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Columbus Voakes

Columbus Voakes

Posted: 7 Sep 2011 2:43AM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Voakes, Voukes, Vokes
Looking for information on Columbus Voakes born about 1871 in Michigan. Last know location was in the 1920 US Census> Richmond, Macomb, Michigan. Mother's name listed was Ellen. Wife was Minnie.

Please if anyone can help with information on the family I would be very grateful. Thanks

Re: Columbus Voakes

Posted: 17 Sep 2012 5:27PM GMT
Classification: Query
The only Columbus Voakes that I can locate (1900/1910 Census) was the son of Peter Voakes and Ellen Voakes. Peter Voakes was the son of John Voakes and Anna Hunt (verifying surname) and Ellen Voakes was the daughter of James Voakes and Jemima Hunter. Peter Voakes was also the brother to my gg grandmother Elizabeth Voakes who married John Johnson. Peter was born in Newport Yorkshire England.
Peter's parents are buried at Forest Lawn Cemetery in Detroit in the John Johnson and Elizabeth Voakes plot. Please feel free to contact me directly at mrossmanmi@earthlink.net

Marty Rossman

Re: Columbus Voakes

Posted: 17 Sep 2012 6:22PM GMT
Classification: Query
Thank you for the information....will take me a little while but will gladly pick you mind for more information.... this is just a short note.... back at ya soon....dar

Re: Columbus Voakes

Posted: 13 Oct 2012 2:07AM GMT
Classification: Query
Here are a few more facts on Columbus Voakes. He first appears in the 1880 US Census at the age of four. 1900 census has him at age 22 living with his parents Peter Voakes and Ellen Voakes (Peter & Ellen were first cousins) and siblings James, Grace and Robert. In 1910, under the surname of Toubes (I submitted a correction), you find him married to Minnie Price, daughter of Freeborn Price and Isabel Washer, living in Bruce, MI. 1920 has him and his wife living with his mother Ellen in Richmond. Now in 1930 he is widowed and living with his brother Robert and family. I can not find him listed in the 1940 census. He died on 27 May 1950. I was in Mt Clemens last week checking for death records on James and Jemima (Hunter) Voakes, Columbus' maternal grandparents. His name appeared on their computer but not James & Jemima (too old). I should have ordered a copy of his death certificate then.
Columbus' father, Peter Voakes, was a brother of my great great grandmother Elizabeth Voakes Johnson. If you are interested in the Voakes lineage, let me know and I will send it to you. In addition, "we" have a cousin in Leeds, Yorkshire, England, who just sent me Elizabeth Voakes' birth record and the marriage record of her parents John Voakes and Ann Hunt. Contact me directly at mrossmanmi@earthlink.net

Marty
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