Keiri
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- Aug 11, 2015
Just an aside note. My wife plays a Juzzick violin with a Voirin bow. That bow is valued at $12K.
What is a Voirin bow?
Just an aside note. My wife plays a Juzzick violin with a Voirin bow. That bow is valued at $12K.
Here is a good directory of online sources of St. Louis City and County Directories:
http://mohistory.org/node/8453
Did you see the 1860 census entry for Charles Cointin in Florissant ini 1860 (wife Catherine, son Charles)? Ancestry transcribed the last name as Courtin, but the page says Cointin, with a faint dot over the first "i" -- even when the census taker gets it right, Ancestry botches it. Are these relatives? Is this the land you were lookin for? Undoubtedly you did find this, someone listed a correction for the name. Did you see John Contine age 35 b. France in a Catholic Seminary in Indiana in 1860? Ancestry has this man as John Contini, living in Vincennes, Knox Co. Indiana in 1860. Age 25, b in France.
Kieri, I don't know about you, but I've wondered if my great great grandfather from England maybe delayed filing for citizenship during the War because he didn't know what this country was going to turn into, not just because of the draft. Many people were absolutely destroyed by the War. Maybe not in St Louis Co, where your people were or Illinois an Iowa where he was, but certainly many in other parts of Missouri. And your ancestor was living under martial law. Probably not what either had envisioned when they came to the US.
My ancestors were from Switzerland. I have a land record with our last name butchered. After I looked at it awhile I realized it was a phonetic spelling by a non-German speaker. It may be the same with yours? Census forms. Yikes.I'm assuming first off it's an error. But I wanted to consider other theories because the error theory hasn't helped thus far.
You are very kind. Unfortunately it wouldn't help, because in 1905 Charles and Catherine's son Frank built his own house on property he purchased, I've attached it here. That's how it looks today, of course, 110 years later. I went driving by it a few years back when I visited Missouri and let's just say the area is very sad. Half the houses on the block were burned down. People were all over even in the middle of the day, and junk cars (ones that don't seem to work, I mean) everywhere. Poverty has hit this area hard. Anyway so in 1909 all you'd see is Frank, his family and his mom living here. You are very resourceful, its fun talking to you. I wish you were in Wisconsin!View attachment 108535