Rutland County, Vermont look up 1822-1828

[Michael ONeil]

Hi folks, I know that ultimately the answer to this lies at local level so I was wondering if any kind Vermont volunteers with genealogical research connections in other towns/cities in the same county could bounce this around to each other and see if anything turns up?

I'm looking for the birth details of the following:

Norman Ames.
Birth 1825 (give or take about 3 years from my various sources).
Rutland County.

That's as close as I've been able to get. 1850-70 NYC census records say (annoyingly) he was from Vermont, Conn and NY but Rutland County appears in a seaman's protection certificate in NYC in 1858. Seems a bit more specific?

I've got no parents' details - only a 'possible' brother/relation James.

He was in NYC by 1850 working on various steamships as an engineer.

Michael O'Neil
Liverpool, UK.

[oldohiohome]

from the Vermont State Archives page at
https://sos.vermont.gov/vsara/explore/people/vital-records/

FamilySearch
Vermont birth, marriage, and death records in the Vermont Vital Registry System from 1760 to 2003 are available through FamilySearch.org. Any individual can research and print records at no cost from this site and FamilySearch accounts are free.
Ancestry.com
Vermont birth, marriage, and death records from 1760-2008 are available through Ancestry.com.

nothing found for him at either site.
nothing found for him at americanAncestors.org, the site for the New England Historic & Genealogical Society.

[oldohiohome]

There were definitely Ames families in Rutland county, Googling "ames families rutland vt history" found a lot of results. If you read up on the Ames' in the area, you should get at least a general idea of Norman Ames heritage.

This site listed some county histories.

http://usgenwebsites.org/VTGenWeb/Rutland-Co-VT.htm#history

I didn't find Norman mentioned in these. His family might be though, if you ever place him in a family.

https://archive.org/stream/historyofrutland00smit/historyofrutland00smit_djvu.txt

https://archive.org/stream/historyofrutland02heme/historyofrutland02heme_djvu.txt

https://archive.org/stream/historyofrutland01heme/historyofrutland01heme_djvu.txt

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ancestry.com found 8 Ames families in Rutland County in 1830. All of them have at least 1 male under 5 years old in the household. So no help there as to his specific family.

[Michael ONeil]

Thanks for the replies and links oldohiohome. I did make a start a while back thinking I could do an 1830 to 1840 census comparison looking at males under a certain age in 1830 and then cross-checking to 10 years later. I gave up as I don't know when Norman arrived in NYC other than before the 1850 census so any 1840 families that didn't have a male of the correct age bracket could have been either dead or moved away (possibles) but then there were also families that did have a correct aged male still in Rutland County so he could still have been there also. I had 9 families in Rutland County in 1830 by the way - Fair Haven (2), Poultnery (2), Rutland (2), Brandon, Castleton and Mount Holly. I hammered the FamilySearch records and found nothing also. I was convinced with the first name Norman this would be a walk in the park but alas.