Saturday, September 29, 2018

Added or Updated Record Collections at FamilySearch.org - Week of 23 to 29 September 2018

I am trying to keep up with the new and updated record collections at   FamilySearch   (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/list) every week.

As of 29 September 2018, there were 2,377 record collections on FamilySearch (an increase of 2 from last week):

The deleted. added or updated collections are (as Marshall provided them):

--- Collections Added   ---

*  France, Calvados, Civil Registration, 1792-1942 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/3010087); 1,692,790 indexed records with 1,692,790 record images, ADDED 24 Sep 2018


*  Iowa, Monroe County, Card index of births, deaths & marriages from newspaper clippings, 1898-2015       (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2849247); 212,068 indexed records with 212,068 record images, ADDED 22 Sep 2018

Iowa, Birth Records, 1921-1942  (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2849548); 441,684 indexed records with 441,684 record images, ADDED 27 Sep 2018

--- Collections Updated ---

*  Ukraine, Kiev Confession Lists, 1799-1911       (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2290980); 310,347 indexed records with 40,448 record images (was 0 records with 40,448 images), Updated 28 Sep 2018

Sweden, Household Examination Books, 1880-1930  (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2790465); 46,977,151 indexed records with 87,177 record images (was 46,977,151 records with 87,177 images), Updated 28 Sep 2018

BillionGraves Index     (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2026973); 26,142,664 indexed records with 26,142,664 record images (was 25,823,344 records with 25,823,344 images), Updated 25 Sep 2018

Find A Grave Index      (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2221801); 171,490,666 indexed records with 171,490,666 record images (was 169,018,998 records with 169,018,998 images), Updated 28 Sep 2018

Canada Census, 1871     (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1551612); Index only (3,519,941 records), no images (was 3,519,941 records with 0 images), Updated 27 Sep 2018

Costa Rica, Civil Registration, 1823-1975       (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1925429); 4,281,198 indexed records with 405,213 record images (was 4,281,198 records with 405,213 images), Updated 25 Sep 2018

Wisconsin State Census, 1855    (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1443825); 133,164 indexed records with 2,501 record images (was 133,164 records with 2,501 images), Updated 27 Sep 2018

North Dakota, County Marriages, 1872-1958       (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2550852); 143,417 indexed records with 93,526 record images (was 143,417 records with 93,526 images), Updated 26 Sep 2018

Switzerland, Fribourg, Census, 1880     (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2142779); 22,663 indexed records with 48,947 record images (was 17,958 records with 48,947 images), Updated 27 Sep 2018

United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, 1980-2014      (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2333694); 34,168,489 indexed records with 46,885,712 record images (was 34,168,489 records with 46,885,712 images), Updated 29 Sep 2018

Montana, Sanders County Records, 1866-2010      (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2109937); 8,834 indexed records with 55,148 record images (was 6,943 records with 55,148 images), Updated 24 Sep 2018

United States, Native American, Census Rolls, 1885-1940 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2761958); 2,220,670 indexed records with 137,618 record images (was 246,263 records with 0 images), Updated 26 Sep 2018

Ireland Civil Registration, 1845-1913   (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2659409); Index only (2,996,929 records), no images (was 2,009,643 records with 0 images), Updated 24 Sep 2018

*  Iowa, Death Records, 1904-1951  (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2531337); 813,935 indexed records with 475,273 record images (was 584,981 records with 475,273 images), Updated 25 Sep 2018

Indiana, Daviess County, Washington Times Herald Obituaries, 1984-2012  (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2300886); 311,884 indexed records with 5,259 record images (was 311,885 records with 5,259 images), Updated 25 Sep 2018

United States Mexican War Pension Index, 1887-1926      (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1979390); 51,647 indexed records with 51,991 record images (was 51,620 records with 51,991 images), Updated 28 Sep 2018

