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Re: [TSL] Re: 'Lost' Relative.
"Lorine McGinnis Schulze" <otg@csolve.net> on 11/25/2004

> "Boyce Stretton" <Boyce.Stretton@tesco.net> wrote:
>

>>That legend is that my great grandmother, Sarah Catherine
>>Coppard, was a nurse in the American Civil War.

Fascinating story!

> > The definitive facts as I have them are as follows:-
> >   a.. Sarah Catherine Coppard was born on in September
> >   1847 at 28
> > Chapel Street, Worthing.
> >   b.. Her parents were George Coppard, a tailor and Eliza
> >   Coppard, a
> > laundress.
> >   c.. At the time of the 1861 census she was 13 and living
> >   at 33
> > Chapel Street, Worthing.
> >   d.. By 1872 she was married to Joseph Seth Lander, and
> >   gave birth to
> > her first child, Anna Rhoda Lander in April of that year.
> > Accepting that the American Civil War ended in 1865, Sarah
> > would have been 18 or 19 at the time, so chronologically
> > the story is possible.  She certainly didn't emigrate as
> > such as by 1871 she was probably back in Worthing starting
> > her family.



Have you checked the 1871 census in England. I've no idea
where Worthing is (which is a good time to suggest that
when writing a query folks should be sure to give full
details of locations for those of us who may be
geographically challenged) so I can't really be of much
help there.

However I did spot a Sarah Coppord born in Barcombe,
Sussex, age 24, in the 1871 census for Peasmarsh, Sussex
England. I know enough about English town/village/parish
names to know that an individual might give 5 different
places of birth on 5 different census records, all of them
tiny parishes or villages near each other. So if Barcombe
is near Worthing (if Worthing is even IN Sussex!) then
maybe this is your gal.

I see a marriage in 1840 for George Coppard and Eliza
Stone, of Worthing District, Sussex - is this your George
and Eliza? This is found in England and Wales, Civil
Registration Index: 1837-1983 (kinda answers my question
about where Worthing is...)


>>We have reason to believe that in later life,
> > her widowed mother, Eliza, either went or returned to the
> > USA in 1877.  We have always assumed that if Sarah went to
> > America in the early 1860s she wouldn't have travelled by
> > herself.  So we need to put her on a ship......
> >
> > As I'm totally new to passenger lists, I have little or no
> > idea what my next move might be.

Most arrival ports are indexed and on microfilm for the
time period you want. This doesn't apply to New York where
the only index you can get is online on Ancestry.com.

You can get a list of film numbers (NARA & FHC) at
http://olivetreegenealogy.com/ships/nara_indexbyport.shtml

Scroll down to the state you want and click on the link,
then find the film # you need, then decide whether to order
it in to a nearby FHC or have NARA do a lookup.

The staff of the National Archives will undertake a search
of the original records for a fee.

To find your nearest FHC you can go to
http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Library/FHC/frameset_fhc.asp

There are some ideas for researching hard to find
ancestors on ships lists after 1820 at
http://olivetreegenealogy.com/ships/usaaft1820.shtml

Where is Eliza in 1880/1881?

Good luck,
Lorine


-- Lorine McGinnis Schulze

* Olive Tree Genealogy (Ships Passenger Lists)
http://olivetreegenealogy.com/
* Naturalization Records
http://naturalizationrecords.com/
* Images of Ships Lists
http://www.rootsweb.com/~ote/ships/

otg@csolve.net or olivetreegenealogy@gmail.com



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