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*Completed* Help with location in the U.S.
« on: Sunday 22 August 10 21:36 BST (UK) »
Is someone able to make out where my Great Aunt is heading to please?   She's leaving Glasgow and arriving in New York, 1911, but where is her final destination?  ???

I'm sure it says Bridgefield, but the column before it is supposed to be the State and I can't work out what it is.

MITCHELL: Glasgow/Fife
MACDONALD: Isle of Coll/Fife
BURGESS/SMITH/HOUGHTON/WILD: Lancashire
HOLMES: Ireland/Lanarkshire/Fife
MCMEEKIN: Stirlingshire/Canada
MCPHERSON: Stirlingshire

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Re: Help with location in the U.S.
« Reply #1 on: Sunday 22 August 10 21:45 BST (UK) »
Could it be Conn for Connecticut ?

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Re: Help with location in the U.S.
« Reply #2 on: Sunday 22 August 10 21:48 BST (UK) »
Looks like Conn to me Connecticut?  I googled that and found Bridgefield Connecticut.  It's Fairfield county.
Ireland, Co Antrim: Kerr; Hollinger; Forsythe; Moore
Ireland, Co Louth: Carson; Leslie
Ireland, Co Kerry: Ferris
Scotland, Perthshire/Glasgow:  Stewart
England, Devon/Cornwall: Ferris, Gasser/Jasser/Jesser, Norman

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Re: Help with location in the U.S.
« Reply #3 on: Sunday 22 August 10 22:14 BST (UK) »
Thanks guys!  :D
MITCHELL: Glasgow/Fife
MACDONALD: Isle of Coll/Fife
BURGESS/SMITH/HOUGHTON/WILD: Lancashire
HOLMES: Ireland/Lanarkshire/Fife
MCMEEKIN: Stirlingshire/Canada
MCPHERSON: Stirlingshire


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Re: Help with location in the U.S.
« Reply #4 on: Sunday 22 August 10 22:17 BST (UK) »
Possibly Ridgefield, Connecticut (it's certainly Connecticut and there's a Bridgeport there but doesn't look like what's written there).
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« Reply #5 on: Monday 23 August 10 22:21 BST (UK) »
Here's the bit from the next page which states the name of who she is going to join and the address - can anyone make the name out and full address?

MITCHELL: Glasgow/Fife
MACDONALD: Isle of Coll/Fife
BURGESS/SMITH/HOUGHTON/WILD: Lancashire
HOLMES: Ireland/Lanarkshire/Fife
MCMEEKIN: Stirlingshire/Canada
MCPHERSON: Stirlingshire

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Re: Help with location in the U.S.
« Reply #6 on: Monday 23 August 10 22:27 BST (UK) »
Looks like friend __ Watt c/o Mr. Brown
R.F.D. 48 Bridgefield, Conn.

R.F.D.= Rural Free Delivery, a postal designation which would fit Ridgefield but probably not Bridgeport (can't find a Bridgefield in Connecticut)
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« Reply #7 on: Monday 23 August 10 22:36 BST (UK) »
Wm Watt
Ireland, Co Antrim: Kerr; Hollinger; Forsythe; Moore
Ireland, Co Louth: Carson; Leslie
Ireland, Co Kerry: Ferris
Scotland, Perthshire/Glasgow:  Stewart
England, Devon/Cornwall: Ferris, Gasser/Jasser/Jesser, Norman

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« Reply #8 on: Monday 23 August 10 22:43 BST (UK) »
It's on this person's family tree as a place in Fairfield County, Connecticut.   ???

http://ocotilloroad.com/geneal/fry3.html

Maybe worth contacting them to ask?
Ireland, Co Antrim: Kerr; Hollinger; Forsythe; Moore
Ireland, Co Louth: Carson; Leslie
Ireland, Co Kerry: Ferris
Scotland, Perthshire/Glasgow:  Stewart
England, Devon/Cornwall: Ferris, Gasser/Jasser/Jesser, Norman