--- Collections with new records ---

*  Colorado, County Marriages, 1864-1995   (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1942851); 118,783 indexed records with 49,690 record images (was 117,869 records with 49,690 images),  21 Oct 2016

Maryland Probate Estate and Guardianship Files, 1796-1940       (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1542664); 89,727 indexed records with 1,587,613 record images (was 89,719 records with 1,587,613 images),  8 Apr 2015

--- Collections with records removed ---

Idaho Births and Christenings, 1856-1965        (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1674809); Index only (14,084 records), no images (was 15,744 records with 0 images),  9 Mar 2012

Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1940       (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1803977); Index only (446,971 records), no images (was 448,984 records with 0 images),  30 Apr 2018

Iowa Marriages, 1809-1992       (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1674842); Index only (1,260,457 records), no images (was 1,261,966 records with 0 images),  23 May 2016

Connecticut Deaths and Burials, 1772-1934       (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1674748); Index only (2,007,902 records), no images (was 2,010,979 records with 0 images),  25 Feb 2013

Connecticut Marriages, 1630-1997        (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1674749); Index only (443,463 records), no images (was 444,458 records with 0 images),  31 Mar 2016

Maine Vital Records, 1670-1921  (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1803978); 2,001,521 indexed records with 1,841,454 record images (was 2,048,825 records with 1,841,454 images),  30 Apr 2018

Iowa, County Marriages, 1838-1934       (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1805551); Index only (2,270,310 records), no images (was 2,271,641 records with 0 images),  30 Apr 2018

Massachusetts Deaths and Burials, 1795-1910     (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1675350); Index only (1,322,962 records), no images (was 1,324,801 records with 0 images),  28 Apr 2016

Massachusetts Marriages, 1695-1910      (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1675351); Index only (927,091 records), no images (was 949,293 records with 0 images),  28 Apr 2016

Kentucky, County Marriages, 1797-1954   (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1804888); 1,319,121 indexed records with 1,302,310 record images (was 2,408,862 records with 1,302,310 images),  30 Apr 2018

New Hampshire Births and Christenings, 1714-1904        (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1680836); Index only (401,036 records), no images (was 401,037 records with 0 images),  21 Mar 2012

Maine Marriages, 1771-1907      (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1674915); Index only (596,816 records), no images (was 597,443 records with 0 images),  17 Feb 2016

Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915        (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1675197); Index only (4,175,646 records), no images (was 4,175,660 records with 0 images),  28 Apr 2016

Kansas County Birth Records, 1885-1911  (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2727732); 11,034 indexed records with 4,671 record images (was 21,152 records with 4,671 images),  1 Aug 2017

New Jersey, Deaths, 1670-1988   (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2365246); Index only (634,680 records), no images (was 637,754 records with 0 images),  8 Apr 2016

Iowa, County Births, 1880-1935  (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1821206); Index only (2,281,516 records), no images (was 2,282,689 records with 0 images),  26 May 2016

Maine Births and Christenings, 1739-1900        (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1674856); Index only (939,923 records), no images (was 940,110 records with 0 images),  9 Mar 2012

New Jersey Deaths and Burials, 1720-1988        (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1675445); Index only (440,615 records), no images (was 449,612 records with 0 images),  25 Feb 2013

New Jersey Marriages, 1678-1985 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1675446); Index only (293,389 records), no images (was 324,149 records with 0 images),  4 Apr 2016

*  California, County Birth and Death Records, 1800-1994   (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2001287); 5,386,231 indexed records with 2,915,415 record images (was 5,394,177 records with 2,915,415 images),  22 Aug 2018

 Idaho Deaths and Burials, 1907-1965     (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1674815); Index only (26,953 records), no images (was 28,352 records with 0 images),  25 Feb 2013

Idaho Marriages, 1878-1898; 1903-1942   (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1674817); Index only (70,031 records), no images (was 75,179 records with 0 images),  3 Mar 2012

Connecticut Marriages, 1640-1939        (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2448940); 226,339 indexed records with 6,906 record images (was 557,526 records with 6,906 images),  1 May 2018

