[or-roots] Family Search boo boos

[Kith-n-Kin]

Les

 

Well, I do have to say that it still looks like Orf* to me, and thus could
be Orford Vill - but since that's quite a ways from Campton (37 miles on
today's roads), it's unlikely that they were "visiting" or had moved to
Orford before the baby was born. But, not impossible. In the 1900 census,
they are living in Plymouth - about half way between the two. As George is a
peddler by then, this could be the case.

 

But, let's look at something else here. I just did a different search - Foss
babies born in Grafton county - and came up with:

 

Guy M, born 1882, Thornton, father born Concord, mother born Rumney. Father
was a farmer

"Unknown" born 1885, Thornton, Father born in Thornton, mother born in
Rumney, father was a farmer. (This is George L from the 1900 census).

Noah was born in Thornton, 1889, according to his WWI registration, and was
living in Minnesota at the time, but I don't find a birth registration for
him.

 

Hugh was born in Campton, 1896, according to his WWI registration, and was
living in Brookville, Ontario when he registered. 

His father was born in Concord, his mother in   Rumney.  He was a mechanic. 

 

It doesn't appear that anyone was over in Orford. So, forget that.

 

In spite of the "O" on the birth registration for Hugh, I suggest it is
really a "C" and would then be C.pt.. Vill.  I inverted the image and found
it a bit easier to read.  If you look at the very bottom, the way the clerk
wrote Campton there is much like an "O" 

 

Since Campton and Thornton are only five miles apart (seems further, when
you're driving it, believe me!), the family could have lived anywhere
between the two. The birth was probably at home, and all the births may have
been in the same house, but I'm sure where the birth was reported to was key
to the "where was the child born." The birth was reported from Thornton for
Guy and George, Campton for Hugh.  I question the "Campton Vill" but that
was probably to distinguish the village from the township. In Oregon,
because we didn't have named townships, it probably would have been 'county'
for babies born outside the corporate limits of a village. But, we don't
know the corporate limits of Campton Village, or Thornton Village, so who
knows?

 

Reminds me of some of my southern family who were married out of a different
county than the one they lived in, just because the courthouse was closer.

 

BTW, I checked all of my Campton births (there are several) and all clearly
say Campton, but the dates are different, therefore have a different clerk
doing the writing, which is key!

 

Pat

In Tucson

 

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