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Wards Island orphan asylum or foundling hospital or ??

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Re: Wards Island orphan asylum or foundling hospital or ??

Posted: 10 Jun 2013 8:27PM GMT
Classification: Query
The formatting doesn't stay when I preview. It's going to be hard to read. If this doesn't work just forget it. No doubt I'll find the answer one day when I least expect it.

This would be for Carrie Christine Friederike Marie Bahls. She is listed as male but the boys with her have the same name and age as her brothers so I think this is Friederike. She only appears on this one census. I didn't list each of the boys since they are already listed in the household.
Notation at the top of the page says Wards Island
1870 United States Federal Census
Page No. 51 6th District 12th Ward in the County of New York, State of New York, enumerated by me on the 20th day of June, 1870. Post office: New York City F.W. Fisher, Ass't Marshal.
Name: Ricke Bhales
Age in 1870: 9
Birth Year: abt 1861
Birthplace: Deutschland
Home in 1870: New York Ward 12 District 6, New York, New York
Race: White
Gender: Male
Post Office: New York City
Value of real estate:
View Image
Name Age (Long list of people living in this house)
Cael Bhales 11
Ricke Bhales 9
Henry Bhales 7
August Bhales 3

This starts the boys as listed in the 2nd enumeration. Friederike is not in this census.

Page No. 14 Schedule 1. Inhabitants in 15th Distr 12th Ward, in the County of New York, State of New York, enumerated by me on the 15th day of Decbr, 1870
Post office: New York CD
Murrey, Ass't Marshal.
1870 United States Federal Census
Name:Carl Bahls
Age in 1870:10
Birth Year:abt 1860
Birthplace:Deutschland
Home in 1870:New York Ward 12 District 15 (2nd Enum), New York, New York Gender:Male
Post Office:New York City
Value of real estate:View Image

1870 United States Federal Census
Name:August Bahls
Age in 1870:5
Birth Year:abt 1865
Birthplace:Deutschland
Home in 1870:New York Ward 12 District 15 (2nd Enum), New York, New York Gender:Male
Post Office:New York City
Value of real estate:
View Image Household
Members:NameAge
August Bahls5

1870 United States Federal Census
Name: Heint Bahls
Age in 1870: 5
Birth Year: abt 1865
Birthplace: Deutschland
Home in 1870: New York Ward 12 District 15 (2nd Enum), New York, New York Gender: Male
Post Office: New York City
Value of real estate:
View Image Household
Members:
Name Age Heint Bahls 5

Notice both census are in the 12th Ward but one is in District 6 and the other in District 15. All three boys show up on both census. I don't know why each of the boys are listed separately at ancestry on the 2nd enum. On the actual 2nd enum. census page they are all grouped together but Friederike is not on that census. I looked for any first name or last name that might have been her and didn't see any. Also notice on the 2nd enum original page the ages are all even numbers for everyone, even the adults. There is creative spelling but it's easy to figure out who they are.

Dead mother Mina Wilhelmine Marie ROTH BAHLS
B:abt 1824 in Rettersburg, Germany
D:23 Jan 1870 in Wards Island, Manhattan, New York, New York

Missing father in 1870 & 1880 census but has the boys with him in 1885 and daughter is married.,
Martin BAHLS B:1828 in Germany D:13 Aug 1913 in Brookings, South Dakota

Charles Carl B. BAHLS 1859 – 1942

Carrie Christine Friederike Marie Bahls 1861 – 1950

Henry Henrich Bahls 1863 –

August Bahls 1864 – 1943

All are together on the passenger list when they arrive 13 Dec. 1869 in New York on the ship Friedeburg from Germany. Mother Mina dead 5 weeks later. I'm trying to find her burial; Probably at Wards Island. (Wards Island, New York An immigration station from 1860 until the 1892 opening of Ellis Island.)
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