, and questions.

Enjoy,

Jim

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Part 676p - Smith Groh Genealogy - The Mystery of Brayton C. Placeway - 1911 Obituary, GGGG-Grandfather William Henry Placeway

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PC is back in the house… and immediately I continue with my genealogy search and research into the past life of ggg-grandfather Brayton C. Placeway.

My next dated item is the 15 November 1911 article from The Daily Times News of Ann Arbor, Michigan. On Page Seven of the newspaper in the Hamburg News column I was able to locate the Obituary of ggg-grandfather Brayton’s and ggg-granduncle Clayton’s father, gggg-grandfather William Henry Placeway. According to the Obituary he passed away on the 1st of November 1911 at his daughter’s home in Ames, Iowa.

GGGG-Grandfather William Henry was survived by a number of family members including his twin sons, Clayton and Brayton. The news article makes a point that ggg-granduncle Clayton, “the former…” is currently living “on the old farm east of Pinckney village”. Pinckney, Michigan is approximately 580 miles east of Ames, Iowa. There does not appear to be any mention of where ggg-grandfather Brayton may have been living.

According to a later document, I did discover where ggg-grandfather Brayton may have been living at the time of his father’s passing. You will have to return to A Genealogy Hunt to find out.

Enjoy,

Jim

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Part 675ps - Smith Groh Genealogy - The Mystery of Brayton C. Placeway - 1910 US Census - GGG-Grandmother Mary (nee Seigel) and Edith Placeway

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Well the trusty PC is in the shop getting an Ubuntu upgrade. I do use two operating systems; Linux and Microsoft. And all-things-being-equal, I will be adding the third, the new Google Chrome operating system Aura. I think it is a Linux-based system, as well. We’ll see what will happen from there.

Well today I decided to focus on the 1910 US Census for Wauwatosa City in Milwaukee County, Wisconsin. There are two families of note, as enumerated on the Census; the Seigel and the Placeway Families. Even though I am concerned with all members of both families, in my quest to understand ggg-grandfather Brayton C. Placeway, I am particularly focused in on ggg-grandmother Mary (nee Seigel) and her daughter, gg-grandmother Edith Placeway.

GGG-Grandmother Mary is the daughter of, as listed on the 1910 Census, gggg-grandparents Charles and Ulricka Seigel. According to Column 8, “Whether single, married, widowed, or divorced” the letter “M” is entered, but also with a superscript, the number “1”. This notation means that ggg-grandmother Mary (nee Seigel) Placeway, on 21 April, 1910, is married and she has been married, at this date, once.

The next Census Column, 9, provides the “Number of years of present marriage.” As of 21 April, the Census shows "1 6/12", or one-and-a-half years. This calculates that ggg-grandmother Mary (nee Seigel) Placeway was married in about September 1908.

From Family Search.org I was able to find the following indexed information and confirm.

Groom's Name: Brayton Placeway
Groom's Birth Date: 1887
Groom's Birthplace: Michigan
Groom's Age: 21
Bride's Name: Mary Seigel
Bride's Birth Date: 1890
Bride's Birthplace: Wisconsin
Bride's Age: 18
Marriage Date: 09 Sep 1908
Marriage Place: Wauwatosa, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Groom's Father's Name: W.F. Placeway
Groom's Mother's Name: Arabella Spaulding
Bride's Father's Name: Charles Seigel
Bride's Mother's Name: Ulricka Manthye
Groom's Race: White
Groom's Marital Status: Single
Groom's Previous Wife's Name: -
Bride's Race: White
Bride's Marital Status: Single
Bride's Previous Husband's Name: -
Indexing Project (Batch) Number: M00767-6
Source Film Number: 1014027

The source of the above information is the Marriage Records of 1838-1911 of Milwaukee County, Wisconsin. The Family History Library microfilm is FHL[1014027].

Based on the two 1910 US Census pages ggg-grandfather Brayton C. was registered as a Patient at the United States Naval Hospital in Portsmouth, Virginia while his wife, ggg-grandmother Mary and their daughter, gg-grandmother Edith were living with her parents at 173 Chestnut Street in Wauwatosa, about 1,000 miles away.

My question is “What incident or conflict, in about 1910, could have landed ggg-grandfather Brayton as a Patient in the US Naval Hospital?”

Any thoughts, comments, ideas, and questions please contact me.

Enjoy,

Jim

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Part 674d – Brunhammer Doherty Genealogy – 1863 Marriage – GG-Grandparents Philip and Margaret Doherty – Wilmington, Delaware

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A quiet day on the genealogy front…and the search keeps going on.

I have been working on the 4 January 1863 Marriage Registration of Andy’s gg-grandparents Philip and Margaret Doherty. I discovered an image of the page from Saint Peter’s Church, later Cathedral, in Wilmington, Delaware.

Here is the image of the page as downloaded from Item 4 of the microfilm FHL [1787872].

