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Start with "Wee Dram Report" - on
family research, "Gatherings" as
dinner table email discussions, and
"Cousins" are individual family
presentations as eBooks, and
FamilyCousin.com is here. Our
hope is this website will foster
communications, like years ago at
grandma's home gathering feasts.
Today we gather with blogs, shared
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Grandson Nate was attacked by a
Black Bear while skiing Lake Placid.
Same Grandson reporting on
Hurricane while vacationing.
Not sure these stories are true but Nate's stories are as good as
"uncle-whomever"
told us cousins in the past family "gatherings".04/14/08
We encourage and will publish eBooks written by Grandchildren on topics
of interest to them.*
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The Vaillancourt and Repenning family can find
deep French Canadian tree roots to explore. We have just scratched
the surface with our search. The internet source Tree is for your eBook
assistance.
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It appears from our records that Phineas O. Osborn 1760 was
the first in this line of skilled Osborn Blacksmith. From this
we guess the trade was learned here and not brought with them
from Ashford Kent UK?
Perhaps we can get Richard (Dick)
to write down and tell us his story of what is a
blacksmith and how where the skills passed down or how
did he learn the family trade.
We must admit when you
search Osborn and blacksmith you find a lot of them
existed in the US and also a Kent UK blacksmith search
shows an equally large number of names found. So the
genes & DNA might be good for an Osborn creative
engineering mindset for this art form.
But we find no Book on
blacksmiths. Go for it Dick - we will publish it on the
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C.D. Osborn Family Blacksmith shop Grand Rapids,
Michigan
Here is a picture of Dicks'
fathers blacksmith shop in the late 1920's .
The one at the first anvil is Dick's father Claude then the first man
standing in the group of three is my Grandfather Charles Edward Osborn
the others are employees
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we dedicate the first eBook to the memory of
Ralph Sr & Naomi and Earle & Bess
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an exclusive eBook by Ralph Waite Sr select Diary
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Hi Annmarie and
Ralph,
I don't know why I didn't think of this sooner, but
there is a problem with the Hawthorne address.
Chicago streets are laid out in a grid system. I
don't know how long this system has been in place,
but
I suspect it has been there at least since the fire
(1871).
http://hometown.aol.com/ctapacefan/streetno.html
State Street is 0 in the numbering system, so the
address 44 W Hawthorne would put it just west of
State
Street. The problem with that is that Hawthorne is
pretty far north. There IS no State Street that far
north because the lake moves west very quickly north
of the Loop. Hawthorne runs from 450W to 600 W - a
very short street! And it dead ends at Lake Shore
Drive. There's 8 blocks to every mile, so 44
Hawthorne would be just shy of 1/2 mile into Lake
Michigan even in 1910.
So where does that leave us?
Jeanne 04/09/08
My guess is the
street was renumbered at a later date. I also could
be a good
bet it was near the lake - so was prime land and
bought by a business for
building or a hotel.
My realtor wife said - go to town hall dept of land
records and research
the land deed plots and the history will show the
changes. Real estate deals
do this all the time to verify the plots ownership
lean etc.
Makes sense to me.
Ralph 04/0908
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Jerry Osborn
The Gosborn eBook needs a story writer
(you) with an imagination - of what interest's him - so he is
writing of his interests - and is already known from his experience.
If I were the local TV interview show
who came to your family for an interview, what subject would you
want to talk about?
Your ancestry information is very
compelling. but what about you and Jan as cousins. If this were a
Christmas letter from you all and Jan was writing it what would it
say? the I would ask what did you do at Hercules
You have said:
I spent about 30 years
working for Hercules Inc. in jobs ranging from that of a staff
engineer to quality assurance specialist a job in which I was tasked
to approve, audit and monitor the company’s suppliers.
Spent a lot of time standing beside computers
but always had someone to punch the keys for me thus the almost
total incompetence in using one now.
Before Ralph's site with the bits and pieces and pictures etc
went down this afternoon we managed to print copies of photos of
Caroline, Hart, Webster and P. Alden and I am so pleased. We
briefly corresponded with my great Uncle Charles Raymond Osborn
before his death in 1976 (William's Youngest). He indicated that
their was little interaction between the Nebraska and New York
sides of the family during his early years, however he mentioned
that his older brother Arthur Osborn(my grandfather) arranged a
visit from his Uncle Hart after William's death. He also said
that a cousin by the name of Rockwood came to visit. This was
Caroline's son I believe. Uncle Ray passed on before he was able
to send us the picture he had of his Uncle Hart.
Let's fix this gap of communication
between our families.
how is your daughter doing? anything new?
Ralph
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The
immigration of Frances Majer has ship
records listing her as a servant. She left
Velke Hosteradky, Bohemia (Czech), and is
traveling on a ship called Rein that is
arriving on Sept 5, 1912. she is with 16
other female people - 14 are missionary, two
of them live in Coraopolis Pa. We wonder
what church sponsored the trip.
Well Frances was
married and the family attended the First
Baptist Church just up the house street in
McKee's Rocks. I would suggest the
immigration was through that church group.
Coraopolis may have been the Church center
for this activism. They were very active in
growing the church with missionary efforts.
The two ship log names are local's who had
the job of bringing new recruits to the US.
The logs shows they all were women.
