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William Brandenburg family.

Father of William Brandenburg,
Grandfather of Mary Ann (Brandenburg) Shore,
Great-Grandfather of William Thomas Shore,
Great-Great Grandfather of Jesse Perry Shore.
Great-Great-Great Grandfather of Louise Mary Green, Margaret Ann Roberts, and Jessie Kathryn Kollenberg.

Here is how to read the 1790 census:

Head of household:  William Brandenburg (listed as "Brandenburgh").

1 -- "Free white male age 16 or older" ... this would be William, the adult (born 1757).

3 -- "Free white males under the age of 16" ... his three sons Henry, Samuel, and William (born 1785).

The son William (born 1785) is the father of Mary Ann Brandenburg (born 1815).

This is William Brandenburg's family after he remarried to Christiana Martin.

Here is how to read the 1820 census:

Head of household:  William Brandenburg (listed as "Brandenburgh").

2 -- "Free white males under ten years"
1 -- "Free white males of ten and under sixteen"
1 -- "Free white males between sixteen and eighteen"
3 -- "Free white males of sixteen and under twenty-six"
0 -- "Free white males of twenty-six and under forty-five"
1 -- "Free white males of forty-five and upwards"
3 -- "Free white females under ten years"
1 -- "Free white females of ten and under sixteen"
1 -- "Free white females of sixteen and under twenty-six"
1 -- "Free white females of twenty-six and under forty-five"
0 -- "Free white females of forty-five and upwards"

... (in this census, a male aged 16-18 was counted twice.)

The one "Free white male of forty-five and upwards" is William Brandenburg (born 1757).  The one "Free white female of twenty-six and under forty-five" is Christiana (Martin) Brandenburg.

This is William Brandenburg's family still living with him in 1830.  He is now about 72 years old.

Here is how to read the 1830 census:

Heads of Families:  William Brandenburg (listed as "Brandenburgh").

1 -- "Free white males of 5 to 10 years"
1 -- "Free white males of 10 to 15 years"
2 -- "Free white males of 20 to 30 years"
1 -- "Free white males of 70 to 80 years"
1 -- "Free white females of 10 to 15 years"
2 -- "Free white females of 15 to 20 years"
1 -- "Free white females of 20 to 30 years"
1 -- "Free white females of 50 to 60 years"

The one "Free white male 70 to 80" is William Brandenburg (born 1757).  The one "Free white female of 50 to 60" is Christiana (Martin) Brandenburg.

Transcript, showing:

Deed of 82.64 acres, Stark County, Illinois, to John Shore.

Refers to Act of Congress, 1820, for sale of Public Lands.
Signed: R. Tyler for President John Tyler, 10 Nov 1841.

John Shore had purchased the Federal land in 1839 for $1.25 per acre.  His cost for 82.64 acres was $103.30.

Thomas Winn and Mary Ann (Johnson) Winn family.

Shows eight people residing in the home, including Mary Ann Johnson's father.

Shows Marshall Winn, age 8.

John Shore and Mary Ann (Brandenburg) Shore family.

Shows five people residing in the home.

Shows Sarah Amanda Shore, age 8;  Louisa Cedelia Shore, age 6;  and William Thomas Shore, age 4.

(Their first child, Althea Sedale Shore, had died in 1842, age 2 yrs, prior to this census.)

Owen (37) and Catherine (Fadden) Gaffney (32), parents;
James (11), John (8), and Michael (5).

Perry Talbott and Belle (McFarland) Talbott family.

Living in Nodaway County, Missouri.  He had extensive farmland and properties.  Later in 1874 on his land, he established the town of Arkoe, naming the streets:  Talbott Street, Belle Street, and Olive Street.

Perry Talbott and Belle (McFarland) Talbott family.

The census is not very readable, but the family is on lines 28 through 38.

Perry (age 43) and Belle (37), with nine children:  Olivia (15), Ianthe (14), Ida Belle (12), Albert Perry (11), Alice (9), Charles E. (6), William Wallace (4), Jennie (3), and Cora Anne (1), shown as 'Corianne'.

Three years later at about age 17, on 5 Oct 1873, Ianthe married William Thomas Shore.  She was William's second wife (his first wife Cora had died in 1871).

Shows two households.

Richard C. Baker and Mary Ann (Brandenburg) Shore-Baker family.  Mary Ann's husband John Shore had died in 1861.  She remarried to Richard Baker in 1862.  This 1870 census shows them with Richard's children and Mary Ann's daughter Amanda Shore, age 28.

Shows three households.

Richard Baker and Mary Ann (Brandenburg) Shore-Baker family, with grandsons Winfred Shore and Arthur Albert Shore.

J.A. and Ida (Baker) Williams family, with William T. Shore.

James Owen (40) and Margaret Gaffney (31), parents;
Catherine (9), Anna (8), Phillip (6), Charles (5), Margaret (3), and James (2 mos.).

Also shows Susan Nash (18) in Gaffney household.

Mary Ann (Brandenburg) Shore-Baker -- Family History

Mary Ann is a daughter of William Brandenburg.  She was born in 1815 and married John Shore in 1838.  John and Mary Ann Shore are the grandparents of Jesse Perry Shore.  She died in 1892.

In late 1888 and early 1889, the Brandenburg heirs were detailing their family relationships, trying to gain title to Brandenburg family estates in Prussia and in Baltimore, Maryland.

Here is her chronicle about her Brandenburg family, in her handwriting.

