Individual Notes
Note for: Jan Jansson, 16 May 1816 - ABT 1881
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Christening: Date: ABT May 1816
Place: , Grangarde, Kopparberg, Sweden
Burial: Date: ABT 1881
Place: , Floda, Kopparberg, Sweden
Individual Note: NAME: Also known as Jan Johnson in U.S..
MARRIAGE: Grangarde Parish, FHL film no. 221170, (no page no.), #32.
RESEARCHERS: Steve & Melanie Perner, Jon Schweitzer.
Individual Notes
Note for: Stina Cajsa Larsdotter, 26 Nov 1822 - ABT 1894
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Christening: Date: ABT Nov 1822
Place: , Mora, Kopparberg, Sweden
Burial: Date: ABT 1894
Individual Note: MARRIAGE: Grangarde Parish, FHL film no. 221170, (no page no.), #32.
RESEARCHERS: Steve & Melanie Perner, Jon Schweitzer.
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Note for: Robert Lee Valentine Bousfield, 14 Feb 1845 - 19 Mar 1918
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Christening: Date: ABT Feb 1845
Place: , , Nottinghamshire, England
Burial: Date: ABT Mar 1918
Place: Redding, Shasta, CA
Individual Note: B214, B621, B521
BIRTH: Birth certificate, England, Nottinghamshire, Southwell, 14 Feb 1845, of Lowdham, certified written copy of cert., father-William Edward Bousfield- baker, mother-Frances Reddish.
CENSUS: 1851, England, Nottinghamshire, Flintham, FHL film no. 87769, H.O. 107/2139, page no. 27, House No. 115, Robert Bousfield, age 6, born Lowdham, Nott., FHL film no. 87769 and microfiche no. 6024509.
MARRIAGE #1: Marriage certificate, Pottawattamie Co., IA.
MARRIAGE #2: Marriage record, Monterey Co., CA.
MARRIAGES: 1st: Certificate of Marriage held by Jon Schweitzer, 28 MAR 1868 to Lucinda Chloe Barritt at Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie Co., IA. 2nd: 15 FEB 1882 to Abbe Rosella Rist at Peach Tree Valley, Monterey Co., CA.
CENSUS: 1870, IA, Pottawattamie Co., Cresent Township, stamped page 151, line 18, R. Bousfield, age 26, farmer, $2000 R.E., $200 P.E., ENG, FHL film no. 545915.
EAGLE HOTEL: Story about the Eagle Hotel that he owned in The Pinnacle newspaper, Hollister, CA, March 15, 1990, page 1A and 1B.
GREAT REGISTER: 1873 Monterey Co., CA, no. 399, Robert Bousfield, age 26, England, Hollister, naturalized - "His father a citizen" (incorrect statement-lie), registation was Aug 15, 1871.
NATURALIZATION: Searching the naturalization records of San Benito and Monterey Counties has produced no naturalization records for Robert.
FATHER: All searches in the United States, California, West Virginia and Virginia have been negative in finding his father, William Edward.
AD: Hollister Advance newspaper, Hollister, CA, June 17 1872, R.
Bousfield's HAY & FEED YARD.
DIRECTORY: 1875 Handbook and Directory of...San Benito (CA)...Counties. page 147, R. Bousfield, Hay Dealer and Hotel Proprietor (Eagle Hotel) in San Benito, (Hollister), CA.
On page 143 there is the following writeup about Hollister: HOLLISTER
The County Seat of San Benito County, is situated five miles from the Northern terminus of the county, fifteen miles from Gilroy, and enjoys all the advantages of a railroad terminus, without being one. The reason for this is two-fold. Quite a stop must be made here to allow the engine to take in water. Tres Pinos, the real terminus, offering no advantage for this purpose, the want must be supplied at Hollister. This affords a halt long enough for travelers to at least provision themselves, at a station offering greater facilities than Tres Pinos. Again, Hollister is the largest and most important town of the county and residents of the county naturally take their trade where they can avail themselves of the benefits resulting from competition. The town contains about seventeen hundred inhabitants, is picturesquely and advantageously situated, in the centre of a district bearing abundant evidences of richness and extreme fertility. Stretching away to the North, in the direction of San Juan, is the old San Justo grant, recently out up into Farms, under the auspices of the San Justo Association. In the Northern part of the town towers a lofty mountain, commanding a view of some four hundred square miles. Hollster boasts some very fine buildings, and has a number of large stores, provided with everything to meet the universal want.
Religious denominations are quite well represented, there being two Methodist Churches, one Presbyterian, one Congregational, one Campbellite, and one Catholic.
Secret, Social and Benevolent Orders are also established here in some profusion, there being lodges of Freemasons, Odd Follows, Redmen, Good Templars and Grangers. Also a club devoted exclusively to social purposes. Among its practical organizations, the town boasts a good fire company.
There are well attended Public Schools, so graded and systematized as to render them of use and benefit. A large school building has just been finished for the purpose of collecting all the public school organizations under one roof. There are also two Private Schools, presided over by thoroughly competent preceptors.
Two weekly papers are published here, the San Benito Advance, and Hollister Enterprise. They are exclusively devoted to county interests, advocate all measures for its aggrandizement ably, and, in every sense, are well conducted, wide-awake sheets.
One of the best flouring mills In the State is located here, and doing a thriving business. Several commodious grain warehouses are distributed conveniently about the town, and, until recently, a large brewery occupied a site near the Railroad Depot. This, however, was burned a short time since, nor are we positive whether or not it has been determined to rebuild.
