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Saturday, March 17, 2012

Super Sleuth Saturday: Alice and Marion Rogers, Lawrence, MA, 1887




What's the mystery, you ask?  You have names and ages:  "Alice M. Rogers, Age 12 and Marion L. Rogers, Age 10."  You have a photographer's imprint:  W.H. Allen, Lawrence, Mass.  You have provenance:  Photo was found with photographs belonging to Mary. E. Harrison.  And you have a date the photo was taken: 1887.

Well, the mystery is that I can't seem to find these girls in the census for Massachusetts.  Were they just visiting Lawrence?  How are they connected to Mary E. Harrison?  I have one possible lead, and I am curious if you will end up there, too. 

Don't you just love their dresses?

5 comments:

  1. Here is a birth record for Alice M.
    https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/FXWJ-JT8 her parents are John and Jennie.

    We find Marion L listed in 1880...
    https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/MH6D-2WY
    as Marion L. Rodgers (they slipped in a "d")

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  2. Marion L. seems to have never married (or was very late to do).

    https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/XQ58-TM9 shows her single in 1930.

    Alice M. married Joseph A. Ewart on March 23, 1896 in Lawrence, MA.
    http://lawrence.essexcountyma.net/lawrenceamerican.html

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  3. In 1910, Alice M. had a daughter and her father living with her and her husband.

    https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/M2JV-25T

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  4. Thanks, Intense Guy for solving the "mystery" of the missing "d." It's so nice to know more about these girls. Thanks for your work on this!

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  5. You are welcome. :)

    Alice M.'s daughter, Miriam Rogers Ewart (b. abt 1902) graduated from Wellesley Collage in 1924 according to an online yearbook.

    www.e-yearbook.com/yearbooks/wc/1921/Page_187.html

    She is mentioned as going to Hyde Park with her parents in September 1933 still unmarried.

    http://ddd-hph.dlconsulting.com/cgi-bin/newshph?a=d&d=HPH19330929.2.11&cl=&srpos=0&st=1&e=-------20--1-----all

    It would appear Alice's sister and Alice's daughter may have never married. If so, this branch of the family died out.

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