Not sure what
was the reason she left to go. There may
have been an early Baptist group starting
there. She was smart and maybe the
family saw a future for her and a spark
for spirited adventure - alone this- was a
bit protected under this travel along with a
religious group. She was listed as a servant
and my guess is that Mary Crothers (Fran
thinks cancer) was in need of house help.
The deal may have been you cover the travel
etc costs and adopted a servant - a form of
indenture.
Baptist was a
growing religion in 1900 then they had
trouble in many of these European countries
since the established church fought their
growing evangelical ways.
Interesting
Richard Waite was married in Paulerspury and
Towcester Northamptonshire became a Baptist
minister but he left UK because of other
church pressures there and then his Family
helped form the church starting in Lorrane
and then area around Adams NY. (we have
emailed a women who visited the Paulerspury
church records to confirm his wife's name
for us)
Dad 04/09/08
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Life in a small town, a Ralph
eBook
 Life in a small town runs at a different
pace. It seems to be set by the local business attitudes and activities.
It also could be the Pennsylvania Dutch (German) people. They were
dedicated hard workers but at a farmers pace.
My hometown was Sellersville, which is next to Perkasie, Souderton,
Telford, Quakertown and far away Doylestown - the county seat. Actually
my family was renting in 17 Noble St, Sellersville and mom and dad decided to build
their house up on a hill just outside of Sellersville in West Rockhill
Township. It was well named since we had these red colored rocks
everywhere we tried to dig.
This rambling is a "Mackway thing" (my mother's family) they take a
written road and follow it to a crossroad in their mind and then make a
turn and keep repeating these turns until they have lost the reader in a
maze of written subject turns. But we need to get back to Life in the
slow lane.(to read more work in progress visit
Ralph Blog above:
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John Dexter Osborn
5 MAY 1849 - 2 DEC 1935 was
Charles Osborn's brother.
Owned in 1923 a Blacksmith Shop
in Depauville, New York
John Dexter joined the Sells
Bros. circus as a youth, was their head blacksmith and horse trainer.
Was a blacksmith in a general shop from 1859, retired in 10/1923. Broke
his hip around 1923.
Lived in Depauville, NY in 1870. Lived in Grand Rapids Twp., Kent Co.,
MI in 1880. Lived on Main St., Sandy Creek Village, NY from 1887 until
his death in 1935.
Son of John D. was William
Eugene Osborn 1895-1935 was a blacksmith in 1920.Lived in Sandy Creek
Village, Oswego Co., NY in 1900 to at least 1920.
Another brother of Charles
Osborn also was William Jefferson Osborn born 3/5 or 1857 or 1859 in NY.
Never married. Was a blacksmith in 1880. Was a farm laborer in 1900. Had
a farm home in 1920 to his death. Lived in Depauville, NY in 1870. Lived
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Ralph, my grandfather Charles Edward Osborn was born in DePauville
N.Y.
12/20/1855 He came to G.R. about 1890 and roomed with The George
Finch family.
He married Elizabeth Ebner on 1892 and they had 2 children Claud
Dexter b. 6/16/1893
and a daughter Lula born 1897. Lula died in about 1917-1918.
I heard that Charles got a girl in trouble in N.Y. so he left and
came here, probably because
His brother John Dexter had a blacksmith shop and also because
Charles grandparent
lived near by in Caledonia and were farmers.
Charles returned to N.Y. for are reunion in 1936 after not going
back for 46 years
Charles Edward died in 1939 and his wife Elizabeth died in 1945.
Hope this is useful 04/04/08 Dick
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 Ralph: I never knew your site existed, when I opened it up after
reading your reply to me I was AMAZED. You have totally covered
most everything that is known about our family.
THANK YOU for telling me about this. I don't think I can add much more
to this history. I will again look thru my writings to see if I can
find anymore. I must tell you that I have just spent at least a 1/2
hour looking thru your information.
diosbo , Richard "Dick" Osborn
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| Name: |
Barbora
Krhánek |
| Arrival Date: |
5 Sep 1912 |
| Estimated Birth Year: |
abt 1890 |
| Age: |
22 |
| Gender: |
Female |
| Port of Departure: |
Bremen |
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Ethnicity/Race/Nationality: |
Bohemian |
| Ship Name: |
Rhein |
| Search Ship Database: |
View the Rhein in the
'Passenger Ships and Images'
database |
| Port of Arrival: |
New York, New York |
| Nativity: |
Aut;Mae |
| Line: |
26 |
| Microfilm Serial: |
T715 |
| Microfilm Roll: |
T715_1927 |
| Birth Location: |
Aut;Mae |
| Birth Location Other: |
hoštchrady |
| Page Number: |
137 |
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| Name: |
Štefanie Krhánek |
| Arrival Date: |
5 Sep 1912 |
| Estimated Birth Year: |
abt 1836 |
| Age: |
76 |
| Gender: |
Female |
| Port of Departure: |
Bremen |
| Ethnicity/Race/Nationality: |
Bohemian |
| Ship Name: |
Rhein |
| Search Ship Database: |
View the Rhein in the 'Passenger Ships and Images' database |
| Port of Arrival: |
New York, New York |
| Nativity: |
Aut;Mae |
| Line: |
27 |
| Microfilm Serial: |
T715 |
| Microfilm Roll: |
T715_1927 |
| Birth Location: |
Aut;Mae |
| Birth Location Other: |
hoštchrady |
| Page Number: |
137 |
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