This is my transcription…

Januarius 1863

4th Phillippus & Margareta Doherty,
prius dispensatione obtentio a tertio
gradu Consanguinitatis ab Reverendissimis Domino
Jacobo F Wood - coram
me Matrimonuum inierunt
Testes fuerunt Gulielmus McGonnigee
& Catharina
P. R. O'Brien

Thanks to Lynn, Helen, Paul, and Kitty for assistance with the transcription of the Latin script.

Here is my translation...

January 1863

4th Philip and Margaret Doherty,
first having obtained a dispensation from the third
degree of consanguinity, of the Most Revered
Jacob F Wood - before
I took Marriage

The witnesses were William McGonnigee
and Catherine

P. R. O'Brien

Third degree of consanguinity would indicate gg-grandparents Philip and Margaret as 2nd Cousins.

I learned this about Degrees of Consanguinity at a site at Wikepedia.

"Religious and traditional law

In the Roman Catholic Church, unwittingly marrying a closely consanguineous blood relative is grounds for an annulment, but dispensations were granted, actually almost routinely (the Canon law of the Catholic Church banned marriages within the fourth degree of relationship [third cousins] from at least the year 1215). In the Canon Law system (as well as in the common law system), the degree of relationship is determined by counting the number of steps counted between each party to the common ancestor and taking the higher number of the two. The general rule was that while fourth cousins could marry without dispensation, those more closely related needed dispensation, with it becoming harder and harder to obtain the closer the couple were related."

And if I read this correctly then gg-grandparents Philip and Margaret may have had the same great-grandparents or Andy’s 4-times great-grandparents Doherty/Dougherty...

Any comments, questions, thoughts, and ideas, please contact me.

Enjoy,

Jim

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Part 673p – Groh Smith Genealogy – The Mystery of GGG-Grandfather Brayton C. Placeway – 1910 Patient – United States Naval Hospital

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Just had to try it this morning… Strawberries and mozzarella with sour cream, salt and pepper omelet.

You should have seen the look I received when I placed the finished dish on the table. And it was goooooood! And I did construct it in just about 20 minutes. Chopped! Can I have some more please?

In my genealogy work and the reconstructing of the life of ggg-grandfather Brayton C. Placeway, I am always amazed at what I have been able to find tucked in behind a Cloud, floating away in Internetland.

The next document referencing ggg-grandfather Brayton is the 1910 United Census. The Census is an enumeration of the patients at the United States Naval Hospital in Portsmouth City in Norfolk County, Virginia.

21 year-old ggg-grandfather Brayton is listed as a Patient, along with about 200 hundred United States Navy personnel. His occupation is listed as an Apprentice Seaman. The date of Census is 15 April 1910.

The majority of the Patients, on this page of the 1910 US Census are enumerated with the U.S. Navy. Three are listed with the U.S.M.C., which I believe stands for U.S. Marine Corps. One is with the Naval Artillery Services, which could be of Spain, and two are with the Brazilian Navy.

My question is “What conflict or incident could have landed so many Navy personnel in the Hospital at this time?”

Oh and by the way the 1910 US Census indicates that ggg-grandfather Brayton is married as of the date of the Census.

I have now created a Timeline Chart of the life of ggg-grandfather Brayton C. Placeway.

I will be adding his life events as I progress through the search and research of the data and information.

If you have any questions, comments, and ideas, please contact me.

Enjoy,

Jim

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Part 672p – Groh Smith Genealogy – The Mystery of GGG-Grandfather Brayton C. Placeway – An Accident

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One never knows the unwinding of details and circumspect information that one must travail through when deciphering the lives of any of our ancestors in the search for one’s genealogy. And another way of putting this…sometimes there is a lot of data to sort through. Sometimes the answers do not come very easy.

Today I start with the mystery of my search and research into the life of soon-to-be great-great-great-grandfather Brayton C. Placeway. I am going to attempt to make logical sense of all the information that I have found to date. And there is no way that I will be able to present everything that I have found in just one Posting on A Genealogy Hunt. I will be offering bit by bit and my thoughts in constructing the puzzle of his life.

GGG-Grandfather Brayton C. Placeway and his twin brother GGG-Granduncle Clayton C. Placeway were born 17 April 1888 in Putnam, Livingston, Michigan in the United States. Brayton and Clayton were the sons of GGGG-Grandparents William Henry and Arvilla Louise (née Spalding) Placeway.

The earliest, to date, information of the twins Brayton and Clayton I have found is an article from the October 6, 1903 edition of the Jackson Semi-Weekly Citizen. Accordingly 15-year old Brayton was thrown from a wagon and seriously injured. The following is an image of the Jackson Semi-Weekly Citizen article.

All-things-being-equal, it can be surmised that ggg-grandfather Brayton did survive his injuries, as I have discovered a trove of later dated documents and articles.

Stay-tuned for more at A Genealogy Hunt on the life and relationships of ggg-grandfather Brayton Placeway.

Enjoy,

Jim

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