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MC - this is getting better and better. I have lots of details of several of the Taylor family from Accrington.

This Thomas Taylor was my gt-gt-uncle. I never knew he had lived in the USA! I have his birth details and some early census references, then he "re-appears" in 1911 (by then a widower) living with his deceased sister's husband and children. Now I know what happened in between.

Many thanks for your help.

To all who've helped me tonight ..... a HUGE thank you.

I thought it would be just a small request for a bit of information - but it's lead to heaps of information and almost a whole story in itself.

But I have to say it's now way past my bed time (almost midnight here) so I really have to leave it at this point.

I'm hugely grateful for all the help and will certainly check back tomorrow, just in case there is any new info, but right now I just have to sign off .......

Gill

Goodnight, its been fun doing the lookups. Hope your dad enjoys the story.

Andy

Cheers Andy - and thanks for all the stuff you've passed on. We're going to have fun tomorrow!

Magnify 4 clicks, then save image:
http://archive.org/stream/13thcensus1910po905unit#page/n125/mode/1up

With difficulty, one can make out the addy as 133 Summer St - weird penmanship. A look up on http://maps.google.com/ shows 133 Summer St lies between Myrtle Ave & Main Ave, a blk N of Autumn St in Passaic NJ.

Seems that she went to school within the past 8m - what's that about, eh?

mgnv - hi, and thanks for the latest post. Sorry it's taken me a while to spot it - checked this morning then was out for the rest of the day/evening. Great surprise to see a new post - and had fun looking up Summer St! Will prowl StreetView when I have more time.

It's the first time I've seen a US census form and I can't make out the date on the column relating to "been in school since ...." I thought it said 1902 (which would make it 8 years, rather than 8 months).
Adeline was 17 when she went to the US with her uncle in 1907, so she would have certainly been to school within the past few years - she was decently educated and had a life-long career as a Legal Secretary. I haven't pieced the whole story together yet, but I think Uncle Thomas Taylor ("Cailor") must have been recently widowed (his wife Elizabeth was alive in 1905) and needed looking after! Adeline's elder sister was already looking after the family in England (their father was also a widower - see 1911 census info), so Adeline was next in line for housekeeping duties.

I'm wittering on ..... sorry ..... it was a real bonus to get the link to the image (not to mention the instructions!!), so thanks very much indeed for your trouble.

Best rgds, Gill

Gill - the reason for the "magnify 4 clicks" bit is if I just save the image as it comes up, in this case I get a 183KB file downloaded - if I magnify 1, 2 or 3 clicks, I get 568KB - if I magnify 4 or 5 clicks, I get 1538KB - I find this is adequate, so I've never tried more. The extra data downloaded gives me better resolution upon magnification of the downloaded file(s). Actually, unless you already know what the header says, it's quite hard to read at 4 clicks, but it's OK at 5 - if it's the saved file you're looking at, well it's just playing with the slider bar anyways.

Well - enough geeky stuff. Column header reads:
Attended school any time since September 1, 1909

I've been thinking - maybe it was a secretarial school she went to.


EDIT I knew it was somewhere:
http://www.ancestry.com/charts/census.aspx has a reformatted 1910 form - the page header info isn't quite the same - e.g., no one used URLs back in 1910, but that is the most readable bit of the form anyways.

mgnv - I'm running out of ways to say "thank you" !!

I've not had much time to "play" over the last couple of days so haven't really discovered the various ways to manipulate the images. Your "geeky tutorial" will be a great start!!
After I posted (pretty late last night) I was thinking about the school bit also and I came to the same conclusion as you. My Dad (now in his 90s) remembers as a small boy in the 1920s being fascinated by what he know knows was Adeline's Pitman's shorthand. The 3 years she spent in New Jersey helping her "Uncle Tom" may well have provided the opportunity to learn the skills she used throughout her working life.
It's been great fun finding this stuff out - I'm now off to explore the census (and the streets of Passaic, NJ, courtesy of StreetView)! Thanks again for so much help - I really appreciate the trouble you've gone to.

All the best, Gill

P.S. If any other forum helpers are reading this, thanks to one and all. I'm constantly amazed at the time and effort you people give to us - and very grateful !