Alexander Todd, birth, 1870 Transcribed from digital image by Alexander Conrad
1870. Births in the District of Govan Church in the County of Lanark.
No. 740 Name and Surname: Alexander Todd When and where born: 1870 August Sixth, [time indecipherable], 9 Albert Street, Govan Sex: M Name, Surname and Rank or Profession of Father: James Todd, Joiner[?], Journeyman[?] Name and Maiden Surname of Mother: Elizabeth Todd, M.S. Martin Date and Place of Marriage: 1861 September 9th, Newry, Ireland Signature and Qualification of Informant: James Todd, Father, Present When and Where Registered and Signature of Registrar: 1870 August 27th at Govan, Thomas S. Steel, Registrar [this section all very faded and difficult to read]
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Original Source Citation: Govan, Lanark, Scotland, Statutory Birth Registers, p. 247, Alexander Todd, 1870; digital images, ScotlandsPeople (http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/ : accessed 5 December 2012).
Naomi Carman Birth Certificate 1905 Transcribed by Alexander Conrad from original certificate
Naomi Carman Birth 1905B. No. 2510
Philadelphia
Department of Public Health and Charities
Bureau of Health – Division of Vital Statistics
Full Name of Child: Naomi Carman
Color: W
Sex: F
Date of Birth: 7-22-1905
Place of Birth: 1330 Eyre St.
Father’s Name: Joseph
Mother’s Name: Anna
Father’s Occupation: Bricklayer
Father’s Birthplace: Phila.
Mother’s Birthplace: Phila.
Mother’s Name Before Marriage: Anna Funston
Residence of Parents: 1330 Eyre St.
Ward of Residence: 18
Name and Address of Person Making Report:
Signature, A.E. Smethurst
Residence, 2249 N 13th St.
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Notes:
I found this among my grandmother’s possessions after she passed away.
This certificate has the date 9/23/19 handwritten in the corner and was stamped “Issued, Bureau of Compulsory Education, 1522 Cherry St., Phila.” My grandmother was working at a hosiery mill by January 1920, according to the census. My guess is that this certificate was obtained so that she could leave school and go to work.
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Original source citation:
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, birth certificate no. 2510 (1905), Naomi Carman; Bureau of Health – Division of Vital Statistics, Philadelphia.
From Catherine Hornef Carman’s death certificate (1913)
I first discovered Jacob Hornef 1 on his daughter’s death certificate. His name and his birth place were the only clues. Not even his daughter’s mother was named.
I went searching for census records. Complicating matters, there were other Horneffs in the area, mostly in New Jersey, including another Jacob. I kept asking myself, how could they not be related? Hornef(f) is not a common name. This would turn out to be a distraction.
I knew my great-great grandmother Catherine Hornef was born in Germany. The 1900 census said she immigrated in 1846. I found her with her husband Elon Carman from 1870 forward.
I could not find her or her father Jacob in 1850 or 1860.
This is where I encourage persistance and revisiting brick walls. 2
After wasting time pursuing Jacob and Wilhelmina Horneff in New Jersey, I found my Jacob. I had searched various spellings, of course, but I had started before the internet and somehow either I or the indexer of the print index had missed my Hornefs, or as they were recorded by the enumerator in 1860, Harnoff. I found that thanks to the advances in internet search technology. Believe me, I did not type that in. I entered something much closer to Hornef, I am sure, and Ancestry found it. Magic!
Jacob Hornef, his wife Catherine and their three daughters, Catherine, Amelia & Mary, and his mother-in-law Eva Farver (Faber) – 1860 Census
Finding my Hornefs in the 1850 census was more difficult, for reasons I will simply illustrate:
Jacob, Catherine and Catherine “Orneff” 1850 Census
Jacob and Catherin “Orneff” are on lines 25 and 26. Their daughter is on line 32. The household and family numbers are all mixed up as well. I am thinking there may have been language issues involved here.
I did not get much farther with Jacob for quite some time. I found a naturalization record, but could not be certain it was my Jacob and not the other one. Then familysearch.org began uploading their records databases. First, I found Jacob’s death certificate. Then, as discussed in an earlier post, I found his wife’s obituary on genealogybank.com and her death certificate, which gave me her parents’ names: Leonhard Faber and Eva Huber.
With this new information, I returned to familysearch and found indexes of Otterberg church records and a whole slew of information on my Hornefs including Jacob’s christening:
name: Jacob Horneff gender: Male baptism/christening date: 03 Jan 1819 baptism/christening place: EVANGELISCH, OTTERBERG, PFALZ, BAVARIA birth date: 02 Jan 1819 father’s name: Georg Peter Horneff mother’s name: Catharine Cherdron indexing project (batch) number: C97881-1 system origin: Germany-VR source film number: 193110 reference number: 2:1GJM5M2
I still have not looked at the microfilm of the original records3, so I consider this information provisional. (Indexing is difficult and it is easy to make mistakes with names and dates.)
So, provisionally, this week in my genealogy, one hundred ninety four years ago, my 3rd great grandfather Jacob Hornef was born in Otterberg, Germany.
From Jacob Hornef’s death certificate. I realized every record I used in this post had Horneff. This is to illustrate the Hornef spelling.
