[or-roots] Pickett in Oregon

[Harguess, Dale]

Actually, there is an Irish connection.  My great grandmother's mother's
name was Genevieve Flynn.  Her husband's name was Edmund Pickett.  I
think they died when my great grandmother was a baby and that is how she
came to be living with the Walton's.  She ended up marrying a Flynn in
Minnesota who had come from Ireland when he was six to Canada and then
eventually he came down to Minnesota.  I think his mother might have
died in Ireland because he didn't even know her name.  Only his father's
name who he came with from Tipperary to Canada.
I don't want you to waste any time on this as I have spent hours and
hours and have pretty much given up.
Dale

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:or-roots-bounces at listsmart.osl.state.or.us] On Behalf Of Leslie
Chapman
Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2010 10:49 AM
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Subject: Re: [or-roots] Pickett in Oregon

I think you are probably right about them not being connected to my
Picketts
then, as ours came from NY and the history I find them in in WI gives
them
Irish ancestry. Your Canadian folks might have been related from the old
country, but I suspect given 49 heads of household in the 1900 Census
with
Pickett Surname and born in Canada that the odds of a connection would
be
fairly slim. I only find one family in 1900 in Minn.

There is an Emile Pickett age 42 in Cedarbend Twsp, Roseau Co. Minn in
1910
listed as widow, and none in 1920 so your gal must be more recent? or am
I
just missing them in the HQ index?

Often times I chase after other peoples puzzles like that because I
never
know when I will stumble across my own people. And the chance that
someone
with that name in their family tree might be connected or benefit from
my
help is why I threw that comment out there Dale because I really don't
intend to pursue the connection unless someone else is interested as
these
OR Picketts connected to my family are too far out in the button hole
relative of button hole relative for it to be rationale for me to pursue
them, though that's never stopped me before.

Linda; I see a German born Pickett in 1910 in Lane Co, no one in 1920,
though there is a family of Wi born folks in Alsea that might somehow
have
ended up in Junction city, no Picketts at all in Lane Co in 1900 or
1920.

Les C

-----Original Message-----
From: Harguess, Dale
Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2010 9:03 AM

Well, all I know is that I think they probably died because I found my
great grandmother living with a family of Walton's when she was only
three in Minnesota.  She was born in New Brunswick Canada and I suspect
that the Walton wife was probably her mother's sister.  All just
guesses.  I doubt that any of the Pickett's in Oregon were related to
her.  I just made that comment because you mentioned the name Pickett
and it isn't very common.

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