Idaho, County Birth and Death Records, 1883-1929        (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1951759); 13,054 indexed records with 2,426 record images (was 17,583 records with 2,426 images),  28 Sep 2015

Connecticut Births and Christenings, 1649-1906  (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1674736); Index only (505,651 records), no images (was 506,664 records with 0 images),  9 Mar 2012

Ohio Marriages, 1800-1958       (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1681001); Index only (2,197,856 records), no images (was 2,197,999 records with 0 images),  20 Jul 2016

Ohio Deaths and Burials, 1854-1997      (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1681000); Index only (543,915 records), no images (was 544,082 records with 0 images),  3 Oct 2014

Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001    (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2061550); 2,424,166 indexed records with 1,962,488 record images (was 2,608,950 records with 1,962,488 images),  30 Apr 2018

Missouri, County Marriage, Naturalization, and Court Records, 1800-1991 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2060668); 491,957 indexed records with 2,512,894 record images (was 558,954 records with 2,512,894 images),  10 Feb 2016

New York Marriages, 1686-1980   (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1680847); Index only (737,800 records), no images (was 742,236 records with 0 images),  11 Jul 2016

New Mexico, County Death Records, 1907-1952     (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1966081); 3,669 indexed records with 5,479 record images (was 7,460 records with 5,479 images),  11 Sep 2018

New Hampshire Marriages, 1720-1920      (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1680841); Index only (414,552 records), no images (was 420,408 records with 0 images),  10 Aug 2016

Ohio, County Births, 1841-2003  (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1932106); 4,005,319 indexed records with 1,434,177 record images (was 4,013,089 records with 1,434,177 images),  11 Oct 2016

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In order to select a specific record collection on FamilySearch, go to  https://familysearch.org/search/collection/list and use the "Filter by collection name" feature in the upper left-hand corner and use keywords (e.g. "church england") to find collections with those keywords.

My friend, Marshall, has come up with a way to determine which collections are ADDED, DELETED or UPDATED.  Thanks to Marshall for helping me out here!

Each one of the collections listed above has a Research Wiki page (use the "Learn more" link).  It would be very useful if the Wiki page for each collection listed the dates for when the collection was added as a new collection and the dates for major updates also.

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Saturday Night Genealogy Fun -- Your Family Pet Stories

Calling all Genea-Musings Fans: 

 It's Saturday Night again - 

time for some more Genealogy Fun!!



Here is your assignment if you choose to play along (cue the Mission Impossible music, please!):

1) 
What were your family pets?  What were their names?  How long did they live?  What stories do you have about them?


2)  Tell us in your own blog post, in a comment to this post, or on Facebook or Google+.  Please leave a comment on this post with a link to your post.

Thank you to Janice Sellers for suggesting this topic.  If you have an idea for an SNGF topic, please let me know.  

Here's mine:

In my parents family, we had cats.  Living between two fairly busy streets (30th Street and Fern Street), our outdoor cats rarely lasted more than a year - we had many cat burials.  I don't recall the names (this is the 1950s and 60s!), except for one:  Rootie-Toot-Toot.  She was one of the kittens that we had (no cat birth control then), and Rootie managed to survive for many years (how many?  Maybe 12-15? I moved out before he died).  I think he died of old age.  He was an indoor cat and an outdoor cat.  He was my brother Scott's cat, and slept with Scott.  He purred really loud, as I recall.


In my family with my wife and daughters, we also had cats (funny how that happens).  When we moved in in 1975, there was a feral Manx cat residing in our fenced side yard and she had kittens.  We couldn't pet the mother but we petted the kittens some, but they stayed outside.  We named the mother, but I don't recall the name.  We eventually called a Manx cat collector and they came and captured the entire group of them and took them away, but not before I got a nasty puncture bite in my thumb.