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Brandenburg Family Chart

When the Brandenburg heirs recorded their heritage in late 1888 and early 1889, Naomi (Brandenburg) Shepard prepared this chart and sent it to Many Ann (Brandenburg) Shore-Baker.

Mary Ann was instructed to complete the chart by adding her own family members.

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Brandenburg Family Meeting

Brandenburg heirs held a family meeting in Dayton, Ohio.  More than 70 persons attended.

Its purpose was to get family members to work together in pursuing title to estates in Prussia.

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Brandenburg-Shore Family Chart

This family chart is in Jesse Perry Shore's handwriting.

His chart shows the linking of the Brandenburg, Shore, and Winn families.

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Here is a list of family names with their births, marriages, and deaths.  It is in Jesse Shore's handwriting.

He wrote this document sometime after 1904, as that is the last date recorded.  Probably he made it before 1931, as it does not record the death of his aunt Louisa Cedelia (Shore) Winn in that year.  Louisa and Marshall Winn had reared Jesse from when he was two years old, after the death of his mother.  Probably he would have recorded his aunt Louisa's death if he had been preparing this document after 1931.

He shows dates and locations that have not been seen on other records in the family.  We have not yet found any other records that might have furnished his sources.  Modern searches have shown his information to be accurate.  Other family documents might have been lost or are waiting to be discovered.

They had five children, four of whom reached adulthood.

• Ernest James Shore (1904-1954)
• Mary Louise Shore (1907-1990) -- Married Carl Deford Green
• Margaret Ann Shore (1910-2004) -- Married Joseph Oliver Roberts
• Jessie Kathryn Shore (1912-2000) -- Married Carl Joseph Kollenberg
• Frances Shore (1916-1923)

Civilian census, showing Jesse, Anna, and two children: Ernest and Louise.

Military census, showing Jesse Shore.

Two daughters at home:  Margaret (age 19) and Kathryn (age 17).

They had four children.

• Joseph Oliver Roberts Jr (born 1933)
• James Jesse Roberts (born 1936)
• Carole Ann Roberts (born 1938)
• Cheryl Sue Roberts (born 1945)

Joseph Oliver Roberts transfer, Panama to Dutch Guiana (Surinam)

This memo, dated 22 Aug 1942, summarizes the transfer of military forces from the Panama Canal Zone to Surinam during September 1941, just prior to the start of World War II.

It describes the preparations and voyages of the troops starting 7 Sep 1941.  (The date 9 Sep 1942 in the text is a typographical error -- it should be 1941).

The forces were transferred from Panama to Trinidad, and then to Paramaribo, Surinam, where they were stationed at Zandery Field.

Click here to see the memo:   Page  1  2  3

The transport ship from Panama to Trinidad was the S.S. Irwin.  She was built in 1918 in Philadelphia, saw WWII service as a transport and hospital ship, then was sold for scrap in 1948.

Click here for a photo of the ship:  S.S. Irwin.

The Irwin put in to Trinidad.  After a two-month holdover, the troops were transferred to the ships Liesenring and Yarmouth for the final transfer to Paramaribo, Dutch Guiana (Surinam).  Troops from the ship Yarmouth were further transferred to the Norwegian ship N.S. Lindvangen, built in 1931 in Danzig.  Liesenring and Lindvangen proceeded to Paramaribo, where the troops disembarked.

World War II Ration Books -- Roberts Family

To assure supply of materials needed by our military in the war, items such as meat and groceries, gasoline, and other materials needed in the war effort were rationed to civilian families.

Each civilian person in the family, adult or child, got a ration book.

Families were encouraged to grow their own vegetables, and to contribute scrap items to the war effort.  Margaret Ann Roberts had a "Victory Garden" growing in the family's back yard at 410 Royston Street, San Antonio.

The family collected tin cans and other scrap metal, and they also saved jars of grease and fat from cooking.

Each week the children filled a red "Radio Flyer" wagon with items the family had saved, and pulled it to the local gasoline filling station, where those items were collected for the war effort.

Here are some World War II Ration Books issued to the family.  Coupons that are torn out were used for purchases.  You can see the ones that were not used.

Book 1  Outside  Inside
Book 2  Outside  (Empty -- all coupons were used)
Book 2  Outside  (Another Book 2)
Book 2  Outside  Inside  Back  (Another Book 2 -- one stamp left)
Book 4  Outside  Inside
Book 4  Outside  Inside  (Another Book 4)
Book 4  Outside  Inside  (Another Book 4)

M/Sgt Joseph Roberts died on 12 Jul 1952 in Tokyo, Japan, at age 51.

These are the orders issued on 16 Jul for his wife, Margaret Ann Roberts and three of her children to return from Japan to the United States.

The family were to go to the port at Yokohama on 23 July.  From there they were to proceed "via first available surface carrier" to San Francisco, and then to San Antonio, Texas.  Household effects were to be shipped to the family home of her sister, at 817 Greer Street, San Antonio.  Military payment certificates were to be disposed of, and physical inspections and immunizations were to be completed before departure.

Margaret Ann (Shore) Roberts -- Family Histories

Margaret Ann is a daughter of Jesse Perry Shore and Anna Agnes (Gaffney) Shore.  She was born in 1910 and married Joseph Roberts in 1933.  She died in 2004.

Here are her chronicles of the Shore and Gaffney families, in her handwriting.

She put these together in the era before the Internet -- before there was a World Wide Web or online data.  Her resources were family documents, library books, and recollections of family traditions she had heard.

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