Treasure Chest Tuesday - 1880 U.S. Census Record for John Brocke Family in Clay County, Dakota Territory

This week's Tuesday Treasure is the 1880 U.S. Census record for the John Brocke household in Vermillion, Clay County, Territory of Dakota:

The Brocke household:

The extracted information for the household members, residing on Twelfth Street in Vermillion:

*  John Brocke -- white, male, age 55, married, a Farmer, born in Prussia, father born in Prussia, mother born in Prussia
*  Christina Brocke -- white, female, age 49, wife, married, keeping house, born in Prussia, father born in Prussia, mother born in Prussia
*  Mary Brocke - white, female, age 14, daughter, single, attended school, born in Nebraska, father born in Prussia, mother born in Prussia

The source citation for this record is:

1880 United States Federal Census, Dakota Territory, Clay County, population schedule, Vermillion, page 401D, house #227, family #228, John Briocke household, digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com); citing National Archives Microfilm Publication T9, Roll 112.

By 1880, the four oldest children have moved out of their parents home, and started their own families.  

John Peter Brocke (1826-1891) is my wife's 2nd great-grandfather through his son John Nicholas Brocke (1855-1938) who married Anna Grieser in 1877 in Cedar County, Nebraska.

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