[or-roots] Family Search boo boos

[Sue Steward]

After looking at his birthplace on the WWI draft registration of Hugh 
Foss which shows his birthplace Campton, New Hampshire and then looking 
again at the link you gave for Family Search it is apparently Campton 
Vill shown as his birthplace.  It is a little plainer listed as place of 
residence for the father.


Origin: First chartered in 1761, the town may have been named for a 
friend of Governor Benning Wentworth, Spencer Compton, Earl of 
Wilmington. Another source indicates that when surveyors came to the 
area, they built a camp here, and the name Campton comes from that. 
Conditions of the 1761 charter were not met, and a new charter was 
issued in 1767. An early settler was John Marsh, whose grandson 
Sylvester was born in Campton. Sylvester Marsh, a founder of the Chicago 
meat-packing industry, came up with the idea of building a railway to 
the summit of Mount Washington. Marsh invented the cog rail mechanism 
and special brakes so the locomotive could scale the steep terrain, 
completing the railway in July 1869.

Villages and Place Names: Beebe River, Blair, Campton Hollow, Campton 
Lower Village, Campton Station, Campton Upper Village, West Campton


On 12/23/2011 7:40 PM, Leslie Chapman wrote:
> We could argue about the place name till we are blue in the face; the big problem with reading it as Orange is there is very clearly "vill" at the end of the word and the only place name I could find in any reference for NH starting with O and having vill in it was Orfordville. I have to agree even digitally enhanced it really looks like 1846 and not having at their hands the information that Lavinia Melvin who married George B Foss was born in 1857 there is no way to fault their interpretation of the date, even though it is obviously wrong.  I find a lot of the time I have to rely on the text version to figure out what the image actually says and I assume often the people indexing these pages are familiar enough with the geography of the area to be able to fill in the blanks. I haven't tried to find a death record for Hugh as he most likely isn't in the Family Search data base since for NH they only go to 1915, so I probably never will know for sure
>   which O town he was born in and more to the point why? Daddy being listed as a Peddler of timeware(?) in 1900 might explain that, but I thought Peddler's typically traveled a route and their family stayed in one location?
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> Interesting puzzles we find in digging into our ancestry.
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> Les C
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> --- On Thu, 12/22/11, Kith-n-Kin<Kith-n-Kin at cox.net>  wrote:
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