This weekend was very busy for me. After perusing the plethora of Bowser Family trees I could not find a death date for Mary Ann Bowser. On her daughters second marriage license application in June of 1914 they were both listed as deceased.
So, having nothing much better to do, I went on find a grave and electronically visited every listed cemetery in Armstrong County. I found one single grave Mary A Bowser, 17 February 1914. Moved to Oak Ridge. This is a likely candidate, but where is Oak Ridge and who had her moved. I have to give them a call and Google Oak Ridge.
I visited my cousin Helen, her grandfather and my husbands grandmother were siblings. She shared (very generously I may add) her folders on one side of the family. I spent the better part of yesterday going through and copying files. The family names were Feldkamp and Honerkamp. Both sides came from the Kingdom of Hanover in the early 1830-1840 era. She had copied many census records and I searched Ancestry to see what I could find but there were no census records to be found on these families. I have to talk to her and see where she got her records. I wonder who is doing the indexing, I have a suspicion that it is not someone that English is their native language.
I did find one nugget of information and it was a death of death on one of the descendants of Johan Feldkamp. Helen did not have this record. Now I will search the Diocese of Pittsburgh Archives and see what they might have. The first Catholic Church in Pittsburgh was founded in 1808 and that parish was St. Patrick. There were a few German parishes founded a few years after that.
Each answer brings more questions.
No comments:
Post a Comment