At 25, still a miner

I have only very recent and very old connections to New York City residence—my own 7 years of living here, and some Beekman residents of Nieuw Amsterdam and Midwout. A few more passed through on their way to other places, including 2 through Ellis Island.

One, David Wilson, managed to get enumerated the one day he was here, 1880-06-23, when the censustaker came to Castle Garden. He and his brother Peter, moving from the coal mines of Stirlingshire to the coal mines of SE Iowa, took the Bolivia out of and were processed by New York state immigration officials, then again by the censustaker, asking many of the same questions. That must have been annoying.

RootsChat: Wilson/Aitken family of Polmont