I was researching a distance branch of my family tree when I came across a relative who I can only find listed on two censuses, which struck me as very odd, because she has quite a peculiar name - Blossom. I would have thought someone with a name like that would stand out, but I'm not seeing her on any of the searches I've done.
- Blossom M McCall shows up as an 8 year-old on the 1920 census. It's unclear who her parents are, as she's listed as the granddaughter of Hugh and Augusta McCall.
- She shows up again on the 1930 census, aged 19. Again, she's listed as Hugh and Augusta's granddaughter (on a separate page here).
Apart from that, I can't find her. I'd like to know what happened to her, but I'd really like to know who her parents were. As far as I can tell, she was probably born out of wedlock to one of Hugh and Augusta's oldest six children given that she would have been born 1911-2. So the options would be:
- Edith McCall Wilson - born 1885, but married and with other children by 1903, so unlikely.
- Harry John McCall - born 1888, never married and lived in the same house as Blossom until his death in 1931, but when asked on his WWI draft card if he had any dependents (including children under 12), he wrote "brothers and sisters."
- Anna McCall - born 1890 and disappeared after the 1910 census. Unsure if died or married.
- Lillian McCall Griffith - born 1892, but had married and had a daughter by 1914. If she was Blossom's mother, she didn't bring her daughter with her when she married and moved house. She lived quite close to her parents and witnessed her brother's death certificate in 1931, so I can't imagine it was a case of hiding a child from her husband.
- Margaret (Margie) McCall - born 1895 and died single in 1919 of influenza and epilepsy.
- George M McCall - born 1896 and lived in the same house as Blossom through 1930, but wrote "no" when asked if he had dependents on his WWI draft card.
The next sibling wasn't born until 1901, so these seem the only possible options. Does anyone have any idea how to narrow down which of these siblings Blossom might have belonged to?
