wow, J.J.,
I'll have to absorb all of this for a few days-had a full day today so just getting online at nearly 9:00 in the evening. just picking up your messages and haven't checked the websites you linked. I think I did a Wagner and Poland search in the 1901, but it's a blur now, so I will certainly double check it. I've seen the miner. Allan's wife was of an early California pioneer family, and I was researching her line in the same area.
Charles shows up in America first in Boston on his marriage date, Oct 4 1883. they met in Boston, from family stories, and you will recall in one of my earlier messages I noted that Annie had a sister in Boston? well, I think I forgot to mention that as far as I knew Annie had spent much of her early life in Boston. however, I can't check the city directories any more (I moved 800 miles from my sources to a place where there are almost no sources and now do all of my research via net and snail mail). she is not making a search of the census either. after their marriage Charles shows up on and off in the Boston and Chelsea city directories until his supposed death in 1893. he was a mariner, for how long is unknown. I have his work records for the period covered by the few letters of his that remain. he had an anurism to the right aorta in early 1893, and was released in an improved condition from the Naval hospital in Chelsea. later that year he died of the anurism and Annie applied for a death certificate for him, but did not file it. my cousin still has the form to fill out-which Annie never filled out. only what the physician filled out is there. I have no idea what could have possibly happened to Charles without a death certificate! how could he be buried without one? a death cert. is required to get a burial permit. he's frustratingly elusive. after Charles' death Annie removed to Chicago, which was not a good experience for her-she couldn't find work and Allan nearly died. so she sent him to Nova Scotia to recover. I was under the impression that it was with his McAuley cousins, but he isn't with them in the 1901 census.
there are several Charles Wagners in Boston, a couple with the middle initial of J. none of them appear to be him except for the ones recorded as mariners in the city directory, and of course his marriage record. I'm on the wrong coast of America to search the records, and for unknown reasons every volunteer I've contacted (around 4 so far) has not chosen to assist me to get a record or to find his burial-if there is one. I'm in Oregon, and the east coast is inaccesable to me at this time.
after a short time in Chicago, Annie moved on to Omaha, Nebraska where she met and married Paul Gillette. they had Allan return to them, and then removed to Oakland, California. it isn't until 1910 that Annie is in California, and Charles never gets there.
well, that's enough, for now...more that I usually send out and not that well organized as I am rather tired.
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