William + Pearline Lightbourne

[brigidmac]

Still haven't found that 1920 census

I ve posted on the other countries board about links to Bahamas . Sierra Leone+ Ghana

https://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=871960.msg7432226#msg7432226

[bbart]

This is the 1920 I was looking at:
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MNYH-ZC2

[brigidmac]

Thanks so much for that ( I don't know why it didn't come up on ancestry )

Priscilla was a  young grandmother 34
if those ages are correct .

This also shows that he did not choose to change his own surname

I'm leaning towards a JOHNSON  woman being his birth mother and Lightburn being a potential birth father .

Also that his crossing was earlier than stated on naturalization so I can look for an earlier one .

[brigidmac]

Another handwriting challenge

What was the name of his contact friend in 1940
Mrs Cora ? Sto..halt ?

& Does his signature contain a middle initial or is it a flourished L of his surname

[Kiltaglassan]

Mrs Cora Stoball ?

[brigidmac]

Thanks kilt it does look like Stoball not a surname ive come across

plenty more handwriting queries to follow
thanks to bbart Ive found priscillas babtism record

(barbados record came up when i put african american into the race or nationality option .!

now have husbands departure Nov 1913 with her given as person in home residence
a place begining with Elu ...in barbados
clip to follow

[oldohiohome]

Thanks kilt it does look like Stoball not a surname ive come across
 

There is a Cora Stovall on the census page you posted in Reply #2.
I've heard of the name Stovall, but not Stoball. Without trying to match up the columns, I'd guess that Cora['s husband*], if black, was born in the U.S., not the West Indies.
*edited
https://www.discogs.com/release/2194944-Muddy-Waters-Down-On-Stovalls-Plantation

[oldohiohome]

& Does his signature contain a middle initial or is it a flourished L of his surname

My guess is that it is the "L" of his surname, with a space between it and the rest of the name.

[oldohiohome]

The smith step  children must belong to " Aguilar" from a previous marriage

The name is Aquilla, not Aguilar.
Louise is too old to be Aquilla's daughter.