[or-roots] Family Search boo boos

[Leslie Chapman]

Merry Christmas to everyone on the list.
Thank you Sue for pointing out the obvious answer that all three of us Guys managed to totally over look. My fault for not paying any attention to the information beyond Hugh's date of birth and place. I could use the excuse that the place names listed further down the page on these cards are often wrong or missing, but that would be a very lame excuse.  I found no mention in the centennial history or any thing on their web site that they had ever had Vill attached to the name and isn[t it interesting that it doesn't have an e on it?
Thanks again.
Les C.

--- On Fri, 12/23/11, Sue Steward <ssteward at ccountry.net> wrote:

From: Sue Steward <ssteward at ccountry.net>
Subject: Re: [or-roots] Family Search boo boos
To: "or-roots mail list" <or-roots at listsmart.osl.state.or.us>
Date: Friday, December 23, 2011, 9:16 PM


  

    
  
  
    

    After looking at his birthplace on the WWI draft registration of
    Hugh Foss which shows his birthplace Campton, New Hampshire and then
    looking again at the link you gave for Family Search it is
    apparently Campton Vill shown as his birthplace.  It is a little
    plainer listed as place of residence for the father.

    

    
      
        
          

          
        
        
          Origin: First chartered in
            1761, the town may have been named for a friend of Governor
            Benning Wentworth, Spencer Compton, Earl of Wilmington.
            Another source indicates that when surveyors came to the
            area, they built a camp here, and the name Campton comes
            from that. Conditions of the 1761 charter were not met, and
            a new charter was issued in 1767. An early settler was John
            Marsh, whose grandson Sylvester was born in Campton.
            Sylvester Marsh, a founder of the Chicago meat-packing
            industry, came up with the idea of building a railway to the
            summit of Mount Washington. Marsh invented the cog rail
            mechanism and special brakes so the locomotive could scale
            the steep terrain, completing the railway in July 1869. 

            

          
        
        
          Villages and Place Names:
            Beebe River, Blair, Campton Hollow, Campton Lower Village,
            Campton Station, Campton Upper Village, West Campton

            

          
        
      
    
    

    On 12/23/2011 7:40 PM, Leslie Chapman wrote:
    
      We could argue about the place name till we are blue in the face; the big problem with reading it as Orange is there is very clearly "vill" at the end of the word and the only place name I could find in any reference for NH starting with O and having vill in it was Orfordville. I have to agree even digitally enhanced it really looks like 1846 and not having at their hands the information that Lavinia Melvin who married George B Foss was born in 1857 there is no way to fault their interpretation of the date, even though it is obviously wrong.  I find a lot of the time I have to rely on the text version to figure out what the image actually says and I assume often the people indexing these pages are familiar enough with the geography of the area to be able to fill in the blanks. I haven't tried to find a death record for Hugh as he most likely isn't in the Family Search data base since for NH they only go to 1915, so I probably never will know for
 sure
 which O town he was born in and more to the point why? Daddy being listed as a Peddler of timeware(?) in 1900 might explain that, but I thought Peddler's typically traveled a route and their family stayed in one location?

Interesting puzzles we find in digging into our ancestry.

Les C

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