Our neighbors moved in 1982, and they gave us their 3-year old cat named Softie.  She was semi-Persian and the fur was long and soft.  Our girls were young, and loved Softie.  She lived outdoors but often came into the house.  We fed her outdoors, and our yard became a lure for other animals too - especially possums who ate the cat food.  Softie would retreat and jump up on the overhead lath until they left, and could get up on the roof too.  She was safe up there.  Softie died in 1999 of kidney failure on the couch one evening.  We kept her in, knowing the end was near.  I went to bed, but was awakened by an angel ornament on the wall falling and shattering on the tile floor.  Then I saw that Softie had died on the couch.  Was it her spirit flying off to heaven?  Something similar has never happened since.   Softie lies in the backyard where the peach tree used to be. 

We haven't had a pet since then, but we enjoy the pets that our daughters have.

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Surname Saturday -- ROGERS (England to colonial New England)

It's Surname Saturday, and I'm "counting down" my Ancestral Name List each week.

I am working in the 9th great-grandmothers by Ahnentafel number, and I am up to Ancestor #2165 who is Elizabweth ROGERS (1617-1680). [Note: the earlier great-grandmothers and 9th great-grandfathers have been covered in earlier posts.]

My ancestral line back through two generations in this ROGERS family line is:

1. Randall J. Seaver

2. Frederick Walton Seaver (1911-1983)
3. Betty Virginia Carringer (1919-2002)

4. Frederick Walton Seaver (1876-1942)
5. Alma Bessie Richmond (1882-1962)

8. Frank Walton Seaver (1852-1922)
9. Hattie Louise Hildreth (1857-1920)

16. Isaac Seaver (1823-1901)
17. Lucretia Townsend Smith (1827-1884)

32. Benjamin Seaver (1791-1825)
33. Abigail Gates (1797-1869)

66.  Nathan Gates (1767-1830)
67.  Abigail Knowlton (1774-1855)

134.  Jeremiah Knowlton (1745-1785)
135.  Abigail Peirce (1750-1775)

270.  Samuel Peirce (1712-1772)

271.  Abigail Stearns (1715-1798)

540.  John Peirce (1673-1744)
541.  Elizabeth Smith (1674-1747)

1082.  Daniel Smith (1642-1681)
1083.  Mary Grant (1648-1700)

2164.  Daniel Smith, born Abt. 1606 in England; died 14 July 1660 in Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States.  He married about 1642 in Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States.
2165.  Elizabeth Rogers, born Bef. 16 November 1617 in Dedham, Essex, England; died 27 July 1680 in Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States.

Child of Daniel Smith and Elizabeth Rogers is:
Daniel Smith (1642-1681), married 1668 Mary Grant (1648-1700).

4330.  Thomas Rogers, born about 1588 in England; died 12 November 1638 in Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States.  He married  before 1617 in Probably Dedham, Essex, England.
4331.  Grace Ravens, born about 1591 in East Bergholt, Suffolk, England; died 03 June 1662 in Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States.  She was the daughter of 8662. Richard Ravens and 8663. Elizabeth Hedge.

Child of Thomas Rogers and Grace Ravens is:
Elizabeth Rogers (1617-1680), married 1643 Daniel Smith (1606-1660).

Information about this Rogers family was obtained from:

*  Robert Charles Anderson (editor), The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635 (Boston, Mass. : NEHGS, 2011), Volume VI, R-S, pages 88-90, Thomas Rogers sketch.

I have done no original research for this surname line.


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Friday, September 28, 2018

Genealogy News Bytes - 28 September 2018


Some of the genealogy news items across my desktop the last three days include:

1)  News Articles:


*  
New digital Church of Ireland records will make searching for ancestors easier

*  Holocaust historians call shredding of death records by Hamburg archives ‘catastrophic’

*  Has Hurricane Florence Destroyed Records of America's Slave Trade?

