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Thursday, March 22, 2018

FAMILY-Edwin Firth

as if his daughter Emily and her husband Charles Mulholland were not "interesting" enough. Along comes this concerning Edwin. Still curious what happened to his first wife Frances Brown. Did she really die in Philadelphia as it is written on the reverse of a photo of her? Or did she divorce him and go back to England taking Abel with her. Both of them disappear into thin air.

News items and censuses in no particular order but they do pertain to Edwin and Minnie . It may look like repeats too but the items showed up in different newspapers across the United States


















Have not found Minnie in later years and do not know if she ever had the baby and was it his.

To be continued...

Edwin Firth's obituary with a few errors of course.
one mentions he was a duck farmer


this one with incorrect tagged date - ignore the date
 so this lists children by wife but not naming them separately saying there were 6 sons and three daughters. 5 still living. That is 9 children by Frances Brown.
John 1861-1862
Abel-1862- in 1880 census here then disappears from records
Alfred- 1870 - 1943
Edwin  1877 1946

who are the other 2 sons???
daughters
Emily-1864-1928
Selina 1869-1957
Frances- 1875 1948

5 still living in 1912
Alfred, Edwin,Emily, Selina, and Frances they got that right.



Death certificate

Thursday, March 15, 2018