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- From: mack@epcot.spdc.ti.com (Caren Mack)
- Subject: Dead Ends!
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- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 19:51:08 GMT
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- My family is driving me crazy!!!
-
- I've been trying to get info on my BULLMAN/BULMAN family for
- a long while now and just can't pick up a clue. Maybe someone out
- there can give me a hint on where else to look:
-
- John Bullman, born (C.Cork?) Ireland about 1863, married
- Johannah Fitzgerald, born 26 Feb 1865 from Limerick, IR. There first
- son, John was born in C. Cork 1882, then Patrick Michael (my grand-
- father) was born Oct 1885. The census records say John came to the
- U.S. in 1885. I figure he might not have known his wife had another
- child on the way. I've checked the indexed Philadelphia and Boston
- ports of entry with no luck. I've checked all the ships coming into
- N.Y. from January to June with no luck. Let me say here I only checked
- English/Scot-Irish ships and skipped German and Spanish ships. Could
- I be missing something? Then in 1889 Johannah and boys came to the
- U.S. going to Helena, Montana. They had boy in in Feb 1890, so I
- counted back 9-10 months and figure Johannah came over around May-June
- of 1889. But again, I've checked N.Y. lists from Apr-Sept with no luck.
- Where else could they have come in at coming from Ireland and then
- going to Montana?
-
- I then checked the National Archives indexed naturalization micro-
- film for Montana, which goes back to 1894. Well, my folks were nat.
- in 1894 according to the census records and they don't show up again.
- I know they were still there because they had another boy in 1895 in
- Montana. Montanan's birth records go back to 1895, but I don't think
- I can even get a birth record. The next time I pick these folks up is
- in San Francisco. Heres something really weird I discovered in the 1900
- census. John Sr. is living on Ellis St. in a boarding house and has 3
- of the kids. But then the other two younger kids are in another boarding
- house one street over on O'Farrel St. I figured this was a baby sitter
- right? The census taker listed John as divorced and Johannah doesn't
- show up anywhere in the CA soundex. I really think listing him as
- divorced was a mistake or possibly they were fighting at the time and he
- told the census taker this out of meanness because Johannah and John are
- both buried together in Oakland. But...John died in 1908 and Alameda
- County Court (they moved to Alameda in 1901) can't find his death cert.
- which they should have had. Umm? I might try for his death cert. in the
- county that San Francisco is in (Contra Costa?).
-
- What a mess! I consider the 1890's as "The Silent Years" and what
- few records are available they seem to have missed and fallin through the
- cracks. Does anyone out there have any ideas of where else I can look???
- I think I've been looking at this family for so long that I might be missing
- something really simple.
-
- Thanks! Caren ...in Dallas mack@spdc.ti.com
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