Re: 1860 C ensus Lookup please - Beacon Falls
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1860 C ensus Lookup please - Beacon Falls
David Taylor 8/28/06
Arabella was already living in Woolsthorpe Lincolnshire at the 1861 UK census.I do not find her a year earlier in the 1860 US census.I suspect that she had already been moved to England by 1860.I note a couple of things in that 1861 UK entry.The first is that the four-year-old Arabella is listed as the “daughter-in-law” of George Burrows--something which makes no sense if we accept the common meaning of the term.Does he mean step-daughter?(Mary was the second wife.) The second noteworthy thing is that the transcriber read Arabella’s surname as “Faul,” not as Saul or Soul.I have looked over the enumerator’s handwriting, and I think that the transcriber was wrong and that you are right in reading “Saul.”I note also that in several instances the enumerators wrote “Beaton Falls” or “Beaton Fields;” but I can find no US referent for those terms and therefore agree with your focus on Beacon Falls, Connecticut.
The Town of Beacon Falls was incorporated in 1871 on lands from each of the bordering towns: Bethany, Naugatuck, Oxford, and Seymour.This complicates the search for birth records.Vital records from that century in Connecticut are held by the individual towns, with no central depository.It is worth making inquiry of Beacon Falls, but the likelihood is that the record for Arabella, if it exists, is held by one of the other towns named above.I recommend that you write to the Town Clerk of Beacon Falls.A general question about the location of records does not involve a fee.A request for the record of Arabella requires payment of five US DOLLARS.Use the following address:
KURT NOVAK
BEACON FALLS TOWN CLERK
10 MAPLE AVENUE
BEACON FALLS, CT 06403-1198
Consider yourself fortunate, because you know the name of the town, and that gives you a firm place to start.Many have only the word “America.”
Finally, I note that in the 1851 UK census, the surname of George Burrows is given in the index as “Bemows.”
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Re: 1860 C ensus Lookup please - Beacon Falls
David Taylor 9/01/06