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B 1892 october

Adopted and counted in 1910 federal census

Florence Gertrude Allford Born NY-Parents English as were  both boarders birthyear 1889 age 11 years at time of enumeration (1910)

First Enumerated as the adopted daughter of

Albert and Martha

Living in a house with her adopted parents along with

2 boarders

Charles A Rollinson

Edward A Machin

House located Nelson Street no number given

Source 12^th US Census Syracuse 10^th Ward SD 12 ED 118 Sheet 2 (B)

Enumerated 06/05/1900

Are her parents and Florence’s mother listed as a neighbor to her Nelson Street house? was there a related family to the Allford’s living on the same street? Or was this a family that took in a non-biological related baby from someone who due to circumstances unable to raise her…?

Pg 15 1892 NY census only had Albert and Martha

No children of there own Florence not adopted by the date of census and no boarders on fate enumerated by state 02/16/1892

NYS Census 3^rd ED 9^th ward Syracuse

Reclaim the records internet archives October 1889 (assumed birth month and year) no birth parents or where birth was recorded- NYS Birth index 1889 reclaim the records- there is 56 individuals named Florence the list below are those who near listed as sharing presumed birth month:

Evans Florence G Oct 3  place troy

Frazier Florence A Oct 10 place Watertown

Gillet Florence  Oct 23 place Stuyvesant

Johnson Florence Oct 31 place Aurora

No first name Assumed Florence since location is town of, Oct 28

https://archive.org/details/New_York_State_Birth_Index_1889/page/n837/mode/1up?q=Florence

Clifford Grant (possibly Florence’s son by marriage)

Washington State census Snohomish County dist. 3

1940 census SD 2 ED 31-158

Florence Stack 26 sept 1900-appears to be Onondaga township for place of birth

Link: New York, United States records,” images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QHK-ZQSP-MSS2?view=index : Dec 22, 2024), image 791 of 940;-reclaim the records is this her adopted name- doubtful

Obituary Syracuse Herald Fulton History

Martha Allford wife of Albert Allford

November 7^th 1907

Funeral at old house 133 Nelson Street 10^th Ward

Church St Marks for Service

Burial Oakwood Cemetery

Lists her among survivors

From 1900 (12^th) federal census familysearch collection SD 12 ED 118 sheet 2 160/33/39 Nelson Street

Alfred b oct 181859 age 40 England as were parents 1881 naturalization

Martha b aug 1862 age 37 ditto 1882 naturalization

Florence G (Gertrude) adopted b oct 1889 10 b NY and parents were English

Albert Allford member of Lord Frederick Cavendish Lodge

Apparently referred to as Son’s of St. George

Fulton history from

Tuesday the Syracuse journal April 25 1905 column 1 page 5

Post Standard Friday am feb 6 1909

Alfred Allford succeeds Crucible Steel leader to the post after 3 men resign

Mr Heaney was admitted to the Willard State Hospital in Ovid Seneca County NY in 1903

He died in 1942

There isn’t much to go on, except he may have lived in Sennett Township Seneca County. And from various legal notices, we know his father was John and nother Mary. From deeds in 1912, the mother’s property, which had been disposed of by partitioning of the properties, was sold during 1912. Some was sold to John and others to private buyers. It is not known if friends or as yet unknown family members purchased the parcel. What is known the while Francis J was the grantor, a court appointed refereee may have assisted him, the year was 1912, some 9 years after being admitted to Willard. We know that he was committed to Willard by Julia and maybe his father John, Fear for family safety appears to be the reason…