Dear jack1425,
After a very long and extensive research, I managed to find Daniel A.
Ferguson in U.S. Census documents.
After many fruitless approaches, I performed a Google search with the
following parameters:
Search terms: Ogdensburg ferguson cuthbert
://www.google.de/search?hl=de&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&newwindow=1&q=Ogdensburg+ferguson+cuthbert&btnG=Google-Suche&meta=
This led me to the follwing web document:
History of Hammond [St. Lawrence Co., NY], by Alexander Allen
http://outer-chaos.net/hammond.txt
It contains, among other things, this information:
"Rev. Daniel A. Ferguson, D.D., the present pastor, was
installed June 16th, 1875, and his thirtieth anniversay has just
been celebrated by the church. (...) Mr. Ferguson is Stated
Clerk of the Presbytery of St. Lawrence, and Permanent Clerk of
the Synod of New York, both responsibile positions which require
a mailing list of correspondents of from six to seven hundred
letters per year besides printed circulars. He has not been
absent a single Sabbath on account of illness in all those thirty
years and but few on vacation except in 1895 he took an extended
trip to the British Isles."
That added much more to what I knew so far! And what is more, I now
had a trace of Daniel A. Ferguson's birth date - it must have been
some time around 1845.
Knowing this, I took the next step. I used the extremely extensive
genealogical database, provided for free use by the Church of Jesus
Christ:
http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/frameset_search.asp
I used the following search parameters:
First Name - Daniel
Last Name -Ferguson
Event: Birth/Christening
Year Range + or - 2 years
Year: 1845
Then I performed a search and received a rather short list of persons
matching these parameters. And among them was this entry:
Dan[ie]l. FERGUSON
Birth Year <1847>
Birthplace NY
Age 33
Occupation Presbyterian Clergyman
Marital Status M <Married>
Race W <White>
Head of Household Danl. FERGUSON
Relation Self
Father's Birthplace SCOT
Mother's Birthplace SCOT
Source Information:
Census Place Hammond, St. Lawrence, New York
Family History Library Film 1254925
NA Film Number T9-0925
Page Number 267A
A Presbyterian pastor named Daniel Ferguson, resident in Hammond, NY
in 1880 - this is without any doubt the Daniel A. Ferguson you are
looking for. And that is not all: We now know he ws born in the State
of New York in 1847, he was married in 1880 and his parents immigrated
from Scotland before he was born.
Now I undertook a next step: I used the free WorldConnect Project
ancestry database at Rootsweb.com:
http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/
My refined search parameters were:
Surname - Ferguson
Given Name - Daniel
Birth Year - 1847, exact
And I was successful! I received a single result, which showed the
following data:
Name: FERGUSON, Daniel
Birth/Christening: 4 Jul 1847
Father: Neil FERGUSON
Mother: Jean BURNS
Further research on the parents revealed that Neil Ferguson was born
26 Dec 1816, and Jean Burns 28 Feb 1823, both in Scotland. They
married 6 Jun 1841 in Glasgow, Scotland.
Knowing this, I performed a search for the parents' names at
www.familysearch.org and had some luck again:
Neil Ferguson
Male
Birth: About 1816 - Of, Barony, Lanark, Scotland
Spouse: Jean Burnes
Birth: About 1820 - Of, Barony, Lanark, Scotland
Banns: 06 JUN 1841 - Barony, Lanark, Scotland
The spouse's name is written slightly different, but that was not
uncommon in those times. It is doubtless the father of Daniel
Archibald Ferguson!
And there is a last fact I found out:
In the Familysearch.org results, there is an additional link for
obtaining Census Data on a person's household, if recorded. In Daniel
Ferguson's case, there are records. In 1880, he was married to the
following woman, but had no children with her:
Lucinda FERGUSON
Birth Year <1855>
Birthplace NY
Age 25
Occupation Keeps House
Marital Status M <Married>
Race W <White>
Head of Household Danl. FERGUSON
Relation Wife
Father's Birthplace NY
Mother's Birthplace NY
Source Information:
Census Place Hammond, St. Lawrence, New York
Family History Library Film 1254925
NA Film Number T9-0925
Page Number 267A
So it seems that he lost his wife while he was in Hammond, NY, some
time after the 1880 Census. Since he was a clergyman, I can hardly
imagine he got divorced, which leads to the conclusion that Lucinda
Ferguson died in that time. He obviously got married again then, with
Mary Cuthbert.
This is, alas, the best I could find. But now that you know these data
and the microfilm numbers for the 1880 Census, further search might
prove easier.
I hope I was able to help you.
Best regards,
Scriptor |
Clarification of Answer by
scriptor-ga
on
28 Oct 2002 07:58 PST
Dear jack1425,
My mistake concerning the parents of Daniel A. Ferguson really made me
feel ashamed, so I continued my search in the Familysearch.org
database. I was, to my mispleasure, not able to find out about
Archibald Ferguson and Nancy A. Rogers. But as a compensation, I
located data on Nancy Cuthbert, using what milamba mentioned in her
comment. This is what I got as result:
NANCY E. CUTHBERT
Birth: Hammond, St Lawrence, New York
Father: WM. CUTHBERT
Mother: MARGERET CUNNINGHAM
Marriages:
Spouse: DANNIEL A. FERGUSON Family
Marriage: 24 JAN 1883 - Hammond, St Lawrence, New York
Husband Age at Marriage: 33
Wife Age at Marriage: 22
Please note the way "Daniel" is miswritten - this might prove
important in case you do additional research in future.
Using the "Family" link, I came to this data:
Husband
DANNIEL A. FERGUSON
Birth: Oswegatchie, St Lawrence, New York
Wife
NANCY E. CUTHBERT
Birth: Hammond, St Lawrence, New York
Children: None
Source Information:
Batch No.: Dates: Source Call No.: Type: Printout Call No.:
Type:
M526121 1847 - 1849 1311927 Film NONE
M526121 1881 - 1885 1311927 Film NONE
Sheet: 00
Now I was, at least, able to give you information on where Daniel A.
Ferguson was born: Oswegatchie, St. Lawrence County, New York. And
since the data refers to the years before 1885, it is now a fact that
they did not have children (yet) by then.
I hope this helps you in your research.
Regards,
Scriptor
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