Four hotels and several restaurants suffice to tickle the palates and slightly disconcert the digestive organs of all who fall into their hands. The Montgomery House is well worthy of patronage, the proprietors trying, by every means in their power, to render the stay of guests comfortable and pleasant. Two lumber yards and one brick yard furnish, at home, the material necessary for building. The town has also two public halls. Two banks are here doing business, one of which possesses a building, fire-proof and well adapted in every respect to the conduct of banking business, besides being an ornament to the town. This is Bank of Hollister, an institution with a good capital, doing a safe and profitable business.
GREAT REGISTER: 1875, San Benito Co., CA, no. 108, Robert Bousfield, age 26, England, Hotel Keeper (Eagle Hotel), Hollister, naturalized Aug 17, 1874 at Monterey Co. (date is after registation) and County Court (invaid statment as of this date, 23 Dec 2002 - lie) date of registation was May 2 1874.
CENSUS: 1880, CA, Tulare Co., Mussel Slough Township, very good chance this is him, E.D. 99, page no. 42 (stamped page 73"B"), dwelling no. 302, line 6, no given name, Bousfield, age 35, peddler, married, Eng., Eng., Eng., census taken 5 July 1880. FHL film no. 1254085.
GREAT REGISTER: 1890, Monterey Co., CA, Robert Bousfield, age 33, VA, Trader, Peach Tree, registation was 15 May 1882.
CENSUS: 1900, CA, Monterey, Bradley, E.D. 3, sheet 2A, stamped sheet 157, line 16, Robert Bousfield, age 51, Feb 1849 (should be 1845), married 18 yrs, WV WV MD, (incorrect places - lie, correct places Eng., Eng., Eng.) with 2nd wife who had 6 children and 5 are living, Farmer, owns mortgaged farm, FHL film no. 1240094.
GREAT REGISTER: 1900, CA, Monterey Co., Valleton Precinct, no.4, Robert Bousfield, age 51.
CENSUS: 1910, neg HQ
DIVORCED: Cannot find any divorce records in Monterey or San Benito Co.s, CA.
DIVORCED: IA, Pottawattamie Co., 1 Feb
1902, 157 vs 12980, Judgment Book 21 and page 46 and dated Feb 1 1902.
Grounds were that Robert deserted and did not support Lucinda from about July 1880. Notices were published in Council Bluffs Weekly Nonpareil 4 consecuative times starting on 24 Oct 1901. Lucinda initiated the divorce proceedings because she wanted to again collect the Federal Civil War pension she was entitled to because her first husband (John Nixon) had died in the Civil War.
HOSPITAL: Order of Admission to Shasta County Hospital, admitted Mar 8, 1918 from #1 Anderson Twp., date of birth Feb 14 1855, birthplace West Virginia (lie), divorced, resident of CA for 48 years, resident of Shasta Co. for 1 year, laborer, father Wm Edward Bousfield, birthplace VA (lie), mother Frances Lee (lie), birthplace MD (lie), cause of admission is Heart & Kidney, admitted Mar 8 1918, this document held by Jon Schweitzer.
DEATH: Death certificate, Shasta Co., CA, no. 35, Shasta Co. Hospital, Robert Bansfield, divorced, birth Feb 14 1855, Laborer, birthplace W. VA, father William E. Bansfield, birthplace VA (false), mother Frances Lee (false), birthplace MD (false), 14 days in hospital, 48 years in CA, died March 19 1918, cause of death Valvular Disease of the Heart and Hypertrophy of Heart.
Burial in Co. Cemetery on March 21 1918. Signed Sherman T. White, C. R. Pickering - Undertaker, Redding CA.
OBITUARY: Searchlight newspaper, CA, Shasta Co., Redding, date is about 21 Mar 1918. page ?, "Died in County Hospital Robert Bansfield, a laborer, died in the county hospital Tuesday. He was admitted to that institution on March 10. Bansfield, a native of West Virginia, was aged 63 years and had lived in California for forty-eight years. Death was due to a vascular disease of the heart."
BURIAL: Suspected to be in an unmarked grave in the cemetery that was next to the Shasta Country Hospital.
SOURCE: "Descendants of John Blaw (Blue), d. 1757 Somerset Co., NJ", Fourth Edition, by William H. Blue, Aug 1990, pages 87 and 190, FHL film no.
1697451.
7th GENERATION
1.1.1.3.9.3.4 Lucinda Chloe BARRITT (1844-1934), m1. 1861 John F. NIXON (d.1864), m2. I868 Robert Valentine BOUSFIELD (1845-1918), divorced 1902. She was born in IL and married John in Pottawattamie Co. IA. He was a son of William and Eliza (COLLINS) NIXON. John served in Co. A, 29th Reg. of the Iowa Volunteers during the Civil War, and died "of disease" at Camden AR on 29 Sep 1864. Lucinda received a pension, but lost it when she remarried.
Robert was born in England, and they married Council Bluffs IA. He was a son of William Edward and Frances (REDDISH) BOUSFIELD. They were living in Crescent Twp. of Pottawattamie Co. in 1870, and moved to CA ca 1871. They bought the Eagle Hotel and a livery barn in Hollister CA and ran them for several years. Lucinda and her children returned to Council Bluffs, where they were living in 1880. Family oral history indicates that when Lucinda took her children to IA, Robert refused to send her money for the return trip. After this, they were divorced. Her son Lemuel went to CA to look for his father.
He was unsuccessful and was adopted in 1890 by Milton GUION in Fresno Co. CA.