2)  New or Updated Record Databases:

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New Historical Records on FamilySearch: Week of September 24, 2018

*  New Records Available To Search This Findmypast Friday, 28 September 2018

3)  Genealogy Education:

 GeneaWebinars Calendar


Free Family History Library Classes and Webinars for October 2018

*  Upcoming Family Tree Webinar -- Wednesday, 3 October, 11 a.m. PDT:  Remote Research in the Databases of the Daughters of the American Revolution Genealogical Research System, by Rick Sayre

*  Upcoming Family Tree Webinar -- Friday, 5 October, 11 a.m. PDT:  Legacy 9 Unlocked (part 7): Adding Email Correspondence, by Geoff Rasmussen

* Archived Family Tree Webinar:   Lost Children: Orphans, Vagrants, Delinquents, Half-Orphans, Dependents, Surrendered, Adopted, by Jeanne Bloom

*  WikiTree YouTube:  4 Source-a-Thon Hangouts

*  23andMe YouTube:  23 Minutes With Anne, Live!

*  Ancestry YouTube:  AncestryDNA | Mirror Trees | Ancestry

*  Who is Nicka Smith? YouTube:  BlackProGen LIVE! Ep 68: The Whos and the Whens

*  Family History Fanatics YouTube:  Using City Directories to Research AROUND the 1890 US Census in Genealogy

*  Family History Fanatics YouTube:  Using VITAL RECORDS to Researching AROUND the Missing 1890 Census in Genealogy

*  DearMYRTLE YouTube:  Mondays with Myrt - 3 Sept 2018

4)  Bargains:

*  Genealogy Bargains for Friday, September 28,  2018


5)  DNA Success Stories:

*   Online DNA test reunites Lewiston woman with her son after 57 years apart

6)  Did you miss the last Genealogy News Bytes - 25 September 2018?

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New Records Available To Search This Findmypast Friday, 28 September 2018

I received this information from Findmypast today:

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Findmypast Friday September 28th 2018


There are more than 925,000 new Welsh records available to search this Findmypast Friday, including:

Welsh Parish Records

Over 921,000 new records have been added to a variety of our Welsh Parish collections. Additional parish baptisms, banns, marriages and burials are now available to search across 13 of our county collections, including:

Wales Counties Baptisms

Carmarthenshire Baptisms
Cardiganshire Baptisms
Denbighshire Baptisms
Flintshire Baptisms
Breconshire Baptisms
Radnorshire Baptisms
Montgomeryshire Baptisms
Pembrokeshire Baptisms
Glamorganshire Baptisms
Merionethshire Baptisms
Anglesey Baptisms
Monmouthshire Baptisms
Wales Counties Banns & Marriages

Anglesey Marriages and Banns
Breconshire Marriages and Banns
Caernarvonshire Marriages and Banns
Cardiganshire Marriages and Banns
Carmarthenshire Marriages and Banns
Denbighshire Marriages and Banns
Flintshire Marriages and Banns
Glamorganshire Marriages and Banns
Monmouthshire Marriages and Banns
Montgomeryshire Marriages and Banns
Pembrokeshire Marriages and Banns
Radnorshire Marriages and Banns
Wales Counties Burials

Carmarthenshire Burials
Cardiganshire Burials
Denbighshire Burials
Flintshire Burials
Breconshire Burials
Radnorshire Burials
Montgomeryshire Burials
Pembrokeshire Burials
Merionethshire Burials
Anglesey Burials
Glamorganshire Burials

Search our Welsh County Collections

Parish records will give names, dates and places in similar fashion to the GRO birth, marriage and death records, but the level of detail within a parish record depends largely on what was recorded on the original. Most parish records do not include accompanying images. Information in earlier registers can differ with some recording baptisms, marriages and burials together on the page, some keeping them separate. Some can be more informative than others, depending almost at whim on what the vicar chose to note down. They can, however, be a very valuable key documents that unlock the history of your family to a time you may not have thought it was possible to reach when you originally began to trace your family line.

