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Subject: Re: [GEN-UNSOLVED-MYSTERIES] Annie and George WheelwrightLittlefield.................
Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2007 14:34:12 +0000
I've not had the need to use such a format, but isn't there a database for seamen? I started to write this note and the name of what I knew it to be called has now gone straight out of my head! Darn it. It seems I remember on another list a maritime database for those that have died at sea.
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From: "Donna Lee" <>
> "Could they have drowned" Wow , now thats a new idea although not Annie since
> she died right at home but her father was a "Seafaring man" so if he was taken
> back to Maine by ship then yes , that is possible but how could I prove it ? I
> have been to the historical society there and to the court house in WELLS and in
> KENNEBUNK but they could not find anything helpful also I was in contact with
> the one in WELLS for a couple years on and off . I have not been to the Library
> there nor have I contacted them as I was hoping to get back there some day but
> now thats not possible . I can try to contact them .
> Does anyone know of a place on the web where they list those who died at sea ?
> Not at ancestry as I'm not a member .
> Thank you all for your idea's and for caring .
>
>
> >From Donna Lee
> Look above , don't feel down,
> There's Someone who care's
> And He's alway's around.
>
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> Subject: GEN-UNSOLVED-MYSTERIES Digest, Vol 2, Issue 38
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> Today's Topics:
>
> 1. LITGATE in WA and OR (Betty)
> 2. LITTLEFIELD in ME and CT (Betty)
> 3. Re: Annie Littlefield Smith,,,,,,,, (Evangeline Custis)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2007 06:20:34 -0400
> From: "Betty"
> Subject: [GEN-UNSOLVED-MYSTERIES] LITGATE in WA and OR
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> Hello,
>
> Here is a tidbit of information for you:
>
> LIDGATE, HENRY (1920 U.S. Census)
> OREGON , MULTNOMAH, PORTLAND; 84-PCT
> Age: 57, Male, Race: WHITE, Born: ENGL
> Series: T625 Roll: 1499 Page: 72
>
> LIDGATE, HARRY (1910 U.S. Census)
> MONTANA , JEFFERSON, TWP 7 RANGE 4 W
> Age: 47, Male, Race: WHITE, Born: ENGL
> Series: T624 Roll: 832 Page: 86
>
> LIDGATE, HENRY (1900 U.S. Census)
> MONTANA , JEFFERSON, 5-TWP
> Age: 38, Male, Race: WHITE, Born: ENGL
> Series: T623 Roll: 912 Page: 292
>
>
> There are only a few other people with that surname in Census reports, and
> none with LEDGATE.
>
>
> Betty (near Lowell, MA)
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> For Genealogy researchers, please remember to check the archives of the
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> Message: 2
> Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2007 06:26:55 -0400
> From: "Betty"
> Subject: [GEN-UNSOLVED-MYSTERIES] LITTLEFIELD in ME and CT
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> Hi Donna,
>
> Just curious if you have sent a slow-mail letter to the Wells, ME, Library
> and asked them for the research ! I know some, small Libraries won't do
> this anymore, but, if you included a small check, they might consider doing
> the look-up for you.
>
> Also, there are new web sites which offer "old newspapers" on-line. I
> think one of them is "paper of record."
>
> Also, what has the Town Clerk in Wells, ME, told you? Doesn't the record
> of death say where they are buried?
>
> I just checked Census reports and found out that George LITTLEFIELD is a
> popular name !
>
> Betty (near Lowell, MA)
>
>
>
>
>
> New List created on Feb. 1: CAN-USA-MIGRATION
>
> For Genealogy researchers, please remember to check the archives of the
> Lists & Boards for both your surnames and place-names.
>
>
>
>
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> Message: 3
> Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2007 07:05:41 -0400
> From: "Evangeline Custis"
> Subject: Re: [GEN-UNSOLVED-MYSTERIES] Annie Littlefield Smith,,,,,,,,
> To:
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> Could they have drowned at sea?
>
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> Sent: Sunday, May 27, 2007 10:09 AM
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> Subject: Re: [GEN-UNSOLVED-MYSTERIES] Annie Littlefield Smith,,,,,,,,
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> hello just browsing the posts. i am not familiar with north eastern
> genealogy, however i was wondering if you knew how annie died? and was
> george's death
> a suiside? ........maybe if it was a self inflected death other tan by
> accident would that have been grounds for a christian buriel in certain
> religions?
> if so e been buried then perhaps he would have been buried in some
> sort of
> public/city/county/paupers grave? or what of the possibility of a "out
> to sea
> burial, or cremation?...just some thoughts......michelle
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