I'm trying to find Eugene Tormey born 1867/8 Pennsylvania in 1900. I've found him with his wife Bertha 1910-1940 living at Rush, Pennsylvania. From the information I've been given Bertha was his 2nd wife. So in 1900 he could be with his 1st wife Elizabeth - they married 1897 in Cumberland, Pennsylvania. I've tried all different spellings of his surname, even tried looking for just Eugene born 1867/9 with wife Elizabeth but cannot see him. Can anyone help me please? Many thanks.
I can't see any of that family between 1880 & 1910 Sheila. I wondered if they'd taken a trip back to UK, but not found on passengers incoming either. Tried the various spellings, Hugh , Esther even Esther Lyla,(niece-she may have married).
What is Elizabeth's parents names? They might be living nearby....? Also looked under "Eugene F*", thinking of possible mis-indexing scenarios. I have HeritageQuest via my public library's website, but it is not as "friendly" with result sets as A.....y.
Found a site with online census records..... From what you said I believe they lived in Cumberland County Pennsylvania. This site states that not all the counties have an online 1900 census in Pennsylvania... one that is missing is Cumberland.
After many hours of searching yesterday found the following: Elizabeth Tormey (nee Wright) died 1898 aged 33 - buried at Pleasant Hill Methodist Church Cemetery, Glasgow, Cambria Co. PA. Plot 17/97. So if the marriage above is correct, she died the year after, so Eugene would be on his own in 1900. Also buried there are: Father, William Wright b1842 Danville. PA died 1896 - husband of Sarah Wright Brother - William G. Wright b1878 d1888 - moved from Coalport Cem. in 1896. Also buried in Plot 17/97. Eugene's 2nd wife was Bertha Mae Isenberg d/o Ephraim & Ann E. Isenberg. Ephraim Isenberg 1843-1923, husband of Ann E. Updike Isenberg. Ann Elizabeth Isenberg 1850-1921 d/o Lewis & Esther Updike, wife of Ephraim. James Isenberg 1871-1951 s/o Ephraim & Ann E. Updike Isenberg. Eva Bell Isenberg Glasgow 1893-1921. All buried at Pleasant Hill Cemetery - plot 16/453. As usual, haven't found either of Eugene's marriages - why are they so hard to find? So, I still can't find Eugene on 1900. Have just realised I haven't got him on the 1870 either - son of Hugh Tormey & Esther Skidmore. The problem I'm having with my research is that I don't know the States in America so am finding it really hard to know where to look in the first place. Thank you all for taking the time to look for me.
The second marriage is on FamilySearch in their 'Pennsylvania, County Marriages 1885-1950' collection: https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1-159316-136583-72?cc=1589502&wc=MMY5-375:640353469
I still often turn to that old favourite, Cyndi's List (now 17 years old!), when trying to find US genealogy sites. Here is Cyndi's page on Pennsylvania, for example: http://www. cyndislist.com/us/pa/
Jane - thank you so much! That's an absolute brilliant find. It ties up with the 1870 Census I've found for the following: Hugh TURMA aged 40 - Ireland Anna aged 42 - England James aged 15 - PA Benjamin aged 14 - PA Ester aged 15 - PA John aged 12 - PA Thomas aged 10 - PA EUGENE aged 2 - PA Wasn't sure if this was the correct census but on the marriage you've found it says parents were Hugh & Anna (died) So from this we can take it that Hugh married 1) Anna and then 2) Esther Skidmore.
Dang, I just found that one too Sheila! Hugh Turardd Bloss, Tioga, Pennsylvania abt 1830 Ireland 1870; Census Place: Bloss, Tioga, Pennsylvania; Roll: M593_1456; Page: 5A; Image: 14;
Series: T623 Roll: 1489 Page: 45 Line: 41 Surname GivenName Age Sex Race Birthplace State County Location Year TORMEY JAMES E 44 M W PA PA TIOGA BLOSS TWP 1900 I think this is Eugene's brother, James. HeritageQuest shows the head of household and then you click to view the page image. This one is at the bottom of the page, and the last few lines are a dark smudge. If someone can find this page on another site, please look to see if Eugene is there... probably not. I also was trying to see if perhaps Eugene went in the military. I could not find him in the 1900 census records for Cuba, Phillipines, etc, but again the HQ images are poor quality in that census year.
Thanks for the above information Barb. Still haven't found Eugene in 1900 but the 1930 US Census says that Eugene Tormey is listed as Not being a Military Veteran. From 1910-1940 Eugene & his wife Bertha are living at Rush, Centre, PA. Children: Hugh 1913, Robert 1915 and Elmer 1919. They married 1903 (as found by Jane above) and waited 10 years before having children? - unless of course any earlier ones died young and so are not on the Census.
Eugene's not on the above census Barb - just James his wife Ann and 8 children, the last one being on the next image. I would think that James E. must be Eugene's brother as it gives his father's place of birth as Ireland which matches up. Another marriage to find Thanks Barb.
It happens. My father was born 10 years after his parents married and there were no children before him.
It's alright Barb - it's just that at the moment there are so many marriages we need to find and keep coming up with nothing. Every time I look on Family Search for a certain couple it comes up with their children's marriages - which helps us of course but not the ones we're after. I looked on FS yesterday for the marriage of James E Tormey and Ann but the only one that came up was the marriage of his son James to a Mary Frawley in 1907 St. John's Church, Antrim, Tioga Co. PA - parents James & Anna Tormey, James a Miner of Coals. So I shall keep looking
Well, record-keeping in the States varies wildly. There are gaps that make for a Swiss cheese appearance. Likewise with what's available online. More is added every day, though.
As I haven't done much research in the USA, do they have anything like Freebmd records that we have over here?