Re: Silas Boam « Reply #48 on: Wednesday 07 May 08 13:09 BST (UK) »
I now have an image of that 1895 census page and I can see the transcriber's difficulty - see this crop - I can just about make out Charlotte P but the name above is indecipherable:
Re: Silas Boam « Reply #50 on: Wednesday 07 May 08 13:30 BST (UK) »
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Do you have the marriage certificate for Silas in Buffalo?
No I don't Karen, and I've been trying to figure out how to get a copy from the Vital Statistics Office in Buffalo (I'm in UK). The Vitalchek credit card service can only provide certificates back to 1890. So I'd have to apply by post I suppose, with an international money order.
Re: Silas Boam « Reply #54 on: Wednesday 07 May 08 17:43 BST (UK) »
The nice people at Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library are going to mail me copies of the obituaries they hold for the Boam family. I've also asked them to do a look-up in their 1886 Kansas Medical Directory.
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Re: Silas Boam « Reply #55 on: Tuesday 13 May 08 10:25 BST (UK) »
My package of goodies arrived today from the library in Topeka.
The 1916 obit of Dr Silas A Bohm, aged 70, confirms that he was born in Derby and studied medicine in America, and had practised in Topeka for "nearly 30 years".
He's not listed in the 1886 Directory of Kansas Physicians.
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So do I have the wrong Silas? The evidence along the trail seems sound enough. The year of birth in the burial record seems clearly wrong, and is possibly a mistranscription. But the date? Surely the family wouldn't have got his birthday wrong?
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Angell - Norfolk/Cambridgeshire c.1780 Bale - Rotherhithe 1820's Bradbury - Derby/Nottingham Folder - Westmorland Gale - Lymington/Rotherhithe 1780-1820's Jones - Liverpool - c.1805 - Whitesmith Grey - Llangwillog - c.1820 McCrickard c.1825 Ireland Devine c. 1835 Dublin Crane - Liverpool c.1805 Thornton - Liverpool c.1805 Oliver - Lambeth 1800's Kendrick - London - c.1775 Hollis - Northampton - 1774 Potter - Leicester - c.1775 Cresswell - c 1780 Wingod - London