Jon Nakamoto

married Katharine Valley. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Residence: 1915, Brooklyn, Kings, New York, United States
• Residence: 1920, Queens, Queens, New York, United States
• Residence: 1925, Flushing, Queens, New York, United States
• Residence: 1930, Queens, Queens, New York, United States

Notes:

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George married Louisa King Williams on 19 Jul 1941. Louisa (daughter of Stillman Pierce Williams and Frances Ropes) was born on 19 Jan 1917 in Winchester, MIddlesex, Massachusetts, United States; died on 9 Feb 1995 in Lexington, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Residence: 1880, Ogdensburg, St. Lawrence, New York, United States
• Residence: 1900, Manhattan, New York, New York, United States
• Residence: 1910, Manhattan, New York, New York, United States
• Residence: 1915, Brooklyn, Kings, New York, United States
• Residence: 12 Sep 1918, Flushing, Queens, New York, United States
• Residence: 1920, Queens, Queens, New York, United States
• Residence: 1925, Flushing, Queens, New York, United States
• Residence: 1930, Queens, Queens, New York, United States
• Residence: 1940, Queens, Queens, New York, United States

Notes:

From researcher Mona Rainville:

In my humble oopinion, you are most likely looking for a child whose mother is either a LACOMBE or a BROUILLETTE, which are the names of the godparents. Carolus LACOBE = Charles LACOMBE, and Delima DOUILLETTE - Rose de Lima BROUILLETTE. (Don't ask me how I know this...)

Priests routinely wrote "parents unknown" instead of revealing the identity of the birth mother, and exposing her to shame. But if on top of it the priest add that the child is a bastard, then he must know the parents are not married. Ergo, he knows at least the mother... And so much for protecting the child from shame.

Had this been 50 or 100 years earlier, I would have ventured another explanation. It was then routine for catholic priests to indicate in their parish baptismal registers a child as a bastard when this child was born from a marriage not recognized by the church, as for example, a marriage between a catholic and a protestant.

Who knows, this might still be the case, in this case. After all, why write the child is from unknown parents, if you know the child is a bastard ? He'd have to have known the mother, at least, and know that she was not married to the father. See what I mean ?

It was not unusual for such children to be put up for adoption, and to be adopted by relatives, sometimes distant, but sometimes the actual siblings of the birth mother. The child rarely - if ever - carried the father's name. To make matters worse, it also happened sometimes that the godparents were related to the father, rather than to the mother.

Still, I can't see a real connection with Montreal, or with the Province of Quebec for that matter. The mother might have been born in the US, from parents born here. And the same could be true of the father.

This baptismal certificate does not state the date of birth. Perhaps this child was born months or even years prior to being baptized as a catholic.


Birth:
Adopted in Ogdensburg, but birth location officially unknown.

George married Edith Ringgold Cummins on 25 Jun 1910 in St. Mary's Church, Bronx, Bronx, New York, United States. Edith (daughter of Thomas Henry Cummins and Frances Jane Baack) was born on 8 Jul 1881 in Bronx, Bronx, New York, United States; died on 16 Jan 1969 in Dayton, Montgomery, Ohio, United States; was buried on 18 Jan 1969 in Green Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, Kings, New York, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Residence: 1900, Bronx, Bronx, New York, United States
• Residence: 1910, Bronx, Bronx, New York, United States
• Residence: 1915, Brooklyn, Kings, New York, United States
• Residence: 1920, Queens, Queens, New York, United States
• Residence: 1925, Flushing, Queens, New York, United States
• Residence: 1930, Queens, Queens, New York, United States
• Residence: 1940, Queens, Queens, New York, United States
• Residence: 1950, Flushing, Queens, New York, United States
• Residence: 1969, Clark, Ohio, United States

Stillman married Frances Ropes on 22 Nov 1906 in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, United States. Frances (daughter of Willis Henry Ropes and Louisa King Farley) was born on 23 Jul 1883 in Massachusetts, United States; died in Oct 1969 in Winchester, MIddlesex, Massachusetts, United States; was buried on 25 Oct 1969. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

http://www.paghat.com/hostafranceswilliams.html

'Frances Williams'
Siebold Plantain Lily

The species is named for the German physician & botanist Philipp Franz von Siebold (1796‚1866) who sparked general interest in hostals in the early 1800s after he returned to the Netherlands with several specimens he had collected over time during his long stint as a physician in Nagasaki for the Dutch East India Company.

The cultivar is named for Mrs. Frances Ropes Williams (1883-1969) of Winchester Massachusetts, who spotted & quickly obtained the first known specimen when it appeared in a field of H. sieboldiana at Bristol Nurseries in Connecticutt, in 1936.

Mrs. Williams was a devoted hosta enthusiast & founding member of the American Hosta Society; she bred & named many introductions developed in her private garden.


http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/1994/garden-1005.html

Garden nestled among buildings is hidden treasure

October 5, 1994

Renovations have recently been completed on the President's Court, a collection of hosta plants and other greenery nestled in the enclosure surrounded by Buildings 3, 10. 11 and 13.

Eighty percent of the concrete walkways surrounding the square garden have just been repaired. A dirt path that went through the garden from one corner to the other has also been replaced with a blue stone walkway.

The garden is home to at least 10 different types of hosta plants, identifiable by their large tropical-looking leaves. They were a gift from Frances Ropes Williams, a 1904 MIT graduate and avid gardener. According to Norman Magnuson, route supervisor in grounds services, she bred different types of the plants she enjoyed and named them in memory of her sister, Constance Williams Hosta.


Author LinkRopes, Frances.
Title LinkA Marine Park for Salem Neck / by Frances Ropes.
Availability All items
Location Institute Archives - Noncirculating Collection 3 | THESIS Thesis Arch 1904 B.S.

Published 1904.
Description 15 leaves ; 30 cm.
Format Book BK
Thesis Note Thesis (B.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1904.
Local Note Accompanying drawings held by MIT Museum.
Title Note Title in the MIT graduation program: Design for a Marine Park for Salem Neck.

Notes:

1910 US Census residence is Winchester, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts

1920 US Census residence is Winchester, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts

1930 US Census residence is Winchester, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts. Frances noted as Head of household.