Welsh Registers & Records

Explore six fascinating publications containing over 4,000 register entries and records to discover your Welsh roots. Welsh Registers & Records currently includes the following titles:

Episcopal Registers of the Diocese of St David's, Volumes I & II
Highways & Byways in North Wales, published 1898
Notes On the History of the Anglesey Hunt
Parish Registers of Caerwent & Llanfair Discoed, published 1920
Parish Registers of Conwy, published 1900
West Wales Historical Records, various volumes published between 1913 and 1929

Explore Welsh Registers & Records

All these publications are presented as PDFs. What you will discover, will depend on the publication you search. Some contain parish registers which will include birth, marriage and death records. Other publications recorded the history of specific areas of Wales.

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Disclosure:  I have a complimentary subscription to Findmypast, and have accepted meals and services from Findmypast, as a Findmypast Ambassador.  This has not affected my objectivity relative to Findmypast and its products.

Copyright (c) 2018, Randall J. Seaver

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52 Ancestors - Week 245: #370 Joseph Ladd (1701-1748) of Little Compton, Rhode Island

Joseph Ladd (1701-1748) is #370 on my Ahnentafel List, my 6th great-grandfather, who married #371 Lydia Gray (1707-????) in 1731 in Little Compton, Rhode Island.


I am descended through:

*  their daughter, #185 Elizabeth Ladd (1735-1814) who married  #184 Benedict Oatley (1732-1821) in 1755. 
*   their son #92 Joseph Oatley (1756 - 1815) who married #93 Mary Hazard (1765-1857)  in 1781.
*  their son #46 Jonathan Oatley (1791-1872), who married #47 Amy Champlin (1798-1865) in 1813.
*  their daughter #23 Amy Oatley (1826-1864), who married  #22 Henry Arnold White (1824-1885) in 1844.
*  their daughter #11 Julia E. White (1848-1913) who married #10 Thomas Richmond (1848-1917) in 1868.
*  their daughter #5 Alma Bessie Richmond (1882-1962) who married #4 Frederick Walton Seaver (1876-1942) in 1900.
*  their son #2 Frederick Walton Seaver (1911-1983) married #3 Betty Virginia Carringer (1919-2002) in 1942.
*  their son #1 Randall Jeffrey Seaver (1943-living)

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1)  PERSON (with source citations as indicated in brackets):
*  Name:                    Joseph Ladd[1–7]    

*  Sex:                       Male    

*  Father:                  William Ladd (1665-1729)    
*  Mother:                 Elizabeth Tompkins (1675-1729)  

2)  INDIVIDUAL EVENTS (with source citations as indicated in brackets):

*  Birth:                     19 October 1701, Little Compton, Newport, Rhode Island, United States[1–3]    

*  Distribution:          21 October 1729 (age 28), father's will proved; Bristol, Massachusetts, United States[4]    

*  Death:                   before March 1748 (before about age 46), Little Compton, Newport, Rhode Island, United States[6]  

3)  SHARED EVENTS (with source citations as indicated in brackets):

*  Spouse 1:              Lydia Gray (1707-????)    

*  Marriage 1:           25 August 1731 (age 29), Little Compton, Newport, Rhode Island, United States[1,5,7]    

*  Child 1:               Deborah Ladd (1732-????)    
*  Child 2:               Joseph Ladd (1733-????)    
*  Child 3:               Elizabeth "Betsy" Ladd (1735-1814)    
*  Child 4:               William Ladd (1737-1800)    
*  Child 5:               Lydia Ladd (1740-????)  

