WALTER ROLLO died in Dane County in 1922

[Chiad Fhear]

Hi RootsChatters

In the Family tree there is a Walter Rollo, born 8 June 1811 at Letham in the Parish of Monimail, Fife, Scotland, son of Walter Rollo and Catherine Patrick.  Walter (1811) and his wife, Catherine Barclay, sailed from Liverpool on the S.S. 'Calhoun' with 9 of their 10 children and arrived in New York on 7 July 1859, one daughter having died in infancy about 1851.

Catherine died on 17 February 1885 and Walter on 3 December 1885 both in Oregon, Dane County, Wisconsin.

There is a death recorded in 1822 for a Walter Rollo in Dane County, Wisconsin (attached) which is a generation earlier than Walter (1811) arrived there.  I can't easily find any other details and am wondering if there is any connection.
 
Do any RootsChatters know what information the Index may give?  My guess is - not much.  Also, is it likely the 1822 death actually occurred in Dane County or was it just recorded there.  Given the scarcity of Walter Rollo's, and if he did actually die in Dane County, it seems unusual that another would turn up there twenty or so years later.
 
Anyone got any answers?

Chiad Fhear

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VJPS-Y6L

[Priscilla]

In case you haven't seen this …

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/190873182/walter-rollo

[Erato]

It's hard to see how a death was recorded in Dane County in 1822.  Dane County was formed in 1836 as a territorial county and organized in 1839.  Wisconsin itself did not become a state until 1848.  Who was living out there in 1822 to record the death?

[Chiad Fhear]

In case you haven't seen this …

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/190873182/walter-rollo

Thanks Priscilla ... I hadn't seen that.  A real bonus 

I've got this post in conjunction with my cousin in Brisbane so there's about 8 hours time difference with contact therefore some replies may take time to be entered.

Regards

Chiad Fhear

[Chiad Fhear]

It's hard to see how a death was recorded in Dane County in 1822 ...  Who was living out there in 1822 to record the death?

Hi Erato

Thanks for the information and the question you pose!  The plot thickens!

Chiad Fhear

[jorose]

That information appears to be Ancestry's version of this index:
https://www.wisconsinhistory.org/Records/Article/CS88

On which, interestingly, Walter Rollo's death record does not have a year given.
I suspect "1822" is an error in the indexing, perhaps from an unclear original document.

[Erato]

Dane County death records go back to 1876.  Except for Brown County, I don't see any county in Wisconsin with records from the 1820s; most go back to the 1850s to 1870s.

https://www.dhs.wisconsin.gov/vitalrecords/genealogy.htm

[TreeSpirit]

As a pre-1907 event, could it be this one?:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/85642358/walter-r-rollo

[Chiad Fhear]

As a pre-1907 event, could it be this one?:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/85642358/walter-r-rollo

Thanks TreeSpirit ... this is the family    I've managed to add another bit of death information to my tree from the link 

I am still awaiting correspondence from Australia to respond to the other posts.

Chiad Fhear