4)  NOTES (with source citations as indicated in brackets):   
Two books with information about the Joseph Ladd family in Little Compton are: a) Warren Ladd, The Ladd Family, A Genealogical and Biographical Memoir (New Bedford,
Mass.: Edmund Anthony & Sons, 1890), #3976 Joseph Ladd sketch[1]. b) Benjamin Franklin Wilbour, Little Compton Families ( Little Compton, R.I.: Little Compton
Historical Society, 1967), page 390, #4. Joseph Ladd sketch[2].
The Ladd Family has this summary for Joseph Ladd of Little Compton, Rhode Island[1]:
"Joseph Ladd, of Little Compton, R.I., (son of William), married Lydia, daughter of Samuel and
W. (Church) Gray. He purchased, 25 July 1733, of William Richmond, of Little Compton, R.I.,
land and house for 200 pounds. He sold, 5 February 1744, the land and buildings he purchased of
William Richmond to John Bush. Lydia, his wife, signed the deed." The Wilbour book has this for Joseph Ladd of Little Compton, Rhode Island[2]:
"Joseph Ladd (William-2, Joseph-1), born 19 Oct. 1701 in LC. Residence: LC. "He was married 25 Aug. 1731 in LC by Richard Billings, Justice, to Lydia Gray, daughter of
Samuel and Deborah (Church) Gray, born 16 Oct. 1707 in LC. "He purchased 25 July 1733 of William Richmond of LC land and house for 200 pounds. He sold
this 5 Feb. 1744 to John Bush. "This family moved out of town about 1744." Joseph Ladd was born 19 October 1701 in Little Compton, Rhode Island, the son of William Ladd
and Elizabeth Tompkins[1-3].
In the will of his father, William Ladd (1665-1729) of Little Compton, Joseph Ladd was bequeathed
5 shillings along with each of his siblings. The will was written 13 August 1729 and proved 21
October 1729 in Bristol County, Massachusetts Probate Court records[4].
On 25 August 1731, Joseph Ladd married in Little Compton to Lydia Gray, daughter of Samuel
and Deborah (Church) Gray of Little Compton[1,5,7]. They had five children, whose births were
recorded in the Little Compton town records:
* Deborah Ladd, born 16 May 1732. * Joseph Ladd, born 18 August 1733. * Elizabeth Ladd, born 9 July 1735, died 27 November 1814, married 2 October 1755 in South
Kingstown, R.I. to Benedict Oatloey (1732-1821). * William Ladd, born 16 October 1737, died 4 December 1800, married 22 December 1761 in
Newport, Rhode Island to Sarah Gardner (1739-1807). * Lydia Ladd, born September 1740. Joseph Ladd died before March 1748, perhaps in Little Compton, Rhode Island[6]. There are no known
burial records for him. There are no probate records for Joseph Ladd in the Little Compton town council records or in
Bristol County, Massachusetts.  
5)  SOURCES

1. Warren Ladd, The Ladd Family, A Genealogical and Biographical Memoir (New Bedford, Mass.: Edmund Anthony & Sons, 1890), #3976 Joseph Ladd sketch.

2. Benjamin Franklin Wilbour, Little Compton Families ( Little Compton, R.I.: Little Compton Historical Society, 1967), page 390, #4. Joseph Ladd sketch.

3. "Rhode Island, Vital Records Extracts, 1636-1899," indexed database and digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com), Volume 4, Newport County Vital records, page 133 (image 500 of 691), Joseph Ladd entry.

4. "Massachusetts, Wills and Probate Records, 1635-1991," indexed database with digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com), Bristol County > Probate Records, Kirby, Thankful - Lake, Squire, images 968-973 of 1439, William Ladd Probate Papers, 1729 .

5. "Rhode Island, Vital Records Extracts, 1636-1899," indexed database and digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com), Volume 4, Newport County Vital Records, "Little Compton - Intentions and Marriages," page 38 (image 405 of 691), Joseph Ladd and Lydia Gray marriage entry.

6. Robert S. Wakefield (compiler), Mayflower Families Through Five Generations, Volume 18: Family of Richard Warren (3 Parts) (Boston, Mass.: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1999), Part 1, page 200.

7. Benjamin Franklin Wilbour, Little Compton Families, page 391, Joseph Ladd and Lydia Gray marriage entry.


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